The Dagger Has Already Appeared

Rope looks at Sennogi beside him with a great sense of freshness in deceiving an ignorant girl...

Don't overestimate the lower limits of this asshole Rope. As long as he wasn't cheating money and sex, he wouldn't even feel the slightest bit of guilt when cheating ignorant girls.

"So many villages? Have you seen the people in these villages!"

Sennogi shook his head without even thinking.

"I've never seen one, and I'm told that the last time I saw a distant relative from one of these villages was when my grandfather was little."

Sennogi's eyes couldn't help but darken a bit as she spoke of her grandfather. That was the closest relative to her and her brother.

She didn't even have memories of her parents...

It was something she had already mentioned to Rope...

Truly, Rope wondered if this world was toxic. After all, in Rope's perception, but any guy with a little bit of success always had drawbacks in his family.

Red and Chi's dads had no one, and Blue and Daisy only had grandpas. Dante the guy's dad never showed up either. There are quite a few others. Anyway the odds are already ridiculously high compared to normal.

If you're going to say so, Rope is also an orphan in this world. In the truest sense of the word, an orphan without any family.

If it wasn't for her mom and dad in the original world, Rope probably wouldn't have delayed five years to really turn her brain around.

Rope looked at Sennogi...for a moment, he didn't know if he should continue to fool this ignorant girl. It seemed to be a bit too sinful.

But Rope thought about it and still didn't tell Sennogi these things. knowing too much wasn't a good thing. From Sennogi's words, Rope had basically sketched out a character portrait of her brother, the village chief of this village.

Smart, bold, kind, gentle but also ambitious and after power.

Someone like that, once he really knew about the Origin and even had that map in his hands...I'm afraid that the future was going to be altered once the two of him and Kakeru teamed up.

Rope wouldn't do anything to tell him such a thing.

The human heart, is always the last thing to gamble on...

So Rope just said, "That's really a bit of a shame...I actually came to your village after hearing about those villages."

"Alas? You've heard about the other villages?"

Sennogi was quite surprised. All of them who had been deeply connected since ancient times rarely heard about each other. But Rope seemed to know quite a bit.

Sennogi was too smart, so how could she not see that this Rope fellow was trying to trap her? Plus, Rope didn't have any intention of hiding anything at all, he simply started to condescend directly.

This couldn't even be said to be condescension. Rather, Rope was clearly asking, 'I'm asking you these questions, can you answer me?'

The reason for asking that was more about not wanting Sennogi to fall for it...

"I've seen it... I've been to both the Village of Earth and the Village of Darkness... there are some other villages as well... but the current state of all of them is not optimistic either..."

Rope spoke with some regret. Sixty-three years ago now, how the situation was Rope wasn't very clear. But the situation of those villages after sixty-three years could not be considered good, and could even be described as somewhat miserable.

Forgetting their faith, forgetting their guardian. They were even trapped and locked in one place, unable to move...

Of course, the one that seems to be the most prosperous right now might be the Village of Water in front of us. But after sixty-three years, it's probably this village that says it's the most miserable...

Even the Village of Dragons has old men guarding it without leaving. But the Village of Water only had the ruins and this young girl in front of her...

Looking at the naive Sennogi in front of her, Rope opened her mouth, but eventually shook her head and said nothing.

Sennogi was a bit surprised by Rope's reaction, but since Rope didn't say anything, she didn't ask much.

Feeling that she was almost rested, Sennogi got up and said to Rope, "Rope if you are interested in these stories, would you like to follow me to meet the High Priest?"

Rope cocked her head.

"The Great Sacrifice?"

So that temple was tended many years ago? Why didn't Sennogi tell herself anything about it before crossing over?

Er...also, he had been avoiding Sennogi during that time. after all, Sennogi, the little girl, was a little too clingy during that time, and Rope couldn't really do anything about it yet, so he might as well just avoid it. But then even when they met, they didn't bring up these things.

Rope didn't ask about the time he met with Sennogi, and Sennogi didn't mention it either.

The thought was that Sennogi was keeping himself as much in history as possible...

Rope didn't know if there was any supposed significance to this, but he did now feel that a trip like this wasn't very boring.

He subconsciously touched his chest...

There was now a green leaf clinging to Rope's chest.

The leaf was green overall. But the leaf veins were indeed gold and silver.

With the protection of space-time, Rope would not hurt that leaf, the sleeping Celebi, even if he used flames.After all, Rope's current strength was still far from the level of burning space-time...

"Yes, go see this great priest."

Rope responded with a smile on his face.

The two then once again walked in the direction of the temple.

This village wasn't very big in the first place, so it didn't take a while for each of the Chain to walk to the temple's main gate.

The guard in front of the gate thought about the uncle's words many times, and felt that the uncle's words did make sense, if he had been just silently looking at Sennogi without making his feelings known to Sennogi, then he would never be able to actually walk out and see the possibility of being with Sennogi.

So he secretly made up his mind that the next time he sees Sennogi, he must take the initiative to greet Sennogi.

Just as he thought so, he saw Sennogi's figure from afar.

His breath stopped for a moment...

Gosh, is this God's help? Is it possible that his chances are really great?

Maybe it was, or else how could Sennogi appear in front of his eyes just as he thought of him?

For a moment, his self-confidence exploded. He couldn't wait to walk to Sennogi's side right now and show her his feelings.

At that time Sennogi might blush with shame and say to him.

''Idiot, you finally mustered up the courage...I've been waiting for you for a long time.''

And so the two of them could stay together happily ever after. Hmm, this kind of thing would probably come up a few times in every man's heart...

