Superhumans of the Dome City
Chapter 178 - 178 62 Peace_3

178: Chapter 62 Peace_3 178: Chapter 62 Peace_3 He remembered the unread second half of the letter, which contained the lady knight’s assessment of him and her recent situation.

“Ah…”

The pleasant mood faded bit by bit, tension and anxiety regained control of his body.

He felt a dull pain in his stomach, something he hadn’t even experienced when facing the Non-Celestial Territory of the Ming Guest.

How would she assess his actions?

He didn’t want to know.

He was afraid to know.

Now was the time to escape reality!

Hurry up, put the letter away as if unseen, return to bed, bury his head to sleep and wait to read it again when he was in a better mood the next day!

Gongsun Ce kept sighing.

“…If only I could escape.”

He sat at the desk and took the letter slowly.

It took a lot of willpower to open his eyes and cast his gaze on the first line of the text.

“Regarding the assessment of you and my recent circumstances.”

“I am pleased that you wrote to me in the common language, showing that you have not forgotten the proper etiquette.

I am also surprised at the number of grammatical errors in the letter.

Ce, your proficiency in the common language seems to have regressed rather than improved since three years ago.”

“I have made a photocopy of your letter, marking the errors and their corrections in the copy.

I am sending you two books: ‘Basics and Applications of the Common Language’ and ‘Avin Boli’s Letter Collection.’ The former is an introductory manual for the common language compiled by the foreign ministry of the Morton Country, detailed in content and will help you consolidate the basics; the latter is a collection of communications by a renowned 19th-century novelist, beautifully written, and can serve as a model for common language correspondence.”

Gongsun Ce emotionlessly opened the package.

At the very top was a photocopy of his letter, marked all over with red pen, looking like a small essay returned by a conscientious language teacher.

Beneath the photocopies were two brick-thick foreign books.

He picked them up and flipped through them slowly, then he placed them at the corner of his desk, before slamming the letter down on the desk.

“This woman must be insane!!!”

The next line read: “I think you are currently uttering your usual curses, which is not a good habit.”

The gray-haired young man bellowed, “So what if I curse?!

I’ve had enough of acting prim and proper, Mr.

Gongsun; I’m not cut out for this kind of behavior!”

“If your mind is ruled by impetuous emotions, please calm down for five minutes before resuming reading the letter.”

Gongsun Ce went to the washroom to wash his face.

He admired the lady knight’s high standards, which hadn’t diminished since old times; probably there wasn’t a second person in the world who could infuriate him with a few lines of text.

He returned to the desk and picked up the letter again.

“I think you have regained your composure.”

“Ce, you know your own character flaws; you are not an easy person to get along with.

When I read about the new friend you’ve made, I was surprised.

You’ve always tended to close off your heart, making it difficult for you to make true friends.”

“You’ve spoken to me about the way people of the City of the Firmament interact with one another, and to me, it sounds like many vulnerable and lonely hedgehogs, longing for closeness yet afraid of hurting each other.

This is not unexpected, as many adolescents go through similar emotions.

However, in your city, this becomes a truly worrying problem: the default rule justifies alienation, giving everyone an excuse to avoid communication.”

“Human beings grow through being hurt.

You hold powerful abilities but the hearts within might not be as mature as your outer appearances.”

Gongsun Ce clenched the letter.

Had it been before today, he would have had something to say about this assessment.

Now, he had to admit there was some truth in her words.

In this city, alienation was a form of protection, to keep those they cared about away from danger, they always needed to maintain a distance between one another.

“You would argue that this is to protect each other and to stay away from calamity.

Ce, maybe others must live this way, but you are different, you have the wisdom and the power to protect those around you.”

You’re overthinking it.

“You would deny what I say.

You think you are helpless because you always want to do everything well, believing that you should bear all responsibility—that is both an expression of arrogance and an excuse for self-loathing.”

Her words were sharper than those of Mo Yuankai.

She never gently considered his feelings, only candidly voicing her opinions.

“Neither you nor I are the center of the world’s rotation.

If we were to pass away at this moment, it would just affect the relatives and friends around us.

So, I was utterly puzzled when I saw your self-reproach in the letter—why do you think you are to blame?”

He watched the text on the letter, moving his gaze inch by inch.

The gears in his mind were like rusted, thoughts stuck in front of some obstacle, unable to move forward, much less fill the circuits of consideration with understanding.

He unconsciously read on, rapidly reading, almost wishing he could stuff the letter’s contents into his pupils.

“Three years ago we went through a painful disaster, many died that day.

The ‘Underworld Disaster,’ the ‘Colored Glaze Disaster,’ the sects, and that evil, despicable man.

We fought against so many enemies, and you participated in all these battles, bringing an end to the final disaster with your own hands.

This achievement is something any person would be proud of, I do not understand where your self-reproach comes from.”

Very slowly, he transformed the words into information and processed that information into cognition.

It seemed to take an eternity for him to understand her words.

He felt a tightness in his chest, a warmth that moved like a fluid towards his limbs, gathering in his eyes, almost ready to turn into liquid and flow out.