Return of the Frozen Player 548
late blooming flowers (3)
Surprised by Arthur’s actions, the birds left.
Stoney looked at the two for a while and asked in a low voice.
“Was it your son? I thought you two were friends.”
“Thank you for looking at me like that. I always wanted to be a father like a friend.”
“… … I didn’t mean it in that way.”
For a while, Stoney looked at the two with an interesting gaze.
Arthur approached merrily and poured out his words like a rapid-fire cannon.
“What are you doing now? Are you sane? You said you could lose your life!”
“Arthur.”
“I am against it. did you come back alive
How long has it been since you did such a dangerous thing again… … !”
“Arthur.”
Hearing his father’s quiet and gentle voice, Arthur slowly held his breath.
“……why.”
Bitten lips, eyes full of resentment and resentment.
Looking at this, Gilberto laughed involuntarily.
“smile? Are you laughing now?”
Arthur’s expression went as cold as ice.
“Your father seems to be enjoying this situation.”
“Oh, I’m sorry if I offended you.”
Gilberto shook his head hurriedly and replied in a voice full of longing.
“I did it because I was glad to see you because the way you get angry is the same as your mother.”
At the mention of his mother, Arthur’s face visibly darkened in anger.
“Every time you forced me to cry with those stubborn eyes, I had no choice but to lose. you
Muna was lovely too.”
“Arthur.”
Gilberto looked at his son.
He had an eye he had never won before, but he couldn’t back down this time either.
“I don’t know if you know it, but it’s not an exaggeration to say that my life as a player is already over.”
” that… …
“You must have felt it. He’s a smart kid.”
Arthur’s face contorted.
This is because the vague doubts were directly confirmed by the person concerned.
“However, I have never thought of my father as weak.”
“That’s me too.”
he is not weak He had no intention of denying that.
How weak is a player who can kill even the Overmind in one shot if he is fully prepared?
“But it feels. now is my way
It’s the limit of a player named Berto Green.”
“You don’t know until you try it!”
Arthur shouted.
He felt a little bit, but even a sense of injustice.
Because what the man in front of me always taught me was the importance of hard work.
“Arthur.”
Gilberto Green said with a slightly sad face.
“I’ve tried everything.”
To not be a burden to your friends.
To protect your precious people.
I tried every kind of effort I could.
“But there are things in the world that cannot be overcome by effort alone.”
Even with a body that has been completed and maintained after painstaking efforts.
It is something that cannot be surpassed even with the ability to raise understanding to the highest level through repeated research.
Its name is talent.
“There are two ways I can get stronger here.
It will be just branches.”
Level up more or gain new abilities.
It was just those two things.
“But Arthur, as you know, the higher the level, the less effective it is.”
In short, the difference between level 5 and level 6 is huge.
But what about the difference between level 200 and level 2()1?
At that level, the difference between having and not having a few abilities didn’t help much.
“In the end, I only have one option left.
am.”
challenge or
culled or
Arthur kept his mouth shut and lowered his head.
Even if it rains on my shoulder, it trembles thinly like a person suffering from the cold.
“Arthur… …
Gilberto Green made a puzzled face.
I didn’t even know. In this situation
What to do.
‘If you think about it, it’s the first time I’ve had such a big fight with Arthur.’
He silently approached and gave his son a hug.
As I patted my back several times, I felt my chest get wet.
“Arthur. I have always been proud of you.”
“I don’t mean to make you feel better.”
Gilberto smiled lightly.
“Wake up from the ice to meet you for the first time
When I went, you wouldn’t know how proud I was.”
Never resent your colleagues at any moment.
Don’t give up prematurely because it’s beyond your ability.
Establish your own definition and carry it through to the end.
“I was proud enough to bring tears to my eyes.”
The look that Arthur showed while leading the watchman at that time.
100 letters he left for him.
Written there, he gave it to his son
Because it was the way it was.
“You grew up well even without parents. I am always grateful for that and I am sorry.”
My body was shaking.
It was because Arthur in his bosom was crying and shaking his shoulders.
Gilberto hugged him tighter.
“You were like that. You don’t know until you try.”
So that was what I was trying to do.
I couldn’t give up and be weeded out here.
Because, no, because I didn’t like it.
“I want to remain as a proud father until the end. It is my little greed.”
“My father… … Enough even now, rather overflowing… …
Arthur pushed Gilberto away.
He seemed ashamed to have cried, so he turned around and looked up at the sky.
“You are a proud man.”
“Are you understanding?”
“no.”
Arthur turned his head.
The tails of the reddened eyes were stubbornly raised.
“I can not understand. No, even if I could, I wouldn’t.”
“So if you want to be understood by me… … Please come back safely. understand that.”
The corners of Gilberto’s mouth went up lightly.
A child who is not honest
Perhaps that part resembles himself.
“guy.”
Gilberto tousled Arthur’s hair and looked up at Stoney.
“Isn’t my son cute?”
“Heh heh, I don’t know because I’ve lost my sense of aesthetics for a long time.”
