21st Century Necromancer-Chapter 566 - 562: City of the Dead (Please Subscribe, Request for Monthly Tickets)

While things were chaotic in Tokyo, Yu Chen had already been taking a leisurely stroll with Hiromi Jounouchi on the Champs-Élysées in Paris.

"...Okay, I understand... Stay in touch, and please notify me in time if there are any changes." Yu Chen ended the call, took the ice cream that Hiromi Jounouchi handed him, and continued walking with her.

As she licked her ice cream, Hiromi Jounouchi curiously asked, "Whose call was that? Was it about matters in Tokyo?"

"Yes, the Metropolitan Police Department and the Public Security Intelligence Agency have started to monitor Naoki and Minami, but the situation is still alright. Naoki has returned to Kumamoto and there are no signs that Minami has tried to contact him in Tokyo. If it weren't for the Matchmaking God mentioning that their Red String of Fate is still intact, I would almost think this is nearly impossible," Yu Chen explained the information he had just received on the phone to Hiromi Jounouchi.

"So, as long as Inomata-kun doesn't come to Tokyo, and they don't meet, the situation won't worsen, right?" Hiromi Jounouchi asked, starting to question if she had over-worried about the situation upon hearing Yu Chen's explanation.

Yu Chen nodded in agreement with Hiromi Jounouchi's opinion, "That's one way to put it, but no one can say for sure how things will develop. For now, we can only maintain the status quo and observe."

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"Dragging this on isn't really a solution, is it? We should find a way to break the Red String of Fate between them," Hiromi Jounouchi suggested, even though breaking up a pair of lovers isn't a pleasant task, considering what could happen if Naoki and Minami were actually together.

"Let those guys in Tokyo worry about that. We are on our honeymoon now; forget these annoying things," Yu Chen said with a smile, wrapping his arm around Hiromi Jounouchi's waist to cheer her up, "I've booked a nice restaurant for tonight. We'll enjoy authentic French cuisine after a walk along the Seine this afternoon and tomorrow we'll head to the Palace of Versailles. How does that sound, Hiromi?"

"Whatever you decide, Mr. Chen Yu. But aren't we going to see the Eiffel Tower?" Hiromi Jounouchi was indeed very interested in the Eiffel Tower, a landmark as famous as the Tokyo Tower.

"We'll go there after we come back from the Palace of Versailles tomorrow night," Yu Chen didn't exclude the famous Parisian attraction, "The Eiffel Tower is more beautiful at night, and you can also enjoy the night view of Paris. However, we can only stay in France for three more days; the day after tomorrow, we have to go to the United Kingdom, stay in London for two days, then spend two more days in Italy before flying back to China from Rome."

Hiromi Jounouchi had no objections and nodded, leaving the schedule fully in Chen Yu's hands, "I don't mind! Whatever you want to do, Mr. Chen Yu, I'll just follow you and enjoy."

"Don't worry, I'll make sure you have a good time." After finishing his ice cream and wiping his hands with a tissue, Yu Chen held Hiromi Jounouchi close, "But shouldn't you change the way you address me now?"

"Change how? Change what?" Hiromi Jounouchi was a bit confused, squirming a little, "Don't hold me so tight, the ice cream is going to drip on me!"

"Of course, I'm talking about what you call me! Surely you wouldn't still address me by my name after we got married? You should call me 'husband' now, my wife," Yu Chen whispered teasingly into Hiromi Jounouchi's ear.

"Let go!" Hiromi Jounouchi's face turned red with embarrassment from Yu Chen's words, but despite his insistance, she eventually overcame her shyness and called him "husband."

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"Speaking of which, isn't there a huge underground Tomb in Paris? Why don't I feel the presence of necromancers here in this city?" After some time had passed and the blush had faded from Hiromi Jounouchi's face, she still felt curious as they walked on the Champs-Élysées, recalling some rumors she had once heard.

In the underground of Paris, due to the smallpox and plague epidemics in the 18th Century, a massive number of Citizens of Paris died, to the point where public cemeteries couldn't handle the burial of so many corpses. The situation was so dire that piled-up corpses, exacerbated by months of heavy rain, caused the walls of a restaurant's cellar to collapse, mixing the bodies with floodwaters and sweeping through Paris, leading to successive plagues.

To address the problem, Paris's rulers decided to exhume the corpses a few months after burial and stack them in disused quarries to save space, thus creating the world's largest Underground Tomb and earning Paris the nickname "City of the Dead."

Underneath Paris there is a vast underground world, constructed from over three hundred kilometers of tunnels, home to the remains of over six million people.

After the 20th century, the underground tombs were opened as a tourist attraction. Although they had become skeletons, walking through the narrow, dim passages and seeing the countless bones all around was still a terrifying experience.

However, for a Necromancer, corpses are merely research material. Neither Yu Chen nor Hiromi Jounouchi felt any fear, puzzled only by the absence of necromantic energy despite the millions of buried corpses.

"It must be because those bodies have undergone 'purification,' right? Back in the 18th Century, funerals were all handled by the church. These bodies were probably subject to church rituals before being buried, and the bodies were already decomposed into bones before being exhumed and filled into the abandoned quarry. It's evident that the potential for these corpses to become Lost Souls was eliminated when they were removed," Yu Chen concluded after a brief speculation on the matter.

After all, France has always been one of the strongest nations in Europe, and the church's power had dominated for a thousand years. It was impossible to believe they lacked the ability to deal with the corpses.

"How about we visit this underground tomb? I'm a bit curious about what it's actually like," Hiromi Jounouchi suggested to Yu Chen.

Yu Chen had no objections to his wife's suggestion, but he still asked, "But our time in Paris is limited; we were supposed to take a boat tour of the Seine River this afternoon, and I've reserved dinner. Are you considering adjusting this afternoon's schedule?"

"Hmm... maybe we won't spend that long on the Seine River?" Hiromi Jounouchi couldn't suppress her curiosity to explore the underground tomb.