516 Seed 2 (1/2)
Chapter 516: Seed 2
Garen smiled, but remained silent. According to the myths, this Giant Tortoise was the guide to the underworld, and the world that it was heading to was not a place living creatures could get involved with. Even merely looking would cause blindness.
”It’s heading towards the underworld. Don’t you want to take a look?”
”Is it?” Garen only smiled, but did not fall for her tricks at all.
The little girl’s eyes darted around.
”Weren’t you looking for Kid? I know where he is now.”
”Oh?” Garen looked at her with a faintly shocked expression. ”You heard the things I said earlier?”
”That guy Kid has constantly been hanging one at one place recently, so it would be really easy to find him.” The girl had a sly look in her eyes. ”He seems heartbroken.”
”Heartbroken?” Garen never thought that Kid would be so grown up.
”Let’s go, I’ll take you there!” The little girl pulled Garen’s hand again, before their surroundings became blurry suddenly, while countless images flashed around constantly amidst the blurriness.
After an unknown amount of time, their surroundings stopped moving and became clear again.
Garen stood up steadily and took in his surroundings.
He and the little girl stood in a vast farm that was filled with sporadic clusters of large yellow pumpkins.
Most of the pumpkins were hollowed out, and although they were some solid ones, only a few of them were left.
The ground below his feet was pitch-black, as if it were lifeless, scorched earth.
In the furthest and deepest end of the farm stood a wooden house. The faint sound of what sounded like Kid's voice could be heard from within, singing to a tune.
Garen glanced at the little girl, but realized that she had disappeared suddenly, leaving him by himself at their original spot.
He furrowed his eyebrows, and walked towards the house on the far end of the farm.
As the distance between them closed, and the sound of Kid’s singing became clearer.
”...if you plant a girl in spring, you’ll reap many girls in autumn…”
Garen’s words were caught in his throat; when he came closer, he suddenly saw a small piece of empty land in front of the house, where Kid stood watering something with a kettle in his hands.
The empty piece of land was merely an area made up of black dirt, planted in the clearing was an enlarged egg; the bottom half of the egg was stuck inside the dirt, while the top half was being watered by the kettle.
As if he had heard something, Kid raised his head and turned towards Garen’s position.
”Nineheads Boss?”
”What are you doing?” Garen walked towards Kid.
”I’m sowing seeds,” Kid answered simply. ”If I plant them in spring, I’ll have a wife in autumn.”
Garen patted Kid’s head, unsure of what to say.
That little girl had a mysterious attitude. At first she seemed to harbor malicious intent towards Garen, but later realized that he was an interesting plaything and ended up playing with him later. Finally, her attitude changed again, and she sent him to Kid voluntarily. No one knew what she was actually thinking about.
”What is this place exactly? That little girl brought me here,” Garen finally asked in a low voice.
When Kid heard him say ‘little girl’, his body shivered suddenly, as if he were scared somehow. ”This is the True World, the real world, that we Listeners can come into contact with. All of the appearances that we are usually unaware of, they will all show up here. And since time has stopped here, even if one spends an eternity in here, only a few seconds would have passed outside.”
”True World?” Garen furrowed his eyebrows.
”Yes, relatively speaking. Boss, the place where you used to be was the opposite, Normal World, a place where you were unable to see the truth directly,” explained Kid elaborately. ”It’s rumored that the strongest Totem User can touch the borders of this world, possessing the qualifications to enter this place. In other words, things in the Normal World, they're present here, while the things that are absent in the Normal World would still be present here. The Normal World is an extension of the what appears in the True World, except that it’s just a part of its outer ring. The relationship between both of them, when loosely described as a simile, can be likened to an egg; the egg white is the Normal World, while the egg yolk is the True World.”
”So what does the Door to Heaven mean then?”
”The True World is a visualization of all truths and all sources, while the Door to Heaven is the door to all of the sources in this world. I’m unsure about it myself, but perhaps there are deeper layers of the True World inside, where deeper levels of truth and sources may be seen. Or maybe it’s a whole different thing. No one has went in before, because no one can open it.” Kid was honest as usual, answering everything that he was asked.
But Garen had been thrown into this world mysteriously, and still had some doubts in his heart. Even though he had received some explanations from Kid, these uncertainties had not disappeared yet.
”My guess is that someone wanted to open the Door to Heaven, so that girl dragged Boss here, perhaps to use Boss’s powers to stop that person,” Kid held the kettle and pondered. ”After all, her parasitic strength isn’t strong enough.”
He paused. ”Or maybe, she’s thinking of changing parasites…”
”Whatever, just send me back first,” Garen exhaled.