episode_0021

Oh, what does that mean? They are suddenly calling me a regressor. On what basis are they spewing out such accurate but empty statements?

If you know that, you can either affirm, deny, or subtly criticize.

And what? Are you a regressor too? Are you saying there are other regressors besides me? Is there someone who came to King faster than me?

“You may have great insight at a young age, but you rarely leave an impression of being as ‘sly’ as you.”

“Ah.”

“If you are a genius among geniuses, one in a million, there is nothing I can say… … I’m asking just in case. Are you a regressor?”

“A regressor? What is that?”

“Don’t act like a fool. Just like a warrior from the pre-war era… A being who has rewound time from the future. In this generation, I guess it’s probably you. Don’t ignore the advice of old monsters.”

Ah, that was it. You explain it so cutely. I was so thankful that I almost shed tears of emotion.

Is this why we say that elderly people are very considerate? I think I understand why humans value etiquette such as respecting the elderly.

By the way, I heard that the warrior of the previous era was a returnee, and that there was no failure in the human dictionary, but such a secret was hidden. I am accumulating knowledge like this again today.

Okay then. How should I answer that sharp and smart question?

False denial? Or true positivity?

“No, what are you saying? A regressor, where in the world is there such a thing?”

“Umm… Did I make a mistake… .”

“Why are you shaking? The Duke is right in front of you.”

The answer is the latter. There are many reasons, but the first one is that there is nothing to lose by speaking up.

“Hehe, you’re pretty good at puns. Lifting and dropping this old demon.”

“Your eloquence is outstanding. Well, it’s only at the level of walking around on the street.”

There was no need to add that the streets were the streets of countries. Because you have to be humble to embrace the light. This is a great and famous truth learned from a saint.

“Still, I didn’t know it would be revealed so easily.”

“Is that so? Don’t you think I’m lying right now?”

“… No way, if you think about the psychological warfare during chess, you are definitely not a 10-year-old.”

“Ah, there is nothing in this world that can be determined. You never know, right? Maybe I’m an edgy genius that no one knows about.”

“… … .”

“Kkkk Atk at it. It’s just a joke. Let’s just say this roughly and move on.”

Perhaps because of the fact that I was playing with him, King glared at me with a bit of resentment. I responded with a slyly curved eyebrow.

“And, for the sake of the ‘topic’ I will talk about in the future, it was necessary to reveal that fact.”

“Did you intend to tell it from the beginning?”

“Whether it is or not, I already said it, but does it matter now?”

“… Are you avoiding the answer?”

“Rather than avoidance, it is about utility. I am a busy child, so time allocation is very important.”

It’s not wrong. Time is something that, unless you regress like me, once you let it go, you can never get it again, so I cannot waste even a single moment carelessly, even for the sake of the future.

Of course, there are no concrete plans yet. I will set it straight after hearing only about causality from King.

The cheeky brothers who have accumulated karma on this good-natured regressor will put him at the top of the plan.

“Then, what does our precious ‘Returner’ want to ask this lowly old man?”

“Ah, the time has finally come to ask this. Duke, do you know anything about ‘time’?”

“Time?”

“So… About 500 years from now, there is a person who needs to be born into the world. But I’m worried about what if I change the past and that person isn’t born, or something like that.”

“Is this person important to you?”

“Hmm… He is as important as the Duke.”

“Hehe, I guess I was quite close to you in my past life.”

“It was a friendship comparable to Gwanpojigyo.”

At my joking words, King burst into laughter.

Past life? I wasn’t really close with him, but it was from my past life anyway, so what did a little seasoning matter?

Now, I’m not sure if it’s a past life that only I remember. Since being close is a subjective concept, I have never said anything wrong. By my standards, yes.

“I don’t know much about that person, but it’s natural that once you change the past, the future will also change. You can’t deny that.”

“Hmm.”

“However, that is only on the assumption that there is a relevant future. If you rely on the sophistry of meteorologists such as the butterfly effect theory, any past may be related to all futures.”

“You can’t blindly trust that.”

“That’s right, if that were the case, your coming to me would have already disrupted the future. therefore… Didn’t you say that the person to be born was a human?”

King asked with some purpose. Is the saint human? of course.

“Yes, he is also a human from the Holy Kingdom.”

“There is no such thing as demon blood mixed in at birth.”

“I don’t know much about that, but it’s probably not true. Because there is no way in the Holy Kingdom that would accept an impure being.”

To be precise, they went beyond the level of acceptance and revered it, but whatever.

“I can get a rough idea of the picture.”

“What is it?”

“In the end, what you want to ask is the radius of your action, isn’t it? What line should not be crossed so as not to affect the birth of humans in the future?”

“Oh, that’s right.”

“So, it means that it has been resolved. In the first place, the world we live in is different, isn’t it? Humans live on the continent, and we demons live in the demon world. There is no way to travel between the human world and the demon world except through a portal or something, so it won’t matter as long as you only travel in the demon world.”

“Okay, then… .”

As King trailed off, his eyebrows made of bell peppers twitched. The soft vegetables are shaking vigorously.

Ugh, even if it’s art, isn’t that a bit excessive? You’d rather believe in the virtue of explosions like me. I frown a little at the sight of it slightly crossing the line.

