franphil Chapter 241 "Princess Shang"
Chapter 241 "Princess Shang"
Chapter 241 "Princess Shang"
July 3th, Monday, afternoon.
Above the familiar gray mist, the number of people on the left and right sides of the bronze table finally became symmetrical.
Above him is the Fool, below him is the World, and to his left and right are three ladies or gentlemen.
Audrey certainly noticed the new member, "Moon," but at that moment, her thoughts on the smog incident outweighed her curiosity about the new member.
Not only Audrey, but Alger and Fors also remembered the "angel's" reminder at the last tarot meeting.
Perhaps because the number of deaths was under control and the subsequent protests diverted some attention, the public's reaction was relatively calm at this point.
After all, they didn't know that gods might be involved behind the scenes.
"Good afternoon, Mr. Fool, good afternoon, Mr. Angel."
Audrey greeted him as usual, though her tone was less cheerful.
Angel?
Emlyn was taken aback by the name "The Moon," as there were no angels in the tarot deck.
There are angels at the Tarot gathering? These are big shots on par with dukes (vampires)!
Based on preconceived notions, Emlyn looked in the direction of the "angel".
No matter how you look at him, he seems unfathomable, a towering figure to be admired, with an extraordinary demeanor.
"Mr. Angel, your 'prophecy' is absolutely correct."
Audrey thought for a moment and decided to use the word "prophecy" instead.
"Heh, what I didn't expect was the professionalism of the Church of the Visionary Witch."
"The Witch Church is also a top-level secret organization."
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Xia'er felt that she could guess that something was wrong without relying on her intuition.
Miss Justice paused, unsure how to respond, as she hadn't realized the problem beforehand.
The same goes for everyone else.
A single sentence from Shael unintentionally hurt all the members of the Tarot Club except for Emlyn.
"To a certain extent, the disaster contributed to the growth of the Kingdom of Rune."
"Without this smog, it's hard to say how long we would have had to wait for those protection bills to be introduced."
"Without that march, the passage of those safeguard bills would have been stuck in both houses of parliament for who knows how long."
"When enough workers flood into Backlund, these bills will be extended indefinitely, and there is no point in having a guarantee bill that is not explicitly written into law."
Chael was sharing some of the opinions of Benson, the aspiring civil servant, during their casual conversation.
In fact, some things have already reached a consensus.
There's no such thing as humanitarianism; a large population simply means a devaluation.
"If it weren't for the fact that the royal family is unlikely to concede, I would suspect that the parade was staged by the royal family themselves."
"It's truly unimaginable that the third prince of the Augustus family would exert pressure on the cabinet and both houses of parliament in such an ostentatious manner."
He definitely has considerable support behind him, perhaps from the New Party...
Alger's intuition remained sharp; had he not been limited by stereotypes, he would have almost guessed correctly.
"The New Party may have some cooperation with Edsack, but the New Party was absolutely not informed of this beforehand."
Otherwise, Dad wouldn't have such a complicated expression... Audrey thought to herself.
These people chatted casually for a few minutes about some of Backlund's current problems, and then tacitly fell silent.
"Dear Mr. Fool, I have received three more pages of Russell's diary."
Fors began handing in Russell's diary.
Attending the banquet also requires handing in Russell...wait...is that a diary?
Emlyn looked at Mr. Fool with a blank expression, wondering why Mr. Fool hadn't mentioned it before.
Did you give me any chance to explain back then? Mr. Fool, just pretend you can't see this big moon.
He began to read Russell's diary.
"February 21st. Today I learned a secret about the Soren family. It turns out that the Hunter Pathway they possess can forcibly change sex at Sequence 4. Hahaha, I'm dying of laughter. No wonder none of the high-sequence Beyonders I know of are women. Haha, what kind of tough guy Pathway is this? Maybe the ancestors of the Soren family weren't originally men."
"Wait a minute, if Sequence 4 forces a gender change, then those Champagne Earls who want to mess with me, damn it! Is the Intis royal family the one leading the gay movement in Intis?"
"Could the higher sequences of the 'General Knowledge' pathway also be this problematic? Surely not, I remember there are women in the church's upper echelons."
Klein could tell from reading the diary that Emperor Roselle was half gloating and suddenly suspected that the gay man who wanted to antagonize him might have been a mature and beautiful red-haired woman, and an important member of the royal family, a vague and complicated feeling.
This... I really am a time traveler. Since I've transmigrated, I should "marry a princess," but damn it, the "princess" was forcibly sex-changed, but she seems to still have some feelings for me... Damn it.
They cannot accept men who were once women, nor can they accept women who were once men.
The Hunter Path and Witch Path are really designed to mess with people's mentality.
Klein vaguely speculated that the two gender transformation pathways were interchangeable, but one was a Sequence 4 gender transformation and the other was a Sequence 7 gender transformation. This non-correspondence and asymmetrical sense of separation made him feel a sense of distortion and madness again, and he even suspected that the underlying logic of this world was madness and chaos.
"On February 12th, when I saw Florent this time, I was actually a little glad that this guy was a man."
"If he were a woman, I might not have been able to refuse his offer so decisively. We might have ended up having a series of stories together, just like in those time-travel novels where the protagonist gradually gains the attention and favor of a royal girl through his intelligence."
"Damn! If I reach Sequence 4, I'll be able to achieve my goal. If this guy changes his gender and still has feelings for me, I'll be so depressed."
puff~
Klein almost burst out laughing. From his perspective in the future, he knew very well that the Emperor's relief was quite reasonable. If that Mr. Florent was indeed a woman, then the subsequent developments might have been just as the Emperor had said: before Sequence 4, the Emperor was in high spirits, but after Sequence 4, it would be the hunters' turn to sharpen their knives.
"On December 25th, the improved artillery that I designed and supervised the construction of was completed. It's hard to imagine that in a world with extraordinary powers, the development of technology is so lagging behind. Even I, a liberal arts graduate who worked in sales after graduation, can come up with some technologies that are ahead of this era just by racking my brains."
"Once these cannons are in place, the Kingdom of Rune's naval dominance will be challenged."
The existence of supernatural powers hinders the development of natural science.
Klein felt that this was just like the wizarding world in Harry Potter. What serious wizard would use a sword with his left hand and American-style iaido with his right? Only a wizard without talent would study Muggle things.
Of course, the Emperor.
"I'm not saying you don't have talent," Klein added in his mind.