Chapter 208 – Mitra (7)
The halo of light faded, and I opened my eyes in a pure white space.
I felt strange.
Is it because I found out why I became ‘Scarlet’?
—… Are you okay?
As I kept my mouth shut for a while, I heard a worried voice.
Goddess, Mitra.
The existence that brought me and my sister to this world.
He seemed to be getting anxious because I didn’t say anything. Did you think you would get angry?
“There is no reason not to be okay.”
—… Because of me.
“That was talked about. Because I don’t think it’s all your fault. Rather, I think I have been given a new life.”
As I waved my hand in annoyance, silence returned.
But really, I didn’t think that because of her, me and her sister got into an accident and were forced to be kidnapped here.
Well, I don’t know what my older sister, who is the other person responsible for me, will think.
That’s another problem that Mitra and Nuna will solve through dialogue.
Maybe my sister wouldn’t mind too much.
‘What? No, it’s true that we had an accident while traveling…’
Still, if you think about it, it’s easy to imagine the look of my sister who added the word, isn’t it right that we gave a new life to us who died in an accident?
“In exchange for a new life, I am also shouldering heavy responsibilities.”
─That’s… Yes.
“… No, I didn’t mean to insult you.”
It’s needlessly weak to me. It’s good to feel responsible, but it’s not necessary to do this.
“How much time do you have left to talk to me?”
─Now almost…
Even if he lost his divinity as the god of creation, he would still be revered as the god of the sun and the main god, but he seemed to be powerless.
—I put most of my energy into calling everyone and endowing them with power according to the setting I envisioned… It’s in a state where you can hardly exert any influence.
I can’t say that it’s because of us.
“Then just say something quickly.”
They say there is not much time left, so it would be better to chew on the bitter feeling alone later and receive the information that needs to be delivered.
Because what the goddess wanted to show me right now couldn’t be just how I came to this world.
-Ah, yes… The Demon King is scheduled to descend.
“…”
Something too big has come.
It’s not that I didn’t expect it. It’s been quiet lately, but everyone knew that it was nothing more than the calm before a storm.
Even so, is it suddenly a demon lord?
In fact, if I hadn’t looked into the past through Mitra and seen the strength of the demon lord properly, I might not have worried too much.
There was a high possibility that he thought complacently that it would work somehow.
It wasn’t arrogance without reason. I am the only Grand Master on the continent, and the only Grand Master given that the other one reached the level imperfectly through an expedient.
Besides, there was an older sister who signed a contract with the highest level spirit comparable to the spirit king.
Besides that.
I didn’t have the absurd delusion that I could somehow defeat the demon lord without damage.
Still, at this level, I wonder if it’s possible somehow.
What such…
It was a bad decision. It didn’t work. The demon king in the memories the goddess showed me was never the type to deal with with such an indolent attitude…
“Fortunately, the power of the demon king is counterbalanced with my power.”
The reason why this world without me, that is, without ‘Scarlet’, couldn’t defeat the Demon King.
And why is ‘Scarlet’, the most important key that Mitra created in 〈 Blue Lily Garden 〉 by overdoing irrational numbers for a hopeless happy ending?
Because Scarlett Tepesh is the only one who can counteract the power of the Demon King.
Magical characteristics that are in conflict with Leticia’s [Form].
「Empty」.
If you have to create a character that doesn’t exist, it’s less energy consuming to make it as probable as possible.
So, on purpose, ‘Scarlet’ was created with Leticia’s flesh and blood, which has the exact opposite nature of the demon king’s ’emptiness’.
Especially, it was also a situation where I needed someone to take care of Leticia mentally.
—… In many ways, it was a situation where the best person was needed in the best position.
What was so exquisitely made was ‘Scarlett Chepesch’.
Luna is also a character created out of necessity, but perhaps thanks to her position as a ‘protagonist’, she was not born in the main flow of the story like Scarlett.
Rather, he was born into a family that was not insignificant in its original history, the Taylor family.
Because each role is different in the process of advancing toward a happy ending.
Luna, who was born in a country where no one cares, became the main character, and took on the role of defeating the demon king with the heroes of the era.
Scarlett, who was born before him and was born at the center of a flow that had already begun to break, had to reverse the broken flow and sacrifice herself for Luna, who would later play the main character.
“… Oh, I see.”
