Chapter 446: Evil God Festival - Boathouse

The next day, the sky was clear.

Deep inside the Kitahara mansion, the Haruhi doll hanging under the eaves of the house smiles and sways in the gentle breeze and warm sun.

Inside the room, Xiao Kui, sitting on her knees, withdrew her gaze from the sunlight under the eaves and leaned lazily on a stool at her side, looking diffidently at Bai Liu, who was sitting directly in front of her, his back straight.

...... Is this guy made of iron? After a night in the rain, he's back in three hours, fully clothed, for a refresher course on offerings. ......

Directly in front of them, a middle-aged man with two slanting beards and a dry, somber face is holding a book, looking at it as he walks along with a subtle yet eerie smile on his face, "The beautiful thing we're going to be teaching all of you Lord Sacrificers today is a brand-new course called 'Love', or 'In Love'."

"Sacrifice adults are in their flowering and rainy seasons, when they should be full of fantasies about love, would anyone like to talk to the teacher about what your favorite love story is?"

No one answered.

Bai Liu lowers his head, Xiao Kui looks out of the window in boredom, and the other sacrifice laughs madly, with no light at all in his eyes.

The teacher was used to this kind of situation, and just smiled, pointing to Cangta, who was respectfully kneeling behind Bai Liu: "Cangta, would you like to tell us about your earliest encounter with what you think is the most perfect love relationship?"

Cangta, who was nailed, blanched and a cold sweat instantly came down on his face, he looked up nervously and replied in a very small voice, "...... I'm not sure."

The teacher's eyelids drooped, "Is it really not clear at all?"

Cangta scrunched his head at the look, he swallowed and said more quietly, "...... There's, like, a fairy tale with a princess and Wang Zi, right?"

This teacher bowed down close to Cangta and followed her lead, "Very well, what kind of fairy tale exactly?"

Cangta stole a glance at Bai Liu's expressionless side face and stammered, "Wang Zi, Wang Zi would risk great danger every night, avoiding evil monsters to sneak out to find his princess who was trapped in a god, no, no, a very high place, and then stayed there with him all night trying to get the princess out. "

Xiao Kui, who had been looking out the window, saw her eyes twitch, and she turned her face to Cangta and Bai Liu with some interest.

--Isn't this the same trick Bai Liu plays every night?

The teacher nodded once in realization, "So it's Rapunzel."

Cangta is a little confused, "What Rapunzel?"

"It's the fairy tale you were just talking about." The teacher straightened up and waved his hand a little as he walked away, and the servant next to him casually set fairy tale books on their table tops for Xiao Kui and Bai Liu.

The cover of the fairy tale book shows a girl with long blonde curly hair hanging down from a tall building, her face cannot be seen, only her beautiful long curly hair hanging down outside the narrow window sill of the attic, and below there is a man grabbing his hair and trying to climb up, he looks up at the girl hidden in the attic.

"A long, long time ago, there was a girl with hair with powerful magic, and as soon as she was born, the magic in her hair appealed to a passing witch, who carried the girl away and took her into a dark forest full of monsters, trapping her in a high building and forbidding the girl to go outside, using the magic in her hair to secure her own power."

"The girl just grows up one day at a time in the tall building."

"She grew up naïve and beautiful and unsophisticated because she had no contact with anyone, and she didn't know what the world was like, even thought it was a narrow, dark attic that never saw the light of day."

Cangta's heart lifted as he listened, kneeling down and tilting his head up to look blearily at the teacher who was telling the story in subdued tones, "And then what! Bai ...... Wang Zi master appeared!"

"Appeared." The teacher turned to the girl and continued without a hitch, "One day a passing Wang Zi spotted her, he was so impressed by the beauty of the long-haired girl that he began to watch outside the attic day and night, and Wang Zi said to the girl-"

"Beautiful woman, let down your long hair and let me climb up to see you."

"The girl who lived high up in the building had never seen such a handsome man before, she let down her long hair and Wang Zi climbed up."

"They had private meetings night after night behind the witch's back, and finally, Wang Zi tried to take her, but the witch found them, and she viciously separated them and sent the girl further out into the wilderness."

Cangta was anxious, "Bai, where is Lord Wang Zi! Didn't he drive the witches away!"

"Wang Zi eventually overcame the witch, and he brought back the long-haired girl." The teacher spoke the ending slowly, "The two lived happily ever after in the castle."

Cangta let out a long breath, "That's good."

The teacher looked around the circle with his hand tucked in, that false smile on his face again, "What do you think of this story, Lords of the Sacrifice?"

He looked to Xiao Kui with a respectful tone, "For example, Lord Xiao Kui, if you were Rapunzel in this story, what would you do?"

Xiao Kui rested her face and picked up indifferently, "I'll probably lure this stupid Wang Zi with my beauty, then stab him with a pair of scissors after he climbs up, take off his clothes and put them on me, and turn into Wang Zi to escape from the attic."

Cangta creeps out, "This isn't a love story anymore, it's a horror story! And killing Wang Zi randomly will get you the death penalty, right?"

Xiao Kui scanned the startled Cangta and suddenly laughed nervously, "Yeah."

"Even if you die, it's still better than becoming a puppet that only grows hair for witches and being stuck in an attic for the rest of your life, right?"

Cangta pursed his lips and wrung his hands as he bowed his head in silence.

The teacher was not surprised by Xiao Kui's answer, and he continued to turn his head to Bai Liu next to him, "What would Bai Liu do if he was Wang Zi in the story?"

