‘why.’
Vera was the first to think of such a question shortly after identifying the suspect.
If it was Renee from the previous episode that twisted his perception, why did he do that?
Was the goodwill and integrity she showed a lie? In the end, what was he who was influenced by it?
The balance of the body began to collapse according to the dizzy mind.
Vera’s body, leaning his back against the wall, was dripping down.
Such was the fear that everything he knew might be a lie.
The situation of being denied his existence and the path he had walked was very hopeless.
So, while the flowing Vera contorted his face and wiped his face.
“… Vera.”
Renee opened her mouth.
Renee knelt down, eye level with Vera, and carefully wrapped Vera’s head around and led him into her arms.
Vera’s body trembled greatly at it.
Renee clenched her teeth and gently stroked Vera’s back in the head.
Then he spit it out.
“Calm down. Now, breathe slowly. shh… .”
It was a tone of voice that seemed to appease an angry beast.
No, actually, what I’m doing for Renee now wasn’t much different from that.
Vera’s shimmering halo so staggered, his breathing and his beating so wild. The first thing I thought was that Vera might really fall apart.
“it’s okay. Here I am.”
I don’t know how Vera feels.
René didn’t know the feeling of breaking down the common sense he had taken for granted, the feeling of knowing that the person who broke it was the person he cherished the most.
So Renee just held Vera in her arms.
He did it because he knew that there are moments when people desperately need this kind of warmth rather than 100 clumsy words of comfort.
“I have. Vera is fine. inhale… exhale… . Well, that was good.”
Renee gave a little relief at the sight of Vera, who was starting to catch his breath, and continued talking.
“Nothing is certain yet. huh? Calm down and think slowly together. ‘Cause I’m next to you Vera doesn’t have to think alone.”
Vera’s stomach burns when he finds out that there is a secret hidden in an unexpected moment and in an unexpected form.
His own heart, who realized it indirectly from the side, is also fluttering, how confused the party must be.
Renee continued, resting her cheek on Vera’s head, rubbing the back of Vera’s head.
“If we think about it together, there will be something that can be a clue. So let’s calm down and think about each other, shall we?”
At the words spoken, Vera felt a choking sensation. Then, with a trembling movement, he nodded his head.
The accident, which had been distorted by the shocking truth, was slowly finding its place with René’s words and warmth.
Vera squeezed his eyes shut and stretched out his arms to embrace René. For Vera, for the first time in his life, it was to create a figure that seemed to cling to someone.
However, there was no time to realize it.
Just because there is someone who hugs you so warmly, and that there is someone who protects you, comes to mind, and you don’t think about anything else.
It was such a funny situation that Renee was comforted by the shock caused by Renee, but it was not important to Vera at this moment.
No, rather, it would be correct to say that at this moment, in Vera’s mind, the Rene of the 1st round and the Rene of the 2nd round are being divided into objects.
Vera couldn’t say anything else for a while, gasping for breath, and buried his head in Renee’s arms.
*
Vera, who had calmed down all the boiling emotions and separated from Renee, made his face blush from the embarrassment that had sprung up belatedly.
“… It looked ugly.”
It was only later that he realized that he was clinging to Renee like a child.
At that, Renee trembled and shook her head.
“no! That’s enough! Well! Because I was surprised too!”
While holding Vera in his arms, Renee, who felt strangely warm in his chest, felt a bit embarrassed by my body that didn’t even understand the atmosphere, so he replied, Vera saw that and smiled a little.
It was a smile that came to mind at the thought that the words she had said to her had straightened her, who was about to collapse at any moment.
‘… Yeah, I don’t know anything yet.’
Vera made up his mind once more.
I don’t know why Renee in the 1st episode changed his perception or what causality he had to do so, but Vera didn’t want to lose the faith he had inside.
Although there were some suspicious parts of the situation, he did not want to suspect that the good intentions that took care of him were also false.
Because I know how exhausting and sad a life of only doubting is, and knowing that if there is any remaining string of faith, I must hold onto it.
Because I now know that what is needed between people is trust.
Vera pulled himself up and spit it out.
“sorry. I thought that if I used the knowledge from the last episode, I would be able to take care of St. Now it seems difficult.”
“yes? Oh, what else do I say? That’s Okay. like that.”
Renee responded by waving her hand at Vera’s words.
“From what I’ve heard, it hasn’t been useful since leaving Seongguk, but now I have to apologize.”
It was said with a smile to lighten the mood, but the sentence ‘it was never useful’ dug into Vera’s heart.
Vera’s eyes narrowed.
What comes to mind is an expression full of sullen tones.
“… It wasn’t too bad.”
What came out were words of protest.
It wasn’t just a word.
In retrospect, the knowledge from the last episode was really useful, wasn’t it? Information about the Demon King, information about each region, and work in the Empire were all knowledgeable from the last episode, which led to good results. Vera at least thought so.
Renee, who noticed the sullen expression in Vera’s words too late, raised his mind and nodded, ‘Ouch!’.
“Okay! I made a mistake! Ummm, this is unspeakable!”
I think I said too much because I was reassured.
Renee, who had been thinking of such a thought, quickly changed the topic with the idea of overturning the awkward atmosphere.
“Yeah, seeing that. To say that the knowledge from the last episode was useful doesn’t mean that the memories aren’t all lies?!”
Erra, a word I threw out because I didn’t know.
Vera’s eyes widened at it. Then Vera’s face began to take on a slightly serious look.
“… I heard it and it is.”
There was a hint of that in the voice that spoke.
If you think about it, it was.
