Chapter 878 – Memorize (4)
“Why, why are you screaming all of a sudden! You were surprised!”
Frightened by my screams when I just returned, Fran, who sat down, held onto her chest and shouted. The face glaring at you as if you were about to fall is adorable.
I was nervous before the fight, but I wonder if I thought I was being fooled by a joke. Crying slightly, she was rarely angry at me.
It’s like this often these days. Reminds me of my girlfriend days, so I’m a little happy.
“… Well. Sorry.”
However, for some reason, my mouth that was about to spit out a joke didn’t open well, so I silently stroked Fran’s cheek. Well. This soft touch. Our franc is correct.
“… Why are you looking at me like that all of a sudden?”
“Just.”
The pupils from when I saw my death right in front of me were nowhere to be found, and the blue eyes that wiped away the tears with my sleeves were sparkling and pretty.
If so, that’s it.
To worry about the future that won’t come, my current situation was too much for me to worry about.
“Wulfhedin?”
Loki asked, as if noticing that I was in a different mood from a few seconds ago.
“Gather around. I have something to say.”
“Is it Yeji?”
“Yes.”
It is decided what to say to the quick-witted Taecho god. I answered.
“Now, I am in the future.”
I briefly explained this quasi-regressive ability.
“What should I name the skill? 【Current regression】?”
“… Do it with [Time-regression]. The meaning is the same, but the tone is better this way.”
Loki smiled brightly with a face mixed with surprise and joy.
“Driving me crazy. No, I’m really going crazy! Henir, what did that son of a bitch think of when he returned the fragments of Surt, and what kind of authority did you awaken?!”
“I think it’s worth the challenge.”
Awakening from crisis is a species characteristic of advanced monkeys. Kang Buk-ho is a man whose fighting power rises exponentially the more the world hates him.
But Frank’s face was terribly hard.
“Franc? What’s wrong with your expression?”
“A Norr I know would say ‘I’ll come alone’ after that.”
Notice this It’s embarrassing because I feel like I’ve been exposed.
“You mean fighting alone? Why… Ah.”
Acting as if that was nonsense, Veronica seemed to have remembered my way of thinking a bit late.
“Master. No, my dear.”
“Yeah. It’s yours Why?”
“You wouldn’t say that you would fight alone because you don’t want to see us die, right? If you’re going to say something like that, I’ll engrave the word ‘yeokjisaji’ firmly in your head.”
As she spoke with her arrogance, she raised her eyebrows as if arguing, ‘Is this what Jouin-nim, who used to go searching for alone, would say?’
It’s true, but I also have something to say.
“I will say it plainly. Those bastards’ dispel magic and Surd’s opening pattern don’t go well with our party. Even if you can’t, the first three will be wiped out as soon as you start.”
As the fragments of Surt return, the star flame explodes!
Haven’t you checked how to survive there yet?
A look of confusion crossed Nefertiti’s face.
“… Is Surt really that strong?”
“Be strong. Even if it is only 50% of its life, this entire valley will become a lava field.”
Loki said, his expression rotting.
It reminds me of Ragnarok, which I had no choice but to watch from afar.
“Yes. Like it or not, I will retry at least 10 or 20 times. Watching you guys die horribly every time is an absolute no-go.”
It’s not a matter of mood. It’s a matter of my mental strength.
‘I’m sure it’s going to go black after 2 or 3 rounds.’
You see Nefertiti’s corpse with her upper body melted like cheese fondue, or the end of Franc burning to death every time you retell it?
If that’s the case, my sanity level is fumble in Mach. Madness… My old friend…
“… No! Still hard to believe!”
Veronica said as if she was prepared to hate me.
“I’m sorry for not believing you. But I can’t just listen to that brief explanation and send you alone to the demigod of the old ruler who is said to rival the primordial jotuns!”
It was a resolute attitude that prevented them from asking whether or not.
But I knew wives would come out like that, so my answer was quick.
“Well, how did you think so? Would you like to try it then?”
“… Test it? I mean you?”
“The performance of 【Time Regression】.”
I alternately pointed her finger at her and at me.
“Think something in your head. Then I’ll repeat the future and guess.”
“… I see.”
Hardening her face, Veronica clutched her wand and pondered, then she let out a breath.
“I thought. Guess.”
“I have no idea. Pretend you’re wrong and tell me.”
“… Her?”
Veronica put on a silly look for a moment, then she raised her eyes in anger.
“… Dear I don’t want to joke about your life being at stake.”
“No, of course it was wrong in the first edition. That’s why I don’t want to do Surt Challenge with you guys.”
─Tok tok. I tapped my forehead.
“But I’m sure you’ll be able to hit it ‘next time’?”
“… Ah!”
Veronica, her eyes widening madly, soon told me the answer.
And, another ‘what if’ ends.
─Supporting positions.
─Jijijijijijijijikjik!!!
“——I thought. Guess.”
“‘I have to think as absurdly as possible so that the master won’t be able to answer correctly’. Right?”
After repeating the same process from the beginning again using 【Time Present Regression】, she spat out an answer.
Veronica shut her mouth tightly. The answer must have been the same as the last episode.
“… You got it right without making a single mistake. It’s just that it’s not reliable enough for just one time.”
“I agree. Let’s do it again and again.”
The experiment of knocking on a stone bridge is something I do every time. I’m just glad you suggested it in the first place.
And, another ‘what if’ ends.
“——That is the correct answer. But it’s not reliable enough to hit it once.”
