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Chapter 555 - Chapter 555: Arama

This lyric is actually pretty good—not windy or rainy because the Scarlet King and the Flower God died, sun in the sky because the Dendro Archon is still there.

"The sister doesn't speak, the sister doesn't talk, what does the sister think in her heart" means the Traveler never speaks, but Paimon says what's in her heart.

The last line "The sun leaves, the moon comes, it's night again" perfectly corresponds to Greater Lord Rukkhadevata leaving, little Nahida returning, and it's time to dream at night again.

Greater Lord Rukkhadevata: May everyone enjoy sweet dreams.

See, what perfect lines! It directly summarizes the Sumeru story.

Ahem, ahem—not talking about these "forbidden knowledge"—in the story, Arama appeared, trembling all over from fear.

His shaking appearance is quite cute; he even wears a little scarf that's a bit too big on him, looking like a cape.

An Aranara wearing a cape—like a little hero—attracts some readers' affection, feeling like a little hero from a fairy tale world, really adorable.

[Arama fearfully shouted: "Eek... don't catch me, I'll give Nara 'violent burial'..."]

"Violent burial"—readers paused for a moment, then realized he meant treasure.

Different from his appearance, he's pretty smart—knows the Traveler likes treasure and can't refuse this.

[Paimon: "I'm called Paimon, she's the Traveler, good Nara! And you?"]

Paimon truly lives up to being the Mouth of God—although her brain isn't great, her communication is incredibly quick; she's already used to the Aranara's way of speaking.

And Aranara are very gullible pure creatures—whatever the Traveler says, they believe; the Traveler claims to be good Nara, so they believe the Traveler is good Nara.

[Arama: "Golden Nara has been to many places. The little dandelion, little spore with you, all say this is a very very good Nara."]

It seems although Aranara are gullible, they have some special ability—to see good and bad from other "plants"—no worry about being fooled.

[Paimon somewhat disappointed: "Not quite like I imagined! I thought Vanarana would be a lively Aranara village, everyone dancing Aranara dance, eating Aranara feast, doing Aranara commissions..."]

Iron Tongue Tian really wants to thank Paimon—you're the Mouth of God, so I'm your Mouth of God, huh! Please stop talking!

But most readers' focus is on the Aranara feast.

To be reasonable, although knowing Paimon means the feast Aranara eat, thinking of Aranara looking like vegetables, it always feels like the sentence means making them into a feast.

If really like that, fairy tales would turn into children's creepypasta.

Anyway, Aranara's vigilance is still strong—they probably won't be made into a feast, and they're quite timid, usually not showing faces.

Arama now isn't afraid of the Traveler anymore, but other Aranara are still afraid, so the Traveler must help with some small tasks to prove she's good Nara.

The Traveler is golden Nara—very good; Paimon is silver Nara—also very good.

[Arama: "Silver, color like the moon, very very good."]

Like the moon—readers are curious if this is a hint from Lucian.

After all, everyone can see Paimon's identity is unusual—so what exactly is her identity?

Nahida compares herself to the moon—could Paimon really be the moon?

It's all Lucian's fault for always burying foreshadowing; too much, and everything looks like foreshadowing.

Not sure if it's foreshadowing, but readers are willing to believe Paimon won't betray the Traveler.

And now the Traveler has to prove she won't betray the Aranara.

[Arama: "Follow me. 'Helping Aranara will get 'violent burial'.'"]

Paimon reminds Arama—it's not "violent burial," it's "treasure."

[Arama: "So it's 'treasure.' I'll remember. Thank you. Then, let's go."]

The forest will remember everything—Arama indeed remembered "treasure."

The help the Traveler gives is very simple—basically dealing with fungi beasts, besides that, there's "big rocks."

Big rocks are actually stone piles blocking doorways; after the Traveler clears them, Arama says:

["Big rock knows it was wrong. Goodbye, big rock."]

This kind of statement really makes readers laugh out loud—not mocking, just finding it too cute, like interacting with little children.

No scheming, no interests—they seem to live in a fairy tale world, healing readers' weary souls.

Back when watching Klee's story, it was this feeling—truly wonderful, like a fairy tale; even corpse spots faded a bit, added to fade spot essence collection.

Readers really like Aranara; what makes readers smile even more is Paimon's question—she curiously asks:

["Can fungi beasts be eaten? Since they look like mushrooms, do they taste like mushrooms too...?"]

Can only say, worthy of Paimon—wants to stuff anything in her mouth to taste.

And for this question, Xiangling shows high interest.

[Arama: "Eek! Actually wants to eat fungi beasts—how scary..."]

This really scared Arama—after all, according to Paimon, Aranara look quite like vegetables too—probably wants to eat them too?

Xiangling shows close attention.

This dialogue annoyed some Sumeru people—what words! What kind of words are these!

When can we fungi beast chefs stand up? Seeing this sentence, a fungi beast chef gently shattered.

Fungi beast girls will definitely exist! Absolutely! One day I'll make the whole world love Large Sumptershroom... I mean fungi beasts!

Setting aside these outrageous Sumeru readers, in the story, Arama says there's still "Vanaji" to deal with.

"Vanaji" is very terrifying—when angry, it sprays fire! Super dangerous!

He says it scary—Paimon even thinks this thing might be more dangerous than Stormterror; after all, when Stormterror raged, it still had some reason, destruction very restrained.

But going over to see—it's just a group of Whopperflowers.

How to say—even for some without combat power, not to the point of fearing Whopperflowers like this.

Human size is there—not to the point of being scared like Aranara.

But for Aranara, Whopperflowers are indeed terrifying—it sprays fire!

Not only bigger than Aranara—it sprays fire! Do you know how much psychological damage spraying fire causes to Aranara, woo woo—

Arama seeing Whopperflowers is scared badly—he's afraid, flies up pulling the Traveler wanting to leave.

At this time, everyone discovers in the illustrations that Arama can fly—his head shakes a "flower hand" keeping him afloat.

Truly cucumber spirits—this yellow flower is exactly the flower cucumbers bloom, right?

 

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