Houraisan Kaguya: "..."
Did this guy have no sense of atmosphere at all? She had put on such an angry expression, yet he still dared to mention the names of other flashy women?!
Although Kaguya had moved to Gensokyo and stayed shut in all the time, she had never even seen Hakurei Reimu, the protagonist, let alone a supporting character like Alice Margatroid.
But she could mooch off the internet across worlds, so she knew Touhou Gensokyo inside and out.
Alice Margatroid, also known as Alice Montgomery, was described in the settings as the character with the greatest Western beauty.
That only made Houraisan Kaguya angrier. They were both supposedly the most beautiful characters in the settings, so why was she, Kaguya, inferior to that Yandere woman whom Hu Xiao Kai had never even seen in person, yet who was portrayed in countless fan works as terrifyingly unstable, ready to snap and turn people into dolls at any moment?!
You did not like a classic black-haired, straight-haired Eastern woman like me, yet you liked that blonde? Were you even an Eastern person? Worshipping foreigners deserved death as an apology!
"Why?! How am I inferior to her, this Princess?"
Houraisan Kaguya could not even keep up her gentle smile now. Her face was completely expressionless.
Mo Yi could naturally tell that she was dissatisfied with his honest answer. The ancients truly had not deceived him. When Washington looked at the cherry tree at home and voluntarily admitted his mistake, the reason his father forgave him was not because of his honesty, but because he was still holding the legendary Noble Phantasm—the Divine Axe of Falling Cherry Blossoms. His father had not dared make a move and could only forgive him.
Feeling that he had encountered another deadly question, Mo Yi's mind raced. Combining it with their previous conversation, he finally came up with the most suitable answer. "Because I like reading her fan comics the most."
Houraisan Kaguya: "..."
Kaguya was genuinely shocked this time. She had never expected Mo Yi to be so quick-witted that he would give an answer which left her unsure whether to laugh or cry.
After several seconds of silence, she muttered:
"Hu Xiao Kai, there is something seriously wrong with your ideological awareness. Blondes are heresy. How can Western women compare to Eastern women? They only look good from far away. Up close, all you see are enlarged pores and freckles. And once they reach thirty, their figures generally go out of shape. One of them weighs as much as three of you."
"Since you speak Chinese, you should be Chinese. As someone from China, how could you like blonde hair? Black, long, straight hair is the true path!"
Kaguya spoke at an astonishing speed. In less than a minute, she had said who knew how many hundreds of words. In summary—
When it came to looks, she, Kaguya, was unquestionably number one in all of Gensokyo.
"That will be all for today—"
After talking for several minutes, Houraisan Kaguya finally stopped and said,
"Is there anything you still do not understand?"
Mo Yi: "..."
How could he possibly dare say anything?!
Mo Yi could only retort inwardly that what Chinese people liked most was white hair, not black, long, straight hair.
"Since you have no questions—"
Seeing Mo Yi lower his head obediently with the expression of a good student, Kaguya nodded in satisfaction. "I'll send you some of my fan comics tonight. After you finish them, remember to write a five-thousand-word review tomorrow."
"Write it properly. If I'm not satisfied, you'll rewrite it until I am."
Mo Yi: "..."
I was never this diligent and serious when I was in school.
Should I just die instead?
Mo Yi really could not accept Houraisan Kaguya's demand. She might only be angry at the moment, but if he actually finished the study materials she sent over and wrote a five-thousand-word review, would that not give her evidence to settle scores with him afterward?
Would I, Mo Yi, really be that stupid?!
Just as he was agonizing over how to answer Kaguya, the Honor of Kings screen showed that matchmaking had succeeded. Mo Yi hurriedly said, "We found a match—"
"Her Highness the Princess, what role are you planning to play today? I want to play Zilean, the Chronomancer."
Mo Yi's trial mission—Honor of Kings—needed only one more hero to complete the mission and open the door to a new world.
That was certainly a good thing, but after completing the mission, Mo Yi did not know whether he would still be able to obtain new Character Cards by playing Honor of Kings. After all, he had only obtained Character Cards for half the heroes. If he could no longer acquire new Character Cards from Honor of Kings after clearing it, that would mean losing access to half the heroes' Character Cards. That would be a huge loss!
Although the strength a Character Card could display was directly proportional to Mo Yi's own power, each character's upper limit was different.
For example, Teemo, who loved planting mushrooms, and Corki, the Bombardier, who flew planes and dropped bombs, were naturally stronger or more interesting than many others in the game. But their theoretical upper limits based on the game's lore were far inferior to many trash-tier heroes in the game.
Therefore, when Mo Yi chose targets to pursue, they generally fell into two categories.
The first category consisted of heroes suitable for humans like him, heroes from whom he could gain as much teaching and knowledge as possible—for example, the swordsmanship of Fiora, the Grand Duelist, and Master Yi, the black-tech knowledge of Heimerdinger, the Great Inventor, and the spear arts of Garen, the Might of Demacia.
The second category consisted of heroes with absurdly powerful backgrounds. Perhaps he could not gain much knowledge from these non-human heroes, but they had high growth potential. Even if Mo Yi eventually became a star-shattering powerhouse, he could still receive powerful boosts from them.
Heroes whose strength was originally only at the surface level naturally could not offer much help to Mo Yi once he far surpassed them.
And when using his trump card, Limit Release Mode, heroes with powerful backgrounds would definitely be stronger as well.
Top-tier heroes could destroy the heavens and earth at a whim, smash people with stars, manipulate fate, travel through time, and bombard enemies with solar flares. Could those marksman heroes still playing Gun Fu do any of that?
Thus, during the past nine years of pursuing targets, Mo Yi had already pursued quite a few Honor of Kings heroes who were weak in actual combat but possessed powerful backgrounds, such as Bard, the Wandering Caretaker, known as the savior of the universe; Leona, the Radiant Dawn, incarnation of the sun; and Aurelion Sol, the Star Forger, creator of the stars.
The previous hero he pursued, Magical Cat Yuumi, was not particularly strong in individual combat. What had truly drawn Mo Yi to her was the Door Grimoire she carried. It contained powerful magical knowledge and could travel through other worlds, even through spiritual worlds.
Besides that, Yuumi had a skill called Yuumi's Call. Put simply, it turned her into a body of will and merged her with an ally. In the game, this skill often dragged teammates down, but in the real world, it was an extremely practical ability. She could merge with allies, heal and strengthen them, producing an effect greater than one plus one. She could also possess a powerful ally in dangerous moments, without having to fear being accidentally killed by some unknown area-wide attack.
Having obtained Yuumi's abilities, Mo Yi could also loudly declare:
"As long as my teammates are still alive, I will not have to suffer!"
As for why he had ultimately chosen Zilean, the Chronomancer, as his target, that was easy to understand. Could a hero who controlled time possibly be weak?
If I cannot beat you as you are now, I can travel back to when you had yet to grow up and were still a baby, or go to your future when your strength has declined.
Punch the nursing home in the south, kick the kindergarten in the north!
People who wielded the power of time were just this dirty.
"Old Man Time?"
After seeing that matchmaking had succeeded and the game had begun, Kaguya no longer pursued the earlier matter.
As for whether she would actually send Mo Yi those study materials tonight, that was hard to say.
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