Side Story 5
In a bustling cafe,
Varuna's vision narrowed.
What he could see and hear was confined to a small space.
Varuna wasn't sure whether to admit he rembered YuWon or not.
He had been sitting, pondering since the morning.
Why don't others rember Kim YuWon?
Did he perhaps erase himself?
Or am I hallucinating? mory manipulation?
Yes, that's the most likely possibility.
No chance, damn it. I already checked if I was affected by an ability or not.
Varuna's mind tangled, and for a mont, he felt the urge to pull out his hair.
But that was only for a mont.
He knew he couldn't deceive the person in front of him, and if he were to pretend not to know him, he wouldn't have returned.
"...yes."
A concise response.
Puff!
With that response, a veil of magic spread around YuWon and Varuna.
An invisible but clearly present veil.
Judging by the amount that could be felt, even the strongest Rankers would have difficulty noticing its existence.
'He can block sound with that much magic.'
Magic so inconspicuous that even Varuna, a High-Ranker, wouldn't have noticed if he hadn't been inside.
Imdiately after admiring YuWon's technique to block sound, Varuna apologized to YuWon.
"...I was reckless, I apologize."
But he didn't bow too much.
This was a public place, and since they had blocked the sound, he probably didn't want to attract attention.
"You've got a good eye."
YuWon set down his coffee again and looked at Varuna with crossed arms.
Even though he had returned to the first floor, Varuna hadn't gone to look for Pandora.
Instead, he had sat in a café on the first floor.
Judging by his look, it seed like his mories had also co back more or less.
'It seems the responsibility falls on .'
If his mories returned, he should have naturally felt that sothing was amiss.
Kim YuWon, ranked number 4.
Registered on the ranking before reaching Floor 100, the discoverer of conditions for obtaining Divinity.
Anyone who didn't know YuWon clearly shouldn't be in this Tower.
"What do you an by being reckless?"
"Um... Kim YuWon... I failed to recognize you and dared to..."
Varuna couldn't say he had been courting YuWon's wife, so he left the sentence hanging and lowered his head.
As much as he liked won, his life was the most important.
"It doesn't matter that you didn't recognize . There were reasons for that."
"Yes, thank you."
"So, in any case, from now on, pretend you don't know anything."
"Really?"
"Don't go around proclaiming that you know . At least for a while."
At YuWon's words, Varuna's eyes widened in surprise.
In Varuna's eyes, looking at YuWon from the other side, reverence and respect suddenly appeared.
'Did he really do it intentionally?'
Everyone in the Tower had forgotten YuWon.
As the saying goes, "a true master withdraws and disappears," YuWon had erased not only his trail but also people's mories to live a quiet married life.
It was truly an astonishing skill.
'This is an opportunity.'
Only he and Pandora rember YuWon's face and na in this tower.
'I will now make a good impression on my older brother.'
In Varuna's mind, the relationship between him and YuWon was already like brothers.
If he could now befriend YuWon before anyone else.
If he beca brothers with the one who is the greatest and most powerful in this Tower, on par with Vishnu, what could be safer than that?
If that happened, it was natural that his position within Deva would also increase.
'I don't know how long it will take, but...'
Moreover, YuWon clearly said "for the ti being."
That ans that soday, when the ti cos, he will reveal his existence in this Tower again.
'Life is originally a waiting ga.'
While imagining becoming the power behind the throne of Deva with Kim YuWon at his back.
Varuna couldn't hide his excited voice and opened his mouth, unlike before.
"If you say it's for the ti being, how long will it be?"
Varuna's bright eyes made YuWon's gaze furrow.
What's with that uncomfortable look?
Until a mont ago, he was sowhat restless and scared, but now he had an expectant expression.
"Until I allow it."
"Understood. Trust only !"
Varuna, pounding his chest, made YuWon sigh.
Until a mont ago, at least he acted cautiously, but now no more.
"Don't overdo it."
"Yes!"
Laughing cheerfully, Varuna began eating the cake that ca with the coffee.
YuWon looked at him as if he were a strange creature.
He knew he had always been a cheerful and sociable person, but he didn't know his attitude would change so suddenly.
"But why isn't it possible now?"
Varuna's question was natural.
Indeed, YuWon hadn't thought about keeping this a secret until recently.
"Did I hear they're holding a eting?"
"With ?"
"Not you. They say the Great Guilds are gathering at the Round Table."
