Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka?

S21 The Truth About The World

Ten days have passed since we escaped from the Wang capital.

After that, we broke through the soldiers surrounding us and managed to escape from the king's capital.

By the fact that Brother Reston is in the mood.

"We'll buy time. Oka, meet me at Ajito 16."

That's what I said, leading the troops through to the soldiers chasing them.

I got lost, but by the thought of having to protect Katia in my arms and Mr. Heilins pulling my shoulder, I decided to leave Brother Reston and get out.

But that was a mistake.

Brother Reston said to meet him, he didn't show up at Ajito number 16, where he is now.

At that time, I should have stopped Brother Reston, even if I couldn't.

That should have led to a lot more people here.

The only people in this Azito right now are me, my teacher, and four Katya to Mr. Heilins.

Neither Brother Reston, nor Clebear, nor the men of his brother's troops have arrived here alone.

If I had fought with my brother then, it could have turned out more differently.

But I really do.

I couldn't have fought without Katia.

Katia, the brainwashed, shot magic at herself.

High power range extermination magic that involves large numbers of people.

If I were normal, I would be dead instantly.

Even though I had him recovered, Katia was badly debilitated.

With that katier in my arms, then I couldn't fight properly.

Yes, I know.

Even if I know, I regret it.

It's not just the time of escape.

I was uncomfortable talking to Sue and Katia when I thought about it now.

Sue was in strange shape at any rate, and even though it was just me and the two of us, she didn't use Japanese.

Katya said she always used Japanese when she spoke alone with me.

The anomaly was happening.

And yet, I couldn't notice.

If I'd known, I wouldn't have let this happen to Hugo.

Shake bare without a sword in the room so as to blow away sinking thoughts.

Only while you're moving your body, you don't have to think about it.

Immersed without thinking about wastage, the door was knocked.

"What are you doing, you?

"Katia, are you okay to walk already?

I opened the door and came in with Katia, who had slept until recently.

"Oh. I'm better off with my body now. It hurts sometimes if you're still in your head."

"Don't push me, okay? When you say brainwash is solved, it doesn't mean it's gone perfectly."

Hugo's brainwashing is deeply rooted.

Katia succeeded in regaining her sanity only for a moment with that mental power, but all she could do with it was commit suicide.

If you don't, there's nothing you can do, by then, the power of brainwashing was strong.

Katia still suffers from unexplained headaches, although the effects of brainwashing have now fallen out.

"'Cause it's okay. Oh, well, I'd like Shun to appraise me."

"Appraisal?"

"Oh. I got some new skills, but with skills I've never heard of. As far as I can remember, I don't think it was on all my skills, but I don't know how it works, so I thought I'd ask Shun to do an appraisal."

"Oh, you mean that. Okay."

Activate the appraisal for Katya.

Indeed, there are more skills that have not existed before.

I don't have the skills either.

"Divine Realm Extension: Extending the Divine Realm"

You're not sure if you want to take an appraisal.

Let's further appraise it.

"The realm of divinity: the deep realm of the soul that life holds. It is the root of all life and also the final dependent area of the self '

I knew I wasn't sure.

"Sorry. I don't know."

"Can I appraise you?

"Oh. Sounds like a soul, but I'm not sure what that does."

You two tilt your necks.

"Well, okay. Plus, it's up to you to say something about outward resistance."

"Oh. I guess that's because Hugo's brainwash has unraveled"

"And then, parallel intentions?

"When that skill is turned on, it is a skill that temporarily becomes like a dual personality"

"What's that? Does that make sense?

"One can fight as before and the other can use magic or something"

"What's that? You're a coward, aren't you?

"Pretty cowardly if you think it'll temporarily be a war force for two"

"Ooh. Then turn it on quickly"

"Oh, don't usually. I tried that when I got that skill too, but when I turn it on from time to time, I don't know which one is who I really am and it confuses me. Multiple personality is a form of psychosis. You should usually leave it off and only turn it on when you fight"

"Ugh. That's a coace skill."

By the way.

"Yeah?"

"Isn't it close?

Katia is right in front of me.

The distance is very close.

I'm taller, so I look down, but, uh, angularly, I have a chest.

Don't worry about it.

"No, you care. Because I'm a man, but I'm a woman now."

"Ho. Is that how Shun sees me? Hmm."

"Oh, no, this is, uh, that, man sex, you know what I mean?

"Hmm. So, when things like this happen, they react?

Katia takes another step and pushes her breasts against my body.

"Gibb! Stop teasing me because I'm surrendering!

"Ubb."

Katia laughs and backs off.

"What do you say? Did you feel any better?

"Ah, oh. Oh well. Thanks."

Is that what you mean?

Katia did this on purpose to ease my consciousness a little.

Really, he's a nice guy.

"Hey, I want to ask you one thing. The therapeutic magic I used back then, it's not just therapeutic magic, is it?

That's what Katia asks.

So, Reston's execution is in three days?

[Yes, please do not pass this on to Shun Kun]

I tried to answer, and I sensed that conversation in my reading.

Fly out of the room in a hurry.

"Doctor! Is it true that Brother Reston will be executed!?

"Shun-kun!? How, oh, eavesdrop on the reading?

"I don't care about that. Is it true that your brother will be executed?

"Shun, calm down. The story is true."

"No, then, I have to go help!

It's a trap.

"Huh?"

"It's an eighty-nine trap. Still going?

"I'll go. My brother stayed there to get us away. Now it's my turn to help my brother."

Mr. Heilins exhaled a great deal.

"Is that even what Reston doesn't want?

"Yes, I'll go anyway."

"No, sir."

"Doctor, no matter how many teacher words you say, you can't just listen this time"

"No, sir."

"No, but I'm coming."

"You're saying no!

