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I Got a New Skill Every Time I Was Exiled, and After 100 Different Worlds, I Was Unmatched (Web Novel) - Chapter 333: Embrace the Present: Give Your All Instead of Waiting for the 'Next
Chapter 333: Embrace the Present: Give Your All Instead of Waiting for the 'Next
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“Ah, I’m tired… I’ve been praised enough for a lifetime…”“Fufu, good work, Ed.”
Having safely returned to the <White World>… or was its formal name <Eternal White>? Either way… I immediately slumped my shoulders.
After that, we had received the “Fragment of God” from Owner Demon King and properly disposed of it. We reunited with Nico as promised, but due to timing, we were forced to participate in a kind of dinner party celebrating the defeat of the Demon King.
It was awful. As awful as what lay inside Owner Demon King. While the setting indeed looked glamorous, the atmosphere was unbearable.
“What was that all about? I suddenly had about eight fiancées, and apparently, some woman I don’t even know is carrying my child…”
“Haha… Being a man is tough.”
“No, no, even you, Tia, received various proposals, right? Constant invitations saying ‘please marry our son’.”
“True. Last time, Gonzo and Alexis subtly managed the situation for us, but without them, it was rather blatant this time.”
We exchanged wry smiles. From the perspective of important kings and nobles, we, who had accomplished unparalleled feats without any entanglements, were the most convenient to use.
“Ha, so that’s the endgame of the hero’s tale I dreamed of as a child… There are no dreams or hopes there.”
In reality, I never had a “childhood,” but in the narrative God created, I was a child who admired heroes. The standard hero tale had the hero defeating the Demon King, marrying a princess, and living happily ever after as a king. Reality seems not so sweet.
“Well, a villager who becomes king isn’t going to be able to manage politics, so that’s to be expected.”
“True. Even if we accepted those offers, all that would await us would be days of looking pretty and recounting our valor, don’t you think?”
“Yeah.”
I won’t say a life of just ornamentation is necessarily unhappy. Some might find it the best life, to be free from responsibilities while living a life of moderate luxury…
“I’ll pass on that. Being confined and observed is more than enough for me as is.”
“Me too. Well, shall we get started?”
With the conversation coming to a pause, Tia moved away from me and activated the [Single Bank.] What she started arranging were pieces of furniture we had bought with reward money we got for attending the debut.
“Hum hum hum hum hum, hum hum hum~♪ The bed will go here, this shelf here… How about the vase here?”
(Come to think of it, who destroyed our previous room… Was it me after all?)
While watching Tia happily arrange furniture and hum, I suddenly wondered.
Normally, that would be in the past, so I shouldn’t have interfered. However, the flow of time in this world is quite special. Honestly, I don’t fully understand it.
Could it be that only my consciousness or power flowed back into that past “thing”? Or perhaps time circulates in this closed world, making it possible to normally interfere with the past?
Hmm, thinking doesn’t help. But, “I might be able to interfere with the past” is probably something worth remembering. If the absolutely impossible, intolerable ‘what if’ ever happens…
“Done! How about it, Ed? Doesn’t it look relatively stylish?”
Just as I was contemplating, it seemed Tia had finished arranging the furniture. It looked somewhat more luxurious than before, likely due to the change in shopping location from the artisan district to the royal capital.
“Yeah, looks good. Although the embroidery on the futon is a bit flashy… What’s this?”
“I don’t know? Some kind of charm or prayer seems to have been put into the design.”
“Eh, is that okay?”
“It’s fine. I don’t feel any mana, so it’s probably like ‘Made with all my heart!'”
“Hmm, alright then.”
While feeling something was off with Tia’s words, I let it go. I feel like I’ve seen something similar somewhere, but if I don’t remember, it’s probably harmless. After all, it’s a retail product from a legitimate store.
“Fufu, we’ll check the comfort later, so shall we read a book first?”
“Alright. Let’s do that.”
Upon Tia’s suggestion, we both moved to the table. On it lay a relatively thin {Record Of The Hero’s Story} Taking my seat, I casually flipped through the pages.
“Didn’t disappear halfway this time, okay?”
“Well, We were adventuring normally, after all.”
The content was somewhat sparse, probably because Nico was only thirteen and had just started adventuring. Looking closely from the first page, it had been carefully written about Nico’s cheerful, lively days.
“Ah, Nico is a man after all. Yep, yep, if you get a good stick, of course you’d practice swings with it.”
“But he hit the laundry and got scolded by his mom, you know?”
“It’s fine. That too is part of the whole package.”
Surrounded by warm people, Nico had lived everyday mundane but happy lives. Even after it was revealed that Nico was the Hero, that didn’t change, and Nico was sent off with smiles by everyone in the village.
“It was a good village, wasn’t it?”
“Yeah. The reason he was able to keep smiling even while carrying a heavy destiny on his small body must’ve been because he had this kind of support.”
Feeling somehow happy myself, I carefully turned the pages. Eventually, there were encounters with Kanan and Arielle, and then our names were added too… and finally.
— 002nd World {Record Of The Hero’s Story} Final Chapter: Unawareness is not Innocence
Nico, the Hero who accomplished the feat of defeating the Demon King, was pure but ignorant. Even after various accomplishments in his lifetime, he never realized the true existence of the Demon King.
The Demon King, who continuously collected ugly human desires, would someday bring about a great disaster to the world. However, the mercy of the God that saves the world had already been lost due to the evil Demon King.
There was no longer any salvation for this world. Thinking of the people who would continue to wander in the darkness until the inevitable end, God quietly shed a single tear of sorrow.
“You’re crying again. Honestly, I don’t care anymore.”
“Speaking of which, I never met him, but what kind of person was this world’s Demon King?”
“Eh? That was… uh… what was he like?”
Remembering the Demon King, a chubby man who kept a provocatively dressed woman by his side, I found myself at a loss for words.
“That’s not me, though it is a part of me. Strictly speaking, he’s a separate personality, and his tastes have nothing to do with me…”
“…Ed? Are you hiding something from me?”
“No, nothing! He was… like that. Loyal to his desires, even if he had limitations, he didn’t hold back. He enjoyed to the fullest what he allowed himself.”
“Hmm. Seems quite free. I would have liked to meet him.”
“No, no, no, no, meeting him is out of the question! Anyway, let’s move on to the next world!”
“…….”
Feeling Tia’s piercing gaze, I hurriedly spoke. But it was impossible. I couldn’t let Tia be dressed like that—Ouch!?
“Ouch! What are you doing, Tia!?”
“I knew you were thinking of something strange.”
Tia turned away and pouted. Darn it, this was unfair! I won’t bow down to unjust treatment!
“If you have a complaint, you can tell me what you were thinking.”
“…Never mind.”
There were times when you have to swallow the injustices of the world. A man should just silently weep from his back, huh.
“…..”
I suddenly glanced at the crystal ball on the table. It still lacked light… it would probably take a countless number of loops for it to regain its light.
I could only receive the ability [Flag Maker] because it wasn’t my power, but something created by God for the world to revolve. Anything else was impossible. Next, my memory and records would likely be completely erased, and I would live as a puppet created by God.
“Ed? What’s wrong?”
“…Nothing.”
But, so what? There’s no point in thinking about ‘next.’ I’m going to enjoy ‘now’ to its fullest.
“Let’s go then. It’s a gamble to see if we can go to the ‘world where you can talk to God.'”
I tightly gripped Tia’s hand and opened the third door.
(T/N: Man Kuro No Kiseki is absolutely fantastic. Folks My Laptop’s gone for RMA, expect some delay for c334 and 335)
