The two Heliobi turned their attention to Jiang Yu, but Jiang Yu had no time to spare for them.
By now, he had more or less figured out the paper figure Huohuo had given him and the inscriptions on it. To what extent, exactly? Roughly speaking, it was: I can't read it, and I don't understand how it works, but I can use it.
"So why do Heliobi want to challenge the general?" Stelle suddenly asked.
"A reason? Do we really need a reason?" Cirrus looked at Stelle. Like Jiang Yu, she seemed to act on whatever came to mind:
"If you want something high-minded-the Xianzhou imprisoned the ancestor of the Heliobi in a cage to power their ships. Is that reason enough?
"If you want something simple and straightforward-we just want to fight the general and see what Xianzhou natives are made of.
"We Heliobi were originally carefree beings. It was only through contact with humans that we contracted the disease of humanity-all because humans have such intense emotions and desires that we can never return to our former pure, untainted state of mind.
"So I want my freedom back! I want to return beyond the heavens. Mr. Tail, you don't want to reunite with the fragments, and you don't want to spend your whole life as a tail. Why not return beyond the heavens with me?"
"Tch... You certainly talk a good game." Tail gave Cirrus a disdainful look.
Huohuo also turned toward the phantom Cirrus had formed and said, "You bad guy, don't even think about trying anything. Mr. Tail is sealed by a Judge of the Ten-Lords Commission. He can't escape... and don't think you can slip away, either."
Just then, Jiang Yu suddenly spoke up from the side. "You should've said sooner that you wanted