episode_0192

“… … .”

After hearing Veluid’s words, I couldn’t say anything.

‘I… ‘Perdion’s reincarnation?’

When I first heard that, the first thing that came to mind was denial.

That’s ridiculous.

That can’t be happening.

However, I did not say any negative words out of my mouth.

If you think about it, assuming that what Veluid said was right, there were a few things that made sense.

For example, the warrior’s sword chose me.

It is said that the original warrior’s sword did not show its true purpose in anyone’s hands after Perdion’s death.

But the warrior’s sword came to me on its own and lent me its strength.

At the time, I thought it was simply a weapon to hide the user, but what if that wasn’t the case?

What if I willingly lent my strength because I am the reincarnation of Ferdion?

Also, there were other reasons that crossed my mind.

“Hmm… If you think about it that way, it’s not like I don’t understand that guy’s ridiculous talent.”

As Ethan suddenly muttered, my strange talent can be fully explained by assuming that I am the reincarnation of Ferdion.

I may say so myself, but my talent goes beyond the norm in many ways.

Even Ethan, who is said to be the most talented with the Ten Swords, and the swordsman who was the strongest warrior on the continent, saw my talent and commented that it was at an inexplicable level.

“The warrior Ferdion was said to have the greatest talent among mankind.”

The warrior Ferdion left behind countless legends.

And, in the process, he shows himself growing at an incredible rate.

People of later generations commented on the strangely fast growth rate.

The hero Ferdion is the man with the greatest talent in human history.

… Of course, even if you look at it that way, there are definitely parts of my growth rate that don’t make sense.

I can be sure that my growth rate is significantly faster than that of Ferdion described in the legend.

However, that part can be explained to some extent.

Martial arts not only trains the body, but also the mind.

And the mind is the soul.

As your level increases, your body becomes stronger and your soul also grows.

At the beginning of training martial arts, the growth of the soul is minimal, but as the level progresses, the growth deepens, and when a martial artist reaches the level, the soul has a weight that is different from that of an ordinary person.

But what if I really am Ferdion’s reincarnation?

What if my soul is Ferdion’s soul?

Even if only half of the legend of the warrior Perdion is true, his level would be superior to that of any warrior of the current generation, and it is highly likely that his soul would naturally be of great stature.

Then, my heterogeneous growth rate can also be explained.

If we say that it is the way that the level of the soul follows.

And finally, the feeling of discomfort I felt during my time on Earth.

I have always been alone in the more than 20 years I have lived on Earth.

I’m not saying I was an orphan.

In the over 20 years I have been living on Earth, I have not formed a relationship with anyone in particular.

Even though I worked and lived a normal social life like everyone else.

You could dismiss it as simply being that kind of personality, but that was how I felt at the time.

Awkwardness.

About forming relationships with people around you.

To live mixed with others.

At the time, I thought it was just my personality, but strangely enough, after waking up in this world, it disappeared like a lie.

What if that awkwardness was the awkwardness my soul felt?

What if it was the awkwardness I felt from living in a place that was not my original world?

If you think so, it explains.

Those reasons immediately came to mind, so I couldn’t deny Veluid’s words.

Rather, I found myself nodding inwardly.

like that.

Me standing there unable to say anything.

“Do you believe it now? Ferdion.”

A voice with a slight laugh was heard.

When I turned my head in that direction, I saw a man’s face looking at me with a smile.

“Hmm. No, should I call it something else now? Either way, I’ll do whatever you want. Although the name Ferdion is familiar to me.”

“… … .”

To that, I didn’t answer right away.

I just quietly looked at the man.

“… Let’s say I’m the reincarnation of Ferdion. Then why does ‘that’ know me?”

I asked the question again to Veluid.

I guessed the man’s identity.

The man is the ‘King’ that Veluid explained just before the ‘door’ opened.

No, even if there had been no explanation, I would have recognized the man’s identity right away.

