Yet, This Evil God Only Knows How to Draw Cards - Chapter 3

Chapter 3

As a fraud, every time someone mentioned the matter of the Sun, Su Ye felt his heart tremble. If this continued long-term, he suspected he would one day develop PTSD regarding the word “Sun.”

“I thought I heard my name.” Tonatiuh’s smiling voice drifted closer from the distance. “What were you saying about me?”

Soka’s eyes immediately lit up: “Lord Tonatiuh! You’re back!”

Tonatiuh first smiled and acknowledged him, then his gaze landed on Su Ye. His originally faint smile gradually became brilliant; for a moment, it truly made one hallucinate the sun in the sky—radiant and blazing, an image one could not easily look at directly.

“Come here, my child.” He said. “Let me have a good look at you.”

Su Ye walked over hesitantly. Soka, unable to stand his slow pace, directly went behind him and gave Su Ye a forceful push.

Su Ye never expected him to pull such a move and immediately stumbled forward. He thought he was destined to take a fall, but he was caught in a full embrace by Tonatiuh, avoiding the tragic fate of landing face-first.

But Su Ye would have preferred to actually hit the ground.

The elegant fragrance of sun-flowers he had smelled before filled his lungs, and his nose bumped against elastic chest muscles. Su Ye was in a frantic hurry to back out, but he didn’t succeed. Instead, he was held firmly by the other person.

“Soka…” Tonatiuh’s voice came from above his head, filled with much helplessness. “Such pranks are not good.”

But Soka had already run away as fast as if his feet were greased: “My apologies, Lord Tonatiuh, Little Highness! I shall take my leave now!”

In an instant, only Su Ye and Tonatiuh were left.

Before Su Ye could say anything, a pair of hands cupped his face, and he crashed directly into a pair of golden eyes.

“Let me see, are you hurt anywhere?” Tonatiuh examined Su Ye meticulously before finally relaxing slightly. “Fortunately, it seems Shuloel’s previous actions didn’t cause you much harm.”

Su Ye leaned back with all his might, struggling to break free from Tonatiuh’s embrace. He was like a cat master who desperately wanted to escape after being forcibly held.

What is wrong with you guys! Do you deities from another world have no sense of personal space at all! Too close, too close!

Seeing Su Ye’s frantic struggling, Tonatiuh smiled helplessly and shook his head, but he finally let go of him.

“What’s wrong? Was my grip too strong and I hurt you?” he asked gently.

Su Ye stammered, unable to speak. He could only use a quick wit to shift the topic to something else: “No… By the way, Shuloel—the red-head from before? Why do I feel like his malice toward me is incredibly thick?”

Su Ye found it hard to believe: “Is he sick? I was just an egg before!”

How could an motionless egg that was almost certified dead offend such a great deity? Su Ye felt he couldn’t understand it at all.

Hearing this, Tonatiuh’s expression turned somewhat somber: “He wasn’t targeting you; he was targeting me.”

“Shuloel hates me.” Tonatiuh said calmly. To him, this matter didn’t seem to cause any emotional fluctuation. “Furthermore, before today, almost no one believed you could still be born. Even I almost stopped holding such expectations. That is why Shuloel developed the intent to harm you.”

“Although not legitimate, as the ‘Dark Sun’ of the Evil God’s Domain, Shuloel indeed possesses the qualification to become the ‘Sun’ of the next epoch after I fall.”

What Tonatiuh did not mention to Su Ye was that the reason Shuloel was so impatient and restless—even bold enough to enter Tonatiuh’s divine palace to commit theft—was because all deities could clearly perceive that the era of the Fifth Epoch was about to end, and that also represented that Tonatiuh, as the Sun, was about to fall.

Thus, Shuloel was naturally anxious.

If he could eliminate the rightful egg carefully nurtured in Tonatiuh’s palace—the one most likely to become the Sun of the next epoch—and the creature inside it, then the divine status of the Sun could only belong to Shuloel.

However, he was one move short. If Shuloel knew that it was precisely his attempt to make a boiled egg that triggered Su Ye’s birth, he might wish he could beat to death his past self who had set up the pot and boiled the water.

After listening to Tonatiuh’s explanation, Su Ye’s heart had only six dots to offer (……).

He thought back to the red-haired, golden-eyed god and felt full of bitterness.

Big brother, why bother? You’re confused.

After all, as an Evil God, it was fundamentally impossible for him to compete with the other for the position of the Sun!

“However, you need not worry about Shuloel’s existence.” Tonatiuh reached out to tidy Su Ye’s hair, his fingertips gently brushing against the youth’s bird-wing-like ears. His gaze was soft, but the words he spoke were far removed from that gaze. “With me here, I will naturally protect you.”

