Arcanum: Chaos Path

Chapter 102 He Faced the Red Angel for the First Time

Before reaching a conclusion on whether Mr. Hong was a good person with a tough exterior but a soft heart, Klein received his first commission.
Lawyer Jurgen's cat Brody was lost. Adhering to the principle of proximity, Lawyer Jurgen and his grandmother found the nearest detective Sherlock Moriarty after seeing Klein's new advertisement in the newspaper and commissioned him to find the cat. The reward was quite generous for the task itself.

Klein: ...

Although it wasn't quite the detective career he'd imagined, Klein naturally wouldn't refuse the commission. He grabbed his cane and went out to look for the cat.

"Hmm, so this so-called fate does exist after all..." Rowling watched Klein leave and couldn't help but mutter to himself.

Klein's current residence is not the one in the original book. Although it is not too far from Lawyer Jurgen's house, it is still two streets away. But unexpectedly, after going around in circles, Lawyer Jurgen still came to entrust Klein to find the cat, just like in the original book.

However, Rowling was not too surprised by this. After all, the script of Insna was not much different from the original, and the action trajectory of Hurricane Vice Admiral Qilingos was almost the same as the original. This was enough to show that the timeline of this world might really have a predetermined destiny.

"But it's clear that fate isn't unchangeable. It just depends on whether you have the ability. Actually, isn't my Shadow of Time similar to this? For those I summoned from the past, they also know the script of their fate in advance. However, most of them don't have the ability to change their own fate..."

Luo Lin thought so, tapping his fingers lightly on the balcony, and a certain understanding came to him. "From the perspective of the future, the present is actually a kind of past. Time is a river that others cannot step into twice, but for me, it may never be..."

"I really don't understand your bad taste. Do you really think it's fun to play this kind of game of house?" Medici's voice came from the side, as sarcastic as ever.

Luo Lin tilted his head to glance at him, then curled his lip and said, "Of course it's interesting, because I always remember that I'm just a mortal."

"Mortal? Ha!" Medici laughed as if he had heard a very funny joke. He looked up and down at Luo Lin as if he was looking at a monster in human skin, and said with a mocking smile:
"With all due respect, you're even less human than I, a mythical creature born from the beginning. You're very similar to that paranoid lunatic, but you're even more skilled at manipulating people's hearts. You precisely dissect every person you know, using profit, warmth, or something else to break them down, and then take everything you want from them."

Medici looked in the direction where Klein was walking away and continued, "Mortals don't treat everything as a game. They certainly have many shortcomings, but at least they will truly express their feelings to those they love. What about you, little monster? Have you ever expressed your feelings to anyone in this world? Or do you treat this all as a game, pursuing a desired outcome?"

Luo Lin blinked his eyes. It was as if he was looking the man in front of him for the first time. He looked at the Red Angel who had followed the ancient sun god to save the world and was once the most outstanding conspirator. He no longer simply regarded the other party as a high-sequence tool.

Then Luo Lin smiled, a smile that was brighter than ever before. He said, "It really was the right decision to keep you by my side, Medici. You are really interesting."

"But you're wrong about one thing. Even in games... players can invest genuine emotions in them." Luo Lin said this, putting his hands in front of his eyes, as if blocking the sun, or perhaps trying to catch it. He then turned his head to look at Mr. Hong, his smile fading slightly.

"You should be thankful. No matter what my true nature is, at least I chose to be a mortal. I didn't choose to continue floating in the sky, but chose to come down to earth and experience what you call the game of playing house."

Medici did not refute. What he just said was not only his true opinion of Rowling, but also a test to test what kind of attitude Rowling had towards the world and his so-called friends. He was testing whether he really thought of himself as a mortal, or whether he was very clear about his own nature and was just playing the game seriously.

And the result... Medici looked at the blond and blue-eyed young man in front of him, gritted his teeth, and still couldn't help but said: "Your so-called love is to treat your friends like fools?"

"Not a fool." Rowling shook his head. He even showed a puzzled expression at this moment and looked at Medici and said, "Will you reveal everything about yourself in front of your friends?" Medici was stunned for a moment and could not answer, because he would not reveal everything in front of his friends.

"Yes, that's why you never reveal everything about yourself to your friends." Luo Lin laughed, then patted Medici's shoulder and said:

"And coincidentally, my good friend has never revealed everything to me. I used this false identity to deceive him, and he also used a false identity to deceive me. This is fair, isn't it?"

This obviously involves some information blind spots that Medici is unaware of.

Luo Lin continued: "But I didn't expect that Xiaohong, you are unexpectedly naive? God, when you fall in love in the future, you won't ask your girlfriend whether she loves your face, your sequence or you as a person, right?" The last sentence was obviously a teasing.

Medici's face darkened and he said unhappily, "I'm not that boring."

"Really? I don't believe it." Luo Lin showed a grinning expression.

Medici: No hehe.

Luo Lin shook his head and said with heartfelt emotion, "No wonder you're at the same table with the Angel of Destiny, Ouroboros. In a sense, you're just as pure as He is."

It’s hard, the fist is hard!
"Ha!" Perhaps because he was too angry, Medici couldn't help laughing at this moment, but his laughter was rather cold.

"But I'm different from you naive people. I never care about the reasons for my feelings. Whether it's deception or exploitation, I never care about these things. I'm originally a person who lives in chaos, and there are no pure feelings in chaos."

Luo Lin suddenly changed the subject. He patted Medici's shoulder again and said, "Of course, I don't refute you. I do treat this world as a game. But if you can let me invest enough emotions, all of this can become reality for me."

He smiled, his smile bright and sunny, and said, "So you want to be friends with me?"

Medici understood the implication of his words - enough friends, enough feelings, and enough anchors to firmly fix his existence, which might float into the sky, to the ground.

Completely pinned to the ground, he naturally wouldn't smash the game and perish along with the world just because of a disagreement.

"...You lunatic!" After a moment's silence, Medici suddenly cursed.

"Ah, yes, yes!" Rowling knew why he cursed, just as he knew that Medici would not give a rejection - it was not because of his personal charm, but because the Creator camp would want him to stay on earth more than he himself.

(End of this chapter)