EP.83 What’s your name?
The temporary interrogation was conducted very quickly and simply. While Tyr pretended not to know and avoided his gaze, Shay, who had pulled a desk and chair, sat across from him, cupped with both hands and rested her chin on her chin.
“ruler. first. I haven’t been able to ask because I haven’t had a chance until now.”
Faced with Shay’s sharp gaze, he looked at Tyr anxiously, but Tyr closed his mouth and lowered his parasol to cover his eyes.
Shay, who had become alone, stared at him and asked.
“What is your name?”
Pressured by Shay’s overbearing spirit, he looked around and answered with difficulty.
“Tyr.”
“huh? did you call me?”
Tyr raised his parasol slightly. Shay waved her hand.
“no. I must have misunderstood my question.”
Shay glared at him again and asked more clearly.
“No, your name.”
“Tir…”
Even if it was a mistake once, it is inevitable from the second time. When he introduced his name as Tyr twice in a row, Tyr approached with a puzzled look.
“Do you have the same name as me? Tyr? What a great coincidence.”
“I don’t think so. It seems that you just heard the name Tyr and are confused. for a moment.”
Shay grabbed the cherry tree and held it straight, with the side facing forward.
Heaven’s Sword (天鏡).
A mirage is the shadow of the earth reflected in the sky. Uneven air spread far enough causes the light to bend around.
The cherry blossoms, the compressed space itself, refracted the light to reflect his face as it is. Shay said, pointing at him in the mirror.
“ruler. look! Not Tyr, this guy! I mean you in the mirror!”
“I… my name.”
In an instant, he opened his eyes. It was a drastic change that first appeared in his face. He cupped his face in pain and took a deep breath.
Shay watched him silently without urging him. Tyr, who couldn’t see it, stepped out.
“Let’s do it here. I think I was just too ahead of myself. If you have something to ask, take your time and figure it out slowly.”
However, Shay firmly shook her head.
“wait. I will definitely remember No matter how much I lose my ego, I don’t easily forget old and frequently used information like my name. If you forget even the name that has been with you all your life, you will forget the language.”
“But…”
“And to find other memories, it is necessary to ask for a name. A name is the most important component of one’s self.”
Knowledge builds confidence, and confidence builds confidence.
Shay’s words were surprisingly logical and confident, so Tyr stepped back without saying anything. Instead, I just worried about him, holding my hands tightly, hoping for his well-being.
After quite a long time, moaning that seems to be cut off continues, and when Tyr’s heart burns black like a fuse.
After a long silence, he spat out a word with difficulty.
“…phew.”
The two of them were confused as to whether those words came out of their thoughts or if they just groaned. Realizing that the moaning had stopped after that, Tyr asked again.
“Did you say phew?”
He nodded. Shay, who belatedly realized that it was a name, was puzzled.
“phew? is that your name?”
Nodding followed once again. Shay studied his face for a moment, lost in thought.
‘Don’t you have a last name? Oh, I said orphan. Still, if you are in a high-ranking position in the military, you tend to make a surname… After the kingdom disappeared, surnames lost much meaning. Could it be that he has no attachment to the name he made up?’
After Shay was silent for a moment, Tyr cautiously approached and called his name.
“phew?”
When his name was called, he turned his head in the direction of the sound. It responds to your own name.
Tyr responded with a warm smile.
“Whew, that’s your name. I found out too late If I had known earlier, I would have called more often.”
Compared to Tyr, who accepts it without a single doubt, Say still has doubts.
‘Looking at the reaction, it seems that his name is right. Isn’t that a pseudonym? no. There is no end to this thought.’
Shay frowned and repeated the name for a while. To find even a similar name in the memories of regression.
“phew. phew. Hurah…”
“Do you know that name?”
“wait for a sec. Humanist Heuristic Huh…. No way.”
“no way?”
After thinking for a while, Shay shook her head.
“First time hearing it. I couldn’t find any similar names.”
Tyr replied in a limp voice.
“But what are you procrastinating about? If you don’t know, say you don’t know from the beginning.”
