chapter 16
16 – I’m back! (2)
I couldn’t understand what Aisha was talking about. Fate? What kind of fate do you mean when everything is over?
Destiny? Fate?
Not even noticing my puzzlement, Aisha screamed at her barak.
“You have my magic! If it’s a technology in the future, there might be things or knowledge that can revive the dead! Why don’t you ask me for that!”
What she said was absurd bullsh*t. Lunatic Soul does not have a revival system. When you die, that’s it.
However, there was one word that penetrated my brain.
Fate
This is a word I saw somewhere.
“No way…?”
As if she couldn’t hear my muttering because she was so angry, Aisha pounded on my chest and eventually shed her tears.
“Just in case you don’t know, ask me to struggle with you! There’s a lot of talk about the young disciple! I mean, lean on your master!!”
“No, just be quiet for a moment.”
But I can’t afford to take care of her as much as she is now. I quickly put my thumb and middle finger together to check the skill I had, ‘Lunatic Soul’.
[ Lunatic Soul (Lv.1): A privilege given to the master. The power of the world is concentrated. Not all powers have been released yet. ]
[ – You can change the fate of one character. ( 0/1 ) ]
“Ha ha ha… Could this have meant this?”
“What…Is?”
Aisha looked at me with anxiety as I suddenly burst out laughing like a madman.
I still had one last chance left.
It is yet to be seen whether this skill will result in returning the dead, or twisting the current route in a different direction.
Thank you, Master. I almost ended it without even checking the one remaining possibility. For six years, I will serve you very hospitably.
“Sue…”
Slowly breathing in the wind, he shouted with all his might.
“Lunatic Soul!”
Then, without any gaps, a notification window popped up.
[ Activate Lunatic Soul. Who would you like to target? ]
Ask for something obvious!
“Ritma… Not! Lytria peirosis!”
[ Once a decision is made, it cannot be reversed. Are you sure you want to decide? ]
Once again, I was annoyed at the message in the notification window asking for my decision. There is no change in my mind.
“Just do it quickly!!”
The moment I let out a determined cry, my chest throbbed and it felt like my heart was being pulled out.
But there was no pain. All I felt was a faint, faint ecstasy.
[ May the Master’s decision shine even brighter for Lunatic Soul. ]
Immediately after that, I was enveloped in the light of a thin crescent moon that had been plucked from my chest.
I gently closed my eyes following the brilliant radiance.
—–
Someone’s voice that you hear as soon as you wake up beyond the borders of unconsciousness.
“Please take care of the mansion while I am away.”
As soon as I heard those words, electricity flowed through my veins, and a flash of light flashed in front of my eyes for an instant. Like a car engine on full throttle, the heart beat repeatedly.
It took some time to figure out the situation, but it wasn’t too long.
When I saw my father about to turn his back on me, I immediately realized what had happened to me.
Back!
“And!!”
We must go back!
I left my father and Aisha alone and ran to the garden where my mother was, using mana all over my body. I heard two panicked people calling me behind my back, but I didn’t know.
I arrived in the garden in less than a minute, and my mother was enjoying a leisurely tea time. And behind it, Trisha is sticking out her snake-like tongue as if she’s going to hurt her mother at any moment.
I gnashed my teeth and kicked her foot at her, wrapping her mana around her whole body on her leg.
“Hey! This! f*ck b*tch!!!”
I ran right in front of Trisha and slammed her fist into her face.
“Wow!”
I jumped on top of Trisha and continued to ram her fists into her face. There was a muffled scream, the sound of bones breaking, and thick blood splattered.
But I didn’t stop.
“Tir!? What the hell are you doing!?”
My mother was surprised and tried to stop me, but she couldn’t approach me easily because she was so deadly.
After I punched her a few more times, Tricia slapped her on the back, threw her body into the air and tossed it aside with all her might.
“You bastard!!”
Trisha, unable to hide her original devil-like appearance from the unexpected damage, grabbed her face and let out a scream.
My mother screamed at her as Trisha suddenly turned into her scaly figure, like a grotesque reptile, but she didn’t make much of an impression on me.
Yes, the howl of the prologue boss. Where does the dog bark
“You’re a bastard, but you can tolerate it, but you’re a bastard.”
“What!!?”
“Right? I know some tolerance. It’s not like you’re a weakling who only appears in the prologue. Then, is there only one conclusion?”
