The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them-Chapter 16 - Three-Way Debate

By the time dinner was over, it was actually quite late, and normal people would have been ready for bed.

But for a group of mercenaries who had casually drunk some alcohol during the meal, sleep was not an option! They felt there were many more important things to care about – how could they possibly sleep?

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Ever since the leader of the Lion’s Club had his mind awakened by Su Li’s words, countless thoughts suddenly sprang up in his head.

The alcohol made him excited, but it also made him clearly sense that when he verbally expressed his trust in Su Li, deep down he was actually filled with unexpressed fear.

Su Li’s gaze, devoid of any special meaning, was like a blade cutting through to the essence of reality. If aimed at a person’s heart…

The Lion’s Club leader was convinced that Su Li could easily see through him as well.

He believed that even without elemental powers, such a person would never allow himself to be in an inferior position.

What did he want? Why did he say so much? Telling him about those nobles who were secretly targeting him, yet whose actions he had never detected, must have some other purpose…

Without hesitation, the Lion’s Club leader trampled the correct answer underfoot and ran headlong in the completely opposite direction, as if ten horses couldn’t pull him back.

“Do you have thoughts of controlling the mercenaries? No, do you have thoughts of grasping this city in your hands?”

The Lion’s Club leader didn’t give anyone else a chance to ask how his brain had jumped to this conclusion.

He even excitedly gesticulated as he said. “Your wisdom is on a level far beyond our reach. If you truly have any designs on this city, I am willing to become the sharpest blade in your hand, and the Lion’s Club will become your supporters.”

As he said this, it was unclear whether his brain had truly been pickled by alcohol or if he had simply abandoned his brain altogether. He stared with excessively flushed and bright eyes as he said, “Anything Euphia cannot do, you can entrust to me to accomplish.”

Euphia immediately went “Huh?” and in the next second she raised an eyebrow, flipping over the empty wine glass on the table onto the Lion’s Club leader’s head. The flames gradually igniting in her eyes were only noticed by Su Li when he looked closely…

It was actually fire element materializing!

“What nonsense are you spouting, you idiot! How could there possibly be anything in this world I can’t do? Talking about Su Li giving you tasks and whatnot, who do you think you are, you baldy!” Euphia’s words quickly devolved into personal attacks.

“How dare you entertain thoughts above your station. Do you want me to burn a layer of skin off that already balding head of yours?”

Cyril’s eyes sparkled as he looked at these two. Su Li would bet a bag of spicy strips he didn’t actually have that even in this other world, Cyril’s mindset was definitely: “Fight! Fight!” – that desire to watch the drama unfold.

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He probably also wanted to learn ways to improve his own strength by observing others’ battles, after all, the Lion’s Club leader was also a well-known wind elementalist in this city.

The Lion’s Club leader made a contemptuous noise, then even his gaze began to attack Euphia as he retorted. “You think you’re so great? ‘Flame Lady’ or whatever – you don’t actually think that’s a good nickname, do you? It’s just those guys who hang around the tavern equating you with a tigress.”

“Come to think of it, Mr. Su Li hasn’t heard of this title of yours, has he? Euphia, isn’t this a sign that you’re trying to hide something from him? I’m not like that – if Mr. Su Li is willing, I can even tell him what color underwear I’m wearing today!”

Su Li immediately waved his hand. “No, no, that won’t be necessary.”

“This is very necessary!” The Lion’s Club leader looked at Su Li with a disapproving expression, but the red gradually spreading across his face proved that this man was truly intoxicated and beyond reason.

“This represents my wholehearted trust in you. I dare say there is absolutely no one in Sadina City who believes more than I do that you will definitely bring the cleansing of the natural wind to this world!” The Lion’s Club leader’s excessively emphatic tone made people feel that this man was perfectly suited to perform on stage in a theatrical production. Compared to his deep, boss-like demeanor from not long ago, it wasn’t just night and day – there was at least an ocean trench between them.

However, when he said the words “natural wind”, Egbert countered.

“The meaning represented by the light element is clearly more suitable for the lord. He can guide me on the path I should follow even better than the God of Light.”

Su Li: ...

Euphia sneered. “Hah, as everyone knows, light elements are always entangled with those greedy dogs from the church. What makes you think the meaning represented by the light element is more suitable to describe Su Li? If you ask me, the fire element is better. Fire is the starting point of human life. In the past, without fire elementalists, the number of people who died from eating raw food is incalculable in your lifetime.”

Su Li: …

The Lion’s Club leader firmly held his point. “Mr. Su Li would be better likened to the wind element. The natural wind participates in every corner of the continent at all times, possessing the eternal freedom that all mercenaries yearn for.”

Su Li: That won’t do, that won’t do. How could a homebody like him be compared to the wind?

“Clearly, the light element is better. Don’t bring up those church trash to pollute Lord Su Li’s ears, they don’t qualify to be the spokespersons for the light element in the human world. Light should be like Lord Su Li, guiding others forward, showing direction, making everything better and better.”

