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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 487: Its Usually Wiser to Aim for the Next Opportunity Rather Than Stubbornly Forcing Your Way Through.
Chapter 487: Its Usually Wiser to Aim for the Next Opportunity Rather Than Stubbornly Forcing Your Way Through.
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Permanent residence?Yes, permanent residence!
As I tilted my head in confusion at the unexpected response, Luka nodded vigorously with an enormous smile before continuing.
You see, Ive been thinking a lot. The main concern is that if you continue your journey, youll keep gaining power and eventually awaken as the Demon King. But you have no reason to stay in a world where your business is finished, right?
So I had a reverse idea! What if we prepared a world where youd want to stay forever, even without any particular purpose? I thought you might just keep living there!
I see So thats why you recreated my hometown?
Exactly! Look, this is the final destination you wanted to return to, isnt it? If you came here, you wouldnt need to go anywhere else! If you stayed, we wouldnt have to kill you and risk unforeseen accidents, and if you lived here peacefully, your power wouldnt increase any further.
Youd get to spend time forever in your hometown with your mother and friends, just as you wanted. Nobody loses! Its what youd call a win-win situation!
(T/N: He really says win-win in the raws, hence eds reaction)
Win what? Never mind that growling-like word Hah, youve really thought this through, havent you?
A prison so strong that even if the captive knows theyre imprisoned, they dont want to leave. The strongest prison in the world is a paradise that doesnt make one wish to escape. However
So, what do you think? I know the world is still small, but well keep expanding it according to your wishes. Wont you reconsider and stay here?
Im sorry, but thats impossible.
I shook my head with a small, wry smile at Luka, who was looking up at me with pleading eyes.
Ive already decided to move on. If you asked me to come back occasionally or use this place as a base, that would be one thing, but I cant accept spending eternity here. My heart, my wish chose not to stand still.
If you asked whether there was absolutely no option for me to stay here, that wouldnt be true. Part of me thought it would be fine to do so, and I was actually wavering until just a little while ago.
But Mom urged me to move forward. If, as Luka says, she was born from my ideal it would be far too shameful to ignore her encouragement.
Of course, Luka wasnt about to say Well, if thats how it is to my words. With a troubled face and crossed arms, he continued speaking.
Hmm, is that so Even if this world disappears when you leave?
Is that a threat?
No, no, its just a pure fact. Normal worlds maintain their existence through the cycle of life within them, but this place is, you know, hastily made and extremely small, right? Its impossible to hope for a self-sustaining ecosystem, so it cant exist as an independent world.
Right now, were forcibly maintaining it with the power leaking from you and me, so if we leave, itll naturally shrink and disappear. If we gradually expanded the world over several hundred years, it might eventually stabilize, but conversely, theres nothing we can do until then.
Hmm, I see
I briefly responded as Luka shrugged. Regardless of its truth, I could understand that maintaining a world requires enormous power, and if the entire world was just the area Id traveled in the past six months, it was self-evident that daily life couldnt be sustained in terms of resources. If I was told that my own power was compensating for this, I had to accept it.
So, what do you say? I wont ask for permanent residence anymore, but how about staying here for fifty no, even thirty years until the world stabilizes? That would save everyone, you know?
I pondered for a moment at this renewed proposal. Thirty years is generally a long time, but with my current sense of time, its not excessively long. Could I dedicate thirty years for the sake of this world, for Mom and Taruho
After a minute of silence that felt both long and short, filled with various thoughts running through my mind, I gave my answer.
No, I cant. Im still going to leave within a few days at the latest.
What?! Then youre abandoning this world your mother and friends?!
Luka reacted with exaggerated surprise to my decision, then looked at me with somewhat accusing eyes. But my answer wasnt light enough to be swayed by that.
Thats right or rather, abandoning isnt the right word, is it? After all, isnt this place like a dream Im seeing?
If this world had been like the fairy realm I visited before, originally existing but on the verge of destruction, I would have easily stayed for thirty years or so.
But this world was just created from my records. Its my ideal and illusory hometown, the realization of my wishes for how things should be.
If its a dream, its natural for it to disappear when I wake up. Besides, if I decided to stay here wouldnt you keep adding conditions to prevent me from leaving?
So, no. No matter what conditions you add from now on, I wont stay here.
Luka first said that his goal was to make me settle here permanently. So if I chose to stay now, he would surely try various ways to keep me here afterward. Then thirty years would become fifty, and eventually a hundred, two hundred years. If I gave in to that temptation now, I felt I would end up staying here indefinitely.
An ideal mother, illusory friends. Ive decided to abandon them and move forward. If Im accused of being cruel for that, Ill accept it willingly. I wont take a single step back; I will definitely take a step forward.
Ah I see. So thats how it turned out
Luka put his hand to his forehead and looked up at the sky as I spoke straightforwardly. What was seeping out of his body was undoubtedly the pressure of a god.
If you had chosen to stay, I really intended to do my best to bring this world closer to your ideal. While you enjoyed your time here, I planned to gradually return you to being just a human If that had happened, everything should have worked out.
That makes sense, right? If we had exhausted the Demon Kings power to maintain the world, you wouldnt gain that ridiculous Exile Skill in the next loop, and your hometown memories would be firmly rooted as memories rather than records, strengthening your sense of nostalgia.
In other words, you would approach the new loop more sincerely and seriously than when you first fell as the puppet Ed, greatly alleviating Gods concerns That should have been the end of my job.
Heh, so thats your true intention. But was it okay to tell me that?
I said, wielding the [Dawn Breaker] as I felt the tingling presence of a god on my skin. The conversation might continue a bit longer, but the negotiation was surely over.
Its fine. Once you decided that you wouldnt stay here no matter what, this plan failed.
Is that so? I thought you might resort to more forceful methods.
Specifically, I thought he might manipulate Mom and Taruho to stop me from leaving. As the limited creator of this world, Luka should be capable of at least that much
Ah, youre thinking of something terrible, arent you? I wont do anything like that. Once you decide to abandon them, they cant be hostages, and if I manipulated them to attack you, it would only make you angry and worsen the situation. Not making any desperate last attempts and quickly cutting our losses is the best remedy to prevent further damage.
Oh, thats wise. So will you just let us leave or see us off?
Yes, Ill return after taking care of the minimum necessary procedures.
Procedures? Wait, what are you
Well then, senpai, lets meet again someday! Bye-be!
Ignoring my call, Luka waved with a smile. At the same time, my vision was filled with a dazzling light
Ed? Whats wrong?
Huh?
Mom approached me with a puzzled look as I sat on the bed.
