novelonline Chapter 762: The opposite of strong desire is called desirelessness
Chapter 762: The opposite of strong desire is called desirelessness
Chapter 762: The opposite of strong desire is called desirelessness
After taking a closer look at the stupid goddess's appearance, everyone finally came to a conclusion: she was no different from usual, she looked exactly the same.
A few people who were unsure were ready to ask again.
“Aqua, do you think there’s something wrong with you? Not physically, but mentally. For example, you don’t want to drink bubbly, you have a strong desire to go out to work, or you don’t want to admit that you are a goddess anymore…”
I have to say, Huihui's words were really excessive.
Let’s not talk about the first two points for now, the last one is really excessive.
Under normal circumstances, the stupid goddess would definitely refute, and refute loudly, but——
"Um……"
What Xiaolin and the others didn't expect was that Aqua was actually thinking. Seeing this, Xiaolin couldn't help but ask.
"Aqua, do you feel anything?"
"...I always feel that it's just a feeling, and this feeling is only a little bit, not very strong." The stupid goddess seemed to not want to admit it. After emphasizing and denying it one after another, she hesitantly said under the gaze of everyone: "I always feel that...I have become a little free of distractions."
"Stray thoughts? What scattered thoughts?"
Darkness couldn’t understand.
Xiao Lin understood and sighed, "This guy lives by instinct. The so-called distracting thoughts are similar to desires, right?"
"What are you talking about to me, a goddess?" Aqua rolled her eyes at Kobayashi. "I don't live on distractions. For example, I still have lovely Axis believers, hot springs and the city of water... and so on."
however--
“It does make some sense.”
"Yes."
"I think so too."
Huihui, Darkness, and Yunyun, the three companions of the team, all agreed with Krillin's statement.
"You, you three, should speak up for me now? Haven't I always lived a reserved and noble life?" Aqua shamelessly said such stupid words that made people want to punch her.
If she had a noble spirit, then Xiaolin definitely had a golden spirit.
It's just the golden spirit of beating up centenarians, bullying middle-aged office workers, and priests.
“But if you are cursed, your desires will become completely opposite.” Darkness sighed slightly and said, “It feels strange to have no desires.”
"Listen to me——"
Aqua complained loudly.
“Well, I think so.” Megumin ignored the stupid goddess who was screaming and said, “Before making clothes, Aqua showed many kinds of desires, right?”
"You mean..."
"She can drink bubble wine whenever she wants, she can relax in the mansion, she can have a massage from Kobayashi, and so on. If she wants everything, her desire will turn into the opposite, and she may become a person without desires."
Huihui’s words were right. If the curse was really the exact opposite, it would definitely turn out like this.
"That's absolutely true! So, I have no distractions now!"
"Does it mean that you usually have strong desires?"
“This statement also makes me very unhappy.”
Aqua crossed her arms and huffed.
Wiz couldn't help but praise, "Because of the curse that enhanced desire, she became desireless and had no desires. Lady Aqua is really amazing!"
"Well, is it amazing?" Forgive Kobayashi, he really couldn't see what was so amazing about it. After all, a goddess shouldn't be called a stupid goddess and make a fuss like this - no, it would be better to say that the current Aqua is the real goddess.
Why not just keep it like this, so that the stupid goddess will become indifferent and won't cause any trouble to the team.
While Xiaolin was thinking this, Darkness stroked his chin and said, "But this could cause big problems."
“Big deal?” Huihui looked at her in confusion.
Darkness looked at Aqua and couldn't help but say, "In order to lift the curse, you must satisfy your desires. But what does it mean to satisfy your desires? How do you do it?"
“…Indeed.” Huihui nodded and said, “If you don’t have desires, you won’t be satisfied.”
Whether it was Darkness or Megumin, they both expressed extremely deep desires and fully manifested them before eliminating their desires. If Aqua had no desires, there would be no way to start.
Xiaolin scratched his head, looked at the stupid goddess and asked, "Hey, Aqua, how are you doing? Is there anything you want to do?"
