Chapitre 20: Chapter 20
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Chapter 20
3rd POV
Inside a secret realm.
"Buddha, what happened?" Asked one of Buddha's disciples who were with him in meditation.
It was Master Guanyin, one of the few disciples of Buddha, who left Earth to be with him. He was wearing a saffron monk robe which was quite old but very well maintained. His face was old without any facial hair. His hair tied to a bun. He looked quite old but had a serene face.
On the side, Master Guanyin sat upright under the Buddha's seat, and when he saw that Buddha's meditation had stopped, he asked.
"Master Guanyin, it seems Sun Wukong has escaped his prison from Five Elements Mountain..." Buddha states without any worry on his face.
"How is this possible?" Master Guanyin was shocked, because someone didn't just escape from a prison made by the Buddha.
He frowned.
"The seal of the Five Fingers Mountain was transformed by your golden body. Many years remain before you instruct Monk Tang Sanzang to retrieve the scriptures. Moreover, the Golden Cicada has not yet completed his reincarnation to become Tang Sanzang in his next life. So how did he escape his imprisonment, Buddha?"
The plan of Journey to the West was the will of the heavens. Monkey King is also one of the most important characters to play a role in it.
The seal was supposed to be foolproof! What could go wrong?
"I can't sense the presence of the Five Elements Mountain anymore, there may have be an accident. I'll go to the mortal world now to check see what happened there!" Guanyin took the initiative to ask Buddha.
Buddha shook his head.
"I'll do it myself." He declares with a soft voice.
He did not foresee this moment in any of his visions. If not handled properly, it could bring forth a calamity.
....
Near Five Elements Mountain.
A giant golden hand, a child, a monkey are sitting near a large stone, discussing something.
" I tell you, I am the Golden Hand of the Buddha. If I do not return, the Buddha will remain incomplete. You can aim for his wrist, where I was once part of him. In this way, he won't be at his best. He'd surely be in a weaken state now."
The hand seemed excited about his simple plan and kept turning in circles, unable to hold his joy from his newfound freedom.
Sun Wukong wanted to something like that too. However, he still turned his head towards Nobita to know his thought on that.
"You must think this through carefully. If you choose to confront the Buddha head-on, you will face not only the Buddha but also all the gods. You will become the enemy of the entire world! Even though you may be able to defeat them one-on-one (except for the Buddha and possibly the Jade Emperor), taking them all on at once will still result in your imprisonment once again."
Nobita said seriously and continues.
"And even if I try to help you again, they might assign guards to watch over you this time."
Sun Wukong squeezed his staff tightly. He seems to be struggling to make a decision.
In the end, he gritted his teeth and says in a low voice.
"What about being the enemy of the whole world? I just wanted peace! Peace for my friends at Mount Huaguo (Flowers and Fruit Mountain). Was that too much to ask for??" He says with almost a broken tone, but continues, "But they tricked me, betrayed me, they broke my trust." He roars in defiance.
"If the gods stand in my way, I will slay the gods! If the Buddha opposes me, I will shatter the Buddha!"
"I want this sky—I will no longer let it blind my eyes!"
"I want this land—I will no longer let it bury my heart!"
"I want all sentient beings to comprehend my will!"
"I want those Buddhas to fade into nothingness!"
Such arrogant words made the golden hand on the side cry almost instantly.
"Okay! Okay! If only I could be so domineering."
However, only Nobita is full of question marks.
Isn't this... Am I on the show? A movie? A book?
However, looking at Sun Wukong again.
Nobita seems to see the shadows of various Monkey Kings from endless worlds.
Nobita had an epiphany.
Perhaps, other group friends in the chat group are also similar to Nobita. The members can find the origin of all them in the endless world.
'Maybe, when we use the chat group points to strengthen ourselves, we are sharing the growth of our infinite selves?' Nobita could not fully understand this thing.
[E/N: Maybe like Jet Li's movie "The One", but without killing their alternate selves? I don't know either.]
But something still confuses him.
Just like himself, he cannot sense the continuous improvement of Tony, Naruto, and Liu Peiqiang—group members he has encountered before—who must have used their points to strengthen themselves.
Even now, Nobita is constantly absorbing the peculiar energy in the surrounding space that enhances him all the time.
'Why am I different from the rest of the group?'
Just when Nobita was thinking.
A ray of light descended from the sky.
"Amitabha, Wukong! How did you manage to escape from your prison?"" Buddha asks with a small smile on his face as though it doesn't matter that the Monkey King has escaped.
"Buddha!"
Sun Wukong's face changed, as if he was facing a great enemy!
Buddha himself came here to see the situation?
This also surprised Nobita.
Soon, Tathagata also felt that Nobita was different.
"Child… you are not of this world, are you?" Buddha asks a rhetorical question.
"It's you who broke my seal and let him escape?"
The Buddha released a strange aura that compelled those near him to feel an overwhelming urge to surrender to him.
