The training room on the 4th floor of Tantalus. There, the returner was preparing to revive the undead.
Even though they are said to be immortals who do not die even if they die, the curse that corrodes the body is fatal in this place where the connection with the Earth Mother is cut off. Perhaps the immortal corpse golem that devoured dozens of villages in the past could reappear.
It’s still a question of where that many corpses came from, but that doesn’t mean we can’t leave the immortals alone to solve the question.
Therefore, the regressor decided to rob the recovery item he had, curse the undead’s arm, and restore his body.
‘If I intervened and the Undead woke up now, it would be far from the original history… . already twisted enough It is enough to know how the undead were cursed.’
Finding out that the immortals and vampires are intertwined in this way is a huge boon in itself.
If you want to dig more, you can dig, but… . In the present situation, the regressor was preoccupied with another question.
‘What the hell is it?’
Referring to the recipe I learned from Uisun in the last round, I made a precious healing medicine that even included the leaves of the world tree, but doubts did not go away in the mind of the regressor.
‘You’re obviously hiding something. Deflecting the cherry blossoms, seeing through my stomach, and evading Finlay’s attack like a feat. They’re not all average skills. However.’
As her intuition told him, he had something. What she didn’t know, even though she had seen everything during the thirteen regressions.
However.
‘What can I say… . Why don’t you feel any pressure? At first glance, they just look like weak bones!’
Wait, time.
it’s a weak bone even if it’s true are you saying that?
‘The pace is slow. My reaction is sometimes frighteningly fast, even for me, but even with that, the movements are so slow that it makes me yawn! If it’s strong or not, I don’t think it’s that. I’ve never shown swordsmanship. The immortal’s right arm, like a rapier, was just tapped, but never wielded properly!’
huh? At the end of the Finlay attack, did I really hit it with all my might? Did one of Finlay’s teeth come out?
Seeing the best swing of my life and not swinging it right?
‘Ugh. I’m so curious I’m going crazy I think you’ll figure it out if you fight it once, just once! Or just a chance to look at your naked body!’
What the hell are you thinking?
Before falling into a more strange thought, I couldn’t stand it and ran down the hallway and opened the door.
“Student Shay. Are you ready?”
“uh? Yes, roughly.”
The returner answered me with no sincerity and looked up and down at me. It was as if his eyes were becoming hazy, as if he thought he could see through even clothes.
‘Affordable shirt… . uhm. I can’t see the body at all from the top of the shirt… . damn army. The clothing packet was unnecessarily well made.’
Really, think of it as a good thing that people in the world don’t use mind-reading. If not, you would be locked up somewhere first. Since I am a compassionate me, I can just read it and move on… .
‘Piercing eyes can only see bones when used on people… . I can’t even see where my eyes are covered… . Then again, when changing clothes or taking a bath, I have no choice but to spy with my distant eyes… .’
cancellation. I can’t get past it either.
I can’t. I need some shock therapy before this Guanyin regressor’s thoughts fly into space.
I shouted loudly at the returnee who still looked at me with a keen eye.
“Shay trainee!”
“uh? why? suddenly.”
When I called the returnee, I immediately folded my arms in an X shape and shyly avoided my gaze and said,
“just. I’m shy, so would you please refrain from looking at me like that? Just looking at it makes me feel dirty.”
The returner’s head creaked. This is because reason was temporarily paralyzed due to an instantaneous excessive amount of information.
‘… what kind of bullshit is that? why blush What’s with that creepy posture? what? I’m embarrassed? Are you tainted by my gaze? I’m simply trying to peek at the flesh. uh? Wait a minute. Maybe my gaze was too explicit… .’
I put together fragmented information, and connected my situation with my words and actions.
The returnee, who finally realized the true meaning of my words, shouted in a rage.
“What absurd nonsense!”
“You just saw my body! From head to toe, every nook and cranny, with lustful eyes that want to remove it if possible!”
“I didn’t see you with lustful eyes!”
“Are you sure you want to take it off? people! Take a look here! Student Shay is trying to undress me!”
“hey!”
When I ran away and shouted, the regressor instinctively followed me like a cat hunting mice, even though he didn’t understand the situation.
“for a moment! stop!”
“I do not like it! Don’t come! Help!”
“Stop making misleading noises!”
“Woah ah ah ah!”
When I didn’t stop shouting, the evil returner caught up to me and grabbed the cherry blossom.
‘I can’t! Let’s cut the air to stop the sound from leaking and then use our hands!’
No, cowardly! Are you trying to use your power in a savage manner while instigating a fair and just public opinion?
Won’t I lose if I pick up the sword? While he was running, he stopped tall and turned half a turn on the spot. The regressor, who nearly hit my chest while trying to cut through the air, abruptly stopped.
