Episode 438
I looked at the Master for a moment. His eyes were still trembling.
“It’s a world that the Master and I created together. We each had our own roles. You know? It’s easier for me to move around, and it’s more suitable for the Master to observe and protect from one place.”
[… … .]
“I apologize for being rude. I apologize for not asking your opinion. But please understand. I don’t know why I couldn’t tell you, Master. That’s different from Julius’s. My feelings are real.”
As I said in the conference room, I’m only going to hit the head.
The great war that is about to break out is not my fight alone. It is ‘our’ fight.
It would be best if it didn’t happen, but no matter how you look at it, the probability of that happening is close to zero.
To be honest, the reason I didn’t ask the teacher for his opinion was because I really didn’t have the courage to say it.
How can I say it with my own mouth?
I still haven’t found a way to extend Master’s lifespan, Master, who has turned into a doll, is a bundle of variables in and of herself, if we travel together, Master’s life will be in danger before mine, and if that happens, the world that Master and I created will disappear and we will lose everything. How can I say that? Seriously, how can I say that?
I’ve never said anything weak before, so how stupid and pathetic would I look if I said something weak here?
A person in charge, a person in charge who has people trusting and following him, must be relaxed even in extreme situations. I just had some leeway.
It’s really ironic. I didn’t want to hurt my teacher, but I ended up hurting him instead.
I asked with as little expression as possible.
“Aren’t you going to say anything? We even kissed.”
He smiled softly, but the Master just stared blankly at me without saying a word. I stood there for a moment, then took a step back and bowed my head. I bowed very deeply.
I guess our teacher is not ready yet.
Did I reveal my feelings too soon?
I still can’t figure out the risk of Master turning into a doll. Even on days when the full moon doesn’t rise while he’s a doll, Master can return to his original form.
The price was the Master’s life. If possible, I wanted to avoid using that power.
I didn’t want to make you take risks. I’m the one who regressed. I have to untie all the knots. It’s my job. It’s something only I can do.
It was my mistake that I was not considerate enough to the teacher there.
It’s not like trying to scoop up spilled water. It’s already soaked. The chance to dry it was now, but it seems like you have no intention of drying it. Then, all you can do is wait until it dries.
“I’ll be back, Master.”
I turned around and walked away. I left the conference room and went completely outside, but the Master did not follow me. I expected at least a voice, but there was none.
It’s a little… bitter.
Maybe very much.
* * *
When I came outside, I could see Aveiro and our little ones waiting.
“Did you finish the story well?”
I scratched my chin in silence. I really had nothing to say.
Then Aveiro laughs awkwardly. And the atmosphere around him also becomes awkward.
I briefly extended my hand to Aveiro. He nodded at my gesture, asking for something, and handed me what he was holding in his arms.
It was something long and wrapped in a long bundle, and you can tell just by looking at it.
As I unwrapped the bundle, a long sword was revealed. It was a sword that was beautiful no matter how I looked at it.
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“Still, you managed to pack it well. There won’t be many people who will be able to touch it.”
As I filled it around my waist as if it were familiar, it began to drag on the floor again.
By the way.
“What’s with your expression? If someone saw me, they’d think I was going to die.”
It wasn’t a story I told to Aveiro. Because there wasn’t a single trace of worry on Aveiro’s face.
What I’m talking about here are my children. They were all looking at me with faces full of worry.
“Do I look like someone who would go somewhere and scream and die in vain to you?”
Everyone shakes their heads.
“But why are you making that face? It makes me feel bad.”
Charlotte, Cell, Thanos, and Aveiro flinched for a moment. This was probably the first time I’d ever said something so blunt.
Everyone in the world knows that they are young. There is no one who does not know them. But.
“There are kids who follow you. If there are, act responsibly. Don’t act like a reckless brat.”
Cell, Charlotte, Thanos. These three looked shocked, but they didn’t care. As I said before, they have people they need to take with them.
But if you still act like a child, then there is a problem.
“Go in. Aveiro, you follow me.”
* * *
“I wonder if you spoke too harshly.”
These were the first words Aveiro spoke on the roof of the Academy’s Department of Informatics building.
It may seem like a buried car, but.
“Who else but me would tell them that?”
“… … .”
“Why? You do it?”
The guy laughs awkwardly.
“I might be able to do it with Thanos, but the other two… … I can’t.”
I burst out laughing.
Well, Thanos will come as an instructor later on and stuff, but the other two guys won’t.
There was silence for a moment.
I was gathering my thoughts and Aveiro was waiting for me.
He spoke slowly, leaning his back against the railing.
“When you push yourself to your limit and collapse, you are forced to dream.”