Considering the most important part of the distorted perception now, Rene and Seongguk in the first episode, the fact that the knowledge from a previous life was properly applied to this episode doesn’t mean that his memory was not very wrong.
“… In other words, the saint in the last episode twisted only the perception of herself. That’s understandable.”
In other words, Renee in the last episode already knew her, and that may not have been the first time they met.
leading to such a conclusion.
While Rene tilted her head, she understood the meaning of the words she heard and nodded her head to accept the words.
Because when I heard that, something came to mind.
“… Doing that reminds me of things that Orgus showed me.”
It was a story about a voice in a vision I heard back then.
“Last round, when I came to the Empire, I entered Vera’s territory.”
At that time, it was treated as silence, so I didn’t know it, but when I look back, it was the person in the previous episode who made Rohan in trouble, who begged and said, ‘This is Vera’s district, so you can’t enter’.
“Perhaps in the last round, I was right about knowing Vera’s existence. And if the memories aren’t all distorted, at least assuming that the past shown by Orgus is true, the distortion in the memory isn’t really that big… .”
“… It can be said that the part where the memory is distorted is other than the scene he showed.”
Renee’s head nodded.
Rene, who continued to ponder in an atmosphere of subsidence, spit out those words as if they were flowing.
“… But Vera.”
“Yes.”
“Last episode, I was known externally that I died in the battle with the Demon King, right?”
“That’s right.”
“What if it was true that I was dead then? If I wasn’t the one with the burns Vera met… .”
“It definitely isn’t.”
“yes?”
“Since I made an oath, the oath I made to her also responds to the saint in the same way, so they are the same person. There is no doubt about this, as it is guaranteed by the power of nothing else.”
“ah… .”
It wouldn’t be that complicated.
Renee breathed a sigh of relief at that thought and nodded, and Vera, who was watching it, carefully asked a question.
“… Don’t you have a point to point out?”
“yes?”
“It’s the last episode, but since it’s the saint herself, I thought the way of thinking would be similar.”
In other words, if we were to explain it, it was a question of ‘why would you have twisted my perception?’
Renee felt a cold sweat running down her cheeks and answered with a bewildered voice.
“It’s me, I don’t know… . To be honest, the process of living is too different to be the same person.”
Aren’t humans created from experience?
From the moment he received the stigma and headed to the Holy Kingdom, he is going on a completely different path from the last episode, how can he know who he was in the last episode?
A small sigh escaped Vera’s mouth in response to the answer.
Renee thought, ‘Shouldn’t I say something that could be a hint?’ for nothing.
In that way, Renee was able to come up with a conjecture that was a little off the topic, but not too far off.
“… It’s a little out of the way, but right now, I’m also a little suspicious, right?”
“Tell me.”
Vera straightened up and sat down.
Rene, watching it in the form of a halo, swallowed dry saliva, and asked Vera the question.
“Vera, you’re in that shack right now.”
“Are you talking about the hallucinations of the first saint?”
“Yeah, is that really a hallucination? No, is Mongma’s thought correct?”
Vera’s brow narrowed.
“… What are you talking about?”
“It’s a little strange.”
As I was talking about it, there was a part that made me suspicious.
“Vera may not know, but I came out of my dream. I mean, I’ve already met the dream of a dreamer.”
A sense of disparity I felt with that woman for some reason. and vivid.
“… Isn’t that a bit too vivid for a dreamer’s thoughts? So, are you too self-conscious to be an illusion based on Vera’s memory?”
Renee from that family was very different from the thoughts in her dream, which revealed her identity after she shaved her cheeks several times.
It means that you have such a vivid shape that you can feel it even in that brief moment, as if you were really yourself.
Vera’s expression hardened at Renee’s words.
There was something that came to mind.
‘Come to think of it… .’
Before Renee came here, his oath responded to that thought.
I thought it was an illusion due to hallucinations, but… .
‘… If not.’
had to check
Vera looked at the shack with his hand on his chest.
Woo woo-.
I felt an oath to react with him.
A deep embarrassment crept across Vera’s face.
Rene, who had been able to feel the signs sitting next to Vera, came up with the idea that perhaps her conjecture might be true, and continued.
“… Vera.”
“Yes.”
“It’s the first round. First of all, I don’t know what it is, but there must have been something you wanted to do through Vera, right? It even twists Vera’s perception.”
“… That’s right.”
“And think about bringing Vera back for that.”
It was clear that Orgus was involved in the process, so put that aside.
“… Did we just falsify Vera’s memory and end it with a second round? Who even mobilized Orgus?”
As I turned back time, I remembered that no one who had what he wanted could have just finished it that way.
Isn’t that right, if the memory of the sender to the past is sealed, wouldn’t it be right to create a safety device so that the person who has lost that memory can go the way he wants?
In addition, there was something that she and she could know because they were classified as the same person.
“… Welcome to this Grimoire. to instill thought in it. If I try to do this, I can do it too, right?”
The extent of what he could do through his powers, the owner of the stigma, knew best.
He was able to do this.
In addition.
“… Getting this grimore to reach Vera is a lot easier than putting a thought into it.”
Delivering such a thoughtful Grimore to Vera was as simple as breathing.
Vera’s body stiffened.
His gaze began to stare through the shack.
Renee gripped Vera’s hand tighter, and let out a conjecture that had now reached the height of certainty.
“If you think about it, your cognition is distorted. And assuming that I did not lose power in the previous episode. Couldn’t that be the thoughts I put in the first episode?”
For some reason, he added a reason to the sense of disparity that he did not want to leave.