Chapter 965 – Till Death Do Us Part (1)
Around the time my college admission was finalized, when I was still on Earth.
I had a chance to pass by the neighborhood I lived in 10 years ago. As development progressed and the scenery changed, I remember that the familiar scenery felt like a different place.
The first impression I felt when I arrived at iKeven Island was literally reminiscent of that time.
The island, which was full of white bones, was deprived of the potential to be suitable for a resort by a military base. Just as it was used as a naval supply base for the Hittites in the past.
And that stern base was a mess, as if broken by riots inside and outside.
At the center of this island, where the dimension linking device is located, there must be a vast energy created by a failed experiment a few years ago——and a different world created from that energy.
The atmosphere of the destroyed walls was gloomy, and there was a cramped atmosphere as if they had been shackled and thrown into the depths of the sea.
This entire island is the domain of the ‘Yellow King’.
It was a windless zone where the wind stopped, not filled even by the chill in the blue night sky.
“… Go. I don’t have time to be like this.”
Ralilura said after wiping her tears. Even after the warp, she was still sitting there, but it didn’t take even a minute before she wiped away her tears and returned with a cold expression.
“‘Hwiwang’ is also a clear old ruler. It won’t take a few minutes to get here beyond space. In that moment, we must reach the center of the island.”
“… Are you okay?”
“It’s not okay at all. But it’s okay. While I was the only one alive and spending endless mornings, there was never a moment, not a single moment, that was okay.”
I can’t adapt and accept it, but I’m used to enduring it.
Having said that, Rari Lura pulled on her gloves.
“To save stamina, I can’t warp anymore. But sometimes it’s more efficient not to cheat, right?”
“Okay, let’s run. One second is a waste.”
We dove into a broken gap in the wall.
Unlike the very clean outside, the inside of the fortress was miserable. I imagined this island as if several cataclysms brought about by utopias that urged people’s desires appeared on my eyelids.
The gates of heaven without guards are more miserable than the deepest places of hell.
“Great, right? The scenery of this island is the conclusion of one of the funniest and most interesting shows humans can show!”
As soon as I did my best not to waste too much energy, a man in a yellow robe spoke to me in front of the open dimension door.
Cheek-! The soles of the shoes, which came to a sudden stop, left long brake marks on the floor.
I said, ready to go.
“You talk like you’ve looked into someone’s head.”
“Hmm? Isn’t that what a human with normal sensibility would think of when he saw this?”
The yellow robe was longer than the height of the man who would be two meters tall and was long enough to drag on the floor.
A man dressed like that and moving briskly conveyed a sense of playfulness that seemed to imitate a human being, just a little bit somewhere.
They are perfectly imitating humans, but they are different.
As if a human being is not a dog after all, even if he perfectly imitates a dog and barks.
Even if a human brain is put into a chicken body and the human becomes a body that eats insects and feels delicious, the underlying sensitivity does not escape from the human.
Some will see that sense of incongruity as charisma, while others will find it repulsive. Needless to say, I was the latter.
“So, if you hold the line clearly and talk in a rough tone, it feels like the other person is reading your mind. Because I have experience, the hit rate is high.”
The man in the yellow robe put a finger to his lips.
It was a motion that even felt coquettish, but it only added to the discomfort.
It was because I took out the bastard’s face as well as his body. If he hadn’t known that he had transformed into me, he would have wondered if it might be the future me.
“It suits you, right? My half brother… Are you siblings now? I changed it because I thought it would be good to scratch the inside of that child. Oh, don’t you know? That the ‘Lord of the Deep’ loves you.”
“Yeah, I know everything. I was thinking of you as a bastard who couldn’t imitate people.”
“Wow, what a shock. After all, should I act a little more dignified and honest with the body of a big man? As far as I know, you would be classified on the other side of the equation.”
“When you say a joke that you don’t find funny, people around you get angry. You will never be a comedian for the rest of your life, ‘Yellow King’.”
The ‘Yellow King’ giggled and laughed like a charming man.
“Could you call me by name? Come on, ᚺᚨᛋᛏᚢᚱ, ᚺᚨᛋᛏᚢᚱ. Is it easy to pronounce?”
“Yes, Nami.”
“My mother is dead!”
I only half-opened my eyes, and the ‘Yellow King’ scratched his cheek.
“Um, look at the atmosphere getting cheaper. This is why when you imitate a person, you have to try out different personalities. I can’t adapt.”
“It’s more outrageous than I thought.”
It was said that he went around wearing Loki’s name, so maybe it was something he should have expected. When I said that, the old ruler burst into laughter as he hit his knee.
