The concrete ground soaked the blood of the fallen, and the endless darkness swallowed up those with a story. In the abyss where even the benevolent Mother Goddess has cursed, the foolish children cannot bear it and commit another sin. The knight, who wanted to leave a mark on history, eventually passed away along with the four young men who followed him.
However, the flowing time flows through everything like a huge river, consolidating the twisted life into a flat floor of everyday life. The death that occurred yesterday sank without being known or conveying any emotion to anyone.
The same daily life as before came to me.
“bruise!”
uhm. It’s the sound of an alarm I haven’t heard in a long time. I tossed and held out my hand. Then, Aji rubbed his nose on my hands and arms and barked over and over again. Even then, when I did not wake up, I even bit my teeth.
“bruise! bruise!”
“Ah, okay. I will get up.”
I stretched out, gave Alarm one stroke as a reward, washed my face with today’s amount of water, and washed my hair with the water in the next room. It feels refreshing. If there is only the warm morning sunlight and cool breeze here, I can’t wish for anything.
The instructor uniform packet was inserted into the biometric terminal. A tight but unobstructed instructor uniform covers my stomach. I quickly changed my clothes and shoved things into my pockets and went out. Aji followed me closely.
“Let’s have breakfast and go for a walk.”
“bruise!”
“This morning is fresh and clean as it was freshly rationed yesterday.”
“Woof woof!”
“It’s canned bean stew. Are you fine?”
“Woof woof!”
thank god. Maybe it’s because the dog’s memory isn’t good, or because he doesn’t care about the menu he ate yesterday. I will only feed beans to Aji from now on.
I should have prepared a hearty breakfast, now I have to work on the next one.
went out to the yard. Aji followed me with twinkling eyes, wondering if it was a ball game.
Not today, you asshole. If you played like that yesterday, you should be satisfied. Are you dissatisfied, or have you already forgot? Can’t the memory improve only at this time?
I pushed Aji, who kept running in front of me and looked forward to me.
“Do not disturb. Because today is a very difficult day for me.”
“bruise?”
“I have to wake up an old man who sleeps a lot in the morning and has a bad sleep habit.”
I headed towards the underground arsenal where the vampires reside. Even in the dark, a gloomy energy flows through it as if it were visible. Swallowing his saliva, he approached the iron gate of the armory and banged and shouted.
“Tirkanjaka trainee! wake up! The sun has risen in the middle of the sky!”
“bruise?”
Aji looked up at the sky as if puzzled. In the abyss, the sun cannot be seen as a speck. Aji tilted her head.
how about It must have been in the middle of the sky outside. If you want to refute, call the sun.
I used my hands and feet to knock on the arsenal door over and over again.
“wake up! How long will you be sleeping? Even if the resistance attacked from above, it roared, even if the land was in danger of collapsing. Well, what if you die once? When you die, your work ends, or your tax payments? If I could move my body, I would like to contribute to society even a little… !”
“What a fuss in the morning.”
As I was knocking, the door to the underground arsenal slowly opened.
“You are rude. If you come as a guest, shouldn’t you wait for the owner to dress you up?”
“What kind of grooming are you in the coffin anyway? .”
I was about to say a word, but when I saw the vampire appearing through the crack in the door, I shut my mouth. Naturally, I thought of the voices ringing inside the coffin, but the vampires now have a different appearance than usual.
“Oh, you’re awake.”
The floating juniper coffin remains so worn out. But a vampire sits on it. The vampire, with her legs gathered in a few places, was wearing an antique hairpin with her hair raised and a parasol draped over her shoulders, showing off her elegance as if a princess from an old dynasty appeared. The black parasol made by gathering darkness caught on the thin fingers of a vampire and swayed like a willow leaf.
Old fashioned clothes. The sleeves are so large that the white skin is revealed through the cracks. It is a clothing that indirectly expresses relaxation by using a lot of fabric. The military might see it as a flagship, but in the past, it was actually worn like that.
