The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them-Chapter 23 - Tsundere

The news about the other Crystal Winged Dragon hatchling having problems was already quite obvious.

Otherwise, it wouldn’t have been so reckless as to directly lead numerous monster beasts to attack Jisuo Town, unless the entire dragon had lost its mind and gone insane.

However, one must not forget – for a dragon that was in the middle of hatching its young, if its offspring could be stolen and killed right in front of it, how could humans not be capable of killing the other recovered hatchling as well?

Especially now that the Church of Light’s people were aware of “those who know.”

If they would silence even their fellow humans, how could those knights from the church possibly hesitate to harm a mere egg?

Given that even unborn Crystal Winged Dragon hatchlings possessed self-awareness, Su Li’s mind could never label an adult Crystal Winged Dragon as “just a simple beast.”

Therefore, this seemingly simple act of venting must have deeper reasoning behind it.

“Vengefully massacring humans is an act that will provoke the anger of all humanity,” Su Li stared directly into the eyes of the irritable little brother.

The more blurry his vision became, the more he needed to show his determination.

“The Crystal Winged Dragon’s behavior, in my view, seems exactly like it’s calling for humans to enact a ‘hero slaying the evil dragon’ scenario.”

And the dragon’s thinking pattern most likely aimed to escalate the situation, forcing the mastermind to appear as a “hero,” so it could perish together with them, using its life to avenge its children.

Su Li’s head was getting hotter. With slightly trembling hands, he took the still-unmelted ice wrapped in a towel from Cyril.

After pressing it against his head, Su Li began explaining to the irritable little brother. “Assuming all my previous deductions haven’t strayed from the truth of the matter, then now, the Crystal Winged Dragon’s behavior seems more like it’s unilaterally seeking death.”

“I don’t know much about monster beasts, only familiar with the most common Mie Beasts and Muo Beasts,” Su Li said honestly. “Even this knowledge only comes from knowing their meat tastes good.”

“I had never heard of Crystal Winged Dragons before. This indeed shows my limited knowledge and narrow experience, but it also proves that Crystal Winged Dragons themselves don’t exist in large numbers.”

Thinking from a modern perspective, the current situation was quite shocking.

It was equivalent to an endangered species making its final retaliation before complete extinction and disappearance from this world.

It no longer feared humanity’s inevitable counterattack, nor dreaded the death that was bound to come.

Therefore…

Both Crystal Winged Dragon hatchlings must be dead.

Even among adult Crystal Winged Dragons, there was likely only one left. Otherwise, as long as they still had the ability to reproduce, the Crystal Winged Dragon wouldn’t necessarily have gone so mad.

A single parent raising offspring, then losing all its young, and even having no more of its kind left…

The Crystal Winged Dragon’s madness, in Su Li’s view, was chillingly understandable.

But he couldn’t forgive a monster beast that killed one-third of Jisuo Town’s humans simply out of sympathy. Yet as someone who had lived in a world where protecting animals was written into textbooks, Su Li couldn’t remain completely indifferent either…

However, the current situation didn’t allow him to waste too much time contemplating things that weren’t immediately important.

Matters had their priorities.

Su Li chose to have Mark and Cyril bring him to the irritable little brother when he anticipated he might have issues, because he felt that even as the current events were becoming clearer like unraveling silk, there would definitely be bigger movements from the Beast Forest’s direction.

And the irritable little brother was very likely to know some deeper things that could connect all these incidents together.

As an eighth-level monster beast, the Crystal Winged Dragon wasn’t top-tier, so where did it get the authority to bypass more powerful beings, drive lower-level monster beasts to action, and command them to attack Jisuo Town?

A single dragon’s destructive power would be quite limited.

Just considering humans, a resilient species, one dragon alone couldn’t possibly kill one-third of a town’s population.

Jisuo Town was the closest place to the Beast Forest. For hunters who survived by killing monster beasts, they wouldn’t come here to risk their lives while being weak.

There were many powerful individuals here, yet under these circumstances, one-third of the population still died…

The ice-wrapped towel helplessly slipped from Su Li’s palm, hitting the ground with a dull thud, while his mind kept generating chaotic, conflicting information.

