Earl Ctolari quickly regained his complexion and looked at us as they suddenly appeared.
“Is that it?”
“Yes, those, to be exact.”
Count Ctolari knew what I had brought. Because he was with Ctula when he received the mission.
“Amazing. I never thought I would see a legendary being like this.”
Earl Ctolari looked at Nanagopi for a long time with very interesting eyes.
“Looking at it this way, I have no idea.”
“It is. If I hadn’t seen the scene, I wouldn’t have been sure. Could you please open the way for me?”
“Oh, of course.”
Count Ctolari opened the passage to meet Ctula.
“I won’t be stopping by this place on my way back, so I’ll say hello in advance.”
“Will there be a chance to meet again next time?”
Count Ctolari smiled as if nothing was wrong. I pushed Nanagopi into the open aisle and suddenly remembered something, so I turned around and asked.
“Are you satisfied with your current life, Count Ctolari?”
“I am very satisfied.”
Beings who live a time that surpasses the life of an ordinary human being, are they satisfied with that life? The former Earl of Ctolari couldn’t bear the weight of that time, so he looked for a successor.
I don’t feel the weight of that time yet, but I suddenly thought that one day it might come heavy.
“okay. Fortunately, the.”
I bowed my head slightly to say hello and started down the stairs with Nanagopi at the fore.
The speed at which Nanagopi, a child’s body, descended the stairs was very slow. But I didn’t want to carry it on my back or carry it, so I let it walk.
“My leg hurts so much.”
Not even an hour had passed before Gopi complained. The look was just like that of a tired child, so I couldn’t help but be shaken.
“Then take a break.”
While I was sitting on the stairs and resting for a while, Gopi started talking to me.
“Where am I going?”
“I’m going to the foreign press called Ctullah.”
“god? Are you really new?”
“okay”
I came all the way here and had nothing to hide. But when Nana and Gopi heard the story, they shed tears at the same time.
“Why are you crying?”
“You have no idea how long I have been wanting to meet God.”
“What are you going to do when you meet God?”
“I wanted to ask why you created someone like me.”
A being who has lived for thousands of years and has to endlessly steal other people’s bodies to survive, his life would not have been smooth.
“Then the opponent was wrong. He is not the god of this world.”
“How do you know that?”
So what kind of being am I? Maybe I am not that different from Nanagopi. It is a being that lives endlessly absorbing the souls of others. I thought so.
“An entity similar to you, but somewhat lucky”
“Now that you see it, you’re not human either, are you?”
Nana, who has the appearance of a small bird, must have noticed something, and her small eyes shone sharply.
“Yes, maybe not human.”
It is true that he is not an ordinary human being. I was human once, but I wasn’t human after that. It might just be wearing a human mask even now.
“Wake up. go again.”
I lifted Gopi up and started down the stairs again. On the way down, Nanagopi started asking questions to see if his mouth had burst.
“How old are you?”
“About 200 years old? How many years have you lived?”
“I think I lived a little over 3,000 years.”
It’s a long time. It’s a very long time that even I can’t feel it yet. Wouldn’t it be the longest living creature on the continent now without Drakan?
“Why did you take the body of a country girl? It would have been more comfortable if I had entered something like nobility or royalty.”
“Nobles are rather uncomfortable. It is better to hide among the commoners in moderation.”
Well, I’m an expert in that field, but I have nothing to say. After that, many questions and answers came and went.
It is said that the beginning of Nanagopi was a very small insect born in the Great Forest. At first, there were other siblings besides Nana and Gopi, but they all died while growing up. After hundreds of years, such a small creature gradually grew stronger, escaped the great forest, entered the human world, adapted, and lived again for thousands of years.
“What are you living for?”
Nanagopi’s questions were sometimes very sharp. When I asked, I had nothing to say. why do i live That’s a tough question.
“What have you been living for?”
“I think I have lived to make myself a better person.”
It was an answer I hadn’t even thought of. I was stunned. It seems that 3,000 years of time had the power to make even a small creature, which was only an insect, into a wise man.
I was learning a lot from the dialogue with Nanagopi, who I had neglected a little or quite a bit. After resting and walking, I finally reached the bottom floor.
Cthulla’s gigantic body slinks closer in the dark. It is a terrifying sight no matter how many times you look at it.
Seeing this, Nanagopi fell on his seat and trembled. Earl Ctolary said the same thing, but I don’t know why I can’t feel it.
“I kept my promise.”
As Ctullah drew closer, I let him know that I had done my part.
[Confirmed.]
Why did Ctula ask Nanagopi to be captured? Are you trying to catch and eat like the mercenaries last time? Even so, I couldn’t stop it.
[Nana Gopi]
Cthullah called Nanagopi.
“Above, meet the great one.”
It was quite cute to see the girl and the little bird bowing their heads to the ground, but the situation was not good for feeling that way.
[You must die.]
“okay.”
Nanagopi, who raised his head before he knew it, accepted it unexpectedly calmly. The aloofness of those who have lived for a long time, like the elves, has a feeling unique to the Jangsaengjong.
[And will be reborn.]
“Even if we are born again, will we have to live like this?”
