I shuddered all over, as if I had gained so profound enlightennt.
At that mont, Neril looked at my face and seed to realize sothing.
She turned to Kaeld and asked,
“Aren’t you going to talk about ? I’m curious what I was like before the regression.”
Ah.
Neril was trying to buy ti to think.
She had read from my expression that I needed ti.
Is this what it ans for husband and wife to be of one mind?
Kaeld replied flatly,
“You are not even worth talking about. You must have already recognized Mide as the leader instead of even before the seven-year regression.”
“Hm. Well, I don’t rember it, but that sounds about right.”
“The only reason you stuck with the party in the first place was because of Mide. That’s why, when I said I would expel Mide, you said you would quit too.”
“I see. That makes sense.”
“Kh.”
Thanks to Neril, I gained a bit more ti.
Let’s think.
When we ca to the capital tonight,
There was definitely a conversation I had with Bion.
That conversation was clearly…
-Then I will just call it. Let’s say fifty million.
-Huh.
-If it goes over fifty million, let’s say we get to learn even the secret of the thing that’s been tornting us.
-Is that sothing we can just decide like that?
-My intuition has never been wrong. I had a feeling fifty million would do it.
-True enough, intuition really is Mr. Mide’s fundantal weapon.
As if she were reading my thoughts, Bion’s voice rang out.
[Mr. Mide. You are over fifty million now, right?]
[Yeah.]
[Now you can see the secret of the Primordial Demon King!]
So it really worked.
How on earth did I manage to hit that fifty-million mark?
[I can hardly believe it myself…… the range of the Eye of Omniscience has expanded infinitely now that you have crossed fifty million, Mr. Mide.]
[Hah.]
[I don’t know how you managed to guess the right number. But that’s not what matters right now, is it?]
[Of course not. Show imdiately.]
[Yes. This secret can only be seen by you, Mr. Mide. It seems invisible to anyone with less than fifty million fa. Please use this secret to kill that bastard.]
Tap.
A screen window appeared.
I focused all my attention on it.
But that screen window was sohow different from usual.
No, it wasn’t just the screen.
‘Huh……?’
What is this?
I could feel my body floating.
Suspended in midair, my body slowly descended to the ground.
I blinked and looked around.
‘This isn’t the palace rooftop?’
Right.
This wasn’t a rooftop.
No, this wasn’t the “world” at all.
A bizarre place, difficult to express in human language or writing.
Both pure white and pitch black.
Both fast and slow.
Up and yet at the sa ti down.
Front and yet behind.
A realm of incomprehensibility, the place I now occupied.
I muttered unconsciously,
“Where on earth is this……?”
That was when…
-Finally, I am able to have a conversation with you.
Goosebumps erupted over my entire body.
The voice I had just heard was echoing inside my head.
A voice I had never heard before.
It sounded male and female at once.
Like an old man and a young child at the sa ti.
“Who are you?”
-I am the being who spoke to you through the laboratory’s central screen when you regressed 230,000 years.
At those words, I searched my mory.
In the Eye of Omniscience that Bion showed us, when we regressed 230,000 years, there was a sentence we saw first.
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A bizarre sentence or rather, a string of symbols.
It was strange that I rembered that aningless sequence without a single mistake.
-That sentence ant, “Please discover .”
“What?”
-You and your researchers…… and humanity as a whole were caught in a trap. I wanted to help you sohow.
“A trap, aning…”
-In your terms, it refers to the Primordial Demon King. As you already know, it made you regress in order to wipe out humanity in one fell swoop.
I was starting to guess who or what this was.
But I couldn’t quite believe it.
So I told myself not to be embarrassed even if I was wrong, and asked carefully,
“Could it be…… the ‘Law’?”
The answer ca back quite calmly.
-Yes.
Unbelievable.
The Law actually existed?
-You once called the Primordial Demon King the Law. Back then, I found that very regrettable.
“A-Are you saying the Law has a will? Emotions?”
-Yes.
Another short answer.
“……Why did you find it regrettable?”
-Because I cherish humanity. It saddened that those I cherish mistook for a completely different being.
“Why do you cherish humanity?”
Perhaps it was my imagination, but the Law seed to let out a light chuckle.
-The reason is the sa as what you surmised. I have never been ‘fully’ discovered by anyone. I certainly exist, but if my existence is not perceived, it is no different from not existing at all.
“What do you an…”
-You… that is, humanity discovered countless ‘’s’ in a remarkably short span of ti. You figured out, one by one, how the world and the universe work. That was an imnsely joyful thing, and sothing I greatly looked forward to.
“…….”
-Even the civilization that gave birth to the Primordial Demon King could not find so many laws ‘in such a short ti.’
The voice continued gently.
-I can say this with certainty: within the next five hundred thousand years, you will discover more ‘’s’ than that civilization ever did. You will.
“……That’s a long ti.”
-Well. To , it feels like a fleeting instant.
I asked once more, cautiously,
“Then how am I communicating with you through the Eye of Omniscience?”
-Because the Eye of Omniscience itself was created by imitating a part of …… that is… the Law.
“But my researchers and I created this.”
-Yes. But the idea ca from you. I helped you make it that way.
“……?”
-I granted you an intuition that transcends humanity.
For an instant, it felt as though my breath had stopped.
The one unique weapon I had always possessed.
