233 – Nyx
“The person you said is in front of me.”
It was a very calm voice, but I couldn’t hide my embarrassment. It was because I was the only person in front of Nix right now.
By the way, what do I do?
“…… What is that sound, well…… I don’t know.”
I answered over and over again. Nix didn’t even raise an eyebrow, as if I had expected it to be like this.
“Don’t worry. Because it’s natural that you don’t know. Your head will be messy too. You may not understand what I am saying. It won’t be easy to accept it this way. The one who understands is abnormal.”
The tone of voice has changed 180 degrees. There was no grotesque ‘ki-hi-hi’ laugh like we usually do when we talk, and there was no sullen smile.
From the moment he answered my question, it was clear that his personality had changed, judging from the fact that he was wearing short language, and even that changed personality was quite different from his usual self.
It was just all weird.
“If I could recall my memories, I would be able to easily understand the current situation…… Not right now I’m sorry.”
An expression as if he knows something that I don’t know. Before he could ask what that memory was, Nix jumped in the head.
“Because you returned to your original world in exchange for that.”
As soon as I heard that, my body shuddered. It felt as if the hairs on my body were standing upright as if I had been electrocuted.
Even an idiot can understand what Nyx just said about the ‘original world’.
The world I was born and raised in.
This world was played as a game, not as reality.
And it means the world before being possessed by this place.
A story that the people of this world should not have known, and should not have known, was flowing from Nyx’s mouth. It felt like his head stopped spinning.
“Nyx, you…… How far do you know? And, how do you know?”
“… ….”
Nyx didn’t answer, but stared at me with dull black eyes. The eyes overlapped. He was a pupil with literally nothing in it. Even the slightest emotion.
“Answer me. What is your identity?”
The black eyes disappeared under the eyelids. All movements stopped, as if meditating. I instinctively thought that I shouldn’t interfere with that action, so I waited in silence for it to end.
How much time had passed, my eyelids opened. The black eye that had disappeared beneath it reappeared. Nyx opened her eyes and stared at her. It was still an emotionless eye.
As if he had asked for permission from someone and came, the answer flowed gently through his lips.
“After the last immortal centipede disappeared, the person who recovered and buried the body where it was located.”
“…… What?”
The Last Immortal Centipede. As soon as I heard that word, something came to my mind.
It is one of the four endings of Brightest Darkness 3, and the ‘sacrifice’ ending is evaluated as the true ending because all kinds of events and triggers are attached to it.
By the timeline of Brunet 3, the world itself began to die out, causing twisting cracks to form all over the continent.
The immortal centipede was a deformed creature that appeared through the twisted rift.
Because it was born from the distortion of the world, it makes the rift bigger by itself, and then the vicious cycle of more immortal centipedes appearing in the rift repeats itself infinitely.
So, for some reason, it could be said that the plot of Brunet 3 is a story in which the main character, who is parasitized by an immortal centipede and maintains reason, defeats all the centipedes that have spread all over the world.
Based on the ‘sacrifice’ ending, the main character’s journey is a great success, leaving only one immortal centipede.
It was a guy who was parasitic on the main character’s body.
As long as there is at least one distorted being left in the world, it is so obvious that a new monster will appear, so the main character of Brunet 3 uses a requiem on himself to get rid of the immortal centipede.
He chose to commit suicide.
Through all kinds of events and triggers, it was possible because he had a mission to save other lives by giving his own life, even if it was a dying world.
And, the soul was torn to pieces and even the immortal centipede died, so the main character’s corpse was recovered—
“…… Soul, guardian?”
It was the ‘soul guardian woman’.
An NPC who was with the player until the end, when he met the main character at the very beginning of Brunet 3 and met the ending, and an NPC that allowed the player to level up.
“Right.”
Nyx nodded. I hesitated and stepped back. It was the action of the body, not the head. That NPC that appeared in brunet 3 is Nyx right here in front of you?
“Uh, how…… How…… ?”
“There is one person who came here from another world right in front of me, and there is no way that there won’t be a second person.”
It was a very calm answer.
I forcibly squeezed my head, which almost stopped spinning, to organize my thoughts. If you put those words together, it means that I have already passed through the world of Brunet 3.
No matter what the method was, after seeing the ending, I went back to the original world, the place where I played the Brün series like a game.
‘I am the main character of Brussels 3? Why?’
But following this hypothesis led to a contradiction.
I definitely asked who the main character of Brunet 3 was, and Nyx said that the main character was me. It was an answer that could not come out if I was possessed by the main character of Brunet 3.
There is definitely an original game and an original protagonist. Unless Nyx misunderstood my question and gave the wrong answer, my existence and the original protagonist’s existence collided with each other.
‘…… I don’t know.’
I thought I could figure out the contradiction if I thought about it a little calmly, but that was not the case. It was too much to take in the information that had just come in, let alone think about it calmly.
While I froze in place like a program that had typed in “This sentence is false,” Nix started another bombshell.
“How much have you raised your skills? It must have risen a lot since the first time it was enchanted. What did he say about it…… Hmm… ….”
Since I didn’t have the strength to be surprised anymore, I calmly waited for the next words.