[Nana Gopi]
“yes”
[Would you be my incarnation?]
“I will gladly do so.”
[good night. If so, just die.]
As soon as Cthula finished speaking, Nanagopi’s body began to melt. It melted quickly, and Nanagopi didn’t even scream. Soon, the melted Nanagopi left no trace.
“Will Nanagopi play the same role as Count Ctolari?”
[Yes.]
It’s a combination of Nanagopi and Cthula, so if you think about it, it might be a good combination. For the role of Count Ctolari, Nanagopi would definitely fit. He lives forever and changes his appearance from time to time to launder his identity, and he is the perfect talent.
“Then what about Count Ctolari?”
Wouldn’t it be like scrapping it or not?
[Nanagopi is reborn in another world.]
It was said that Emperor Eugene had crossed over to another world in the past. Now Nanagopi is like that too. How many worlds are there?
“How many worlds are there?”
[I do not know. Even I can’t count them.]
I got tired of imagining that there were so many worlds that even God couldn’t count them. How many gods are there to manage that many worlds? I got goosebumps thinking that each and every one of the gods in that many worlds was on the same level as Junon.
[let it go now]
Cthullah fades into darkness. Is there anything I can do this time? It remained in place until Ctula was completely out of sight, and then began to move through space. It’s time to go back.
I wasted quite a bit of time going down the stairs with Nanagopi. Thanks to this, my magical power was completely restored, but the party was anxiously waiting for me.
“I’m back”
When I finished the last space shift and returned to my party, everyone stood up to greet me.
“Have you been?”
“Are you all right?”
“What did Nanagopi do?”
Jake and Argin inquired about me and Joseph inquired about Nanagopi. This is the difference between a true vassal and a member of the church.
“I didn’t do much, and Nanagopi was extinguished.”
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Joseph gave me a suspicious look, but that’s the truth. There is no Nanagopi left in this world.
“Let’s go home now.”
We reversed our direction and began to return to the Akasha estate.
After a little longer journey, we returned to the Akasha estate. The territory of the territory was three times larger than when it started. Competent officials were already dispatched to the newly incorporated territories.
The incorporated territories were rather welcoming. Before the territory was transferred to the Illivad marquis, there were many people who had lived under the Akasha estate, and these days, the Akasha estate was rumored to be a good place to live.
For a while, except for a few incidents, a calm daily life passed. The three masters sparring in the backyard of the mansion was so noisy that they made a gymnasium and drove them away, or the officers dispatched to the incorporated territory were too energetic, causing friction with criminals or existing corrupt officials.
“When are you planning to visit the county’s incorporated territory?”
One day, Wither came to visit. The dispatched officials were doing a good job, and I had already looked through everything with my alter ego, so I had no intention of going there.
“You don’t have to go, do you?”
“By the way, isn’t there the original home of Count Akasha over there?”
It was right that the Akasha family’s mansion, which had been handed down from generation to generation, was on that side, not the one I had just built.
“Why is that mansion?”
“It is said that there are quite a few remaining items of the Akasha family over there.”
was there? When I looked at it roughly, I remember that there was nothing special. Even if there is, it doesn’t mean much to me unless it’s an artifact or a relic.
“Can’t we just throw it away?”
“Still, these are items that require confirmation from the Count.”
It seems like a burdensome thing for people below to deal with arbitrarily.
“Can I go now?”
It’s not far anyway. I wanted to be able to go back quickly by moving to space. After seeing the way I moved a few times, Wither shook his head.
“There is also Young Ji-min’s fraud, so let’s go formally.”
Come to think of it, it was strange that the saint who healed the sick by traveling to other territories abroad did not stop by in his own territory.
“Let’s go once”
“You did well.”
We prepared through Wither and set off the next day. Although it was a short distance, once again all the elite followed. Isn’t it more luxurious than the emperor to be escorted by three masters wherever you go?
Resto, which was the original center of the Akasha county that arrived in that way, was a small town. Now, it’s a bit inferior to Akashik, the small town that Wither had built, but it was a good enough city to live in thanks to the well-managed Iliad marquis family.
Entering with a warm welcome from the locals, as usual, he healed the sick, imitated a saint, blessed the people, and entered the original mansion of Count Akasha.
The administrator who manages the resto now came out and greeted us.
“welcome. count”
As a talent recruited by Wither, he seemed quite capable.
“Nice to meet you. What items do you need my permission to get rid of?”
“Ah, most of them are portraits of family heads and handwritten books that seem to have been passed down from generation to generation in the Akasha family.”
Certainly such things would have been tricky to deal with arbitrarily. The magistrate led them to the place where they were gathered. It was a room that seemed to have been used as a secret warehouse for the lord in the past.
It’s not easy to throw away things like portraits, so I decided to keep them in storage, and while looking through the books, I found a thick book that looked very old. Wouldn’t this be a memento of the first family head? As I picked it up, the magistrate helped with a word.
“It’s a book stored separately deep in the warehouse, and it looks old, so I put it there, but it’s so old that the contents have been erased, so there’s no writing inside.”
I nodded and turned the first page. But what if the content was deleted? do i see This is where I’ve seen it a lot. And the weight of a single line written on the first page was enormous.
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