## Chapter 294 – Episode 294. World Tree (2)
I was speechless at the appearance of the small girl who looked to be about a middle schooler.
It wasn’t just because I was taken aback by the appearance of a girl I didn’t know.
‘What is this aura…’
I felt overwhelmed by the aura emanating from the small girl.
Thanks to that, Takuya froze for a moment before finally asking.
“Um, who are you?”
A pretty obvious question.
For the record, this was after he had somehow overcome the overwhelming aura.
The little girl seemed quite surprised by Takuya’s reaction.
“Fas…t….”
“No. I mean, who…”
As if thinking that actions spoke louder than words, the girl suddenly appeared in front of Takuya and placed a small hand on his forehead, and at that moment.
‘Ugh?!’
Takuya felt a pain similar to when he had been possessed by this body and received the original Takuya’s memories.
In other words.
“World…Tree?”
He realized that the girl was the World Tree, and then.
“Oh, so why did you come?”
He wasn’t particularly curious.
Of course. He was going to disappear soon anyway, so what was the point of being curious?
Besides, having read all sorts of web novels and light novels lately, Takuya had a strong feeling that the World Tree was just a big tree.
If an elf heard that, they would have slapped him.
Anyway, despite Takuya’s reaction, the World Tree nodded leisurely and explained.
“I…wanted…to say…hello.”
“Hello?”
“Yes, to say thank you…”
After saying that, she put her hand on his forehead again and transferred memories.
Fortunately, there was no pain like before.
The memories he received contained.
‘Well, I guess she must have had a hard time.’
It was a message thanking him for fixing the fact that the World Tree was getting worse and worse due to the elves’ worship of insect idols.
Wait. Did she appear in front of me just to tell me this?
‘Sylphia told me that she’s an existence you can’t meet until the high elves go to the coffin in the forest.’
As if reading Takuya’s thoughts, the girl, no, the World Tree, said.
“You’re…unique…your fate…is twisted…I came…to show…you that…”
Fate is twisted…
There were a lot of things that pricked at my conscience to call that bullshit.
“What do you mean my fate is twisted?”
Instead of explaining, the World Tree showed him again.
—Thud.
With the sound of a light tap on the forehead, the scene that appeared was.
‘…What is this?’
A landscape that was unfamiliar yet familiar to Takuya.
Driving a tank through a devastated Seoul…a middle-aged me…?
‘What the hell is this…’
Takuya looked at the World Tree with a face that couldn’t understand the reality, and she said definitively.
“That is your original 『fate』.”
The World Tree spoke in a much clearer voice than before, but the words didn’t reach Takuya’s ears.
Takuya couldn’t understand it at all.
Why he was doing such a thing.
So he asked.
“Can you explain to me how I end up like that?”
His tone was much more polite than before, but he was earnest.
He thought it might be related to why he had entered Takuya’s body.
And to my question, the World Tree.
“I…can’t…”
Expressed her refusal.
Takuya asked why, and the World Tree replied.
“It…violates…the…treaty…set…in…that…world.”
—Ting.
Turning his gaze to the sound of the screen, he saw.
《Please reveal the exact information while clearing the scenario.》
There was a message that was much more human than usual.
Indeed, whoever it was, they didn’t want me to know the truth easily.
Takuya nodded at the message on the screen.
To be honest, he was full of rebellion, but now was the time to accept it.
After all, the message was polite on the surface, but it was full of the will to kill you if you crossed the line any further.
So, after accepting it, he said to the World Tree again.
“Then is that the end of your business?”
The World Tree shook her head again at Takuya’s words.
No. Then what else is there to do?
Takuya was curious, but he didn’t show it much and asked.
“Then what else…?”
To Takuya’s question, the World Tree pointed at Takuya.
Why me?
Looking at the World Tree, pointing at himself, she smiled and said.
“I want…to follow…you.”
Words he never expected.
***
Takuya’s brain momentarily froze at the World Tree’s words that she would follow him.
‘No. Why are you following me?’
