Chapter 647 – The Doll’s Knight
“Using the leaves solves the problem of disseminating magical imprint knowledge in the world of Mythology.”
After chanting like that, Seongil flicked a gold coin from his hand and threw it into the air. Then, naturally, with the back of the hand, the fallen coin is picked up and pressed down.
“Does it consume a lot of energy?”
Seong-il shows a surprised expression when the coin eats up a lot of his energy with just one question.
In addition, thanks to the exhausted internal energy, he instinctively realizes that his divination has been successful and quickly looks at both sides of the coin.
“Front side… Positive.”
The appearance of the same answer as one’s own expectation. Seong-il feels that this coin can be used quite usefully in the future, except that the internal energy consumption is quite large.
You said you could only answer ‘YES or NO’? Does that mean A or B can’t work?’
Since there is nothing to lose by trying, Seong-il bounces off a gold coin and then recites a question.
Ting~
“I will decide this matter according to my subjectivity or I will actively discuss it with my followers and handle it.”
However, the gold coin is only thrown into the air, and it does not seem to absorb the inner energy.
Based on that feeling, Seong-il figures out that his fortune-telling has failed and that he cannot get an answer through that method.
‘Also. Only YES or NO is possible.’
Still, I thought it was a good enough effect, so Seong-il didn’t feel sorry for it and turned on the augmented reality to summon followers.
***
“Everyone suffered.”
Seong-il first praises the followers who came to the Pineapple House for their hard work. He then explains the reward item he received from his sacred tree, and explains that this item will bring an end to the conflict in the Mythology world.
“Ummm… You mean, based on that stuff, you’re entering someone else’s dream and making a revelation, right?”
“Yes. However, we do not yet know the exact mechanism.”
After hearing Seong-il’s explanation, each of his followers starts thinking or discussing something with each other.
“For now, it can be used five times, so shouldn’t we use it on us at least once to figure out exactly how to use it? I think that will make the plan more elaborate.”
“Surely…”
Seong-il and the other followers who listened to Elysia’s reasonable words all nodded their heads in agreement.
“I!! Do it for me!!”
Perhaps because it is a problem related to her own world, Elaine raises her hand and actively volunteers for her blood test subject.
Seong-il nods at the sight and tries to prepare for the experiment.
‘Oh… Is it like this?’
Seong-il enters the dream of Elaine, who is sleeping after taking sleeping pills. He realizes that he has entered Elaine’s unconscious.
“How can I show you the memories I want in this state…?”
Seong-il begins to ponder while looking at the world from the air like a spectator in the unconscious world. Interestingly, a familiar leaf emerges from his hand and begins to glow.
“This…”
The sudden appearance of a leaf makes Seong-il instinctively think that he can hold it up and wish for something.
‘What would happen if I remembered the meeting with Dr. Jun not too long ago?’
Seong-il comes up with a hypothesis and thinks of it as it is. Then, old memories appearing in Elaine’s dreams.
‘That’s how I write it.’
When Seong-il and Dr. Jun appear talking, Seong-il gets a feel for how to use it.
‘How to get out…’
When Seong-il finishes sending out the memories he wants, he longs for the idea of going out. Then Elaine’s dream world collapses and sends Seongil back to reality.
“Has everyone seen it?”
Upon returning to reality, Seong-il uses the memory orb to show his followers what he has been through.
“I understand how to use it. Then how are you going to convey this knowledge? Isn’t it a bit odd that you remain in this memory?”
Elaine’s words made sense. Seong-il nodded his head instead of answering, and the party looked at each other with worried faces and thought about a solution.
“Can’t we use Eunwol-nim like before? You conveyed memories that way back then, too.”
Ophelia musters her courage to raise her hand and express her own opinion. However, upon hearing that, Claudia immediately shakes her head and denies her words.
“That’s a bit… The reason Seongil-nim tried to pass on his memories in this way in the first place is to hide his traces from the world as much as possible. Then again, Seongil-nim’s ‘acquaintances’ appear? Quite a few people accidentally I might think.”
“Um…”
Claudia’s question is quite reasonable. Her followers couldn’t deny her words, for Holy Day could be a nuisance if only one or two of many had such doubts.
“Senior. Then, can’t you become a goddess?”
Elaine tells her how it would be to use the Transcendental Goddess of Harvest to look down on her revelations.
Let’s pretend it’s an alter ego of the World Tree or the will of an old god that was resurrected thanks to him.
“I think that’s more of a problem.”
Seong-il quickly denies Elaine’s opinion. The Mythology Academy itself is a world suffering from powerful deities such as foreign media. If a deity I have never seen in my life appears and gives a revelation, many wizards and psychics claim that the goddess’s opinion is threatening and they may reject the knowledge.
“Whoa… Then who? It’s starting all over again.”
That time when the party was scratching their heads with a tired expression. Elysia, who has been watching all this in silence, raises her hand and speaks to Seong-il.
“Isn’t there a good one already?”
“…Um? Who?”
At Elysia’s sudden words, her party all turned their heads and looked at her. Even with that gaze, Elysia answered briefly without being taken aback in the slightest.
“Master, you recently met a true great mage and formed a friendly relationship with him. You haven’t forgotten, have you?”
“If it’s a friendly great mage… Only Luciel?”
“Yes. That’s right.”
Surprisingly, Elysia’s opinion was to bring in Lucille from the doll world as the implementer of this ploy.
Her unconventional opinion confuses not only her Seong-il, but also her colleagues.