Su Li felt complicated. Although he knew Egbert had always been good at praising him with things he didn’t understand, this was the first time he realized Egbert could openly say such things that were meant to ease his own state of mind.

Su Li had always thought Egbert loved to praise him because of too much pressure in the past, gradually becoming eccentric.

The Son of Light was often a reserved person, except for his stalking behavior. But now that he was drunk, how…

How could he be so ridiculous?

Ridiculous upon ridiculous, and there was even more ridiculousness to come.

Euphia slammed the table and stood up, propping one leg on the table surface, pointing at the two men and shouting. “Fire element is clearly more important. You’re all focused on giving meaning to Su Li, but you haven’t thought at all that those meanings aren’t for you to give. Even if you didn’t exist, he would still be an extremely important existence. You stupid men, stop being so presumptuous.”

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The Lion’s Club leader sneered. “Heh, even if you argue this point with me, so what?” He tilted his chin up, “You will never understand what height the sir is at when he gazes down at us standing in the dust.”

“Don’t use your brain, which looks no different from an aquatic monster’s, to secretly speculate about the lord.” Egbert’s expression was serious, but his eyes were so unfocused that one could tell at a glance he was drunk too.

“You must be talking about yourself. Do you even understand what it means when he says, ‘People may act as tools, but they must never view themselves as no longer human’?”

“When the lord said this, he was already hinting to us that all of us, except for him, are being treated as tools by others.”

Su Li: ???

The Lion’s Club leader spoke righteously and indignantly. “Those nobles who seem to be sending me money are actually just wanting more and more members of the Lion’s Club to die! Until one day no mercenary is willing to join the Lion’s Club anymore.”

“And those commoners, Euphia, do you really think that even if they post normal tasks that aren’t war missions, they can treat mercenaries as normal professionals?”

“I’m telling you, that’s absolutely impossible!” The leader of the Lion’s Club glared with wide eyes.

“As long as we are mercenaries, we are just tools in everyone’s eyes! Regardless of status or age. The nobles use us for their profit, the commoners make us do things they can’t easily do themselves. Money has become the only condition for communication between mercenaries and others, but in reality, we mercenaries are human too!”

“If it weren’t for Mr. Su Li, I wouldn’t even have understood the concept of being treated like animals by others. Do you understand?! You two don’t look like you would understand, huh.” After saying this, he grabbed a bottle of wine and started drinking.

As for Su Li…

????

How did he not know his words had such meaning?

No, he really didn’t mean it that way!

However, in the blink of an eye, Su Li saw Egbert with an expression that said “what you said actually makes sense.” Don’t ask him why he developed the ability to read people’s expressions in another world, because Egbert actually said it out loud.

He even added. “I didn’t expect you to have your own understanding of what the lord said. But I think, whether you’re a mercenary or not, as long as there are different classes of people, as long as the gods can assign people to different classes, those in the lower classes will always be tools, unworthy of being called human. So, I believe this world needs a wave of change big enough to transform it.”

The Lion’s Club leader nodded. “What you’re saying makes sense too.”

“Nonsense!” Euphia deliberately interrupted their conversation with a crude word.

“Su Li’s meaning was clearly that if we mercenaries consider it natural to treat ourselves as tools, then we don’t even qualify to be independent, freedom-seeking mercenaries… no, at that point, mercenaries who consider themselves tools wouldn’t even qualify to continue being human.”

At this moment, everyone at the dining table was dumbfounded by the conversation between these three.

Cyril was thinking that his own thoughts were so shallow, while Su Li had considered so much.

Mark was thinking that they were all far smarter than him and could better understand the deeper meaning behind Su Li’s words.

Dean Asa and the Mercenary Alliance Guild Master exchanged glances and raised their glasses together. “Let’s be thankful that we are still human.”

Su Li: ..................

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He remembered that his mother tongue was Chinese, with over 90,000 characters, not speechlessness.

But he still insisted firmly. “You’re all just overthinking it.”

The Lion’s Club leader solemnly declared, indicating he understood. “I know the sir’s meaning is that he’s worried we might leak this idea, but please rest assured, having understood the profound implications of what you’ve expressed, I absolutely won’t commit such an act of betrayal.”

Euphia: “Are you pledging your loyalty now? I’m clearly the one who cooperates best with Su Li.”

Egbert: “You don’t even know what Su Li likes to eat, so stop talking as if you understand him so well.”

“I, I’m the one who has recorded the most of what Lord Su Li has said from beginning to end!”

As he spoke, Egbert prepared to take out that notebook, which he regarded as a treasure, but which Su Li couldn’t bear to look at a second time.

Egbert’s action was desperately blocked by the latter.

— So, would a normal person take someone’s words spoken while having diarrhea as a maxim, and write a dozen pages of reading comprehension essays about it?!