He took Su Ye’s hand: “I will be your confidence and your backing, the help you can seek and rely on at any time in this world.”

Tonatiuh gazed at Su Ye, his eyes warm and focused: “Everything of mine shall be yours. You may freely demand anything you need from me.”

No one could escape such enchantment; however, Su Ye only let his mind sway for a moment before quickly snapping awake.

Because he knew all the emotion Tonatiuh invested in him was because he was the ‘Sun’ Tonatiuh expected to be born. If one day the truth that he was actually an Evil God was exposed, all this preferential treatment today would vanish into thin air.

Therefore, Su Ye sternly warned himself that he absolutely must not indulge in such favor and tolerance. Because all of this was but flowers in a mirror or the moon in the water—illusory and dreamlike—one touch would shatter it completely.

Tonatiuh didn’t mind Su Ye’s lack of response. He was incredibly tolerant toward Su Ye; presumably, even if Su Ye were to tear down Tonatiuh’s Sun Palace one day, he would only watch with a smile and softly ask Su Ye if he was tired, helping him wipe the sweat from his brow.

“By the way, the name.” Tonatiuh said. “Your name hasn’t been decided yet.”

Su Ye was about to say he had a name, but fortunately, before the words left his mouth, he suppressed them at the last second.

Su Ye remembered that in his previous life as a human, he had seen interpretations of names and their importance in many literary works. The higher the existence, the more extraordinary their name, possessing very unusual effects and meanings.

Perhaps it was the same in this other world?

Out of this consideration, Su Ye didn’t speak immediately but quietly continued listening to Tonatiuh.

“Naming requires a ceremony. I will help you with the preparations…” Tonatiuh was about to give Su Ye a more detailed introduction to the process when he saw Soka running back in a panic.

“Lord Tonatiuh!” The youth’s face was no longer full of cheer, instead, his eyes were wide open, looking as if he were about to cry. “Shuloel, Shuloel is…!”

Tonatiuh frowned slightly, but remained calm, gently soothing him: “Don’t panic, Soka. Calm down.”

“Tell me, what happened?”

Soka took several deep breaths, but when he spoke, his voice still carried a bit of a tremor: “Shuloel has brought many gods and forced his way to the front of the divine palace!”

From Su Ye’s perspective, he could see Tonatiuh narrowing his eyes slightly. The expression on his face, which usually wore a soft smile, gradually turned cold.

“This time, Shuloel is indeed being a bit too impatient and excessive.” When he spoke again, although still calm, his voice contained a heart-stopping majesty. “I understand. You’ve done well. You may leave, Soka.”

“Yes, Lord Tonatiuh.” Soka quickly left after bowing to Tonatiuh.

Seeing Tonatiuh’s face wasn’t very good, Su Ye couldn’t help but ask: “Tonatiuh…? Is it a very troublesome matter?”

Tonatiuh snapped out of it, and seeing Su Ye’s worried look, he smiled at him.

“No, it’s not a big deal.” He said. “No need worry.”

The sun in the sky seemed to burst with extremely dazzling and stinging light due to the fluctuations of his emotions. Su Ye heard Tonatiuh say coldly: “As long as I am still here, I will never let any existence harm you.”

“Furthermore, I am not dead yet. Since when was it Shuloel’s turn, or any other deity’s, to be so arrogant!”

At this moment, an incredible majesty flowed from Tonatiuh, and Su Ye finally recognized clearly that the blond god standing before him was not just a doting guardian, but the Sun who reigned over thousands of gods—and even over the very top of this entire world.

He was the Lord of all living beings, all gods, and all light—a king possessing absolute status and authority.

“My child, accompany me.” He smiled slightly at Su Ye. “Let us go and see what kind of little tricks Shuloel is plotting.”

Shuloel stood at the entrance of the Sun Palace, staring at the tightly closed gates, his eyes dark and inscrutable.

A deity who had come with him and was in the same camp was, after all, fearful of the Sun’s might. He couldn’t help but step forward to ask Shuloel in a low voice: “Shuloel, are you sure? This is a matter that will offend both the current and the next generation’s ‘Sun’ simultaneously!”

Shuloel gave a contemptuous smile: “Don’t worry. If I weren’t completely sure, how would I dare lead you all in such an act of defiance?”

After pacifying this anxious deity, Shuloel stared intently at the slowly opening giant gates of the Sun Palace. His gaze locked tightly onto the unfamiliar silver-haired god following behind Tonatiuh, and a bloodthirsty sneer uncontrollably escaped the corner of his mouth.

He had noticed it earlier—

What had been nurtured within that egg so carefully protected by Tonatiuh was not some Sun at all, but a thoroughbred Evil God who should be banished beneath the earth!

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