237. Dimension Rift (4)
-Schlus Heinkel Death?
– ‘Disappear’ surrounded by sudden purple light
“My dear…”
Emilia stopped crumpling her morning paper and wrapped her hair in her hair.
Ignoring all the royal family’s reporting guidelines, the press was busy reporting this great scoop in detail.
While visiting the Lichtenburg Mansion, Schluss Heinkel was engulfed in purple light and disappeared along with the second daughter of Lichtenburg.
That was the common explanation of all the articles.
But there were also media outlets who were talking nonsense about what she must have been doing in her second daughter’s room at the time, or whether it was a self-made play.
“It’s not dead. No body was found.”
Emilia took a deep breath and cupped her hands over her mouth.
She couldn’t admit that Schluss was dead until she saw her breathless body with her own eyes.
No, he died once and then came back to life, so even when she saw the body, she couldn’t admit it.
Schlus returns alive.
Because I promised.
He said he would never die.
“Please…”
Emilia shed her tears and prayed earnestly to the sky.
*
“Your Majesty. The Imperial Knights are coming to settle the chaos.”
“Grunt. Is Sir Kane running himself?”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
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“Tell them to stick around in the south. At the moment when the settlement of public sentiment over there is more precarious…”
As Arya looked at the piles of reports piling up on her desk, she felt her head spinning.
Schlus Heinkel is dead.
It’s exactly gone.
It hasn’t even been 24 hours since then, but all sorts of uproar has already erupted across the country.
First of all, the back of the Pope, who had been waiting for the Imperial Family, suddenly stiffened, and four Inquisitors were brought from the northern border and stationed in Monarch.
It must have been an intention to forcefully abdicate the pope and restore it to the old Vatican.
If Schluss Heinkel had existed, it would have been a problem that could be solved by simply dispatching him, but now, without him, it was a problem that could only be solved by moving the level of the Imperial Army division.
In addition, the officials of the imperial palace, who were filled with dissatisfaction, stood up.
Mostly, they were purged by Schluss Heinkel and demoted from the position of minister, and they even declared a strike and demanded the position of minister.
On top of that, the military sway was unusual.
His generals rebelled against Roman, whose promotion to commander-in-chief of the Imperial Army was confirmed.
Of course, there was no way for them to drive out Roman, but there was no way for Roman to completely control them either.
As the tactical strategy in the suppression of the Southern Rebellion was reevaluated and Schluss Heinkel, who was called the genius of grand strategy, disappeared, the Roman Command lost the support of the generals.
Of course, Roman will get his discipline back soon, but there was nothing he could do about the confusion in the meantime.
“Schluss Heinkel, yes you bastard. I thought you were just hanging out on a fictional day…”
Arya’s head hurts just trying to figure out her various problems.
I can’t believe there were so many conflicts that were blocked only by Schluss Heinkel’s stature.
As Aria was going to rule all of them herself as the emperor, it wasn’t usually a cumbersome task.
“Your Majesty.”
“What is it?”
At that time, a servant came in and was hesitating.
Looking at it, it probably isn’t that important.
“Oral legends and legends show that it is similar to what happened yesterday-“
“Tsk. Put it down there and go.”
“Yes, I understand.”
Her servant left, and Arya’s eyes widened as she tried to look at her report again.
She had just come to realize that she was the result of a hastily ordered investigation last night.
Aria, who was rushing through the pile of papers, found the paper that the servant had just put in.
Arya hurriedly took a quick glance from above.
-Not being detected by barriers and observation techniques: Presumed to be an ability that is not bound by time and space
-Purple light: There is an oral tradition that a purple light spread across the sky on the day the demons invaded in ancient times.
-No body found: presumed to have been forcibly moved somewhere
-Summarizing, it is estimated to have similar abilities to Durandal, a sword that cuts through dimensions in legends.
“hahahaha…”
That was absurd.
A sham report, nothing more than fitting the power of a legendary sword whose existence is questionable to what happened yesterday.
But, no matter how you look at it, no report explains the bizarre event as well as this one.
“If this is true, you’ll be alive.”
If it’s just that he passed through a gap in the dimension to another world, it must mean that he’s still alive.
