Yarra's Adventure Notes-Chapter 1472 - 258 Loophole

"What’s the difference?" Nellie blinked in confusion and asked blankly, "Should Danacus be different from the other deities? What’s the logic in that?"

"Just because you don’t know, that’s exactly the problem," Pannis said with a mysterious smile. "If you had shown no flaws on this point, I might not have dared to proceed with my probing. But from the beginning, you were very cooperative in deepening my suspicions, so naturally, I had to continue testing step by step."

"Always so mysterious, you still love doing that," Nellie complained through gritted teeth. "What’s the problem? Tell me quickly."

"Why should I tell you? What for?" Pannis glared and retorted, "If I told you, would you want to try it again? I warn you, don’t even think about it; I won’t give you another chance."

"I have my reasons for wanting to know," Nellie said unyieldingly, staring back threateningly. "Are you going to tell me or not? If you don’t, I’ll eat all of this myself, really, I won’t share a single bit with you."

"Huh, alright, you win," Pannis quickly gave in, smiling wryly. "Actually, your problem lies in the fact that previously, you knew very little about theological knowledge; otherwise, you might not have made such a mistake. You shouldn’t use the attitude of modern deities towards sentient beings to study Danacus’s thoughts—that’s definitely problematic. What is Danacus’s history? He was a deity who fell at the end of the First Epoch; he didn’t experience the history that followed, so his way of thinking is still stuck in that era. In the First Epoch, even the Triclops, considered mortals, had enough power to slay deities; some of them were so powerful that they could kill deities. Given such mortals, even if they worshipped themselves, do you think the deities would look down on them with extreme arrogance? At least I wouldn’t. Therefore, although deities were still above mortals in that era, they treated mortals with more respect than now, at least not with a shepherd’s mindset. Modern mortals, on the other hand, were all created by the deities, so the deities intrinsically had an attitude of overseeing everything, naturally leading some of them to look down on mortals arrogantly."

"Hmm, like how some parents view their children?" Nellie nodded thoughtfully. "That makes sense; some controlling parents probably do that because of this special sense of creation, so they treat their children with that subtle attitude."

"That I don’t know," Pannis shrugged. He certainly knew which parents Nellie was hinting at, but he didn’t want to waste time on this issue, so he simply shrugged it off and continued, "Other deities might be like that, but Danacus is different. He had already fallen at that time and hadn’t gone through the process of creating sentient beings on a large scale. His attitude toward mortals would remain as it was when he faced Triclops worshippers. So, when you showed the extreme attitude of a few modern deities while trying to impersonate Danacus, it was definitely incorrect."

"Hmm, so that’s where the problem lies," Nellie mused, nodding repeatedly. However, she suddenly tilted her head and said, "Wait, that doesn’t make sense. You didn’t experience the First Epoch either, and you’ve had fewer opportunities to encounter Danacus than I have. The theological knowledge wouldn’t specify how the deities treated the followers of the First Epoch, and most people don’t even know the deities exist. How do you know all this so clearly? You better not be causing trouble. If you tell me I have to read more books or I’ll become dumb, as you usually do, I’ll pinch your leg until it swells up."

"Eh, I wouldn’t say that," Pannis shook his head. "Because I don’t think you can get any dumber, hey hey, stay calm, stay calm, I mean... uh, nevermind."

"Go on, why did you stop talking?" Nellie looked at Pannis with a smirk and a suggestive tone. "Who am I more violent than?"

"Cough cough, no one, just a slip of the tongue, that’s all," Pannis, sweat forming on his forehead, chuckled awkwardly and tried to change the subject. "Let’s not focus on these details, alright?"

"I can’t just ignore them," Nellie said with a pursed-lip smile. "Then just answer my questions honestly."

"Alright, alright, you win again," Pannis admitted helplessly. "Actually, I stumbled upon it while chatting with Saen and the others last night. You should know about Saen’s past, the nemesis of Danacus. I inadvertently asked why they fought the deities, and gradually the conversation turned to how the deities treated their followers back then. Comparing it, I found a big difference, and after thinking about the reasons for these differences carefully, I began to understand where the problem lay."

"So it was just an accident?" Nellie replied with a skeptical look. "Do you think this explanation is convincing?"

"Then what do you want me to say?" Pannis glanced away, his cheeks reddening slightly as he retorted, "Do you want me to say that I worried about someone’s wrongdoing so much that I strived to learn every detail of Danacus from every possible source, not missing any opportunity? I would never think that, it’s just too embarrassing."

"Heh heh, now I understand," Nellie covered her mouth and giggled until she saw Pannis getting increasingly embarrassed, then she relented and said seriously, "So, this flaw deepened your suspicions, and that’s why you openly started to stall for time?"

"Yes, I knew that if it was really you, you would cooperate with me," Pannis finally escaped the awkwardness and exhaled deeply. "You were worried I couldn’t do it all at once, and yet you had no reason to repeatedly give me a chance; it would’ve been too obvious. So you needed to strengthen my resolve to kill you, and that’s why you kept provoking me in various ways, even using yourself to provoke me, hmm, Nellie using Nellie to stimulate Nellie’s lover, that’s an interesting phrase, indeed. But actually, I think the more important reason is that you wanted to talk to me more, to stay a little longer."

"Hehe, busted," Nellie said with a light laugh and a sigh. "Yes, for more than a hundred years, although we weren’t together, I always felt there was a slight hope of seeing each other again. But this time it’s different, this is the last chance. If possible, even under the guise of Danacus, I want to hear you talk more."

Pannis didn’t argue with Nellie on this matter and deliberately avoided the topic by saying, "Because of this, you spoke too much, and so you gave me too many opportunities. Therefore, I found more discrepancies."