Yarra's Adventure Notes-Chapter 1473 - 259: A Small Revenge

"Other loopholes?" Nellie frowned and said, "Is there a more serious slip-up than the one you just mentioned?"

"Of course, right after you exposed the first loophole and successfully deepened my suspicions, you voluntarily revealed a second slip-up," Pannis said, clicking his tongue and shaking his head as if it were a pity. "Even worse, or perhaps more fortunate, is that the second issue was far more serious than the first, so much so that it further confirmed for me what I suspected. Specifically, if the first issue—the discrepancy between the attitude portrayed by your impersonation of Danacus and the actual situation—left me in the stage of suspicion, then the second loophole moved my opinion from suspicion to certainty."

"Really? That serious?" Nellie was a bit surprised. She lowered her head to reflect on her performance, unable to spot the issue, and had no choice but to ask further, "What exactly did I say that made you feel this way? Why don’t I know about it myself?"

"That’s quite normal. Often, secrets are inadvertently revealed to others, always in the smallest details," Pannis patted Nellie’s head and said, "But your case doesn’t fall under this; you’re simply too... I’ll stop here. Please forgive me. Alright, I’ll speak frankly; because of my suspicions, I set a trap for you. Let’s call it a trap. I guessed on purpose that your reason for summoning me was to seize my body again, like you had come up with the best excuse, sparing you the trouble of explaining. And indeed, without even looking, you jumped right in."

"This was also your trap? Then does that mean this reason is implausible?" Nellie puffed her cheeks in frustration and said, "You like setting traps for people, huh? But speaking of which, this was indeed one of the excuses I had thought of in advance. I even thought this was the most believable one, yet you dismissed it so easily."

"This just shows how terrible your other reasons might have been," Pannis sighed and said. "I previously thought that you just heard my guess and found the reason satisfactory, so you decided to use it on the spur of the moment. It turns out you had actually chosen that reason after careful consideration. Lord Yarra bless, do you really think that Deities selecting a body is as casual as picking vegetables in the market, and that you can switch the vegetables to whichever basket you want?"

"Eh? Isn’t that so?" Nellie blinked in confusion and asked, "Wasn’t the real Danacus confronted by us for that exact reason? So using his reason shouldn’t be a problem, right?"

"However, the issue is significant. It’s not as simple as swapping items in a basket; switching bodies involves incredibly complex matters. Even Deities wouldn’t change bodies haphazardly just because they aren’t satisfied. If they could do so, why bother with the trouble of switching bodies slowly, one by one? Surely, the fact that they place such emphasis on selecting a suitable body signifies that a Divine Body cannot be casually replaced. This should be common knowledge, shouldn’t it? How could you not know that?"

"Stop kidding, okay? What kind of normal person would include that in their common knowledge?" Nellie retorted loudly. "And how could I possibly know about this? I’ve never seen other Deities myself. How would I know if switching their bodies is as easy as changing clothes? Isn’t there a legend that says many Deities appear in various forms, with some even taking on animal forms? The War God likes to appear as a bear, and the Hunting Goddess as a white deer. If they can even adopt animal forms, what’s the big deal about switching bodies casually?"

"Ah, you really think they just find an animal body and slip into it," Pannis rubbed his temples in desperate despair, saying, "I have to admit, to think this way, in some respects, you are a genius. When Deities ascend, the Power of Rules reshapes their bodies into Divine Bodies. If they are conceptual beings transformed into Deities, the Power of Rules will create a body for them. This is, aside from the Divine Soul and Divinity, the most important aspect of a Deity. Once a Divine Body is destroyed, the Divine Soul, weakened by jealousy, will fall into a slumber, and most will gradually perish in sleep. Like Danacus, who had a chance to revive in the form of a Divine Soul, the probability is almost negligible. When such a fragmented Divine Soul enters a new body, it solidifies, and without the concentration of the Power of Rules that occurs during deification, it can only slowly, bit by bit, remodel the body into a Divine Body. This process consumes its own power. It’s already strenuous to remodel a complete body, add to that the blow you dealt him at the last phase, which severely damaged both of you. Although it wasn’t as effective as exploding like Mina’s kind and making him lose his body, for Danacus, the pressure was already many times greater than merely obtaining a complete body. He used almost all his Divine Power to reshape his body. Do you think he could then change bodies at will?"

"Uh, I, I, I couldn’t possibly know these things," Nellie scratched her head in embarrassment, whispering, "And this is a secret of the Deities, Saen and Shiela wouldn’t possibly know either. How do you know about it?"

"Because these past years, I’ve talked with several archbishops from various churches," Pannis said. "Compiling what I’ve heard from them and adding a bit of my own deduction, I came to this conclusion."

"Oh~~~ the archbishops of the churches, huh?" Nellie elongated her voice quizzically, "I get it now, like a certain sister from the deep sea, a sister from the swamp, a sister from the forest, and who else?"

"Ah, women, truly the most bizarre creatures in the world," Pannis looked toward the sky, his expression one of complaint, "Why do you always focus on the wrong issues?" freēwēbnovel.com

"Huh, I think my focus is exactly on the point," Nellie finally freed herself from the earlier embarrassment, playfully blinking, "Which of these sisters is it? Ah, or is it not a sister but a little sister? Let me think..."

"Stop," Pannis shouted in frustrated defeat, "It was men, many men."

"You don’t spare even men, and not just a few but many?" Nellie put on a horrified expression, cautiously distancing herself from Pannis until his face turned darker, then burst into gratifying laughter, saying, "Humph, serves you right for sneaking in that someone scum had finally changed his heart, ready to throw me over."