Chapter 288: On the Carriage, Setsuna Grasps the Future!
Setsuna looked at Lin Ye with a confused expression after hearing his explanation. Lin Ye had already expected Setsuna to react this way. Even Lin Ye himself had taken some time to understand when he first saw Setsuna’s talent ability.
Seeing Setsuna’s bewildered look, Lin Ye reached out and patted her hair. He then spoke again. “Your talent ability might not be as powerful as Xing’s and the others’ at the beginning. But as long as you keep cultivating, you will definitely become as strong as them, and you might even surpass others.”
Setsuna, who was still confused, suddenly sat up excitedly. “Stronger than Xing? Stronger than Ganyu?” Setsuna looked at Lin Ye again in disbelief. Lin Ye smiled and nodded at Setsuna. Upon seeing Lin Ye nod, Setsuna’s face broke into an exaggerated smile. However, she seemed to have thought of something, and the smile on her face lessened considerably. But with an unconcealable smile, she turned to Lin Ye and asked again, “Ye, how should I cultivate?”
Lin Ye’s face showed a hint of a smile upon hearing Setsuna’s question. This was the powerful aspect of Setsuna’s talent ability. Setsuna’s cultivation wasn’t about training, meditation, or similar methods. Instead, she chose her own way of cultivating. As long as Setsuna felt in her heart that she was cultivating and working hard for the future, she would become stronger. However, Lin Ye couldn’t quite explain this to Setsuna.
After thinking for a moment, Lin Ye reorganized his thoughts and spoke to Setsuna. “Your talent ability doesn’t require you to do specific things to be considered cultivation. It’s you who decides when you are cultivating.” After speaking, Lin Ye observed Setsuna’s reaction. He saw Setsuna frowning and still looking at him with a bewildered expression. Seeing that Setsuna still didn’t understand, Lin Ye smacked his lips twice and, stroking his chin, spoke again. “In other words, if you think what you’re doing will make you stronger, then you are cultivating.”
This time, when Setsuna heard Lin Ye’s words, her gaze began to drift. She roughly understood what Lin Ye meant. However, she also recalled what Sakura had told her. Since both Sakura and Susu activated their talent abilities through Ye, and Susu’s talent ability was even strengthened while she was with Lin Ye, Setsuna wondered if she would be cultivating just by being like that.
Lin Ye watched as Setsuna spaced out, lost in thought. It seemed she had understood what he meant. He let out a soft sigh and then opened the system shop, exchanging it for a bottle of [Talent Awakening Potion]. He held the can-shaped Talent Awakening Potion in his hand. “Chiii~!” He reached out and pulled the tab for Setsuna, and the can let out a hissing sound.
The sound snapped Setsuna back to reality. When Setsuna came to her senses, she looked towards the sound. Seeing the can in Lin Ye’s hand, Setsuna remembered that Sakura had told her that this shape of bottle contained a potion that could activate talent abilities. Sakura had also said that the potion was delicious, the best thing she had ever tasted. Seeing the Talent Awakening Potion in Lin Ye’s hand, Setsuna’s mouth began to water. Lin Ye couldn’t help but smile as he watched Setsuna stare intently at the Talent Awakening Potion in his hand.
Lin Ye then said to Setsuna, “Alright, drink this potion. Drink it all, don’t leave a single drop.” Setsuna swallowed her saliva and nodded quickly at Lin Ye. Seeing Lin Ye hand her the potion, Setsuna quickly reached out and took it. Her heart was pounding so fast, it felt like it was about to leap out of her throat as she looked at the potion in her hand.
“Hoo~!” Setsuna took a deep breath and tilted her head back, drinking the potion from the can in large gulps. “Gulp gulp gulp~!” The first sip made Setsuna furrow her brows. As the potion slid down her throat, Setsuna silently thought, “This potion doesn’t taste good at all, and it even burns my throat. Why did Sakura say it was the best thing she ever drank?” However, after a moment’s thought, Setsuna continued to drink it with gusto.
