episode_0129

The knights fiercely played rock, paper, scissors with each other. What on earth is so great about riding a hoverboard together?

What’s interesting is that the knight’s rock-paper-scissors game was different from the way ordinary people played it. The rules themselves are the same, but if you do it by hand, it’s not fair because it becomes a battle between body vision and reflexes.

So, they competed by turning their backs to each other, writing down their cards on the floor, and then revealing them at the same time.

As a result, the winner is,

“Hold on a little tighter. Get away.”

“Isn’t that too fast!? Let’s go slowly!”

If it was a game, it was Philia who would get involved first.

“If it is slow, the efficiency is poor.”

“What efficiency? Fuel efficiency is bad?”

“Training efficiency.”

“What kind of training are you doing here?”

“Arc is like a muscle, the more you use it, the more it grows. So, it is best to use it as much as possible on a daily basis.”

“I’ll be thrilled.”

Does this guy have nothing else on his head other than a sword, training, and competition? No matter what I tried to say, I felt like I was the only one making a fool.

“Director of Management, no. Was it Zeke?”

“Yes. Zeke That’s right. Why?”

“Isn’t the Management Bureau dangerous?”

“It’s dangerous.”

“But how is it that no one has died so far?”

That’s because I’m working hard on retrying. If an employee dies, your reputation will suffer, and issues related to compensation and the bereaved family will become more and more annoying.

“I was lucky.”

“…Lie. I heard it was all thanks to Zeke.”

“Did Julia say that?”

“Yes. Zeke works miracles.”

miracle. When something that was considered impossible actually happens, people describe it as a miracle.

To be more precise, when a positive phenomenon occurs whose causal relationship cannot be understood, it is called a miracle.

A phenomenon whose causal relationship is inexplicable. This is why my employees call my actions ‘miracles’.

In general, people derive results based on evidence. Geniuses are extremely quick at grasping evidence that others don’t know or coming up with results.

Even if you cannot catch up with a genius’s thinking, you can at least understand it by listening to his explanation because the direction of his thinking is consistent.

But in my case it’s the opposite.

Through retry, the cause is matched with the result known. Reversal of causality. This is the opposite of what normal people think.

If it was something that happened in the past, this could be expressed in a more sophisticated way as ’cause analysis’, but who in the world can analyze the cause of something that hasn’t even happened yet?

Employees don’t understand my judgment. When the results are confirmed and the evidence is roughly put together, there is no logic in it and it is full of leaps and nonsense.

But anyway, my judgment is not wrong. If you make a mistake, you have to retry and it becomes like it never happened, so you can’t be wrong in the first place.

Therefore, from the employees’ point of view, there is no choice but to be foolish, and there is no way to express it other than the word ‘miracle’.

“Well, it’s true that I have special powers.”

When I admitted, Philia turned her head and looked at me. There was earnestness in her eyes.

But don’t you look ahead while driving? Even if it is a straight course, it is the same.

I pushed Philia’s cheek with my finger so that her face was facing forward.

It’s soft.

“Are you asking me to teach you?”

“Yes.”

“I can’t teach you.”

“……I will give you all my assets.”

“No, it’s true that he stole all his assets.”

He often says he will give him all his assets, so it almost sounds like he is giving some kind of pocket money.

If you think about the salary level of express drivers, it is not an amount that can be easily said.

“Then how are you going to teach me?”

“No matter what I do, I can’t teach you. It’s not that they don’t teach this, it’s that they can’t teach it.”

Actually, there is nothing to teach. If everyone had infinite lives, they would at least do as much as I did. But is there anyone in this world other than me who has infinite life?

Oh, there was Lufia.

A cheat character whose life is not infinite, but is no different from infinite thanks to time reversal.

“……It’s a shame.”

Philia muttered in a depressed voice.

‘I think I need to teach you something to conquer Philia… .’

First of all, it’s nice to get recognition from Philia, but the problem is that if she doesn’t have anything to extract from me, she will definitely lose interest.

The reason she is interested in the strong is because she has something to gain from them.

However, I can’t beg you to teach me something I can’t teach you.

It’s embarrassing.

Rattling–.

The hoverboard shook slightly. Because of my unstable posture, I had no choice but to hug Philia’s waist tighter.

“…smell.”

As I pressed closer, Philia muttered softly.

“I haven’t been able to wash all day, so it might be a bit unpleasant.”

Since I’ve been outside all day today without even being able to shower, I’m bound to have a strong body odor. So, I said this out of courtesy, but there is a 0% chance that she would find my body odor unpleasant.

“It’s not unpleasant. I actually like it because it smells like a flower.”

“Hahaha… .”

It’s as expected.

Attractiveness not only corrects appearance, but also body odor. Thanks to this, even if you are soaked in sweat, rather than emitting an unpleasant odor, only the scent is released.

‘It’s actually a pheromone rather than a scent.’

It was because of the smell of my sweat that the security guards lost their minds at the gym in the past.

My thoughts wandered astray.

“Philia, you want to become stronger, right?”

“Yes.”

“I can’t teach you the abilities I have, but I still know to some extent how to become stronger. How are you interested?”

The important thing in this situation is to keep Philia interested in me.

So, I actually don’t know how to become stronger, but I’ll give it a try. My future self will somehow solve it.

“Yes. As long as I can become stronger, it doesn’t matter anything.”