I spoke as if to reprimand her child, just like the woman who provoked me in front of her mother’s body earlier.
“Are you going to be very angry? Before Laminasis arrives to take care of Yongin, who couldn’t get enough of us, they get caught. The word Yongin is a waste, so let’s call it our baby salamander.”
Of course, the effect of my provocation was amazing. Trisha’s sanity declined.
“You bastard!”
“There’s no way that kind of thing will work for me now!!!!”
I used magic and at the same time I turned her body to avoid her claws rushing like a blizzard.
Shortly thereafter, Trisha suddenly flashed her eyes and thrust her teeth into my face.
‘It’s even more disgusting in real life.’
Among the skills Trisha uses, there is a ‘bite’ skill that she uses when she gets close. But I had no idea that the inside would look so disgusting.
It was like seeing an ant hell of endlessly connected teeth in a circle.
I thought that if I was bitten there, everything except for the bones would be incomplete. I didn’t mean to be right, so I’m not really worried.
‘Ice Hammer! Charge the bolt!’
A block of ice the size of my head formed in my fist, followed by blue currents scattered around the ice. As it was, he hit Trisha on the head as hard as he could with the full-powered ice.
“Kyaaah!!”
They didn’t stop with one shot, grabbed Tricia’s hair, fixed it so that she wouldn’t fall, and then beat her mercilessly.
In the end, the prelude to the battle in the prologue ended when Trisha completely lost her mind and fell face down on the floor. Finally… I did it!
“Whoa! Mother! Are you okay?”
As I approached Rit Maman, wiping my sweat, she shed tears and hugged my head.
“I’m fine! I’m okay! You?! Baby! Are you okay??”
“hahahahaha! I’m OK!”
Rather, I feel like I’m going to fly away. At las! I finally got it!! f*ck! I finally saved Riet Maman!
“Tir!!”
“No…! What is this!?”
Belatedly, Aisha and her father ran into the room. Maybe he thought my behavior was strange, so he delayed his departure for a while. After all, he looks blunt, but his heart is a kind person.
As if showing off, she waved her hand excitedly and welcomed the two of them.
The two were unable to speak at the moment of disaster. Don’t even do that Who would have known that a monster like that would stick right next to my mother.
My father, who drew his own conclusions with little information in a short time, put his hand on my head and said softly.
“Well done. You took good care of her mother. Thanks.”
Seriously, what is this, I am so happy.
It was just the time when I was trying to enjoy the warmth of a happy family as a reward for completing all the work.
“Damage!!”
Aisha pushed the three of us out of the window with a blast of magic. As soon as we were pushed out of the window, huge bolts of lightning rained down from the sky to where we were.
—–
“Hmm… I thought it would be useful because he was a guy who used to roll somewhere. It wasn’t young.”
The dragon king candidate, Laminasis, who was watching the whole situation from the sky, folded his four pairs of wings and came down to the ground.
To her infinitely arrogant creature, the only threat to her was the Great Witch of the Cold, whose teeth gnashed at the sight of me.
How many of her people have lost their lives at her hands!
The reason why the great dragons couldn’t command the continent was entirely her fault. So even when she saw that Trisha was in danger, she held her breath and waited.
The life of a worm and the neck of a mortal enemy. You don’t even have to put it on the scale. Taking advantage of the moment when the string of tension loosened, he poured out his elder dragon magic with all his might.
“I wouldn’t have died.”
Although the surprise attack was successful, the opponent is none other than the Great Witch of the Cold. If this level of attack had worked, the dragons would have already been released from the cold land.
To be prepared for any unexpected situation, I tried to slowly approach the collapsed wreckage with a counterattack in mind.
At that moment, something thumped and hit her on the head.
I just rolled my eyes to check it out, and it turned out to be a low-level freezing magic.
“It would be embarrassing if you looked down on me for killing Trisha.”
Then I heard the voice of a little boy gasping for breath behind me.
“If I kill her now, all of her war preparations so far will be useless, isn’t it a waste? Laminasis.”
“What?”
With those words, she immediately raised the boy’s danger level to a threat second only to the Great Witch of the Great Cold.
The Balaur have been preparing for a large-scale war in great secrecy for over 20 years with great care and attention, secretly from the Great Witch of the Great Cold.
How could this boy know that?
It was a fragile existence that would die if it was crushed with the slightest force. But he can’t kill right away. Since preparations for war were not over yet, we had to find out where the information leaked.
