The Lord of Another World: All Wasted at the Beginning, and He Made His Fortune by Taking in the Fem

"Asking me what I want to do? Didn't I already say this before?"

After returning to White Bird, Aarons locked himself in the captain's room.

But when Karin knocked on the door and walked into this relatively private space, she found Aarons reading newspapers from all over the empire that he had brought back from downstairs.

Even though he was tired of these meaningless things, Aarons still had no intention of giving up.

"Master Bu Bu, what I want to ask is, do you have any wishes in your heart...that belong only to you?"

Your own wish?

Aarons didn't understand what Karin meant at first, but he put down the newspaper in his hand and waved to the black-haired and brown-skinned wolf girl to sit on another chair next to him.

Karin was the first servant that belonged to him completely after he came to this world. At that time, all he could think about was revenge on his dead father and brother, so he wasted the precious ancient scroll that could save his life on the alien slave who was already half-crippled for a few days.

Although Karin later grew rapidly to a level that was originally difficult to estimate, that was all her chance and had nothing to do with Aarons himself.

"Wishes... I don't actually have anything I want to do. You've seen my memories from Xia Ye, right? I was originally a loser with no skills. I gambled my fortune to try to build a career in my middle age, but ended up in failure..."

It was a memory that was painful just to think about. Even after coming to another world, Aarons still couldn't get rid of the painful experience of that time.

But in his opinion, such failure is also a valuable life experience.

"So there's nothing I want to do. I can have a full meal anytime, a warm place to sleep, and the princess and you by my side - these are enough."

"…Do you really think so?"

Karin's mind is the most acute among the crowd.

Perhaps because she had always made a living in dangerous environments in the past, she could easily feel the emotional changes of others and accurately guess what they were thinking.

And now, she clearly felt that Aarons was not speaking the same words as he meant.

"If you're asking what I want to do now, that's what I've said before - I must restore order to the empire and eliminate all destabilizing factors... Only then will we have the energy to discuss what's next."

The only thing Aarons is thinking about now is the future of the empire and how to deal with those who want to plot against Clary.

These are all very important things to him, and are also the reasons why he became the captain of the White Bird and shouldered the responsibility of so many lives and trust.

“…But these are things that Aarons Morty should do, right?”

"What are you talking about? I am Aarons..."

"You are not actually the son of the Marquis, or at least not half of him."

Aarons finally understood what Karin had said before.

She was not asking what Aarons Morty, the son of Marquis Morty, wanted to do, but what Zhou Mu, who came from another world, wanted to achieve.

To be honest, Aarons didn't know whether his soul had really traveled through time or not - perhaps Aarons had just gotten the memories of an alien by chance, or perhaps his soul had already merged with Aarons's broken soul.

Therefore, Aarons himself did not know how much of Zhou Mu was left in him now.

"So you're talking about 'your own wish'... ah."

It's not that Aarons hasn't thought about this question, but he didn't come up with any answer at the time.

As a visitor from another world, it was a miracle for him to get a second life - if you asked him what his wish was as a time traveler, he could only give one answer.

"I don't know, that's all."

"Master... can I ask you another question?"

For some reason, Karin looked a little sad.

Aarons couldn't guess what she wanted to ask, but he vaguely realized that what he would face next might be a question about the meaning of his own existence - so he nodded silently and adjusted his mood to the most stable state.

But then, his spirit was hit by an unavoidable reality.

“…Who is the person we love?”

This was an issue that Aarons never dared to touch upon, and others also tacitly never mentioned it. Only Her Royal Highness made it clear at the beginning that "it doesn't matter who is inside", and Karin and Xia Ye, who followed Aarons first, didn't even formally discuss the matter.

And now, this question must be answered.

"He clearly has no wishes of his own, but he still insists on fulfilling the wishes of others... Could it be that Aarons Moti is just a lingering obsession in the body of a dead person?"

Is Karin afraid of something? Aarons clearly saw that her body was trembling slightly...but he himself didn't know how to answer this question.

Yes, maybe he was just obsessed. It seemed that from the beginning, he was just acting to help the young master who had been despised for more than ten years regain his reputation, and he didn't consider his own affairs at all.

Perhaps it's because I don't have any other desires at all.

"So what we are following is just an illusion that may disappear at any time?"

--wrong.

No, it’s not that I don’t have desires...it’s just that I only experienced failure in my previous life, so I don’t have any expectations at all.

Because as long as it is something you wanted to do in your previous life, there will be no possibility of success.

"…If you make a wish out loud, it won't come true."

That’s right, no matter whether he is Aarons or Zhou Mu now, there is still a small wish in the heart of “this human being” at this moment.

However, that wish cannot be mentioned now.

"Everyone has to play a certain role since birth. We are the child that our parents expect us to be, the student that our teachers expect us to be, the employee that our boss expects us to be, the partner that the opposite sex expects us to be, the parent that our children expect us to be... Can we really tell who we are?"

Humans are creatures that change themselves based on the perceptions of others. In a long yet short life, a person will constantly change and adjust his or her image in order to adapt to the needs of society and others.

So the so-called "real self" is actually just a "role".

"The only thing I can do now is to play the role of 'Aarons Moti' well and fulfill other people's expectations of this role. I will not consider anything else now."

——If I can’t even do such a “small thing”, then how can my real wish come true?

Karin, who felt a sense of familiarity and deep obsession from the man in front of her, now realized an unsettling fact.

"Because I haven't fully accepted that I am a member of this world yet."