“If, by any chance, I’m guessing, you’re going to come up with two completely different ideas and never let me guess? Our Goddess is also very terrible.”
Repeat the future of ‘if’.
I asked Veronica to listen to her answer, and ‘replay the future’ to solve her problem.
“Next. Please answer me. What are the ‘two completely different thoughts’ that I came up with?”
“One is that the medium that summoned Surt is assumed to be a piece of Levatein. They think that Henir may have appeared when Amelia was dying to get the summoning spell.”
This question and answer is not a process of proving to her wives.
‘Rather than that, it’s more of a test for myself.’
How often does the butterfly effect occur?
How strong is the constancy of fate.
Only when I know that, I can be sure that the future will move according to 【Time Recurrence】.
“——Next. Guess.”
And, another ‘what if’ ends.
“Can we avoid the flames bursting out at the time of Surt’s second coming by hiding in the dimensional rift?”
“——Next. Guess.”
“Wouldn’t Surt be weakened if the souls of the monsters were reduced before entering?”
“——Next. Guess.”
“Is it really necessary to defeat it in the first place? Wouldn’t it stop if I held on to the master’s crotch and carried out the tear operation? I think it’s necessary to get rid of it, and Operation Tears seems to work, so can you give it up?”
It is correct to eliminate variables that can be suppressed.
‘Because even Henir would never expect me to break through Surt head-on.’
Even more so, if I absorb even a part of his ability by defeating him, the balance will lean towards me. It’s the best if you block the opponent’s atomic bomb and take away the technology.
If you fire an atomic bomb, the enemy doesn’t die and evolves into a walking-hydrogen bomb?
Henir, how stupid is that motherfucker? I can’t stand this.
“… Next. Guess.”
“I don’t know.”
I want you to let me know. Use it in the next episode!
I responded to the question and answer without any impatience.
That’s how the answer to the question exceeded 10 times, and my regression reached 11th. By this point, Veronica, who had been acting cutely, was at a loss for words.
I folded my arms and shrugged my shoulders.
“You think you did well to become a shrine maiden? Hehe. I suddenly had a strange thought, so I laughed for a long time in the last episode. Yes. Foresight is an OP is an OP.”
“… Whoa. 11 questions, all correct.”
Veronica resigned herself. The experiment was enough.
After all, this authority is very useful.
‘As long as I don’t take a very different approach, the future won’t change much.’
The question and answer, once settled, didn’t change much even if I flipped Veronica’s skirt halfway through or slashed Nefertiti’s chest.
It felt like I realized a little that it was the coercion of fate that Odin and Loki were talking about.
If a battle takes place, there will be random numbers, but it is within the margin of error.
“So, how are you? Are you willing to believe it?”
“… I can’t help but believe How many regressions have you made with this?”
“No. 11. No, 12 times including the first one.”
“No. 12… For some reason, I wanted to speak quickly.”
It was Nefertiti who muttered blankly.
Well, the first half of the explanation started getting faster and faster around the 6th game. I felt like I was doing a speed run, but I might have seemed a bit insincere.
“It seems like everyone believed it.”
I folded my arms and looked back at the party with a smile.
Women of all races, from different social classes and origins, stood firm, looking at me as if they were looking at the wonders of Mother Nature in awe.
Sounds like a medical student trying to dissect a frog for the first time. Yeah.
After giggling for a moment, I erased my smile and said.
“Great. From now on, we’re going to start our first real boss fight, but before that, let’s ask a question.”
“… G, question? Um, what question do you mean?”
“It’s a bit of a waste of time to repeat this question and answer every time you fail to defeat Surt. In other words, will you guys acknowledge my solo in the ‘intermediate process’?”
An intermediate process to find out Surt’s attack patterns with his body.
During that infinite retweet, there is no need to tell the wives everything from one to ten. After all, it’s a future that will be reset if you return after 10 minutes or so.
“Uh, uh, um… If that’s the case, how about saying something like this?”
Fran, who was still bewildered, pondered and then her eyes lit up.
“With the oath rune, will you promise me that you will never die?”
“… That, yes.”
You will know my future foresight, so if you do that, you will believe me.
It was a rather heavy oath to use for one-time persuasion.
***
──Suddenly, his compatriots died.
If Plomberg was asked to describe what happened in that moment, there would be no other adequate description.
Light flashes, poses, dies.
Sensing the light of space magic and showing off excellent reflexes, the two of them moved instantly, and the lightning passed through his graying arm.
“Introductory mob cut.”
“… Damn you!!!!”
Plomberg retreats and widens the distance. Nord aimed at the root of the world tree and stopped.
“Ah, now that I think about it, that root doesn’t have to be burned.”
When Surtur comes out, there’s no way he’ll be fine because it’s the root of the World Tree. No matter what fate is, I just have to force the summoning. Even if you can’t do it, even a little bit of mana is a waste during the early challenges.
“Die, Wolfheddin!!”
Plomberg, who had perfected the transfer, spewed out a storm.
A storm mingled with blades of wind engulfed Nord, seeking to tear his life apart.
A sharp layer of air covered Nord’s body in an instant, but the next moment.
─Chwaaaaag!!!
The storm was cut crosswise from the wick. On the other side of the shattering wind, Nord walked out with a calm face.
“Hmm. What was that? Oh yeah.”
Swinging his spear to destroy the great magic that compressed the storm, he yelled out the line he had in mind.
“Yes, son of Henir!! You will never be able to summon Surtr!! If you take out the piece of Levatein hidden in your waistband, the wine will be shocked!!”
