Episode 268. Lyman Begilius (1)
The great clash that had been taking place within the dimensional rift stopped.
Lyman and the god of destruction Endless were exchanging powerful forces with each other.
Their clash, which no human in this world could match, ended in Lyman’s victory.
-You won… .
Endless, who was hit by Lyman’s maximum magical power, disappeared while leaving those words behind.
With this, the God of Destruction, Endless, disappeared from this world.
It wasn’t something he particularly admired, but it brought a smile to his face that he had accomplished something his mother couldn’t.
But Lyman’s condition wasn’t normal either.
My whole body was covered in honeycombs because I was constantly hit by Endless’s regeneration nullifying arrows.
The heart area was no exception. Even the immortal Lyman could not regenerate.
‘I guess I could live just fine without a heart though…’
I don’t know when the effects of this arrow will wear off.
It was a great fortune that although this side’s strength was not perfect, the other side’s strength was not perfect either.
Eventually, Lyman’s demonization was over and he returned to his human form.
Then it falls down the crack and crashes to the ground in Papyrus.
Below them were the Alighieri people watching over the other side of the rift.
From the principal to the faculty, there were faces I could never have unfamiliarized.
-They are all precious children. Even though they are young now, if you teach them with all your heart, they will grow up well.
-That’s how you grew up, Lyman. Sometimes, tell your mother that you’re grateful.
Suddenly, an auditory hallucination began to ring in Lyman’s head.
He lost his mind for a moment at the words he had heard from his mother and teacher before.
Principal Kayden, seen from the closest distance.
The author is clearly a descendant of the most successful child among those his mother took in.
‘Yeah… you’re not wrong.’
Lyman, who inwardly acknowledged his mother’s words, still had one question.
How did the person who grew up receiving such devotion… become such a gangster?
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“….”
Lyman, who had lost consciousness for a moment, opened his eyes again.
The last thing I remember seeing was me falling to the ground from a dimensional rift.
What I saw before my eyes was an unfamiliar sky.
The cracks are gone and the sky is clear with no sign of a weapon…
Even if his regenerative powers were gone, he was not a glass body that could fall from the sky and die.
There was something even more surprising than that.
“The wound….”
All the wounds from Endless’ arrows had been healed.
All areas that were thought to be beyond repair due to the arrows that nullified the regeneration have been restored to their original state.
A voice was heard from next to Lyman, who was surprised by this.
“What are you surprised about? You’re immortal.”
“huh?”
There was a boy sitting next to me, giggling.
Radon Crowler. Lyman clicked his tongue at the words he spat out and lay back down.
“What happened?”
Radon began to speak as if he had expected that to happen anyway, in a tone that told him to cut it short and answer.
“After you fell from the rift, the board healed you. At the same time, they found out that you were that demon.”
“How can I cure it? I was hit by an arrow that nullified my regenerative powers.”
“You shouldn’t underestimate the power of the magical tool that came from Alighieri’s secret storage. After all, it was created by your mother and passed down to future generations.”
There was a warehouse in the basement of Alighieri that could only be opened with the permission of the principal.
Inside, where the important magical tools made by the great sage Dantia were stored, were filled with things to fight against evil spirits.
One of them was used on Lyman.
“Have you heard of a box that can nullify the power of evil spirits?”
“I don’t know. That lady must have made one or two things.”
“Anyway, thanks to that box, not only was the zombie demon neutralized, but the power of the arrow that hit you was also neutralized.”
The wound healed on its own because the arrow’s power was neutralized.
It turned out that the magical tools his mother had created were helping her son to this day.
And the ones holding that magical tool are the people of the Bachelor who inherited her will.
“But they found out I’m a devil. Aren’t you all scared?”
“Of course, at first everyone wondered what this was. But we helped you because we were certain that you had defeated the God of Destruction. Besides, considering your actions during the Magic Banquet, it was a natural reward.”
I was also terrified at that time. A meteorite of a size that could destroy the continent was falling to the ground.
It was Lyman who flew up like a hero of justice and destroyed the meteor.
Many people must have watched Lyman transform into the devil.
“I still don’t know that you are the son of a great sage, but I’m sure it will be revealed soon, right?”
“….”
The longer the tail, the more likely it is to be stepped on.
Since Lyman had been showing off all sorts of performances, including the meteor incident, it was easy to get caught.
Of course, that doesn’t mean that something bad will happen.
“What about the other kids?”
“I’m resting in that tent. I’m so tired I’m almost asleep.”
It was a temporary garrison built by Alighieri.
Radon was also in there until just a moment ago.
Jenny and Ruska were pinching each other’s cheeks while sleeping, and Mary was holding a bug in Nebia’s mouth with her eyes closed.
It was creepy how everyone was moving as if they were sleepwalking.
And it was also shocking to see Nebia mistake the bug for a snack and eat it because she was sleepy.
“Everyone looks so comfortable. Hahaha….”
Radon, recalling that sight, smiled with a trembling expression.
They look no different than usual.
Next to them was the red-haired student council president.
“Chairman Mirona is also safe.”
“….”
“Maybe the memories of my past life are slowly coming back.”
Mirona has lived a total of five lives up to this point.
The fourth life, as you know, is that of Saint Mary.
The third life is the daughter of the boss of a back-end organization on another continent.
The second life was also of a person from another continent, and he was the absolute ruler known as the best sword on the continent.
And the first life is Maya, the disciple of the great sage Dantia and the daughter of Emperor Machia.
If all these memories return, Mirona will die as per the curse.
