R4STWH - Chapter 127

Chapter 127

[Why don’t you bring that kid to this world and take care of her yourself? I don’t think you’d want to entrust her to anyone else, right?]

Elias agreed with Neo's words.

Even he thought that there would be many people who could care for her more meticulously than his own personality which he knew to not be good.

However, since he couldn't see through the insides of people, how was he supposed to find and ask such a person?

Even the few people that came to mind were failing grades by his standards.

Of course, there was also the problem of whether she would open her heart to them, but.

'If she has a precious existence that she wants to be with…… I’ll have to let her go. But until then, it would be better to keep her by my side.'

Neo told him the method to bring her to this world.

To state the conclusion first, they had to find and secure an existence that had the power to connect dimensions.

Then, they would send them to her world and switch the final boss of the quest with that huge octopus…… Celiose.

“If such a thing is possible, does that mean that you are the root of the disaster?”

[I’ve told you. I’m in charge of managing dimensions. It’s the rule to sort out any world that hasn’t proven its qualifications. They have to make way for new worlds.]

“If that’s the case, shouldn’t this world also become a target for erasure from the time the disaster started?”

[Actually, this world isn’t that old. It’s not even the time for the disaster to start yet. So even if the supervisor finds out about it, it will just get exempted from the deletion list with ‘insufficient evidence’ as a reason. It means that it’s safe enough to do something like this.]

Elias felt a chill as he looked at Neo who was listing the events that would happen with no change in his emotions.

It seemed like the countless lives breathing and living in one world felt like mere letters on a piece of paper to this guy. Just like how he had introduced himself, like a ‘librarian’.

'I have to be on guard.'

It was something that couldn't be helped since he couldn’t escape from that prison nor bring her from another world without using Neo, but he had to prepare for the worst.

Elias carefully looked over the clauses in the contract while creating it with Neo in a virtual space.

It was basically stated that Neo would provide the environment and quests needed for this task, and he would actively cooperate with the plans that they had made until his goal was achieved. However,

'There are a lot of sentences where the meaning changes depending on how they are interpreted.'

There was a high possibility that he wouldn’t be able to escape from the contract even after successfully bringing her to this world.

“What benefit is there for you in making me bring her?”

While passing over the parts where he had written a new sentence for the part that needed correction, he asked.

[That kid is also special to me. She shouldn’t be forgotten along with that trash world.]

Neo seemed to be definitely very interested in her.

If that wasn't the case, there was no reason for him to look for him and offer him this kind of contract.

Since that was something that didn’t suit Neo’s own role.

'But why me?'

Was it because of that worldline where he had fallen in love with her at first sight and loved her like his own life?

Did he judge that he would be willing to do anything, even lead the world he had grown up in to destruction for her sake?

He couldn't be sure, but a thought crossed his mind that after using him like this, he might even try to bind her under that contract.

'I can't let that happen.'

[This part is a bit difficult to correct. Instead of that……]

The contract passed back and forth several times for adjustment.

And as the finally amended contract was signed, the temporary alliance between Neo and Elias had begun.

The clockwork of the disaster had started ticking and the world had been plunged into chaos.

Although he could have taken his revenge on those who had betrayed him now that he had escaped from prison, Elias stayed true to his role.

Because it wasn’t an easy task even with his best efforts.

He went around and threatened the dragons who were idly lazing around in various places so that they would get involved in the disaster.

Looking at it from a certain angle, that was probably the hardest task.

The ancient dragons who had lived for thousands of years were powerful, but they were also wise, and the young dragons were quick to take the bait but lacked the power to cross dimensions.

After countless trials and errors, even after barely managing to bring them out, there were many challenges that remained.

Elias visited the ancient dragons who were being disruptive and ended their lives one by one, and checked the situations around the continent.

He watched how Tenaclad, the thing he had so desperately wanted to obtain, was slowly turning into ashes, and how the empire, which seemed like it would prosper for at least a thousand years, was collapsing so easily, from one step back.

And then sometimes, he would understand Neo’s indifferent gaze.

'It's like trash.'

It was only natural that the people who would give their lives to protect the world, or rather the ones who had no relations to him, were only very few.

There were some who caught his attention when they were struggling to protect their families and homes, but they also quickly disappeared.

It was a common thing to betray your friends, family and comrades in order to stay alive, and furthermore, they would steal from and mock the weak and push them to their deaths.

'Is it inevitable that we would all end up being the same in the face of disaster?'

Even in that kind of situation, Elias had kept an eye on the pillars who were desperately trying to hold up the world.

Because he thought that they would be needed someday when he succeeded in bringing that child to this world.

From the start, he hadn't thought that it would be easy, but in any case, Elias and Neo had failed repeatedly for several reasons.

The first attempt was a failure because he couldn't find a dragon that could cross dimensions in time, and the second attempt was a failure because the dragon that he had barely found had died.

The third attempt went wrong when the god of this world had brought a soul from another world, and the fourth attempt had to be started again because the dragon had gone to the wrong dimension.

The time that Elias had spent in the process of failing countless times was immeasurably long. And yet he hadn’t been exhausted because,

"I hope that flowers bloom."

Whenever he saw a wild flower that had bloomed on the side of the road, even while the world was turning to ashes, he would think of her.

"So that you can be happy even without me."

That smile that she had shown him with such a tired face was still so vivid that he was able to not give up until the very end, regardless of the contract.

And when he finally succeeded,

[As per the contract, your memories will be sealed for a while. Since I won’t be able to use my power in this world during that time.]

While being extremely happy that he was finally able to meet her, Elias couldn't help but feel somewhat worried.

'What was I like back then?'

Because he had always gone back to the time of his contract with Neo every time he had failed, his past before that was very vague.

'I think my personality was very…… not good.'

Even if he worried about it now, there was nothing he could really do.

All he could hope for was that he would regain his memories as quickly as possible and show her his best self.

'Before I act like an idiot and get hated by her.'

He desperately wished that he wasn’t such a moron back then, and agreed to the new beginning.

And now.

Elias was passing through the randomly opened gate with Ilesha and had defeated another SS-rank monster and had saved several cities.

While he had expected that he would do well, there were many parts that were different from what he had planned in the past.

For starters, the companions that were diligently fighting alongside him were like that.

The saintess, Crow, Clea, Baeksa, and the Tenaclad and Lakdel knight orders.

Out of those people, the only ones who he had been keeping an eye on were Clea and Crow.

The Tenaclad and Lakdel knight orders had already been swept away powerlessly in the early stages of the disaster, and hadn’t even been able to leave behind their names.

The saintess had also been struggling due to the absence of her god and hadn't been able to endure for a long time.

He hadn't expected that Ilesha’s comrades would be the central figures in the events that were happening in this world, but it didn’t really matter.

Because if it wasn’t them, then he would have just used other existences to make the disaster unfold like it was now.

What had bewildered him the most while regaining his memories was his relationship with Ilesha.

'To think that I would end up loving her like a madman this much.'

His affection, that was tinged with excessive obsession, jealousy, and possessiveness, was completely blind.

What was even more surprising was that she also had the same feelings for him.

'Did I have such bad judgment when it comes to men?'

It was a fact that was both sad and joyful.

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