Mysterious: The Innate Sacred Body of Destiny

Chapter 99 Lorne: What, are you rushing me to leave?

"What the hell do you want?" Danitz asked, mustering his courage as he looked at the group of pirates surrounding him.

"We'd like to talk to you about Monkey Brando!"

Why talk about Monkey Brando?

Could it be that that guy let something slip and revealed our past experiences? Danitz's face turned deathly pale instantly.

Noticing Danitz's guilty look, the others also revealed a sly glint in their eyes—this guy definitely knows something.

"You...you guys...?" Danitz's Adam's apple bobbed, and cold sweat slid down his back.

"Don't listen to Brando's nonsense! I wasn't..." Just as he was about to self-destruct, a voice interrupted him.

"Do you know that Monkey Brando has been spending all his time with the captain lately?"

"Bullshit! What do you mean by 'sleeping around'?" Another pirate immediately flicked the speaker's forehead. "It was clearly that kid who shamelessly pestered the captain!"

"Yes, yes, that's right."

"Danitz, you're the one who brought that man aboard!" The crowd swarmed around him, chattering. "And you call him your henchman!"

"Did you betray us?!"

Phew... So that's how it is. My secret wasn't exposed.

Great! I don't have to jump into the sea.

Faced with the questioning, Danitz actually breathed a sigh of relief; his innocence remained intact.

He ignored his colleagues' impassioned outburst and secretly rejoiced, but a few seconds later...

and many more!

What were they saying again, Brando and the captain...?

Are those two having an affair every day?

!!!

Only at this moment did he belatedly realize what had happened.

Danitz's pupils dilated sharply, and he grabbed the nearest pirate by the collar: "Bullshit! Explain yourself! What exactly happened?"

"You have the nerve to ask us?" the pirate, now being grabbed, retorted defiantly. "Didn't you personally bring that guy onto the ship?!"

This…

Danitz's temper, which had just flared up, dissipated.

……

That afternoon, Danitz, who had been enthusiastically pleaded with (forced) by his colleagues, finally agreed to find Lorne and ask him to find out the truth.

After confirming that the captain was still conducting academic research in the captain's cabin, he put down his work and sneaked into Lorne's storage room.

When the door was opened, Lorne was hunched over a makeshift desk made of planks and buckets, writing furiously.

He was in an exceptionally good mood today—he discovered that he had completely digested the "machine" potion.

Actually, back in Tingen, there were signs that the potion in Lorne's body was being digested, but at that time he encountered too many illogical things and was unable to accurately determine his own condition.

These past few days of study have felt like being a machine, passively receiving knowledge and methodically completing assignments...

They broke through the last bottleneck.

Edwina once suggested that Lorne could summarize some rules of acting to lay the foundation for future digestion.

Based on his own experience, Lorne believes that the most important attribute of a "machine" is passivity. Previously in Tingen, he passively accepted his assigned fate, and now in his studies, he passively receives knowledge.

A machine can only act passively according to a predetermined program, even if its behavior does not conform to its own will.

"If that's the case, if I had given the potion to my high school self, I probably would have been able to digest it by now," he thought to himself with a self-deprecating laugh.

"Meow..." Laki, curled up in the hammock, let out a lazy meow.

"Hey!"

"Damn cat!" Danitz was startled and cursed inwardly.

"Captain?" Lorne didn't turn around. "Why are you here so early today..." He suddenly stopped. "No, the captain's footsteps aren't this heavy."

The machine has a very strong ability to control certain details.

Turning around and seeing Danitz, Lorne raised an eyebrow: "It's you? Shouldn't you be cleaning the deck at this hour?"

"Ahem..." Danitz cleared his throat, feigning composure. "It's break time now... Why can't I come and chat with you?"

suspicious!

……

Noticing Lorne's scrutinizing gaze, Danitz resigned himself to his fate and said, "Fine! It seems the captain has been coming to see you every day these past few days!"

"Yeah, what's wrong?" Lorne asked, sounding puzzled.

"You son of a bitch, what does the captain want with you?!"

"Tutoring and regular quizzes." Lorne looked completely bewildered. "What else?"

"Do you think I'm that easy to fool?!" Danitz took a step forward. "Does a simple exam or tutoring session really require locking yourself in a room for hours?"

Lorne glanced at Danitz a few times, and seeing the other's anxious expression, suddenly realized something.

"Oh, I see. So you're feeling a sense of crisis?" Lorne, who had been immersed in his studies lately, found that his mind seemed to be a beat behind.

He had forgotten that Danitz had a crush on their captain. No, not just Danitz, probably everyone on the ship had some kind of crush on him.

My recent actions have unintentionally made me the target of public criticism.

Snapping out of his thoughts, Lorne gave a playful smile: "What do you think we're doing?"

"Shit, I'm asking you, not the other way around!" That smile sent chills down Danitz's spine.

"well..."

Lorne sighed, feigning helplessness, and said sincerely, "We were really just researching some things together."

"Don't try to fool me. You're a novice in mysticism. Why would the captain conduct research with you?"

"Nobody believes the truth these days?" Lorne shrugged helplessly. "Go ask the captain if you don't believe me."

Danitz opened his mouth, then fell silent. If I dared ask the captain, would he still come here?

"So...what exactly are you researching?"

"It's a secret." Lorne put his index finger to his lips in a shushing gesture.

To some extent, this is indeed true. The Antigonus Notebooks were far too sensitive, and he specifically requested that Edwina keep the research confidential. Even if Danitz had asked, he would likely have received the same answer.

"Anyway, it's something we're all interested in!" Lorne added, as if savoring the memory.

"you……"

Danitz clenched and unclenched his fist.

"Could he really be with the captain...? But that's impossible."

"How could someone as beautiful and intelligent as the captain possibly..."

"Alright, if you don't have anything else to say..." Seeing Danitz standing there, lost in thought, Lorne decisively began to see him out.

"Wait!" Danitz exclaimed hastily.

"There's one more thing I wanted to ask you."

"explain."

"Our next flight route will pass through Bayam, and by then your course should be almost finished, so you can...?"

His meaning couldn't be clearer... He hoped Lorne would disembark on his own when the time came.

For Danitz, even if it weren't for the captain's sake, just considering himself, having Lorne, a ticking time bomb, by his side would be unbearable.

I live in constant fear, terrified that my secret will be revealed.

Most importantly, he discovered that Lorne's personality was even worse than he had imagined, and he often used those things to manipulate him.

"Mmm~ Mmm..."

After calmly listening to Danitz's account, Lorne's eyes flashed with a dangerous glint. He curled his lips into a forced, insincere smile.

"What, trying to rush me out?"