bookcurios Chapter 151 Mona, it's your turn! (Takes out a Poké Ball)
Chapter 151 Mona, it's your turn! (Takes out a Poké Ball)
"Miss believes the best option right now is to consult an expert to address this professional issue. Who do you have in mind regarding breaking the curse?"
After Oz raised this question, Luminous and Paimon began to search their minds for their interpersonal relationships.
Three minutes passed, and Paimon gave his answer.
"Maybe...probably...I'm not sure. Um...Sister Lingling, do you have someone in mind?"
"Uh...me?"
Huiyuan pointed at herself with one finger, looking at Paimon with an uncertain expression.
(Why are you suddenly asking me this...?)
Seeing Huiyuan pointing at him, Paimon suddenly realized, "Oh, I see! Sister Lingling, you had a solution! You should have said so earlier!"
"Ah I?!"
Seeing Huiyuan looking surprised to himself, Paimon was puzzled.
"What's wrong?"
"Ah...it's nothing. I know what happened, but...it might be a bit troublesome to explain it to you. Rather than telling you the answer directly, I think it's better to let you solve the mystery yourselves, so...I'll take you to find someone."
......
Mondstadt, Adventurers' Guild.
After Huiyuan explained the whole story to Catherine, Mona arrived shortly afterward.
"Is someone looking for me? Who is it?"
Looking at the person who had arrived, Paimon suddenly realized, "So the person Sister Lingling was talking about was Mona!"
Upon hearing Paimon's voice, Mona's sleepy eyes instantly cleared.
"Oh, it's you!"
Upon seeing her recently acquainted friends "Ying" and "Lingling," Mona's previously resigned attitude of "being forced by life to complete the mission assigned by the Adventurers' Guild" instantly changed completely, and she smiled.
"Speak, what do you want from me? Astrology is a very ancient and mysterious discipline. If it's just a trivial matter, there's no need to bother me."
"Actually, it's like this..."
Paimon tells Mona about the meteorite...
After listening to Paimon's description, Mona fell into deep thought.
"I never expected that a meteor shower could cause such severe consequences."
Seeing Mona's "I see" expression, Fischl, who had been left out, couldn't help but speak up.
"Darkness is everywhere, but the princess and her companions still walk where light and shadow meet."
As always, Oz translated, "Ms. Mona, your power is very important."
Mona was taken aback when she saw the human and the crow suddenly start talking.
"Huh? You guys are together too?"
Seeing that Mona was finally looking over, Fischl introduced herself.
"I am Princess Fischl von Rufschloss Nafidott, the Princess of Judgment, and you will have the honor of accompanying me."
"A princess who has been sentenced? Is she a princess from some country?"
Upon hearing Mona's question, Fischl's inner chuunibyou (a person with delusions of grandeur) instantly ignited.
"The Pure Land of Night, an ancient, extinct kingdom...that is my homeland."
Mona was stunned, hearing what sounded like a description from a novel.
"Ghost...what?"
Fischl sighed, rubbing his forehead in disappointment. "Alas, almost no mortals know about the Dark Night Pure Land."
Seeing herself being reduced to a mere mortal, Mona became furious.
"Fan...who are you calling a 'fan'?! I'm a very skilled astrologer! No matter what kind of earth element you are, a little divination will tell me your origins. I'll tell you right now—"
Just as Mona was about to summon the Water Plate, Oz quickly apologized and tactfully stopped her.
"Lady Mona! Please don't dwell on this. The young lady always feels down when the topic of her lost kingdom comes up. A great sorcerer like you can surely understand the slight sorrow of a princess from a fallen nation, can't you?"
"this..."
Seeing Oz's sincerity, Mona was about to say something when Ying interrupted the seemingly unstoppable conversation.
"Sorry to interrupt you, let's prioritize work."
Seeing Ying speak, Mona calmly replied, "Uh, cough cough, that makes sense. So, your goal is to awaken everyone trapped in the dream, right?"
Ying nodded and uttered a classic quote she'd learned from Huiyuan, a line Ultraman Geed once said: "When something happens, you can't just sit there and do nothing"—oh wait, it should be...
"When faced with a problem, one cannot sit idly by and wait for death."
“Understood. In that case, I, Mona, will lend you a hand. But we need to move to a different place first. There’s too much magical interference in Mondstadt. Let’s go somewhere where the ley lines flow more easily.”
......
East of the wind's rise, eagles soar over the beach...
"Hmm, the terrain here is open, and the sky is clear. Let's choose this place!"
"Feeling the warm current of the sun sweeping over me," Mona said.
Water elements coalesced, and Mona summoned a water-based artifact.
"I'm about to begin my divination. Please step back and don't block my view."
After saying that, Mona started fiddling with the divination board.
Paimon was amazed as he watched Mona earnestly performing her divination.
"I don't understand what happened, but it looks amazing!"
Half a minute later, Mona put away the water and placed it on the plate.
Upon seeing this, Fischl asked, "Messenger of the stars, have your eyes already seen through the apocalypse of destiny?"
This time, it wasn't Oz who was being translated, but Paimon.
"Yes, yes, what did the divination reveal?"
"How amazing, this is the first time I've ever seen anything like it. According to the divination results, these meteorites seem to be someone's destiny seat."
After hearing Mona's explanation, Paimon pressed further, "The Fate Constellation? But isn't the Fate Constellation a concept from astrology?"
“Generally speaking, that's what ordinary people would think. But I've studied astrology for a long time and know some things you don't. The ‘natal planets’ on the ‘Constellation of Fate’ are real celestial bodies that exist deep in the sky, not just things that exist in concepts. Strangely, for some reason, they turned into meteorites and fell... The reason is still unclear, give me some time.”
As soon as Mona finished explaining, Fischl said solemnly, "It's a curse! Someone has placed a curse on us!"
Seeing the girl in front of her, who was about 13 to 16 years old, so serious, Mona became curious.
"curse?!"
"This princess, having traversed the stars, has glimpsed a corner of the truth from behind the veil of darkness. The cursed land, the malice of 'humanity'... only those who died in the most agonizing way could harbor such deep resentment. The inhabitants of this land should be questioned: who committed this unforgivable sin! Whoever gave birth to the dead is the true murderer!"
Seeing Fischl's childish antics again, Paimon couldn't bear to watch and covered his forehead, feeling an itch on his head and his brain shrinking.