[Whoever is reading this is probably one of them. My brother or my successor.]
The first word of the letter began like that.
[If anyone other than your brother is reading this, I think you might be surprised that I am a woman. Nice to meet you, Shadow Walker. ‘I knew it was a man, but it must have been a woman!’ I think I might be surprised. You were even more surprised because it was pretty there, right?]
Without realizing it, I gasped and burst out laughing.
Next to the question mark, there was a small picture of a round character holding his waist and sticking out his stomach as if to show off.
[I’m sorry if you thought there was something more left. This is not for you, I left it for my brother.]
Below it was a character who was saying something as if he was scolding him.
[If the name is Shadow Walker’s successor, steal it, find it, or steal it proudly!]
[As long as there are six inheritances, what more do you want!]
“… driving me crazy.”
As soon as I read the last sentence, without knowing it, I lamented and covered my mouth.
In a moment of embarrassment, he rustled the letter and fixed it.
“I wasn’t that kind of kid… ?”
Steal or steal proudly
I mumbled and turned the letter to the next page.
Unlike the first page, where large letters and pictures were drawn in various places, the second page was completely written without any gaps.
[Hi oppa.]
[Suddenly, you know what?]
[I am writing this letter today because it is my birthday.]
[And the day I became the same age as my brother I remember.]
[It has been many years since I came to this world.]
“… … .”
I read the letter without a word.
When I picked up the letter for the first time, I thought that it might cry or collapse, but I was surprisingly calm.
[Anyone other than you wouldn’t even be able to read this. my successor… So, if Jin Ye-seul or anyone else sees this letter, I set it to burn as soon as they read the first page.]
[I’ll write it down here in advance. If my brother reads all of this, burn it. Because I didn’t hang up the drinking party because I was afraid my brother would get hurt. Understand?]
[Don’t get into trouble while keeping it as a letter you’ve never received except for your birthday, Mother’s Day, and when you went to the military.]
I was nodding my head even though no one was watching.
[When I first came to this world, the story… I’ll just briefly summarize. It must have been my brother, but it was really, really hard. It’s sad, I miss my brother, I miss my friends, I want to go home… But now it’s ok. I have a lot of fun friends next to me, and a lot of co-workers. Even when I’m writing this letter, I’m getting serious for nothing, so I foolishly thought I was funny, but I got scolded and everyone was kicked out.]
[And Shadow Walker… .]
[Are you very surprised?]
[I couldn’t help it. I’m sure my brother will understand. At least I don’t regret it.]
[But don’t get too mad because you only stole bad guys and criminals.]
[…] Well, the greeting is too long. It must have been because I was writing a letter to my brother after a few years, and I was just being sentimental. Actually, there are so many things I want to say… .]
[Now let’s get to the point.]
“okay.”
what you knew, tell me
With that in mind, I began to read the letter while still standing.
[Actually, there wasn’t much I could do in this world. As you know, the original work was hundreds of years ago, right? What the hell could I have done?]
[But that’s the case with the original. The sequel is different. My brother didn’t do it, so I didn’t know it well, but I did know a little bit.]
[Children of Milited. Um, I don’t know what he’s called by my brother. He, is there a seven evil kind like slime? The name he’s been using for a long time was Milited.]
[A world where all the Seven Evil Bells have been sealed. It is said that this is the beginning of the golden age of mankind, but there are still many people who suffer. Even though their power was weakened when I first came to this world, it was especially so in the place where Milited’s children were located, who ruled many regions.]
[…] Well, actually, it saves people. Somehow, I was hostile with them.]
“Yes, it is you.”
It was really that kid.
I nodded slowly.
[Actually, I must have somehow connected with them. I don’t know how many evils they’ve committed in the sequel. There isn’t enough space to write it here. Above all, there were guide seats.]
[Yes, the guide stone.]
[…] I tried to get it somehow, but in the end I couldn’t get it.]
[At the beginning, it wasn’t something you could get your hands on just because you wanted it. If it is the true owner, even if it is thrown into the deep sea or in the middle of space, it will come back, and if it is not the owner, it will somehow leave the hand.]
[I wasn’t the owner of the thing.]
[…] Yes, after all, I was destined to escape from this world and this time period.]
“… … .”
I silently fiddled with the pendant hanging from my neck.
[In the meantime, I found a clue about my brother.]
[The first time I heard about the sealing of Minerva. It was a story that Minerva made a bet with a man, and lost the bet, so she couldn’t win over her pride and sealed herself. At first, I just said that I have great courage to win just by betting the Seven Music Bells. But those who remember the person who was with Minerva at that time… No, it’s not human, so it’s a bit of a human being, isn’t it? Anyway, there were a few things I wrote down.]
