2nd Round Villain

21 – The virtue of chaos – 2

oh, what do you mean by that Suddenly seeing me as a regressor, on what grounds are you spouting such precise but absurd words?

If you know that, you’ll be able to affirm or deny it, or secretly say something.

And what? Are you ‘too’ a regressor? Are you saying there’s another regressor besides me? Is there someone who came to the king faster than me?

“You can have a lot of insight at a young age, but it rarely leaves a ‘crafty’ impression like yours.”

“ah.”

“I have nothing to say if you are a genius among geniuses, one in a million… … I guess I’m asking just in case. Are you a regressor?”

“Are you a regressor? What is it?”

“Don’t be shy. It’s like a hero from the previous era… A being that rewinds time from the future. In this generation, it’s probably you. Don’t ignore the nogoe’s hints.”

Oh, that was it. How do you explain it in a very cute way? I was so grateful that I almost shed tears of emotion.

Is this why they say they are considerate of the elderly? I think I can see why humans attach great importance to etiquette, such as respecting the elderly.

By the way, I heard that the former warrior was a regressor, and there was no failure in that human dictionary, but that secret was hidden. You’re building up your knowledge like this today.

Alright then. What am I supposed to answer that sharp and smart question?

false negative? Or a true affirmation?

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

“Um… Did I stumble… .”

“What are you shaking? You’re right in front of the Duke.”

The answer is the latter. There are many reasons, but the first of them is that there is nothing to avoid by saying it once.

“Heh heh, you’re quite good at playing with words. Hearing and releasing this old demon.”

“The eloquence is excellent. Even so, it’s only at the level of being able to move around a little on the street.”

The fact that the street was a street of nations, I didn’t bother to add. Because you have to be humble to embrace the light. This is a great and famous truth learned from the saintess.

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

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

“… No way, considering the psychological warfare in chess, you will never be ten years old.”

“Ah, there is nothing in the world that can be determined. don’t you know? Maybe I’m an ultra-super genius no one knows about.”

“… … .”

“Hey, it’s a joke. Just say that and move on.”

Perhaps because of the fact that I was playing with him, King glared at me a little resentfully. I responded with a smirking brow.

“And, for the ‘topic’ I’m going to talk about, it was necessary to reveal that fact.”

“Did you mean to tell me from the beginning?”

“Yes or no, I’ve already said it. Does it matter now?”

“… Are you evading the answer?”

“Rather than avoidance, it is about efficiency. I’m a busy kid, so time allocation is very important.”

That’s not wrong. Time is something that cannot be saved again once it is lost unless it returns like I did, so I cannot recklessly waste even a single moment for the sake of the future.

Of course, there are no specific plans yet. I will only listen to King about causality and set it right.

The arrogant brothers who have accumulated karma on this good-natured, good-natured regressor will be put first in the plan.

“Then what does our noble ‘returner’ want to ask this lowly old man?”

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

“hour?”

“therefore… In about five hundred years from now, there is one person to be born into the world. But what if I change the past and that person is not born?”

“Is someone important to you?”

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

“hehehe, I must have been quite close to you in my previous life.”

“It was a friendship comparable to the Gwanpo Branch.”

At my jokey words, King burst out laughing.

previous life? I wasn’t very close with him, but it was from my previous life anyway, so what’s the point of sprinkling seasoning?

Whether it’s a previous life that only I can remember now is unknown. Being close is a subjective concept, so I never said anything wrong. By my standards, yes.

“I don’t know much about him, but it’s only natural that once you change the past, you change the future. I cannot deny that.”

“hmm.”

“However, that is only assuming a relevant future. Any past can relate to all futures if you rely on meteorologists’ sophistry like the butterfly effect theory.”

“You can’t blindly trust that.”

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

King asked intently. Is the saintess human? of course.

“Yes, that is also a human from the Holy Land.”

“There’s no such thing as having demon blood mixed in when you were born.”

“I don’t know about that, but probably not. Because there is no way the Holy Land will accept an unclean existence.”

To be precise, they went beyond accepting it and revered it, but whatever.

“I can only get a rough picture.”

“What?”

“In the end, what you want to ask is, isn’t it your range of action? What line should not be crossed so that it does not affect the birth of that human being in the future.”

“Oh, right.”

“So it sounds like it’s been resolved. Isn’t the world you live in in the first place different? Humans live on the continent, and we demons live in the demon realm. There is no way to move between the human world and the demon world unless it is a portal, so if you only stay in the demon world, it won’t matter.”

“Okay, then… .”

As the horse’s tail faded, King twitched his bell pepper eyebrows. The shredded vegetables shake vigorously.

Ugh, no matter how much art it is, isn’t that a bit excessive? I’d rather delve into the virtues of explosions like me. I frown a little at the shape that slightly crossed the line.

If you allow your face to be stuffed with vegetables, why hate only bell pepper eyebrows?

