Tang Sanzang did not want to lie. Perhaps because he had barely spoken these past few days, now that he had been asked, he wanted to say a little.
"Hm? You had disciples? Didn't you just say you were alone?" Kui Wood Wolf pressed.
Tang Sanzang said calmly, "Great King, monks do not tell lies. This humble monk is alone now. My former disciples were disobedient, so I sent them all away."
"Oh, oh, oh? Did you sense the danger here and send them away beforehand? Did you come knocking on my door deliberately?"
Kui Wood Wolf frowned. Feeling that there was more to this than met the eye, he seized on Tang Sanzang's sore spot, determined to crack the pot and get to the bottom of it.
"Great King, may this humble monk decline to answer?"
Tang Sanzang had a temper of his own. Since he was going to be eaten anyway, what was the point of talking about any of this?
"What? You dare talk back!" Kui Wood Wolf flew into a rage. "Monk, do you really think I wouldn't dare eat you right now?"
"Great King, you intend to eat this humble monk anyway. Does my past matter?" Tang Sanzang looked calmly at Kui Wood Wolf.
"It matters! Who knows what schemes you might be plotting!"
Kui Wood Wolf glared at him, brimming with distrust, as though suffering from a touch of persecution paranoia.
"..."
Tang Sanzang had no answer to that. "Great King, this humble monk does not wish to say."
**"Argh! You infuriate me! You bald donkey! You must have come here with ill intentions! Guards! Lock him in the dungeon! Give him neither water nor food! Once he truthfully reveals his disciples' whereabouts, we'll catch them all in one net, then eat him with