The Returner

1. Why not? (4)

“I do nothing. ”

Alpha's words sound like jokes.

It was the Alpha that drove the situation like this.

And you're not doing anything about it?

“What's that supposed to mean? ”

“Literally. Why are you so excited?”

Alpha smiles slightly puzzled.

Knowing that there wasn't any truth in his expression or speech, I felt like I was upside down when he made that face.

He mocks.

He mocked the world, mocked himself, and even the demons mocked him.

And even he was the Alpha who ridiculed himself.

Although the time with him was not very long, he still did not know what kind of human alpha was, even though it was enough to understand what kind of human being one object was.

Sometimes he felt like a very innocent person, and sometimes he felt like a demon who was no longer in the world.

Unknown person.

That would be his strongest impression of the alpha.

“Then what the hell are you doing this for? You didn't plan the division? ”

“Split?”

Alpha tilts his head.

“Divide what? Divide what? ”

“Relationships between countries. If it leads to such a strong system of cooperation, it will be difficult to dig through their gaps, so you're trying to create chaos and dig through them. ”

Alpha looks at him with strange eyes.

“Hey, Bezel. ”

“Yes, Alpha. ”

Alpha tilts his head, smiling and saying,

“I don't understand a word you're saying. Divide and conquer? What the hell are you talking about? ”

“ ……. ”

“The world is already divided. ”

“Yes?”

Alpha standing by.

It's overwhelming.

He reaches for the only glowing window in the room, and grabs his finger and scratches the glass with his fingernail.

Ew. Ew.

Bezel frowns at the sharp noise. The sound of scratching people's ears.

“See?”

Alpha points to the window.

What's he talking about?

What do they want us to see?

Bezel shakes her head.

“I can't see. ”

“Why can't I see it? It's so vivid. ”

“What are you talking about? ”

Alpha looks at the windows and bezel alternating as if they were stuffy, and starts looking for something.

Alpha, who finds a pen on the corner desk, approaches the window again and starts drawing something.

“Hmm?"

Profit.

The Macaw window friction makes a strange sound. That sound was also not good to hear.

Soon after the spiderweb-like line was dead, the Alpha turned its head, smiling brightly.

“Do you see it now? ”

“Unless you're blind, of course. You can't miss it, can you? ”

“Do you really see it? ”

Alpha smiles strangely.

“What do you see? ”

“I see a line. ”

“What line? ”

“I see the line you drew. ”

“Really?"

The alpha shakes his head, shaking his head.

“No, that's not what you need to see. What you need to see is why I drew this line. ”

“Yes?”

His words are hard to understand.

“Look."

Alpha lightly reaches for the glass.

Chang!

The glass breaks with a short, sharp rupture.

And at that moment, Bezel could see.

The glass broke off along the line exactly as the Alpha had drawn it.

“ ……. ”

“Can't you see? ”

“I see it.”

While answering, Bezel was unable to figure out what was happening in front of her eyes.

“An invisible fracture doesn't mean it doesn't exist. The rift in the world is about to rupture. It's going to explode. ”

“Hmm……. ”

“This war is not about making cracks. It's not a rift, it's a war to create contradictions. ”

“Contradiction?”

“Yes, a contradiction. ”

Alpha turns around and sits back in his seat.

“It is a contradiction that people who are human and not human live together as humans. Isn't that right?"

“Of course. But don't they think they're human? It doesn't matter if that's a contradiction or not. because they want to stay human. ”

“Yes. That's why we need war. ”

“ ……. ”

Alpha-like singing in a bright voice.

“You'll find out soon enough, they're not human. You can't stay human if you want to be human. There's only one way for them to stay human. We're pulling the humans out of their place. ”

“As you wish. ”

“That's quite the line. Restrain me, because I feel like I'm Hitler. I'm not racist. ”

Of course you are.

In Alpha's head, Humans must be exterminated without distinguishing between race, gender and old age.

Summons the Demon King, allies with the Devil, and wages war on the world.

What he's doing makes him look like a villain in a hero, but he's a different person in nature.

He doesn't want control, he doesn't want destruction.

What he wants is a new birth.

A new order is born.

“So what's he doing? ”

“What if it's him? ”

“There's only one person I care about. He's not human, but he works for humans like a dog. ”

“Is this Lee Hyuk?”

“Bingo.”

Bezel extracted information about Lee Hyuk in his head.