Yes, because bell peppers are delicious. I don’t mind playing with tasteless food, but bell peppers are said to be very tasty when the juice is bitter.

“Guiding some very useless people to heaven, who will get in the way in the future… Would it be okay?”

“Hoo.”

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

“Are there demons who dare to disobey the regressors?”

“It’s just old-fashioned revenge.”

“As I just said, the continent and the Pandemonium have different world lines, so even if you say sh*t in the Pandemonium, it won’t have a big impact on the human world. Of course, killing a few demons won’t be a problem.”

“Oh, that’s nice.”

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

Uh, come to think of it, Leonard and Letavis have a future in which they will end up in a terrible place after going to Masurim. How do you do that? Do you think death in Masurim has nothing to do with the human world?

iffy. Masurim is a forest where the dimension is twisted, and it is also a place that connects the demon world and the human world along with the dimensional gate. It means that awkward and complicated situations that demons or human subjugation teams often encounter occur.

“… Still, I can’t take away a player.”

“player?”

“How unpleasant it is when the person I kill is killed by someone else. Wouldn’t the duke know if he was a demon?”

“Certainly, I’ve lived a life close to eternal life, but I still feel embarrassed when the person I’ve pinned down dies.”

“Right? Isn’t the Duke like that too?”

When asked as if eager for sympathy, King nodded obediently. See, grievance when you couldn’t kill someone is common to all, right? If it were a saint, she would have said something different.

If the saintess had heard our conversation just now, she would have been frightened. Kick, this is a real demonic conversation, saintess.

“Oh, and there are people you shouldn’t touch, even if they only reside in the demon realm. Those whose existence itself has a great impact on the world.”

“for example?”

“Like the newly born Demon King. Or at least the Demon King. Their mere existence instills alertness and suspense throughout all dimensions.”

“Oh, that’s what I heard. I can’t kill the Demon King.”

“Demon King? I must have had a bad relationship with the Demon Lord in my previous life.”

“Of the five hundred years I’ve been with him, four hundred and ninety-nine were good. It’s a problem because it went wrong in the last year.”

Demon King Kanos. A person who always looked up at the night sky of the Pandemonium, where war clouds hovered, and looked forward to a duel with a strong man that he would experience someday.

Then, at some point, the demon king began to taste power and changed. In the past, they arrested me and threw me into the Tower of Babel for the sake of their authority. Because he is so strong, it is unclear whether revenge will be possible, but if the demon king is also my enemy, he is my enemy.

“Hmm, well, I got the point. It is said that the slaughter in the Pandemonium will not matter as long as it is not for the demons who are roughly influential.”

“Yes, originally, the soul is managed by the gods, so it shouldn’t be much of a problem with trivial things.”

“It’s good. Oh, and one more.”

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

I don’t hate it because it’s all intentional. Rather, I just smile with a lot of still to be ripped from King, the living great encyclopedia.

“You said earlier that you knew a little about regressors. Like a former warrior.”

“It did.”

“Do you know anything about regression? When I opened my eyes without knowing why, I was in a position in the past, so I’m a bit dumbfounded right now.”

“Um… return? Come back… … .”

King pondered my question for a moment, then raised his grape arm and snapped his banana finger. A faint but clear magic escaped from his hand.

The purple magic seeped into one of the coffins in the corner. It was an antique wooden coffin that would have been popular only centuries ago.

“I slept for a long time. Just get up.”

Squeeze giggig- rattle.

“Ugh… .”

King gave the command in a low voice. The coffin faithfully fulfilled his command. When the lid of the coffin was opened, a corpse was thrown out.

Its shoulders were as tall as five human adults lined up, and its height was easily over 3 meters tall. A nail in my temple and a square jaw pulled out the identity of the corpse in my memory.

Immortal Giant, Frankenstein.

A monster who was a famous knight of the continent a long time ago, but became the King’s henchman after he died and was given a dead heart by the King.

“Okay… Lord… A long time… .”

“It’s been a while, Frankenstein.”

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

Frankenstein wakes up from a long sleep and drools as soon as he sees King. The scent of the sweet juice must have been quite fatal to the monster, who had only a faint reason and firm nature left.

“Uh-huh, I won’t prepare your meals separately. For now, go down to the underground library and pick up a book.”

“Okay… ? a book… ?”

“There will be a book by Evans. A book about time. It must be titled ＜Flower that eats time＞. maybe.”

“Ugh… years… Eating flowers… I want to eat too… .”

“Sseu-eup, if you bring it well, I will prepare good quality meat. Until then, be patient.”

As the word meat escaped King’s lips, Frankenstein’s porcelain eyes widened. More saliva leaked out of his mouth. Frankenstein disappeared into the darkness with a thumping step.

Left alone with King, I swallowed and said. Hearing a word that I just can’t get over.

“… Wait.”