Chapter 185 – Chapter 185. Your Secret Story You Don’t Know (2)
“I know. Although my memory of when my mind was unstable is vague, everyone at the party told me directly when everything was over? I only talked about it because I was worried about me…”
“Yeah, but…”
“And Dave. If all those memories were really created, would I have been able to find out your true self?”
I don’t know if it’s because of his specialness as a hero, or if it’s the result of coincidence…
Given that she already knows my identity, the possibility that everything she went through was plausibly framed lies is inevitably denied.
“It’s just a nightmare, so I know the facts that I didn’t know at the time. If there’s anything distorted, it’s probably something that the future self couldn’t see. After all, the world can only be judged through individual eyes.”
“Even though!!!”
Celica talks about the reality in a cold and determined voice.
Her innocence made her scream out loud, gasping for breath and speaking her strength toward her.
“If you know the future, you can change it.”
I still can’t believe it, but really, for some reason.
If I become the demon king, wouldn’t it be okay if I wanted to twist that future?
Foreseeing her future, she will have that chance.
There must be a chance for her to return to her past.
“… What if you can’t change it?”
Still, she didn’t change her attitude.
“What if our fate was predetermined from the beginning?”
No, I insist more firmly than before.
As if I was convinced of something I hadn’t even dared to think of.
“Dave.”
Right after her body was shrunk by her momentum, she called my name and asked as if digging into the gap.
“You think you know everything about yourself?”
“What…”
“Even I, who knows the future, couldn’t do anything about it and my heart went berserk. Can you control all your actions?”
Of those in the know.
In the eyes of those whose hearts have been broken even though they have already made up their minds, the brazenness of those who do not know anything will look very disingenuous and ridiculous.
“… Dave.”
Still, she didn’t lose her sense of humor.
“Just one… I will ask you just one question.”
Showing concern for me.
Rather than explaining my own ignorance and revealing my ignorance, I want to give myself a chance to realize.
“It’s probably something you’ve never considered in your life.”
“… Tell me.”
When I spoke quietly, wanting to receive that consideration, she closed her eyes and quietly lost herself in her thoughts.
Organize the questions you want to ask now.
It is as if you are going through the necessary preparation to put it in your mouth and speak it.
“Do you know who your father is?”
The question that followed at the end was as she had predicted.
Never ever before.
A story I’ve never really thought about in my life.
“… What?”
“I mean, father. The one who was connected with your mother and helped in your birth.”
Why is that
The moment I was about to spit it out reflexively, for some reason, the sensation of a lump in my head began to attack me.
You have to think reflexively before you even say anything.
It was because I felt something disturbing about the memory of ‘my father’ mentioned at this moment.
“Dave, “Your power to control your mind comes from your mother, a witch… Right?”
“… That’s right.”
“Did your mother truly love you?”
“I loved you.”
When she answered that question while enduring her heart pounding, a bitter smile began to appear on Celica’s lips.
“Yes, because I gave my life to hide you. I don’t think that mother’s love is a lie.”
Yes, did the future me even tell her that?
If she had revealed her openly to her at that time, the sincerity she felt from him would have come as incomparable evidence to her.
“But Dave. Being a witch is based on her demon tribe. Beings who can only be selfish from her birth.”
And she is the one who has experienced the future.
Unlike me, who couldn’t even predict the fate of becoming a demon king, there must have been plenty of opportunities to speculate on the reason.
“Humans who inherit that power also have the same tendency as the demons. You don’t pay attention to anything except yourself and your purpose. Even her own family and friends who built her kite before she became a witch.”
“Family, too?”
“Yes, even if the purpose of the contract is one’s own family, it is only an attachment based on the contract, and the feeling of love cannot exist.”
Even so, my mother sacrificed for me.
The selfish witch of hers whispered her true love and gave her own life for me.
Was it just because I saw myself that way?
No, she said, knowing witches better than me at this moment.
