Chapter 242 – #243 the Reverse Tailor
#243 The Tailor of Reverse Heaven
“I-I can’t…”
The fact that I had tamed a monster was so shocking that old Peter could hardly speak properly.
No, I just said ‘me’, but is that such a surprise?
“Anyway, I won our bet. From now on, Mr. Peter has to grant me one wish.”
“… Crab.”
“Yes?”
“How did you tame the sirens?! Tell me! How the hell!”
“Hmm?”
There was a look of desperation on Peter’s face. What? This is a slightly different reaction than I thought?
“Please! Please tell me how!”
“…”
Old Peter begged me very earnestly.
Ordinarily, older people tend not to listen to others well, even if it is because of the years they have lived, and do not easily ask for something they regret.
But Peter the Elder was different. He wanted me to find a way to tame monsters while revealing his bare face.
What the hell happened to him?
“… Let’s talk here for now, so let’s move to another place.”
*****
We first rode the siren and moved to the island that is also her nest. Siren grabbed the corpse of the monster Zepes and flew up into the sky.
Because the boat was broken beyond recognition, to return to Dark City, I had to ride a siren or use the superpower of the ruler of gravity, but the former was a mess and the latter was annoying.
Besides, if I did well, I felt like I could make them sincerely follow me instead of being forced to work for me because Peter the Elder paid me.
I couldn’t miss this opportunity.
“Wow what is this all about?”
Arriving at the Siren’s Island, I looked around and couldn’t stop admiring it.
Even the smallest tree was over 20m tall, and the unidentified fruit on the tree was much bigger than my head. Insects crawling on trees and animals walking around were also several times larger than those seen in Dark City.
It was like a type slip into some kind of prehistoric era.
“Is this where you live?”
[Yes Master! This is my nest!]
As I looked around and admired her, the siren lifted her head happily and hummed at her. Her hulking behavior was like a baby bird, a real distraction.
She just looked hideous when fighting the Siren, but when I thought it was mine, her every action felt cute.
‘Mmmm! A bad heart is filling up!’
But seeing her delighted siren, her naughty wish to make fun of her suddenly popped out.
“The owner eats fumes and suffers, but you live alone in a place with good air like this? Besides, this island is not in your name. This is illegal, you bastard.”
[Uh, uh… I’m sorry, Master…]
Siren, who didn’t think I was joking, shrank as if she had liked her. She lowered her head to the ground.
This is why I call the Siren Chinta. You’re so cute
[Black… I’m sorry, master… I was wrong… Please don’t hit me… Huh…]
“Uh, uh uh? Hey crying? Hey! Hey, the water bombs are falling! Don’t cry!”
[Heuuuuu… I’m sorry, my master… Huuuuu…]
But suddenly, Siren started to shed tears like chicken droppings. They said tears like chicken droppings, but in reality they were not chicken droppings, but huge tears like dinosaur droppings.
He hurriedly comforted her, avoiding her tears falling on top of her.
“I told you not to cry. I was kidding you because you were cute. Stop it now! Are you tired of crying so much?”
[Huh… I won’t cry… Huh…]
It was only then that the siren stopped crying. He was a really big baby. I’ll never give you a bad sign again.
“I can’t believe it… I really tamed the sirens…”
Seeing me and the siren like that, the elder Peter seemed shocked again. The Siren, who cried and laughed at my words, looked like they were serving me as their master.
“Ugh… I was kidding. I’m sorry, Peter. Anyway, can we talk now? I think we have a lot to say.”
“I see.”
“It seems no one is listening here, so let’s just talk here.”
“…”
Elder Peter followed me as I sat down on the floor.
“You want to know how to tame monsters?”
“Yes. Please let me know. I would like to ask you this.”
“Oooh.”
It seemed that he really desperately needed a way to tame the monsters. Peter the Elder asked me even with a straight head bowed.
“I have to listen to you first. Why do you need a method to tame monsters?”
“That…”
In response to my question, Elder Peter could hardly speak. After hesitating for a long time, he opened his mouth with a determined expression as if he had made a big decision.
“Actually, there’s something I didn’t tell Mr. Steel Armor.”
“What is it?”
“I… Am a psychic.”
“You know that?”
“Yes? That, how did you do that? Could it be that you did a background check on me?”
When he said he knew, old Peter was startled. Also, he looked at me suspiciously that I might have investigated his background.
No, does that man have dementia? Why can’t he remember?
“What about the background investigation? Don’t you remember? The other day, Mr. Peter used his psychic powers in front of me.”
“Yes? Me? When…”
“This is when the suit was torn. Of course, he didn’t use his superpowers directly in front of me. Even if you did it twice.”
“…”
Once when Kane cut the end of his sleeve, and once when he was beaten by Siren, he had his suit mended twice in total.
Perhaps remembering my words, Elder Peter sighed and covered his forehead. He seems to have realized what a stupid thing Jagi had done. Is that nobleman secretly lax?
“You have a good eye. Yes, that’s right. I used superpowers then.”
“This is not a good eye, Peter-san…”
“Hmmmm! Anyway, Mr. Steel Armor knows that I have psychic powers, but you probably don’t know what psychic powers I have.”
Peter the Elder covered his stupidity with my keen eye. This guy is also pretty brazen.
‘I already know.’