—…
“Originally, I was meant to die at the hands of the Demon King who will soon descend.”
〈 Blue Lily Garden 〉 The whereabouts of Scarlett, which even her sister did not know about because she did not appear.
It is mentioned so much, but the answer to the question of why it doesn’t even appear.
Scarlett Chepeshu fights with the demon king who will soon descend and dies.
“Yes?”
—… Yes. Before the descending demon king completely regains his power, after a fierce struggle… After inflicting serious injuries that were not fatal, she sealed the demon king at the cost of her life, taking advantage of the fact that she and the demon king share the same magical properties.
That was the end that Scarlett would have faced in the first place.
─But now the situation has changed. You who became Scarlett, the simulation I originally wrote… 〈 Blue Lily Garden 〉 showed a completely different path, and at the same time, he contacted Luna, who should not have been in contact with him, and revealed hidden elements throughout the continent.
A low, powerful voice proclaiming.
A world that was certain to be destroyed, a world that had turned its eyes away as if it had given up until now… It was not simply written, but the clear voice of a goddess who found hope to move on to a happy ending in the true sense.
-From now on, I’ll tell you everything… Please, good luck to you.
I was willing to accept it.
While surviving, to save the world. He was meant to live and see.
*
First of all.
I only told my older sister about the demon king.
It was because there was a request for a new god from the goddess. At this point, only my sister and I were the only people who knew about the ‘Demon King’, to be exact, about ‘Baal’.
Baal might find out if he divulged information about Baal to anyone else.
Likewise, the story about my previous life was not something I would tell anyone else, so I naturally passed it on to my older sister.
As expected, “What? No, it’s a bit embarrassing. It’s okay… What come now If you still want to apologize sincerely, ask me to do it yourself later.”
Let’s give it to Mitra later.
After that, I made a plan with my sister. My older sister, who had heard about the strength of the demon lord, reacted as if there were all such ridiculous monsters, but let’s say that the power cancels out with me.
“You say you’re still fucking strong?”
Then I explained that right after I had just arrived, it was when I was at my weakest.
“Is it?”
After that, as if convinced, he spurred on training.
He was shaking his small and skinny body vigorously, probably because he wanted to do some simple physical training in case he was only sucking his fingers from behind as an elemental sergeant and might get hit by a blind attack and die a violent death.
To be honest, I felt like a scarecrow swaying in the wind, but I didn’t bother to say it.
“It looks like an inflatable doll in front of a store that is blown around by the wind.”
“What?!”
Ah.
Anyway.
The preparations were solid. He also told Mitra the location of the hidden hidden piece that his sister had been missing and kept it.
“It doesn’t have much effect.”
“I can’t help it.”
My sister still had some room to grow, but I was already a Grand Arch Mage. Even if the limit was not reached, the width of growth was bound to be narrow.
“I wish there was a status window or something.”
“Why?”
“Why, if there’s a status window or something, when you’re at a low level, you grow up, and when you’re at a high level and your growth is blocked, you grow it all at once with bonus points or something.”
“Is it so?”
“Is it national rule?”
“I do not remember.”
My older sister is just past puberty, but I, her younger brother, have already lived a hundred years and decades more.
A relationship that can be called reverse siblings.
“Sister.”
“Huh?”
“Call me your brother.”
“What are you talking about when you call me sister?”
“Well, hey.”
“Oh no, really…”
My sister laughed lightly. She had a face with dark circles and a decadent beauty, and she had her own charm as she twisted the corners of her mouth and smiled mockingly.
Indeed.
She was my older sister, but she had a pretty face. Because of her eccentric personality, her face felt like a waste.
“… What, brother, are you okay?”
“As expected, the face looks innocent.”
“What? Hey, what do you mean by that?”
It doesn’t make any sense.
Just.
“Do not die.”
“… What I will say.”
As if my older sister was talking nonsense, she smiled again. Jeezerit… My sister and I seemed to feel the waves of intense power that made our skin tremble, and the corners of our lips that were forcibly raised and twisted slowly came down.
Demon King, Baal.
We are now at the place where the bastard descends.
“You are the one, don’t die.”
“Yes, let’s live happily together for a long, long time.”
“Can’t we take it off together?”
“Bounce.”
Okay.
I live a second life at most, but shouldn’t I see a happy ending?
───Demon King, Advent.
Soon after, darkness descended upon the world.
