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After finishing my morning training and eating lunch without knowing why, it was only when it was time to take a break that I realized that this situation was not a fantasy but reality.

Just a few hours ago, it didn’t feel real that we were engaged in a decisive battle with the Demon Lord’s army. At that time, I… … In a previous accident, I suffered burns that melted the skin on my entire body… … My back was slightly bent and I lived like a hunchback. But now I am the same person I was before the accident.

When I look in the mirror for a moment, I see myself and the lightness of my body… … .

Normal skin, flat back. This is my body before my life collapsed.

Moreover, it wasn’t just the body that changed. The time zone I lived in has changed.

Currently, this young body is twenty-four.

I’m definitely back in the past.

okay.

I am… … .

“Back—!”

“Are you finally crazy?”

As soon as I raise my arms and shout, an angry voice comes from next to me. It was ‘Ray’, the chef of the bottle restaurant.

It looks like he came out briefly while working in the restaurant kitchen. She was sweating profusely and seemed to be puzzled when she came out for some cool air and saw me grinning alone.

Ray is a cute 21-year-old woman with brown pigtails. Perhaps because she is wearing simple, unadorned clothes, she looks like she belongs in a cute outfit. However, underneath the clothes, there are moderately large breasts, wide hips, and a thin waist. Moreover, if you look closely, you can see that she is a beauty.

And because I know the future, I also know her true colors.

“Anyway.”

“What?”

Anyway—.

I got an “opportunity.”

A chance to fix everything that has been broken.

“What is it?”

No matter what I do, no one will understand, so I should continue my thoughts while leaving Ray, who is staring at me, babbling.

I am Daron, 24 years old.

One of the most common infantry in the empire. I didn’t originally intend to become a soldier, but I didn’t have the skills and had parents to support, so I looked for work and ended up getting this job.

And I was spending my time normally, receiving a fixed amount of money.

This is the life of 24-year-old Daron up to this point.

And from here on, I am now different from the old me.

Because I regressed… … I know the future.

If I had known that the Demon King was invading the continent, I probably would have been scared and not tried to become a soldier. Of course, I am not the same timid idiot as I was back then, so there is no reason to stop working right away just because I know what the future holds.

When I think about it again, it is the worst possible future.

At the same time, I was convinced that experiencing that future once would be of great help.

In the age of war, quick and accurate judgment determines my life or death. The habit of quickly making rational decisions without being swayed by emotions that destroy reason has been passed on to the present.

So I think

How will I survive this episode?

Let’s look back at what ‘I’ have built up in the previous episode.

Since I can only feel a little bit of magic, I mainly learned sword skills.

Besides that, I know many desperate ways to survive.

And above all, the greatest asset is knowing what will happen in the future. The flow of history will change depending on how I act differently from before, but the pivotal events will not change.

Me, Daron… … This time, I will never live like a hustler.

I roughly decided how to live.

We will not wait until the entire continent burns like before.

If you first dismantle the devil’s plans one by one, you will be able to kill him naturally.

But before that, he will also take revenge on those who prevented the alliance from coming together properly.

I didn’t like the fact that they were struggling for power and calculating the pros and cons while they were busy trying to stop the demon lord.

Moreover, there are those who want to resolve personal grudges.

I have no intention of killing everyone.

There is no need to kill someone if there is room for rehabilitation or if it is right to save them.

Although he was just a soldier… … .

I’m just about to leave.

It wasn’t my intention, but in a way, I definitely gave them a chance. However, they completely failed as even the warrior died.

Therefore, from now on I will do as I please.

First of all, I know what I have to do.

There is one task that is already at hand.

“Ray!”

I hear a voice calling for Ray from afar. I see soldiers coming here with arrogant steps. These are the guys that are deeply embedded in my memory.

“Tyke!”

Ray welcomed Tyke with a brighter face, different from when he saw me. And there were always beggars walking behind him. Even though they are of the same class, the word ‘stupid’ is more appropriate for those people who follow me around all the time.

“What are you doing here?”

Tyke, who is the same age as me, is one of the soldiers in the next platoon. He is a handsome man with strong muscles. To be honest, as a man, I think he’s more likable than me.

Moreover, he is scheduled to be promoted soon.

“Well. I came because it reminded me of Ray.”

They are not dating, but the atmosphere has a moderately pink air flowing through them. These two could not be connected for some reason. I know because that is the future I experienced.

That aside.

“But… … . Ray, were you with this kid?”

It’s not like they were stuck together.