[Black hair, a gloomy and sharp impression, a long wound around the mouth.]
[And above all, snake-like eyes.]
[Snake eyes… lol. Who else other than the snake-eyed brother that will remain in the record for hundreds of years?]
Sbengali giggled in silence at this point.
I nodded and bit my lip slightly.
[Well, actually, it was a bit long. Then I almost smashed Milited’s children and had a chance to enter the sealed undersea temple where Milited was. There, I saw murals and paintings painted here and there.]
[The person drawn was my brother.]
[There’s no way I can’t recognize it. That was my brother.]
[I was a little surprised here. No wonder my brother came to this world just like me, 150 years before me! I mean.]
[But I saw the picture of the red-haired girl right behind my brother. That person, Han Soo-young, right?]
[There was a detailed picture of the necklace on my brother’s neck. I was sure there. Oh, my brother was the owner of the guide stone. And I don’t know what happened, but you came to the past with Han Soo-young and sealed Minerva.]
[…] Umm, and it’s a bit off topic here.]
After reading the next sentence, I stopped breathing without realizing it.
Because it was embarrassing.
[…] Is it really true that I won Minerva by betting and sealed it?]
[Perhaps… Isn’t it?]
[Ah, it won’t be. No matter how big your brother… right?]
[No matter how much I suffered because of you… No, yes.]
[Certainly with the seven-point paper… .]
As if he couldn’t take it any longer, Sbangali burst out laughing like crazy.
[Uh-huh, uh-huh! Heh heh heh heh!!!]
[…] Shut up.]
Minerva muttered in a bloody voice.
Under his feet, the shadows were fluctuating enough to be recognized even from outside the field of vision.
But as soon as he saw what was written on the next page, the shadow regained his composure.
[Still, huh… If that’s the case, I’ll support you. I’m serious.]
[What does that matter in the first place, as long as the owner is good, it doesn’t really matter.]
[And what if I get angry? If you see the nephew that Bona Mana brother brought you, you’d just nod your head while saying “Amyo” and “Amyo” as it is.]
[Meah… !]
Minerva was startled and kept her mouth shut.
Sbengali, who does not want to stop laughing, crushed him with magic and made him shut his mouth.
[…] Well, the story leaked somewhere else.]
[Anyway, after I found out about you, I changed my mind a bit.]
[In case of future, so for the progress of the original, I asked my colleagues to hide my legacy in the same place as the original, and I made several preparations.]
[And I specifically asked for the shadow of Henir. He’s a bit wild by nature, and I don’t care if anyone else dies or not… Maybe my brother will protect me hard. If you don’t have Henir’s Shadow, just use it by your brother. It will probably be of great help.]
Several memories came to mind one after another.
Come to think of it, Henir’s shadow tried to protect me with all his might even when he didn’t recognize me as his true master.
At the time, I thought nothing of it, but I hope that all of this… .
“Why didn’t you know… ?”
I asked myself that and muttered.
I knew I wouldn’t be able to accept any answer, so I just kept quiet and shut my mouth.
[And now I’ll tell you the most important thing I’ve found.]
brother and me
Besides us, there were several other people like us in this world.
“Wait, what?”
Surprised, I grabbed the letter tightly.
And I started to read it at a faster speed than ever before.
[People from other worlds like us. At least as far as I found out, there were three other people besides us.]
[And they were called by different names. Manure stone, wedge, regular… In my case, it was called a rebellion against order. Maybe my brother is similar to these, but I can only guess.]
[The future that this world should flow through… So people who couldn’t exist in the original story and shouldn’t be there.]
It was as she said.
A characteristic that is not specified in my status window, but does exist.
An existence that goes against the flow of the world.
Clearly, as she said, such a thing existed.
[There were more than us. But where are they now? No one, no one.]
[And I could figure out one more thing.]
[As if there is a generational change, only one person can exist at the same time. Whether it is voluntary or intentional.]
[And there was a guy who made it happen.]
[…] I think my brother probably noticed too. right?]
“okay.”
I nodded.
There was only one guy like that.
“Ariman.”
[Ariman, that’s the guy.]
[…] I’ve only met him once. … And all I remember was that I met him, and that I ‘turned down something he suggested’. Perhaps the rest was forgotten by him.]
Here, the phrase ‘I rejected something he suggested’ was written in bold letters as if emphasizing it.
Most importantly, I forgot. Here, too, there were not one or two things that stood out to me.
[Huh… .]