As the vampire took one step forward, the huge steel door opened wide to both sides as if welcoming the vampire. The bright red brand engraved on the iron gate shone. In a way that was terribly slow or time-consuming, the vampire went out of the underground arsenal with dignity.
The iron door slammed shut behind her. The vampire muttered as she climbed onto the coffin.
“It’s been noisy lately. I couldn’t sleep at all. Why is it more noisy than when there are more than a hundred when there are only three? It roars louder than a stinkin’ pig, so you should be able to live, Won.”
“Wow. If you hadn’t woken up, would you have slept more? Are you not getting enough sleep? If you slept for hundreds of years, you would soon get tired of sleeping and run away.”
“… became It’s wrong for me to haggle with you.”
The vampire glanced at me, then took control of the coffin and moved forward.
“Why did you come out of the coffin?”
“If you decide to wake up, you have to dress up. Isn’t that the basics?”
The vampire, who answered with a sharp attitude, turned her head sharply and glared at me sharply.
“if not. Do you have any complaints about what I am wearing?”
‘Where, again, like yesterday, try to say that it is the main book.’
what. This sudden enemy.
oh no way.
Am I pissed off because I said Joo-kee yesterday?
hmmm. should you read It’s annoying to read mind-reading in the morning, but I can’t help it. I clenched and straightened my fist a few times, then focused on reading the vampire’s thoughts.
‘Cultivating and showing off one’s appearance is something that anyone who knows the original manners should do. In fact, he gives water only to me when he puts water on his head and wears a uniform every day… ! Last time I was involved in your unjust words and actions, so I couldn’t resist, but today is different. I’ll Jailbreak this cheeky bastard!’
Wow. You kept what I said yesterday for a day. You are old, but why are you so petty on the inside? If you have this kind of memory, you won’t get dementia.
I don’t know why the feeling of shame grew so much, but during the day, the feeling of kimchi-jang-han had matured and became something completely different. If you bump into them at this point, you’re in a really big mess. I need to loosen up a bit.
I answered with the utmost gentleness and sincerity.
“no? Why are you complaining about what you’re wearing? Only my eyes are bright.”
“Your boy. Dressing up neatly is a basic etiquette for all ages… What?”
“I’m a human too, but I like seeing a pretty person dressed up more than a wooden coffin floating around. Hairpins and clothes dyed with colors go well with your white impression. I think I did some finesse by painting on white paper. The rumor that vampires have magical powers of fascination doesn’t seem to have happened in vain.”
“uh?”
“The world will be jealous. Immortal, immortal, a vampire who lives forever, even time cannot change its appearance. Maybe it’s good for the world to stay in the coffin. That way the jealousy will disappear from the women and the men will not be arrogant.”
“Uh, um… .”
It is a vampire who has been grooming herself all day yesterday. Being out of the coffin means that from now on, you will be active in earnest. The fact that she wore clothes and raised her hair was an expression of that will.
For a long time and with a lot of emotion, it needs a fair amount of compensation. Otherwise, it will all become one and attack me.
The vampire responded by tilting the parasol slightly to my praise, which had been trained by cheating in the back alley.
“Heh, heh. You are good at what you say.”
“It’s true to flirt, but it’s not a lie. As you know if you have seen my words and deeds on a regular basis, I am a person who speaks every word with sincerity, so I can’t say anything that is not in my heart.”
“Yesterday, they looked at me and said that I was the main book… .”
“I said it was because it was an urgent situation, but I didn’t say a word that it wasn’t beautiful. As you may not know, false reporting is considered the greatest crime in the military, and saying that Tirkanjaka trainees are not beautiful would be an obvious false report.”
great. Finally, the vampire shut her mouth. He didn’t even turn his head and went far away with his face covered with a parasol, but as a result of reading through mind-reading, he was quite pleased. Also, my impression of myself has improved a bit.
Whoa. The urgent hurdle was over. ruler. Now let’s go pick up the returner.
The returnee lives on the first floor of the prison.
There are no instructors or other prisoners, so if you ask why a great regressor is still living in that narrow and stuffy prison, I will tell you to look down and take a look.
