Chapter 298: A Protagonist Template

They couldn't understand Kamikawa Chie, only knowing that she seemed very excited after hearing their introductions, so they tilted their heads in confusion.

Is she introducing herself too?

What an enthusiastic little sister, getting this worked up over a self-introduction.

Recalling Kamikawa Chie's question to the three lions about the people in the trees, they sighed.

Probably because they were the first outsiders she had ever seen, so she's this enthusiastic — what a cute little sister, raised in a carefree environment, pure and lively about everything.

"Um... sorry, we never learned the ancient language."

The man named Xiao Dong scratched his head awkwardly.

Kamikawa Chie understood what they meant and smiled in this world's language:

"Hello, I'm Kamikawa Chie, and this is my brother, Kamikawa Mitsu."

Though Japan is not large in land area, its culture is by no means narrow. Japanese-style etiquette ranks among the top ten in the world, brimming with harmony, courtesy, grace, and the like.

And as a Japanese girl, with the recent emergence of the extraordinary, gods, and demons, Ribenzheng Prefecture deliberately promoted various aspects of Japanese culture, with Japanese etiquette culture prominently among them — something Kamikawa Chie naturally had at her fingertips.

But Ye Linyan and the others didn't know this; they only knew that Kamikawa Chie's speech and bearing were graceful and polite.

So this is what a scion of an ancient noble house is like — such poise and bearing.

Focused on observing Kamikawa Chie's etiquette, they didn't notice her glancing back and forth between Ye Linyan and Xiao Dong, nor did they know what she was thinking at that moment.

She turned her head and whispered to Kamikawa Mitsu.

"Nii-san, the surnames Xiao and Ye!"

Kamikawa Mitsu smiled and reached out to ruffle Kamikawa Chie's hair.

He knew what Kamikawa Chie meant — ever since the Tochigi Prefecture incident, the Japanese had learned that Huaguo was a mysterious land, and a wave of enthusiasm for exploring and studying Huaguo's culture had arisen.

Kamikawa Chie was very much among them.

And after learning from Likui that her nii-san had recommended Huaguo anime to Likui, she went to watch Huaguo anime as well.

Once she started, she couldn't stop.

She fell in love with Huaguo culture and anime, but Huaguo anime wasn't very prolific — unlike Japan, which released new shows every season on a fixed schedule — so she asked Kamikawa Mitsu to recommend some Huaguo anime for her to watch.

Kamikawa Mitsu recommended some to Kamikawa Chie.

As a person from Huaguo in his previous life, Kamikawa Mitsu was not only a medical student but also an anime fan.

When recommending anime to Kamikawa Chie, he was absolutely thorough.

Things like Cultivation Chat Group, something about raising a hundred demons parade in Tokyo, Battle Through the Heavens, Shrouding the Heavens, Perfect World — everything he'd watched, he recommended.

From then on.

Kamikawa Chie became a fan, and pulled her best friends Mizushima Iori and Komuro Muroto Meijiang into the Huaguo pit as well; even the maids at the maid café they frequented became fans.

And as a fan, she naturally knew one thing.

Lin, Ye, Xiao — the top three surnames among transmigrators. Almost ten out of ten novels would have three or four protagonists with these surnames.

Back then, Kamikawa Chie had even bragged to Kamikawa Mitsu about this knowledge.

Kamikawa Mitsu responded with a smile:

"The Lin, Ye, Xiao — three great clans, producing talent generation after generation, ruling for hundreds of millions of years. As the saying goes, you finish your act and I take the stage, each leading the trend for a few hundred million years."

Still fresh in memory.

After he said this, Kamikawa Chie blinked her bright, dewy big eyes and said:

"Nii-san, do you think there might be people surnamed Lin, Xiao, or Ye in another world too, and maybe they're like protagonists — parents dying at the start, or born a waste at the start, or a child of destiny who gets harmed by villains at the start, stuff like that?"

Recalling Kamikawa Chie's words, Kamikawa Mitsu's smile froze, he twitched slightly, and subconsciously glanced at Ye Linyan and the others.

Could it be...

It probably isn't...

If Kamikawa Mitsu could think of this, how could Kamikawa Chie, whose mind was always unconventional, not think of it too.

On the road leaving the Forbidden Beast Forest, Kamikawa Chie asked Ye Linyan and the others.

"Miss Linyan, may I boldly ask — are you a genius, or rather, were you one before?"

Once the question was asked, Kamikawa Mitsu looked calm on the surface, but his ears had already perked up slightly, wanting to know if Chie's mouth was glowing again.

Ye Linyan and the others were stunned at first, then showed surprise.

Kamikawa Mitsu took in every change in their expressions, and his heart immediately skipped a beat.

"Miss Chie, how did you know all this?"

Ye Linyan's intelligent face showed a touch of emotion — how did this little sister know her secret? She hadn't told her anything.

They were surprised, and so was Kamikawa Mitsu.

Chie had hit the nail on the head again — truly a protagonist template.

"I guessed."

Kamikawa Chie said honestly, with a sweet smile. Unfortunately, in this day and age, telling the truth wasn't as believable as lying, especially with something so outrageous — they all felt Kamikawa Chie must have seen something about Ye Linyan.

Indeed, none of the scions who came out of the ancient noble houses were simple.

She seemed utterly ordinary — a little girl with not a trace of spiritual energy — yet she had seen through a problem with Ye Linyan's body that even gods and demons couldn't see.

"Hehe~ Nii-san, I was right, wasn't I? This is a protagonist template."

Kamikawa Chie winked at Kamikawa Mitsu, full of smugness.

Kamikawa Mitsu didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Although his own strength was awesome, in a certain sense, his sister Chie was even more terrifying.

Hidden in the shadows, having followed the Kamikawa siblings to this world and still secretly protecting Kamikawa Chie, Ashina Woman was equally astonished, thinking:

"I couldn't see the problem with that girl, yet Young Mistress, as an ordinary person, saw it. Indeed, Young Mistress's constitution is extraordinary."

The image of Kamikawa Chie that Kamikawa Mitsu had instilled into the Twenty-Eight Mansions was one of mystery, with an extremely special constitution no inferior to Kamikawa Mitsu's own.

However, because of this special constitution, Kamikawa Chie was currently an ordinary person.

"Young Lady Linyan, weren't you a genius when you were young, and then one day something probably happened and you lost your genius talent or something? Don't take it the wrong way, I was just curious a moment ago and blindly guessed you were a genius, then got curious again and took another blind guess."

Kamikawa Chie casually blurted out the common protagonist tropes she had seen, her dewy big eyes sparkling with innocence and curiosity.

A blind guess? Like hell anyone believes that.

Whether it was Ashina Woman or Ye Linyan, they had already pre-judged Kamikawa Chie as mysterious and powerful, so when Kamikawa Chie said this, they didn't believe for a second that she was guessing—because who could possibly be this accurate? Do you think your mouth is some supreme magic artifact that's been consecrated?

Ye Linyan froze, her heart now shaken to the core.

If Kamikawa Chie had spoken of her former genius identity, that could be explained by powerful strength allowing her to see through the problem with her body. But now she had even guessed the broad strokes of her past experiences—that was no longer just powerful.

Simply… divine!

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