"How do you know?"
"I just know."
Varuna didn't ask further; they were still in the stage of becoming friends, and he couldn't bother him with more questions.
"Yes. For so reason, the sides of Olympus and Asgard have called for a general eting of all the Great Guilds. Scale-wise, it's impossible for it to be a secret, but apparently, it's still being conducted covertly."
"That's why."
"That?"
An interrogation mark appeared over Varuna's head.
"So does 'that' have sothing to do with that eting?"
Deva hadn't been inford about the eting's subject.
Even Varuna, a High-Ranker of Deva, and Vishnu, who personally attended the eting, didn't know what it was about.
But the man in front of him knew.
"Probably."
"Probably?"
"There's one thing that worries ..."
YuWon recalled sothing for a mont and then shook his head.
"For now, let's hope it's not the case."
It was still just a speculation.
Until confird, it's better not to reveal oneself.
YuWon thought the conversation had ended and tried to get up from his seat.
But then...
"Is sothing wrong?"
Varuna's gaze was not normal.
His eyes shone as if they contained the Milky Way.
His gaze followed YuWon, who was getting up from his seat, and slowly rose upwards.
"Uh, perhaps...?"
"What? Is there sothing else you want to say?"
"Yes, I have a request."
Varuna nodded with a determined expression. With eyes shining like stars and a voice that sounded as if he were determined, he spoke.
"Can I call you brother...?"
"I'm out."
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After the eting, Vishnu, who had returned to Deva, had been busy for several days.
A wooden chair and a desk. A paper on top.
"...It's frustrating."
He had many things to ponder.
According to the eting's topic, it wouldn't be surprising if a disaster occurred in the Tower at any mont.
The news brought by Zeus was concise and clear.
"The Administrators have started to move."
The Administrators.
Absolutes that exist one per floor, with power and authority rivaling the top High-Rankers.
That they had started moving definitively was not sothing normal.
'That's why they didn't show up during the war against the Outers.'
There were many opinions that that was also strange.
Why didn't they show themselves, who more than anyone sought the order and safety of the Tower?
In fact, Vishnu tried to et with the Administrators after that, but they hadn't appeared in ten years.
But then...
"I ask them."
The question Zeus asked was like a bomb for the Rankers in the eting room.
"Are the Administrators friends or enemies?"
"It's only been ten years."
The peace was short-lived.
The Tower, which had ended the war, was barely entering a phase of stability.
Disputes between Guilds had disappeared, and conflicts between races were gradually resolving.
Vishnu wanted nothing more.
He just wanted the Tower to stay that way.
But then, the Administrators began to move like a variable.
"I guess I should see them."
For several days, he pondered whether he should et with the Administrators and talk to them.
But, of course, nothing changed by just sitting still.
"And..."
"Yes?"
Yama waited for Vishnu's next word, who had dropped the end.
Then...
"No. It's nothing."
"..."
Inappropriately, Vishnu changed his words.
Vishnu seed about to say sothing.
Yama was curious but didn't ask.
If he didn't say it, there was a reason for that.
'Kim YuWon, Kim YuWon...'
What Vishnu wanted to ask was whether he knew Kim YuWon.
However, on the other hand, he thought that Yama wouldn't know a na that he didn't even know.
'It was clear that The Great Sage, Heaven's Equal knew sothing.'
The image of Son OhGong awkwardly whistling.
It was strange that, unless you were an idiot, you wouldn't notice.
Moreover, Vishnu discovered one more person showing a different reaction from others.
'Hercules also seems to know him...'
Maybe he shouldn't worry so much.
After checking the rankings, Kim YuWon's na didn't appear within the High-Rankers or after that.
So...
'Why am I so worried?'
It wasn't just because he was friends with Son OhGong and Hercules.
In the first place, Vishnu wasn't the type to be interested in others.
'...Kim YuWon.'
He couldn't recall any familiar na or face when thinking about him, no matter how hard he tried.
But why?
It felt like he had a big nail stuck in his throat that he couldn't remove.
While repeating the sa na in his head several tis,
"This is the list of survivors and casualties from the Reconciliation Day eting."
After the war...
While Vishnu was reviewing the fight against the Outers from the previous day, Surya brought him news.
The record of the day of the fight against Shub-Niggurath.
'...Yes.'
Upon rembering that record, Vishnu could finally recall a clue about the na 'Kim YuWon.'
'He was there.'
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