People in Xumi: I am really not the Dragon King

Chapter 552 Lin Feng: Let's go to Fontainebleau to exchange experiences sometime. The Order Academy has a batch of new dragon lizard employees.
The next day, at a dessert shop on the side of the town street.

The Abyss War ended, and the long-awaited drizzle fell gently onto the earth, making the sky appear somewhat gray.

As the gaze of a certain pink-furred fox fell upon them, the cherry blossom trees planted on both sides of the shop swayed gently in the wind and rain.
Gazing at the falling pink petals, she couldn't help but recall yesterday's hellish experience.
—As it turns out, even an honest person like Ah Ying, who is easy to bully, will retaliate if bullied too much.

The price she paid for this lesson is the still-uneven fox fur on her body.
"Hmm, she didn't suffer any real injuries. It seems your Ah Ying still holds onto a lot of old feelings."

"I've already collected quite a bit of fox fur. I'll have someone else knit this scarf for me. All previous debts will be settled. Consider the treatment a gift from me as a favor."

Holding a pink fox in his hand, Lin Feng took the opportunity of helping it grow fur to scratch the creature's chin and give its fluffy tail a good pat.

Meanwhile, the pink-haired fox, who had just been severely punished yesterday, had resigned itself to its fate.

But when she realized she couldn't shake off the claws reaching for her tail, Yae no Miko still tried one last struggle.
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She turned her head and stared innocently at the young man who was pinching the back of her neck, then realized that the other man seemed to have a strong resistance to this kind of thing.

Then she turned back and looked at Ah Ying with a pitiful expression.

As a result, his old friend remained unmoved, simply watching as he fell into the hands of the evil dessert shop owner.
".squeak?"

The only thing paying attention to him was the white treasure-stealing weasel next to him, which was eating voraciously on the table.

Seemingly having returned to its original state after a long time, the little creature, upon noticing her request for help, enthusiastically stretched out its tiny paws and shared some of the food on the table.
Divine Child: "." Never mind, let's leave it at that.

Realizing that no one in the room had any sympathy for his current situation, he knew that asking for help would only result in him being passed from one person to another.

She sighed softly, feeling the hand on her body that was clearly skilled at petting cats and dogs, and decisively chose to give up.

"Here, take this first, Hana Sanri. You should be quite familiar with this kind of thing."

"The child himself is fine. Although the length of his hair is uneven now, it should grow back after a while."

They touched her lightly for a while, but didn't do anything perverted like burying their face in her stomach in front of everyone.

Although the Divine Child's personality was a bit awful, Lin Feng highly praised the guy's feel for the game.

—The fur is soft and smooth, the tail feels wonderful to the touch, and although the ears are quite sensitive, they won't bite when you touch them.

Unlike the little creatures in the wild, this pink fox didn't have the usual odor that its kind would have; instead, it had a faint cherry blossom scent.

Normally, a shrine maiden in fox form shouldn't fall into my hands, but since this guy has been talking big at the shrine every day, I don't think I'll actually grab her by the tail.

Perhaps this high-ranking pink fox was used to teasing others, while Lin Feng happened to be someone who took things seriously.
"Oh, then I'll take it."

"Although I wasn't the one with her at that time, I still miss her a little."

Without refusing, he smiled and pinched the little one's nape, just like he remembered, and placed her on his shoulder.

Gentle movements,

The divine child, who had been struggling, paused.
Smelling the incredibly familiar scent, and seeing that familiar face and the same fluffy white tail, she, who had served as the palace priest alone for hundreds of years, stiffened and inexplicably fell silent.

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"How's the situation? You should have calmed down a bit by now, right?"

"Judging from your current performance, you should no longer feel as lost as you did at the beginning."

Reaching out, I took the little white dog from the table and placed it on my shoulder as well.

Lin Feng looked at the unusually quiet figure ahead and asked in a certain tone.

"Well, I don't intend to break my promise to the people. The general and I will abandon the Eye Hunting Order and open Inazuma."

"Although the fact that the Divine Child concealed the truth initially confused me and even made me doubt everything that had happened before."

"But the people's wishes are not unfounded; everything we are experiencing now could very well happen to Inazuma in the future."

His expression was slightly tired, clearly indicating that he had been thinking a lot in the past.

Her previous pursuit of "eternity" was essentially a hope to isolate Inazuma from external threats and avoid losing as much as possible.