That my mother’s love for me was true. She said that there was no room for denying that she had only sacrificed herself.
“However, there is one subject whose characteristics are indistinguishable. There is only one in this world.”
The present guess is based on that.
My guess is based on the premise that my mother is a witch and that her love for sacrificing herself for me was true even though she was supposed to be selfish.
“… If it’s the demon party that made the contract.”
In a way, it’s a story that can be said for granted.
Although a witch inherited the power of demons and was born with a selfish nature, in the end she would have no choice but to lose her freedom to those who signed a contract with her.
“Party?”
“Yes, and it is absolutely not an ordinary demon. We are talking about demons who have existed in this world for centuries, thousands of years, or more.”
Thousands of years or more…
Doesn’t that mean that they’ve actually lived longer than elves?
I don’t know why the demons who had lived for that long time made a contract with humans, but whatever it was, I had no choice but to listen to her.
The present day, when all the witches have died since the witch hunt.
There was virtually no place to get information about witches like my mother.
“And perhaps the reason why demon lords appear in this world is because every generation one of those outrageous beings awakens to power.”
So, for now, I decided to assume that everything the returned hero in front of me said was the truth.
A witch who would be selfish and truly loved her own children.
In order for such a result to come out, there is no choice but to have a link between me and the demons who signed the contract.
“… No way.”
The conclusion came immediately.
Indeed, if the demon king that appears in this world is a demon who is born with great power, and if her guess is true, then the possibility of my destiny to become the demon king in the future will also be explained.
“My mother was tied up with a demon who made a contract…”
That you gave birth to me
In fact, if I’m not just a human who inherited the power of the demon tribe, but I inherited the blood of the mighty demon tribe from the time I was born.
“… Not sure.”
The moment that such an absurd conclusion was about to come out, she cut it in the middle and spat out a statement denying the conjecture so far.
“Yeah, just guessing. Even I, who have experienced the future, do not know everything.”
The current story is nothing more than a ‘plausible story’ that he made by combining fragmentary evidence he found out with the result that existed forever.
“… But Dave.”
Even though I tried to tell her a story like that, I began to notice that the smile on her face was gradually distorting.
“Just because I know the truths I shouldn’t have known, everything I’ve seen has already become ‘results that may exist’ in the future.”
A process that is unaware of the outcome that exists.
The hypotheses that can be established in such an unknown realm are endless, and the more you want to think about it, the more the lump in your heart will grow.
“The result was against the demon king and the hero… As it may be the main axis of this world, it should never be overlooked.”
It’s nothing but fear.
Because I accepted such a result without knowing anything, even after returning to the past, plausible hypotheses continue to come to mind and strengthen my conviction.
“… Celica.”
“Scared.”
Trying not to show it, she finally started looking up at me with her composure disturbed.
“Dave.”
The water droplets that gradually form on the reddened eyes begin to reflect the starlight in the sky.
“I am so scared.”
That has been hidden so long.
Such weakness, which even a warrior who has experienced the future could not suppress, spits out of her mouth at this moment.
“Actually, I wish everything I saw was a dream. It’s just a nightmare… I really hope it was a hallucination I saw while my mind was broken like you said.”
“Calm down Celica.”
“But what if you really wake up? No matter how hard we try, what if half of your births were demons, and what if your bloodline, without realizing it, determined your destiny to become the demon king from the beginning?”
“It hasn’t happened yet.”
“It’s strange in the first place, no matter how coincidental it may be, two people born with the destiny of a hero and a demon king can meet so easily…”
“Don’t think about the future!”
Her body stiffens with a cry that bursts out of her mouth.
Soon, when silence came to her site, I took a step towards her and said firmly.
“… Celica. Look at me.”
Close the distance between her and her.
As I reveal her self.
“It’s not the future me…”
I am now
“Look at me now.”
No matter what the future is, I am now.
Teaching her that she is a completely different existence from the ugly future she saw.