“a. Don’t overreact to pranks, trainee Shay. I know you are sincere.”
“… what? suddenly?”
“Are you sure you’re not really trying to steal a shabby body like me? Shay trainees are also people with the minimum morals.”
“That’s right.”
“No matter how much you say you like a man.”
“That’s not right!!”
Screaming returnee. I tilted my head and asked.
“uh? Didn’t you say you like men last time? And it was washed away.”
The regressor, who had been caught with a strange concept unknowingly, turned around, unable to deny it.
“No, not not! I don’t like you! For me, you… ! okay! It’s like a toilet bowl!”
“… No, that’s a bit sensational in many ways.”
“I don’t mean that! That means it’s dirty! Lady, what should I say?!”
‘Who passed by? You seem to care rather! Stones by the roadside? There are no stones in the abyss!’
“Well, it doesn’t matter at all what you compare me to.”
“Anyway, it’s something insignificant!”
“Neenee. Let’s go back to the training room, shall we? Aren’t we supposed to revive Mr. Rash, who has been owed to us by borrowing his arm?”
“Are we? You must have written it!”
I exhorted the zealous returnee and went back to the training room.
At that moment, the regressor, who was crazy about the potion boiling in the big pot, remembered what he was trying to do.
“Oh, right! The right arm of the immortal?”
“Here you go.”
He handed over the pieces of flesh he had gathered in the box. The returner frowned upon checking the contents.
“Ugh. Terrible. He must be the first immortal person in the world to have been like this.”
“Can you play it?”
“Is it possible. As long as you curse it, the rest will stick to you just by supplying the essence of the earth… . I don’t know how long that will take.”
The returnee, who took the box and set it down next to the pot, suddenly looked around.
“What about Tirkanjaka? Didn’t you say you’d pick this up?”
“Tirkanjaka trainees are now going back to the underground arsenal.”
“okay? Tired? Indeed, it could be.”
“And student Shay, I have a favor.”
The returnee showed a curious reaction to the word “please”.
“you? What?”
“Some of this.”
I handed the note I had prepared to the returnee.
“I’m going somewhere for a while, so read when I’m away.”
When he finished speaking like that, the returnee had already opened the note and read the first sentence. The regressor, who looked at the letters with me as if he was a bit sorry, said in a voluptuous voice.
“It’s because you’re talking too slow. The warning should have been given before I read it.”
“Isn’t your personality too impatient? Well, there’s nothing special about it, so please open it up and read it.”
‘what. I thought it was very important to give you another note.’
The regressor who stared at me bluntly began to read the remaining half.
‘Make three meals for Aji. regenerate the undead. And importantly, never open the door to the underground arsenal until someone comes out… ?’
The content of the note is over. The returner waved the note and asked me.
“What does the last sentence mean?”
“iced coffee. Literally. You must never open the door or disturb the ceremony, as there will be a very important ceremony in there.”
“… Tirkanjaka is there now.”
“yes.”
“What kind of ritual is it?”
“The ritual of resuscitation of the heart.”
“Who is doing that?”
“It’s me.”
sound. The returnee, who nodded slightly, immediately raised the blade and questioned me.
“What are you going to do?”
Also, it just doesn’t go away. expected
After all, the returner’s meddling was expected. I’m not going to watch the regressor and the vampires alone in an isolated place.
In addition to that, they need someone to protect them from other people’s access as they must not be disturbed during the ceremony.
It is essential to convince the returnee.
Not having a choice, I lowered my voice and started talking.
“Student Shay. What would you do if I told you I was going to make the hearts of trainees in Tirkanjaka beat again?”
“I’m going to say deceiver, you deceiver.”
As expected, the regressor immediately pointed it out.
“Because of that dilemma?”
“… you know why ask? you don’t even know All vampires are homunculus. The most famous type of homunculus in the world, which receives the blood of the ancestors instead of a heart that has stopped even after death and rolls around.”
“So they are bound by a number of restrictions. You can’t go against the blood, or you can’t use magic other than blood magic.”
The answer came out of my mouth. The returner looked at me with a mysterious face.
“Did you make such an offer to Tirkanjaka even knowing that? Are you serious or are you kidding me? I don’t really know what you’re aiming for anymore.”
“I sincerely hope for the revival of the Tirkanjaka trainee.”
“Yeah, I don’t know about that attitude. You must be able to believe it.”
‘… However, until now, I have done nothing while periodically touching the heart of Tirkanzaka. Rather, it warned of the danger and protected it from Finlay… . Probably no bad intentions. If there was, it would have moved before Finlay.’
He was still setting the day, perhaps by nature, but even in the midst of doing so, his vigilance toward me was fading. Fighting with Finlay seems to have had a positive effect.
The hostile returnee told me what he knew.
With an ambiguous attitude, he didn’t even know if he was persuading or giving information.