But the invasion of the Abyss will undoubtedly not change because of her personal wishes.
It would be too difficult for the divine child to shoulder everything alone, going against the wishes of the people. This simulation was the "fact" that the divine child used to convince himself.

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A puzzled look fell from Hana Sanri's shoulder beside him.
The pink-haired fox was furious that Ah Ying, knowing perfectly well why she was doing this, still plucked her fur.

"I felt much more relaxed after teaching the Divine Child a lesson yesterday. At first, everything was like a jumbled mess."

"Perhaps, just as you and Chiyo said, the emotions I've suppressed for centuries haven't disappeared; they've just accumulated in some corner, and they'll erupt sooner or later."

I have rarely felt such burning anger as I did yesterday; my emotions lately have been richer than they have been over the previous hundreds of years combined.

I always thought I was good at suppressing my emotions, but now it seems that this approach may have been doomed to failure from the very beginning.
"It would be great if you could understand this. In fact, showing your true self appropriately can better prevent wear and tear."

"While some guys might be better off not showing their true selves, you shouldn't have that problem."

As I talked, I unconsciously thought of Wendy again.
Faced with this pile of non-recyclable trash that, in most cases, would only steal alcohol to drink, Lin Feng didn't think anyone else could be abstracted to that extent.

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"So, since your thinking hasn't changed."

"If I'm not mistaken, you should still be suppressing the general?"

It can be seen that the shadow's condition has weakened significantly since the beginning, as if it has suddenly been placed in a completely incompatible body.

Lin Feng knew that the reason why he had failed in many previous simulations due to this lack of coordination between consciousness and body was because Ying, that idiot, had not left any backdoor when he designed the general.

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"I will not go back on my promises to the people, but I still need to think about where Inazuma's future will go."

"If the conflict between me and the general is irreconcilable, then perhaps the only option left is to choose some more direct ways to prove each other right and wrong."

The past self strives to avoid wear and tear, and that's how a general is born.

"Giving up the pursuit of eternity" meant, in her eyes at the time, that she had undoubtedly embarked on the wrong path, and that the general would have to correct her by force if necessary.
"Well, there's no need to rush." ​​"There's still a lot of work to be done in the reconstruction of Inazuma, and it will take a considerable amount of time for all the deceased to return."

"There won't be any more crises in the short term, so you have plenty of time to prepare."

Ying was just a hair's breadth away from fully mastering the power of "Dream One Heart," but the final hurdle lay in the inner turmoil she was struggling with.

When she truly makes up her mind to abandon the eternal past and refute her self from five hundred years ago, the consciousness she has reserved can awaken and transform into the divine cherry blossoms that now face the mountaintop.

Without a doubt, this was a predetermined course written into the history of Teyvat, directly related to the survival of Inazuma five hundred years ago.
Even if I don't intervene, a certain ruling party will try to make corrections.

"Well, I will deal with everything that Inazuma urgently needs to handle first. Once the people's lives return to normal, I will try to settle things with the general."

His words carried an extremely clear determination.
After so many failures in the simulations, Shadow knew very well that this was a problem that had to be addressed.

But in Lin Feng's view, the biggest progress the shadow made was not that it understood that eternity was flawed.
Instead, his decision-making has become much more mature. He would choose to settle the country first before confronting the general, instead of rushing in recklessly as before.

"Then let's not worry about that for now. I believe you will eventually win."

"Here are some snacks and fried tofu. You can talk to yourselves while I make arrangements for the rest of the group heading to Inazuma from Sumeru."

He got up from the table and added a lot more food to the table in front of him.

Lin Feng thought of Nasita, who had left without saying anything yesterday because she was too shocked, and decided to go and talk to her about the rest of her vacation.

"Huh? You mean their relationship actually improved after they fought yesterday? And the fox fur feels really nice, maybe I should try it out sometime?"

"Hmm, why does this topic seem to be jumping around? Are these two things really connected?"

Upon receiving the invitation from her own sage, Nasita quickly accepted the communication.

But when she asked about the aftermath of yesterday's fight, Lin Feng's answer made her blink in confusion, finding it somewhat hard to understand.

"Well, actually, the two things are quite closely related, but in short, it's a good result that the two of them fought like this."

It's hard to explain why the Divine Child had to take this beating, since it probably stemmed from the combined efforts of everyone present.

He shook his head, choosing to put the matter aside for now.