The World Tree, the spiritual pillar of the elves…no, the everything of the elves, was saying that she would follow me, so he couldn’t help but freeze.
Takuya wanted to wake up the fallen Arcelia and ask if this was okay, but he couldn’t.
“It’s…okay…”
The World Tree, who had read his mind before he could even act, said that while looking at him.
“Is there really no problem?”
“Yes…this is my clone…the main body is still…with the elves…”
Is it really okay?
Takuya was confused, but he had to understand since she said so herself.
Takuya asked while inwardly accepting it.
“But, is there a reason to follow me?”
“Other worlds…I’m curious…”
Well, it’s an understandable reason.
If I could go to another world, I think I would go too. I actually came here.
But at these words of the World Tree, I had no choice but to ask.
“Is there a way to go together?”
At Takuya’s words, the World Tree nodded and said.
“Yes…I…can also…engrave…a…pattern…”
And at these words of the World Tree, Takuya had no choice but to shut his mouth.
‘Are you telling me to become a tree fucker?’
Takuya asked again, wondering if what he heard was correct.
“That’s…correct.”
I heard correctly.
No. Even so, the knot hole is a bit…no. It’s not impossible, but I think I’ll feel a lot of shame.
Um? Usually, isn’t it just impossible?
I think it’s possible if it’s a tree that looks a little sexy.
Seeing Takuya’s face, which seemed to say that this was not right, the World Tree said.
“You…don’t…have…to do it…on the main body…this…body…is enough.”
She said that and spread her arms, and Takuya pondered.
‘Even this body that looks illegal is a bit…’
To be honest, Takuya wasn’t very motivated to do it with a body that was slightly smaller than Yuna’s.
If it’s smaller than Yuna, it’s a crime.
“I…can’t…help it…”
Seeing Takuya’s appearance, the World Tree put her hand on her body as if she couldn’t help it.
—Boom!
With a sudden smoke, she blocked his vision.
“Uh, World Tree?”
“Well, when I’m in this body, call me Illicia.”
She had become a tall, aloof-looking elf woman.
As Takuya stared at her with his mouth open, the World Tree, no, Illicia, said.
“I’ve done what you wanted, so now you do what I want.”
Takuya had no choice but to nod at Illicia’s words.
She even transformed, so that must mean she’s serious.
Besides.
‘If you only look at her appearance, she’s an elf with a golden ratio comparable to Yuna’s mother.’
I can’t stand this.
With that thought, Takuya’s lower body immediately began to react.
As expected, the most honest part was also here.
Seeing Takuya’s appearance, Illicia chuckled.
Um, was I too blatant?
Of course, Takuya didn’t care much.
She asked me to do it first anyway.
So Takuya was calm, and seeing Takuya, Illicia smiled and slowly began to undress.
—Rustle.
As one layer after another was peeled off, her bare skin was definitely admirable.
‘At this point, she’s really comparable to Yuna’s mother?’
While Takuya was admiring her inwardly.
Illicia, who had become naked, approached Takuya and said.
“What are you doing, hurry up and take it off.”
At those words, Takuya also nodded and began to take it off.
***
In fact, the World Tree, no, Illicia’s decision to follow Takuya was quite impulsive.
Originally, Takuya, as seen through her eyes, was just someone whose fate was twisted.
But the moment she put her hand on Takuya’s forehead, his fate began to become clear.
To be exact, not only his fate, but also the scenery of the world, including his actions, began to appear.
To her, Takuya’s world was a different world.
Buildings similar in size to her, flying objects, and even weapons that could massacre tens of thousands of people.
From Illicia’s point of view, who had been watching primitive humans doing uga uga, Takuya’s world was a different world.
So she wanted to go.
I want to explore and see the culture of that world.
Maybe it’ll only take about 200 years.
‘I won’t be bored during that time.’
For the record, the World Tree had hundreds of times the lifespan of an elf, so she was a more bored creature than anyone else.
Anyway, Illicia was willingly giving her body to Takuya with that thought.
Even taking out the body of a female warrior she had cherished in the past.