“Then I guess I should hurry up and release him. I don’t know when or where I’ll die because of humans.”
Mirona died a total of 4 times.
Considering that three of those deaths were caused by humans, it’s understandable that Lyman would suffer from distrust of humans.
In his second life, where he was called the Absolute, he met his death due to the betrayal of his subordinates who were obsessed with selfish desires.
In my third life, I was chased from the beginning because I was born that way.
And she, who was innocent of any crime, was murdered simply because she was the boss’s daughter.
Such people all had one thing in common.
“Humans are creatures who only know themselves.”
When you have no qualifications but your pride is sky-high.
A case where one causes discord among people in order to usurp the position of the absolute ruler.
There were foolish subordinates who fell for the trick and followed her.
The foolishness of repaying the grace that saved her with enmity.
And yet, he goes so far as to insist that there is no disagreement about his actions, which is madness.
Even if one is not specifically involved in the sowing of strife, humans are truly pathological beings.
“That lady’s teachings were wrong after all.”
Her face is wanted all over the world simply because she is the boss’s daughter.
The bar people who kicked me out of the restaurant just because I asked them why they were arresting me for that reason.
The truth is that the reason is nothing more than simple venting of anger.
It’s not like you can get food or rice cakes by catching them… Those people who cut off her head and behead her.
“It’s obvious why I, who was raised as a good child by that great sage, ended up like this.”
The end of such people was also the same.
They too met a gruesome death in a similar manner, and Lyman was not at all pleased by this.
Then I saw it.
The sight of the most vicious man begging for his life. Or the sight of him confidently and without regrets asking for a quick death.
Comparing these two, Lyman became convinced of one thing.
The fact that when you die you won’t realize anything.
And death is a rest for them.
The son of such a great and honest sage ended up becoming a perfect demon who enjoyed torture.
“It’s about making them suffer and then reminding them of the comfortable past. People only regret it then.”
No matter how much you reminisce about the comfortable past, it never comes back.
Even if I stretch my hand far away, all I get is a feeling of hesitation in grabbing it.
Not being able to do anything… this is literally hell unfolding.
Certainly the Great Sage had never raised Lyman this way.
How would you feel if you worked so hard to educate your child and then he grows up to be a murderer?
It would be embarrassing to even introduce myself as a mother.
but….
“I met your mother.”
“what?”
Lyman’s eyes opened wide for a moment.
Lyman stands up abruptly, saying, “What nonsense are you talking about?”
However, after hearing all of Radon’s explanations, Lyman soon began to have an incomprehensible expression on his face.
“That lady… was the one who sent you?”
“At first I was embarrassed, but the more I thought about it, the more grateful I became to your mother.”
“So…what did that lady say to me?”
Radon told it like it was.
-I’m so sorry, I always loved you.
She knew exactly which way Lyman would go.
I also learned from the future that I would become crazy with distrust of humanity and end up with a lot of blood on my hands.
But it wasn’t Lyman’s fault.
It’s only natural that one would go mad if one were to be cursed with immortality and shoulder such a huge burden.
So, for that kind of child… an irregular named Radon appeared.
“The fact that I appeared before your eyes is the very embodiment of my role as that person’s parent.”
Dantia squeezed out the last of his strength with his dying body and passed through the dimensional gate.
Her will summoned Radon Crawler, who changed the entire dark future.
“So don’t say anything to your mother.”
Lyman was displeased with his mother.
Even though he suffered losses due to excessive kindness, his feelings still do not change.
The more I thought about it, the more absurd it became.
My mother was once wounded by an arrow shot by a thief.
Then the thief accidentally fell into the waterfall.
Clearly your own fault.
However, his mother saved the thief from being killed.
Up until this point, I thought it was like that. If I had received this much grace, I would have had room to reform.
‘… is bullshit.’
But what about rehabilitation? The thief threw dirt on his mother’s face and quickly ran away.
Lyman chased after him and tried to catch him and beat him, but his mother stopped him.
That was the kind of being that Lyman knew, the great sage Dantia.
“Why should I like that idiot lady?”
“under….”
“You probably know about that lady.”
Radon could not refute that question.
This is because Radon reminded me of the web novel medium that was popular on the previous Earth.
If a character like Dantia had been the main character there, the comment section would have been scorched earth.
-Why is the main character so stupid? Is he intelligent?
-That guy is a great sage? His intelligence is worse than that of a monkey.
-You’re a fool too, writer. Get on and off the train. Don’t treat us like sweet potatoes.
Just imagining the comments gives me goosebumps.
How would Dantia feel if she lived on Earth and read web novels?
It was at that time that I was sighing like that.
“Still, I will protect what that lady left behind. That’s the only way I can do it as a blood relative.”
Ironically, however, Lyman hated his mother, yet he maintained the reputation she had left behind.
The fact that he entered the Alighieri Academy was proof of this.
Lyman hated his mother’s naivety.
Because I couldn’t sympathize with people who help others ignorantly without any gain.
But that consensus has opened up a little.
“So you too will become someone I must protect.”
Radon Crowler. He was the one left behind by Dantia.
Since it has become like that, it also falls within the scope that must be protected.
At those words, Radon smiled in surprise and held out his hand.
“Then let’s do better from now on, my friend.”
Lyman smiled back and took his outstretched hand.
“okay.”
It was the moment when Lyman’s always cynical face changed clearly.
“Oh, of course your partner is Mirona.”
“Who doesn’t know that? There are four of them.”
However, I had to let it go right away to avoid any strange misunderstandings.
It only took a moment for the atmosphere to turn cold.
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