Because I’ve encountered something similar to a man twice before.

That is, ‘the devil’.

The overwhelming presence that the man exuded was somewhat similar to the presence of the ‘demon’ that I encountered at the lake and the hero’s tomb.

Although the energy itself was different, the overwhelming presence that seemed to crush even the soul just by existing was very similar to the presence of the ‘devil’ that I felt at that time.

Even if I push my senses to the limit, I can’t gauge the extent of its power.

Although it looked like a human and spoke like a human, the being in front of me was clearly a monster.

A ridiculous monster that could easily destroy the world if it wanted to.

However, Ferdion was reacting as if that monster knew me.

I asked Veluid for the answer.

Because if he knew my identity, he would also know the answer.

however.

“Aren’t you starting to guess it now?”

I was speechless at the man’s sudden words.

“… … .”

He didn’t say anything special, but it was as he said.

Although I asked a question, I had some idea of the answer.

When I think about the fact that the man, the ‘king’, knows me, and what the cult leader said when he looked at me, there is only one possibility that comes to mind.

“Well, if you need to be sure, let me know.”

The man who was looking at me with smiling eyes opened his mouth again.

“That’s because you and I have met in the past.”

He gave me exactly the answer I expected.

“A long time ago, I entered this world for the first time through a ‘door’. With my creatures.”

With eyes reminiscing about something, he continued.

“Humanity was not a power that this world could dare to handle. It was a situation where, if I wanted to, I could have wiped out all the humans in this world in just a few days. But… As a result, humanity avoided destruction.”

The man’s red eyes glowed magically.

“Thanks to you, Ferdion.”

“… … .”

I stared at the man’s face in silence, then turned my gaze towards Veluid.

“… That’s right.”

And, after receiving my gaze, Veluid expressed his approval by nodding his head.

“Your previous life, the hero Ferdion, fought to the death with his comrades, and after a desperate struggle, the author… We succeed in driving out the ‘King of Monsters’ from this world and sealing the ‘door’.”

However.

“In return, the warrior Ferdion died.”

“… … .”

Indeed, Veluid’s answer was almost exactly what I expected.

This was the car I was nodding my head to.

“That’s a bit strange.”

Ethan joined the conversation.

“If something like that had happened in the past, there might have been a record, but I’ve never heard anything about it. If it was a battle in which the warrior’s party was mobilized and even led to the death of the hero Perdion, then it should at least be mentioned.”

Ethan’s question was valid.

The warrior Ferdion is a legendary being.

So much so that even his trivial episodes remain as stories and are still told to this day.

However, there are no records left about the battle in which he died, and it is not even mentioned anywhere.

That was definitely a strange thing.

To Ethan’s question:

“That’s a ‘restriction’… So, it’s because of the ‘prohibition’.”

Beluid answered.

It was a rather short and concise answer.

“… Is that really what that guy did?”

Ethan seemed to have understood a lot from that short answer and glanced at the man.

Ethan probably couldn’t read the man’s true nature.

There’s no way Ethan could figure out that even I can’t read.

However, even if he could not even estimate the extent of his power, Ethan would have immediately realized that the man was literally a transcendent being.

If you add in the explanation that Veluid gave, you can easily guess that the man in front of you is a being so absurd that he could commit such an act.

“… … .”

Beluid did not give much of an answer to that question.

However, that was an answer in itself.

At that, Ethan stuck his tongue out and shook his head.

“A ban was imposed on humanity and the world? What an unbelievable monster… .”

That tired voice.

The man just smiled meaningfully.

I was quietly watching the series of conversations.

“… What is that novel?”

I asked Veluid again.

This is why I want to take this opportunity to resolve all the questions in my head.

At first, I thought this world was a world in a novel.

It wasn’t strange to think that way, as the characters from the novel appeared the same and the background, history, place names, etc. were all the same.

However, as time passed, those thoughts gradually changed.

Because things happened that weren’t in the novel, and groups that weren’t in the novel started to appear.

