He and It Chapter 32: A God’s Marriage (3)

Chapter 32: A God’s Marriage (3)

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: GaeaTiamat

Yun Chi, “…”

Yun Chi decided not to bother with the sea otter who claimed to be a god – not because he was cute by any means! He then threw out his next question, “Wait, you just said that this body is still my property, what does that mean?”

The sea otter huffed. He thought about it, let go of the pot, and drew a complete circle in the air with his short round palm, looking very serious.

As Sa’gya moved, the water mist condensed in the air, gradually converged into a translucent, clear round mirror shape, became water and then ice, so that it reflected Yun Chi’s countenance.

…It was his own face.

Or rather, it was his face that was several years younger.

The clear phoenix eyes, high nose and eyebrows, full lips, fair skin. He had been a childish beauty when he was a teenager, and it was only when he grew up and became an adult that he revealed his cunning and attractive appearance.

He dumbly reached out, touched his cheeks, then fiercely pulled those cheeks. Even if they were pulled red, he didn’t care.

“This is, this how…So I’m not a soul, but a body?”

Yun Chi shouted and almost fainted, Sa’gya saw that he was agitated, and hurriedly rubbed out the ice mirror, then clumsily comforted him, “You do not need to hurry. The injury can be healed as long as you take time to recuperate. You think about it, how did you get here?”

Yun Chi found a straw to clutch. He rushed to close the large furry paws of the sea otter. Sa’gya was so shocked his fur went straight. “Actually I am an explorer! You know what an explorer is, right? I was in Honduras…I was doing an expedition in Honduras…one of our countries, where the Rio Platano Biosphere is located in the La Mosquitia region. My team found the remains of a suspected lost civilization; a fresco in a cave. I just touched the rock wall with my hand and ended up losing consciousness all of a sudden…”

He went on and on, “…You don’t know, but the fresco was golden, beautiful as hell, and in the light, it was as if it was alive. As if the paint hadn’t yet dried! Alas, I’m to blame for my lack of awareness. I was happy to forget the taboo, and the result is bad luck! Look at my injuries…Can I still go back? Do you have any ideas?”

Yun Chi gazed at Sa’gya expectantly, but saw the big sea otter staring at him in a daze. He was even holding his breath.

The sea otter’s round face was furry, so how could it have any expression? However, Yun Chi inexplicably felt that Sa’gya was looking at him as if he were looking at a rare flower blooming in the icy sky and snow, afraid that if he blew on it, the petals would wither away.

“Well…Sa, Sa’gya?” Yun Chi reacted and hurriedly let go of his hand. Unfortunately, Sa’gya’s hairy paw was hot and soft, and the fleshy ball in his palm was very elastic when he pressed it, and he really didn’t want let go. “Sorry, did I offend…?”

Sa’gya froze for a moment, then tossed his head, smiled and said, “It’s okay. It’s just…It’s been years since anyone has said this much to me, and I feel good.”

He tucked his paws to his body in a confused manner and said warmly, “The replacement of time and space is a very complicated and difficult subject. If you want to figure out what’s going on, you’ll have to go to the Time God and let Him help you see what’s going on. But…”

Sa’gya hesitated.

Yun Chi guessed keenly, “Is there any difficulty? Or has the Time God also been renewed and lost contact with you?”

“I can’t say that,” Sa’gya whispered. “The Time God has always been Yuca Manin. He is the brother of the Mother Goddess Irma, eternal and unchanging. Only I…I cannot see Him again.”

Yun Chi sighed. He was a little disappointed, but he wasn’t overwhelmed by the sudden rush of being in a different world. Yun Chi knew in his heart that such things as time travel, weren’t easily solved, so his own hope of returning was really slim. Maybe he had to be prepared to spend his life there…

In contrast, he couldn’t help but have more concern for Sa’gya. “What’s wrong?” Yun Chi asked curiously. “Did you and he have a falling out or…?”

Sa’gya gave him an amused look, his cheeks moving as he rubbed his face with his round palm.

“A new generation of gods has been established, and He has devised a new belief system. I am an anachronistic god now and have to retire here.”

He said it lightly, but Yun Chi heard the sting. The albino god, the great sea otter called Sa’gya…That wasn’t a mythological system among the Norse, Greek, Hebrew, Ancient China or Ancient India. Yun Chi was completely new to it.

However, whether it was an exchange of gods, or a change of regime, treacherous waves were always accompanied by the baptism of war and death. Sa’gya said that this was his island, and that he could not see other gods again.

