Absolute Choice

Dawn muttered to herself, but she regretted it the moment she said it.

Shi Xiaobai had clearly said he was open to chatting about anything, but she had unknowingly fallen into a daze. It was because she had already forgotten how to have a chat in an ordinary and casual manner. She did not know how typical conversations even began.

You are really not human after all, right?

Dawn never expected that she would have a brain fart to be so stupid that she would start the chat with a sentence that would ruin the mood. That was the worst beginning ever.

“Calm down.”

“Anyways, quickly change the topic.”

Dawn hurriedly racked her stiff thoughts, but she never expected to hear Shi Xiaobai’s voice of sudden excitement.

“This King never expected you to realize that so quickly. Clever girl, This King is obviously not human!”

When Dawn heard that, she felt her heart jump as her body immediately stiffened.

Hey, hey, what is this strange development?

So he wasn’t human at all?

Could it be because he did not possess ugly human nature which allowed her to conquer her disorder and muster the courage to approach him?

That, can’t be true right?

“So…you are really…the Infernal King of the world of the seventh level?”

Dawn tried her best to calm herself down as she helplessly realized that she had failed to distinguish which words of Shi Xiaobai were true or false.

Shi Xiaobai’s reaction had once again exceeded her expectations. She heard him suddenly chuckling disdainfully, before he said with a sneer, “The Infernal King of the world of the seventh level? Please do not use the idiocy of this world’s demons and gods to compare with This King. A mere soldier from the real divine and demon races can wipe out the gods and demons of this world. As for This King, he lords over the true demons and gods. This King is a supreme and lofty existence!”

“Listen well, This King’s true identity is…the King of kings! Be it the king of humans, the king of Celestials, the king of Infernals, or the other kings of the myriad worlds, they all bow before This King as his subjects and would loudly proclaim ‘Sire’. This King created good and evil. This King rules over the goodness and evilness of the myriad worlds and because of This King’s existence, the war between good and evil could come to a pause. As This King trampled on the ambitions of the various kings, peace was ushered into the myriad worlds.”

The boy’s voice slowly turned excited. Words filled with eight-grader syndrome left Dawn stunned for a moment. After she slowly calmed down, she realized that nothing about what he said could be believed. She had been silly enough to consider if it were true.

Dawn found it amusing, but she did not dislike it. She could not help but make a joke, “Then wouldn’t I be someone who accidentally beat the King of kings to the point of him not having the strength to even speak? Could it be that my identity is actually not so simple?”

With that said, she immediately felt from her shoulder that Shi Xiaobai was turning his head from left to right. She heard him grunt softly and say, “Naive girl. This King was only blindsided by the kings of the myriad worlds. This King’s holy body was destroyed, and his indestructible soul was sanctioned by thousands of seals. This King had no choice but to reincarnate into an mortal body. This King’s true strength is only sealed. Now, This King’s strength is not even a quadrillionth of his original strength. Of course, you should be proud that you can tie with a quadrillionth of This King’s strength. You are one of the few true geniuses among humans.”

His confident tone made it seem like he was narrating facts, but yet they sounded like preposterous lies.

A quadrillion? Did he know how many zeroes there were in that number?

It was obviously a speech filled with eight-grader syndrome, yet for some reason, Dawn’s mind gradually relaxed. The lost feeling of not knowing how to create a topic of conversation completely vanished.

The casual chat he mentioned was really casual. It was so casual that she could not grasp it, but she also felt like anything would fly with him.

“Since you have been reincarnated into a mortal’s body, are you now a human?”

First confirm what his designation is before naturally asking questions that I still mind.

Dawn thought to herself. She felt her ‘tiny scheme’ had an indescribable joy to it.

Shi Xiaobai hesitated for a moment, as though he was in a dilemma about his answer. Finally, he said with a sigh, “This King is temporarily…temporarily…a human.”

“Temporarily!”

After admitting that he was human, his voice rapidly decreased in volume, but he immediately used a stressed tone to emphasize that it was only ‘temporary’. Although his face could not be seen, the expression that would appear on his delicate face surfaced naturally in Dawn’s mind.

It was definitely very adorable.

Dawn barely managed to stop herself from laughing. For some baffling reason, she felt her body turn ethereal, as though she was in the clouds while floating in the sky.

Ah, what a ridiculous joke. Why did she want to let it continue so much?

“Then, the King of kings that will eventually win back his throne, when you sit back on that throne that rules over good and evil, what would be the first thing you want to do?”

Dawn found herself weird, but she did not reject it. She even went along with his ‘performance’, and followed up on the topic. It made her feel very happy.

There was no need to deliberately make the topic relaxed or serious, but it was so natural. By following his cue and listening to what he wanted to say most, and chat with the topic he was most willing to continue on. Everything was so easy and perfect.

Heh, she was really irredeemably silly.

But, the voice she heard from Shi Xiaobai clearly did not sound as excited as anytime before. She felt once again that it did not matter even if it was sillier. That was because the voice she kept wanting to ‘hear’ was one that was filled with self-centeredness and extraordinary. It was definitely not a voice that would follow the crowd.

“What would be the first thing you want to do after winning back the throne?”

The boy fell deep into thought as he began seriously considering the question. He was so serious that she nearly thought it as something real. After a few moments, Shi Xiaobai finally said lightly, “This King will re-establish the concept of good and evil. What is true goodness and what is true evilness. Be it humans, demons or gods, it has been adulterated. People have always been using their own judgment to make mistaken conclusions, and some even do evil in the name of goodness. And correcting this and giving the best answer so as to distinguish good from evil is what This King wishes to do the most.”

Dawn was left dumbfounded for quite a while, as she ruminated over Shi Xiaobai’s answer with complicated emotions.

If that was a question on an exam, most examinees would answer ‘seek revenge against the kings that blindsided me’ or ‘crush the ambitions of the kings, restoring peace to the myriad worlds’. That was because those were the answers that matched the situation the best.

But Shi Xiaobai’s answer sounded overly-realistic. It was as though it was not a simply-posed question. It was as though he was really in the capacity of the king of good and evil as he pondered over the answer to the question. It was as though he was once a king that wielded good and evil.

What was the reason for that odd feeling?

Dawn slowly breathed out as she whispered, “Then, from your point of view, what is true good and what is true evil?”

“This King does not know either.”

Shi Xiaobai sighed gently and said, “When good and evil was born, it was when This Silly King defined such a vague and ambiguous good and evil. For a long period of time, This King always believed that his definition of good and evil was correct until a particular human asked This King a question. This King realized his mistake, and just as his beliefs wavered, This King was blindsided by the various kings. One of the reasons This King was reincarnated as human was partly to search for the true answer.”