457.Chapter 449 – Lan Gong Spits Out the Heart of the World

Chapter 449 – Lan Gong Spits Out The Heart Of The World
After a short silence in Pranay’s special cell, the Great Poet of Love still didn’t give any response to Pranay’s question, “Why did you choose me?

The figure with black hair and green pupils only smiled gently.

“Why are you smiling?”

“I remembered something very happy.”

The great love poet replied, Pranay had never seen a truly unhelpful disgraced demon.

“Is it my appearance that makes you laugh?”

“It may have something to do with what you just said, but only ten percent.”

“……”

The Great Love Poet’s answer puzzled Pranay, but he felt that the king wasn’t really laughing at him, but rather as if he had somehow negated his words and made him realize that he wasn’t a useless Daemon.

Finally.

“King, I only have one question, can we just escape to the southern continent and come back after a hundred years, don’t get entangled in this maelstrom of the Protoss Empire anymore, this is an immediate opportunity to quickly realize our long-cherished wish, but the risk is too great.”

Pranay raised his head belatedly and said in a deep voice to the Great Love Poet.

“No, that alone I cannot promise you or lie to you.”

The great poet of love answered him this quickly and swiftly.

Then Pranay lapsed into silence again.

After giving Pranay some time to think, the great love poet spoke again.

“Pranay, the more adept you are at calculating, the more you will realize that you can’t count against change, not even if you have Future Sight, even the Goddess of Fate can’t control it, or else there wouldn’t be a Church of the Resurrection in the world, and you should know this better than I do.”

The great love poet sat in front of Pranay, his hands gently resting on his knees as he muttered to himself.

“Sometimes, the more you tend to be one hundred percent safe, the more it scares you, doesn’t it? However, you also know very well that there will be no absolutely safe place in this world, so please think carefully, can you really gain inner peace by staying in this prison?”

The great love poet’s stance exuded an air of gentle firmness, and those eyes could see into the strife and pain in Pranay’s heart.

“……”

Pranay remained silent with his head down in thought.

“In your world, pain and challenges are inevitable, but the more you cling to them, the more you deepen this unrest. By my side, you can let go of all your burdens, come to rely on me, and enjoy this pure peace of mind in the moment.”

The Great Poet of Love continued.

“But …… I have to let go of this attachment if I want peace of mind, but my restlessness also makes me unable to let go of this attachment.”

Pranay’s inner conflict spoke to the new king.

Beside the new king, he seemed to be able to feel a calmness that he had never felt before.

But if he agreed to the new king’s words, he would also be violating the common sense he had always had, and he was afraid that theories and attempts that were too unknown would lead him to true despair.

“Then Pranay, please tell me first what inner peace is. And when do you tend to experience inner peace?”

The great poet of love said softly.

“……”

Pranay was in a daze.

“I’m not sure, maybe I’ve never really experienced inner peace.”

Pranay replied in a low voice.

“You’ve been struggling to find inner peace after the demise of the demon world, haven’t you.”

The Great Poet of Love gently folded his hands together as if he had found the problem, and spoke to Pranay, saying “You have been trying to ban desires, I was able to see that. Demons forbidding their desires sounds like an anti-natural behavior at first glance, but unfortunately many times it’s caused by desires, isn’t that why the Demon Realm was overthrown?”

“You want the mind to be untouched by feelings and desires, to have a calm heart and reach an ideal state of safety.”

“……”

Seeing that Pranay didn’t want to talk at the moment, but more to listen, the great love poet spoke again.

“Or return to the origin of pleasureism, not to aspire to excessive pleasures, but to remain well-fed, well-dressed, or to maintain the most basic conditions of existence, to reject excessive luxury and vanity, and to derive great fulfillment from plain living, as well as to attain inner peace.”

“As of right now, you’ve managed to reach both of these realms in this Helmholtz Prison, so then what? Have you ever pondered whether you have really felt inner peace?”

The Great Poet of Love finally stopped his voice as he spoke, waiting for Pranay to respond.

“I don’t feel it.”

Pranay admitted, his words tinged with a slight feebleness.

“I’ve been miserable every day for the past hundred years, and honestly, today is the happiest day I’ve ever had.”

He waited for his words to once again make the new king smile.

However the great poet of love did not smile this time.

Just nodded very seriously.

“It is a marvelous thing that you can make so much effort towards inner peace, and for me, what is inner peace is actually an equally difficult proposition, because with different identities, different statuses, and different things to face, inner peace will also be different.”

The voice of the great love poet was gentle and strong, every word filled with encouragement.

“Although I have taken it upon myself to speak to you so much, I’m actually sorry to say that I would also like to know what inner peace is for you.”

Even as the words ended there, it was as if Pranay had heard the next sentence-

That’s exactly what I want to help you realize.

“Pranay, if you don’t want to leave today, I still want to be friends with you, and maybe we’ll see each other again someday, but if you’re willing to come with me, I’ll put you in the safest place possible to protect you, and try to keep you out of fights, and even if I do let you fight, I’ll only let you fight in solid winning situations.”

The Great Love Poet’s voice was very soft, not wanting to put any pressure on Pranay at all, and
“By my side, if ever an enemy tries to threaten your inner peace, it will be me who dies in battle first, and you will be next.”

This time, Pranai finally raised her head, her eyes incomparably complex as she looked at the black-haired, green-pupiled figure.

There was always a ray of light in this endless darkness.

He wanted to say something, to ask why the new king was treating him like this, but realized that he had already asked that question a long time ago.

The expression of his own face reflected in the other party’s emerald green pupils was full of regret and remorse.

“You want to ask me again why I’m clinging to a ‘useless’ ‘disgraced’ demon like you, don’t you?”

The great love poet was full of laughter as he asked Pranay.

“Yes …… I want a positive answer from you, not another relief.”

Pranay’s voice took on a rare hint of determination, like he wanted to figure out if he could respond to this expectation from the new king or not.

“Do not miss what you already have by desiring what you do not have, Pranay.”

The Great Poet of Love intoned.

“While it is commendable that you are adept at realizing your crisis and wanting to work to remedy it, it is also important to put the same effort into revisiting the strengths you possess. You will find that finding your strengths is far more rewarding than staring at your greatest deficiencies.”

After that one sentence, Pranay’s eyes finally brightened.

(End of chapter)