Why do we allow faces filled with vegetables, but only hate green pepper eyebrows?

That’s right, green peppers are delicious. I don’t really care if I’m playing around with tasteless food, but green peppers are really delicious because their juice is bitter.

“Guiding some very useless people who will be a hindrance to the future to heaven… Is it okay?”

“Hoo.”

“Not much. Just one or two or three people.”

“Are there any demons who dare to go against the wishes of the returnees?”

“It’s just old revenge.”

“As I just said, the world lines between the continent and the demon world are different, so even if you do a shitty job in the demon world, it will be difficult to have a big impact on the human world. Of course, killing a few demons won’t be a problem.”

“Oh, that’s a relief.”

“If there is one thing I am concerned about, is there any among those demons who will come into contact with the human world? Before the ‘human’ you mentioned was born.”

Oh, come to think of it, Leonard and Letavis have a future where they will go to the Demon Forest and meet a terrible end. How do I do that? Isn’t the death in the Demon Forest unrelated to the human world?

iffy. The Demon Forest is a forest with distorted dimensions, and it is also a place that connects the demon world and the human world with a dimension gate. This means that the punitive forces of demons or humans often encounter awkward and complicated situations.

“… Still, the player cannot be taken away.”

“Player?”

“How unpleasant it would be if the person I wanted to kill was killed by someone else. Don’t you know that the duke is also a demon.”

“Of course, even though I have lived a life that is close to eternal life, I still feel bad when the person I had my eye on dies unexpectedly.”

“Right? The duke is like that too, right?”

When asked as if he was longing for sympathy, King nodded obediently. See, it’s common for all things to be upset when they can’t kill someone they can’t kill? If she were a saint, she would have said something different.

If the saint had heard our conversation now, she would have been horrified. Kick, this is a conversation between real demons, saint.

“Oh, and there are people who should not be touched even if they only reside in the Demon World. These people whose very existence has a great influence on the world.”

“For example?”

“Something like the newly born Demon Lord. Or something like the Demon World’s Four Dukes. Because their mere presence instills alertness and tension in the entire dimension.”

“Oh, that’s what I heard. I can’t kill the demon lord.”

“The devil? I guess I had a bad relationship with the Demon King in my past life.”

“Out of the five hundred years I spent with him, four hundred and ninety-nine were good. The problem is that it went wrong in the last year.”

Demon King Kanos. A person who looked up at the night sky of the Demon World, which was always filled with war clouds, and looked forward to a duel with a strong person that he would experience one day.

Then, at some point, the Demon King began to get a taste for power and changed. In the past, for the sake of their authority, they captured me and threw me into the Tower of Babel. Since he is such a strong person, it is unclear whether revenge will be possible, but if the Demon King is my enemy, he is also my enemy.

“Hmm, well, I get the point. This means that as long as it is not an influential demon, a slaughter war within the demon world will not matter.”

“Yes, since the soul is managed by the gods, trivial matters will not be much of a problem.”

“Good. Oh, and one more thing.”

King smiled, knowing that my business was not over. If it were another demon, it might have been bothersome, but King, who is already interested in me, sees me as a subject of research that he wants to explore to the extreme.

I don’t hate it because it was all intentional. Rather, I can only grin as there is still a lot to be learned from King, the living encyclopedia.

“You said earlier that you know something about regressors. Like a warrior from the pre-war era.”

“That’s right.”

“Do you know anything about regression? I opened my eyes without knowing what was going on and found myself in the past, so I’m a bit confused now.”

“Umm… return? Go back… … .”

King pondered my question for a moment, then raised his grape arm and pointed his banana finger. A faint but clear magical power came out of his hand.

Purple magic seeped into a single pipe in the corner. It was an old-fashioned wooden coffin that may have been popular centuries ago.

“I slept for a long time. Just wake up now.”

Geek-gi-geek- rattle.

“Guhuh… .”

King gave an order in a low voice. The governor faithfully carried out his orders. When the coffin lid was opened, a corpse came out.

His shoulders were as big as five human adults lined up in a row, and his height was easily over 3 meters. The spikes embedded in the temples and the square jaw brought out the identity of the corpse in my memory.

Frankenstein, the immortal giant.

A monster who was a famous knight on the continent a long time ago, but after his death and was given a dead heart by the King, he became King’s confidant.

“Well… My lord… A long time… .”

“It’s been a while, Frankenstein.”

“Master… looks delicious… fruit… I want to eat… .”

Frankenstein woke up from a long sleep and started drooling as soon as he saw King. The scent of sweet juice must have been quite fatal to a monster with only a faint sense of reason and a firm nature left.

“Uh-huh, I will prepare a separate meal for you. First, go down to the underground library and pick up a book.”

“Well… ? One book… ?”

“There must be a book by Evans. A book that studies time. The title is probably . Probably.”

“Guhuh… Time… Eating flowers… I want to eat too… .”

“Tsu-eup, if you bring it well, I will provide you with high-quality meat. Until then, be patient.”

As soon as the word meat left King’s lips, Frankenstein’s white porcelain eyes brightened. More and more saliva came out of his mouth. Frankenstein disappeared into the darkness with a pounding step.

Left alone with King, I swallowed my saliva and said. I heard a word that I just couldn’t ignore.

“… Wait a minute.”