A NEET’s Guide to the Parallel World: Healer, the Strongest Cheat?

113 - [Dungeon Edition]: Candidates and Half Body

"My left eye was glowing red, you know what? Wouldn't you know that?

"Oh, I know. That is proof that the abyss has become tame!

Ver seemed happy for some reason, that's what he said.

"Are you getting used to it? What's that supposed to mean?

"Well, the abyss is like the difference between the host and the host at the time of residence. But the more we use it, the more the abyss understands the host and the host understands each other. And when there is some understanding, it appears in the eye. So it turns red. And it eventually, appears in both eyes. If that's what you're saying, it's proof that the abyss is completely tamed."

"I mean, for one eye, the abyss has become tame?

"Well that's the thing. Within it, the height of emotion becomes visible to the eye. Almost there when that happens. Immediately tame."

After all, was this my problem...

I mean, Oliver Joe is like me, of the abyss... the king's candidate...

"What do you mean, the king's candidate you were just saying? And I didn't even know what half the body meant."

Speaking of which, Doppeller also said.

What about the king's vessel...

"I don't know that either."

"What?... don't you know?

As a matter of course, Ver doesn't know what the point is, keeping the word "king's candidate” in mind.

You don't want to tell me?

What the fuck?

"That can't be right, can it? What do you mean you don't know?

"I don't know. I don't know, so you don't have a choice, do you? The point is, in my memory, I don't have that information."

"No information?... and yet you know the word king or candidate?

"Don't be."

"Isn't that strange?

"That's the truth, even if it's crazy. I also have some information on past candidates. It's not like he was my master, but if I trace that memory, there's no further information."

"What are you, a past candidate?

Ver says what concerns you from next to next.

This is not the end of the question.

"It is the candidates of kings whose abyss has dwelt in the past and who have come into contact with their halves like masters. I don't give a shit. Hey, all you got is information, huh? A woman who was a knight in some kingdom, a man out of a small village, to that extent."

What's that?

Honestly, I'm not interested.

"If this is the case, ask that doppeller."

"No, you don't have to. Probably because he doesn't know either."

"... how do you know that?

"This dungeon is the master's property, but because the Lord is me. You don't even know what I don't know. You don't even know who I am."

"Lord hey...... so?

There is a Lord apart from the owner......

I don't know how it works.

"Well, it's easy to think. All owners are masters. Everything stays the master's will."

"Oh, so? What's a half-body?

"Before I explain it, I have something to say"

Then Ver changed for some reason.

"First of all, an abyss is not half-baked. I mean, being too powerful to accept everything at once. That's why you split it into two parts, Master and I. At first?

"So you're saying that half is me and the other half is in Ver?

"Well, that's the thing. And gradually they send me to the master. We're going to tame it gradually."

"So if they send it all to me, then what happens to Ver?

"What happens? It's nothing. It's just that the master is one step closer to the king."

“Approaching the king."

I don't know what the king is in the first place.

Even if they say "closer” than I don't know...

"Huh... King hey..."

What king exactly is it?

"Master, the point is, find it yourself. I know some things too, but I don't understand everything. I only remember the moment I was born, and I'm just biting and talking from it."

"Hey? What are you talking about earlier? What do you think of the abyss?

Then Toa came into the conversation, bored.

"Hmm? Oh, it's about my magic. Apparently, Ver's my half."

"Half? About what? And what's Vel?

Speaking of which, to the three of us, I've only said that I know Vel.

Just fine. Let's introduce this guy to the three of us properly.

But that's where Ver...

"Thank you, ladies, it's the lazy half, Verphegor. Say hello."

Like a great looking nobleman I saw in something, Ver gave a bowl of grace.

"What does the lazy half mean?

Toa asked.

"What do you mean? It doesn't make any sense. Lazy master's half, so lazy half. It's easy."

"Why is Nito lazy? I'm working so hard."

The rare Toa praised me.

What kind of blow would that be?

But I would like more praise from time to time.

"I don't know, I don't know either. Aren't you lazy in a deeper part? By and large, the body captures the characteristics of the host. Like abyss magic is."

So one thing, Ver said something that bothered me again.

"Wait, what do you mean," like abyss magic is "?

Apparently, Ver has something he hasn't told me yet.

"Hmm? Yeah, you forgot to mention that."

Then Ver opened the beer again.

That's the third can.

I don't want a guy like this to say he's lazy or anything.

"Abyss magic is born in response to the host's deep psychology."

"Deep psychology?

Then Ver thought, touching his beard.

"For example," Erosion Wave, "which is also Master XVIII."

It's not even number eighteen...

