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Chapter 166 "Caesar, our fire will burn the whole world" (Seeking monthly votes)
“Now,” Caesar said, “tell me…who sent you?”

His expression turned cold, and he silently took a step forward. The tip of the blade touched the assassin's throat, drawing blood. The assassin trembled all over, and crimson liquid flowed down the blade.

"It's Her Majesty the Empress!" the assassin roared. "It's the Empress!"

Caesar's pupils suddenly contracted, his hand gripping the knife paused slightly, and he muttered blankly:

"Mother... Empress?"

Yaguba Lu tilted its head, slightly taken aback, and its tail stopped wagging. It wondered what was going on. So it wasn't just brotherly love and respect, but also maternal love and filial piety.
“You lied to me…” Caesar frowned.

"I did not lie to you!"

“I hate seeing other people bleed, I really… really hate it,” Caesar growled hoarsely, his tone emphasizing each word, “So please don’t force me!”

As he said this, Caesar's knife did not stop, and the line of blood on the assassin's throat became clearer and clearer.

The assassin screamed in a trembling voice, filled with terror: "I really didn't lie to you—! It was the Queen, the Queen sent us!"

Caesar froze on the spot, slowly releasing the dagger in his hand. After a moment of stunned silence, he muttered, "No, you lied to me," and staggered backward like a puppet with its strings cut.

He only stopped slowly when his back was pressed against the bookshelf and he had nowhere to retreat.

A photo album in the corner flipped and fell down, revealing a page showing three princes hunting at sea with the king and queen.

The sun was shining brightly that day, and the sea breeze was strong.

On the open deck, Caesar stood between Lorenzo and Cosimo, his eyes closed, white eyelids covering his blue eyes.

He tried to open his eyes and face the camera, but he couldn't. Lorenzo and Cosimo put their hands on his shoulders, and his brothers looked down at him with smiles on their faces.

Karelina stood behind them with a kind smile on her face.

Caesar leaned against the bookshelf and slowly slid down to the floor. He knelt on the floor, head bowed, staring blankly at the floor.

“I see… The Queen is also on the side of your two brothers, so she doesn’t want to see you inherit the throne.” Agubaru suddenly realized, “No wonder your two brothers are so reckless. After all, the King is unconscious, and the most powerful person in the entire Garden is your mother.”

It wondered: So why did the Queen arrange for Caesar to leave this place?
Could it be... that she intends to take advantage of the moment Caesar leaves the Whale Garden and silently eliminate him in the outside world?

Caesar remained silent.

“Now that the answer has been asked,” Agubaru asked, “should we kill him?”

“Agubaru…eat him,” Caesar said after a moment of silence.

"Sharks don't eat people."

Hearing the conversation between the man and the shark, the assassin was taken aback at first, then roared:

"You said you would let me go!"

“When did I say that?” Caesar slowly raised his head. “I’m just letting you die a little later. Don’t push your luck.”

He paused, then looked at Agubaru with an icy expression:

"Eat him."

Agubaru sighed, then opened his mouth wide like a cartoon character, as if to swallow the assassin whole. The shark's shadow suddenly expanded, obscuring all moonlight and almost completely engulfing the assassin.

The assassin screamed in terror, clutching his head as he trembled.

The next second, however, Ababaru suddenly withdrew his mouth and said, "Good brother, shake all the cards in your Strange Tales Compendium. Maybe I'll eat my fill of fragments and then not eat you."

"Really?" the assassin asked excitedly, foaming at the mouth, completely terrified.

“Really… Shark never lies.” Yagubaru nodded.

The assassin summoned the Book of Strange Tales and scattered all the fragments of his knowledge on the ground.

In an instant, Agubaru leaned forward, opened his mouth, caught the five fragments, and swallowed them down his throat with a "glug glug" sound.

[You have consumed 5 "Common-grade" Oddity Fragments, triggering the effect of the exclusive cultivation system "Oddity Gluttony," increasing your actual size by 2.5 meters.]

[The size change of Unit 3 – the Eternal Abyss Shark "Agubaru": 122 meters → 124.5 meters.]

"Anymore?"

Yagubaru licked his fangs, his eyes gleaming.

"And... of course, I'll send you, you monster, to hell!" the assassin shouted, suddenly revealing a maniacal laugh.

He suddenly pulled out a silver-patterned card from the last page of the catalog, crushed it, and in an instant, flames rippled, and a fireball, accompanied by a howling wind, shot toward Agubaru.

It opened its mouth and, with a roar, swallowed the fireball into its throat.

"Fireball, delicious." It burped. "But I want the fragments."

"monster……"

The assassin was utterly desperate, and his eyes completely lost their color.

He surrendered without resistance, slowly picked up the dagger Caesar had just dropped, hesitated for a moment, then reversed the blade and plunged it into his own throat, ending his life.

“How lame…” Agubaru scoffed. “Do you want me to eat him, Caesar?”

As he spoke, the shark turned to look at the white-haired boy sitting blankly in front of the bookshelf.

Caesar didn't answer. Yagubaru sniffed: "Then I'll clean up these corpses first... They smell awful. I'll also mop the floor for you. Actually, Shark, I'm a clean freak."

