Chapter 110: dusa - 2
Karin asked with a bewildered expression.
“W-what are you saying, suddenly showing up like that? No, why didn’t the spirits say anything.”
“Those things could never notice .”
“Don’t underestimate the spirits.”
“I’m not ignoring them. I’m ignoring you.”
After saying that, Magireta looked over our group from head to toe.
And then she asked .
“Co to think of it, you would’ve obviously known since you’re the little brother. I worried for nothing.”
“…….”
“Good. I didn’t need to… hmm.”
“Please continue speaking, sister.”
“Mason.”
“You were going to say, ‘I didn’t need to warn you anyway,’ right?”
Magireta smiled softly.
That smile soon beca a sign of affirmation.
But she was mistaken about one thing.
I corrected that misunderstanding.
“This ti I really don’t know anything.”
“What?”
“All I know is that you would co today. And that you would sigh as if you wanted to tell sothing but couldn’t.”
“…….”
“To add one more thing, maybe… that I will die the day after tomorrow.”
After a short silence, Magireta asked.
“Isn’t that enough to say you know everything?”
“I don’t know what will kill or how. That’s why I can’t make any preparations.”
“…….”
“I can’t tell if a teor will fall from the sky and hit , or if I’ll trip on the road and die from shattering my jaw. So give a hint.”
Magireta’s lips twitched.
We held our breath and waited for her words.
However.
“Haa.”
Just as I saw in the Future Diary, she only let out a long sigh.
She even tapped her chest as if feeling frustrated.
Magireta spoke in a sowhat gloomy voice.
“……I’m going.”
“No. Please don’t go.”
“I have nothing to say to my little brother.”
“It’s not that you have nothing to say, it’s that you can’t say it, right? Sothing must be restraining your mouth.”
Her body jolted faintly.
I continued speaking.
“After seeing the future, I did think about it. First, I focused on what exactly would kill .”
“…….”
“I’ve lived kindly, so I’ve never built up grudges with anyone. Except for one person—Edgar.”
“…….”
“So I assud this crisis would also originate from Edgar. Then the next deduction followed naturally.”
Edgar had already suffered heavily from our group several tis.
After all that, that self-proclaid genius must have thought of another move.
—Let’s not do it myself.
Use soone else and get things done without getting my hands dirty. He must have thought that.
“But ordinary humans can’t kill . I’m weak myself, but the companions who protect are extrely strong.”
“Continue.”
“I rembered that a monster nad Louis is beside Edgar. Perhaps Edgar learned information about other monsters from Louis? And among them, he might have used Louis as a diator to request cooperation from a monster?”
“…….”
“Yes. Edgar is using a monster to try to kill . That’s my guess.”
I wetted my lips.
My throat felt completely dry.
But I kept speaking as evenly as possible.
“At this point Edgar must have made a deal with you. A deal not to tell about his plan.”
“…….”
“You admitted you favor more than Edgar, right? That guy must have noticed, so he took asures to prevent from preparing anything. That must be why you can’t warn .”
So. How about it.
My deduction is right, isn’t it?
I observed Magireta closely.
She couldn’t tell the answer because of so restriction.
So I had to guess out loud and read her expressions or behavior.
‘Damn it.’
But Magireta’s expression didn’t move at all.
I couldn’t tell if I was right or wrong.
“……Judging from that face, it’s not just that you can’t warn verbally. You’ve been stopped from warning by ‘any possible thod’.”
“Well. I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“…….”
“You have nothing more to say, right? I’ll go.”
“Wait. Please wait. Just 5 minutes—no… just 3 minutes.”
Magireta sighed and waited.
She didn’t need to grant my request.
Did she also not want to die here?
‘No. It doesn’t feel like that.’
Back in the Bungee Jump Quest, wasn’t Magireta excited at the thought of bringing to Hell?
There was sothing more than simply not wanting my death.
What was it?
How could I get information out of her?
“……Ah!”
A spark of realization struck my mind.
I hurriedly spoke to the Diary Book.
‘Diary Book. Can you also show what Magireta wrote?’
[What do you an.]
‘The peeking function. The function that lets peek at what soone wrote!’
[Ah! Right, that existed. It works. Probably works.]
‘Really?’
[Yes. For that, you don’t need the author’s real na. You just need the na by which the target is currently being referred to.]
That’s right.
From the beginning, hadn’t I torn Edgar’s letter with the peeking function and scattered it into the world?
Edgar Tyler wasn’t the first na he was ever given. In other words, it wasn’t his real na.
Even so, there had been no problem at all peeking into that guy’s letter.
So even if Magireta’s na wasn’t her real na, I could still read what she wrote.
“Sister. Write it down.”
“What?”
“Write every hint you want to give in writing.”
“I can’t… No, I don’t even know what hint you’re talking about.”
“You rember the incident with Edgar’s letter, right?”
At those words, not only Magireta but even our companions realized what I ant.
Clap.
Arlia even clapped her hands as she spoke.
