180 – Jack Dionel
What on earth was I doing in the past?
When I saw myself accompanying Adela as a mercenary, I felt dizzy.
This is because Lucas’ face flashes as he remembers the story that her deceased husband was a mercenary.
‘No… I couldn’t have cummed like this without thinking.’
But I believe in myself.
There is no way I, who was born with the temperament of an engineer, would commit an unexpected action.
So, I began to trace the process of how I came to accompany Adela.
I started going back through my memories and looking for the reasons that led to this incident.
‘····We need to wake up all the children of the Archduchy.’
And the first trigger was a certain realization.
So, I realized that the descendants of the Archduke family were descendants of my colleagues (possessors), and I thought that I should awaken the power (authority) of the possessor that had been passed down to them.
From this point on, I started designing mainly for the children of the Archduke family.
It was designed so that when they reach their maximum power, they can stop their regression and stand up to the devil.
In that way, I began to help the children of the Archduke family knowingly or unknowingly.
When Ileiya was young and wandering for training, she defeated him several times and motivated him.
[It’s terribly weak. Do you think you can beat me with swordsmanship like that?]
[Keuuu!]
At that time, Ileiya looked a lot like Enya.
Haryang was so absorbed in his own talent that he did not even feel the need for training.
In fact, the purpose of wandering around the empire was not to train, but to have fun without worrying about your parents.
Using his good looks and status as a duke, he made a name for himself as a swordsman who harassed various women.
[A guy like you is a genius prodigy from the Cruel family, the empire’s greatest swordsman? A passing dog will laugh.]
So I provoked him.
He was defeated over and over again, frustrating him and making him realize his situation.
After experiencing such repeated defeats, Ileiya began to become serious.
[···I want to become stronger. Please teach me a lesson.]
The arrogant guy broke his pride and lowered his head.
In that way, I accepted him as my student and laid out the framework for the swordsmanship he should pursue.
For someone with most of his mana stored in his brain, the path to becoming a magic swordsman was opened.
In that way, he followed the path I led him and trained seriously, and in the end, he was able to become the strongest swordsman in the empire.
[····I guess there is no room for me to intervene with that guy.]
After raising Elijah like that, I left him and went to visit the Graham family.
He visited Adrian Graham, Isabella’s father.
However, there was nothing for me to coach about the Grahams.
The way they grow their power is through ‘self-denial’, which grows by rotting one’s own mind.
I left Graham Street behind and headed toward Bernhard Street.
However, Bernhard also had his own direction of ‘aura and buff’, and it was a method that did not suit me.
So I went to meet Adela, who currently holds Isabella’s position.
He wanted to raise her, who was said to be the best genius prodigy in her empire, and prepare for her evil invasion.
[·····Dead?]
But when I went to look for her, she was already dead.
It is said that she died after being swept away by a monster wave while going to conquer a remote area to expand her family’s territory.
[No. Adela is the key.]
It was a disaster.
I can’t believe we had to lose someone with the most outstanding qualities in vain like this.
Having gone through hundreds of regressions over the past 40 years and knowing full well how precious each and every talent is, I decided to revive Adela.
It was an attempt to return to her past and eliminate the incident that led to her death.
[Is it too much to eliminate the incident itself…?]
But the incident could not be eliminated.
I, who had no status or position, could not stop the Elmar family’s territory expansion plan, nor could I break Adella’s will to participate in the territory expansion policy.
In the end, all that was left was for me to personally participate as a mercenary and protect Adela.
[I guess I have to cut out the memories.]
But at that time, I was facing a problem.
Because I had experienced too many regressions in the past, my mind and body began to experience problems.
And this was a natural phenomenon.
If you repeat it hundreds of times over a period of 20 years, you will not be able to get over it without people going crazy.
Furthermore, in my case, after living thousands of years of life with the burden of saving the world, it was natural for my mind and body to develop problems.
[···If you keep all your memories in Alpha and regress with limited memories in Beta, which repeats the regression…]
That’s how I started sealing my memories.
I have limited my memory so that I, who repeats regression, can achieve the best performance.
And this ‘memory seal regression’ was implemented for the first time in ‘Operation Adela Salvation’.
To overcome her monster wave and save her, she must be mentally and emotionally unwavering.
It was set to return to the past with the memories sealed.
With the minimum goal of ‘participating in the territorial expansion policy of the Elmar family’.
“No… It was ruined.”
But they say everything is awkward at first.
I made a fatal mistake.
I should at least be aware of who I am and what my purpose is, but I failed to control the memory seal and ended up returning to the past, forgetting all my memories.
[f*ck… Who was I?]
Furthermore, if you were going to seal the memories, you also had to seal the emotions attached to the memories.
At the time, I didn’t know anything about it, so I completely sealed the memories and sent Adela to the past, leaving her emotions intact.
In other words, an anger control disorder that does not remember anything has been sent to the past.
***
[What are you talking about all of a sudden? Are you kidding me? Your name is on the mercenary card there.]