Not forgetting his invitation to the two of them to come and travel together, Lin Feng also chose to share with Nasita the progress of the lifting of the isolationist policy in Inazuma's region:

"—The proposal to lift the isolation has been drafted in the castle tower. After a final cleanup of the remaining issues from before the war, communication between Inazuma and the outside world will gradually resume starting next week."

“I remember a long time ago, you said that the school of thought that planned to establish a branch school in Inazuma was based at the Fahumana Academy, which is the Cause Theory school that specializes in history and sociology.”

"But now it seems that the progress in the void has stalled. Have we encountered some difficulties?"

Lin Feng was curious about what was troubling the little guy so much. He felt that most problems would be easy for Nasida and the Tree King to solve.

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"Yes, we've encountered a slight problem, mainly due to a lot of things to investigate regarding personnel selection."

"Although the qualification to establish a branch campus has been given to the Yiji Fahu Mana Academy this time, it involves the reconstruction of Inazuma as well as cooperation in education and crop cultivation, and a lot of talents are needed in all aspects."

"The most critical problem is that Inazuma was too isolated before. No one in the religious institution was familiar with Inazuma. When people came, they were basically like tourists. So it was difficult to find a person in charge of the base."

Nasida's face was slightly furrowed; she always had a headache when faced with a huge list of applicants whenever it was time to select people.

Although Inazuma's secluded nature has preserved many relics of the past and social customs, it is an excellent research site for the Yinlun school of thought.
However, if one's own personnel are unfamiliar with the target country, subsequent communication and various actions will be significantly affected.
"The person in charge of the outpost?"

"Well, if it's a headache, then I think you probably don't need to look for a solution."

Lin Feng shook his head and said these words under Naxida's surprised gaze.

Before the little guy could ask why, he took the initiative to explain:
"The resident head of the outpost is essentially an ambassador sent by Sumeru to other countries; ideally, they should have as much knowledge as possible about all aspects of the target country."

"Actually, I happen to have a talent I originally wanted to bring into the Order of the Order. Since you have such a problem, it should be no problem at all for her to be in charge of the various cooperation matters in Inazuma."

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"The kind of talent you want to bring into the Order of the Fathers? You mean..."

Nasita blinked, wondering who her sage was referring to.

"You should have seen her before, right? She's been here both yesterday and today."

"Inazuma's two deities are very special, and there will be many opportunities to cooperate with Inazuma in the future. I think bringing her into the Kyoryūin is a good choice."

The camera cut to a scene where Hana Sanri was playing with a pink fox in the room.

After sharing the information about her with Nasida, Lin Feng explained:

"After all, she wasn't the real Fox Monk, and she wasn't bound to Inazuma from the very beginning."

"The Fox Palace, which is the source of her memories, will most likely return along with another deity. Rather than giving away two capable women like Inazuma for nothing, it's better to bring one of them to my side to solve my immediate problem."

From the very beginning, I considered taking Hana Sanri away from Inazuma, since strictly speaking, she wasn't the original white fox.

However, since the Kyoto Academy needs a base manager who understands history and folklore and can also facilitate communication with the Inazuma leadership,
Given the shortage of manpower, it wouldn't be a bad idea to let Hana Sanri join the Yinlun school.

"Is that so? Perhaps her relationship with that Fox Palace Master is like mine with the Tree King."

After thinking for a moment, he finally nodded, agreeing that it was indeed a good suggestion.

With the problem that had been troubling her for so long suddenly resolved perfectly, Nasida breathed a sigh of relief and planned to go back and expedite the subsequent personnel selection process.
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"--Oh right, wait a moment."

Seeing that Nasita was about to disconnect, Lin Feng suddenly remembered something:
"I remember that the gods of Fontaine have been in close contact with Sumeru recently, right? Especially after hearing that Inazuma suffered a near-annihilation crisis in the abyss?"

"In the future, there may be another batch of employees joining the Order of the Order. Their identities are somewhat special. If you and the Tree King have time, you can consult them about the history of Melusin's initial involvement in social work."

She hadn't forgotten the group of dragon lizards she had taken in on Haiqi Island, who were now studying hard under Aqi's guidance.

After all, he plans to create a law-based environment on Teyvat where both humans and elemental dragons can coexist normally. As one of the best pilot personnel, he needs to give more thought to the fate of these water dragons.

(End of this chapter)