Seeing Huo Yu standing beside him looking completely lost, Bai Xuan chuckled and said,
“Just think of it as me rambling. Don’t worry too much about it.”
“Oh, alright.”
Hearing Bai Xuan’s words, Huo Yu nodded. She placed the pre-prepared pills on Bai Xuan’s table, along with some processed meat from a mutant wild beast, and said excitedly,
“You don’t need to check these pills—they’re the same as last time.”
“But this meat is different. It comes from a mutant sea snake we stumbled upon. It was incredibly strong when it was alive. If Qin Tian hadn’t stepped in, the others might not have been able to take it down.”
“If we hadn’t caught it, it might have evolved into a flood dragon in the future.”
“Its meat tastes way better than regular mutant beast meat, and it’s super fresh and sweet.”
As she spoke, Huo Yu’s expression turned to one of regret.
“Even though it mutated and was pretty big, there were too many people who needed a share, so we each only got a little.”
“My piece isn’t even a third the size of yours.”
Although she was a bit bummed about it, Huo Yu didn’t actually mind that much deep down. Bai Xuan had given her plenty of fierce beast meat before.
So what if she had a little less this time? If it wasn’t mutant sea snake, there were plenty of other things.
Mutant carp, mutant crab, even mutant scallops—they were all incredibly delicious.
Before Bai Xuan could speak, Huo Yu heard two strange sounds.
“Pikachu?”
“Pika-Pika~~”
Right before Huo Yu’s wide eyes, two yellow creatures—with two brown stripes on their backs and tails shaped like jagged lightning bolts—looking something like a cross between a mouse and a chinchilla, jumped onto the table and looked curiously at the pills and the mutant beast meat.
First, they sniffed the pills and then showed expressions of disgust. Then, they turned their heads and sniffed the mutant sea snake meat.
“Pika-Pika (≧▽≦)”
Their faces visibly lit up with delight.
Pikachu’s prototype is the squirrel (I actually always thought it was a mouse), and squirrels are omnivores. On occasion, they will eat meat, although they generally eat nuts.
Pikachu is the same. Besides ketchup, they especially like sweet and sour foods. Sometimes they even want a couple of pieces of sweet and sour spare ribs.
The sweet and sour spare ribs are also made from mutant wild boar, so the taste is pretty excellent too.
Of course, normally, their diet mainly consists of the energy blocks he buys from Meowth.
It looked like the mutant sea snake meat was very much to their liking.
“This is…”
Suppressing the urge welling up in her heart to hug these two little cuties and pet them silly, Huo Yu looked at Bai Xuan curiously.
“Pikachu. Creatures from another world.”
After sniffing the mutant sea snake meat, one Pikachu jumped into Bai Xuan’s arms and the other onto his shoulder, nuzzling his cheek. Petting the two adorable little guys, Bai Xuan explained to Huo Yu with a smile.
“Creatures from another world?”
Huo Yu looked at Bai Xuan strangely. Are you sure you’re being serious?
Even if Bai Xuan’s ability was terrifying, ridiculously terrifying even, saying “creatures from another world”—you’re not joking, right?
“Don’t you think it’s strange? Their art style?”
Pikachu is something from the Pokémon world. It’s a creature that belongs to a two-dimensional world, so its art style is naturally completely different from the three-dimensional world.
Logically, the chat group should have smoothed over such dimensional discrepancies.
But the two Pikachu Meowth sent over didn’t have their art style converted to three-dimensional. Bai Xuan had also asked the chat group why.
The chat group replied that a three-dimensional Pikachu isn’t as cute as a two-dimensional Pikachu.
If Bai Xuan needed it, it could help with the conversion.
Obviously, Bai Xuan refused the system’s conversion. A two-dimensional Pikachu was just fine; he didn’t need to hide Pikachu’s existence anyway.
“Well, if you put it that way, it is true… but…”
Huo Yu tilted her head and looked at Pikachu. The art style did seem a bit off, a bit like a creature from an anime.
“Is your ability really effective on comics and anime?!”
“So, that Susanoo last time wasn’t fake?!”
Suddenly realizing something, she looked at Bai Xuan in disbelief.
So the random guess she’d blurted out last time was actually true?! Bai Xuan’s ability could even do things like this?!
This is way too ridiculous!
No, this is absolutely ridiculous!
Can an esper ability really do this kind of thing? No way, right!
“Pikachu is real, and Susanoo is real too.”
“But their appearance isn’t the result of my ability. They are creations of another great existence.”
“By chance, I gained the opportunity to communicate with people from other worlds. The Mangekyō Sharingan was somewhat of an unexpected result. As for Pikachu, I commissioned a purchase.”
Bai Xuan didn’t hide it. He didn’t even hide the existence of the chat group, he just didn’t describe the chat group itself more precisely.
If this were in the past, he definitely wouldn’t have done such a thing. No matter what kind of power he had, no matter how confident he was in his strength,
he would never reveal the chat group’s existence. No form of revelation would have been possible.
But now, with the change in his mentality, he had come to disdain lying.
In the brief span of a human life, all sorts of characteristics fill their existence.
Honesty, lies, trust, falsehood, justice, evil…
Even contradictory characteristics like justice and evil could coexist, unbelievably, within a single human being.
In the past, Bai Xuan was like that too. But now, as his power grew increasingly stronger and his way of thinking shifted more and more, he began to dislike lies, even disdaining to tell them. Whether they were white lies or malicious ones, it was all the same.
So what if he told these things to Huo Yu, and she reported them to the country?
What could they do, even knowing?
It wouldn’t mean anything. Things would remain as they were. Their attitude towards Bai Xuan would just become better and more respectful.
Perhaps Huo Yu didn’t quite understand what Bai Xuan’s transformation signified, but the people in the national government could easily grasp it.
They would be able to see that Bai Xuan’s way of thinking was transcending humanity, transforming into an existence called a god.
And a person like that couldn’t be bound or controlled by concepts or principles. Of course, they had never tried to do so in the first place.
“So, the world of Naruto actually exists?”
“What about the One Piece world? Ultra Beast Force?”
In response to Huo Yu’s astonishment, Bai Xuan said very casually,
“From the Naruto world, I’m in communication with Uchiha Madara and Namikaze Minato. From the One Piece world, it’s Whitebeard, one of the Four Emperors.”
“Ultra Beast Force hasn’t joined yet. Maybe in the future.”
If possible, he truly hoped the next person to join the group would be Pluto from Ultra Beast Force. Pluto’s ideology and way of thinking—if he could communicate with him, it would likely be of great benefit to him in his current state of confusion.