What caused the death of the other Crystal Winged Dragon hatchling? Even after being rescued by the adult Crystal Winged Dragon, it still died – didn’t this prove that humans had acted against it before it was even hatched?

The hidden figure who gave the Crystal Winged Dragon authority to bypass higher-level monster beasts and command lower-level ones, being stronger than the Crystal Winged Dragon itself…

Just how powerful could they be?

How many of the allied forces would fall this time? Roy’s life safety… if the allied forces suffered heavy losses, what would become of this town’s future?

Too many thoughts could only be forcibly terminated.

Continuing to think would only make Su Li’s already feverishly hot head heat up even more.

Mark’s muffled voice spoke up. “You should rest.”

The intuitive one clearly knew Su Li was pushing himself too hard.

A common cold and fever weren’t serious, and Su Li wouldn’t normally care. But excessive shock was different.

But Su Li coughed once, stopping Mark who wanted to take him aside to rest.

“Do you know what you’re doing?” Cyril stood beside him, his lips almost blistering with anxiety.

Yet he couldn’t interrupt Su Li, who had to say what came next.

With emerald eyes and gradually reddening corners, Su Li’s face showed striking contrasting colors.

He opened his eyes wide, as if using all his strength to say, “Therefore, when a person, when a monster beast, possesses rational intelligence, they would and could only fall into life-disregarding madness after losing everything.”

The irritable little brother looked thunderstruck.

Obviously, he had never considered these possibilities.

Su Li defined his not-so-smart behavior as being unable to see the bigger picture while being in the midst of it. He believed that as an outsider, developing the events according to his logic this far was enough to exchange information with the irritable little brother.

Unfortunately, the irritable little brother, who had just barely understood, immediately turned around, wanting to leave. Even his face showed an extremely grotesque and terrifying dark expression.

By his appearance, it seemed he wanted to head straight to the Beast Forest.

Before Cyril hurriedly picked up the ice towel, cleaned it, and pressed it back on his head, Su Li mustered his strength to stop the irritable little brother.

As Cyril frowned and pressed the ice towel back on Su Li’s head, the latter gasped violently, barely recovering from nearly fainting.

He smiled bitterly, firmly squeezed Cyril’s bare wrist with his left hand, then turned his attention to the irritable little brother whose face showed impatience but hadn’t decided to ignore him and leave directly.

The irritable little brother’s expression was truly awful – even Su Li, who wasn’t good at reading faces, could see that he wanted to smash bowls and walls, to vent through violent behavior.

“You’d better give me an explanation that makes me not want to push you away, even if…” he threatened, then hesitated without finishing his sentence.

Su Li weakly smiled. “Even if what?”

“But whatever it is, it doesn’t matter now.”

The irritable little brother’s behavior was no different from Su Li’s when he was deciding whether to come to Jisuo Town – they were exactly the same.

—When presented with a possibility, that possibility would inevitably occur.

Combined with the young man’s naturally threatening way of speaking, Su Li’s foggy mind retained enough wild imagination to lightly label him with the attribute of being a tsundere with a temper, or “temperdere” for short.

But Su Li’s rational focus remained on thinking.

“What you need to consider is what position you plan to take when entering the Beast Forest.”

By now, Su Li could fully determine that the premise of the irritable little brother knowing the truth was real.

Not needing to be led around by Mark, and about to get the information he wanted to know, Su Li breathed a sigh of relief.

But who could have expected that the person before him wouldn’t follow Su Li’s line of thinking.

“Even if I’m Egbert’s friend, without a reasonable explanation, I won’t let you off easy,” the young man deliberately put on a dark expression.

“Eg is in there?!” The person who should have backed down from his words instead immediately raised his voice, shouting in disbelief.

The breath Su Li had just managed to release not only got swallowed back but became completely stagnant in his chest, making his vision go dark for a moment.

The young man seemed to be someone who knew exactly how to provoke others with expressions and actions. Now he deliberately showed a mocking face and said, “Ha, that man always has ‘my lord, my lord’ hanging on his lips. Yet you, the person in question, don’t even know where he is.”

Su Li didn’t argue.

Arguing now would only be meaningless behavior.

All of the young man’s mocking expressions were only performed for Mark, who wouldn’t react before he took action, and Cyril, who was already desperate to rush up and give him a good thrashing.