Aveiro listened to me quietly.
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The power I use is the power of the soul. It goes without saying, but the more I use it, the more my soul gets hurt. This is the power of existence itself. The power that that existence has built up.
In the process of recovering it, memories from my previous life flowed in, and I learned many things from that. The memories that I showed you in the conference room earlier were mixed with black magic, but the memories themselves were obtained in that way. The problem here is.
“I’ve been feeling this way since recently, but it’s stopped.”
“yes?”
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“Exactly, until I fell after killing Arthur Gunnar, my memories of my past life kept flowing in. But after that, I fell twice, in the Forest of Demons and the incident with the Tulcan Empire that happened not long ago, but I didn’t remember my past life.”
“ah…….”
“So I took a look at my body. I wondered if there was something wrong. I wondered if the situation of seeing memories from a past life was really an additional event that occurred during the soul’s recovery process.”
I’ve never even told my teacher this, but I’m telling it to Aveiro.
“To sum it up, there was nothing wrong. There were no problems at all. There was no discomfort.”
Aveiro makes a puzzled expression. He doesn’t seem to understand what I’m trying to say, but soon his eyes open wide.
I guess you noticed.
“There is no problem if something that happened naturally suddenly stops happening… … If that is what you are saying, then I think my lord and I are thinking the same thing.”
I raised my head casually. It was a useless thought, but the sky was really clear.
Aveiro said.
“It was someone’s intention.”
I ended up laughing. Yeah, that was my intention.
“You may not know, but the uses of the soul are endless. Among the Dragon Lords, there was one who pretended to be a prophet. I thought that was how he saw the future, and moved on. But it wasn’t.”
I thought it was something that happened during the process of a soul that was literally torn apart being restored.
I thought that even dragons who imitated prophets of the past would see the future in this way.
But that wasn’t the case. It wasn’t like that.
There are endless ways to use the spirit of marriage, but the direction in which it is awakened.
The direction determines the user’s character.
In Arthur Gunnar’s case, it was rebirth, and in Iskandar’s case, it was analysis.
The nature of the spirit I use is murderous. It is directed towards thoroughly killing the opponent.
That was expressed and probably in the future the end of the marriage that I use will be the death of the other person.
So I cannot intentionally use the Dragon Lord’s soul energy that foresees the future. It is completely different from my nature.
The theory that memories of past lives flow in as the soul recovers was the best theory I could think of, because there was nothing else.
But no. There was something else. I just thought it was the best hypothesis, but it wasn’t the right answer.
Someone planted these memories of the past. And intentionally.
“There was a device implanted in my body that would wake me up if I lost consciousness. I can guess who it is.”
“Can I ask who you are?”
It’s obvious.
“The reason I regressed has not yet been revealed.”
“… … .”
“At first, I thought this. There were a lot of people who used the soul energy in their previous lives, but as they died, the half-soul energy they contained spread out into the world, and it gathered and gathered and burst… … Time turned back as a reflex… … It makes sense, but no matter how much I think about it, this isn’t it.”
To put it very briefly, here’s the gist.
“The ‘someone’ who turned back all of time in this world left a clue for Iskandar and me. Time has been turned back, you are a regressor… … something like that.”
“God, is that right?”
Aveiro’s voice surprisingly did not tremble.
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“Well, I don’t know if there is a God, but now that I look at it, it seems like there might be one.”
Arms crossed. No matter how I think about it, it’s a really funny situation.
For those who don’t know, it’s okay to live without knowing this, but I found out.
I realized now that all of this is a flow.
“I don’t like being played by someone’s hand, but the one who regressed me wants it. Iskandar and I go to the Eastern Continent.”
“Do you really have to go?”
“huh?”
“No matter how inevitable it may be, I believe in you. You are the one who can turn necessity into coincidence. To me, there is no living god other than you.”
Did he grease his tongue? Why is he so good at flattering?
“Honestly, I’m curious.”
“Is that so?”
“How did they turn back time? What on earth was there on the Eastern Continent that made the flow like this? I asked why they had to go there.”
“yes.”
“This is a clue.”
“… … Are you talking about a clue?”
There is no such thing as coincidence in this world. All that exists is necessity disguised as coincidence. I felt it now. This is an unconditional necessity.
Iskandar was definitely strong. If we were to rank the powers that be, he would be ranked exactly third on this continent.
In fact, it’s the third time that Iskandar, if he wanted to, could wipe out the Tulcan Empire on his own.
Me, the Master, and Iskandar, these three are like untouchables.
It may be incomprehensible to the average person’s common sense. After all, he abandoned an entire country to survive on his own.
But if you think about it the other way around, is that really throwing it away?
