episode_0161

“Bell, is something wrong?”

As I was walking back home after my last class this week, Victoria suddenly asked me a question.

“What’s going on?”

I know Victoria has been looking at my face several times, but she hasn’t been focusing on anything. So I thought it was just a whim, but Victoria said something unexpected.

“You look upset.”

Yeah, is that so?

I touched my face. It shouldn’t show much expression, right?

“Is that so?”

“You know you’re saying you feel bad, right?”

I nodded. It’s not something you should hide that you’re upset. Why are you looking so surprised that I answered?

“I thought it would take time for you to speak, but you nodded right away. So what’s going on?”

I can’t explain everything, but the rule is to always tell the truth when asked.

Without it, I don’t know where to start and where to stop. If I lie, there’s no turning back.

It’s probably faster for someone else to figure it out than for me to figure it out.

It’s not that I don’t trust myself. I just have to remember that there are people smarter than me.

“It’s cold.”

“Huh? Is it that cold today? Or are you sick? I don’t think you have a fever… … .”

Victoria puts her hand on my head and takes my temperature. Her hand is warm. While I am surprised at how warm her body temperature is, Victoria asks me several questions with a serious expression. But none of them apply to me, so I shake my head from side to side.

In the first place, I don’t even know if this body is capable of giving birth to a baby.

“It’s okay. The time when I could forget the cold has just receded far behind me.”

Yes, all my expectations were wrong.

Kanna gave up killing her own family to rise above them, and in Bern City, people stopped acting selfishly.

And when the rain came, as if waking up from a dream, the people in Brightshin no longer recorded their knowledge like crazy.

Nothing has happened that I’m satisfied with.

But that’s okay.

A lot of work has already been done.

Aurora and Kanna. The princess and the court lady. I made people of high rank into harvesters.

Even if you yourself can’t expect it, you never know what will happen to your children or descendants.

People who move around Bern City can see that the world is different, even if they themselves become good.

Why did they create a religion?

It’s still a primitive form of religion where they pray to me in gratitude. I’m not a god yet, and they don’t think they believe in god either.

Just look up, as if you were praying to a great person with your hands together.

But how would someone who is not religious see that? In a country where reason and rationality are the main ideologies, religion is old and mean.

It’s perfect for being ostracized.

And the Brightshin slums. The knowledge epidemic stopped right away. If it had, I would have been better off. A little better off. Just like that.

Not only does knowledge increase, but more people see it. And when someone with power and authority sees it, the chances of them taking it increases.

But it’s okay if you don’t.

I figured out that the knowledge was properly going in, and the harvester would properly pull out the skills that were in my head.

No matter how long it takes, if the world is optimistic about science and technology, it cannot escape this technology.

We just lost all the fast food we could eat right away.

I lack easy and quick warmth.

But that doesn’t mean that we can harvest warmth right now from the harvester. It’s not like we’re that immature.

I wasn’t stupid enough to break down and not follow my own rules. Patience is my specialty. Now I just have to take my time and watch the world move forward.

The harvester has already dug into people.

About 25 thousand.

A mix of physically gifted and intelligent harvesters. Who will have the advantage in the race for survival?

Having clean skin is a beauty in itself.

During the harvest season, there were many women who had a job selling sex. They returned to that job after they changed. They returned with much more beautiful and healthy bodies. This was a time when there was no contraceptive.

Even their appearance has changed for the better. Who will have a higher chance of reproductive success?

I just have to wait.

Waiting for the offspring of the harvest to cover the world.

The world will not fall apart even if all living things become descendants of the Harvester.

I just need to choose the one in the leadership position and push him/her, and then I’ll automatically get the warmth.

The offspring of the harvester are not in me until I recognize them and push them in.

It’s easy and fast to spread the word using contracts, but I learned in my first world that doing so will break the world. So let’s go safe, even if it takes time.

However, it is dangerous if reason and rationality move in a distorted way and an incident like the harvest season genocide occurs.

No, it’s not necessarily dangerous.

As long as you have superpowers, it’s unlikely that the Harvester will be defeated. In fact, there are already Harvesters in this world who have acquired brainwashing abilities.