“We're still issuing two doors. ”

“Hmm……. ”

Alpha tilts his head.

“My taunt didn't work? I thought you'd be restless by now. ”

“The pattern itself has not changed. ”

“Then you must be boiling inside. You can come and get me. ”

“You? ”

Bezel thought Alpha had a bad idea. Alpha has no direct movement. Other people were in charge of conducting themselves, and there couldn't have been anyone who could find the contact that Alpha had done this.

However, far away, Lee Hyuk is coming to find out that Alpha did this.

It was nonsense.

“You didn't go too far, did you? ”

“That's what it looks like. ”

Alpha whistles.

“It's normal to look at it that way. But I have a feeling about that. I'm a man of good instincts. ”

Alpha leaned back and said.

“I admit he's strong. He's out of specification, even in the eyes of a competent man. because the kids are fighting, and suddenly it's like a fighter invading Irregular. But what's separate is that he's strong and he's resourceful. ”

“That's right."

“His intelligence doesn't look that high, does it? And even if he had an Einstein-grade brain, or a Holmes brain, it's impossible to predict your intervention just by looking at the situation. ”

“I don't know.”

“… Me? ”

Alpha nods.

“Yes, I don't know. This isn't about the brain. I just do. Him, too. ”

“… it's hard to understand. ”

“You wouldn't understand. I can't explain it either. What can I say? He and I are a lot alike. ”

“Yes?”

“I feel like it. He just wants this world, and I just want another world, not this world. If he's against it, he's probably destroying the world more aggressively than I am. ”

Bezel shuts up.

Not all of Alpha's thoughts were understood and followed anyway. I was just in tune with Alpha's thoughts and ideas.

If we follow him, we move with confidence that we will see another world.

So you don't have to understand everything about him.

“So you're not doing anything? ”

“All we need now is time. ”

“Time?”

“Time to realize that the lambs who turned their eyes away from the truth are sacrifices to the altar. You just need to relax and wait. You'll find out eventually. And fall into chaos. We just have to wait for it. ”

“Yes.”

It sounds vague, but an Alpha might have an idea.

That's what Bezel thought.

“Speaking of.... ”

“Yes?”

“Maybe it's okay to turn the board around for a little more fun. It'll ruin the game if I'm wrong, but wouldn't that be fun too? ”

“Ahh... ”

Bezel shakes her head.

He's always been this fickle. How long has it been since I told you not to do anything?

“What are you going to do? ”

“Even the playful extra devil has to work. Two Demon Kings came and died with nothing in them, so you're depressed. He's so cute! ”

Who else can say the devil is cute?

Who can say such things without this person?

“Are you going to ask him to do something? ”

“Well, should I? ”

“Alpha.”

“Huh?”

Bezel spoke with all her heart.

“Don't think it's a bad idea, but listen. No matter how much I think about it, it's a burden to maintain this relationship with demons. ”

“Really?"

“They are literally demons. It might help now, but I don't know when to slap you on the back. In fact, we don't know much about them, do we? ”

“Well, yeah. ”

“Are you still going to keep this relationship? ”

“Bezel.”

“Yes.”

Alpha looked at Bezel quietly with a slightly stiffer face than before.

Bezel swallowed her moods unknowingly in the weight of her gaze.

“You still don't know, do you? ”

“Yes?”

“Putting a knife in my back means I'm no longer needed. Isn't that right?"

“Yes. That's why it's not a problem. ”

“No, so there's no problem. ”

What do they mean?

Does that mean you'll never be betrayed?

“But they are demons. You can't just think like that. ”

“I don't know, I don't know. I still don't know.”

Alpha sighs low.

“Hey, Bezel. ”

“Yes, Alpha. ”

“If they put a knife in my back, you could destroy the world without me." ”

“Of course.”

“So that's it, right? ”

“ ……. ”

Bezel's pupils dilated.

“If the world breaks down, that will serve our purpose. It's not like I'm changing the world to enjoy something. Right?"

Does not dominate.

The Alpha does not want to rule the world. He wasn't just trying to destroy the world.

What he wants is to change the world.

Even if the end of that change is destruction, he will never stop.

“So let's lay the board out. I'm very curious about how he's going to get out. ”

Hearing the low laugh of the Alpha, Bezel falls into a strange grief.

Humans' biggest mistake was not to let him go. Humans must pay for that now.

With the body and the soul.