Ch 222 : Intimidation

"The Wanderer, you're actually just fooling me..."

The eerie power surrounding Dottore dissipated.

He looked slowly into the Wanderer's eyes and said:

"Although I do have a greatest secret, it cost me a tremendous amount of time and effort, and was specially treated. The Irminsul should be unable to steal its contents..."

"Even if you obtained permission through some special means to access the Irminsul, you shouldn't be able to know this part of the information..."

"Heh, Dottore, even you said 'should'... In fact, there's no definite answer as to whether your actions can really evade the Irminsul's notice!"

The Wanderer spoke disdainfully:

"Have you verified it? Have you checked the content on the Irminsul? Do you think the word 'should' ought to come out of the mouth of someone who prides themselves on being the ultimate researcher?"

"Moreover, do you really think the Irminsul is the only method I have to investigate information about you?"

Faced with the Wanderer's words, Dottore's expression darkened, and he fell silent...

"Hahaha~~ It's actually very simple. As long as you kill me, as long as I die, you'll see whether your greatest secret spreads throughout Teyvat or not—and then you'll know if what I said is true or false!"

"It's such a simple matter—what exactly are you hesitating about? What are you afraid of?"

"The Wanderer, what exactly is your goal?" Dottore looked at the Wanderer, his tone cold and calm.

"Very simple: it's to take revenge on you! To make you pay a terrible price for everything you've done to me!!!"

"Although I have no memory of you, you've targeted me everywhere. And given that you have access to the Irminsul, I reasonably suspect that you were once just an experimental subject of mine..."

Dottore continued:

"But now it seems that this experimental subject has escaped the control of the experimenter and become an extremely unstable factor..."

"I admit, I have serious doubts about what you're saying now..."

"I didn't expect that, in such a short time, there would be two people daring to bind me with the possibility of a bet…"

"First, it was Buer trying to destroy the Gnosis to awaken the Heavenly Principles, pulling me into a position to converse with her as an equal…"

"And now it's you, Wanderer. You succeeded—you've bound me and forced me to speak with you as an equal…"

"Heh, an equal conversation? How ridiculous! Dottore, have you misunderstood something?"

The Wanderer gave a cold laugh and said:

"What I want is to utterly crush you, trample you—being equal to you makes me feel disgusted!!!"

"Dottore, kneel before me!" The Wanderer said without leaving room for doubt, "Or else, I'll die right in front of you!"

"Using your own life as a bargaining chip… you really are childish, Wanderer…"

However, Dottore showed no intention of kneeling.

"Although you have successfully intimidated me, making me kneel before you is simply impossible."

"Even if you know my greatest secret, honestly, even I don't know what this greatest secret truly is…"

"I won't make a move against you anymore, but if you want to kill yourself, then go ahead."

"Goodbye."

Saying this, Dottore stopped paying attention to the Wanderer and prepared to leave.

Before departing, Dottore looked at Raiden Shogun and said, "It's been so long, and you still haven't regained control of your own body…"

"Then, Raiden Shogun, our cooperation ends here…"

"As expected, for a creation to surpass the will of its creator, it really is quite difficult…"

Listening to Dottore's words, the Wanderer's lips curled into a smile.

Surpass the will of its creator?

Judging by his current state, he had already reached that level!

The Wanderer had no intention of stopping Dottore from leaving.

His real reason for coming to Inazuma was still for the Traveler; the matter between Dottore and Beelzebul was just incidental.

The Wanderer's true purpose, after all, was not to seek revenge or torment Dottore—after all, Dottore had so many segments that it was impossible to completely kill him…

The Wanderer believed that as long as Dottore stopped interfering between him and the Traveler, that would be enough!

"Beelzebul, you've made the same mistake again…"

The Wanderer turned to Beelzebul and spoke with a tone of mockery:

"Once again, being betrayed by your own creation just shows that you're really not cut out for this kind of work…"

"Once again?" Beelzebul showed a puzzled expression and looked at the Wanderer.

"I sense a similar aura from you as I do from the Shogun's puppet… but I have no memories related to you at all…"

"Could it be that you are also one of my creations?"

However, the Wanderer didn't respond to Beelzebul and immediately used his Anemo power to leave the place.

.............

"Hey hey! Young ones, are you there? Hurry and help me!"

Everyone was resting and discussing something at the Kamisato estate when they suddenly heard an anxious voice from outside.

Moments later, a round-headed, round-bellied figure burst in.

"And you are?" Everyone looked puzzled.

"Young ones, just because I changed my appearance, you don't recognize me?" the person said as his head morphed into the shape of a tanuki.

"I am none other than the Hidden Divine Beast-Blessing Officer, Ioroi!"

"Oh, so it's you, Ioroi! Weren't you sealed inside that rock? How did you get out on your own?" Paimon asked in confusion.

"This is bad news! I sent my three young tanuki juniors—Shousei, Gyoubu Koban, and Kichiboushi—to chase after that stinky fox, Kitsune Saiguu..."

"But just now, I suddenly lost track of their auras! I'm worried something bad has happened to them!"

"I told you long ago, that Kitsune Saiguu—just hearing the name already sounds shady..." Aether muttered, not sure what else to say.

"But since you're in such a hurry, Ioroi, and even broke free from your seal to come find us, of course we can't just sit back and do nothing…"

Meanwhile, Su Yuan thought to himself: since the Wanderer refuses to tell me what's really going on in Inazuma right now, I'll just have to find out for myself…

And this Kitsune Saiguu situation might actually be a pretty decent breakthrough point.

"So then, where exactly did those three little tanuki disappear?" Su Yuan asked Ioroi.

"In... the Musoujin Gorge," Ioroi replied.

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