“Oh, yes. They called ‘level’, ‘experience’, and ‘status’, maybe? I heard it from God when I came here, but I haven’t used it for a long time, so my memory is a bit fuzzy.”
I felt like I had to cancel the words that there was no more power to be surprised.
I stared blankly at Nix, who was talking about something that shouldn’t have happened. I almost collapsed on the floor because my legs gave out for a moment, but I clenched my teeth and endured.
“You must have thought of it as the process of ‘raising’ your status. But you are wrong.”
“…… Wrong, Dani?”
“It is not a process of ‘uploading’, but a process of ‘recovering’.”
It was harder to understand what he was saying because each word was deliberately spoken with a lot of force.
“…… Get it back? What?”
What does this mean? It just didn’t make sense in my head.
And now that I think about it, the answer doesn’t seem likely. I hunched over and waited for Nix to say the next thing.
“God would have told me the reason. If it weren’t for the magic that reduced your physical abilities to the limit, a giant dragon would have found you and killed you. So I had no choice but to cast a spell on you.”
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It was as I said.
God clearly explained it that way. That I took my powers so that the world eater would not kill me. Even though I know my existence is God’s arrangement, ignore it because it’s so insignificant.
“It wasn’t speculation, it was certainty. I’m sure the dragon will come and kill you the moment you appear here. It wasn’t even prepared for the unexpected.”
“… ….”
“On the outside, you seem to be just a human, so why would God be so sure that if you were unharmed and unharmed, he would come? What kind of being are you?”
I don’t know. I don’t know what I used to be or what kind of existence I was. I don’t know and I don’t know That was a very, very natural fact.
I blankly looked down at my hands. An ordinary hand, nothing special. However, now it was also a hand that did not know what it might have done in the past.
“The ability that resides in your body right now is proof of that. You probably thought that God gave it to you. Isn’t that why you asked us to teach you magic?”
Looking at the ability check orb, it seemed to indicate that the strength, magical power, and holy power had gone up by 50 each. He barely nodded.
Seeing my actions, Nyx let out a sneer.
“Wrong. It’s true that God helped, but that was just an act of ‘recovering’ a little bit of what you originally had.”
His head stopped working. It was because the shock was too great.
“You…… Whoops.”
I was in shock, but I was brought back to my senses by the sudden, unpleasant sound. Nyx was gagging at him, covering his mouth.
Bright red blood gushed out between the fingers that covered his mouth.
“Are you okay?!”
I hurriedly approached. Nyx, frowning at him, wiped his mouth with his hand. Splat, splat, red lumps fell to the floor. It wasn’t even blood, it was vomiting gore. A few of them too.
“…… This is why God put a ban on me. My body can’t stand it if I tell too many truths. It was to protect me. It is not unnecessarily blocked.”
“Then now?”
“I just added a little more to God’s words. But even so, I’m trying to go a little further out of that little bit, so it’s like this. Well, it’s a temporary phenomenon though. Shut up and you’ll be fine again.”
As I was calming myself and sweeping my chest, a question suddenly came to my mind.
“Wait a minute. What surprised me at that time was…….”
“Of course it’s acting. What are you doing all of a sudden? Oh, it was real that I was surprised by the honorific personality other than me. That’s not acting.”
“… ….”
“Speaking of honorifics, I have a different personality. He doesn’t know anything You shouldn’t even tell him. All the truth must be carried by me alone. That’s why ‘Nyx’ split into two.”
The word ‘nick’ was heavily emphasized.
“It’s a magic that steals the power of each of you. Even with the protection of the goddess, it was impossible for a single human to bear all of that reaction. But I had to make it work somehow.”
“Then you… ….”
“You can think of it as a kind of shield. A shield that prevents damage to the body’s soul. The source of the soul is over there, so as long as the other side is fine, I will recover on my own.”
Black flames arose in Nyx’s hands. The blood stains on his wrists, mouth, and floor were engulfed in black flames and cleaned up.
“Let me tell you one last thing. There’s still a lot left to talk about, but I’m afraid my body will be in danger.”
“What is it?”
“Who are the two people who were in a world far past the world where the Immortal Centipede appeared, and a world far past the world far past that world? Also, how could you have maintained your senses even after being parasitized by an immortal centipede?”
“…… It’s very complicated, is it a riddle?”
“It’s not a riddle, it’s just a twist. My body can’t stand it if I speak directly. It’s best to say it indirectly like this. Anyway, think carefully.”
With that, Nyx cocked his head.
“Nyx? Nicks!”
I quickly grabbed him by the shoulder. Nix, who raised his head, shrank in surprise when he saw me shaking his shoulder right in front of him.
“Why, why are you like that? Hey, maybe…… Key, kikiki, kiss, if you want to…… I’m still mentally ready…… Lol… ….”
It was on the honorific side.
I remembered what Nix had asked me to do. He said that the person on the honorific side is in a state of not knowing anything, and that I shouldn’t let them know either.
Then you should faithfully keep the request. I took my hand off his shoulder. Nix was still smiling.
“Hey, when are you going to start learning black magic? Shall we start now?”
Staring at Nyx, who grinned grimly, he placed his hand on her head. The pause was brief. His usual timid, sullen laugh came to mind.
I stroked her hair for a long time.
For a very long time.