21st Century Necromancer-Chapter 741 - 737 Mentality (Please Subscribe, Request Monthly Tickets)

741: Chapter 737: Mentality (Please Subscribe, Request Monthly Tickets)

741: Chapter 737: Mentality (Please Subscribe, Request Monthly Tickets)

Minami did not feel that the Inari God and the Matchmaking God were deceiving her.

After all, she was but a resurrected spirit lingering in the Human World, with neither power nor wealth—what would there be about her to deceive the deities?

Moreover, the Inari God and the Matchmaking God did not deceive her; everything they said was indeed the truth.

The highest level of a lie is nine parts truth and one part falsehood, and the best way to induce others to act as you wish is to make them think that they are making the decisions themselves.

The Inari God told Minami nothing but the truth, but He did not tell her that everything she was experiencing was the result of Yu Chen deliberately guiding her.

Without knowing the full facts, Minami’s thoughts naturally became skewed.

She thought she was developing feelings for Inomata Naoki, but in reality, whether it was her two chance encounters with Inomata Naoki or the fact that Inomata Naoki got a girlfriend, all of it was a deliberate orchestration by Yu Chen, aimed at making her fall for Inomata Naoki, or at least believe that she had.

Deities indeed do not deceive mortals, but likewise, deities do not tell mortals everything.

As for what mortals understand from the deities’ words, that is a matter for the mortals themselves.

Having received an answer that she wanted but perhaps was not ready to accept, Minami and Hiromi Jounouchi left the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Department.

On the way home after dropping Minami off, Hiromi Jounouchi asked her, “What do you plan to do now?”

“I…” Minami fiddled with her fingers, her mind a mess, unsure of how to answer, and could only manage to say, “I don’t know.”

“It’s normal to feel confused.

Go home, have a good rest, sleep on it, and then think about it with a clear head,” Hiromi Jounouchi offered her advice and even joked, “If you didn’t look so much like a high schooler, I would have taken you out for drinks.

Sometimes, getting drunk really can help people forget their troubles.”

Minami couldn’t help but offer a wry smile at Hiromi Jounouchi’s words.

She was actually about the same age as Hiromi Jounouchi, but since she died when she was only a teenager, she still looked the same as she did then, which made it impossible for her to enter a bar.

However, this made Minami half-jokingly say to Hiromi Jounouchi, “Why don’t we go to my place, then?

Sneaking some drinks from the shop is no problem.

Speaking of which, I’m really curious about the taste of the Highball that Doctor Yu Chen always drinks!”

“Your place?

Is the owner not doing business today?” Hiromi Jounouchi looked at Minami with a smile and said, “Go home and have a good rest, don’t overthink it.

Matters of the heart are best left to take their own course, they cannot be forced.”

“I got it, I will rest well.” Hearing Hiromouchi Jounouchi say this, Minami dismissed the idea of taking Hiromi Jounouchi to her shop for a drink.

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After having sent Minami home, Hiromi Jounouchi naturally returned to her house as well.

After completing the final adjustments on the Enhanced Humans, and although they still needed to adjust the existing Dragon-transformed Mutants to evolve from their previously unstable mutations to the now optimally adjusted state of Enhanced Humans, these routine tasks no longer required Yu Chen and Hiromi Jounouchi to do them personally—a summoning of a group of Skeleton Mages would suffice to complete these tasks.

As for subsequent armament and legion structuring, this was even less in need of Yu Chen’s personal intervention; High-rank Necro-Servants were meant for such tasks.

Recalling Maeda Toshiie, who had been presiding over the Mingyue Society headquarters, the former Kaga Million Koku Daimyo in Yu Chen’s service was the most suitable person to command troops and the only subordinate with military experience.

Though his experience was centuries old, it was still far superior when compared to other Undead Servants, who had no knowledge of such matters.

With tasks handed down to his subordinates, Yu Chen naturally no longer needed to stay in the Necromantic Space.

Thus, both he and Hiromi Jounouchi, for the first time in a while, returned to their house in Tokyo to spend an ordinary weekend like any other couple.

To many, living the life of an ordinary person after nearing divinity could seem unimaginable, but for Yu Chen, becoming divine did not mean he ceased to be human.

Human is a sociological concept, whereas humanity is a biological one.

Becoming divine is nothing more than an evolution from the biological concept of humanity to divinity.

And to regard oneself as a deity, to have the mindset of a deity, is to evolve from a person to a divinity in both sociological and psychological terms.

Though Yu Chen was now a Demigod and his way of thinking and approaches gradually diverged from those of mortals, it did not hinder his continued self-identification as a person.

This was a process of transformation and adaptation; for a person to become a deity involves not only physiological changes but psychological adaptations as well.

Until his plans were realized and he truly became a deity, Yu Chen had no intention of psychologically transforming himself first.

Maybe a hundred or two hundred years after he became a deity, he might gradually forget everything about his life as a human, but at this moment, he still felt himself a person, whose only difference from others was that he was much further along the path to divinity.

Gently transitioning or abruptly severing one’s ties to their mortal existence—either choice is acceptable.

Yu Chen simply chose the gradual and natural progression.

Hiromi Jounouchi arrived home to find Yu Chen cooking in the kitchen and couldn’t help but tease him with a grin, “What’s this?

His Excellency the Demigod is cooking today?

It’s such an honour for this humble girl to be able to enjoy a dish made by the hands of a Demigod.”

“Wash your hands and set the table, it’s almost ready to eat,” Yu Chen smiled back at his wife, unfazed by her teasing.

After Hiromi Jounouchi washed her hands in the kitchen and set the tableware, she sat down to watch Yu Chen bring the cooked meal to the table.

Although they no longer needed to eat ordinary food, just as the Matchmaking God and Ukanomitama relish good food, delicious meals are considered a pleasure, not just for sustenance.

Only lower life forms place eating at the top of their life priorities.

“Husband, Minami has now become infatuated as you expected.

What is your next move?” Hiromi Jounouchi inquired about Yu Chen’s plans while they ate.

Facing his wife’s question, Yu Chen smiled and replied, “Well, in that case, the next step would naturally be to let her have a proper talk with Naoki, don’t you think?”