“I mean, it’s more award-winning. A name I don’t know? If he was a fairly important person, especially if he was a military instructor, he would have known almost everyone…”
It was a reasonable statement from Shay’s point of view.
She had already gone through 13 regressions and had conflicts with the military for about half of them, and she remembered most of the famous military personnel. If it was an instructor with such great ability, there was no way he wouldn’t be remembered here.
‘If only he hadn’t died in the bottomless pit…’
However, after hearing Shay’s self-talk, Tyr noticed for a moment. It was because he learned from Golem’s remarks that he was not an instructor.
Tyr himself didn’t care about that, but she forcibly changed the subject, not sure if she could tell Shay.
“How wide is the world? There must be many people you don’t know. More than that.”
Tyr took up his parasol and approached with quick steps.
“phew.”
He turned and looked at Tyr. Tyr called the name again with pleasure.
“phew.”
“yes.”
“phew.”
Just the name twice without any business. Once with a slightly higher pitch and once with a slightly lower pitch.
When I called his name as if singing a song, he tilted his head and called the name of the singer.
“…Tyr.”
“Whoops. This is your name, phew.”
Tyr was content with just knowing his name, so he was busy calling him by name. If I let it go, I thought I would spend all day calling out names.
That said, he couldn’t wait for Tyr, who didn’t know how to be bored, to enjoy it all. Shay stopped Tyr from calling his name again and asked.
“Yeah huh? I don’t know if it’s real, but I know what to call it. What is the rank then?”
The question caused Tyr to wipe the smile from his lips and look up. He made a puzzled expression when he received Shay’s question.
“Classes?”
“If you’re a real instructor, there won’t be a rank.”
“Uh…”
He hesitated without answering, and Tyr hurriedly intervened and embraced him.
“It’s a rank. Are such trivial things important? Things that just confuse me and don’t matter.”
“But if you want to know where you are in the military, nothing is as important as your rank.”
“Isn’t it up to the class to change? You may have forgotten those unsettling memories. Let’s move on to something other than that. phew?”
Quickly passing the question, Tyr called Shay before he could ask again. However, since he hadn’t thought about what question to ask in advance, he immediately threw out the question that came to his mind.
“Do you have any favorite food?”
The world is relative, so it could be a very important issue for someone, but at least it wasn’t Shay’s concern. Shay complained.
“What question is that? It’s a more useless question after saying that it’s not important based on rank.”
“Aren’t you the only one asking questions?”
“No, I didn’t even ask for anything other than my name…”
“You’re noisy. Are you going to bet on your master’s business?”
“They say you’re a teacher only at times like this…”
After forcing Shay to shut up, Tyr quietly waited for his answer. He thought hard and spat out a single word.
“bean.”
“bean?”
Speaking of beans, it was canned food that was plentiful in restaurants. Tyr was delighted. At least I could serve him a lot of his favorite food.
Then, a question popped up out of nowhere.
“No matter how you think about it, it’s strange!”
“What do you mean?”
“I mean, I love beans! It makes no sense!”
“That is strange. Why is my liking for beans a problem?”
Beans Tyr knew was a very useful grain.
But Shay said it as if it was common knowledge that everyone in the world hates beans.
“The raw material for the military’s canned beans is ‘Chimera Beans’, a fertilizer planted in one of the seven military inventions. It is planted in fallow land, but once planted, the land becomes fertile and there is a good harvest for farming the next year.”
“A rich year. Isn’t that a very good thing?”
“that’s right. It’s good for fertilizer, but not for those beans. Absolutely not for food.”
Shay exclaimed in disgust as if just thinking about it gave her goosebumps.
“Maybe fertilizer is better food. When Chimera beans are planted, the field is filled with large beans, but the taste is not so bad compared to the thick eggs. It has a fishy and strong smell with a texture similar to mud, and it sticks to the tongue so much that I can’t even swallow it without water. There is even a saying that even a cow that has starved for three days skips!”
It was said that a cow that had starved for three days skipped it, so there was a mountain of canned food in the restaurant.