You’re pitiful too…

Yun Chi couldn’t help but sigh. One man and one otter looked at each other, and he couldn’t help but feel a bit of compassion for the same reason.

“So, ahem,” Yun Chi hesitated for a moment. “If I can’t go back for a while, then I can’t go back. There’s nothing to stay over there for anyway…”

Yun Chi’s parents had died in a plane crash when he was thirteen, and it was the old housekeeper who had raised him. When the old butler also left, Yun Chi became a complete loner. Running around the world and seeing strange things was one of the few pleasures he had. Just one person on the road, inevitably there wasn’t enough insurance. For that reason, Yun Chi specially funded the formation of an expedition team.

Yun Chi didn’t have many friends, and fewer close friends. Even if he disappeared, he thought it wouldn’t affect too many people. It would be better to stay here to get well, and then make long-term plans.

What’s more, he had a God in front of him! Imagine…What could be more wonderful and extraordinary than an unknown continent where a true god existed?

With his mind made up, Yun Chi said boldly, “I know you saved me, thank you! If you don’t mind, please let me stay here. I don’t know how much of the skills I learned in my world can be used here, but I will definitely repay you. I can cook for you, freshen up…”

Speaking of grooming, Yun Chi coughed and averted his gaze from the sea otter’s rich, soft white fur, trying not to make the fiery intent in his eyes too obvious, “…I can also make simple handmade furniture, knit sweaters, make hats, and survive in the wilderness! As long as you are willing to take me in, I will be happy to take care of you. Of course…I have to wait until I’m fully healed and can get up.”

He looked at Sa’gya with expectation and clear eyes, “What do you think?”

Sa’gya, “…”

The thick fur of the beast concealed Sa’gya’s expression as the white sea otter opened his round eyes. His palms unconsciously covered the sides of his cheeks, and his heart began to pound in panic.

Pups…The pup didn’t understand what he was asking for! Food preparation, fur grooming, clothing and hat making, living together…He was asking to join his own family and pack, and because he was asking to join only one, it was tantamount to offering to become the family’s…To be the mistress of the family…

–that meant.

Sa’gya completely exploded, looking almost twice the size with his swollen fur, hot to the point of burning up.

–that meant, the cub made a request to actually become the wife of a God, my…wife…

No! Can’t think of it that way! The pup wasn’t familiar with the customs and rules of the Kalevas. Maybe he just mentioned it casually and didn’t mean it that deeply…Yes, maybe in their cultural environment, when one promised to care for a god, they promised obedience and companionship simply to repay the favor…

Yun Chi noticed the stiff silence of the sea otter, he couldn’t help but rub the back of his head, and “ha ha” two laughs. “No, I mean, since you are alone…I mean a god. I am also alone. We two can be together with a companion…Oh, why am I talking more and more nonsense?”

You know it’s not funny!

Yun Chi was quick to speak, Sa’gya held his words for a long time, and finally swallowed back the divine words that he had sworn in his mouth.

“…Next time,” Sa’gya said sullenly. “Don’t promise such things again.”

It was very dangerous to say such things to a god. In an age when words were still very binding, where spirits and demons lurk in the shadows of the mouth, the gods also played with hearts and mortal vows. Whether heroes or sinners, kings or commoners, when the thoughts of the heart brewed into words, then escaped from the lips and were given voice by the throat, then, no matter how secretive the words were whispered, it would be heard. Even in some dark and obscure moment in the future, there would be the response of the underworld.

If it was in the time when Sa’gya was in power, and Yun Chi had spoken those same words at the time, whether Sa’gya had promised or not, his soul would have belonged to Sa’gya for all eternity, and there would have been no possibility of liberation.

“You can stay,” Sa’gya whispered. “Only, you can’t risk leaving the island, nor can other humans find out the identity of this body, as you are a dead sacrifice and should not remain in the world.”

Yun Chi was stunned.

When he saw the big sea otter had rolled over and was about to leave, he hurriedly called out to the other party, “Yes, there is one more thing I forgot to tell you!”

Sa’gya’s ears were too small compared to his huge size, but when he heard Yun Chi’s voice, his tiny ears twitched slightly and he immediately stopped and turned his head.

His gaze was focused, and Yun Chi gathered the courage to tell Sa’gya about the voices he heard in the canoe.

“… If I’m not mistaken, there were about five to six different voices that mentioned the keywords ‘Wind God’ and ‘Storm God Palace’.” Yun Chi frowned. “I could tell they were pretty scared too, as they rushed to destroy the body before the Wind God came back. I want to know, what was that all about?”