Haha! Haha! Haha! Were you surprised? Well, I know a little about how I get passed down among humans and service races.”
“Changing the atmosphere is a bit difficult. If you try to change your once hardened impression, the people around you will shudder and start to panic or tremble.”
Respond to the conversation The seon-gong hasn’t applied yet.
It was one of the reasons I gave up so much time.
‘Odin’s eyes are gradually recovering.’
The time I calculated to recover was a week.
But isn’t it more resilient to spend in a resort that is good for recuperation rather than in a dusty ruin?
Likewise, my powers were recovering much faster than expected here.
‘This is another world. As Elizabeth said, that place is the center of this future, this world.’
From the time I saw the other world with my own eyes, every minute and one second passed, the power of the authority returned to the point where I could see it.
By my calculations, the recovery, which had more than 3-4 days left, seems to end in around 2 hours. That’s about it even though it’s outside. Once inside, it won’t take more than a few minutes.
‘Short-term prediction is possible if you wait a little longer even outside.’
Prediction up to 9 seconds.
It’s short, but in combat, it’s an indescribable advantage. A hasty attack is a handshake that strangles me.
Even if there is a possibility that ‘Wheewang’ will join the battle by dragging out time, it is better to wait for my foreknowledge to return.
“Haa, they really do too much.”
The ‘Yellow King’ lamented as if offended.
“Are you perfectly the same as you were 10 years ago? What about you from a year ago? Probably not. The thoughts you have, the attitude you treat people, things like that must have changed. If even human beings are like that, why do you believe that we will be the same existence for 100,000 years?”
“Who said what? There must have been a lot of assholes.”
“I am just curious. What does it feel like to love a human? Will it be so interesting that the arrogant guy longs for the moment he dies and kills the one he loves more than his own death? Even though he is a man who hates himself so much?”
The ‘Yellow King’ smiled at the dead brother and sister without showing a hint of contempt.
“How can you be curious about this? A man who would not give anything to him except his life. What kind of person would he have loved in his lifetime?”
The ‘Yellow King’, who averted his eyes, let out the silent Lalilura.
“That’s why, by changing into you, I tried to dig into the psychological weaknesses of humans and observe them from the inside… “
In an instant, the face that resembled me suddenly changed from a human.
“It was boring. Very much.”
The appearance is not distorted. The only thing that has changed is the expression.
However, for us humans, facial expressions are a means of non-verbal communication.
No matter how dull a human being is, he is sensitive to the blatant expression of others, and he has no choice but to be sensitive to hostility.
But what if a creature that cannot communicate with humans takes on human skin?
“Bored. Very boring. It’s unpleasant. With just that guy’s selfishness, the whole world that was so good to see was broken.”
The answer lies before us.
“At first, I was going to develop the cure that the ‘Lord of the Deep’ had kindly scattered, but I got tired of that small society before I got caught. A ruined world is so boring.”
The ‘Yellow King’ wore human skin and spoke.
“You see? This heart. The frustration of having a good time with the guardian of light on the rainbow bridge, and waking up only to find out that the siblings ruined all the entertainment.”
“It’s a pity. Beauty sleeps a lot. If you had walked around with your original face instead of transforming into me or Loki, it would have been incessant until the day you searched.”
“Late? Why? Didn’t I wake up from a dream like this?”
He kneaded my face against his face like bread dough.
“It is easy for me to play the ‘Yellow King’. It only takes a little care to imitate humans and service races. But being someone else is really hard. Can you believe I failed twice in a row? I feel like my face is all crumpled.”
I got caught when I turned into Loki, and I got caught when I turned into me.
“There have been failures and setbacks, but everything is three generations old. Isn’t that a wonderful word? The delusion of believing that the next opportunity is in one’s hands. That hope is the wonderful thing about being human.”
The expression of the ‘yellow king’ changed back to a human-like attitude, just as he kneaded a human skin to fit his face.
“There is no shame in failing in a dream. If I open my eyes and forget myself, no one will remember.”
From the perspective of me, the person in charge, even the atmosphere and every movement are like ‘Nord von Wolfheddin’.
“I want the good times to last as long as possible. Oh, don’t worry too much. I, too, cannot escape the fate of Wolfheddin defeating the ‘Lord of the Deep’ and saving the world.”
The ‘yellow king’, grinning, spoke like me.
“By the way… ‘Wolfhedin’ doesn’t have to be you, right? Human gourd is a yellow monkey baby.”
“I don’t use that vulgar language, you asshole.”
And, finally, the authority returned to my pupils.
A second later, the tip of a spear shining bright yellow aimed at my head.
