Four Split Personalities

However, just as he was about to start pondering what to say, he suddenly noticed that the new clothes on Dabus looked somewhat familiar.

That wide piece of dark green fabric, why did it look so much like the tent that had been swiped from him before?!

Dabus noticed Motan’s somewhat bizarre gaze and, curious, scratched his butt (Anthony didn’t like baths), and asked, "Um, is there something on my face?"

"Not exactly..."

Motan chuckled dryly, pointing at the wide ’clothing’ on the other person, "It’s just that this looks a bit familiar to me."

Dabus blinked, tugged at his new cloak: "This? Oh, this was picked up by Anthony on the road while I was sleeping."

"Picked it up?"

Motan also paused, scrutinizing the item on the other person that clearly wasn’t clothing, and asked doubtfully, "Picked up from where?"

"I’m not too sure about that."

Dabus shook his big head, then turned to Jadka: "So, Uncle Jad, what exactly happened this morning?"

The latter coughed lightly, spreading his hands to Motan: "Cough, it’s like this; this morning me, Ya Ya, and brothers Anthony and Dabus were on our way when Dabus suddenly fell asleep. A few minutes later, Anthony began complaining of hunger. I was just thinking about where to find him something to eat when the boy started howling and ran off. Ya Ya and I chased him for half an hour before catching up to him. By then, he had already found this, and also picked up... uh..."

Ji Xiaoge, Motan, and Dabus asked in unison, "Picked up what else?"

"Picked up a wang!"

Ya Ya excitedly raised her little hand to answer.

[A wang?]

Motan immediately had a bad feeling, and sharply noticed that Ji Xiaoge was already getting ready to start laughing; the girl knew about his habit of losing things.

As expected, Jadka promptly translated, "A horse."

Motan immediately covered his face, and it took him a while to ignore the ’pfft pfft’ of laughter beside him and ask with a mournful face, "And the horse?"

Ya Ya pointed politely downstairs.

Motan was delighted, "It’s tied downstairs?!"

"It’s not downstairs wang-ing."

Ya Ya shook her head solemnly, explaining, "It’s at the downstairs toilet. Wang Dony had a stomachache, went several times, probably wang-ed there already."

Jadka continued to translate synchronously: "Ya Ya means that the horse might currently be at the downstairs toilet. Anthony had a long bout of stomach trouble this morning, went to the toilet several times... Girl, can’t you speak less bluntly?"

"Puhahaha hahaha hahaha~~!"

Ji Xiaoge, who had been holding back her laughter, finally broke down, burying her head on Ya Ya’s shoulder, laughing breathlessly.

Well, that was a feast for the eyes...

Motan chuckled dryly a couple of times, then sighed with emotional exhaustion, waving his hand, "Yeah, I got it..."

Even the usually slow-to-react Dabus understood by now and without another word, he slapped the sleeping Anthony across the face (hitting his head), pinched the drowsy face and shouted, "Didn’t you say these clothes were picked up?! What about the horse?!"

Anthony, not yet fully awakened, merely muttered drowsily upon hearing this, mumbling a sentence: "Horse, tasty."

Dabus’s face turned ashen, stiffly turning to Motan: "So, Silent Brother..."

"It’s okay, it’s okay."

Motan waved his hand, shaking his head, "It must have been an accident."

A couple of sentences later, Anthony had also woken up. Seeing his beady eyes shift slightly, then he looked particularly aggrieved at Jadka and Ya Ya: "You guys, didn’t you say you’d help Anthony, keep it from Dabus?"

"We did say that, but it looks like you ended up biting one of our own."

Jadka made a helpless gesture, then turned curiously to Motan: "So you were the fool who only left behind the tent and horse, huh?"

Motan nodded mechanically.

"When Wang Dony arrived there, he just barked, and then he saw that horse."

Ya Ya, hopping excitedly beside him, added, "And saw a bunch of bonfires, so they roasted that horse. By the time Wangdeka and Fireball got there, only half the horse was left, hmm, Fireball also took a couple of bites."

The dog maiden scratched her head in embarrassment as she finished speaking.

Motan covered his face and nodded, "Eat, eat..."

Ya Ya then pointed at Jadka, "Wangdeka ate too!"

Jadka’s face turned red.

Motan, still mourning for the horse, continued to cover his face and nod, "Eat, eat."

Ji Xiaoge, leaning softly against the wall, burst into laughter, "Hahahahahaha~!"

Motan looked up to the sky and sighed deeply, "Laugh, laugh."

...

After a good while, it was said that in Dabus’s twenty-minute ideological education to Anthony ("You can’t eat someone’s horse!/What about, your own horse?/You can’t eat!/Tasty~/What about the horse’s owner?!/Eat together?"), they finally got back to the main topic.

"Simply put, it all started when Anthony used rapid-fire Fireballs to cook most of the aquatic products in Blackwater Lake, causing a rampage among nearby residents, which led to a complaint at the Adventurer’s Guild," Motan summarized sadly while sitting cross-legged on his bed, "In the end, we were sent back to Anka Market, and he, due to excessive hunger, ran out of Anka following the scent Night Song had left earlier... Are ogres’ noses really that good?"

Dabus shrugged, "My sense of smell is average; Anthony has exceptional talents."

"Ya Ya and I had just come back from the southern plains when we heard about this and immediately chased after them," said Jadka

Jadka sipped his hot tea, squatting by the wall to add, "Although we didn’t catch up with Dabus and the others immediately, we happened to encounter the two Centaur Tribes mentioned in Mission 17580 on the way; that should be your mission, Mor, but they said there was no negotiation at all, they just made peace after getting tired of fighting each other."

"They still caught up with Dabus later on."

Ji Xiaoge, sitting on the backrest of a chair (for the convenience of placing wings), stretched her body and turned to Motan with a smile, "Since I often fly up, Anthony eventually lost track of us, but Ya Ya remembered our scent, so they continued the chase, and they must have lost track at your... um, your camping site, and then they found us here."

"So..."

Jadka set down his teacup, frowning as he asked the two, "Why did you suddenly leave without saying goodbye? And you even had Ms. Chris from the Adventurer’s Guild help conceal it from us. We’ve been partners for so long; shouldn’t we be able to discuss everything?"

Dabus immediately added, "First of all, let’s exclude the possibility of elopement, as you understand."

Ji Xiaoge awkwardly pursed her lips.

Motan hesitated for a long time before helplessly spreading his hands, "Actually, I discovered something and initially planned to handle it alone, but then Night Song happened to come across..."

"Woof!"

Ya Ya interrupted him with a particularly aggrieved look, miserably folding his ears, "Tian Tian bumped into you..."

"Cough, Mor didn’t mean that,"

Jadka patted Ya Ya’s head, frowning as he asked Motan, "You’re not going to do something especially dangerous, are you?"

Due to a certain pesky talent, Motan could only remain silent.

"Not speaking counts as consent."

Jadka stroked his beard, revealing a face full of wrinkles in a smile, "I know you fairly well, and I also think your complaints about Anthony being troublesome are unlikely (Dabus gave an awkward smile), so my first thought was you were probably going to do something dangerous, and it looks like I guessed right."

"Burp..."

The previously laugh-choked Ji Xiaoge couldn’t help burping.

Motan sighed, knowing there was no way around this anymore.

Perhaps due to the battle in Misha County, his mentality had suddenly undergone a subtle shift.

"Alright... I’ll tell you..."

Chapter 472: The End