Whose world-class drama are they criticizing?

From a conventional aesthetic point of view, Melanie is not considered beautiful.

Because she was disfigured.

But from a purely aesthetic point of view, Melanie looks just right.

The long, narrow, twisted scar was etched on his eyelid, and his face was very thin, which might actually be a plus for someone with a fetish for disability.

Ryan is certainly not a paraphiliac, but disabled people are definitely the answer.

The second answer is skin color.

Melanie wasn't as fair-skinned as the Edenites; her skin was a pale tan, an exotic hue that was also considered a curse in Edenian culture. When she removed her hood, her disheveled white hair cascaded down, its whiteness appearing even more striking against her darker complexion.

Black skin and white hair—this is a symbol of blasphemy.

You can tell from her face shape that she has a really good foundation, but Melanie has been eroded by a curse for a long time, and this face is a symbol of misfortune.

What is most repulsive is still that scar.

It was a cursed scar, deeply etched on the eyelid, making the eyes equally repulsive to the very soul.

Based on that face alone, no one within three generations could take the civil service exam.

He looked at Melanie's face and immediately overturned his previous guess: Melanie was not a monk sent by the Fire Order, but more likely a monk who had been expelled from the order.

Could it be that this guy is trying to steal my information, atone for his sins, and return to the cult?

In any case, the face looked right, and Ryan was quite satisfied.

The only regret is that Melanie is too thin, thinner than the refugees, thinner than Ryan imagined, and even more frail than Miss Jasmine.

Obesity is the true form of beauty.

As a legendary Pokémon trainer, Ryan set a new goal: to fatten Melanie into a super fat pig.

Melanie felt a strange unease when she saw the look in Ryan's eyes. Sure enough, this guy was no different from other humans; he was definitely plotting something terrible.

"May I put on the hood now?" Melanie asked. "Are you satisfied?"

“I am not satisfied, Miss Meimei.”

Ryan shook his head. "You can't wear a hood all day. This is for your meals."

“My name isn’t Meimei.” Melanie’s gaze turned cold, and she said expressionlessly, “The interests of nobles are certainly exotic.”

While saying this, he ate another small piece of bread.

Ryan was a kind and understanding boy. He could tell at a glance that Melanie had some kind of insecurity about her face, which led to her hedgehog-like personality. This wouldn't do.

Hedgehogs can't deter players; only porcupines can.

The most detestable thing about Dei games is definitely not because the game characters are ugly, but because they usurp the right to aesthetics.

If a character is ugly, and the character is also described as ugly in the lore, then the game is simply not a game at all. Players will at most criticize the game's art team.

The real "dei" is a character who is ugly, but thinks she is beautiful, and is described as an "unparalleled beauty" in the character's description.

Calling ugliness beautiful is what makes people so disgusted.

Melanie lacked self-confidence.

The vagrants, led by Melanie, also lacked this illusion of confidence.

Facing this circumstances,

We should shower these ugly girls with praise and encouragement!

“Ms. Mei, I’m serious. You don’t need to wear a hood at all.”

Ryan pondered for a moment, thinking about what Dei would say, “Compared to the doll-like faces of elves, your features are actually more concrete and realistic; this is the kind of face a human should have.”

In the shadows, Miss Jasmine stomped on Ryan's foot.

“Sometimes, beauty in imperfection is also a kind of beauty,” Ryan continued to praise.

Miss Jasmine pinched Ryan's arm hard.

"It's not just Ms. Mei."

His gaze shifted from Melanie to the refugees in the restaurant. The travelers, ravaged by their long journey and the curse, were all pale and emaciated; ordinary nobles would have avoided them. But Ryan smiled.

"Distinguished guests, you have overcome so many difficulties to get here. In my eyes, you are the most beautiful people here."

Ryan's sincere words stunned everyone.

No nobleman had ever said such a thing to them before.

Those outside the realm of darkness wished that all the sinners would die, so that the curse would not spread.

This young lord possesses an inexplicable divine quality.

It was as if the Holy Son had descended, yet it was also as if he might return to heaven at any moment.

One of the geniuses said so.

What moved the refugees the most was the faint glimmer of tears in Ryan's eyes, like the tears of a holy son.

These tears weren't acted... They could feel it; they were all genuine emotions.

"They're all beautiful? Huh?" Jasmine elbowed Ryan hard in the stomach. "I'm the only ugly one? You're the only one who says I'm ugly?"

Ryan's moving speech brought tears to many eyes.

Only Melanie remained unconvinced, and her favorability rating remained unchanged.

Throughout the entire process, her expression remained calm and composed, without the slightest ripple of emotion.

She's just a ruthless, fully automatic wheat bread crusher.

