Published at 26th of December 2025 7:39 am

Chapter 456: What Becomes Ordinary Is, Above All Else, What Is Truly Extraordinary.

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Im home! Ah, its been so long!

Hey now, thats quite exaggerated Oh, no, I guess not.

I smiled wryly at Tias unusually relaxed and excited voice, then realized. Thats right, for me its been half a year, but for Tia, its been 10 years. Of course shed want to take a breather. Hmm, should I seriously consider this?

Hm? Whats wrong, Ed?

Well, you know, there was that talk about summoning me? I was thinking maybe we should seriously consider it.

If I had made a mistake, Id be apologizing profusely, but for unavoidable situations like this time, theres nothing I can do. In such cases, establishing a means to reunite with me, even if not easily, would indeed be useful.

However, Tia made a rather sour face at my suggestion.

Summoning I did say that, but it was more like a joke, or a last desperate attempt when theres nothing else we can do.

Is that so? But you know, couldnt we do it like summoning spirits or something?

We cant! People who cant use magic often misunderstand, but summoning magic is different from transfer magic. Transfer magic connects two separate places like the front and back of a door, instantly moving people who pass through In other words, no power is actually working on the person or object being moved. On the other hand, summoning magic first breaks down the target into its fundamental elements and then reconstructs it in front of you. Thats why you can summon regardless of distance or time, but you can only summon things that are inherently omnipresent in the world and have only a vague individuality, like spirits.

Heh Wait, what? Is that safe for me to be summoned?

Hearing this explanation, while transfer sounds okay, summoning sounds like dying once. I cant help but ask, and Tia shakes her head with a difficult expression.

I dont know. Thats why its a last resort. Ordinary people cant be summoned in the first place but you know, you arent an ordinary person, right? I just had a slight feeling that it might work

Hmm, I cant deny that.

I cant even imagine what it would actually feel like, but honestly, if my soul or my firm sense of self was okay, I feel like it might be alright.

However, if it fails, it seems like Id just die or something incomprehensible would happen So, lets not try it, yeah.

Well, it cant be helped. Even if we were told in advance about suddenly jumping to the future, we wouldnt know what to do.

Yeah. I dont know either. Well then, shall we read this {Record Of The Heros Story}?

Shelving the problem thats beyond the capabilities of elves and demon kings for now, I sat at the table with Tia. The book placed there was quite thin. Well, she was five years old No, but when I was expelled from the world, she had turned 15, so how does that work?

Well, I guess well find out when we read it.

I picked up the thin and light {Record Of The Heros Story} and slowly started turning the pages. But the more pages I turned, the faster my hand moved.

What is this?

Hey Ed, is this!?

No matter how many pages I turn, no matter how much I read, the pages dont seem to decrease. Even after reading an amount that would have long finished other {Record Of The Heros Story}, the read portion doesnt increase in thickness, and the unread portion doesnt get thinner.

And its contents were about Margarets days of struggle in the repeating world. But even there, facts that we couldnt have known in that world are engraved.

Her memories were erased periodically?

Inheriting memories even after death and starting over That was supposed to be the karma Margaret bore, but according to this, Margarets memories were completely erased after a certain number of repetitions, and she started over from a blank slate.

Its not just 10 or 20 times. Thousands, tens of thousands of times. Because its a world without hunger or thirst, Tia and I continued to read a diary of repetitions that seem to go on forever. And at the end of it, Tia suddenly muttered:

In this, there are times when Ed appears and times when he doesnt, but Ed always meets her after her memories are erased for the first time.

Hm? Now that you mention it !?

Hearing this, I continued to turn pages at an even faster speed. Turning and turning, reading and reading And finally, I realize it.

I see The worlds loop and Margarets loop are separate.

Eh, what do you mean?

Look, this world trapped in the box keeps repeating, right? But Margaret herself is repeating time within one cycle of that. While we go through one cycle, she goes through 10 or 20 cycles, and during that time she can inherit her memories, but when the world itself cycles, everything is reset as if it never happened.