When asked who I was, the mercenary next to me frowned and tapped my mercenary badge.
Soon, I looked at the mercenary badge around my neck and saw the words ‘Jack Dionel’ written on it.
[Jack Dionel… That’s my name?]
[···Are you crazy? Why are you doing this all of a sudden? Did you eat the heat? Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.]
The fellow mercenary smiled and took a sip of rum.
However, the past me seemed to not understand this situation and suddenly snatched the rum that a fellow mercenary was drinking.
-Gulp…Gulp…Gulp…
And then I took a refreshing drink.
A fellow mercenary frowned and shoved my shoulder.
[Hey. Did you turn? Are you out of your mind? This bastard asked me to join the group, so I joined him, but he didn’t even know the topic]
However, in the past, I guess I was hoping for an argument.
I don’t remember having hundreds of regressions, but I still have the anger and frustration from those memories, so I needed someone to vent my emotions to.
[Then stick with it, you bastard.]
That’s how I ended up with a fellow mercenary.
The result was, of course, a landslide victory for me, but my fellow mercenary had his problems.
In the first place, I was part of that group, so I had no choice but to suffer revenge.
[Hey. You guys, stand up quickly. I haven’t gotten over my anger yet.]
But I overwhelmingly won 12 to 1.
It was a mercenary group that woke up and made a name for itself.
To begin with, in the past, I was a person who would fight back against the Dukes of Hell, so they were no match for me.
[No… Why are they like this? Why are the kids in such condition…]
At that time, the servant of the Elmar family opened the mercenary waiting room and looked shocked.
I will soon go out with the contracted mercenaries, but all of them, including the mercenary leader, are incapable of combat.
So the attendant hurriedly turned around and reported to the head of the Elmar family.
Soon, after hearing the servant’s report, the head of the house came to the mercenary waiting room.
And then he suddenly spoke to me as I sat there.
[····Did you do that?]
[Yes.]
[Why?]
[By touching my temper.]
[···Do you know how much money this mercenary group received for today?]
[I don’t know.]
[···It’s only 10 million Orden. It’s an excessive amount of money for just one mercenary group. But you turned that 10 million Orden into a piece of paper. What do you think?]
[I should be thankful.]
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[···Kkkkkk. Thank you?]
[Yes. Didn’t you catch a fraudster who didn’t even get his money’s worth? Please give me that money instead. I’m going to take out several times the original amount. Even if these guys come in units, they won’t be able to handle me alone.]
Matriarch Elmar burst out laughing at my next words.
He said he liked my ambition and confidence and that he would give me 20 million Orden.
[I think we need to change the layout. We can’t use someone as talented as you as a scout. Take charge of my daughter’s escort. If your daughter likes it, consider hiring her as a knight for our family. How is it?]
[Well, let’s do that.]
An unconventional greeting, offering a knighthood to the Grand Duchy to a mere mercenary.
However, having lost my memory, I was indifferent to such suggestions.
It’s an attitude of, ‘If you can, you can do it, or you can’t.’
[Adela. From now on, this guy will be your escort. It seems like he has quite a bit of skill, so trust me and give it a try.]
In that way, the head of the Elmar family introduced me to Adela.
Adella, a pretty 18-year-old girl, looked me up and down with a haughty look while riding in the carriage.
She said with a frown.
[Aren’t you a mercenary? Why do you add something mean?]
···Adella is quite different from her current appearance.
At that time, Adela was a typical noble daughter who was strict and overbearing.
Adela’s father smiled shyly and said.
[hahahaha… Don’t be like that, just give it a try. I really liked his refreshing personality.]
Adela glanced at me again with an unwilling expression.
Then he looked at my face and blurted out the following words.
“Well, the face is worth looking at.”
“······.”
“Hey.”
Then he called me, giggling as if he was joking.
When she looked at her, she twitched the corner of her mouth and said.
“Try to appeal to yourself. “If you like it, I can write it for you.”
“······.”
Adella asked me to appeal to myself.
In other words, it was like telling her to crawl until she was satisfied.
It means that they will insult me until I fall.
But underneath my subconscious was the purpose of ‘I must save Adela,’ so I did not get angry at her attitude of trying to humiliate me.
Rather, I just conveyed my will with all my sincerity.
[Even if I have to lose my life while protecting the young lady, I will definitely protect the young lady. I swear to the heavenly people.]
“······.”
Then Adela looked at me with a slightly red face.
Then she muttered, ‘Either it or not,’ and closed the window of her carriage.
Eventually, she complained that the smell of blood was all over the place, and that she should wash herself so that the smell would go away.
Despite her attitude, she actually accepted me as a bodyguard.
[···Thank you for protecting the young lady.]
I expressed my sincere gratitude.
I had no memory, but I was filled with the compulsion to achieve my goal, so saving Adela was my only concern.
Soon, Adela’s snort was heard from inside the carriage.
[Hmph.]