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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 393: Although the Initial Plan Was Different, the Result Being the Same, There Is No Problem.
Chapter 393: Although the Initial Plan Was Different, the Result Being the Same, There Is No Problem.
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“Haah, somehow it worked out…”In the inn located in a small town, in the room next to the hero Schwarz’s. I sat down on a chair inside, taking a deep breath as I returned there with Tia, having listened to Schwarz’s request to “give me a moment to prepare mentally, to sort things out, even if it’s just a little.”
“Good work, Ed. I’m glad it went well, isn’t it?”
“Yeah, it really did… Honestly, why did it have to become so complicated?”
Initially, the plan was to show a bit of our strength, then reveal, “Actually, we’re also trying to defeat the Demon King,” and gradually join the hero party, despite being on different sides but sharing the same goal.
However, as it turned out, the original hero party fell apart, and somehow ended up with me leading the Demon King’s party and pushing the hero into it. Ugh, why?
“Hey Tia, did I handle things poorly?”
“Well… If I had to say, maybe you scared the two members of the hero’s party too much?”
“Oh, that… Yeah.”
In order to leave the possibility of connecting through a different route if everything went wrong, Tia was kept a little away at that time. So she saw the situation from the outside… I see, that’s what it was.
“No, that was… I don’t think I’d scare them so much.”
“What did you do? That black wind? It came towards me too, but I didn’t feel anything…”
“Well, my actions wouldn’t hurt you. That… It’s like I grazed their souls?”
“Eh, and is that okay!?”
Tia reacted with a shocked expression to my words. But that reaction was unexpected for me.
“It’s okay, it’s okay. It’s nothing serious. Sure, I may have just grazed it a bit… but in terms of imagery… like this?”
Saying that, I lightly scratched the table in front of me with my nails. But of course, there wouldn’t be any scratches on a wooden table from such a slight touch. Tia, rubbing the table with her fingertips, tilted her head with a subtle expression.
“Um…?”
“It doesn’t seem like you can see it even if you squint your eyes, and you can’t tell by touching it, but since I scratched it, there is technically a mark. It’s about the same. Whether your lifespan shortens or your strength weakens, or even if you die and are reborn a thousand times, it won’t have any effect—I guarantee it.”
“Eh…? Even so, they were that scared?”
“Well, ‘directly touching the soul’ is something that wouldn’t happen in normal life, right? If I have to explain it with a physical phenomenon, it’s like being directly poked in the heart with a finger… maybe?”
“Eh…? That’s much more terrifying than having a knife held to your throat. It’s more intense because it brings about the sense of an inevitable death, with no possibility of escape, avoidance, or defense, all from one side, isn’t it?”
“Hmm? …Well, yeah?”
“Sigh… Ed, you went too far.”
“Ouch!”
Tia, with a bewildered expression, chopped down on the top of my head. I see, I went too far. But to give off a Demon King-like vibe, there’s only so much I can do… darn it.
“Acting like a Demon King is tough…”
“By the way, why a Demon King in the first place? And why ‘End’?”
“Huh? Well, haven’t I said before? Even if I push my way in as a regular person, it’s just rude idiocy from the hero’s perspective, right? He wouldn’t entertain it, and it would be over if the guards were called. But as a Demon King, I can bypass all those ‘social constraints’ and forcibly accompany him, you know?”
“And why change your name? Isn’t Ed imposing enough?”
“Well, you see, I thought maybe ‘Ed’ didn’t have enough impact.”
Honestly, in that situation, it’s impossible for a “kind ordinary person” to forcefully join the hero like that. If I were to push through with it, I’d have to create a situation like the martial artist sisters who were in the hero party before the two who fled… Essentially, I’d have to spend time creating a big incident and, above all, prepare victims. It would be much quicker and easier for me to become a villain myself than to go to such lengths.
“By the way, if the Demon King plan didn’t work out, I was planning to make you the ‘Oracle of the World Tree’ and play around with complicated concepts like fate and karma.”
“The World Tree… So you turned my race into something like ‘Dark White Elf’?”
“Exactly. In terms of the setting, it’s like a light elf born from a fallen dark elf.”
“What’s that!? Also, what even are dark elves? If you mean dusk elves, they’re all nice people, you know? Or are there elves like that in this world?”
“There are dark elves here. In this world, they’re treated as part of the Demon King’s forces.”
Dusk elves refer to the brown-skinned elves in Tia’s world. Named so because of their skin color, they tend to have muscular builds if male, or voluptuous figures if female, but that’s about it. Naturally, they hadn’t fallen into darkness, and they were generally cheerful and friendly.
On the other hand, dark elves in this world were elves whose skin had turned black due to dark magic… apparently. “Apparently” because I’d never actually seen one. They were said to be part of the Demon King’s army’s leadership or assassins, but at least in my first loop, I never laid eyes on them.
… With that kind of explanation, Tia nodded thoughtfully and then stared at her own body.
“Hmm, dark magic… so that exists. But, huh? Then wouldn’t it be ‘Dark Light Elf’ instead of ‘Dark White Elf’? Or maybe ‘Black White Elf’?”
“…Don’t nitpick like that. It’s because, you know, if they actually exist, it’d be bad to name them that.”
“Oh, that’s true. Well, it’s a lot better than the other one.”
“You didn’t like Brilliant Gorgeous Elf?”
“I hate it! Absolutely hate it! No matter what, I won’t compromise on this!”
“O-Okay!? I mean, I wasn’t planning on forcing it on you…”
The last time Tia showed such a vehement reaction was when I told her that pure mithril was rock worm dung. She really hated it… I thought the name had a pretty nice ring to it, though.
“Well, anyway, we managed to join the hero party. Hopefully, this makes up for the blunders we made at the beginning.”
“Is it really okay to have the hero in our party even if we’re the ones who brought them in?”
“It should be fine, probably. As long as we’re together.”
At least the difference in numbers didn’t seem to matter, as proven by Harris and Gou being okay. So, as long as it’s just the three of us—me, Tia, and Schwarz—moving together, there shouldn’t be any issues.
“Well, that’s good… So, what’s next? Are we going on a normal adventure?”
“Yeah…”
When Tia asked, I put my hand to my chin and pondered. Although Schwarz’s two regular companions were gone, in terms of firepower, Tia and I were vastly superior, so exploring dangerous places shouldn’t be a problem… in fact, it might even be easier this time.
On the other hand, if we were operating in populated areas… Well, it should be fine, right?
“I see. As long as I don’t go on a rampage unnecessarily, it should be okay to operate normally. Then, for now, it seems like traveling similar to the first loop would be the best approach.”
As I contemplated the journey ahead, no particularly troublesome locations came to mind. At least as long as I don’t go around proclaiming “I am the Demon King!” at every turn, it should be the same as it was in the first loop, we should be fine.
“Hmm, in that case, let’s take it easy at the start.”
Unlike the first round, there was a need to progress the world towards the conclusion of defeating the Demon King, but that came after sorting out the relationship with the hero a little more.Thus, there was no need to be in a hurry, as there was nothing urgent to do.
I decided to relax and enjoy the relaxed atmosphere for the first time in a while.
