"What do you mean?"
Gu Chen smiled faintly. He raised a hand and patted Scaramouche's shoulder lightly.
"Exactly what it sounds like. Literally."
Scaramouche's pupils were constricted. He growled in disbelief, "Impossible!"
"And another thing—don't use your identity to pressure me. I will never admit that I have a so-called 'mother' who ignored her own creation all along and disguised it under the excuse of 'not wanting to interfere.'"
His shout rang with hatred.
He hated Raiden Ei.
He hated her every waking moment.
So many tragedies could've been stopped had she just lifted a finger—
Yet she looked away. Always.
"Such a small child… how did he grow up to be like this?"
Buer murmured, puzzled.
Gu Chen sighed.
"At the start, Raiden Ei had already drilled herself into a dead end. That idiot got too stubborn and wanted to create a puppet to rule in her stead while she hid in her own meditation realm to avoid erosion."
"Later, she actually managed to create a prototype Raiden Shogun. But she found that the puppet unexpectedly developed emotions. As the creator, Ei couldn't bring herself to destroy him, so she sealed him in a secret domain to sleep."
"Unfortunately, an accident happened. He woke up and wandered the world… and everything that followed? All of it was the handiwork of Doctor Dottore. A very good… director, who arranged every event, step by step, just to guide the puppet straight into the Fatui—until he became their knife."
When he finished explaining, Gu Chen glanced at Dottore.
Dottore smiled with satisfaction—very clearly pleased with his own perfectly crafted script.
"Dottore…"
"Is that true? Dottore!!"
The more Scaramouche heard, the more absurd it all felt.
Everything he had lived through—
All of it… directed by Dottore?!
No wonder Gu Chen said he had been like a dog pulled along on a leash.
If this were true, then the description was painfully accurate!
Scaramouche's eyes reddened. He stared at Dottore as though he would tear him into pieces the moment Dottore nodded.
Dottore remained calm, speaking lightly:
"Seems your dear uncle was right—your intelligence really is… lacking. If you were even remotely normal, you might have noticed the clues long ago. Heh… ahahaha!"
He suddenly burst out laughing.
The louder he laughed, the deeper the pain stabbed into Scaramouche's chest.
Trembling with rage, Scaramouche finally snapped.
"Dottore!!!"
He ripped apart the shackles—which to him were pathetically fragile—and lunged.
His hand clamped around Dottore's throat, as if determined to snap it clean.
Dottore was pressed down, breath strangled, yet his expression stayed calm—only the curl of his lips becoming more mocking.
"I'll kill you!!"
Elemental power flared. Scaramouche slammed him to the ground and thrust forward, intending to pierce Dottore's heart.
A violent burst of force shook the entire prison.
Dottore wasn't injured too badly, only a bit disheveled—
Which only made Scaramouche even more hysterical, as though he would suffocate if he didn't kill Dottore immediately.
Gu Chen waved a hand, clearing away the dust in the air.
Watching the chaos, he felt rather amused.
Buer glanced at him and asked, "Aren't you going to stop them?"
"It's fine. He can't kill Dottore anyway."
Hearing this, Buer relaxed.
Letting Dottore die so easily would be far too merciful.
He deserved to experience the pain he inflicted on others—tenfold, a hundredfold—before dying.
But after considering it, Gu Chen realized the situation wasn't completely safe.
Scaramouche might not kill Dottore—
But Dottore could kill Scaramouche.
A silent force spread across the floor. Both Scaramouche and Dottore felt their elemental energy vanish.
But Scaramouche was too blinded by rage to care. He simply raised his fist again and hammered down.
[Transcendent Group Chat]
[Gu Chen]:(Video clips: Scaramouche beating Dottore 10s)(Scaramouche going berserk 7s)(Dottore mocking Scaramouche 14s)
[Kaeya]: Yo, what's this? A dogfight? (smirk)
[Diluc]: Don't force the metaphor.
[Venti]: Yeah, calling them dogs is an insult to Taroumaru! (Hu Tao laugh)
[Yae Miko]: Brother-in-law, thoughts? (fox grin)
[Gu Chen]: My thoughts? …Two giant piles of crap.
[Osial]: Supporting that opinion wholeheartedly! (emoji)
[Azhdaha]: If even the Cult Master says so, then clearly they are… excrement. (Zhongli shrug)
[Childe]: Cult Master! Can you live-stream it? I wanna watch them tear each other apart!!
[Gu Chen]: Wire me 1,000,000 Mora and I'll open the stream. (Zhongli smirk)
[Ningguang sent a red envelope.]
[Diluc sent a red envelope.]
[Dori sent a red envelope.]
[Childe sent a red envelope.]
[Collei]: I don't have much Mora, but I really want to see Dottore get beaten! (sparkling eyes)
[Collei sent a red envelope.]
[Gu Chen]: Alright, alright—what a rich group. Stream starting now! (Hu Tao laugh)
Gu Chen suddenly realized Dottore was actually pretty useful.
Just showing him get beaten had earned him several million Mora.
Bless this man.
Hopefully he gets beaten much worse.
Gu Chen smiled subtly as he opened the livestream.
This was the first time the Transcendent Group Chat used the livestream function. Normally, no one had a reason to—but today was a special day.
Buer watched the floating screen too.
On screen, Dottore's scholarly elegance had completely vanished. He clearly wasn't someone who enjoyed being punched. After enduring two hits with an amused expression, he realized Scaramouche wasn't stopping—only getting more violent—so he fought back.
And so the two began brawling again.
The chat exploded with commentary.
After a while, Gu Chen muttered, "Hmm… not stimulating enough."
The group immediately erupted in anticipation.
He called a pause, showed them the bullet comments, and the fight resumed even more ferociously.
Punches, kicks, slamming each other against walls—
Two powerful beings, reduced to an elementary-school playground fight.
The group then discussed how the two should be dealt with.
The suggestions ranged from harsh… to cruel… to downright evil.
And then came Baizhu's suggestion.
By the time he finished explaining his idea of medical research, scalpels, limb reconstruction, repeated anatomical experiments…
Gu Chen inhaled sharply and sighed in awe:
"Doctor Baizhu, you truly have the heart of a Bodhisattva."
Inside the cell, both Dottore and Scaramouche visibly froze.
Bodhisattva?
THIS??
If he claimed to be a demon from hell, they'd believe it immediately!
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