It's better to ask the person himself about this kind of thing.
Darkness and Megumin are both very clear about their desires, so if Aqua could also express her desires clearly, that would be a big help. However—
“Desire is the desire to get something, so to be desireless is to give to others and to forgive others.”
"...That makes sense. But even though it was force majeure, you still helped the criminal."
“Hey, um, this is…”
Aqua was speechless, she lowered her head and played with her fingers. Kobayashi couldn't help but sigh and said, "Before doing such a great thing as forgiving others, you must first pay for the sins you have committed."
“Yes, yes.”
The stupid goddess smiled awkwardly and said, "I swear on Aqua's name that I will reflect on my sins and pay for them!"
"Okay, I heard it, and you must reflect on it." Kobayashi decided to continue to restrain the stupid goddess in the days to come until she paid for her sins.
"Yeah, yeah, I understand. I really understand. Now I'm reflecting on it. Yeah, I'm reflecting on it." Aqua had a sweet smile, the smile of a good child who admits his mistakes and corrects them.
"Well, keep working hard with this attitude and collect materials."
"……I see."
Aqua's sweet smile remained.
Then, everyone came to the mountain lake not far from Axel again.
"Hey-Aqua-how's the situation-?"
"No problem at the moment—!"
Aqua in the lake raised her hands and shouted, "If anything happens, I will call you loudly, you have to come and save me quickly————!"
"........."
"Hey! Answer me!"
The stupid goddess, who already has a psychological trauma about the monster in the lake, is now extremely panicked. If no one comes to rescue her, she might be bitten to pieces by the crocodile.
“Got it! We need to work hard to purify it!”
Xiao Lin had no choice but to respond loudly.
It’s not that they really don’t want to save her, but the stupid goddess always goes too far. Even with the iron cage borrowed from the guild, this guy will be scared and scream, so no matter what, they have to rely on them to clean up the mess in the end.
By the way, what does her increased strength have to do with her? This stupid goddess’s strength has been fixed from the beginning, okay?
Huihui looked at the goddess playing in the lake and said, "It took seven hours to purify the lake water last time. Will it take the same amount of time this time?"
"Roughly the same……"
Xiaolin scratched his head.
The story goes back to yesterday.
In order to make clothes, Kobayashi and others went to the guild to accept the task, and then the stupid goddess was a little reluctant.
"Purify the lake water..."
"To be precise, this mission is not to purify the lake water, but to defeat the blue alligators. However, once the lake water becomes clean, the alligators will disappear, which means that purifying the lake water is the most convenient way."
The lake water had been purified, but because there were too many participants in the last sports meeting held by Axel, and there was a huge commotion during the journey, the mountain collapsed again, the lake became turbid again, and the alligators moved in again.
Xiaolin and his team already had experience in this area, so they took the job. Rather than taking the trouble to kill all the crocodiles one by one, they simply cleaned the lake and made the crocodiles leave at the same time, killing two birds with one stone. Of course, the reward would also be doubled.
Aqua's expression kept changing.
"Am I going to be put in a cage and squeezed for juice again?"
“I know you’re feeling miserable, but there’s no better purification magic user than Aqua, so I can only ask you, Aqua! Really, please! Let us see the power of the goddess of water!”
Megumin continued to flatter the stupid goddess, but Aqua still looked resistant.
Xiao Lin raised the stakes and encouraged her, "Celebrate properly after this, and I'll treat you to lots of delicious food!"
"...Hmm." She wavered, but still failed.
Kobayashi tugged at the hem of the female knight's clothes.
“Darkness, we’re almost there. One more plan, please!”
"Ah, me?!"
The perverted female knight who was placed with high hopes didn't know what to do. After a brief thought, she said, "Well... after this mission is completed, I will send some of Aqua's favorite frost-fat red crabs."
"————!?"
The stupid goddess' eyes lit up, she coughed pretentiously and said, "Since you all said so, there is nothing I can do! Well, I will let you take a good look at my goddess power!"
The high-grade crabs are still more powerful.