“The moment I overcame death with magic… It’s over. It can never be reversed. When the mystery that binds lives ends, the body faces a delayed death… . Healing and reviving, he will disappear into dust without any time to do anything. Because you can never save yourself with someone else’s magic… .”
“yes. That’s it.”
I said that to emphasize the impossibility, but the returner. good point
Because there’s a clue right there.
“It contains the dilemma of the homunculus, the truth that you can never save yourself with the magic of others.”
“… ? Why do you know everything?”
“As the saying goes, in warnings hides advice.”
“Aren’t you telling me to watch out for magic?”
“hahaha. no. What good is a dilemma or a proverb if everyone in the world thinks as simple as student Shay?”
“… Do you want to fight now?”
Of course not. i will lose
I raised my finger and emphasized.
“You cannot save yourself with the magic of others. In other words, the only one who can save him is himself.”
“That’s natural.”
“Now let me tell you one more thing.”
I raised another finger and smiled relaxedly.
“Out of many, many vampires, there is only one non-homunculus. There are beings who have resurrected their dying bodies with their own power, not the power of others. Who?”
He may not know everything, but the regressor knows how to melt even unfamiliar knowledge.
During the 13 regressions, the regressors who encountered information beyond their imagination had a personality of accepting and seeing even the most unbelievable information as soon as it was spoken.
“The first vampire, the progenitor Tirkanzaka?”
The answer is the reward. Applause was given to the returnee who gave the correct answer.
“good job. That’s right.”
“When death came, I moved my body, so it’s possible to come back to life again… ? Certainly, it is not impossible. Even if you return your power, it’s yours… .”
However, the murmur of the returner was brief. The regressor, who had been calculating for a long time with a dark expression, finally closed his eyes and shook his head.
“But it’s impossible, but it’s not, it’s difficult enough to be close to impossible. Even if the power is restored, the goal to return to is gone 1200 years ago. Besides, the power of Tirkanzaka is blood art. With it, I have obtained, ruled, and ruled countless things. Tirkanzaka has blurred the boundaries between herself and the world so that there is no problem even if she takes out her heart… .”
Death is the blurring of the boundary between oneself and the world.
The progenitor Tirkanjaka is the closest to death among those who have not yet died.
The Queen of Blood, who spreads her blood around the world to increase her family and rules everything she touches. No other life has come closer to conceptual death than her.
So, in order for Sijo to regain his life… The distance to return is farther than anything else in the world.
“It won’t happen.”
Even if you are not a regressor who came back after seeing the end, you are likely to become a pessimist. Virtually impossible, that is the vision of this plan that everyone sees.
But what about me?
“I’m going to try. So, in the meantime, please keep the door open. so that no one can come in.”
“… Have you tried?”
The returnee, who was about to agree, suddenly asked with a question.
“By the way, how did you know this?”
‘I hadn’t even thought of this, but as a military instructor and not a wizard… ?’
No, why is he the center of the world? Just because you don’t know doesn’t mean you don’t know everything.
Like a soul trapped in the valley of folly. don’t correct me
Recalling the past, choose one unlucky expression and follow it. Then he smirked and scratched his temples.
“That, only the first place in the secondary military school can be known. Cho-Jol is dead, and after waking up, even if he is beaten to death, we do not know.”
“hey!”
As expected, the returner got angry and ran away. The returner, who was holding the pot pot, only growled and did not follow.
This should have been conveyed. I waved my hand as I left the training room through the back door.
“It will take a day or two. In the meantime, I wish you all the best. Oh, don’t look too hard at the note!”
“Chi. Hurry up!”
After closing the door to the training room, I headed to the underground arsenal where the vampires were waiting.
*****
‘If Finlay came to the last round, would he have succeeded or failed? From here on, it’s completely unknown territory… . But Finlay and the instructor were at odds with each other. Afterwards, the war eventually broke out, so the instructor seems to have failed. Heh, I’m not sure for some reason.’
‘Then, is the attempt to revive Tirkanzaka a solution to the sense of crisis after Finlay’s appearance? It’s probably impossible, but… . Obviously, it’s not 0%. There is a possibility.’
‘If that’s not possible, but very if… . If that’s possible, I’ll be able to convince Tirkanzaka a little faster from the next episode. Let’s trust and watch.’
‘… By the way, what does it mean not to stare too hard at the note? Another word that doesn’t make sense. uh? Press marks?’
‘… Please, this child!’
‘Eyes that see depth. When I look at the marks pressed by this, I remember the hidden letters. You put so much effort into something useless… ? Eight. Let’s read it first.’
‘Don’t go to a restaurant, don’t touch me even if my condition gets weird after it’s finished, and if supplies arrive, use them for yourself… ?’
‘what? What the hell are you up to?’