Tyr tilted his head.
“Compared to that, it seems that everyone eats beans in cans often.”
“That’s because the vast amount of Chimera Beans are collected and distributed by the military! At least it’s canned, so it tastes a hundred times better. If not, the military has already turned over several times. It’s a great invention, but as food it’s torture!”
“…so you’re the only one who hasn’t eaten canned beans all this time?”
“uh? I did.”
Tyr sighed deeply and scolded Shay.
“I’m not going to say anything because I didn’t know either… But after hearing the story, I think it’s too much. Didn’t you, Shay, share something to eat?”
“what?”
In other words, while others were eating beans, the question was asked if he was the only one who ate something delicious.
Shay, who blinked, waved her hand and made an excuse.
“no. I told Aji several times to eat together! It’s just that my items are food with strong spices and salt, so it just didn’t suit Aji!”
“Then I never made an offer to Hugh.”
“uh? Yeah…”
Shay nodded passively. Tyr’s gaze grew colder. Shay was frightened and shrank.
Tyr let out a small sigh, put down the parasol he was wearing, and stood in front of him.
“Let’s stop. To pry an answer out of a man with a broken heart. It shouldn’t have been like this in the first place.”
“uh? I haven’t finished asking about his abilities yet…”
“Did you forget the contents of the note? Didn’t I emphasize not to touch him even if his condition became strange? I’m so awkward that I usually don’t share food, so how do you want an answer?”
“I did, but I don’t have to follow it…”
“Isn’t it a matter of trust? If you don’t even follow the note I put in your hand, how will you look at him? Are you going to wear a mask and face him in the future?”
Tyr’s words were the truth. So perfect that I don’t have to point it out.
But Shay had something to say. Shay raised her voice towards Tyr, which was rare.
“That guy is wearing a mask!”
While he blinked at being pointed out out of the blue, Shay shouted with burning eyes as if vomiting.
“Did he ever tell us anything properly? I didn’t even know his name until he said it today! Be honest. If it’s as you say, to see each other’s faces without wearing a mask! Shouldn’t I have told you that from the beginning?”
“Shay.”
“Besides, he’s hiding something! I think solving that will make you feel a little better! If you ask me if I’m curious, they’ll kick you out, and if I ask you, they’ll say it’s a secret. I can’t help but doubt it!”
Shay didn’t want to doubt him either.
We argued a few times, were teased, and even fought together.
I don’t want to admit it, but I’ve heard quite a bit.
However, to those who have seen the future, to those who have peeked beyond the veil… The present is an explosives store full of fuses that may explode at any moment.
Since he is an instructor in the military, Shay had to keep a watchful eye on him at all times. Maybe he was the one who corrupted all these pieces of the apocalypse.
“If you don’t want to be suspicious, tell me honestly from the beginning! He did all the suspicious things…! I want to believe too!”
“If you want to believe, shouldn’t you approach him step by step and gain his trust rather than asking questions like this?”
“It doesn’t make any sense! anyway…!”
‘Because I’ll go back.’
Shay swallowed his words.
Tyr looked at Shay again. Although the appearance is not much different from Tyr… the body is quite young.
I thought I was young a few times, but Shay was young both objectively and subjectively.
Having calmed down, Tyr rebuked Shay with a calmer attitude.
“There’s always one thing that’s hard to say to each other, isn’t it? Judging from what was written on the note, he did not want himself to be identified. Won’t you wait a moment?”
“…joy. it’s okay. Anyway, what I found out now has no credibility. Doesn’t he call himself Tyr and say his favorite food is beans?”
Shay turned around.
“I’ll just leave. Take care of the rest.”
Shay’s body disappears into that room. The door slammed shut with a thud. The tightly closed door showed no sign of opening.
All they found out was the name ‘Hugh’. Even the fact that I like beans.
Tyr was satisfied with that alone, but… the still unanswered question did not leave a corner of his mind.
“Phew. Why did you lie like that from the beginning?”
Tyr asked towards ‘Hugh’.
Of course he couldn’t answer.