At first, I thought it was a change caused by a variable called me, but there were some things that couldn’t be explained with that.

For example, the existence of ‘denomination’.

‘Cult’ does not appear in the original novel.

It does not appear until the end of the original story, and is not even mentioned at all.

However, in this world, ‘churches’ still exist.

There, I felt strange.

It was difficult to move on and think that it was just not described.

If the ‘Cult’ had existed in the original, there was no way the original story would have flowed like that.

Considering the potential and power of the ‘church’, Mary and the male leads would not have been able to stop the war in the end.

From the moment I learned of the existence of the ‘denomination’, a question began to sprout in my mind, and as time passed and I became more intertwined with the ‘denomination’, the question grew bigger and bigger.

And, at this moment, I know.

That this world is not the world in a novel.

When this happens, one question naturally comes to mind.

So, what on earth is this novel I saw? I have a question.

Given the circumstances, there was no way that Veluid was involved in that novel.

I looked at Veluid with eyes demanding an answer.

OK.

“That novel is a means to find you.”

Veluid answered with a stern expression.

“Means… ?”

“Yes. You are that world… So, I knew that I was reincarnated on ‘Earth’. However, I couldn’t find out specifically where or who you were. So, that novel was serialized in ‘Earth’. To find you.”

“… So what about it? There’s no way that’s just some scrawled content.”

The novel depicts a story from a future perspective that has not yet occurred in this world.

Now that we know that this world is not the world of the novel, it can be seen that it is natural that the content of the novel and the actual flow are different, but there was something that bothered me about simply moving on like that.

That is, the personalities and characteristics of the characters depicted in the novel were very elaborate.

Merina, the main character, and the male leads who can be said to be the main characters.

Their appearance described in the novel was so similar to what I actually saw that it gave me goosebumps.

Not only that, but the story itself was too elaborate.

It’s as if he saw it happen from the sidelines and copied it down.

I was sure.

That novel couldn’t be a mere product of imagination.

Because I thought so, I asked.

“That’s a ‘possibility’.”

Belluid calmly told the truth.

“‘Possibility’… ?”

Veluid looked straight at me with narrowed eyes and nodded.

“Yes, possibility. This is the future that was scheduled to unfold if the ‘church’ had not intervened.”

“… … .”

In response, my eyes narrowed further.

Because one possibility crossed my mind.

Soon, I opened my mouth and asked.

“… Is the principal a ‘continuer’?”

see the future

That is something that generally cannot happen.

However, there are people who can do that.

That is, ‘the one who continued’.

Those who are connected to the ‘origin’, which is the center of this world, and the ‘connected ones’ can foresee the future through their connection to the origin.

If Veluid is such a ‘connected person’, then everything is explained.

At my question, Belluid opened his eyes wide.

“… I didn’t know you knew that much.”

He said that in a surprised voice.

However, the surprise did not last long.

“… But, no. I am not ‘the one who continued’. It’s not me who saw the future.”

Immediately getting over his surprise, Veluid slowly shook his head.

At those words and actions, I slightly frowned.

It was because I read the inner meaning of that sentence.

Beluid said.

It wasn’t ‘me’ who saw the future.

The words were pointing.

The existence of someone other than Veluid.

The existence of a ‘connected person’ who may have been involved in this series of events.

Having read that, I had no choice but to ask.

“… So, who saw the future?”

Who is ‘the one who took over’?

Who saw the future?

Who exactly cooperated with me in bringing me to this world?

“That’s… … .”

The answer to that was the car that Veluid was trying to give.

“Okay, let’s stop chatting there.”

Suddenly, a man intervened and cut off Veluid.

I turn my gaze to look at the man.

“Because waiting is getting boring.”

The man said that with a smile.

“I think I’ve given you enough time to answer your questions… … .”

The smile on the man’s face deepened.

“Now, let’s share the aftermath of hundreds of years.”