Chapter 110: Tsujigiri (1/2)

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To understand what happened, let’s rewind time a little.

Back when Miller had been bathing in the hot springs with the monkeys, an unexpected guest had arrived at Xi Wei’s divine kingdom.

“Hey, I’ve come to visit you….” The lion god’s expression froze on his face as his words cut off, seeing Xi Wei who was in the midst of binding the corpse of the Barren Giant up with his tentacles in a position that could only be described as indecent.

“Wait, no, I can explain!” Xi Wei immediately regretted his decision to bind the Barren Giant in an artistic tortoise shell shibari[1] on a whim.

“Did you steal this Barren Giant from the Lord of the Peaks for… these purposes?” If he were only a child that was a couple hundred years old, he would have probably run away from Xi Wei’s divine kingdom immediately, but he was already a thousand-year-old deity. In all his years, he had already learned not to be surprised by other deities’ special interests, and had even seen a giant cyclops in with its legs spread apart in an ‘M’ position, so he only coughed softly and continued, “I never knew you were into this sort of thing…You better be careful of the Earth Church in the future.”

“This was given by my… Forget it, what are you here for?” Xi Wei wanted to explain himself, but he figured that it would be worsening his situation for himself. “Are any deities picking a fight? Old Pot[2] lemme tell you, whether if it’s the Skull God or the Ocean God, they both aren’t good gods, so never believe in anything they tell you! Let’s all team up and kill them to split their divinity between us!”

“Stop messing around. Putting aside that weakling, just the Ocean God is enough to kill all of us combined without breaking a sweat!” The lion god rolled his eyes exasperatedly, and ignored Xi Wei’s exclamations of, “Wow, is the Invisible Pantheon so weak?” before continuing, “Yes, I really have something to ask of you this time around…If it’s possible, I would hope that you have your believers help me out too.”

Upon seeing Aslan’s serious expression, Xi Wei was quite surprised, and knew that it wasn’t good to joke around anymore, so he started to listen to the lion god seriously too.

“Starting from almost half a month ago, many of Luna’s believers were killed gruesomely, and even though her believers tried to apprehend the culprit, many of them were killed instead… According to their state of death, I believe the killer was…. F*ck, can you put that big thing down? I can’t talk with a straight face with that thing floating over my head!”

“Sorry, sorry.”

Xi Wei cooperatively let go of the Barren Giant’s corpse, dropping it onto the ground, making Aslan nod in satisfaction.

“Where was I?”

“Something about a big thing floating above your head.”

“Ah yes, that big thing, how interesting…No! You better stop joking around, I’m being serious here!”

“Alright, alright.”

Xi Wei patted his spherical body in reassurance, and he started to glow somewhat becoming brighter as if he wanted to show how serious he was.

“Don’t get scared by what I’m going to say,” the lion continued after seeing Xi Wei’s reaction.

“Of course, I’m a deity after all, I won’t get scared!” Xi Wei replied without any hesitation.

Once he heard so, he continued with a solemn tone, “After we investigated this matter, we think that…”

“Investigate? Can’t you guys just use Divine Eye to see who’s behind this?”

“It’s exactly because we can’t see who it is only by using Divine Eye that we need to investigate…In conclusion, we think that the culprit is a Tsujigiri.”

“What’s a Tsujigiri?”

“A Tsujigiri is a non-believer that was possessed by a Demonic Roe.”