Traveling through time, I'm making pancakes in Warhammer

Howard blinked. Arabelle's reaction was beyond his expectations. He didn't expect Arabelle to be so easy to talk to.

In many romance or urban novels, shouldn't the next development be that the male protagonist explains and the female protagonist covers her ears and says I don't want to hear it, and then a bunch of bloody things happen?

"Half a minute has passed," Arabelle reminded.

Arabelle's words brought Howard's mind back to reality from his wild thoughts. Howard considered his words carefully, then lowered his voice and said, "Actually, I'm not from this planet. My homeland is a planet called 'Cybertron'..."

Howard repeated to Arabelle what he had said to the Blood Angels. He described himself as an ordinary citizen of Cybertron, his father a librarian. Thanks to his well-off family, he received an education, learning to read and repair simple machinery. Their family had an inherited recipe for a delicious pancake that brought joy to everyone. Every holiday, his mother would personally bake large quantities of pancakes and distribute them to the church for farmers and workers. He had learned how to make them while helping in the kitchen.

Originally, their family lived a peaceful and happy life on Cybertron. Then, for some unknown reason, one of his father's close friends became an fanatical warmongerer. The ideological dispute between them eventually turned into a war, and the war eventually turned into a civil war that affected the entire planet. The originally beautiful and rich planet was destroyed, and the noble tribesmen became refugees. When his father went to regroup the troops, Howard himself followed his mother onto the evacuation spacecraft.

Then, during a warp voyage, Howard's spaceship was attacked by an unknown warp force. His mother stuffed him into an escape pod, where he drifted for a whole year before being rescued by a team of Blood Angels.

Howard didn't continue to make up the rest of the story, including how he established a simple friendship with a Blood Angel priest through playing chess, and how the priest settled him on Nat, and how he opened a pancake shop with his ancestral recipe to make a living and pay off his mortgage, and how he was monitored by an unknown big man in the upper echelons of the hive, so he ran to the middle nest and met Arabelle.

In fact, the explanation time had already exceeded two minutes, but Arabelle did not interrupt Howard. Howard thought there was a chance. It seemed that the so-called two-minute time limit given by Arabelle was more of a rant. The most important thing was to see the content and attitude of his explanation.

"I'm sorry!" Howard decided to go through with the act. He pretended to be sincere and apologized to Arabelle. He squeezed out a few tears and choked out, saying, "I shouldn't have lied to you, but I was scared... I..."

"Stop crying like a woman!" Howard heard Arabelle's scolding. He looked up and saw that Arabelle's expression was a little unhappy.

Howard immediately sniffed, wiped away his tears, stood up and said, "Okay!"

Then Arabelle's tone softened. "I believe your explanation for now, but don't think this matter is over. I will collect evidence."

Howard nodded repeatedly.

Howard knows the essence of lying: the best lie is not to lie. A story is often made up of multiple parts. Breaking down these parts and then "forgetting" some of them can make the whole thing true, but a partial truth can convey the exact opposite meaning.

The second best lie is a half-truth, which makes the lie more believable by telling the truth.

The third best lie is one that is difficult to verify or disprove, such as saying that a broken vase was caused by a kitten.

As for the worst lies, they are lies that can be easily exposed. If someone tells such lies, unless he is desperate and trying to buy time, then he is a hopeless fool.

And now Howard is telling the second lie. The first part about his own experience is made up, but the later part about him being rescued by angels and coming to live on Planet Natt is true.

He was not afraid of Arabelle collecting evidence. Even the angels had not been able to disprove his story about his past experiences. Arabelle, a mortal, could only trace the angels. However, this would just prove that Howard had not lied in the second half of his story, and would indirectly increase the credibility of Howard's lie in the first half.

Of course, Howard could have told the first lie, which was to tell his entire experience, but just "forget" some details, that is, what happened in the Palace of Slaanesh.

But Howard had already lied to the Angels earlier, and now he has to explain the same incident again, so it would be better to unify the two lies.

Howard doesn't like telling lies because he knows that the people who can be fooled by his lies are those who are willing to believe him. If someone doesn't believe him, they will doubt him even if he tells the truth.

But reality forced him not to tell the truth. He couldn't just throw up his hands and say, "I'm not actually from this world. I was living well in my original world, but suddenly I was transported to this world by a rebirth car. Then, I inexplicably could make pancakes with strange effects, inexplicably was taken away by the Blood Angels who traveled back three hundred years later, inexplicably was hijacked by Chaos Demons, inexplicably passed the trial and met the evil god Slaanesh, inexplicably was released from the demon domain, inexplicably was attacked by Khorne's troops and his plan was disrupted, inexplicably was rescued by the Blood Angels from the normal timeline who had not traveled through time, inexplicably was monitored by the bigwigs of the Upper Nest, inexplicably came to the Middle Nest...

emm...

Arabelle saw the boy in front of her suddenly become dazed after explaining something, so she waved her hand in front of Howard's face and said, "Hey!"

"Ah?!" Howard woke up from his thoughts.

"Why did you get distracted while you were talking?" Arabelle asked.

"Um... I was wondering where I'm going to find a place to live after you kick me out..." Howard said in a low voice.

This answer made Arabelle laugh, but just as the corners of her mouth were about to turn up, she immediately realized it and coughed a few times to cover up her smile.

Then she glared at Howard and said, "Do you think I'm such an unreasonable person?"

"No." Howard shook his head quickly. "Last time, I went into your room without your permission to look for a medical kit, but you didn't kick me out."

"If you're telling me the truth now, I won't kick you out," Arabelle said to Howard. "But if I find out you're still lying to me, I'll kill you."