As she drank, Setsuna began to feel that the potion was becoming more palatable. Her drinking speed also increased. Later, Setsuna felt that the potion tasted better and better the more she drank. But just as she was getting used to it, the entire can of potion was finished. Setsuna held the can, her mouth agape, and tilted it again. Finding there was truly no more liquid, Setsuna turned to Lin Ye and asked, “Ye, this potion is so delicious, I want more, hehehe.”
Lin Ye looked at Setsuna, who was no longer just tipsy but visibly drunk. He took the empty can from Setsuna’s hand and said to her, “You think this is for you to enjoy? This is a potion. It’s enough that it activated your talent ability.”
“Oh right, talent ability, hmm!” “Ye, my talent ability really awakened, I think! Hmm? Wait!” Setsuna, tipsy, clung to Lin Ye and, after sensing something, mumbled to him hazily. But suddenly, Setsuna seemed to sober up a little, a sharp glint in her eyes. “What’s wrong? What’s not right?” Lin Ye asked quickly upon hearing Setsuna’s words.
“Hiccup~~!” After a brief moment of clarity lasting a few seconds, Setsuna let out a belch and became incoherent again. “Hehehe, I didn’t just awaken, my talent ability was directly activated, it’s activated now.” Lin Ye listened to Setsuna’s muddled words and was startled. He quickly asked, “What did you say? Your talent ability has been activated?” “You are activating your talent ability right now? Can you feel your cultivation state?” Lin Ye asked Setsuna with a touch of surprise.
Upon hearing Lin Ye’s words, Setsuna blinked and didn’t answer him directly. Instead, she continued on her own, “Right, cultivation, Ye, let’s cultivate.” Lin Ye was completely bewildered by Setsuna and decided he could only ask her again when she was sober. He glanced at the carriage, which would take some time to reach the eucalyptus forest on the other side of the river. He had Lin Ye lie down on his lap to rest for a while.
However, Lin Ye didn’t expect that the moment Setsuna lay down, his own little Lin Ye would be attacked. As Lin Ye looked down, “Oh ho~!” Setsuna, having learned from somewhere, had already exposed his little Lin Ye to the air. Setsuna’s mind was solely focused on becoming stronger, and what was before her was her hope for becoming stronger! “This can increase Setsuna’s potential and make Setsuna stronger.” “Setsuna wants to change herself!” “To become strong enough to protect everyone!” “Strong enough to defeat that powerful tribe!” “So! Setsuna! Will! Grasp the Future!” Setsuna murmured a few words while lying on Lin Ye’s lap. Then, Setsuna fiercely grasped her future.
“Holy crap!” Lin Ye, having already experienced such things, saw Setsuna grasp her future. Lin Ye naturally had to help Setsuna ‘send’ her future into her present. The unicorn, while running, covered its ears and thought to itself, “What is this? Instead of sitting properly in the carriage, they’re grasping the future.” “Future is future, but why are they howling!” “What kind of person has tamed me? His thing is almost as big as mine. How big is my body, how big is his? This is unreasonable?!”
The carriage had been stopped outside the eucalyptus forest for a long time. Lin Ye finally got off the carriage. Looking at Setsuna sleeping soundly on the carriage, Lin Ye said to the unicorn, “I’m going to collect eucalyptus bark. You watch her here.” With that, Lin Ye happily walked into the eucalyptus forest.
Following the incident in the river, Lin Ye had completed another ‘on the carriage’ experience. Although it was a carriage, it seemed even more… and not inside the carriage compartment! Lin Ye thought about the time he was ‘on’ the carriage just now. Setsuna suddenly emitted a faint white light, and then Lin Ye clearly felt that Setsuna’s strength had increased a bit. After the white light of her talent ability lit up, Setsuna began to howl non-stop. Seeing Setsuna like this, Lin Ye became even more energetic.
