episode_0250
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“Why did you come back? I could just forget about the ruined world and move on to other works.”
“Jane, you are here.”
“… … .”
Janey, who was listening to the story, was sitting in the seat in a more comfortable position than before, but to me, she seemed somewhat resigned.
That became clear in her words that followed.
“… You too, go back to reality.”
“What?”
“If you have that kind of superpower, you don’t have to stay in this hopeless world anymore.”
“I don’t like it.”
“Why? To rebuild this world?”
For some reason, Janey’s voice, with her head down, was dripping with moisture. I could tell by feeling, but I cautiously reached out and lifted her face.
Because I wanted to see her face with my own eyes.
Janey slightly tilted her face away from me, but did not turn her head or move my hand away.
Sure enough, there were small teardrops at the corners of her eyes. As if the slightest touch would cause it to drip down her cheeks.
‘I guess I was a little indifferent.’
When I told Maria the truth, she accepted it more easily than I expected, so I inadvertently expected Janey to do the same. If you think about it a little, you would realize that there is absolutely no evidence to support that prediction.
‘Even Maria is not a person but an artificial intelligence… ‘
-huh? You’re not criticizing me, are you?
Maria, who vaguely read my brainwaves, expressed her doubts, but I just ignored it.
I said, wiping away Janey’s tears with my fingers.
“That’s not it either.”
“Then?”
“What did you hear me say? I told you. I came back because of you. I just need you in this world. The only thing I need is you, Janey.”
“… Even though I’m just a cartoon character? It’s fake, different from real people in reality, right?”
“If you think about it that way, what about the strength I gained while traveling? What about this car? Are you saying it’s all fake? A power that can be used in reality as well?”
“But… ”
“It’s up to me to decide whether it’s real or fake. If I say it’s real, even if it was fake, it becomes real.”
It was an arrogant remark that seemed a bit self-absorbed even after I said it, but it was still my truth in the current situation.
“Jane, from the moment we first met until now, you have never been a fake.”
“… … .”
Although it was akin to a love confession, it seems that these words were quite comforting to Janey, who is currently shaken.
Come on~
Janey opened her arms and hugged me once again. A little stronger this time. As if I wanted to vividly feel my presence with my whole body.
I also hugged her tightly without saying a word.
After that, we continued moving in silence and soon arrived at our destination. It was in a forest near a city called Hadarian, the capital of the Hadar Kingdom.
“Maybe it’s because it’s not affected by the terrain, so it’s definitely fast.”
“Sure.”
If I got closer to the city, I might be discovered by people and cause trouble, so I planned to camp here today.
I had everything I needed in my inventory, so camping wasn’t particularly inconvenient.
I thought about this as I expanded my energy and explored my surroundings.
First of all, two options immediately came to mind for me for Janey.
One is to rebuild the fallen world, as she said earlier.
Except for the Kingdom of Halem and the countries nearby, it hasn’t really been ruined yet, so you could say they’re already thinking about rebuilding… It was clear that with the level of force I had experienced in this world, it would be difficult to deal with the increase in special entities such as giant mutants.
The level of development in this world was, at most, similar to that of the modern era, if you think about it in reality, and biochemical gases that generate mutants are probably leaking from research labs even now.
‘If you think about it, it seems close to science fiction in terms of biology.’
Considering that the power of other people’s supernatural abilities was very limited, it didn’t seem like there was much hope for that either.
If you really want to rebuild, you can do it.
However, to do this, we need to find a new travel destination that can supply basic construction equipment and materials. In order to be able to afford the resources to rebuild a world, you would have to go into a universe-based game and mine the planet’s resources…
We need to wipe out the monsters called mutants and build a new civilization.
Although it seemed like he could do well whether he was a tyrant or a castle, the cost-effectiveness was not good.
‘and… More than anything, it’s a matter of time.’
Now, in the ruined kingdom of Aka, reality and time are synchronized. It would have taken several decades for the world to collapse and be rebuilt, and there was no way I could have managed it in real time for that long.
I was busy visiting other travel destinations, but going back and forth between reality and this place was too much of a hassle.
The other option was to just take Janey out of this world.
And now, in my opinion, this was the best option.
Anyway, from what I talked to, Janey didn’t really have any regrets about this world. Apart from me, there was no one I was attached to. It might have been different if the Kingdom of Halem had been fine… There is no way to undo what has already happened.
Janey pointed out a loophole in my story after completing the surrounding area detection.
“… I told you that you can’t put living creatures in your inventory. Those people… Are you saying that everything that looked like it was Android?”
“That’s right.”
Even the artificial intelligence, Maria, could not be included. Perhaps if she hadn’t been registered as a souvenir through the nanobots, I wouldn’t have been able to bring her back to reality. They probably would have definitely finished it off with an EMP on the spot.
It would be nice if I could bring Janey back to reality like Maria did…
“Umm… ”
‘It’s a way to register a living person as a souvenir… ‘
The second option would have been the best if possible, but with the exception of the unusual case of Maria, there has been no life form that could be registered as a souvenir so far. Even a person.
Among the travel destinations I visited, none had a solution to this problem.
At least, if you look for some of the Buddhist instruments in the Tuseonhyuphaengrok, there may be ones that can do something similar to summoning, but it doesn’t seem like the Buddhist instruments can summon people from another world.
Even if there were a Buddhist instrument that could store a person, it would certainly be impossible to put it in an inventory, and it would also be impossible to carry it to another world.
In the end, I had to find something that could be registered as a souvenir. Only then will I be able to take Janey to another world with the power of the ticket.
‘for a moment… Summons?’
I grabbed onto the tail of an idea that momentarily passed through my mind.
I had this thought before when registering Maria as a souvenir. If you learn elemental arts and make a contract with a spirit, wouldn’t you be able to call the spirit in another world?
In my experience, spirit magic was definitely a skill that could be registered as a souvenir, like martial arts. In that case, it would be possible to summon spirits in other worlds as well.
‘If you go to a travel destination with elemental magic or magic and learn methods related to summoning… ?’
I immediately explained the idea to Janey.
– Does that make sense?
Although she was only a few days ahead of Janey, Maria, who knew a little more about my abilities from first-hand experience, seemed to think it wasn’t a bad idea.
But unlike her, Janey tilted her head.
“Magic… ? Like that flying car?”
“Sufficiently developed science and technology are indistinguishable from magic. That’s not magic, it’s future science.”
“?”
“What I’m talking about is real magic. Flying in the sky, making lightning, and just that kind of magic.”
“… Honestly, I’m not sure what the difference is. That car can fly in the sky, and you can make fire, even if it’s not lightning. It’s not like I don’t have the ability to control weak electricity.”
It seemed like Janey only vaguely knew about magic. Unlike reality, it was a world where supernatural abilities similar to magic already existed in some ways, so it may be natural that interest in magic was relatively diminished.
‘And since the country has been in such a state for so long, there’s no way I’ve read any novels or comics… ‘
But, apart from understanding what I said, Janey decided to follow my thoughts. She said with a small smile on her face.
“Still… Because Minho saved my life. In the refugee camp, and perhaps even when the Academy was attacked earlier. So, I’ll trust you this time too.”
“… Yes.”
When Janey said that, I felt a great sense of responsibility.
So a new goal was born.
It is to obtain the means to take Janey to another world.
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