And Sbengali, who had had the same experience as me, now, instead of laughing, just sighed in a small lament. I continued to read the letter.
[Careful, brother.]
[Arriman’s goal is us.]
[People who shouldn’t be in this world like us, people like that.]
[I really don’t know what his abilities are, I’m so sorry. I’m trying to figure it out somehow, but it was a class I had to do, he’s weird, no one can understand it, so nothing is like that]
“… What is this?”
Even the spacing is not correct, and the spelling is wrong.
In addition, the neat and round handwriting suddenly changed into a strange one, just like when a child learned to write for the first time, just as if a straight line and a curved line were barely connected.
I drew and erased lines several times over and over, but I could tell from beyond that.
[Are you surprised? Sorry for worrying you.]
[…] I tried to use it again, but I changed my mind and left it as it is. If I try to think of Ariman somehow like this, my head gets tangled in that way.]
[If you show it like this, it will probably be more of a warning.]
From here on, the font, ink color, and thickness were slightly different.
It seemed like it was written again after enough time had passed.
[Well, I told you all the cool things I found out earlier, but in fact, there’s nothing special about it. I’m a little embarrassed.]
[…] But do you understand too? I mean, there was very little I could do in the first place. That alone is enough.]
[Anyway, I think it should be reduced slowly now. So I’ll write a few more last lines.]
The letter had already said goodbye to me in a calm tone.
[It was my intention to pass my blood on to Milited’s children in the first place.]
[Somehow, I couldn’t think of any other way to clearly reveal myself to my brother. You must have been very surprised, I’m really sorry about that. But don’t worry. My brother and sister are really strong. Even if all of them attack, they are not my opponents.]
[Again, I will entrust my brother with the items that could be Venus and Juno’s weaknesses.]
[In my time, both were already sealed, so there was nothing I could do. But you have to fight them both. Even if you beat Minerva, it’s okay to face them both at the same time… Yeah, we both know how reckless it is, right?]
[Leto has it. I’ll probably take care of my brother on the way home.]
All Seven Evil species have a weak point.
In the case of Margot, it was the weight, and in the case of Sbengali, it was the branch.
But, to find an object that could be a weakness for both of them, something that was only mentioned in the original story and could not be found… .
[And when you go back to the original world, come back here again. Except maybe Leto… My other friends will help you.]
[yes. And if you go there, won’t you tell Leto that you’re really sorry and thank you instead?]
[No matter how much ogre blood flows, it would be painful to be decapitated and torn.
[I don’t know what my brother will think when I say this, but he’s like my child. I’ve been taking it with me since I was a baby, but I’ve grown so much.]
[The last crystal I was trapped in… I don’t know if you know, but it happened to Yuno. To be precise, I’m going to be attacked by the remnants of Yuno that was sealed off. I’m going to fight him for the last time with this letter. I already hid all of my legacy, and Yuno’s weakness has left my hands. I will definitely lose to him.]
[…] As you know, even if it’s just a remnant, there’s no way I can defeat Yuno, right? Because he’s been like that from the beginning.]
[Do not scold or be angry.]
[This was the only way.]
[A way, by any chance, by any chance, I might be able to meet my brother.]
I hate being a mummy or an undead.
I didn’t want to become a wight and leave only thoughts behind.
Above all, it is possible for only one person to remain at the same time from our existence, and if he turns into an undead, he could not even guess what Ariman would do.
The child calmly laid out options that might have been her end.
[Well, and I actually wanted to show it to my brother.]
[The image of me becoming the same age as my brother.]
[This was the best I could come up with.]
Suddenly, I grabbed the last one left of the letter.
The last page had only four lines, plus five lines, including a PS.
[brother.]
[Be healthy, and live well.]
[And if possible… yes.]
[As much as my brother, I want to go back to the original world.]
[PS, it’s a magical world, so don’t take care of your body and eat well.]
A letter with only five lines at the end.
The empty space underneath it felt so large.
Even though he knew he was going to die, how could he be so calm in the face of death?
It was just a question.
After reading the letter to the end, I carefully folded the letter and muttered.
“Don’t worry about yourself, no matter what, it’s true… .”
I folded the letter over and over again.
Then he grabbed the folded letter and spewed flames from his mouth.
It was possible because of tolerance.
“… … .”
Without saying such a word, I held the letter in my hand until it burned to ashes.
* * *
yes it was
Han Soo-young just looked at Ari-man, who had the same face as herself, and just thought so.
And I was simply admiring it.
‘… How far have you been looking?’
10 years later me.
With a throbbing headache, Han Soo-young quietly thanked her.
Now it was her job.