Public Opinion Regarding the Great Guardian

“Did the ground shake last night? Ha! But I was too lazy to wake up. Sleeping to death is not a bad choice.”

A skinny man rubbed his eyes, yawned, and walked into his living room.

But the sunlight flashed on him, making it hard for him to open his eyes, so he could only squint.

“Wait, why is it so bright today?”

It took a while for the man to get used to the light.

Then, he looked at the huge hole in the wall and fell into thought.

First, anger, “Which bastard tore down my wall!”

Then, fear, “Could it be a demon?”

Finally, relief, “Think positively, no one’s hurt, luckily I was too lazy to come down yesterday.”

A sour smell of garbage drifted over; the man looked, and saw a pile of trash filling the alley outside the hole.

It seemed that some person with low morals had dumped trash.

The man’s eyelids twitched slightly.

He reached out his hand; the strong sunlight made him a little uncomfortable, and he retracted his hand.

But the sour smell also made him uncomfortable, and he wanted to go out and clean it up.

That’s how he got stuck.

Just as the man was hesitating, a small figure pounced into the garbage heap.

The man’s eyes brightened; how cute the girl was.

However, when he shifted his gaze, the impression in his mind instantly vanished, he couldn’t remember at all, only vaguely feeling that she was very pretty.

‘What is this cute girl looking for in the garbage heap?’

‘Wait, is that a diamond in her hand! My God, I missed out on a hundred million!’

“Phew, finally found them all.” Linlin breathed a sigh of relief, ungrudgingly wiping the pink diamonds.

Linlin looked over, noticing someone watching her, a skinny man who looked very pitiful.

It seemed to be the owner of the house.

Linlin silently glanced at the huge hole on the wall, possibly because the angry shadow had randomly hammered it.

And the garbage on the ground, because she was rummaging through it, it seemed to be even more messy.

Linlin showed a apologetic smile and hurried to find tools at the entrance of the alley, spending a little time sweeping it all back into the trash can.

Then, without looking back, she ran to find Mavis’s toy.

She messed up the garbage, but she cleaned it up, oh, and the wall had nothing to do with her.

After Linlin left, the man looked at the trash can, his eyes burning,

“What if, what if there were a few diamonds left? Then I’d be rich.”

Greed overcame laziness; he grabbed the trash can and instantly fell over.

Half an hour later, the man’s face was ashen, and he comforted himself,

“Actually, those are fake diamonds, they’re fake diamonds.

There are so many fake diamonds on the market recently, those ones are definitely fake!”

While silently covering his aching heart.

“Hey, you kid!”

The man silently looked up; he saw a sturdy cleaning aunt, arms crossed, and those sandbag-sized fists, as if she could crush him with a punch.

“Wh, what’s wrong?”

“Do you have any opinions about the streets I’m responsible for cleaning?”

The aunt looked down at him, her momentum was very strong, and she enveloped him in the shadow.

“Ah, this, that, I…”

“I’ll give you ten minutes; clean it up for me!”

“Yes, yes.”

“Immediately!”

“One, two, three, four, five, six…”

Linlin’s brows furrowed, “Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. Missing the crimson sword, where did it go?”

Linlin even went around several times, but didn’t find it. “Did someone pick it up?”

She sighed; there was no way, Linlin could only go home first to put away the toys; after taking a bath, she then went to find Teacher Bersa with the succubus heart and original liquid.

Other swords had suffered varying degrees of damage; after all, they were just toys.

Linlin was thinking about buying Mavis a new set at some point.

Teacher Bersa took the succubus heart, “Don’t worry, nothing happened.”

“That’s good.” Linlin breathed a sigh of relief.

“Little Linlin, go and receive the guest for me.”

“Okay, Teacher.”

Normally, she wouldn’t accept guests in the morning, but there were always unusual times.

For example, this guest had a great background; at the citizen assembly three years ago, Linlin had seen him speak.

Holderma would hold a citizen assembly every four years, which was considered Holderma’s greatest power institution.

The citizen assembly was strictly divided and could be divided into the upper house and the lower house.

The upper house was mainly composed of the elders and those who were recognized and invited by them as strong or highly respected people, as well as nobles; the lower house was elected from merchants and citizens.

However, during the recess of the citizen assembly, Holderma’s main power still rested in the hands of the forty-two elders elected to the Elder Council.

Aous, that was his name.

Linlin had some impression of him, apart from the fact that this person often frequented, there was also his speech at the citizen assembly.

He was very radical in opposing the monopolies of some nobles in some industries; many of his proposals were in line with Linlin’s values in her previous life, and he was favored by many lower house councilors, but unfortunately, most of the proposals were ultimately vetoed by more than half of the upper house.