Stoney shrugged and opened his mouth.
“Now then, get on my shoulder. Let’s go to the village.”
“Will it take long?”
“It won’t take too long.”
Far away, look in the direction where the imperial palace is
Stoney’s eyes hardened as he watched.
“Compared to the time I’ve been waiting for, it’s a blink of an eye.”
* * *
The scale of the village was huge beyond imagination.
Most surprising of all, most of the members were not giants.
“… … I thought everyone was as tall as you.”
“Hot haha! It’s me, I’ve been transplanted with the Titan’s genes, so it’s like this, and usually it’s not like this.”
Failed works with their own civilization came out of their homes one by one and gathered in the empty lot.
“Nonsense. Is that a human?”
“Ah, no. There can be no humans still alive.”
“But you look like a human? Seeing as I can’t feel the force, it’s not the Overmind.”
Gilberto looked around at the failed works that were gathering in the vacant lot.
‘Even considering it takes a while to get them all together… …
The number seemed hard to exceed a thousand.
‘Serious. I heard that the number of people at the beginning of research on the new force was 70,000.’
The reason for their vacancy was obvious.
Now on this land, he must have become a scapegoat to maintain the transcendental bodies.
“Emperor… …
What on earth did he sacrifice so many people for?
Silent fury in Gilberto’s eyes
has risen
“What is all this fuss about?”
At that time, the crowd split and a transcendence in the form of a turtle appeared.
A broken shell hung from his back as he approached slowly with a cane.
“Chief!”
Calling him the village chief, Stoney got down on one knee and lowered his stance.
“I have finally found hope.”
” hope?”
“Can’t you see them? the word human
oh! human!”
Only then did the village chief confirm Gilberto and Arthur.
“… … is it. Are you human?”
“exactly! Now we can give our newly developed power to the Emperor… … !”
“It doesn’t make any sense.”
Ceiling, shaking his head, looked at Stoney.
There was a stinging rebuke in his eyes.
“Stony. this stupid boulder You still haven’t let go of your lingering feelings.”
“How can I throw it away!”
Wow!
Stoney’s stone fist hit the floor.
“How did I meet a human in this hellish prison!”
“… … It’s just your greed.”
The village chief continued without batting an eye.
“What we were trying to create in the first place was the power to change us.”
But this failed.
who took the emperor’s force too deeply
Because they couldn’t accept the new power.
“You know. But if you’re a human, if you’re a pure human who hasn’t learned the Force yet… … !”
“The Overmind is superior to humans in every aspect, even if its intentions are wrong. The same goes for us who are called failures.”
The village chief’s low gaze was directed at Gilberto and Arthur.
“But, are you trying to give humans a power that we can’t guarantee that we can endure?”
“… … I just let you know that there is a risk of death.”
“I think I left out an important explanation. Listen, humans.”
The village chief sighed and continued.
“It’s not that there is a risk of dying, but there is a very high probability of dying.”
“What is that… … ?”
Arthur opened his eyes.
If what he said was true, this was a power he should never let his father learn.
“Then the giant lied to us
Are you saying you did?”
“Don’t ask. How much were you looking at the odds of success?”
“Of course not half!”
At Arthur’s cry, the village chief laughed.
“Then I must go back. I’m looking at about 1% at the most.”
“One%… … ?”
In a gambling board, the odds are so dire that it predicts an inevitability.
How much more so if the stake is your life?
“father! I absolutely agree this time
I can’t.”
Arthur expressed his firm determination with his eyes burning brightly.
Gilberto was also shocked.
After thinking for a moment, he stared at Stoney.
“Did you cheat on us?”
“… … Sorry for not explaining more in detail. But I never meant to cheat!”
He looked at the village chief and said.
“Chief! It’s so simply probabilistic
It’s nothing to be ashamed of!”
“That makes sense.”
The village chief calmly nodded.
“However, in the process of mastering this power, what is required of the subject is great patience and concentration. If you’re a human with much poorer abilities than the Ascendant, there’s nothing strange about assuming a failure rate of 99%.”
Gilberto’s eyes deepened.
he asked.
“In other words, the probability of success is 1%.
Is it simply because I am human?”
“Is that so?”
It’s because you’re human
It’s because ‘Patience’ and ‘Concentration’ are worse than the Transcendental Body, let alone a failure.
Fisik, Gilberto laughed.
“Then, the conclusion has been reached. I can do a comparison.”
“..comparison?”
“If my patience and concentration are inferior to yours, I will return without regret. I want to lose my life too
Because it doesn’t.”
At that bold suggestion, the village chief thought for a moment.
After a while, he half-opened his eyes and opened his mouth.
“If you do that, we thank you. But how are you going to decide the event or the opponent?”
“The competition event is target breaking. By the way, my son will throw the target at random.”
yes? me?
The village chief spoke again to Gilberto, who left Arthur’s blinking face behind.
asked
“Accept it. Then, who will you designate as your opponent?”
“My opponent is… …
Gilberto opened his mouth after looking around the failures in front of him.
“All of you.”
