The great mage who transcends by regression, episode 247
[…] …Regressor?]
Set muttered that in disbelief.
[Regression obviously means going back in time…?]
“Yes, that’s what it means.”
There is no reason not to say it when you have already revealed that you are a regressor.
Seth’s expression twisted at my words, and he shouted in denial.
[Don’t be ridiculous! Impossible! Going against time is something humans can do… …!]
“But there is no such thing as absolute.”
[No, isn’t that the problem?!]
Seth’s eyes flickered like crazy.
regression demigod.
Either way, it would be a word that would make even her, an apostle, startled.
[When even hekau she…did you guarantee She knows about God and no one else… …?]
“That’s it.”
[This human is wasting time…!]
Set stuttered as if he was still unconscious.
It seems that what I just said was shocking to that extent.
She muttered that for a while, trembling with her mouth open.
“Hmm.”
Then Thoth asked me a question.
“Looking at it roughly, it seems that my records were obtained before returning.”
“What is it?”
Thoth’s record.
In many ways, it is a guideline tailored to the challenger of the tomb, where many things have been recorded. Even the other apostles do not know the exact contents.
I just know that there is a lot of information about the ‘grave’.
It was thanks to the record that we were able to somehow find the location of the tomb and try to attack it before returning.
“Was my log helpful?”
“To some extent.”
“But it doesn’t seem to have done enough to completely change the situation.”
“What did you do?”
Of course, the information Thoth gave us was not useless. It was always just one step too late.
[Mikhail Then, the future… ….]
“Failed.”
I just cut the answer.
His voice didn’t tremble or tremble.
That’s the conclusion I came to after thinking dozens of hundreds of times in my head.
“It was a war that started with too much lost. Under the fully descended Demon God, the great demons ran rampant.”
[ah….]
At my words, Seth’s eyes trembled.
I can’t help but feel guilty.
According to what I just heard, it means that she had a precedent of sympathizing with that demon.
[I’m sorry… ….]
Set lowered his head with an expression that looked like he would shed tears at any moment.
future.
The time when I struggled with despair over and over again.
Set would see it.
[If you’ve been through that kind of thing, it’s unreasonable for you to resent me… ….]
“No, I said it earlier.”
I spoke to the set again.
“I don’t particularly resent you.”
[…] …Ha, but.]
“It’s not that you affirm the past that you sympathized with the demon. In any way, if it was a betrayal and a sin, then of course you should atone for it.”
Now I’m not trying to say that Set is innocent.
“It’s just that your guilt doesn’t have to be directed at me.”
[…] …Ah.]
“The present has completely become ours. It is no longer the age of gods or the age of apostles.”
Thousands of years have passed.
“We humans lived on this land and enjoyed our rights. we are…I just took responsibility for it.”
Even if we failed, our struggles were worth it.
I didn’t want to tarnish that worthwhile struggle by tying it up with a person from thousands of years ago.
In the first place, shouldn’t her sins be judged by people of that era?
I have neither the right to resent her sins nor the right to defend them.
What you use is just what you use.
She is an assistant who helps me a lot at this point.
Then Thoth asked.
“Then what if the ‘victims’ of that day forced Set to atone?”
“I will have to accept it.”
“Hoo.”
Thoth laughed like he was having fun.
“Are you going to stand by?”
“I’m not done talking. Of course I have no choice but to accept it… ….”
If I really want to help her, considering Set as a colleague.
“Anyway, as a colleague, I think we can do something about carrying it together.”
I said that and looked at Thoth.
The gist of the guy’s question was clear.
How much is the line in my heart and from where to where is the permissible line… ….
I’m guessing you’re trying to figure it out using the set.
This guy was originally like this.
It’s not rotten at the root, but it’s twisted, so it’s hard to deal with.
[Ugh….]
At my words, Set sniffed and clung to my shoulder. Even though I have no face, I wonder if what I said wasn’t happy at all… ….
whatever it would be
Emotions cannot be unilateral.
“…hmm.”
Thoth’s eyes narrowed.
The guy said, waving the book he was holding in his right hand.
“Were you originally like this? At least it wasn’t written that way ‘here’.”
“….”
The book Thoth was holding was quite familiar.
“…< record >?”
“Yes, unlike the replicas I have out there, they are genuine. Unlike replicas, there is no ‘missing’, and the original is updated in real time.”
Thoth said that and opened the bookshelf in front of me. Then the pages continued to turn.
On the face of it, there is not much difference from what I read before the regression.
but at some point.
“hmm…?”
is torn
One page was torn.
“As you know, I never neglect my records.”
“yes.”
“Especially the page is important. I never write the wrong things in a book, and even if I do, I never tear the pages.”
but it was torn
A page that would normally not be torn has evaporated.
“It’s not what I did. And behind that evaporated page… ….”
Thoth showed the next page.
“…I saw something like this.”
I saw the page he pointed to.
Then there.
“Mikhail Walpurgis.
He is a bad guy who wants to embrace everything by himself. I endure alone and try to protect it somehow.
But this time it is impossible.
■■ is solid, and the information I can give is limited.
listen
I did ■■ once.
This is a one-time gamble that I believe in his potential.
If you can reach ■■, maybe there is a possibility.
There is something to be said.
If ‘me’ sees this… ….
that.
It means that he succeeded.”
“…Thoth?”
He’s not the guy he is now.
I realized intuitively.
The fact that the one who wrote this now wasn’t the guy from now, but the guy from before the regression I knew… ….