“That’s your story, right? The one you said was foreign news?”

Then, without a second thought, Victoria stabbed me with the blade of truth. It was a really sudden and chilling feeling in my chest.

That’s why.

That’s why I follow the rules so desperately. Where and how can I get to the truth?

maybe.

I made a mistake, and Victoria would piece it together. There’s no guarantee that it’s only Victoria who can do it. She’s not special, and I’m not a genius.

It means that many people will reach the truth. So, shouldn’t we desperately follow the rules even with our stupid heads?

You have to try.

Foreign news. Foreign news. I am not God. Who said it first?

ah.

“Some witch called me that. But I’m not a god, so I found it quite funny.”

At my words, Victoria looks up into space. Are you imagining what a witch looks like? It would certainly be ridiculous. To give such a name to a mere monster, not even a god.

This is the mistake of a lifetime, isn’t it?

“Bell must have been really scared. That’s why he gave it such an easy-to-understand name.”

“Why do you sympathize with that?”

“Bell is so easy to understand?”

Maybe telling the truth at all costs is the best rule I’ve ever made.

If there was no such thing, I.

It might already be hanging somewhere.

“I thought it would be easy, but is it really that easy? No, if it were easy, there wouldn’t be anything to be afraid of, right?”

At my question, Victoria folded her arms and tilted her head from side to side for a moment to collect her thoughts.

I think people whose thoughts are so clearly visible are just seen as easy prey, so it’s surprising that people would say that they’re scary.

“Bell sees the easy-to-understand aspect as one thing, right? But there’s a side to him that he reveals to make himself look easy-to-understand, and a side to him that he reveals without even knowing it. The two are different.”

I know the front. I’m doing it on purpose. I have to keep in mind the back. My weakness is revealed so easily.

“Are you scared of the hidden side?”

“No. That part, yeah. Not yet. I don’t want to say it.”

Then Victoria suddenly leaned her face right in front of me.

“Then, do you want to hear it by force?”

I want to hear it. But.

“No, Victoria. I don’t force anyone.”

Even if minor accidents occur during the process of inserting memories, I really have no intention of distorting my consciousness. I can only be confident if I am honest with myself.

but.

There was a time when I was forced to do it.

yes.

In the second world.

When heading to Kunlun Mountain.

I closed my eyes.

At that time, I really wanted the memory of the Primordial Heavenly Lord. The technology that could move other worlds. So I ran to Kunlun Mountain and obtained it.

Now we’ve unleashed it into the world.

So that I can stand in this world and move on to another world.

May an unfortunate future come to everyone.

May a happy era come to me where I can find warmth.

I made the right choice.

So open your eyes again.

“How will Victoria see me now?”

“Now? From now on, the bell will still be the bell to me.”

Victoria smiled brightly and moved away again. Then she placed her hand on my head.

“Ahahaha! This makes me feel better. Belle is really twisted.”

A classroom where those who have work have already left, and those who just chat like us are left behind.

Victoria walks towards the doorway. I follow her.

“But what happened to that witch?”

I thought of a little witch who didn’t know when to laugh. She wasn’t a harvester.

“Well, what happened?”

After it fell to where I was, it disappeared as if it had never existed in the first place. I really don’t know what happened because I never did anything.

“Don’t you know?”

“She disappears like a bubble, but we don’t know if she’s really dead. She didn’t keep the contract until the end, so we didn’t get warmth at the end.”

Actually, I could have gotten it if I had tried, but it disappeared without a trace because the place I was in was originally as cold as a refrigerator.

“Was she a bad witch?”

“She was a witch who would bully those weaker than her and steal their money, and when someone stronger than her came, she would tease them and run away.”

“Wow, that’s trash.”

Victoria shakes her head.

Rather than her, I had another friend who was always with me… … .

I shook my head and decided to change the subject. Stories from other worlds are not needed in this world.

“Victoria. The person who manages the house where I live said that an escort is coming soon, so we can be friends from now on, right?”

“Isn’t that something Bell should be friendly with?”

“I have a big heart. Victoria.”

“If you say that, it makes me sound narrow-minded!”

While chatting like that, we walked home from school.