Sa’gya gave a “Well,” and thought deeply for a while. He puffed up his round hairy face seriously, and replied to Yun Chi, “Wait until I come back.”

Yun Chi, “…”

Yun Chi watched him flip the door and go out. By definition, sea otters were not animals suitable for land travel. Their hind limbs had long evolved into flippers that were more suitable for swimming, therefore, although Sa’gya was large in size, his speed of moving on the ground couldn’t be considered fast.

The big sea otter went out with a twist of his fluffy fur and chubby tail. Yun Chi sighed as he watched.

Ugh, so cute…If you enlarged the human body size by a dozen times, it certainly wouldn’t be as cute as Sa’gya…

I really don’t know what’s wrong with his followers. Why wouldn’t they want to believe in a sea otter who likes to cover his face? What degenerates!

Yun Chi rebuked those who weren’t firm enough in their minds, even as he greedily stared at Sa’gya’s back for a long time.

The big sea otter came back with a pile of old looking but clean cloth wrapped around his back. He intended to change Yun Chi’s medicine.

Yun Chi was regarded as the son of a rich family, and although he had become used to being frugal since childhood, he still had the right type of eyesight. That pile of fabric was an unknown kind of material. Of course the pattern was simple, but the texture was smooth and soft, and in the daylight it was flooded with water-like color and not even a trace of seams could be seen. Even his technologically advanced modern culture might not be able to produce that kind of fabric.

Sa’gya wasn’t stingy. He shook the cloth off his back, sat down facing the bed, and tore a strip with his hairy paw. It looked like he was going to make bandages by hand.

“The sacrificial boat you were riding in was made especially for offerings.” Sa’gya hung his big head, and pulled the bandage while he whispered, “The Wind God of this generation, Roche, is a god who is temperamental, and who is partial to wielding great power. He prefers human sacrifice and beautiful teenagers. However he always likes the old and the new…”

Sa’gya sighed. “Perhaps in His absence, those human sacrifices who had arrived at Storm God Palace, fearing abandonment and repatriation, or a more cruel fate, secretly released Roche’s Wind Eagle to ambush you.”

“Sounds like a real old pervert!” Yun Chi said in abhorrence. “Those human sacrifices are also pitiful and must be hated. They almost screwed me to death at sea…”

Sa’gya paused, narrowed his eyes and smiled broadly when he heard the description of “pitiful people must be hated.”

“Gods have selfishness, let alone those who are not yet gods, but have to live on the nose of God’s sacrifice.”

After he tore the bandages, Sa’gya straightened and picked Yun Chi up, sinking him into his plush, dense arms. The teenager’s not-yet-grown skeleton was like a tiny moveable doll.

So thin, Sa’gya sighed in his mind as he weighed him.

He changed the old bandages on Yun Chi’s body, applied herbs to his wounds, wrapped the new bandages with fur edges several times, then tied the knots and tucked Yun Chi into the fur quilt.

Yun Chi’s arms and legs were not convenient to use, so he let the sea otter god take care of him. He touched the bandages on his body and asked curiously, “What exactly is this made of? It feels so delicate. It doesn’t even hurt anymore.”

“The four strands of spider silk made at dawn and dusk that symbolize the beginning and the end of the day.” Sa’gya bowed his head and gathered up the blood-stained bandages. “The previous work of the Goddess of Weaving, if it could be dyed, would look better.”

“So valuable…” Yun Chi murmured. “If it were me, I wouldn’t be able to use it.”

“Everything has an end,” Sa’gya looked up and smiled at him. The corners of his mouth curled up and his hairy beard twitched. “How do you know that this wasn’t their destiny when they were created?”

Ah…I can’t! It’s really cute, so cute! If Sa’gya came to his modern times, maybe just by virtue of the live broadcast alone, there would be thousands of people crying out to be his devotees…

Sa’gya froze. He stared at Yun Chi with dark eyes and stuttered incredulously, “What did you say?”

Yun Chi opened his mouth and realized that he had slipped, and spoken the words in his mind without thinking.

“I…I…” Meeting Sa’gya’s panicked gaze, Yun Chi’s eyes also dodged. “I mean…I’m telling the truth!”

For some reason, he blushed profusely. “Look, your face, your ears, and your paws and skin, fur, round tail…round…”

Yun Chi’s eyes closed and he simply broke down, “Hasn’t anyone ever said you’re cute before?! Someone has to tell you the obvious truth!”

Sa’gya drew in a breath and sounded a little choked up. The sea otter’s ears perked up in horror as he stammered and whispered, “No, no…no one ever said that!”