"If it's cheap, the point is, there was something in the master that was invasive and corroded, right? That's why the magic was born."

Then that's when Sufilia asked to remember something.

"So... does that mean that at that time, for example, the magic used by Nito also represents the deep psychology of Nito?

"At that time?

I didn't know when Sufilia was referring to “that time”.

"Well... a rule is lost and it will be soon."

Oh, I see, that magic.

- I'm talking about "The Voice of Repentance".

I don't really understand that magic either.

The moment he activated the procedure, he broke through the body of five guards and something of five was born.

I can't explain anything else.

Of all the magic I have, it's another heterogeneous magic.

"Well, whatever, I'm pretty sure that's the master's will. The abyss doesn't embody what you don't want."

I mean, does the abyss embody the wishes of the host?

The result is invasion or that goddess who drops blood from the sky?

"Master?"

"Hmm?"

Then Ver looked me in the eye.

"Don't worry about it, okay? And don't doubt it. The abyss is on the master's side. You don't want to break it, you don't want to break it, you don't want to invade it."

Ver said the same thing before.

"Oh... I already know that."

"It's as versatile as the abyss, and there's no safe magic. The joking wizard just spread the wrong interpretation. There's no way the king is a fool."

Ver's explanation, which only speaks as I recall, just confused me.

Is this also caused by my so-called "laziness”?

If this guy himself is the one who represents my psyche...

……

I see... so half-body.

"I'd like you to talk to me a little more, step by step, if you can, but don't you ever talk to me again? Any trivial matter. It's about me. I want to know as much as I can."

Then Ver started to worry.

The three of them were either totally familiar with “my house” or bored to death.

Nem is falling asleep on the couch and his legs are splashed.

"Hey, Ver? Not beer, but juice or something? And sweets?

"Hmm?... Oh, I do! Wait for me."

Then Ver went to the kitchen and came back with sweets and juice.

And I put it on the table in front of the couch, to spread it out.

"Well, drink it properly."

That's what Ver said.

I prepared four cups appropriately from the cupboard and placed them in front of the three of us.

And while the four of us pinched the treat, we healed our fatigue in the dungeon.

I was in my room.

I checked the inside of the room, and I started looking for the details of this room that were reproduced.

But I can't find a difference.

Bookshelves packed with cartoons, and consoles.

Also a package of gaming software that is left on your desk.

Everything, stay put.

I opened the window.

The view from there was no different.

But from here to the inside of the visible building, it won't be reproduced.

Because I don't remember that.

"Here's the thing...... what are you saying? Were you homesick?

I should be at my house, but I missed my room for a moment.

"Master?"

Then there was Vel outside the room.

"Hmm?"

"I forgot to tell you, I can't get out of this dungeon. When you go outside, look forward, you need to be in cane condition."

Then Ver, Bohoo! with the smoke, turned into one great scepter.

"Huh... talking wand..."

Then Ver returned to his original appearance again.

"So? Does this mean we attacked the dungeon?

"... it's not like an attack, is it? It's just me and the master met. And like I said, that's why the dungeons exist in the first place."

"Wrong perception..."

The public is told that a dungeon is a graveyard of dreamed adventurers.

From all over the continent, those with their own arms gather to challenge the labyrinth.

But it wasn't even a labyrinth.

It was just... it was my house.

I mean, those challengers who lost their lives here were in vain.

But...

"Heh... it's none of my business..."

"Master?"

One fucking laughs at me, Ver, with a strange eye.

"Nothing"

That's what I said, I left the room.

"What happens to the dungeon after this?

I stopped in front of the room and asked Ver.

"By the time Master and I met, it was over. The dungeon leaves the world and returns to the ringing world."

"Really...... hmm? What's that ringing world?

Then Ver gave a troubled look.

"No... that's not in me either"

……

Apparently, Vel's memory? That doesn't seem to be a fragmentary and cohesive thing.

I mean, even if you know the word, you don't even know what it means.

"Well, that's fine. Let me know when you remember again."

"Oh... sorry"

What is it?

When I get depressed, Ver gets depressed, too, as I guessed.

When I felt fun, Ver had more booze.

What is a half body?

Is that what this is about?

The lazy half means I'm lazy too, which is the other half.

But maybe that's okay.

When I have more questions, I get frustrated.

I came because if I came to the dungeon, I would know the truth.

Yet, rather, the question grows.

The more we solve, the more questions we have.

But even in a hurry, Ver won't tell me.

I don't know it in the first place.

Then maybe I should be lazy enough.

Don't think hard, understand that this is also part of your journey and adventure, you just need to stay upbeat.

Trouble is behind us.

Lazy.

- Because that's me.