If that’s the case, if you find a way to split the dimension in that world, then Schluss will be able to come back.
Arya had such a hope.
***
My whole body stiffened.
My vocal cords didn’t listen, and I couldn’t move as if they were just stuck in place.
It felt like something intangible similar to fear was weighing me down.
“That, that person…”
I hurriedly covered Yulia and stood in front of her.
Even so, my gaze was directed toward the sky.
A man with the exact same face as Schluss Heinkel.
He also looked down at us and put a brutally cold expression on his face.
‘Is that me in this world?’
No. Perhaps it could be Schluss Heinkel, whom I did not possess.
I’m not showing any hostility right now, but I swallowed nervously, not knowing what he was going to do.
Considering the incredibly fast magic that Untear had just landed on, it was a foolish choice to attack him first.
Because Schluss Heinkel in this world seems much stronger than me.
He came down slowly and landed softly on the floor, then took a deep breath.
And the first thing he said was-
“Wow! A person! A living person! How long has this been!”
“·······.”
I had quite a bit of colic.
The ghastly majesty that had frozen me just a moment ago was gone, and he gladly approached me with his arms outstretched.
It was a bonus to have a big smile like an idiot in the neighborhood.
“This! Now that I look at it, isn’t it a different me? With that outfit, I guess I’m still in school?”
“Who are you…?”
“Who are you? I’m you. You’re me. Can’t you see it?”
“I’m asking what happened here. The system I knew wasn’t in ruins like this.”
“Ah… Then from the past? Hmm. I guess so.”
This guy is my future self?
I don’t want to be so stupid.
He nodded his head in realization and came closer to us.
“Yulia…”
“Ah, yes.”
“Eisburg? Lichtenburg? Or Waffenberg? Or-“
“It’s Lichtenburg.”
“Lichtenburg. That’s right. You’re from the brightest days.”
He tried to bring her hand to Yulia’s face, so I slammed it away.
Then he smiled and sat down on a large rock.
“Hmm. Too gloomy.”
“What…?!”
He blinked and turned his fingers, and the sun suddenly began to rise.
The sun rose again less than an hour after sunset…
Unbelievable things happened one after another.
With one gesture from him, an unbranded wine bottle appeared out of thin air.
“Do you want a drink?”
“·······.”
I made another gesture, and a wine glass was in his other hand.
I accepted the cup without saying anything.
Indifferently pulling the cork with his teeth, he tipped the bottle and filled my glass.
The Schluss Heinkel of this world filled his glass with blood-red wine and took a deep breath in the scent and parted his lips.
“Did you fly all the way here after being hit by Durandal?”
“You know that.”
“At that time, I must have been very confused.”
“I have a question for you. Are you really me? No, so-“
“That’s right. Schluss Heinkel possessed by Jinwoo Kim, a writer of the mass market. No matter how you look at it, we seem to be the same person in a different timeline or diverged at a trivial turning point in an infinitely similar world.”
I’m sorry, but I had the same thought.
Another result of being turned awry by a very trivial matter in the world I lived in.
Or the future unfolding at the end of my progress.
That seemed to be this world.
“You look like you need an explanation.”
“Please.”
“Okay. I don’t know how it was in your world, but there was a time when things were going smoothly in our world. With just the tenacity to prevent the end of the world and see the ending, you rose to a great office in the empire, and went to war against demons. In preparation for this, I brought the Great Forest and the Kingdom into my power. Except for the fact that the relationship with the desert elves was a little off, things worked out really well.”
I got a little goosebumps.
Except for the desert story, my current situation was exactly the same.
But it was so strange that his eyes kept looking at Yulia, so I stood there covering her completely and held her hand tightly.
“It went wrong from where. I can’t remember right now. Anyway, something started to go wrong. Elves invade with a large army, the Federation disintegrates, rebellions break out here and there….At that point, I couldn’t stop it. Emilia was assassinated. She went out to the market and was killed by an assassin. The Flechette mansion was burned by crows, and Iris was killed. Trier was fighting against the traitorous Imperial First Sword. He was mortally wounded and died. That’s when the stock of Elixir ran out.”
“Eh, what about Erica?”
