[BL] Daily Disposable Persona

86: R'lyeh 10

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Zong Yan: ? ? ?

What the hell? I know you guys are mortal enemies. I know one of you built Carcosa and the other built R'lyeh in response. I know you two don't see eye-to-eye, but digging under the wall of someone else's half-self is going a bit too far, right?

"Watch what you say. Such words are the greatest provocation to me," Zong Yan said coldly.

He raised his hand and another massive water curtain rose up from the ocean, rolling towards the sky with a deafening roar.

After a few such attacks, the sea level nearby had lowered. So much water was pumped out so fast that there wasn't time for more water to rush back from a distance. The ocean's surface was dotted with spinning eddies, generated by the collision of large and small currents.

Zong Yan's mind, which was almost in a panic, finally calmed down.

At first he was flustered, worried he'd somehow revealed the secret of the persona cards. He almost scared himself to death, but it turned out to be a false alarm. He felt relieved.

The King in Yellow didn't respond. The shadows behind the evil god quietly hovered in the air. Without a trace of difficulty, Hastur pushed away all the high-pressure waterspouts.

He was a Great Old One of vast experience and unfathomable power. There was no way he could be compared to a counterfeit goods second self like Zong Yan.

But Hastur wasn't angry at Zong Yan. On the contrary, he extended his hand in a pleasant gesture.

"It's impossible for me to mistake my own scent. You carry my blessing."

The blessing of the Lord of Interstellar Spaces didn't leave a mark, but it was imbued with his aura. No one else but him could feel it.

And there was another reason Hastur was so certain.

Essentially, he and Cthulhu had been born together. They might even be called fraternal twins, though evil gods didn't recognize such a concept.

Before they were even born they'd begun snatching power from each other. After birth, this pattern continued. So if Cthulhu claimed to have a half-self or a brother or something of that kind, Hastur certainly had a share.

As it so happened, the King in Yellow recalled that Cthulhu's behavior had been sneaky and somewhat unnatural when he was born. Other conspiracy theories brewed from there.

Did gods even have half-selves?

Of all the Great Old Ones, Elder Gods, and Outer Gods that Hastur knew, this was the first time he'd heard of such a thing. But the young evil god in front of him truly did possess Cthulhu's power, and not only that, he possessed a scent unique to Hastur.

Therefore, according to logic, the most likely scenario was that this evil god was their common half-self at the time they were born, or a third evil god who'd lacked power and fell into a deep sleep. But he'd been hidden by that despicable villain Cthulhu all these years.

In any case, the above was speculation. The most important thing was that when Hastur gazed upon this young evil god, he didn't feel the slightest bit of disgust. On the contrary, there was a faint but discernible feeling of closeness and affinity that arose within his soul. It was completely different from the deep, inherent revulsion he felt from Cthulhu.

"You must have just awakened." The King in Yellow was in a good mood. "The power of an evil god is not used in such a way. It seems Cthulhu didn't teach you this. He really is a poor guide."