Chu Mu remained seated on the throne, unmoving, as he listened to the Ascetic.
He said indifferently:
"You're trying to provoke me."
"But unfortunately, you haven't been provoked." The Ascetics' leader sighed.
Chu Mu asked:
"What connection is there between the Blind Ascetics and your Ember Ascetics?"
"Like us, they were resurrected from the embers." Resentment crossed the Ascetics' leader's face. "Those fools not only refuse to be grateful for the Lady's mercy, they worship the very person who destroyed all of this!"
Hearing this, Chu Mu continued:
"Who started the fire?"
"A despicable outsider!" the Ascetics' leader said indignantly. "He was blind, and he kept pestering the Lady, playing on her sympathy. When she refused to be with him, he burned the tree down. Not only did he burn himself to death, he doomed everyone else, too.
"That fire is still burning to this day, yet those Blind Ascetics actually worship that shameless man as a god. It's utterly absurd!"
Chu Mu was taken aback.
The truth was really this melodramatic?
His past self had kept pestering the Lady?
And when she refused him, that lunatic set the whole world on fire?
He might even have used the Red Sun to do it!
Chu Mu's first reaction was to find it absurd, but there was a trace of sense beneath the ridiculousness.
Wasn't his past self exactly that kind of shameless bastard?
So everything on the Sand Sea Planet had started because of his past self?
But then what was the wedding dress the Lady wore in his dream about?
Who had she married? Surely it couldn't have been his past self!
Chu Mu wanted to get to the bottom of all this.
So he asked:
"Does the Lady have a spouse?"
"What nonsense are you talking about?" The