A Misunderstood Mentor

A chimeric roar rang in the valley of chaos.

Having eaten Alice's blow, Chimera stops the collapsing flesh from connecting at a critical point and regenerates at a rapid rate.

Plus, nothing could have expected Alice to fight back from there.

Perhaps besides Rick...

I stood in front of Alice, who reflexed the Chimera's counterattack, with a clumsy past.

What, my body shakes with the sound of it, blowing down the trees around me.

"Tak!?

"Oh, I'm watching. It was strange. I'm the one who didn't die..."

There were a bunch of little shields floating around me in the past blown away by chimeras.

Such a small shield that I hadn't noticed in the past.

From there, Shizukuishi like light was pouring down and healing my wounds of the past.

Rick's healing shield was prepared in advance from the beginning.

Chimera's target wasn't Alice from the start, it was me.

And that was all Rick's plan.

It sounded pissy.

I get a little crack in my past recap.

"Ahhhhhhhhhh!

And with Alice's roaring screams, one hive after the other goes in.

The long past recap was about to come to an end.

In it Rick slowly approached me in the past and muttered quietly, as usual.

"Takumi"

I didn't hear that word in the unconscious past.

That's the first time I've heard of it, maybe it was Rick's real story.

"This world is full of contradictions. You just have to destroy it, it's so cruel that it seems so."

That Rick's voice was as emotional as I'd ever heard before.

"Still, I don't want to give up yet. So..."

Paaaaaaaa, and everything bounced and flew.

Past recollections fall apart like shattered glass, splitting into numerous pieces and splattering.

Hear Rick's words at the end of it.

"I will make you king of all."

And the past recap came to an end.

"... did you show this, Rick"

I guess it was a few minutes in real life.

He stood in front of me in exactly the same condition he had before entering his past memories.

Obviously, it was a strange past recap.

I could see it as complementary until it wasn't in my memory.

Though Karna's power seemed to be affecting her, her return tells me that's not all.

Obviously, someone else was interfering with my past.

It's like you're trying to tell me all the truth...

And there was only one person who could do that.

"Rick, answer me. What the hell do you want?

Why did you use the chimera and make me attack you?

Why did you let Mr. Linden go to the Demon King?

What did you build that tacumi point system for?

"You heard me at the end of my recap, didn't you?

A crack enters Rick's black armor, from which a blinking flash overflows.

As shadows disappear in the light of the sun, darkness disappears and brilliant original demonic equipment reveals itself.

So you don't even have to hide it anymore?

"Takumi, you have this world, no, the only absolute thing in this universe..."

Nurbee, Sasha, Bats, Rick, and me, the party members back then, meet together for the first time in ten years.

"Let them be kings of all races"

Null bees and bats were moving at the same time Rick said that.

"You think Takumi wants something like that?

"Stop it, Rick. He's a fool."

Nurhachi cast the magic of the chain and Bats released the rope from his arm.

Each strikes with a pinch in an attempt to restrain Rick.

"Disease Thunder"

But sooner than the two of them moved, lightning struck from Rick's silver cage.

The Caged Hand of Thor the Thunder God Calling Thunder [Yarlung Graipur]

The null bees and bats that were in the lightning strike become immobile as they were paralyzed.

"Stop, Rick."

Soon Sasha was stuck between me and Rick.

"What do you want? That's when we all let Takumi get away from Nurubee. Come on! We all wished Takumi happiness. Come on!

Tong, Rick's index finger touches Sasha's forehead.

Did the electric shock run?

Sasha fell off her knees as she was.

"That was just designed for Nurbee to be like that. And it was convenient for me, too. In the course of ten years, everything was ready."

Passing flat next to Sasha, Rick comes to my sight.

From Sasha's eyes, the spilled tears hit the ground, flapping, and bouncing.

Seeing Sasha in tears as she lost her mind, for a moment, the scene comes to mind when the five of us are surrounding the pan.

"Rick, apologize to everyone right now. Otherwise I won't forgive you."

"... you don't have to be forgiven, Takumi. No, I'd rather you didn't forgive me."

So far, Rick had little to say about putting his emotions on the table.

Speaking of which, only that once.

I was only revealing my emotions when I found out that I had kissed the Demon King at the Dawu Guild.

"Is that for the Demon King's, no, the Demon Clan?

I've never seen it in Rick's armor.

But Karna said she felt the same signs from Rick as the Demons.

Rick remained silent and put his hands on the crimson helmet (Kabu).

For the first time, Rick puts his face on the table.

"...... Huh!?

Karna and I both lost our words.

There's nothing there, just nothingness spreading.

"No, Takumi, it's not for the Demons. The flesh decayed long ago. I'm not a demon or a person anymore."

"Then why are you trying to make me king of all races?!?

I don't know Rick's expression without his face.

"You would happily surround the table, regardless of any race. People and demons alike, even God, will be able to eat delicious rice together"

Still, for some reason, at this time, I felt like Rick was smiling.

"You make it, Takumi. Such a world. That's the world, the perfect world, that I couldn't achieve in thousands of years."

Video comes to mind.

Illusion that I'm back in the past recap.

But that wasn't my past recap.

A knight in worn armor prays in front of a demon king surrounded by blue roses and made of ice.

Is this Rick's past recap pouring in?

The footage flows like a fast forward, the knight in front of the Demon King stays motionless and eventually collapses like sand.

And at the same time, Rick's presence in front of him had completely disappeared.