"So, you can’t lie?"
Of course, this could have been an act.
But seeing that he was blurting out things he didn’t need to say, it was clear he couldn’t lie, and if he tried, his true thoughts would be exposed.
"So, you were planning to deceive ."
The fact that he tried to deceive , even though he couldn’t lie, ant he had attempted to trick .
"I don’t need your arms to talk, right?"
"Wait, wait just a mont...!"
"Let’s start by hitting you."
I coated my legs with mana and, in an instant, I shot upward with explosive speed, striking his arm with a mana-infused hand chop.
Though a child’s hand chop might seem insignificant, my attack, enhanced with mana and speed, was enough to break the arm of an adult man.
"AAAAHHHHH!!!"
Rupert scread as he collapsed.
His entire body was pixelated, so I couldn’t tell what kind of expression he had, but just from the scream, I could tell he was in imnse pain.
"My arm! Aaaaagh!"
Seeing him clutching his arm in agony, I couldn’t help but sneer.
"You’re whining over sothing so small? Considering what I’ve been through because of you... I could slowly tear your limbs off and it still wouldn’t be enough."
I’d never killed anyone before, but the thought of killing him now was rising in my mind.
"Please, please let
live! I’ll tell you everything, I’ll speak nothing but the truth!"
Even as Rupert begged for his life, my rage didn’t subside.
If I hadn’t suffered that hellish tornt at the hands of the villains, I wouldn’t feel this furious now.
But I had experienced that hell, had begged for death not long ago, and the ti I spent escaping it was barely 10 minutes ago.
Now, I was boiling with anger like never before.
However, I wasn’t planning to kill him imdiately.
Though I would have enjoyed tearing him apart slowly, I needed the information first.
"Then, if you don’t want more pain, start explaining. Why did you reincarnate
here?"
Rupert struggled to speak through the pain.
"That’s... because soone I don’t know gave
power and ordered
to do this."
"Soone you don’t know?"
"Yes, I… well, I don’t know. After finishing Academy Hero Biography, I suddenly received a revelation in my head, telling
to select reincarnators who would save worlds. I was told there were two worlds to save, and I was asked to choose who to reincarnate into this world."
"One world is Academy Hero Biography, and the other is The SSS-Class Heir of National Power, right?"
"Yes, yes! It seems they wanted soone who knew Academy Hero Biography to reincarnate and make things better."
As he spoke, Rupert nervously glanced at .
According to what he said, Rupert had beco even more of a bastard than before.
"So why did you reincarnate
into The SSS-Class Heir of National Power?"
"Well... I was offended by the critical comnts you left on my monitor. And seeing how much you knew about the content, I thought you’d be a good candidate, so I decided to reincarnate you... but when I tried, I saw two people through the monitor. So I decided to reincarnate you, but the light flew away, and the reader at the computer avoided it, so your friend, Seo-mun Yoo-cheon, ended up being the one who got reincarnated."
My friend, Seo-mun Yoo-cheon, had tried to recover from his shattered mind by lying down, only to be reincarnated without knowing why, vanishing without a trace.
"And then you reincarnated ?"
"Yes. I thought I should reincarnate you into another world, so I did. I really regret it. Once I reincarnated you, the person who gave
the revelation forcibly pulled
here and injected
with a lot of knowledge."
"To tell
the truth?"
"That seems to be the case."
This was the situation.
"So you didn’t know that I knew the original work of The SSS-Class Heir of National Power, did you?"
"No, I didn’t."
"You bastard!"
"AAAHHH?!"
I grabbed Rupert’s remaining arm and twisted it forcefully.
"It hurts! Aaaagh! Please, let
go!"
"What did you think would happen if I didn’t know the original work? Even if I had known it, I ended up in this shit situation, begging for death while tasting hell. Damn..."
The pain of feeling as if I were being burned from within was unbearable, just imagining it was enough to cause agony.
But on top of that, I had to endure this unceasing tornt while being looked at as nothing more than an experint by these madn.
"And on top of that, Yoo-cheon beca Seo-mun Hyun in the original! Why did I beco Baek Seo-jun, the protagonist’s older brother, when I wasn’t even in the original?"
Yoo-cheon and I were supposed to be the sa protagonist’s older brother.
But why did Yoo-cheon end up becoming soone from the original, while I did not?
"Ugh... Well... it seems Seo-mun Yoo-cheon is actually Seo-mun Hyun. I reincarnated him, but it seems that when he lost his mories, the events of the original—so, the record of the future—beca his mories."