“Are you deliberately mocking Su Li who kindly warned you about the truth?” Cyril directly showed an expression that said “people should act like humans, not dogs.”

The young man exploded again.

“Heh! Who do you think is acting as the guard dog here?”

“Take that back!”

While the two were arguing and about to fight, Su Li’s attention was entirely on the proportion of Church of Light members among the main allied forces.

How likely were they to run into Egbert?

In the current situation where all lower-level monster beasts were going berserk except for the top-tier ones, Eg, who was training in there, would certainly encounter monster beasts. Once surrounded…if Egbert had to make a tactical retreat, the probability of him running into Church of Light members, as long as it wasn’t zero, would be one hundred percent.

A lone wolf’s situation was too dangerous.

Even Su Li hadn’t initially considered the possibility that Egbert might still be in the forest.

The Son of Light wasn’t stupid – with wolves in front and tigers behind, to still dive right in…

And if Egbert met with church members, the Knights of Light, whose main purpose was to silence and kill all those who knew the truth, would definitely not miss this opportunity.

Su Li couldn’t guarantee whether Egbert would say any trash talk while being surrounded. But regardless of whether he did or not, the other non-Church of Light members in the allied forces would similarly fall into the category of “needing to be silenced.”

The famous line from past films and TV shows, “only the dead don’t leak information,” rang particularly true.

Now Su Li wasn’t just getting chills down his spine – his whole body was filled with an indescribable horror at witnessing for the first time the conflicts between people in this other world.

However now, he still needed to give a reason for stopping the irritable little brother.

The two people about to fight beside him had their building momentum interrupted by Su Li.

“Your intention to enter the Beast Forest naturally leaves you with only two choices.”

Su Li, worried about his family’s situation, explained in an almost cold tone. “If you truly care more about the Crystal Winged Dragon as I mentioned before, then entering this forest as one of the monster beast faction means you won’t return.”

The Church of Light wouldn’t spare “another traitor,” especially when the previous traitor wasn’t killed by them. The next such character to appear would face attacks from all sides.

“But if you stand with the humans, you’ll likely have to watch helplessly as the Crystal Winged Dragon dies.”

The silencing includes all witnesses.

Even though Su Li was wary of stronger monster beasts behind the Crystal Winged Dragon, he was somewhat horrified to find that he equally believed the bishop’s silencing personnel possessed the necessary strength.

Someone who could command so many people, plot against an eighth-level beast, fabricate false charges against opponents, and use the rescue of Jisuo Town as a pretext for silencing witnesses… Su Li couldn’t help but assume the worst about such a person.

After all, his initial concern was just that too many people in the allied forces would become uninformed cannon fodder.

“Humans won’t give up on killing the Crystal Winged Dragon that massacred their fellow humans,” Su Li sighed.

“These two choices, in your view, will probably only be hell or hell.”

Su Li pointed out the situation the young man would inevitably face. “Besides hell and hell, you have no other choice.”

“Why are you telling me all this?” The young man was puzzled, though not paranoid, just wondering, “Is it just because I said I’m Egbert’s friend?”

“Yes, that’s right.” Su Li didn’t deny it, “For those I acknowledge, I can’t guarantee perfect reciprocation of their efforts, but I will definitely respond to their contributions.”

He emphasized the last sentence.

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While speaking, Su Li not only supported Mark but also held Cyril’s hand.

The small explosive/cartridge barrel beside him, whose fuse was already lit, was barely containing his explosion, wanting to send the irritable little brother back home.

But believe this – even though Su Li wouldn’t harbor ill feelings toward the young man, he definitely wouldn’t develop more fondness for him than for his own young friend just because he was Egbert’s friend.

“So now you need to tell me why Eg is in the Beast Forest, and how he knows you.”

When Egbert acted alone, he had no intention of cooperating with others, otherwise Euphia and the Lion’s Club leader, who were destined to be in the same boat, would have immediately provided manpower.

“Only by telling me what you know can I judge whether there’s a possibility to achieve both objectives.”

The green-eyed youth with reddened corners of his eyes only closed them to rest briefly when the irritable little brother finally agreed to honestly exchange information.