The witch can distinguish between lies and truth. Ryan's eloquent praise just now, delivered with tears in his eyes, was quite convincing, but it was all fake. That's the nature of human noble politicians; they will never tell the truth.

Can one achieve some strange sense of self-satisfaction by using sweet words to deceive a group of monsters into living?

Melanie despised Ryan's hypocrisy.

However, being able to lie to the poor is considered a sign of integrity even among nobles.

It is common sense that those with cursed bloodlines are considered ominous and ugly.

Melanie was already used to it.

To put it bluntly, human opinions are meaningless to a noble witch.

Although she didn't know what Ryan's purpose was, Melanie wouldn't let him have his way, and continued eating her bread roll with her head down.

Eating more is a bonus.

Ryan still couldn't see Melanie's panel, which made him somewhat discouraged. It seemed that his rhetoric was still ineffective.

We'll have to take a longer-term view.

Ryan had no choice but to end with the most classic consolation, "Besides, Ms. May, you have the most beautiful soul." This line is so classic that even when he was a child, he hugged Ryan. The person who said it wouldn't believe it, and the person who heard it wouldn't listen.

Ryan is definitely not going to live this time.

What does Melanie's soul look like again?

Since the last battle, Ryan has been able to see people's souls, which is considered an active skill that consumes mana.

In ordinary people, the soul is basically similar to the physical body; this is called 'unity of soul and body'.

"Besides, you also have..."

As he said this, Ryan looked at Melanie's soul, paused, and said, "...the most beautiful soul."

"Cough, cough!"

The fully automatic wheat bread grinder choked.

"cough....."

Miss Witch coughed several times in a row, her long silver hair trembling. She finally managed to raise her head and look at Ryan. Her usually calm expression finally changed, and a hint of panic could be seen.

You didn't lie?

Eh...

She looked at Ryan, blinked, tilted her head, and asked, "Huh?"

Ms. Mei suspects that the witch's intuition is malfunctioning, and that what she just said wasn't a lie.

Ok?

At that moment, the character information flickered slightly.

Ryan took a deep breath.

Silently, he cast two divine guidance spells on himself, hoping that the gods would protect him.

He now knows he's in two life-or-death situations.

First, he'll be strangled to death by an angry Miss Jasmine when he gets home.

Secondly, he had just provoked a witch.

As I said before, Ryan is truly doomed this time.

On his deathbed, he only wanted to know one truth—

"Why can a witch's prestige be so low?"

Chapter 88 Is she/he really a sweetheart or just pretending?

Could it be...

Ryan's expression was solemn...

Did she trick me by pretending to be sweet-talking?

Ryan couldn't tell if it was real or fake candy.

If it's fake candy, then the fact that a dignified witch would have to resort to feigning righteousness to deal with a mere mortal like Ryan is actually quite sweet.

If it's real candy, then Miss Mei's is indeed quite sweet.

Whether it's real sugar or fake sugar, Miss Mei is still sugar.

Ryan stared at Melanie, whose cheeks were bulging. She had stuffed a lot of bread in there earlier, and her cough had splattered out a lot of crumbs. Ryan simply couldn't connect the creature in front of him with the 'witch' who was a humanoid calamity.

The information that Ryan had just glimpsed could not possibly be false.

【? ? Witch]

This message appeared only briefly before quickly disappearing from view.

Without knowing the meaning of these question marks, it is impossible to know Melanie's authority or the cursed faction she belongs to.

Let's call her the Two-Question Witch for now.

"You...just now..."

Melanie had just opened her mouth when she realized she had lost her witch's dignity. She quickly wiped the crumbs from the corner of her mouth, coughed lightly, and swiftly resumed her usual indifference. Her change of expression was faster than turning the pages of a book.

It was as if the momentary panic just now was merely an illusion.

She glanced at Ryan, sat up straight, her expression unchanged, and calmly asked, "What did you just say about me... my soul?"

soul.

Ryan can see Miss May's soul.

However, according to common sense, the soul and physical appearance of ordinary people are similar.

Melanie, however, was the complete opposite of her body in terms of soul... Even in terms of the most basic skin color, her soul was not black with white hair, but white with black hair, and her pupils were light white, and she did not have that twisted scar.

Ryan had to admit that Miss May's soul was the most clear and beautiful he had ever seen; mortal souls were more or less tainted by impurities.

As for Ryan's own soul form, he himself could not see it.

Is it a witch with dark skin and white hair, or a witch with white skin and black hair?

The soul is the origin of humanity.

Ryan's mind raced. Perhaps Melanie was supposed to grow into a soul, but due to the influence of 'some kind of curse,' she ended up looking like this. Her body was cursed, but her soul was not.

But recalling the spirit and body of the Princess of the Withered Disease, it was covered with withered disease spores.