At the citizen assembly, if more than half of one side of the upper house and the lower house opposed it, even a unanimous vote from the other side was of no avail.

This represented Holderma’s determination to balance nobles and commoners when it was established.

Of course, this wasn’t the reason Linlin was so impressed; after all, there were many proposals from the lower house that were biased towards commoners.

The biggest reason was that he spoke in the capacity of an upper house councilor.

As someone who could be invited by the Elder Council, his every word and deed must express the thoughts of one or several elders.

As a representative of the nobles, he could be so biased towards the commoners, which was truly unexpected.

Without thinking further, Linlin stepped forward and said, “Mr. Aous, do you have any dietary restrictions today?”

“That, there are none, today is truly a lucky day, it’s actually Chef Linlin cooking, oh! I’m already eager to bite off my tongue.”

The honorific title for those with superb cooking skills in Holderma was kitchen artist, which could also be abbreviated as chef.

Aous was nearly forty years old, but he still had the youthful humor and wit.

“Okay, wait a moment.”

In a moment, Linlin brought over some appetizers.

“Chef Linlin, is Boss Bersa not happy? Could it be because I stepped into the restaurant with my left foot first, so she’s not happy?”

“You’re joking, how could that be? Perhaps it’s because you disturbed her precious morning drink-making session.”

“Haha, that’s what I did. But there’s nothing I can do, I can only squeeze in for this time this week.

Oh, how about I tell some jokes to make amends.”

“Emmm, perhaps you can try to comment on Teacher Bersa’s newly researched drinks? She should be happy about this.”

“Cough cough, this, forget it, forget it…” Aous was sure of Bersa’s cooking level, otherwise, he wouldn’t come here to make time for it.

But the level of innovative drinks, ummm, it could only be said that most of them were drinkable, yes, most of them, drinkable, emphasizing the point.

As for lemonade?

That was Linlin’s recipe, and as long as she didn’t mess around, it would be impossible to make it taste bad.

During the interval before the dishes were served, Aous began to chat, “Chef Linlin, do you know the big news recently?”

“You mean?”

“The Great Guardian’s subordinate, a powerful Hunt Court hunter, privately released two succubi.”

“Ah? Isn’t this a joke? Cough cough, what I mean is…” Linlin immediately covered her mouth.

The joke newspaper actually offended quite a few high-ranking officials; Holderma officially banned it, but the joke newspaper was backed by the vast Fun City.

The more you ban it, the more he wants to publish, and even one day, he’ll stuff it directly into your head, emphasizing a rebellious nature.

So, most of the time, they turned a blind eye.

Linlin was also very clear about this, so she deliberately pretended to slip up, and the purpose was to elicit Aous’s next words, while pretending to be rash to lower her guard.

“Hahaha, it’s okay, it’s normal for young people to read some joke newspapers, as long as you don’t take some of the jokes in there seriously.” Aous smiled amiably.

“Hey? Then, Mr. Aous, what you just said is the same as what’s in the joke newspaper.” Linlin, with the intelligence of a college student in her previous life, had pure eyes.

Playing politics was all about dirty minds, Linlin could only pretend to be naive.

“Does the joke newspaper say that the Great Guardian has something to do with those two succubi?”

“Hey! How did you know? Could it be that you are also secretly reading the joke newspaper?”

“Hahaha, not really, I guessed, after all, the joke newspaper likes to make things up. In my opinion, how could the Great Guardian let the succubi go?

It was clearly the hunter’s own initiative. It’s very obvious that someone wants to smear the Great Guardian.

Don’t worry, the hunter who was derelict in his duties has been caught, and in the next few days, the Elder Council can give all citizens an explanation and clear the Great Guardian’s name.”

“That’s good.” Linlin pretended as if she hadn’t heard anything.

Her inner thoughts were, what exactly did this person want to express? What was his request?

This person’s political stance had always been “the emperor is the same as the commoners.” On weekdays, he was the most opposed to the Great Guardian’s special status.

To see a person’s true thoughts, don’t look at what he says, but look at what he does.

Aous didn’t pour salt on the wound, but instead emphasized that it had nothing to do with the Great Guardian; someone was smearing him?

This clearly didn’t match his usual tone.

By deduction, it was somewhat like a veiled compliment.

The key point was in the Elder Council’s so-called explanation.

Did he believe that this explanation could drag the Great Guardian down?

So, he intentionally spoke in the opposite tone beforehand, just to arouse the citizens’ disgust more during the reversal?

Of course, it could also be considered that Linlin was overthinking, after all, it was just a few casual words.

But for this kind of person who plays politics, Linlin would rather think too much than too little.