“I know he’s… Not a follower. Is that okay?”
“That’s right! And Seongil-gun, you know that in order to have as little impact on each world as possible, he doesn’t spread more information and technology than is necessary?”
First of all, it’s not easy to forcibly control Ruchel because she’s not a follower. Also, since the doll world is a world with many variables that have not been cleared yet, both Claudia and Elaine take a negative attitude.
“Originally, it would have been. But, this time, the master has an artifact that can overcome all of that, right?”
“…Artifacts to overcome?”
At Elysia’s questionable words, Claudia lightly frowned and asked her to explain.
“Yes. Artifacts. There is a 『Mirror World』, Right?”
Elysia, who took out the Mirror World out of the blue, started explaining to her colleagues how to use it.
Elysia cannot recklessly spread knowledge due to variables that may occur under normal circumstances, but she convinces her colleagues that there will be no problem if she spreads knowledge to fake beings in the mirror world.
“I see… Based on the timeline of Lucille who realized the truth, they use the mirror world to create a fake world and put on a play…”
“Yes. Of course, if you ask for that, even the fake Lucille-sama will be suspicious. You ‘pretend’ to pass on the secret arts to save the world of dolls, and ask for ‘common love’.”
“It’s a strange idea…”
At Elysia’s words, her party all looked at her with admiration.
“Definitely worth a try.”
Even if the attempt fails in the mirror world, the risk is only a month’s worth of time spent, so Seong-il thinks Elysia’s opinion is certainly reasonable.
“Even if it’s Ruchel, since he’s a great mage, he’ll be able to explain things easily.”
“Yes. However, you have to extract the memories as carefully as possible so that the master does not appear in the video. Apparently, you can switch to first person depending on the situation you are in.”
“Yeah. If you erase my image and I don’t say anything, Professor Aron will never realize that the situation is staged.”
After organizing the situation, Seong-il ends the meeting with a satisfied expression.
“First of all. Everyone has worked hard the past few days, so let’s take a break. Aira is using the mirror, so we have plenty of time.”
“Yes!!”
Seong-il wraps up the meeting and leaves for a short break.
***
“Okay. It’s been five days, so the important things must have been sorted out, right?”
Her holy day was the situation in which she moved her body to her doll world for the first time in a long time without contacting her on purpose for several days in order to release her core in her heart.
“How’s the doll world going?”
After sweeping the mirror world, Seong-il tries to check the time flow of the past few days.
‘Shall we see how things went with the hidden camera Edward made a while ago?’
She said she would give Aira free time, but Seong-il asked the cursed knight to install a video recording device on his body in case of an accident.
He enters her mirror world and tries to see what is going on before meeting her.
“Grandfather!!”
『…Who are you?』
‘It’s the world line the day before the invasion of the cultists.’
Seong-il, who had the experience of examining Aira’s memory by obtaining pieces of her memory in the past, quickly catches the current situation by examining the video.
『I am Aira from the future!!』
『What nonsense…!!』
Ira is shown trying to explain her situation to her grandfather by throwing her stone fastball to her surprise.
‘Even if I fail this time, there is an opportunity in a month, so I must have made such a bold attempt.’
Surprisingly, Seong-il does not particularly criticize Aira’s choice. He rather thinks he would have acted like her, in order to cut down on her time wasted, as many of her chances were there.
『Believe me…』
Ira tries to convince her grandfather with her sincere and earnest expression. If that is not enough, he summons a cursed knight made of 『Puppet: Death』 And tries to persuade him.
Aira’s grandfather hardened when a family treasure suddenly appeared. Taking advantage of that opportunity, the cursed knight gives him a piece of memory containing Aira’s past.
“This…?”
『A piece of memory. If you’re a descendant of a family of puppet knights, you know what this is, right? Let’s see.”
『…』
When the strongest relic left by the ancestor of the family speaks, Aira’s grandfather grabs her piece as if possessed and examines her memories inside.
Shocking content. Little Ira’s mistake and the problems it creates shock her grandfather.
“In the world… How did you come from the future?”
『…』
After thinking about it for a long time, Ira decides to tell him honestly. It explains that this world is actually a kind of dream or fantasy world created based on one’s memories, and is only a fake that does not have a big impact on reality.
In addition, he replies that he returned to the fantasy world because he regretted his past mistakes and wanted to make up for them, albeit falsely.
『…』
And after hearing all of her stories, Aira’s grandfather silently hugs her and pats her on the back.
“Aren’t you resentful?”
“Why me? Having such a well-grown granddaughter.”
Aira’s grandfather who has no resentment towards Aira who is in pain. He even says that he is sorry for not being able to understand her feelings.
Ira breaks up with her grandfather, whom she has missed for a long time. Then, getting her feelings under control, she tells her story about her cult and that her goons are about to invade the place.
“Hmm…”
Ira goes downstairs to her, leaving her grandfather alone, much to her embarrassment. There she finds one of her familiar maids in charge of cleaning her and approaches her.
“Oh? You’re a guest… Kek!!』
Ira holds her maid by the throat as she smiles brightly at herself and curses her with her bloody tone.
『It’s like the heinous servant of the death god!!』
‘Oh… Have you come all the way to this scene?’
As the compressed footage is timed to normal, Seong-il realizes that now Aira is going through the steps of beginning her revenge.
‘Should I follow and help out?’
Thinking so, her holy day is about to enter the mirror world. Suddenly, the inner plane starts to vibrate violently.
“…What?”