It’s not just that.
The words were inaccurate here and there, as if ink had smeared here and there, but enough information was written here and there on the subsequent pages to be able to judge the approximate content to some extent.
It was sparse, but… ….
At least the content was quite substantial to the extent that it was not difficult to grasp the existence of ‘I’.
“I’ve read everything, but it seems that ‘I’ wasn’t involved in the regression. But ‘I’ seems to have expected something from you.”
“…Hmm.”
“That’s why they entrusted these ‘pages’ to me with all their might. For now, my guess is this.”
Page.
Could it be considered a kind of notion?
Is it because Thoth knew me before returning to work?
“Guess what?”
“My record is unique. Just as it is possible to renew a copy thrown outside, my record jumps over space.”
“That is, by the nature of the record, have you tried something and succeeded?”
“I’m thinking that way for now, but even if I tried this, it’s not without risk.”
Thoth continued.
“Space is fine, but interfering with time is taboo. There is little chance of success in the first place.”
“But that’s what you did.”
“As I said, there is no chance. Torn pages here. This means I have already failed once.”
Thoth pointed to the tattered page and said.
“The problem is that it is strange that I, who is more rational than anyone else, tried even though the possibility of failure is overwhelmingly high. So I’ve been thinking about it.”
the guy spoke up.
“I was thinking of going on top of the future ‘me’. I put everything on my feet.”
“…hmm?”
“The only way to break through the hopeless situation in the future is to rewind time, and you believed that you could do that.”
believed?
I pondered.
What happened before the regression.
‘It suddenly disappeared.’
All of a sudden, at some point, Thoth completely evaporated in front of me.
If he did something, that’s what I’d guess.
Did he tell me anything before he disappeared?
just….
– You are not. You are failures, Mikhail.
They just laughed at us as usual. then casually.
– For now.
…I said so.
At that time, I thought that even if he was simply a twisted guy, he would give some comfort in his own way, but in fact, if he was expressing his belief in me in his own way….
“It wasn’t like you.”
“I mean.”
Thoth covered the bookshelf with an expression of displeasure.
No, to be precise, it would be correct to say that he tried to cover it up.
“…hmm?”
All of a sudden, something slowly started popping up on the page.
four sentences.
Thoth tilted his head at the sentence that suddenly came to mind with an expression that he did not understand.
“what? I can’t see anything, but what the hell is this… ….”
“Uhm.”
I drool for a while.
Contrary to Thoth’s words that he couldn’t see it, I could clearly see the content.
After reading what came to mind, I nodded and asked the guy.
“Hey Thoth.”
Power naturally entered the hand holding the staff.
To be honest, it’s hard for me to fully anticipate this incident right now, but… …
“Why?”
I said looking at Tote like that.
“What did you do on < Book Hill >?”
“hmm?”
At that moment, the corners of Thoth’s eyes trembled briefly, even to the slightest degree.
Of course, it went by in an instant, but I saw it all.
“I didn’t do anything.”
“…hmm.”
I thought for a moment, thinking about the sentence that I saw quietly in front of my eyes.
What should I do?
But the trouble was short-lived.
“I can’t. My schedule has changed. First of all, give me the new thing.”
“Didn’t you say you would?”
Thoth looked at me with a bewildered expression and said,
“You mean there are still a lot of stories to hear from you in the first place? Until I heard that, I didn’t even think about giving away things or passing the ordeal… ….”
“what are you talking about. Didn’t I tell you to ask me too?”
“…what?”
At my words, Thoth’s expression became indescribably strange.
What kind of bullshit are you talking about all of a sudden?
A face like that.
I smiled brightly when I saw that guy.
If you think about it now, Thoth before the return was truly an equal being.
I put a lot of strength into the hand holding the staff, recalling one of the sentences that just popped up on the page.
“I don’t intend to be sick of this bastard.”
“Give it to me, bastard.”
Thoth before the regression.
The guy was an extraordinary apostle who could even attack his own past.
* * *
Kwaaang!
“Heh heh heh!”
A huge stick was slammed into the left side of his face.
The library that was hit directly by the club collapsed one after another, leaving a thick cloud of dust.
‘what?’
Thoth broke into a cold sweat, thinking what the hell had happened.
Mikhail’s mood changed the moment he checked a certain sentence that had just been added to his ‘record’.
no more than that
‘Was this guy this kind of personality?’
“Give me your head, bastard!”
With their wild eyes shining, Mikhail’s staff began to move, taking a dazzling angle.
The reason why Thoth took his own high attitude toward Mikhail was because he believed in him.
in the records he read.
Mikhail was a very rational being. A being who never moved his body first and thought dozens of hundreds of times before taking action.
It must have been.
“Wow wow?!”
Where does that rational wizard go, and isn’t a gorilla holding a staff chasing after him with shining eyes?
Ah, that’s the primate god… ….
‘Have you been caught?’
Thoth quickly guessed why Mikhail was doing that.
Maybe there was something about himself in the ‘sentence’ Mikhail saw.
‘Damn it!’
Thoth desperately shouted at the sense of crisis felt in real time.
“Don’t say it! in words! In the first place, my ordeal is logic and whim! The subject of my ordeal is through logic that can control even its whims… …!”
“Logic and whim! Where the hell does that come from! right in the head!”
Mikhail roared.
“Then break your head!”
If you break your head, you bastard won’t even think of rolling your hair!
“No shit! You crazy underdeveloped primate bastard!”
He screamed as he screamed as he ran away.