In fact, the price of crabs alone is no less than the reward for this mission, but the crabs are provided by the Darkness family, so it is not considered as spending money, and therefore it is barely safe.
Aqua, moved by the crab, uses her purification ability even faster than last time to drive the alligator away in order to show that she will definitely help, and then comes back to use the crab.
Back to the present.
Xiaolin looked at the little loli from the Crimson Demon Clan and said, "It seems that you, Huihui, also know how to deal with Aqua."
“No.” Huihui shook her head slightly and said, “I’m just imitating Xiaolin’s way. Aqua is a rare beast…”
"you're right……"
"You two."
Darkness seemed a little annoyed by the two people’s comments about her companions.
"But it's boring to wait like this." Kobayashi sighed as he looked at Aqua who was bathing leisurely in the lake. "If I had known earlier, I would have brought some props to relieve boredom."
“Xiaolin, don’t let your guard down. The blue alligator may appear at any time.” Darkness taught Xiaolin a lesson for not taking his companions’ lives seriously.
"Even so, there won't be any problems with that cage." Xiaolin pointed at the cage that Aqua got into and said, "The strength of the cage I borrowed from the guild is about the same as the last time, so even an alligator will not be able to tear it apart."
“That means the cage is also very expensive. I hope it won’t get damaged this time.” Darkness saw the other side.
Xiao Lin rolled his eyes and said, "We weren't the ones who broke it last time, okay?"
The last time the cage broke, it was that guy Yujian Xiangye who broke the iron cage due to an unnecessary misunderstanding. It had nothing to do with Xiaolin and the others. Instead, they were asked to compensate for the loss of the cage, but in the end, they got the compensation back from that guy.
At this time, an accident occurred in the middle of the lake.
Aqua suddenly yelled, "X-Xiaolin————!"
"Ok?"
Everyone looked over.
“Crocodile! Crocodiles are coming!” Aqua yelled with tears in her eyes, “There are so many crocodiles coming————! Aaaaaaaah!!!”
At some point, a large number of alligators emerged from the lake. They were circling the cage and biting it continuously, trying to bite the stupid goddess in the cage with their ferocious fangs, but they failed.
But even so, the scary fangs and ferocious look made the stupid goddess pale.
In this regard, Kobayashi's approach is -
“It’ll be fine if you stay in the cage! Be patient and continue purifying——!”
There was no intention to rescue anyone.
After all, there was no need to save anyone. Before the stupid goddess got into the cage, she had already been told that the alligator could not hurt her, so she didn't need to be afraid.
"I know! I know, but I'm still scared————!"
Knowing or not has nothing to do with being afraid, not to mention that the stupid goddess is an extremely timid person. She couldn't help but shout at the top of her voice -
"Ahhhh!? It's shaking! The cage is shaking, ahhhhh!"
The alligators seemed very organized. They overturned the cage containing the stupid goddess and pounced on it, biting her continuously, but they did not break through the defense of the cage.
"Oh oh oh!"
"Xiaolin, what should we do?"
"You don't have to do anything, just watch."
In response to his companions' panicked inquiries, Kobayashi sat calmly on the shore, watching the cage rolling over and over and Aqua in the cage crying and screaming, like a living devil.
Darkness couldn't help but ask, "Is this really all that's needed?"
"……Um?"
Xiao Lin looked at the perverted female knight who was ready to attack beside him, and couldn't help but ask: "You drew your sword, what are you going to do?"
"Do you even need to ask this kind of thing?"
"Don't go."
"The mission this time is not to clean up the lake, but to defeat alligators. In other words, it is normal to knock them down, right?"
The perverted female knight showed a bright and expectant smile, which made Kobayashi feel a little uneasy.
"No, no, no. That's true, but you shouldn't go."
"I, I...I'm on it!"
"I knew it would be like this, you perverted female knight!"
If Darkness could listen to others, she would not be Darkness. Looking at the perverted female knight sprinting excitedly towards the center of the lake, Xiaolin felt a pain in his forehead.
(End of this chapter)