“Erika is… Um. No. The story is getting so gloomy. I’ll stop talking about who dies and how.”
“·······.”
I wanted to dismiss it as a lie.
It was such an unbelievable future.
But why would he lie to me?
It was certain that everything had happened, at least in this world.
“In the end, I alone… I survived alone. It seems like I was constantly searching for and fighting, but when I came to my senses, everyone was already dead and there was no one by my side. I don’t know if I made a mistake.”
“How did you get that power?”
“Oh, this?”
After drinking five or six glasses, he summoned a new bottle of wine from the air and was uncorking it.
He didn’t seem to have the ability to simply summon wine bottles and glasses.
In my eyes, it looked like a power that could even be said to be omniscient and omnipotent.
“The power of demons.”
“Magic power?”
“Yes. Having lost friends, lovers, and everything, I had no choice but to run away. By that time, the continent was completely covered in Asylum. Besides, even the demons joined forces to eradicate my power……. There were so many people who helped me escape, but they all died. Duke Kane, General Roman, and Professor Relic… Jeop. Skip all of these too. Anyway, I live while avoiding the eyes of Asylum and seek revenge. I sharpened my blade. But no matter how much I think about it, there is only one way for me to counterattack.”
“Are you stealing the power of demons?”
“That’s right. I think it’s similar to me.”
“·······.”
Similar.
Just hearing that made me very uncomfortable.
“Among the demons, I chose the madman. Once he loses his eyes, he never knows how to take them out. So I prepared everything and attacked, and in the end, I cut the madman’s head. In a human body! “
Said Schluss Heinkel proudly, beating his chest.
“Then I grabbed his heart and absorbed the authority. It was bound by some complex spell, but what do you know? . He became a demon that never ages forever and has destructive power. After that, he turned around and defeated the other demons one by one.”
“Did you become the only Mine that way?”
“Yes. I became the last remaining demon and gathered all the powers in one place. That’s what this power is. It’s not completely limitless, but it’s powerful enough to be said to be omnipotent in the eyes of humans.”
“Did you destroy this world?”
“That’s right. People suddenly became crazy about me when I became the only demon. They said that I was the god of the new world who had the right to rule over mankind. What are they saying after killing all my precious people… I wiped it out without leaving anyone behind. But the ending didn’t appear. Maybe I didn’t count destroying the continent as an ending. Thinking about it now, it was a stupid thing to do. I’ll leave a little bit behind. If no one is left, Julia will be reincarnated. I can’t do it… And then about 100,000 years have passed? I’ve been alone all along for that long time.”
“·······.”
I’m not crazy.
Looking at Schluss Heinkel in this world, I felt that way.
History If you live alone for 100,000 years and you are sane, that would be even weirder.
Certainly there was no hostility toward him, but he seemed somehow dangerous.
It looked like a ticking time bomb that would explode if touched.
“Anyway, it’s really nice to see people’s faces after a long time, hey. I’m like a god here? So, if you guys want anything, I can make it for you. Except people. Euhhahahaha!”
“I don’t need that. Can you send us back to the world we came from?”
“Haa… I knew you would say that. I wish I had stayed longer.”
“Is there a way?”
“Hey. Let’s make a deal, me in my glorious days.”
I thought you’d hold on to me to stay here.
He gave up more coolly than I thought.
Looking behind her, Yulia was smiling slightly as if she was relieved.
“Durandal is already broken, but if I use about 90% of my strength, I can open a rift in the dimension at least once. Go there.”
“Then you too-“
“I can’t go out. It’s a degraded version of Durandal, so I have to keep the rift outside.”
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“Will it really be okay? At 90%, that power will almost all disappear.”
“It’s good for me. The original game isn’t fun if it’s only on easy difficulty, right? It was at that moment that I wanted to enjoy it on hard mode.”
“Thank you. For giving up omnipotence and letting us go.”
“Us?”
Suddenly, his expression distorted.
At that moment, my heart felt like it was going to crash.
A feeling similar to the fear of seeing him for the first time weighed down on me.
“You are the only one going out.”
“What do you mean?”
“I told you it was a deal. Give Yulia to me and go, me in my splendid days.”
“·······.”
Things went wrong.
That too seriously.