The teacher activates the magic of restraint.

The magic of taking away the other's body's freedom with the wind.

But that kind of magic doesn't work for me right now.

Blow out the wind restraint with one swing of your arm.

"Become!?

"Doctor, it's no use stopping it. I'll go."

"No! If you go now, they will surely kill you!

"Doctor. Now you know, don't you? I'm getting pretty strong. So it won't be so easy to kill."

"No! It doesn't matter if you're strong or something! It doesn't matter if you're an administrator!... ah"

The teacher makes a face that it's gone.

"Doctor, what is that administrator?

Katya's sharp voice.

"Is that why the teacher has been moving around so far?

"I can't tell you that"

"Doctor, I can't tell you beyond this period, can I? If you can't tell me, you don't deserve to stop Shun."

"Gu!"

"I'm clear. Doctor, you are not to be trusted. In this situation where there is no explanation whatsoever, you have acted too suspiciously until now. Shun seems to trust you unconditionally, but I can't trust you. If you interfere with Shun's actions without explanation, I will turn to your enemy."

"Oh, no."

"Katia, calm down. And the teacher."

I forgive Katya for heating up and comfort her dripping teacher.

"Doctor, I'm not even thinking about turning to the enemy. But I'm sure there's a lot I'd like to hear from my teacher. If possible, I want you to tell me."

Teach as gently as possible.

The teacher is a younger girl, if only she looks.

Elves are just slow growing up, they're actually the same age, and even older when they add up about their previous lives.

But my current teacher just seemed like a seemingly old, crying girl.

Silence.

Time passes when no one talks about anything.

The teacher leaned down and worried.

Katia stared at such a teacher.

Mr. Heilins watches over what happens.

"Okay. I'll tell you everything."

For a long time, the answer I gave after worrying was that.

"First, I'll tell Mr. Heilins. The three of us are reborn in this world, dying in other worlds."

"What?"

"Based on that, listen to me. What we're going to talk about is useless."

I look around at us all of a sudden, Mr. Heilins.

Neither did I. I didn't expect to talk from it.

"The first thing I did when I was reincarnated into this world was acquire language. Once you know some, use your skill points to get your readings. I tried to have a conversation with Potimus, the head of the elf, on a pronouncement. After listening to me, he bought me a search for the students and got out. By the time I grew up, a significant number of students were found and were safely protected inside the elves. Ever since I grew up to be able to move, I've joined that search as well. There were also four kids who were too late. Some of the children were born under the power and could not be handled in a detour. That's Shun, Katya, Hugo. Yuri was born an orphan, but by the time we discovered she had already been marked by the Church as a candidate for the Virgin. If it were true, I would have liked to keep Shun and the others protected with an elf, but there were political things I couldn't do about it. Why, to protect, is to keep this world's systems out of it as much as possible. Did you ever question the skills, status, or level of this world? Mr. Heilins would not have had any particular doubts because birth is in this world, but in our original world, no skills, no status, no level existed. Only thing like that is in the game. It's impossible to have that in reality. And this world is a game. They're called administrators. They empower people to fight by letting them fight demons. Increase your skills, stats, and levels. And we draw those powers from the souls of the dead, and we make them our own. That's the system of this world. And brave men and demon kings are only pawns created by such administrators to fight people and demons efficiently. So does the church. The faith in developing the skills they list and listening to God's voice, that was also created by the Administrator. The Church's involvement in this disturbance is probably behind the admin's thoughts. Hugo is supposed to be using the church and vice versa. The execution of Reston Kun, who was served through that Hugo Kun. It's definitely an admin trap. I've become unlikely to be a resident of this world, aimed at the power of Shun Kun. So you can't let Shun-kun go. Teachers don't want students killed by people who don't know how to be bothered administrators. So don't go. Please."

Quiet back.

It was Mr. Heilins who opened his heavy mouth.

"In your words, the brave man said that Julius was fought for nothing for a guy named Administrator?

"Yes, we elves have appealed to both people and demons to stop the war in order to put an end to that futile feud. The previous brave men and demon kings took that offer and reconciled. And I was prepared to challenge the administrators to battle in confidence with us elves, too. Prior generations of brave men and demon kings are both rare users of dimensional magic. Using that power, it seems to have tried to open the dimension and fly to the land where the administrator is. But it failed and led to our world. We died because of that magical outburst."

"Nah!? Oh no!?"

"I don't know how far administrators are involved in that accident. But when we died there, we got caught up in the system of this world and were to be reborn in this world. We had skill points and skills that we were not supposed to have at birth because we were otherworldly and when we died, we had not recovered the power engraved in our souls to our administrators"

"So we're dead because of the brave and the demon king?

"So it's because of the administrator pulling the thread behind it. Administrators are the worst people to feed us this world."

"Why didn't the teacher let us meet the other students?

"We ask other students to live as unskilled as possible. Don't let the admin keep an eye on you. But Katya and the others were already strong enough not too late. Inside the elf is completely isolated from the lower realm, protected by such powerful junctions that even administrators cannot get their hands on the detour. But if we take Katya and the others, who may be watched by the administrator, the students in the chain may also have the administrator's eye. That's what I was worried about."

"What's a ruler?

"Rulers are inherently the ones who work at the forefront of administrators. So you can use the power of the world's systems just a little bit. I become a ruler by acquiring special skills, etc., but I took one of those skills and became a ruler. That's why they're not under the influence of administrators."

"What's the teacher been moving behind?

"We were moving to avoid a war between people and demons. And a bunch of seniors to take down the caretaker."

"Can you take him down?

"I don't know. Administrators didn't even know where they were in the first place."

The teacher turns to me again.

"Shun-kun, I know how you want to save Reston-kun. But don't go. Go and you will die."

To that sincere gaze, I...