In other words, Seo-mun Yoo-cheon was originally the sa person as Seo-mun Hyun, soul-wise.
The existence of Seo-mun Hyun could only have co about because Seo-mun Yoo-cheon reincarnated. So, in the original story, the future that Yoo-cheon had seen was actually his lost mories.
Therefore, Yoo-cheon had seen the future of himself that he couldn’t rember.
"But why did this happen to ? Why doesn’t my future after becoming Baek Seo-jun exist?"
"Well... the entity that gave
power also gave
the choice to reincarnate you into The SSS-Class Heir of National Power because if soone else reincarnated you, an irregular phenonon would occur. This is because soone who had received information from another world wouldn’t be able to choose you, but an irregularity would occur if soone else reincarnated you."
"Irregular?"
"Yes. It’s a variable not recorded in the information. Ugh... it hurts so much..."
"So, I’m a variable?"
"Yes. That’s why Baek Hyung-won and Kim Yoo-jung couldn’t see you as their real child. They felt like you were soone else’s child, soone who might try to steal their son’s inheritance."
Baek Hyung-won and Kim Yoo-jung truly felt no parental affection for .
And while so might argue that it wasn’t entirely their fault, it didn’t matter to .
"I don’t need to understand why they treated
like that, thinking I was soone else’s child."
A bitter taste filled my mouth.
I understood why Baek Hyung-won and Kim Yoo-jung, who couldn’t view
as their child, treated
as they did.
However, they thought of
as soone else’s child, and that’s why they pushed
into that hell, seeking their own benefit.
Even if the villains weren’t involved, they would’ve used
as a sacrifice for Baek Seo-jin.
The mont they sold
to the villains, there was no excuse left for them.
"But what about Yoo-cheon and ? Did the version of Yoo-cheon and
from our past lives die?"
"Yes. Our bodies disappeared without a trace and were completely obliterated... Ughhh!"
I had already been killed once. By this madman in front of !
"You killed two innocent people just because they left critical comnts! What kind of crazy bastard are you?!"
"I thought you’d be happy to reincarnate... Ughhh!"
I almost killed him right there out of pure rage, but since I still had much to learn, I settled for hitting the spot I had struck earlier again.
"So Yoo-cheon’s world passed more than twice as fast as this one, aning he’s already in his 20s?"
"Ugh... Yes... But now, since Terenity has been killed, the dinsion there has beco more stable, which caused ti in your world to flow faster."
"I don’t fully understand the chanics, but essentially, even if 10 years pass here, it’s like less than 5 years over there?"
"That’s correct..."
"Do you know anything about The Fox That Devours Worlds?"
"Not much... I just know that it’s stronger than The Black Serpent That Devours the World but weaker than The Eternal Dragon, Terenity. Unlike the latter, it enjoys slowly manipulating worlds with mana rather than simply consuming them."
"Alright. So, why did you co to find
here? Why am I alive and able to recover in this place?"
"This is... the rift between dinsions."
"A rift between dinsions?"
"Yes. It’s not a passage that leads directly to another dinsion, but a space between dinsions. Souls that pass through this space are blessed by the mana here, but those with unfit bodies collapse and break down."
"Souls that pass through... are you talking about reincarnators?"
"Yes."
Most of my questions were answered. Now it was ti to solve the remaining doubts.
"Then why were you waiting for
here? Was the entity that gave you the revelation the one who made you wait?"
"Yes... I don’t know much about that entity, but they forced knowledge into
and made
wait for you here. I’ve spent 10 years here, unable to die and only forced to rember my duties. I, too, am a victim."
"Yeah, you’re a victim. But to , you’re the perpetrator!"
Before Rupert could respond, a sharp tendril shot out and pierced his body.
In this shocking mont, Rupert didn’t even have ti to scream.
He simply crumbled away into dust and disappeared without a trace.
The one who pushed
into hell, Rupert the writer, had spewed out his information and vanished without a trace.
Reincarnator.
And then, a strange voice echoed in my mind.
“Telepathy?”
The voice seed to be similar to telepathic communication or a magic spell used in fantasy novels, much like a ssage spell.
And the entity speaking to
was likely the one who had just disposed of Rupert.
"Who are you?"
My na is Ramisa. I am the entity you rember as The Black Serpent That Devours the World.
I had finally encountered the final boss of the original story.
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