Chapter 882

"Mm, this form of address, I have never really liked it. If it were anyone else, I would have long since turned them into a vegetable. You may call me Kaguya."

The blood mist churned, and Lin Cheng's five senses almost simultaneously began returning to normal. Everything around him, as if bowing to that slowly approaching figure, respectfully retreated to both sides. Looking at that person so clearly, Lin Cheng could finally see properly the ghost that had accompanied her for so many years, almost always present.

"Don't just stand there foolishly. I had thought you would have the courage to raise a question." Just as if the stars were arrayed around the moon, those churning wisps of blood mist obediently lowered their bearing, even becoming Kaguya-hime's cushion. And as Kaguya-hime's long sleeve shook, an exquisite mask appeared between the two of them. As for Lin Cheng himself, he did not know when he had already straightened up and sat facing Kaguya-hime.

As the next heir of a great clan, Lin Cheng had once followed Hyuga Hiashi to the Land of Fire and met the highest-ranking person in the entire Land of Fire, the Daimyo of the Land of Fire, and his family. But today, sitting truly across from her, Kaguya-hime gave her a whole new level of understanding of so-called temperament, beauty, and power.

This was a completely different experience. Lin Cheng sat there unable to say a single word; she even felt that moving a single finger would be a mistake.

"Where is this? Why are you here? What should we do next?" Kaguya-hime asked.

The tea set in hand, streams of water flowed through the cups and vessels…

"There's no need to worry at all. That child, you, or anyone else is safe right now."

Lin Cheng's worries were almost written all over her face. Kaguya could see through them without even thinking carefully. Even as the movements of her hands did not stop, she easily raised her eyes to carefully examine the somewhat uneasy Miss.

"It's not some hard-to-understand situation. To put it simply, this place is actually your inner world. Of course, this chaotic state only just appeared until a moment ago. As for how you came to be here…"

Kaguya deliberately paused for a moment. Only when Lin Cheng raised her head and their two pairs of Byakugan met completely did she continue: "Of course this was my doing. After all, an opportunity to free my true body — there's no reason not to seize it."

Perhaps because her mood was truly very good at this moment, Kaguya was even willing to just sit down like this, drink tea and chat. Moreover, she openly told of how, a thousand years ago, she had ultimately ended up imprisoned within the moon.

Lin Cheng had never expected things to develop this way. Not only was there the pressure from the other's status, but there was also even more the gap in rank. Her and Kaguya-hime's views were simply not on the same level. She could hardly believe that Kaguya-hime had actually lived for a full thousand years — and that was only while being imprisoned!

As a minor, although Lin Cheng still held tea, at some point the drink in Kaguya's hand had changed from a tea cup to a wine cup.

"Being a deity yet imprisoned for a thousand years, and being exiled by my own daughter to such a distant place — only now, a thousand years later, has the seal finally shown a flaw. I must seize this once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity."

"I don't understand. When I was very young, you already attached yourself to me. At the time I just took you for some kind of ghost." As time was spent together, especially sitting face-to-face like this, it gave Lin Cheng a more direct feeling — like an illusion, as if Kaguya-hime were not the way she herself described: a face full of frost, keeping people a thousand miles away, treating people as consumables and the like.

· ·······Begging for flowers····· ·····

"Hmph… what are you thinking? I only need a single glance to see it clearly!" Kaguya made a movement that didn't quite befit a goddess — frivolously lifting Lin Cheng's chin, pinching her soft little cheeks. Kaguya-hime's gaze roamed over his face as if examining an object.

"Don't think too beautifully of me. In the end, the one who will be disappointed is only yourself…" Seeing the atmosphere tense up again, the corners of Kaguya's mouth lifted slightly. This was the conversational atmosphere she wanted.

"Listen carefully. Next, I will fully unleash the power of this avatar. After this, my will will be overwhelming."

What is this? Simply put, it means she is about to be erased from consciousness? For so many years Lin Cheng had been resisting such a thing from happening. But when Kaguya-hime got serious, could she really do nothing but tremble?

"Mm… looks like, whether it's Xiao Jue or Young Yuanzi, they both seem to care about you quite a bit…" Kaguya-hime's gaze went vacant, completely unfocused. What she was looking at right now was certainly not the Lin Cheng before her.

"Don't give up so easily. You can try to struggle and resist…"

"Just kidding, a joke… Next, I will become the master of this body. And little Lin Cheng, you will deeply experience what it feels like to be completely awake yet unable to do a single thing!" Perish.