It manipulated the dark water flow, lifting the corpses in the dormitory and throwing them from the edge of the rooftop into the sea.

Then black water began to wash the bedroom, first wiping away the bloodstains on the walls and floor, and then drying the curtains.

The air in the dormitory suddenly became fresh again. Yagubalu wagged its tail contentedly, thinking that it would be in high demand if it applied for a housekeeper job.

Seeing that Caesar remained silent and simply held the crystal ball quietly, Agubaru shrunk his size to the size of a palm.

It transformed back into the harmless Nobel shark. Swept away by dark currents, its round body fell into the crystal ball, then it controlled the water flow to close the lid.

The little shark took two sips of seawater and silently gazed at the figure inside the bedroom.

The faint sound of sobbing came from the darkness. Caesar knelt on the ground, his nose wrinkled and his eyes red.

He hugged the crystal ball tightly, as if it were his last source of warmth. It was a gift from his father, given to him by the last person in the miniature world who cared about him.

The little shark raised its head, its bright eyes looking at him with pity.

It thought to itself that he was still just a little kid. No matter how strong he tried to be, no matter how cold-faced he tried to appear, a little kid was still a little kid.

Even if you keep repeating "I've turned evil" a thousand times, imitating those powerful characters in cartoons, and trying to make yourself look as cool and arrogant as possible, you might still be brought back to reality by cruel truth the very next day.

Even adults eventually reach their breaking point... let alone a twelve-year-old boy.

A deathly silence enveloped the bedroom, and the lonely moonlight streamed in through the window, illuminating the white-haired boy's empty blue eyes.

After a moment, he broke the silence.

"Why...why do my brother, and even my mother, want to kill me?"

“Uh, maybe you’re not their biological son?” Agubaru thought for a moment. “That’s the only reason I can think of. It’s not surprising for a king to have an affair.”

Caesar was slightly taken aback.

He suddenly remembered that when he was a child, he could always vaguely feel his mother's disgusted look, but whenever he turned around, Kalina's face would be covered with a kind smile.

“It’s also possible that the person who poisoned the king wasn’t your brother, but your mother,” Yagubaru said. “She was the king’s closest confidante, which would explain why she didn’t send anyone to protect you.”

It paused for a moment: "We also need to be careful with that new steward; he may not have been sent by the king."

Caesar suddenly chuckled softly, his laughter carrying a faint sob, like a little dog whose spine had been ripped out.

He asked, “Aguru, what did I do wrong... should I not have been born in the first place?”

"You didn't do anything wrong...you were just unlucky."

Yagubalu flicked his tail and continued, "By the way, the reason they didn't kill the king is because they thought that once you died, the throne would be theirs... So, the old king's life can be spared."

He lowered his voice: "But if they find they can't kill you in secret, they'll turn their attention to the king."

"Will my father be alright if I die?" Caesar asked in a deep voice.

"No, your father loves you so much. Sooner or later, when he wakes up, he will know what those around him have done... He will still die then, as long as the Black Death is not completely cured... Even if he doesn't die, he will only become a puppet of your mother and brother."

"I see. Even my father... was implicated because of me."

“We have no way out, Caesar,” Agubaru said. “The king is doomed to die, and you cannot save him…and those bad guys will definitely turn against you. August 1st will be their deadline.”

It thought for a moment: "Your mother is pretending to take you away from the Garden of Shadows, but in reality she wants to kill you in a place where no one can see you... The king is unconscious, so the Royal Court Team will naturally only be at the command of the queen. Even the Royal Court Team is our enemy."

Caesar lowered his eyes and said wearily and hoarsely, "Aguru, tell me... why... why does the whole world have to treat me like this?"

Agubaru was silent for a moment, then his voice grew cold: "Caesar, come with me... and devour this twisted country."

He lowered his voice: "You are not alone... If the whole world is your enemy, then we'll burn the whole world down."

“But… how can we fight back against them when there are only two of us?” Caesar asked. “You said that the Royal Court team is also on the Queen Mother’s side.”

“No, there are more than just the two of us. I have some friends whose name is the ‘White Raven Brigade’.”

At this point, the little shark grinned menacingly, revealing its small, sharp teeth. "And my friends are best at destruction and plunder. If it were them, they would be more than happy to help you turn this world upside down."

When will they arrive?

"On August 1st, the day the legendary whale lands, the White Raven Brigade will arrive as scheduled. The Queen thought you had fallen into her trap, but in fact, this has given us an opportunity."

After a long silence, Caesar spoke:

“I believe you, Aguru. Since my father’s death is inevitable and everyone around me has abandoned me, I have no reason to stay here anymore.”

"That's great, I thought you would reject me."

Caesar lowered his eyes and looked at the little shark in the crystal ball: "You're the only one I can trust. Would you lie to me?"

“I promise you,” Agubaru said, enunciating each word clearly, “that as long as you do not betray me, I will never abandon you.”

Under the moonlight, Caesar slowly raised his head. Tears streamed down his face, his eyes filled with resentment, his expression ferocious. "Fine, then I promise you... Let's burn this world to the ground together."

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