After Rhyn suggested that I not go any further, I went back to Fran.
She said it should be fine for now as Zelyse was still playing around right now, but it also depended on his mood, which is the least stable thing in the world.
We should talk to Sierra and ask for Weena Rhyn’s help as soon as possible
「So, you want to talk to Sierra?」
『Yeah. In all likelihood, Sierra seems to knows sothing』
If it hadn’t been for that Pseudo Fanatic Sword earlier, we would have been able to get sothing out of him.
「A little more」
『It looks like we’re getting closer』
We had traveled quite a distance, but we were making our way towards each other. At this rate, we should be able to et up soon.
「Urushi, dash!」
「Woof!」
We were able to et up with Sierra soon after. However, he seed to be exhausted.
「Haah, haah... That, sword...?」
「It got away」
「I see...」
It must have been hard for Sierra to keep running on the water. Both his magic and physical strength seed to be exhausted. But since he thought that sword must have sothing to do with Zelyse, he must have pushed himself to run.
I didn’t think he would fall over any ti soon, but he needed a break.
We decided to move to an island that we could see in the distance. The island was a rocky chunk about ten ters in diater.
When he landed on it, Sierra felt weak and sat down involuntarily. Apparently, after weighing his fatigue against his pride, he had beco relaxed enough to even show his ugly side in front of Fran.
We waited for a few minutes, and when Sierra had caught his breath enough, Fran opened her mouth.
「Tell everything you know」
「...」
We didn’t know where to start asking questions, so we decided to just let him tell us everything. I wanted to know who Sierra was, what he knew about Zelyse, and all sorts of things he knows.
After a few seconds of silence, Sierra suddenly opened his mouth.
「Do you think it’s possible to cross through ti?」
「Ti?」
「Yeah」
「...Hmm?」
Fran pondered for a mont and tilted her head. I guess she didn’t quite understand the aning of his words.
「You in the present, under the influence of so force, suddenly travels to the past. Do you think that’s possible?」
「That’s impossible」
「You think so?」
「Not unless you have a God’s power or sothing」
「Yeah. But it was surprisingly possible. There are already three people who have experienced it after all」
I see! So that was what was going on!
Fran tilted her head, but after hearing Sierra’s words, I understood what was going on to a certain extent.
When I thought of it as a ti travel from the future to the past, then it made sense that there would be two Romio!
I briefly explained it to Fran.
「So you’re Romio who’s traveled through ti?」
「Yes. I’m the present little Romio who get back eight years into the past and had grown older」
It seed that it was not the adult Romio who crossed ti but was the present Romio who got back as a young boy and grew up.
So, this must have been the aning of the “before” that Rhyn ntioned to . I explained this to Fran, but it was just simply unbelievable. It was just like a ti slip, wasn’t it?
「I see」
「You believe ?」
But Fran didn’t seem to be surprised.
「You have the sa eyes」
「Eyes?」
Now that she ntioned it, she said sothing like that before. She said that when Romio and Sierra glared at her, their eyes looked the sa.
Sierra himself was not quite convinced. Well, it was because she said he had the sa eyes after all. He then groaned and stroked his own eyes.
However, he decided to accept it, for the ti being, thinking that it was okay since she believed him.
「Well, it doesn’t matter as long as you believed 」
「Then what happened?」
「...It has already been 8 years ago for , but you guys of now... have beco a lot different from the people I had known, so the sa thing that happened before might not happen anymore」
Sierra slowly told her what had happened to him before as if he was recalling it himself.
It happened eight years ago for them.
It seed that Romio and Zelos Reed had escaped to this country at that ti as well. However, the tiline had changed drastically between the current Romio and Zelos Reed and the one from the past.
This Romio from the past said that they were captured by Zelyse in this country before. I never thought that soone as strong as Zelos Reed could get caught.
「It was because he took hostage...」
As a result, Zelos Reed was at the rcy of Zelyse and had beco the subjects of various kinds of human experintation.
「Experints on human?」
「He was implanted with a magic stone, a Pseudo Fanatic Sword, and given a wide variety of drugs. I was so young at that ti that all I could do was watch my uncle’s physical form change」
Uncle, huh... It seed that the relationship between Romio and Zelos Reed was good even in another tiline. So, he got caught and beca an experint subject, huh... But the Romio that was under the protection of the academy never said anything like that, didn’t he?
「Not like the Romio over here?」
「It was because we were the ones who led them into their current situation」
In their tiline, they ran away from the adventurers from the Belios Kingdom and Weena Rhyn but ended up being captured by Zelyse. But in this tiline, Sierra dared to leak the information about Romio and Zelos Reed’s whereabouts to the Adventurer’s Guild that led them to their current situation.
「We knew that Weena Rhyn wouldn’t simply kill us before. If that was the case, it was far better than being played around by Zelyse」
「I see」
Romio and Zelos Reed from another tiline then continued to be used by Zelyse for good. But it seed that it was Romio alone that was protected by Weena Rhyn.
Zelyse, who was investigating the seal of the great magic beast, was detected by Weena Rhyn and his hideout was raided.
「That’s when I learned about my bloodline and the power that lies in it. I also learned that I was bound with my uncle without his knowledge...」
However, a few days after Roo was taken into care by Weena Rhyn, things suddenly changed. Zelyse appeared at the site of the seal, aiming to resurrect the great magic beast.
It was Weena Rhyn and her hired help, Fran, who worked to stop him.
Fran, who had been targeting Zelos Reed as her revenge, attacked him without listening to the warnings of those around her when she saw him. In the aftermath of that fierce battle, the Comrcial Fleet was said to have been destroyed.
That was the sa as what Rhyn had said to before. I guess I had turned into a re sword and there was no one to stop Fran. No, there was soone who could have stopped her.
「Weena Rhyn didn’t stop ?」
「Even if it ans she’d abandon the comrcial fleet, she made a priority to keep my uncle out of her reach」
It seed that while Fran was holding back Zelos Reed, Weena Rhyn tried to reseal the great magic beast, which had begun to resurrect. At the cost of Romio’s life.
「Magnolia’s power can be used to absorb the power of an evil person. Normally, it would go straight to the user’s power, but Weena Rhyn decided to use it in a special way」
The power of the Sacrant of the Evil God was hidden in the blood of the Magnolia family. With this power, she absorbed the power of the Evil God’s shards that were captured in the great magic beast and used the absorbed power to use a large-scale sealing technique.
In other words, it is a way to weaken the great magic beast and use its power to seal itself.
「I wouldn’t have a problem if it was a matter of absorbing the evil power within sothing of a goblin size. But that ti, the opponent was really bad. If she continued to absorb power from the Evil God’s shards and then let them act as a channel for the sealing technique, the young Romio would not have been able to withstand it and would have died」
However, Weena Rhyn still didn’t want to stop the process. No matter what the cost, she was going to seal the great magic beast.
「I can only understand her reason now too. So, I won’t bla her」
Even though he had been sacrificed, Sierra’s voice showed no sign of resentnt. He seed to have accepted that it was inevitable.
But there was soone who couldn’t accept Romio’s death. That was Zelos Reed. He tried to save Romio sohow, but when he showed an opening, he was cut down by Fran.
「To be honest, I don’t rember what happened after that either. As soon as I decided to save my uncle sohow, my powers went out of control, and―――」
He found himself lying alone in the woods.
After saying that much, Sierra then pulled out the sword at his waist.
「There was no one else there. Just this sword that had fallen beside 」
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