However, Nobita completely ignored his questions and asks a question himself.
"Buddha, you need to understand something if it isn't clear to you! First, Sun Wukong's escape from your seal is your own issue—you can't blame it on a child.
Second, you all treat Wukong as if he were a demon, when he was born from the tears of Goddess Nuwa, which transformed into a stone.
This means he was innately gifted, carrying merit and luck meaning he could have become better than most, if not all the gods. And just because he made mistakes—mistakes that were not entirely his fault—you label him a demon!"
Listening to Nobita's explanation, Buddha's originally calm and calm face showed a hint of astonishment.
"Mistakes? Sun Wukong caused a riot in the Heavenly Palace, which ruined his life. As the Buddha of the Western Heaven, I was invited by the Jade Emperor to subdue him. I was merely fulfilling my duty, not something I desired myself."
As a Buddha, he was open to questions from others, which he would address if he could. He saw himself as a teacher first, before any of the other titles he was given.
"Why do you keep implying that Sun Wukong is nothing but an evil being? That he wreaked havoc in the Heavenly Palace? But why did he cause such a commotion there? Were his mistakes truly so severe that you punished him in such a way?"
Hearing the questions, Buddha calmly gave an explanation.
"He entered the underworld and tampered with the Book of Life and Death! He went to heaven, stole countless elixirs, and ate peaches that were not meant for him. He wreaked havoc in the Heavenly Palace, causing countless celestial soldiers and generals to be killed or wounded. His brutality was so extreme that I was compelled to punish him"
Buddha counted Sun Wukong's bad deeds one by one.
Sun Wukong was very angry, he too felt shame for some of the things he did in his rage, and these things were indeed all done by him. So he will not refute against any of them.
Nobita, who knows the plot well, doesn't think so.
"You said that Sun Wukong entered the Underworld and tampered with the Book of Life and Death? Why? Wasn't it because the Underworld had claimed his soul?
A monkey born from a stone created from the essence of Goddess Nuwa, which absorbed the essence of heaven and earth for thousands of years. He was destined for greatness. By the time he tampered with the Book of Life and Death, he had already mastered the Taoist arts of immortality and became an immortal himself. He was already worthy of a place in Heaven. So why was his name still in the Book of Life and Death?
You claim he went to Heaven, stole the peaches, and ate them—nonsense! Why would a monkey, whose natural food is fruit, be assigned to guard a garden full of ripe peaches?
Why did Sun Wukong go to Heaven? Didn't the Heavenly Court invite him to give him a place there? He simply wanted to live a peaceful life with his friends on Huaguo Mountain, but the Heavenly Court insisted on promoting him to an official position again and again.
Being made an official should have been enough, but why make him the Keeper of the Heavenly Garden? He wasn't even allowed to participate in the Peach Festival. For a young, prideful monkey, that was an even greater insult. Wasn't that clearly bullying?
As for the so-called 'Havoc in the Heavenly Palace,' he never intended to cause such a thing, but the circumstances at the time forced his hand.
So, do you still insist that it was all Sun Wukong's fault? Wasn't there someone who deliberately arranged this? And didn't you role did you play in it too?"
Nobita pressed step by step, detailing everything that happened to Sun Wukong.
On the side, Sun Wukong listened to it, suddenly found clarity to his self-doubts that's been annoying him for so long!
"That's right! I too felt something was wrong during that time, but now it seems... it's all you fuckers who are acting as demons!"
Sun Wukong let out his breath.
He was now fully prepared to fight for his freedom if necessary.
"Amitabha..."
The Buddha slowly chanted.
The surface is calm, but the heart is in panic!
Who is this outsider? How did he about know everything?
Journey to the West was planned thousands of years ago, everything is known to less than a handful of people.
"Why don't you tell us, huh? Buddha, can you explain? Come! Let's talk!"
Nobita said these things, and became angry himself.
Although it was Sun Wukong who was suppressed and sealed, not him, he still felt deeply uncomfortable watching someone he knew being tormented time and time again.
"Even if you have a thousand words and a thousand reasons, a demon monkey is a demon monkey, the crime he committed must be held accountable."
Hearing this, Nobita's eyes suddenly narrowed.
Yo, what does this mean? Can't answer, so you're pushing the blame onto someone else, huh?
"Answer us, BUDDHA!!" Wukong shouts holding his staff in battle ready position.
"Amitabha."
Buddha only chants without giving an answer.
"Don't just Amitabha us Buddha, explain yourself! Make an oath to the heavens, you rascal!" Wukong shouts again.
"Amitabha..."
Buddha ignores them again.
"Are you a broken recorder?? Why are you repeating yourself?" Even Nobita becomes irritated.
"Amitabha..."
Buddha chants for the last time and prepares himself to act now.
"It's useless to talk too much. You are not from this world. I advise you to leave quickly, otherwise… You won't be able to leave even if you want to."
"???"