More than swordsmanship or fa.
More than all kinds of techniques or petty tricks.
The weapon I trusted and relied on most was intuition.
-The Primordial Demon King had been eyeing humanity for a very long ti. I chose you as the one who could break through that crisis.
“……”
-And I gave you a weapon.
“Intuition.”
-Yes. Based on that, you created the Eye of Omniscience, built various systems, and established the laws of the world. The laws of the world you established share many similarities with , because you made them through the intuition I granted you.
The laws of humanity’s world are the sa as the laws of the universe.
Of course, the laws of the universe are far broader and more vast.
But at the points where they overlap, the two are connected.
-I am still hiding in many places.
“What?”
-You have discovered an astonishing number of laws, but compared to ‘my entirety,’ it is no more than grains of sand on a beach.
“……”
-If you overco this trial, you will be able to discover in greater numbers, and more quickly. And if you eventually discover ‘all laws,’ then soday all of humanity will be able to sit beside and share a pleasant conversation.
“……”
-Of course, to do that, you will have to kill the Primordial Demon King. From now on, I will tell you the secret he most wants to hide.
I held my breath, waiting for what would co next.
Soon, the Law whispered into my mind.
I could feel it myself.
My mouth hanging wide open.
My eyes stretched as wide as they could go.
-Now you can kill the Primordial Demon King easily, can’t you?
“Yes. Thank you. Even if you cherish humanity, there was no real need for you to take our side.”
-Not at all. No matter how vast or powerful negative energy becos, it can never discover . I have no interest in beings that cannot discover .
“……Why can’t he discover you? He is an existence with such omnipotent power.”
-Because…
Perhaps it was just my imagination.
The voice echoing in my head seed to soften.
-The negative energy can never ‘move forward.’ It is always stagnant.
“……!”
It was exactly the sa as what I had said to Aktion in our final exchange.
My answer to the question of whether humanity’s endurance had value.
Perhaps the reason my thoughts matched the Law’s was because I had received the gift of ‘intuition’ from it.
-You are the civilization that moves forward faster than any other lifeform in the universe. The Primordial Demon King was blocking your steps.
“……”
-If you kill the Primordial Demon King, you will be able to leap forward once more.
“Thank you.”
-Then you should return now.
In an instant, my vision blurred.
The bizarre world where front and back, left and right coexisted began to fade away.
The Law spoke one last ti.
-I eagerly await the day we can speak as equals.
When I ca back to my senses, my party mbers were in the middle of a war of words with Kaeld.
“Honestly, Mide being impressive is one thing, but you being pathetic is way bigger.”
“Right? Even if we had made a random ant passing by the leader instead of Mr. Mide, it would have been better than Kaeld.”
“Even if it was before the regression, it still feels disgusting to hear that you took in as a party mber after dumping all the bla on my mother.”
“Kaeld is Kaeld for a reason.”
“Everyone, please forget that I completely fell for his line about turning human. That’s a part of my history I want erased as badly as Adwin’s embarrassnt.”
Kaeld looked on the verge of exploding at any second.
If he waved his hand even once, we would all be annihilated.
There was no way my party mbers didn’t know that.
And yet, they were provoking him at the risk of their lives to buy ti.
Kaeld said,
“Enough. Let’s end this now.”
And I said as well,
“Yeah. Let’s end it.”
“Hah.”
Kaeld let out a scoffing laugh and turned his body toward .
A sneer that seed to say, what could you possibly do at this point?
But that sneer vanished in an instant, as if it had been washed away.
“Y-You bastard. What happened to you?”
He had noticed that my condition, just monts ago on the brink of death, completely drained of energy, had clearly changed.
No, could it even be described as simply changed?
I had beco a different being.
Even stronger than just before, when I had converted fifty-six million fa into power.
An infinite power, unlike anything I had ever experienced, overflowed through my entire body.
Step.
Kaeld took a step back and said,
“W-What the hell is going on? Who are you?”
“Hey, Primordial Demon King. Or…… did you say you and Kaeld are one body now? Then I will just call you Kaeld.”
“……”
“You sched quite a bit.”
The reason I regressed ti by seven years was to avoid your interference, even if only for a mont.
I had ‘intuited’ that the instant ti was reversed, he would lose the authority to interfere with the world.
It seed the weapon the Law had placed in my hands had worked perfectly.
“Yeah. When ti was turned back, you definitely couldn’t interfere with our world for a while. Bion connected to Trail at that mont, then guided him and had him dwell within my body.”
“……”
“It worked. At least until then. But unlike when we turned back 230,000 years, when you couldn’t interfere for about ten thousand years, the seven-year regression only bought us a few minutes at best.”
A few minutes.
Right after the regression, I had used the Eye of Omniscience on the bandits for the first ti through Trail.
His ‘re-interference’ had already begun at that very mont.
“You must have agonized over it too. Thinking, that bastard Mide seems to have used his final trump card, so what do I need to touch, and how to stop him?”
“……”
“You polluted the researchers’ minds and even made it so they couldn’t have kids. You tornted us by forcing Idria to descend before the negative energy had even fully accumulated.”
“……”
“And even after all that, we didn’t give up…… so what on earth should you interfere with next?”
I grinned.
“It wasn’t a bad idea, really. ‘ssing with the system,’ that is.”
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