A beautiful fantasy.

But such fantasies didn't remain in his heart for very long.

Because by Sennogi's side, there appeared a man he had never seen before...

Slender and suave, smiling like the warm winter sun and the summer breeze.

Star eyebrows and sword eyes, knife and axe chiseling, hard lines. Not that kind of sissy-like beauty. Rather, it was handsome in the true sense of the word.

The moment the guard saw him, the confident smile that had managed to appear on his face once again disappeared into thin air, as if it had never appeared.

The uncle on the side took everything in, then silently mourned the guard in his heart.

He knew very well that although this little guard was not handsome, he was indeed circumspect. And it was also true that he was honest and reliable in character. Truly speaking, it was indeed a good match.

If the two of them, him and Sennogi, were given enough time together, it might actually work out.

But it was obvious that he didn't have the courage, and Sennogi didn't have the need to take the initiative.

The young man not far away... gave off a feeling that he was not simple at first glance...

Such a person might be able to truly win the heart of any woman. In the beginning, people are visual creatures. There is always a special preference for things that are beautiful.

Sennogi and Rope joked and laughed as they walked forward. Suddenly as if she remembered something, she stopped in her tracks.

Rope followed closely and listened. His reaction speed was fast. Not the reaction speed a normal human should have anyway. How else could he keep up with those Legendary Pokémon's movements?

"What's going on?"

Sennogi was also a bit embarrassed to hear Rope's question.

"Er, I suddenly remembered that even though I said I'd bring you to the temple, but...I'm not really sure about something like meeting the High Priest."

Sennogi was a bit ashamed when she said this. After all, she had agreed quite painfully at the time, but in reality...she really didn't always have that much face.

It was true that everyone favored themselves. But this kind of favoritism wasn't without a bottom line. Even if it wasn't, Sennogi wouldn't break through her own bottom line.

The Great Priest's prestige in the village was quite a bit higher than even her brother.

Although his brother had brought the villagers to prosperity. But that was her brother after all.

You know, the Great Sacrifice, but he really had to have saved people's lives and become the anchor of many people's hearts during those troubled years.

Everyone said that Sennogi had a chance to become the next High Priestess. Because they were both so approachable.

But Sennogi herself knew very well. She is approachable because of her status, the respect other people have for her brother, and her face and personality.

But the High Priestess was approachable...because she had done many, many admirable things and was still upholding her duties. Giving help to everyone who needed it.

She didn't deserve to be compared to the High Priestess right now.

Rope didn't care about Sennogi's somewhat mortified face. He looked towards the simple but majestic temple not far away. A light smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

"Whether we can see it or not, will we go in and take a look. It doesn't matter if it's a high priest or not. Being able to meet that little girl who predicted my arrival is also a good thing!"

Rope was open-minded. He was idle now anyway. His biggest task right now was to brush up Sennogi's favorability and then have her take him to take a look at that map.

But just as he was doing so, Rope was also suddenly reacting to why Sennogi was so attached when she broke the ice and saw herself...

Wasn't he himself brushing her favorability now? Brush it to full level...it's hard not to be attached...but if you don't brush it, you won't achieve your goal.

Rope really didn't want to use force either...what would be the difference between himself and Kakeru in that case?

The Lake Village wasn't like the other villages either. In other villages, without the origin, it was just a matter of continuing to live. Gradually, they might even forget about the origin, and just become an ordinary village.

But once the Village of Water lost its origin...it would become as miserable as it was before.

Rope also thought again...could he do something to remedy the situation?

After all, isn't it a bit too narrow-minded if you've traveled so far across the world just for your own purposes?

Rope looked at the village and thought back to the villagers who were so warm to him.

For a moment, he felt that he really shouldn't have just watched them lose their lives...

Really shouldn't...

So Rope took a deep breath and secretly made up his mind.

"Rope! Rope!"

Sennogi's shout roused Rope from her world.

"What?"

Rope asked as he opened his mouth with a smile.

Sennogi looked at him with an odd expression, "You just had a bitter expression on your face, I thought you were experiencing remembering something unhappy?"

Rope tapped his chin and said with a smile, "Not really, on the contrary, it might be a good thing!"

"What good thing?"

"Not telling you!"

Sennogi looked at the mysterious Rope, and rolled his eyes in dismay, "Okay, okay, I won't tell you. Let's hurry into the temple. I can't guarantee the Great Sacrifice, but if you meet Mizu, there's absolutely no problem!"

"Who is Mizu?"

"That's my good friend who predicted your arrival!"

"Ohh!"

As they spoke on this side, Sennogi greeted the gatekeeper's uncle with a big smile, and Rope nodded to the uncle. Also turned and nodded to the youth's over there.

The uncle responded enthusiastically. The youth over there didn't make much noise.

He nodded coldly and stiffly. He did not look at him with an unblinking eye.

Rope couldn't help but sigh in his heart, ''It's really worthy of being a temple guard! This kind of dedicated attitude, it really does look like a person of faith."

Of course the uncle on the side didn't think so. Shaking his head, he suddenly felt that he had victimized this colleague of his...

He was originally watching from afar. When he leapt up and tried to get closer, he was jerked back hard.

It could be said that it was his own problem...

However, on second thought, this didn't seem to have much to do with himself. Wasn't this guy essentially because he couldn't do it himself?

Whether it's from looks, personality, or pattern, it's far from the little guy who was just beside Sennogi...

"I can only say... it's fate!"

Uncle shook his head with emotion while looking around, it's time for the shift change, why hasn't that asshole come to take his place? He had said that he was going home to celebrate his wife's birthday today!