Cangta, who had just lowered her head, raised it a little, looking at Bai Liu expectantly.

Mr. Bai Liu is exactly the same as Wang Zi in the story, so he must have given the same answer as in the story.

Bai Liu was quiet as he slowly raised his head, "If I appear in this story, odds are it won't be Wang Zi."

Cangta froze.

The teacher obediently asked rhetorically, "And what would be Lord Bai Liu in this story?"

Bai Liu looked calm, "I would have been a monster in the dark forest, coveting those above me day and night beneath the tower, waiting for the day when the other would fall."

Cangta: QAQ

Why has it become a horror story again!

"A monster and princess love story?" The teacher rubbed his chin in thought, "It's this Quasimodo and Esmeralda love pattern."

The teacher looked at Bai Liu and continued to ask: "So, is Master Bai Liu going to climb up to the attic in the body of a monster to save the beautiful princess and take the princess to elope, the princess will surely misunderstand you at first because of your appearance, but you impress the princess with your love for her in the process, so that the princess will go beyond the outer appearance to recognize your heart, and then be together with her? "

Cangta : QAQ!

As expected of Mr. Bai Liu, this version of the love story is also touching!

"No." Bai Liu looked at his teacher with dark pupils, "If he loves me because I love him, odds are I'll kill him."

Cangta's tears hung on his cheeks as he froze.

The teacher also lurched, "Why?"

"If I have fallen in love with him and because of that love took him to elope from the high tower." Bai Liu had not a trace of emotion on his face, his tone was as calm as if he was explaining a math problem, "But he only loves me because I love him, then if I want him to keep loving me, I have to keep paying my love to buy it, and then it's not an equal trade."

"And I have no control over myself to stop this deal."

Bai Liu looked up, his eyes impervious to light, so deep that they looked like the bottom of the sea and the bottom of a dome, "Then, to prevent me from losing even more in this deal, I'll make sure that he can only fall in love with me in this way when I'm sure that-"

"Kill him."

Bai Liu's words brought silence to the room.

Even the teacher who had been wearing a false smile couldn't stand it any longer, he pressed his hands on Bai Liu's desktop and asked with a fake smile, "It wouldn't be as extreme as Bai Liu-sama said, maybe when you rescued the princess out of the high-rise building, the princess fell in love with you?"

"Isn't it natural for a princess to fall in love with someone who rescues her from a tall building?"

Bai Liu's eyes were quiet and his tone was sparse, "Is that so?"

The teacher nodded affirmatively, "All patterns of love are like that."

Bai Liu lifts her eyelids, "So the Princess just loves [the person who saves her from herself], then no matter who that person is, even if it's not a person, it's a monster like me, the Princess will love it."

"What's the difference between that level of affection and a dog wagging its tail at its master?"

Bai Liu He suddenly smiled very lethargically, "A dog also falls in love with its owner who gives it food, no matter who its owner is, be it a rich man, a working man, a homeless man."

"All dogs wag their tails at their masters."

Bai Liu raised her eyes and looked levelly into the eyes of the teacher who leaned down, "This level of [love] just depends on, who became the owner of this dog in the first place, who climbed up to the princess's attic first, and has nothing to do with the person himself, but is just a short-lived emotional feedback and refraction obtained by some kind of inevitable psychological feedback mechanism."

"But that's the normal person's idea of love, you're talking too extreme, the kind of relationship model you're looking for simply doesn't exist." The teacher took a deep breath to calm down and continued to ask rhetorically, "It's not okay for the princess to fall in love with you during the elopement process, it's not okay for her to fall in love with you during the process of rescuing her away from the house, so what kind of situation do you need for the princess to come to love you?"

Bai Liu tilted her head slightly, "I want him to love me right there [in the tower]."

"I want him to know that I am a monster with a sword waiting to kill him at the foot of the tower, and still be willing to cut the threads that bind him, and jump down from the top of the tower for me-"

The teacher stared blankly at Bai Liu's eyes, Bai Liu's eyes were so dark that they almost sucked in all the light around them, obviously lightless, but extremely intriguing, as if they hid many kinds of strong feelings that mixed together and turned into black, and paired with the bland and overbearing tone of voice when he narrated the story, there was a creepy sense of incongruity:

"-I want him to change from God to man for me."

Bai Liu sidestepped his face as the teacher shook his head violently before snapping out of the regal, thrilling sensation, he took a half step back to steady himself in alarm, clenched his fists and coughed cleanly, forcing a smile, "My Lord Bai Liu, it is a bit too much to ask of one's princess."

"It's not Rapunzel I'm in love with." Bai Liu's tone was flat.

The teacher was stunned, "You don't like Rapunzel, so who lives in your tall tower in the Dark Forest?"

Bai Liu sidled his head to look quietly out the window, able to vaguely see the shrine towering over the mountain through the thick woods, he spaced out for a moment before speaking softly, "A lizard with poisonous eyes."

"A lizard?!" The teacher looked shocked, "Why a lizard?!"

Bai Liu lowered his eyes:

"I don't know."

"But whatever form he takes." Bai Liu He propped his jaw up and raised his eyes absently, cocking his head and hooking his lips in a smile, "He's something I love."

"Thinking that the people who saved him, touched his hair, and utilized his magic under the tower he was in, the monster under my guard would have killed all of them before he would have jumped down for me."

"I'm the only choice he'll ever have."