—–
‘We have to take the time!’
With that thought, I stood in front of Raminasis, struggling to suppress the fear of death.
Laminasis’ attack is not an attack that a naked human can withstand.
Especially right now, Aisha is in a weak situation because she has been away from the ice castle for a long time. Perhaps she, even Aisha, needed some time to take care of herself.
That said, I can’t apply for a match with the dragon king candidate with my insignificant abilities right now. Not even bones will remain in one second.
‘Think! Think, think!’
I thought until Aisha emerged from that pile of rubble, she desperately shook her head to kill time.
North. Aisha Rupeltert. Laminasis. Balaur. War. Aisha’s personality is broken.
With this combination, I pulled out the settings that had been perfectly embedded in my head and found negotiation material. And I was finally able to come up with one thing.
‘Why did I just come up with this now?’
It was only in this situation that I finally remembered it.
Why was I puzzled by Aisha’s venomous personality? What happened between the original prologue and chapter 1?
In the original work, the main character did not experience it directly, but the ‘frozen bloody war’ that appeared as the first sign of the evil god threatening the continent two years from now.
It was a war prepared by dragons gnashing their teeth at the oppression of the Great Witch of the Great Cold. In that war, Aisha had to fight several battles, large and small, alone a day.
One year until the support of the system arrives due to all kinds of checks and strife by the nobles. And another year to continue the battle with useless reinforcements.
Her mind and body are both exhausted in the aftermath of a long war, and she becomes an eccentric professor who despises nobles and tries to subdue others by force.
That’s why I was relatively careless now, before that personality was created.
“Tell me.”
Fortunately, my provocation worked well. Raminasis was looking down at me with his bloody eyes.
‘The problem starts now.’
It has become a mafia game where you can survive only by playing with the mouth well. I swallowed her dry saliva and waited for her words.
“Who leaked that information?”
“To the one who coiled up and entrusted himself to the water ice.”
“Lies!!”
“Keuuugh!”
The gong sound she emitted hit my body. She felt her whole body tearing as she couldn’t afford to defend herself because she had used her mana to the limit to explode her rage just before.
It seemed that she would lose her mind at any moment from the rushing pain, but she gnashed her teeth and endured it. If you fall down now, it’s over!
I tried to evade the answer with the most plausible words, but fortunately, the first one seems to have passed well.
“Ask again. If you don’t tell me honestly, I’ll take her fingers one by one.”
“I don’t believe it even if I tell you honestly, but what can I say? Would you understand if I said ‘Man Bingryong (萬氷龍) Arakruth’?”
“You… You bastard…”
My words seemed to be getting eaten little by little, so I tried provoking her by spreading her hands out wide.
“Did you admit to being a little honest? Seeing that my fingers are still there.”
As soon as he finished saying that, his number of fingers increased to 9. f*ck. I just provoked you
“He couldn’t have said such a thing to a man who was nothing short of our enemy!”
“Kuh… Ugh! It’s true, so why don’t you believe it? Nine more of the same question and your fingers will be gone. What are you going to do if you can’t ask questions before you get an answer?”
There are 8 of them.
“Since you also have toes, you can ask 18 more questions. Tell me Who are you?”
“Whoa! Whoa! I get it, I get it! I will tell you.”
“If I had been honest earlier, I wouldn’t have lost my finger.”
It’s crazy and crazy. If I hadn’t, I would have blown my hair right away.
“The one who controls the wrath of the sky told me…”
7 Before I finish talking.
Ha… Damn… You really kill me later unconditionally. Including teabagging.
“It’s admirable how humans know the name of an old dragon, but I can’t stand to see them humiliated by putting them in a position like this.”
The moment Laminasis is about to raise my hand again to make my fingers 6.
“Really? Is it a coincidence?”
Laminasis belatedly realized his mistake at the sound of that horrifying cold voice, and his body trembled. On the contrary, I felt a deep relief.
You waited too long. What god level monster are you? You have to sacrifice 3 fingers to make them pop out? There are three great witches, so they are similar.
“I couldn’t stand to watch any longer!”
The wreckage of the building trembled and rose into the air at the terrifying waves of mana that bloomed from the Great Witch of the Cold.
I didn’t use any magic. Just pure mana management is revealing the aftermath of that much.
Aisha glared at Laminasis with eyes frozen blue like ice caps.
“How dare you touch my pupil!? You bastard, drop your three wings today and get ready!!”