The regressor ‘cuts down’ all ten walls of the room adjacent to her, including the walls of his prison. Thick concrete walls made with iron plates to prevent prisoners from escaping were cut into squares like prefabricated furniture and piled up on one side of the prison. The returnees lived in the enlarged prison as a training ground and residence.
In fact, it was safe to say that the entire first floor was a regressor’s house, and the regressor himself seemed to think so. From the moment we stepped into the first floor, a sharp sense of vigilance directed us.
“uh? Tirkanjaka? Azi? and… .”
The regressor checked the face of the visitor and unbounded it. Even in the meantime, it’s embarrassing to look at me and frown a little. what did i do
“Why are you here?”
“I have something to tell you today. Follow me.”
“I am busy. I have work to do.”
“Ah, Mr. I can’t get it right. He must have been a loner outside.”
“… What did you just say?”
The returnee, who was about to enter the room, showed his face again, full of hostility. As long as I brought the returner back with just one word, I said shichimi.
“I have an important message, so please attend my seminar and listen, Shay.”
“It’s an important word, so listen carefully. No, there is no time.”
‘Yesterday, I got a sense of hematology and was swinging my sword all night, it’s annoying.’
Your efforts are imaginary, but not mine. I raised my chin and slipped away something that the returner might be curious about.
“I’m going to tell you about the structure of Tantalus, don’t you need that too?”
“The Tantalus… rescue?”
As expected, the regressor, who was tempted by new ‘knowledge’ he did not know, put his hand on his chin and pondered.
‘I know what’s going on in Tantalus, but I don’t know the structure or secrets of it yet. If we can know the structure of Tantalus, can we know why ‘she’ is coming?’
The regressor repeated thirteen regressions and uncovered numerous knowledge and secrets. What will happen in the future, and what is secretly going on in this world. Few people know better than the regressor at this moment.
Even I, who read minds by mind-reading, because of the nature of regression, do not fully know.
However, this is the first time the Returner has come to Tantalus before the collapse. In other words, I expected that you would not know about the structure of Tantalus, which you learned from the Resistance’s attack. That expectation was correct.
Outwardly he was a hesitant returnee, but he noticed that his heart had already turned. I turned around and said.
“What. If you don’t like the change back, that’s fine. Then I will.”
“for a moment.”
you’ve been caught
Gamma, no, wickroll, thanks. You may be dead, but I’ll put your knowledge to good use. Even when people die, don’t they leave their knowledge behind?
“Wait for it to be ready.”
It was time for the regressor to enter the inner space separated by a cloth. Aji, who had been walking around with curiosity, suddenly sprinted towards me and dropped something in her mouth. It was a transparent, circular marble with a strange light swirling from the inside, processed with magic crystal.
“bruise! bruise!”
“What. Let’s throw a ball? But what if you bring someone else’s belongings carelessly?”
It just looks expensive. I carefully lifted the marble up and looked around. what kind of bead is this It seems to contain quite a bit of magical power inside. is it expensive? Or are you at risk?
“Ah, that. It’s a bomb.”
It was both. I hurriedly threw the marble away.
“aah!”
The marbles make their way down the prison corridor. In the meantime, I ran to a nearby corner and hid behind a wall. Damn, what if you put the bomb in a place where a dog can bite it! Explosives must be carefully managed. .
for a moment. dog?
I thought about it, and I poked my head out over the wall. Then I saw Aji, who had just run for a long time, catching the falling marble in a perfect position.
Oh, if you ask me. Perhaps.
When I couldn’t keep my mouth shut, Aji and my eyes met.
“bruise! bruise!”
“Oh, no. don’t go! Don’t bite! Do not come!”
Terrified, I kicked the ground and tried to run away. But by the time I got up, Aji was already approaching me.
Aji opened her eyes and set the marble at my feet. Without even reacting, the bomb dropped by Aji hit the floor. I sat down with both hands outstretched. As if he believed he could stop the explosion with his hands and feet.