When a new world begins, Margaret also begins as a new existence. And every first time Margaret, who was an ordinary girl who knew nothing and had experienced nothing, inevitably meets me, whose fate was manipulated by God, and spends time with me until Im banished.

But after that, in the world where Im gone, Margaret dies and returns to the past, and from there, as an existence that has inherited memories, she begins to struggle to obtain tomorrow. From that point on, whether Margaret comes to save me or not becomes optional, and whether she can do something about the Demon King or not, when a new cycle begins, everything starts over again Thats probably what it means.

No way Does that mean Margaret has been accumulating wasted efforts all this time!?

Well, Im not sure about that I mean, having everything reset and starting over when the world loops is the same condition for all people in other worlds, right? Before I retrieved the Demon Kings power, You and Alexis and the others were fighting the Demon King every time too.

Ah, I see. When you put it that way, thats true.

The world repeating was a rule of this place created by God, so its something that all existences, including me, cant do anything about. To dismiss it as everything is just a farce because weve gained an outside perspective would be an incredibly arrogant thought.

But if thats the case, why was such a complex power bestowed only on Margaret? Is this the power of a hero?

Considering the range of abilities, probably?

Outside of this world Considering that memories cannot be carried over beyond my cycles, this power isnt something bestowed by a fragment of god, but rather a force granted by the principles of that world to Margaret. In that case, its possible that in that world, the fragments of god might not have been doing anything, or might not have existed at all Well, for now, lets leave that aside.

Its just speculation, but this might be one of the limits of a heros power?

The reason the world didnt simply make Margaret stronger was probably because she was five years old and even if they gave fighting power to a princess, she wouldnt be allowed to train or fight. Even if her power awakened the moment she met the Demon King, like Eleas, she probably couldnt fight without any foundation.

Then, one might think of making one of the knights or soldiers present at the scene a hero, and there are many other possibilities we could think of, but I dont think they would have overlooked something I could easily come up with.

Well, its a cruel story that the most effective option among all conceivable conditions was to make a five-year-old girl repeat 10 years and explore the possibility of dealing with the Demon King but I wont say it. It would just be misplaced complaining for me to say anything when I dont know any of the circumstances.

Ah, finally.

My hand, which had been turnng pages while we discussed and speculated, finally stopped there. On the last page weve finally reached, the future I gave beyond the end was written.

World 009 {Record Of The Heros Story} Final Chapter: A Tomorrow That Is Not Special

Thus, Hero Margaret, who escaped from the endless cycle, went on to live an ordinary and peaceful life without particularly leaving her name in history.

There was a time when her marriage was in doubt due to her unusually high ideals for the opposite sex, but she married the third prince of a neighboring country, who was described as like a puppy and a bit unreliable. She had two children, a son named Edol and a daughter named Tiara, and spent her quiet later years somewhat removed from power, closing her life at the age of 62.

And those days remain unchanged in the world that continues to repeat thereafter. In a world without the Demon King, Margaret never becomes a hero and is loved by those around her as simply an energetic princess, but for some reason, she has a bad habit of picking up animals and naming them Ed, which makes those around her smile wryly.

Pfft.

Fufu, Ed is loved, isnt he?

Is that so? Well, I guess its fine.

Eek!?

I involuntarily let out a strange laugh, and Tia pokes my cheek playfully. In return, I pinch her long ears.

Geez, Ed, you pervert!

I dont know what youre talking about. You started it, didnt you?

This playful exchange has been repeated countless times. But no matter how many times we do this, I find it enjoyable, and Tia keeps laughing too.

Indeed, even if the same time comes around again, living each moment to the fullest and enjoying it will never be in vain. When the time comes to take a step forward from there, the accumulation of these moments should become the greatest strength of all.

Wow, for Ed who says such things, take this!

Hey, wait! The ribs are off-limits, arent they!?

Hmph, I dont know! You started it, didnt you?

Guh Hehehe, then it seems the time has come for me to show the Demon Kings true power

Huh? Ed, your eyes look kind of scary. Eek! Hahaha!?

A world that might repeat eternally. But this moment, which may never come again. To make it unforgettable I steel my heart and mercilessly tickle Tia all over.

(T/N: Exams ongoing so expect delay)

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