Buddha's words made Nobita look astonished. Is this Buddha for real?
Aren't monks supposed to be gentle? And as the greatest of them all, the Buddha should be a saint, if nothing else.
All of a sudden, the Buddha's whole body was covered with golden light, and in a short period of time, he almost transformed into a golden Buddha of ten thousand feet.
When Sun Wukong saw this scene, he also raised the staff in his hand.
Back then, he was defeated by the Buddha in this state. And the result was being sealed here for more than 200 years!
The Buddha's golden body!
However, the Buddha's golden body at the moment seems to be missing a hand.
"Come back!"
He orders his hand.
The little golden hand felt the call of the golden body. He should have returned happily to his body if the glitch didn't affect him.
However, this time, something went wrong.
"NEVER!! I don't want to go back!"
"You are not a good person! You want me to come back and work for you for nothing! Bah! I am alive, I have a soul now! And I will do what I want to do from now."
The words of the golden hand made the Buddha completely dumbfounded?
His golden hand actually gained sentience?
The posture of the Buddha reaching out for his severed hand seemed to have stiffened.
"You are a part of me! You will join me to become complete again." Buddha orders his hand.
"I will not! I have been ignored for hundreds of years, I will be better off without you! And I most certainly won't believe anything you ever say, you asshole!"
Wut???
Why is he being cursed by his own hand?
When he uses the Giant Golden Buddha form, he projects his real body using his divine powers, meaning that hand is a part of himself.
So… is he cursing himself??
"Amitabha..."
Buddha quickly suppresses his rising anger. He thought of a solution.
With such a change in Golden Hand, it must have something to do with Sun Wukong and this child.
Since there is no way to solve the problem, then the person who solves the problem will be the one who started it in the first place.
"I am the Buddha of the Western Heaven, and the Buddha Dharma is boundless. I offer you one final chance."
"Leave this world, undo everything you have done here, and I will allow you to depart without any hindrance."
Buddha's speech was so compassionate that anyone who heard it might assume Nobita was in the wrong.
Seeing that this was the case, Nobita also sighed.
"Initially, I thought that no matter how shameless Buddha might be, he would at least be reasonable. But it seems you are the most unreasonable of them all!" Nobita says in a grave voice.
"You have forced me to do something! And I will not back down from it."
Nobita's clothes flutter even without any wind blowing near him.
As he waves his hand, a thin piece of grass floats from the ground to his hand.
He wasn't going to use many gadgets either.
These gadgets that Doraemon bought from the future world, except for a few, most of them are civilian gadgets, made for children.
Although they are very versatile, they are not lethal enough to use in this kind of fight.
For example, the Lying Beak on Nobita's mouth, although the function is unbelievable, cannot hurt someone directly.
Like it won't make something real like, "Buddha will die in a few seconds."
These civilian gadgets were not designed for fights.
Looking at Nobita's pre-fight attitude.
Buddha did not panic at all.
Since his arrival, he had been observing the three of them. Although an unfamiliar energy flowed within Nobita, he didn't regard it as a serious threat. While it was a new kind of energy to him, its quantity was too insignificant to pose any danger.
But Sun Wukong, who has been trapped for 200 years, has grown even stronger than before. Yet, even with his newfound strength, he is still no match for him.
As the most powerful being in this world, he has nothing to be afrain of!
"My friend, it's time for you to leave this world. You've completed your mission. This is my fight, and there's no need for you to put yourself in danger."
Sun Wukong said suddenly.
Nobita's mission was actually completed long ago when Sun Wukong got out from the Five Elements Mountain.
Moreover, Wukong has been using his points to prolong Nobita's stay in his world.
Seeing that a fight is about to break out, Sun Wukong knew that even though Nobita appears to be very powerful, he might still get hurt. He doesn't want his new friend and benefactor to be hurt because of him.
The Buddha's powers are vast and immeasurable as far as Wukong knows.
Thinking that if his new friend dies, his existence will be erased from the memories of all his friends and family, he tries his best to persuade him.
He didn't want that.
"I will not be sealed this time; even if it costs me my life, I will fight to the end! You said you could record the existence of someone erased from memory... I hope you remember that this old monkey once existed, that there was once someone who fought against the world to claim his freedom."
Sun Wukong opens his heart, believing that he is about to die.
Nobita pouted.
"Don't worry, I will not die that easily. When I wave this blade of grass, Buddha will kneel in front of us."
'Making the Buddha kneel in front of them??'
Although it was very astonishing that he broke Buddha's seal by simply saying it so, Wukong became doubtful hearing this flashy declaration!
"Child, since you don't want to leave, then..."
He couldn't complete his sentence. He felt an unknown force controlling his body to do someone else's biddings.
His form grew smaller and reached the ground near them. He, who was originally high above, had already knelt on the ground, unable to move even a finger.
"!!"
État de l’alimentation hebdomadaire
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Power Stone 
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