And like that, a bomb fell on the hallway… .
The regressor’s laughter was heard.
“Pop, 👑👑. dummy!”
‘Is that just because you’re scared? Those are lava tears. It’s a bomb that never explodes unless you infuse high-purity magic in a specific pattern!’
The marble rolled at my feet without any change and crashed into it. I blankly picked up the marble and looked at the regressor and the marble alternately. The returnee couldn’t help but burst into laughter when he saw my bewildered expression.
“Puh ha ha! Anyway, I can’t leave any dangerous stuff anywhere!”
“… It’s a bomb.”
“The bomb is right. But it never explodes unless I try to.”
“Bombs are dangerous, what do you mean? Did you fall into the abyss even if you lived in the abyss? Get it out right now!”
“Fufu. okay. okay.”
The returnee smiled and picked up the marble. Aji looked at the regressor with longing eyes, but the regressor just shoved it into the subspace pocket. Aji glared at the regressor with a look that took away the toy.
“Sheesh.”
He licked his tongue and got up from his seat. I felt uncomfortable because it felt like I had tasted the limits of mind reading.
The regressor’s knowledge of previous rounds cannot be read until the regressor directly reflects on it. Therefore, when something related to the regressor occurs, the response is delayed and the reaction is difficult to predict. It was the first ordeal that came to me, who was very proud of my mind-reading skills.
No, it’s not an ordeal. To be honest, the regression is a bit out of the norm. The mind-reading ability to work hard against such a person was admirable. The world is too much, I’m not lacking in mind reading.
anyway. We’re all gathered, shall we go? It is foolish to add something at a point where my image has been undermined. I walked towards the management office on the 4th floor without saying a word, using only my mind-reading skills to observe the situation behind me.
On the way, the vampire rolled her hands and put it to her lips, smiling a little.
“It was not a bad entertainment. Because I could see that guy shivering. However, it’s a bit disappointing to see them run away unsightly no matter how frivolous they are. Just like a bomb.”
“Well? That reaction, I guess I just barely noticed the power of the bomb. When this bomb detonates, a 3km radius is devastated.”
“Is that so? Wasn’t it only used for fireworks?”
“If it’s not that destructive, it’s useless. Fufu. Anyway, thanks, I had a good time. I want to keep it in my heart.”
The vampire looked at the strangely cheerful regressor and spit it out.
“It’s the first time I’ve seen you smile.”
“yes? Yes, people can laugh.”
“It was nice to see. How about laughing sometimes?”
“Sometimes. me… .”
The returner abruptly shut his mouth and touched the corner of his mouth. Her face flashed the shock of someone who had just recalled something long forgotten.
‘… Did you laugh?’
I was always trying to get stronger. I tried to get even a single line of knowledge. Numerous powers and secrets were still sleeping in this world, and every minute and every second of a regressor was a struggle to obtain them.
Even after entering the abyss, where he could not go, the returner did not neglect to wield his sword and take power.
The emotional luxury of laughter is so unfamiliar to her.
‘How many times, no, how many times have you laughed?’
The sense of alienation as if an unsuitable wind had passed by, and the longing for the emotions I felt in the distant past. The returner wiped his lips over and over again.
While marching silently for a moment, the vampire, sitting comfortably on a coffin that moved on its own, moved to and fro as if something was uncomfortable. Each time, the silver hair fluttering under the hairpin lit up and shimmered, and the clothes fluttered.
However, the regressor, who was deeply immersed in thought, had no reaction. In the end, the impatient vampire decided to try his best. The vampire spoke while fiddling with his hair.
“Hmmm. Shay. Has anything changed?”
“Oh, right. Tirkanjaka. I learned something about hematopoiesis while going through a real battle yesterday, and I need some advice on that. I’ll see you when he’s finished talking.”
“… okay. Don’t. It is good news that progress has been made.”
The sad vampire shrugged and looked at each other as if comparing me to a regressor.
ha. really. It’s a book that makes me all nauseous. I think next time I’ll just not praise him.