Aha: You want me to disguise myself as Otto and seduce Romanticus? What a miserable fate! (11K, continued)

"Exactly, exactly. The Path of Trailblaze was amazing. I loved the Path of Trailblaze."

Aha nodded frantically.

"Then let me ask you: why did you blaze trails?"

Chen Li turned to A Kivili and asked.

"Huh?"

A Kivili tilted her head, unsure why Chen Li was asking that.

"Oh, come to think of it, you've never met The Erudition before, have you?"

Seeing A Kivili's puzzled expression, Chen Li seemed to remember something.

"That's right. Why?"

A Kivili nodded.

"Perfect. I do need an imprint from the Path of Wisdom. The Erudition!"

Chen Li called out The Erudition's name.

The Erudition responded to Chen Li's summons immediately and appeared at his side.

Chen Li unceremoniously reached for The Erudition's neck... Oh, The Erudition had no neck.

[Seriously, even jokes need to have limits.]

'...'

"Here, leave an imprint."

Chen Li handed a root of the Imaginary Tree to The Erudition.

However, after arriving on this lifeless planet at the edge of the Asdana System, inhabited only by Ouroboros, The Erudition's gaze locked onto A Kivili almost instantly.

"Are your ears broken?"

Chen Li poked one of The Erudition's blue-glowing "ears."

But The Erudition still gave Chen Li no response. It merely stared blankly at A Kivili, as though it had countless things to say but could not voice them for some reason.

"Hey..." Chen Li knocked on The Erudition's head again.

The fact that The Erudition could answer his call when he used the Assistance System showed that it was still functioning normally, so why had it become unable to speak properly the moment it saw A Kivili?

As he pondered this, Chen Li lightly punched The Erudition.

No earth-shaking spectacle occurred, and Chen Li's punch was extremely weak.

It was only when his fist touched The Erudition's head that