“I see. That thod will work!”
“…….”
“Magireta. You don’t need to give us a hint. Just go back and write a diary or sothing.”
At the word ‘diary,’ I flinched slightly.
“Needless to say, you don’t even need to show that diary to us. Just write sothing that only you will see. Mason will take care of the rest.”
“Ha.”
“Why are you laughing?”
“Edgar may be immortal, but he was originally just an ordinary human.”
Her voice grew a bit sharp as she continued.
“Just because peeking into his letter was possible, do you think my little brother can peek into my diary too? Aren’t you looking down on too much?”
“I’m not looking down on you. I’m just placing Mason above you.”
“You don’t understand what you’re saying right now.”
Magireta’s voice dropped.
She swiftly turned toward .
Her eyes were hidden under her hood, but I felt certain sothing like a glow was shining from within.
“Little brother. You have a helper, don’t you?”
…….
This almost turned into trouble.
I nearly reacted without realizing it.
Using every ounce of composure I had cultivated throughout my life, I stayed calm.
I inhaled lightly through my nose and answered.
“What are you talking about?”
“The mory you offered as paynt before. And the blood you offered as well. Both were completely ordinary—nothing special at all. Just a normal human’s.”
“…….”
“A little brother like that couldn’t possibly awaken mysterious abilities overnight. There must be soone unseen helping you.”
My companions looked at .
Their expressions asked whether that claim was true.
I tilted my head innocently.
“No. I’m just a late bloor.”
“It’s fine. I’m not blaming you for it. No matter how impressive your helper may be, finishing the quests safely so far was entirely thanks to your own ideas.”
“…….”
“I can’t see through the unknown abilities your helper has. That’s why I overlooked your cheating in the Pop Quiz.”
During the Pop Quiz, I had taken the exam safely using the Diary Book’s Secret Conversation function.
Magireta had realized that I had ‘done sothing.’
She simply hadn’t figured out what it was, so she let it go without treating it as cheating.
“But likewise, your helper won’t surpass my abilities. If they could, they wouldn’t have let you participate in such dangerous quests until now.”
“…….”
“……or so I thought.”
“If I can take the writing you leave behind, that would an my helper surpasses your omnipotence, right?”
Magireta remained silent.
I continued.
“There’s more. The deal between you and Edgar must have been ‘by any ans,’ you were not to warn Mason. Correct?”
“…….”
“If I can secretly read what you wrote and nothing happens, that ans my mysterious helper even tricked your deal system.”
“…….”
“You hate that. Or maybe I should say, you don’t want to acknowledge it.”
Crack.
Magireta ground her teeth.
Hearing that, Aina spoke.
“Does it upset you? The thought that soone greater than you exists?”
“It’s not that it upsets … I’m saying such a being couldn’t possibly exist.”
“Then you can write your diary normally. Since it shouldn’t be able to see through it anyway.”
Magireta fell into a contradiction of her own making.
The rest of the group added their own comnts.
“You’ve always tornted and toyed with people from above. You crushed weak, powerless humans. Now you know even a tiny fraction—one ten-millionth—of what they felt.”
“In any case, give us the information. No—just scribble it down on a note only you’ll read.”
“If we die here, we can’t participate in the ga anymore. And you said Mason’s play is fun to watch. Isn’t it a waste to lose that?”
“It’s not exactly a substitute, but we’ll definitely send Edgar—the one who caused trouble for you—to Hell with our own hands.”
“Help us. I may have just joined, but I’ve co to like these people.”
Magireta bit her lip and said nothing.
I hadn’t expected to see her emotions sway this intensely.
I waited as patiently as possible, but once five minutes passed, that patience evaporated completely.
“Sister……”
“I’m leaving.”
“Wait! A na. At least tell the na. No—write it.”
“I said I’m going.”
“Even a single line is fine. Just the na of the monster who will co for us!”
Swoosh.
But Magireta disappeared without answering.
For a mont, everything before my eyes went dark.
After that, my companions and I called out to Magireta one after another.
But she no longer appeared.
Aina muttered.
“She shows up whenever she wasn’t called… but not now, huh…”
Exactly.
Arlia asked ,
“But Mason, can you really gain information just by learning the na?”
“For now. Though honestly, getting a full explanation would be better.”
“If you can’t get information from Magireta, how about hearing it directly from Edgar?”
“About that……”
I quietly handed her the compass.
Sharp as always, Arlia understood instantly and murmured while holding it.
“Edgar Tyler.”
And soon, her eyes widened.
Berseum asked,
“Your Highness, what is the matter?”
“There isn’t a single red dot anywhere on the map.”
“What? Could he be dead?”
“There’s no word that suits Edgar less than ‘dead.’”
“Then why…?”
I gave them my answer.
“After guessing that the threat approaching must have co from Edgar, I checked with the compass imdiately. From that mont on, no red dot showed up at all.”
“Do you understand why?”
“Because he’s not in this world.”
“What do you—”
I pointed upward.
“He must be in Hell.”
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