Until not long ago, he was puzzled about the reason why, even outside of The Realm of Innocence, Ji Xiaoge seemed to always be activating a [Independent of the World] talent that doesn’t require a headpiece.
But now he understood.
The issue likely lay with Ji Xiaoge, because she was probably not a true ’ordinary person’.
The conversation Yao Qianhan had with him earlier had resolved many of Motan’s doubts.
For instance, why Yi Dong, who used to have no gaming talents, could play his Necromancer—or rather [Spirit Medium]—so skillfully, that during their occasional sparring sessions, neither ’Tan Mo’ nor ’Mor’ when he wasn’t using Wang Badan’s [Scale Against], could defeat him, and as for the character ’Hei Fan’... best not to mention it, it’s embarrassing.
For instance, why Cui Xiaoyu’s luck was so bizarre; although everyone has lucky and unlucky times, his misfortune frequency and intensity were strangely high, that’s why they called him ’accursed’, mainly because there’s no better word for it. After all, they’re all friends, it’s too much to directly call someone ’spearman’, right?
For instance, Kanglan’s occasionally very accurate, almost prophetic crisis consciousness.
For instance, Fire Yang could hold his breath for 20 minutes underwater without any training. (Cui Xiaoyu lost 200 bucks to Kanglan because of this)
For instance, Yu Chen’s personal aura, which felt more like a superpower, could calm and pacify those around him.
For instance, Ji Xiaoge’s astonishingly divine cooking skills... uh, I mean beauty.
When these examples are scattered, words like ’coincidence’ or ’randomness’ might suffice to explain them, but when these factors gather within the same circle, it’s hard to make such simple judgments.
Motan had thought about this, but hadn’t reached any reliable conclusion.
However, after casually chatting with the female president of Tanhua University—their chairman—he finally uncovered the truth.
That these friends around him weren’t ’ordinary people’ in the strictest sense.
Of course, this doesn’t mean everyone is like Yao Qianhan or the Electric Plant Uncle as superman; for others, if Yi Dong had actually awakened some incredible ability, the first person he’d consult would probably be his most trusted friend, Motan.
So accurately speaking, these friends might possess uncommon ’traits’, but they lack sufficient self-awareness as ’outsiders’.
Take Cui Xiaoyu, he thinks he’s just a bit unlucky, and Yi Dong, who plays games like spirits and is a staunch materialist.
But now it seems that’s not the case.
Superman exists, and if Motan’s judgment is correct, the elders of his friend circle are probably not normal people.
Thus, we’ve returned to this premise—
The unparalleled beauty of Ji Xiaoge, without activated [Independent of the World], very likely is real.
Not a game effect, but natural beauty.
And for her to live like a normal person, this beauty is interfered with, likely by her parents or their friends.
As an ’outsider’, Motan couldn’t comprehend what this ’interference’ is supposed to be, but he believes it’s similar to the [Independent of the World] effect in The Realm of Innocence, simplistically put, it reduces presence, not her own presence but the presence of her ’beauty’.
So the question arises, Ji Xiaoge in The Realm of Innocence triggers her talent with [head gear], but what about in reality?
[Short Hair!]
This is the most suspect ’medium’ Motan could think of.
Admittedly, this guess is very abstract, even incredible, but the existence of ’supermen’ itself is incredible, so adding one more isn’t much.
In short, Motan believes his faint ability to see through the thin mist that obscures Ji Xiaoge’s [beauty] in reality might be due to being frequently baptized by her [A Glance Can Captivate A City] in the game, leading to a similar resistance.
This isn’t a good thing, as it means Motan, whenever in this persona outside the game, will more profoundly realize how beautiful Ji Xiaoge is compared to others.
It’s quite troublesome.
Really quite troublesome.
With these thoughts, Motan failed to notice he’d been staring at Ji Xiaoge’s pretty face for nearly two minutes.
"Hey!"
Ji Xiaoge flicked Motan’s forehead hard, using a rather lethal flick to bring him back to reality, and cast a sidelong, smiling yet not quite smiling glance at him: "You’ve been staring at me so intently, are you trying to convey, without saying a word, the real reason you didn’t respond to Liya’s affection?"
Motan coughed lightly, subconsciously quickened his pace, gazed at a flying insect, and said without turning his head: "I, not belonging to this world, can’t be with Lady Liya Delin who belongs to this world, is there really any need for a way to convey this reason?"
"Oh?"
Ji Xiaoge flapped her wings twice, and briskly caught up with her long-striding partner, grinning: "Then why did you stare at me for so long just now?"
"Because you’re beautiful."
"Uh..."
"How so?"
"Why so straightforward! I can get shy too!"
"Can’t help it, I have [Knight’s Spirit - Honesty], I can only tell the truth."
"And then?"
"What then?"
"Is it only because I’m pretty?"
"What else then?"
"There are plenty of pretty people, but you don’t see me dazed on the streets every day."
"Oh, you’re extraordinarily pretty."
"..."
Facing Motan’s impeccable, straightforward reply, Ji Xiaoge was speechless.
After a while, the girl finally floated next to Motan, pouting and mumbled: "Well, let me say something pretentious..."
"Haha~"
Knowing what Ji Xiaoge wanted to say, and already prepared with a response, Motan chuckled and said, "Go ahead, it’s not easy for you to be pretentious once."
The girl rolled her eyes at Motan, then twisted her fingers in some hesitation: "Sometimes... just occasionally, I wish I wasn’t so pretty."
Motan nodded unsurprisingly: "Oh."
Five seconds later
"That’s it?!"
Ji Xiaoge angrily flapped her wings at Motan, saying: "To a cute girl’s cute dilemma, you just say ’oh’!"
Motan shrugged, innocently saying: "You haven’t finished, have you?"
"You’re annoying... forget it, I wasn’t planning to seek comfort from you anyway."
Ji Xiaoge puffed out her cheeks in indignation, then continued on her own: "Because... think about it, just being treated differently because you’re pretty, liked because of it, easily forgiven for it, and then having the real you overlooked, whether good or bad, isn’t that kind of despicable?"
Motan nodded, then lazily yawned: "Nonsense."
"Nonsense!?"
Never treated so rudely by Motan—actually she had never seen ’Mor’ speak so rudely—Ji Xiaoge was shocked: "How is this nonsense! I’m being serious with you."
"Serious? What’s serious about it?"
"It’s a philosophical issue! Although I don’t know if it is, since I always feel adding the word ’philosophy’ makes it sound fancy!"
"It’s nonsense."
"How is it nonsense!"
"You mentioned being overlooked as the real you, right?"
"Yeah!"
"So, pray tell, what’s the real you? Lady Night Song, with a skull on your neck?"
"!?"
Chapter 1292: The End
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