Philia accepted my offer without any hesitation.

But whatever, it doesn’t matter.

Are you saying you will do whatever it takes?

It’s dangerous.

I’ve done all kinds of crazy things since I got stuck in this game. Out of desperation to return to their families, they did not choose any means or methods.

If you were to list the atrocities of that time one by one, even the infamous dictators would seem like fairies.

Of course, I feel like it will be a problem in many ways when I return to reality, so I’m working hard to solve it as best as possible.

‘If you didn’t care about that, then what about the Legion…? .’

In any case, even a country without any power can commit all kinds of terrible things if it uses whatever means it can.

But what if Philia, who has overwhelming force, does that? It’s even worse.

‘Is this Philia’s mine?’

It is a common cliché that a person who is obsessed with strength reaches his limit, breaks the taboo, and reaches for dangerous power.

“I will help Philia become stronger.”

Since Philia is still normal, I need to keep her close by and focus on her so that she doesn’t go astray any further.

“Really… ?”

“Yes. really. But right now we have to focus on subduing the queen, so let’s talk again after this.”

“Yes.”

[Philia’s strategy progress has increased. (6 -> 12%) Acquire 600 strategy points]

I guess this is the right strategy.

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“Kuhuhu~. As expected, Zeke is the best~!”

Cheshire, the girl with purple cat ears who stands still and spins around. In the hideout she had secretly prepared, she is having fun recalling what happened during the day.

“Ha… . How did they survive that explosion? How did you neutralize the scent? Could it be that even the leaders of the Eastern Continent had figured it out in advance? If that’s the case, hmm… . From the beginning, I was playing in the palm of Zeke’s hand… .”

As she expected, Zeke successfully defeated the bosses. And that too without any major losses.

Thanks to this, the corps suffered fatal damage in just one day. The Queen, who found out about this fact late, was furious and questioned Cheshire if he had betrayed her.

“Kuhuhu~. Anger and anxiety are always pleasant emotions.”

Cheshire made a deal with the Queen.

She requested the queen to use the East Continent as the stage for her wonderland and to follow her script as much as possible.

In return, he gave the queen a magic sword, and after dealing with the stationed knights, he decided to visit their ‘owner’ and deliver a message.

He didn’t know who the owner was, but Cheshire didn’t care.

As long as Zeke was among the stationed knights, there was a 0% chance that they would be defeated, and they were destined to die anyway after this Wonderland ended.

Anyway, the queen thought Cheshire had betrayed her.

That’s right, because the army was destroyed by the man brought in by Cheshire.

However, Cheshire never specifically said that he would be on the Legion’s side. There was nothing wrong with her behavior.

Therefore, all the queen could do was to vent her anger and prepare to avoid the worst.

Even if I got angry, I couldn’t kill Cheshire, and it didn’t make the situation any better.

“Kuhuhu~. Try struggling hard. Cute queen~.”

The situation was already in Zeke’s palm. No matter how hard the queen struggles, the legion is destined to be destroyed. Cheshire took in the excitement that was coming, and at the same time felt a little pity for the queen.

Because fate is a harsh law that cannot be resisted.

“Still, the Queen is in good circumstances~.”

Because, unlike myself, I can have hope.

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Inside the iron cage in Cheshire’s hideout.

Rusk quietly closes his eyes and focuses on his breathing.

When she was first kidnapped, she thought the worst. In the battle with Zeke, all of his strength was used up, and he was so weak that he couldn’t even defeat a passing puppy.

But now, he thinks of this kidnapping as a great opportunity and gift given to him.

“Huuuu… .”

The Eastern Continent, which has been occupied by demons, has a weak presence of demonic energy. It is not at a level where life cannot survive like in the Southern Continent, but for Rusk, even this level of demonic energy is a blessing in disguise.

“If only I could take out my weapon… .”

Her purpose is only one. Recovering your strength to the point where you can take out your weapon.

Once he is able to draw his weapon, Rusk can return to earth as a great warlord.

Therefore, from the moment he was kidnapped until now, Rusk had been concentrating all his mind on absorbing demon energy.

“I feel nauseous.”

Rusk knew whose demon energy was being absorbed into his body.

The first of the four monarchs who came to conquer the earth, who can be said to be colleagues or sisters, but cannot be viewed favorably.

“Even the demon energy is terrible, ‘Plague’.”

Lord of Plague.

The first monarch chosen by the Chaos God and the first monarch to descend to earth.

He was originally given so much power that he was called the ‘Lord of Conquest’, but he was unable to achieve any significant results and had his powers withdrawn, leaving only the power of ‘Plague’ as an incompetent monarch.

Rusk detests such plague lords.

The fact that she once respected the Lord of Plague was the most shameful past for her, and a past she wanted to hide.

The recovered powers were given to other sisters. Rusk was also given some of them, and descended to earth as the ‘Lord of War’.

Rusk destroyed the southern continent. The southern continent, which was the most developed in civilization and full of strong warriors, was dealt with with only a few powers.

What on earth was the Lord of Plague, who possessed countless powers, doing? Rusk is disgusted by Plagueis’ incompetence.

Therefore, it was a humiliating situation for Rusk as he had to accept the demon energy of the being he hated the most.

“You made me like this… . I will definitely, definitely take revenge. You crazy person… .”

Rusk aimed his blade of revenge at Zeke, who was the cause of all this humiliation.