Chapter 189: Is This the Influence of the Great Qin Empire?
Heian Capital.
Little Kiara had been communicating with Mr. Blue Lancer almost every day during this period and learned that he was indeed searching for the entrance to the Heian Capital, yet she still couldn't help.
After all, her power was truly too small.
She was just a child. Before she had no intention of getting involved in such matters, she hadn't realized it, but now that she wanted to engage with these things, Little Kiara discovered just how difficult it was for her to get involved!
However, she wasn't entirely without ideas about this...
But before that, Little Kiara felt she should first try to find some help.
And within the Heian Capital, she believed there weren't many people who could assist her in this matter.
After all, the adults she usually saw all held great reverence for the Heavenly Fox Lord in their hearts. Under such circumstances, Little Kiara felt they would never help her with this.
So she turned to her teacher—Tamamo-no-Mae.
"...So, you're saying you suddenly established a connection with someone outside the Heian Capital, and this person has been using the alias 'Blue Lancer' as a code name while showing a strong interest in the Heian Capital?"
After hearing Little Kiara recount recent events, Tamamo-no-Mae pressed a hand to her temple, feeling a slight headache coming on.
Upon hearing Tamamo-no-Mae's words, Little Kiara widened her eyes in surprise.
"Mr. Blue Lancer's name isn't actually Blue Lancer?"
"What kind of parents would give their child such a name!"
Seeing Little Kiara's reaction, Tamamo-no-Mae sighed softly. After the remark, she reached out to pat Little Kiara's head. Watching her squint her eyes like a cat, Tamamo-no-Mae regained her patience and began to explain.
"This 'Blue Lancer' is undoubtedly a pseudonym... and their intentions are unclear. After hearing about the Heian Capital, they quickly showed interest in it. In my experience, such people are either adventurers or schemers... Well, of course, they could also just be fools."
"If it's one of these three, then no matter which one comes to the Heian Capital, the outcome won't be good."
Tamamo-no-Mae was aware of many things within the Heian Capital.
However, she wouldn't discuss such matters with a child like Little Kiara.
It was enough for these children to believe the Heian Capital was peaceful and bright—after all, living in a fairy tale was a privilege reserved for children.
"So, Teacher Tamamo-no-Mae, are you saying Mr. Blue Lancer is a bad person?"
Little Kiara asked this, and Tamamo-no-Mae shook her head slightly.
"From the conversations you've described to me, I can only say they likely aren't a bad person... Otherwise, they would have had better ways to deceive information from you. But although I can sense their urgency, they still used relatively normal methods to gather information from you and didn't ask you to do anything dangerous despite their impatience—even the fact that you noticed their intention to enter the Heian Capital was probably due to their haste and not expecting a child like you to see through their thoughts."
Thinking of this, Tamamo-no-Mae sighed.
"Kiara, how about this—I'll talk to him... I'll speak, and you relay it. If he truly insists on entering the Heian Capital, I might actually go to him.
Of course...
—I also need this Mr. Blue Lancer to help me a little outside the Heian Capital."
Noah's life gradually settled into a stable rhythm.
Lately, he had been chatting with Little Kiara while developing the Third Magic. He even temporarily set aside the news Kay brought back earlier about the underground Magical Beast hordes in Rome.
As for the meteor belt beyond the stars, he temporarily sent Kuro on the Starship to search within the solar system.
He planned to wait until the meteor belt was found and the first phase of his Third Magic was nearly complete. Then, he would gather these resources together and use them in coordination, avoiding the waste of already scarce resources by using them one at a time.
With these matters temporarily set aside, Noah's attention shifted elsewhere—namely, gathering intelligence about the Heian Capital through Little Kiara.
The more he learned about it, the more bizarre it seemed.
According to Little Kiara, the Heian Capital established by the so-called Heavenly Fox Lord not only resembled an ideal paradise but even had residents completely devoid of malicious thoughts.
If someone else had said this, Noah might have thought they simply didn't understand the harsh realities of society.
But Kiara Sessyoin... her eyes could see through a person's true nature.
If she said there were none, then there likely were none.
But... Noah could believe if there were one or two, or even a dozen, purely good people in a place. However, to claim that everyone on the streets was like that... was that really possible?
Moreover, Little Kiara said that the shrine maidens in the Heian Capital could cure any disease. Once, an adult who appeared to have their heart ripped out and half their head gone—seemingly dead—was also revived.
Did such medical skills truly exist and could they be so widespread?
Under such circumstances, Little Kiara mentioned that many adults said, thanks to the Heavenly Fox Lord's help, residents of the Heian Capital could live to die of natural old age, with accidents rarely occurring. Even if accidents happened, they wouldn't lead to death.
This wasn't entirely impossible, but combined with the previous points, Noah found it odd.
In short, based on Little Kiara's description, Noah felt the Heian Capital was a very strange place.
Coupled with the supernova he saw in the simulation... although after calming down, he realized he couldn't definitively conclude that the Nine-Tailed Fox was the cause of the problem based solely on Little Kiara's words in the simulation, he was certain the supernova had occurred, and this was his only lead so far...
In any case, there were still many questions about the Heian Capital. If possible, Noah truly wished to find its entrance and go in to carefully investigate what was really going on!
But unfortunately, it couldn't be found.
And Little Kiara had no relevant clues either. Noah even tried calculating the location of the Heian Capital by deducing the terrain, but even that failed...
Just as Noah was considering whether he should conduct a field investigation himself or lead a team for a thorough on-site search to see if it was feasible, communication from Little Kiara reached him again.
He initially thought Little Kiara wanted to hear another fairy tale, so he was already prepared to tell her one.
But this time, the message transmitted was a line of text:
"If I have a way to get you into the Heian Capital, would you be willing to help me with a small favor?"