Older Peter thinks I don’t know his psychic powers, but you’re welcome, I already knew.
“What are you so lazy about?”
But I had to pretend I didn’t know.
If I know supernatural powers, I have to explain how I know it, but it’s annoying to come up with excuses.
“My psychic power… Can create monsters.”
‘I first heard of Elder Peter’s psychic powers today. First time heard First time hearing…’
“… Create what?”
I brainwashed myself by repeating the words I had heard for the first time in my mind. That way, you can act naturally.
“I can create monsters, and I’ve created monsters a long time ago.”
“Mmm! That’s amazing! Being able to create monsters! Wow!”
“…?”
At my reaction, Elder Peter tilted his head. What? Did you do a perfect performance?
“Keep talking.”
“Yes. I once created a monster, and I was attacked by a monster I created with my own hands. I almost died because I was seriously injured. What an arrogant and foolish act. Are you trying to…”
Peter’s face darkened. I could read deep regret and remorse in the darkness that hung over his face.
“So many people died because of my foolish behavior. The neighbors who greeted me every morning, the relatives who came to see me, the good kids who had no worries in the world… Died because of me.”
“Hey… Peter?”
“Yes.”
“I have one or two questions.”
“You tell me.”
“When did you create the monsters? I’ve never heard of monsters haunting the Dark City, except for the Siren.”
“That…”
I asked a question, but I know the answer. Peter the Elder is a whopping 365 years old, he must have created a monster in the distant past.
But I shouldn’t have known that fact now, so I pretended not to know.
“… I guess so. It was outside of the Dark City that I created the monster.”
“It’s outside… I understand. So, you want to hear from me how to tame a monster, so you can tame that monster?”
“… Yes. Of course, I will destroy that monster with my own hands.”
“Yes?”
Why would he dispose of the monsters he had tamed with his own hands?
“Why?”
“That’s the fault and mistake of the past day. It’s very late… But I want to correct the mistake.”
“Then why don’t we just kill them without taming them?”
“Before I kill you, I want to apologize for being sorry.”
“An apology? To a monster?”
“Yes.”
Elder Peter covered his face with his hands and answered in a mixed voice.
“I… Made my wife into a monster.”
*****
Peter Eline.
Having lived for more than 300 years replacing old, unusable muscles, bones, brains, and organs with fresh ones, he was a monster created by madness and obsession.
“Crazy man. Turning his wife into a monster.”
There is a saying that too much is as bad as not enough. Love is definitely a beautiful emotion, but this beautiful emotion can also become poison if it is overdone.
Peter loved his wife very much. As a result, he couldn’t accept his wife’s death, and he did what he shouldn’t have done by trying to revive his wife with his own power.
“Maybe it’s because he doesn’t know exactly what his psychic powers are.”
Peter’s psychic powers were focused on creating monsters. However, he seemed to think that his ability could create people as well as monsters.
At that time, Peter just wanted to see his wife smile again. He just wanted to hold his warm wife’s hand. He just wanted to whisper to his wife that he wanted to love her one more time.
However, her dead wife was resurrected as a monster and she lost the memory of her enemy who would have been human and became a monster. The monster attacked Peter, slaughtered people, and disappeared.
Peter violated the law and committed the reverse of reviving the dead.
Indeed, it was an action worthy of the title [Tailor of Reversal].
“Fuck you.”
And I sensed that I was fucked.
No fuck, I tamed the siren with these two fists! He was beaten so badly and burned by lightning that the child trembled and asked for help!
Are you telling this to old man Peter, who has confided in everything?
Perhaps Peter the Elder would try to kill me first, not the monster that was his wife.
“What about this?”
What do you do? Have to tell the truth
Still, the hangwa I’ve bought and fed so far exceeds one truckload, so they won’t try to kill me. Well, of course I’m not the one who will die because of that.
“Should I say I’m glad I came to my senses later?”
Peter the Elder never once addressed me as [His wife] When explaining his past. He called it [Monster].
It is to admit his fault and admit that it is not his wife.
All he wants is to apologize to his wife for bringing her back to life as a monster one last time, and to put an end to her terrible life.
“Tsk. It’s annoying, but I can’t help it. I have no choice but to step in.”
To tame a monster with the method I used when I subdued the Siren, you must have the power to overwhelm the monster.
But Peter the Elder didn’t have that kind of power.
“It’s fucking hard to find a costume.”
What kind of a high school student is this? Anyway, a man like me is too kind, so I’m going to have a good time.
*****
Lost in thought, I walked and found myself at the place where the siren was. Siren was swallowing her saliva while watching the dead Jepes.
“Are you here?”
[Huh… Ah! Master!]
“Ahh?!”
The siren greeted me flapping her wings. But what about the average siren? A strong gust of wind blew with just the flapping of her wings.
“Ehhh! Yamma! Blowing dust!”
[Oh! I’m sorry, master…]
The bewildered siren hurriedly folded her wings. She looked into my eyes.
[I’m really sorry… You were very angry, right? Black…]
“Yaya! I’m not angry! Don’t cry! Pop!”
[Sniff… Pop!]
I quickly comforted her in case the siren would cry. Anyway, I can’t raise my voice against him.
“Oh right.”
Anyway, I have to do something I forgot I came all the way here.
Standing in front of Zepes’ corpse, I activated my skill.
“The outcome of the hunt.”