What seemed so strange to me was that I quickly showed that I didn’t like it. The two little dogs that were following the tyke sneakily approached me and frowned. Looking at it now, it seems childish and almost makes me laugh, but if it were me before I returned, I would definitely have been very scared.

“Tyke. I tried to come out for a moment and rest, but he was just there.”

“What? Hey, do you like Ray? On your topic?”

Although he is a fellow soldier, Tyke looks down on me completely. The dogs, led by him, also giggle and laugh. There is no lie in what Ray said. I was here first, and Ray came out to take a break from working in the kitchen. I came to a quiet space behind this restaurant where not many people go.

You might think there must be some intention.

“Are you smiling now?”

what. Did you see the corners of his mouth turn up slightly?

“Aren’t you covering your eyes?”

Unlike before, his eyes were open clearly, so he must have been quite nervous. Perhaps because he is working on a woman, he wants to appear like a strong man.

He must have been frustrated because I didn’t say anything and just smiled and smiled.

“Are you crazy?”

I use the same expression as Ray did to me earlier. It’s crazy. Go crazy.

Yeah, I used to be crazy.

I remember.

It was around this time too.

For another reason, I was in this place. It was true that I had a crush on Ray. Still, I didn’t mean to be jealous because Ray was closer to another man.

I’m here to tell Ray about Tyke’s secret.

Still, at that time, I was overflowing with a sense of justice and said this. Just like before, it’s the same this time too.

“Ray. Do you know that these kids are murderers?”

Like this.

“… … What?”

It seems like an unexpected statement.

Behind the dumbfounded Ray, you can see Tyke and his tomboys in bewilderment.

“You know that the reason Tyke was promoted is because he made a big contribution in the monster extermination operation a few days ago, right?”

“Hey!”

Tyke is trying to stop my cubic.

“Kill the monster? I know this because I saw him next to him, and he is the one who killed his comrades and threw them to the monster to save his life. Thanks to that, he survived, and later somehow managed to kill the monster, but… … You actually killed the superior who killed the monster?”

“What bullshit?”

“The person who originally killed the monster was the Twenty Seal Hackard, who is said to have died in battle. He threatened to punish Tyke and the two henchmen behind him, who survived by killing their comrades during the battle, after the operation. I guess that’s why Tyke was scared. When Hackard chased after a fleeing monster alone and barely managed to kill it, it was this guy named Tyke who chased after it and stabbed it first.”

The whole story is exactly as I said.

Being the coward I was, I watched trembling from behind the tree. It was a fear that came from the thought that if I made a mistake, I could be killed as well.

So, originally, I should have reported to the captain this morning and later mustered up more courage to tell Ray. However, as I was trying to organize my thoughts due to the fact that I had returned, I was unable to report it to the commander.

“Tyke. I will report to the captain later.”

“Won’t you shut up?”

Tyke raised his fist and grabbed me by the collar. It looks like he’s about to hit me with a red face.

“Now you want to kill me too?”

“dog—child!”

If I had my original skills, that fist would have stuck in my face, but to me now, it’s a ridiculous fist.

Before the guy’s big moving hand could even approach, I drove my fist into his abdomen.

“Huh—hundred.”

When I see Tyke crawling on the ground, unable to breathe properly, I laugh out loud.

“Tyke are you okay?”

When Tyke, a talented tyke, gets knocked out in one hit, he doesn’t dare to attack me. All they could do was support Tyke.

Tyke and his gang excused Ray by saying they were framing him and quickly left for another place.

…….

I return feeling refreshed, organize my clothes, and recall what happened during the day. I just knocked it out, but it felt so good. How thrilling would it be to give back everything you received?

I should have taken revenge a long time ago.

“Daron. I got a letter from you?”

As expected, the letter arrived to me.

“Thank you Hamil.”

When I opened the letter given to me by Hamil, who shared the same room, I saw that it was from Ray. After looking at it carefully, there is something I would like to talk about during the day, so let’s meet up sometime. It’s late in the evening, but it’s not time to control it yet, so it doesn’t matter if we meet.

If it were me in the past, who briefly liked Ray, I would have run away with joy.

The problem is that this is a trap.

I was caught by the tyke who sent this letter and suffered serious burns. The unfair accusation was an added bonus.

“Daron. Is there anything exciting happening?”

“Wait a minute, I’ll go out and come back.”

I need to learn how to manage my facial expressions. I changed into my street clothes and came out of the room.

An incident that marked the beginning of my painful life happened tonight.

Of course, I have no intention of being treated the same way this time.

ruler… … It’s time to give it all back.