Chapter 9

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Nigel opened the information window without much thought.

Level 40,000. Hundreds to thousands of times more than anyone else. Now, the numbers under that is not far from reaching 100 million.

“Inas. Are you really level 40,000?”

“Can you see that?”

“Yes…”

Although Inas confirmed it, it still didn’t feel real even after checking it with his own eyes several times. He killed Nigel easily, but in fact, a level 3 Nigel could easily be killed by even the soldiers in his mansion.

“Are you really that strong?”

“Yes. Numerically, I can take down this mansion with just one finger.”

“… You’re kidding, right?”

He was hoping it was a joke, but it must be true. Inas just looked at Nigel, who asked a silly question, as if he were very cute. It seemed that he had given an example to make it easier to understand, but he ended up being farther away from understanding. Of course, Inas was extremely strong. His thick forearms were hard as rock with a mass that was several times that of Nigel’s. But no matter how strong he was, destroying the mansion with just one finger sounded like nonsense.

“Have you tried it?”

“No. Shall I?”

“No, not to the mansion…”

To be honest, he couldn’t believe it, but when he saw those numbers, his distrust lost its strength, so Nigel’s eyes shook in contemplation. There was nothing in the room that could be destroyed as a test. There was the Lemad-style pot that he had been tricked into buying, but…

“Then, this.”

Seeing Nigel troubled, Inas took out a dagger from his bosom. As soon as he saw the pale blade, Nigel flinched without realizing it, but fortunately, Inas only lightly placed the dagger in his own hands. Before he could even ask why he took it out, Inas gently rolled up his palm still holding the dagger. Like grasping a piece of paper, slightly.

“B, bare hands…”

Before Nigel, who was bewildered, could reproach him, the dagger was crushed very gently. Of course, there was also no blood from Inas’ hand.

Nigel opened his eyes wide and inspected the dagger that Inas had put down on the table. The dagger was completely compressed like a crumpled piece of paper. He tried too touch it because he thought it wasn’t an actual blade, but he could feel the texture of solid metal on his fingertips.

“I don’t even need to apply that much force.”

Then wouldn’t Nigel feel like a paper doll to Inas? That’s why he could kill him so easily…

“Isn’t it difficult to control your strength?”

“It’s difficult. So I’m using magic on me that I can control. If I don’t have the intention to attack, I’m as strong as an ordinary person.”

That sounded terrifying. Nigel gave up trying to understand too deeply. It felt more comfortable to do that. Nigel pressed his forehead, which was starting to throb, and buried himself deep on the sofa.

The new facts were news, but listing them didn’t really help with the situation of time going back. In fact, no matter how many times he listened to it, there would be no answer. In the first place, there was no way that Nigel, a human being, could solve the disaster belonging to the realm of God, such as time rewinding. Even Inas, who had far surpassed human beings, couldn’t solve it.

“Inas, why do you repeat the same time over and over again in the first place? That this is a game, and there’s a protagonist, how did you find out about that? Even Kay doesn’t know…”

Why him of all people?

As the word <Protagonist> implied, wasn’t Kay the most special person in the world? If anyone were to have the power to turn back time, it should have been him.

“Nigel-nim, that.”

Inas couldn’t easily continue his words. Naturally, I thought Inas would explain smoothly or say that he didn’t know like before, but on the contrary, his lips were firmly shut. Silence meant that he knew something for sure. Inas sighed at his pressuring look.

“I’ll let you know when there’s a chance next time.”

“When is next time?”

“When you feel better.”

Nigel interpreted Inas’ words without difficulty. In other words, it meant that if he listened to it more here, Nigel would lie down in shock. Nigel groaned low and collapsed onto the sofa. Could he be even more shocked than this?

“Okay, let’s stop for now.”

With a sigh, Nigel curled up. His meticulously groomed hair and clothes were all messy and wrinkled, but he didn’t care about those small things. He was getting a headache more and more, probably because he had been filled with too much information that was difficult to accept in such a short period of time.

“My head hurts…”

“Are you okay?”

“No. I think I’m going to die.”

Nigel whined out of habit. Unfortunately, it was not the usual Inas who heard Nigel’s complaints.

“Do you want me to kill you?”

Inas asked easily as if he was asking ‘Can I get you some kind of headache medicine?’. Of course, Nigel was terrified and threw his body back. The most frightening thing as that he whispered those words with sincerety and affection. He thought he would kill Nigel right away, just like when he pierced his chest without any hesitation.

“I don’t want that…”

Inas, who was about to draw his sword, calmly stopped. He couldn’t say anything. At the moment, he obeyed, but he was still violent…

It wasn’t painful, and time would also go back, so there was a lack of sense of crisis, but he didn’t want to be killed either. Even if he said he would return to his original state, he felt indescribably awful the moment Inas caused his death. Nigel sighed.

“First, let’s watch it all. See if everything you said comes true. Don’t kill me before then. Got it?”

He had to experience everything. After experiencing regression twice, it became more believable. The story that time goes back on March 27 didn’t feel real yet, so it was good to experience it at least once.

“Yes, according to Nigel-nim’s wishes.”

Inas replied meekly and bowed his head. Nigel glared at Inas with a rather ferocious eyes. What did he mean, as he wished… He didn’t listen to anything he said before.

He couldn’t say that now because he was afraid for his life, so Nigel muttered only to himself. When Inas raised his head, Nigel quickly cleared his expression.

“Oh, and there was something else I wanted to say the most… If Nigel-nim intervenes too much, the future changes.”

“What? You said it would never change… Then isn’t it already going wrong?”

Nigel called Count Rudio and brought Kay and the others to his mansion, who were supposed to go to the banquet. Inas thought for a moment, then shook his head.

“That will be fine. The place has been replaced, but the process itself is the same. It’s still okay, but usually when someone who knows the future moves, things start to change.”

“That makes sense.”

Even the smallest thing could change history.

“Yes. Just let it flow this time.”

“Flow…”

It was like a heathen who recited pseudo-sutras1. His confidence plummeted, and Nigel’s expression faltered.

They had known each other for 11 years. Inas would have had known Nigel for even longer. As if he could naturally guess Nigel’s thoughts by reading his expressions, Inas smiled lightly.

“Trust me, Nigel. Everything will be as I said.”

He really was like a heathen. However, as Inas asked him to trust him, Nigel nodded his head more comfortably than before.

“Then, for the next year, do I just live the way I usually do?”

“Yes. Just in case, I’ll the same as before. Because if I do anything else, things might be different from what I said.”

“You don’t have to…”

Was it necessary to check?2

Nigel, who was about to ask that, shut his mouth. Right now, it was hard to fully accept what Inas had said. Nigel needed time to adjust to the situation. In addition, assuming the same situation continued to repeat itself, as Inas had said, the experience of the next year could be necessary.

As long as Inas didn’t interfere, everything would go the same way. It was easy to predict and plan for the future only if you knew the most basic chain of events.

“No, I got it. Then for one year things will be the same as before.”

“Yes.”

“Then take good care of me, Inas.”

As he greeted each other anew, Inas took Nigel’s hand and lightly kissed the back.

“Please take care of me, Nigel-nim. As you alwasy have, forever in the future.”

***

Like that, nearly a year had passed.

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T/N:

Nigel: I feel sick.

Inas: You know what’ll make you feel better? *pulls out sword*

1 Genuinely don’t know what this means sorry I’m as confused as you probably are.

2 Here he means to check if the storyline of the ‘game’ would be exactly as Inas told him. Initially he only wanted to see if time will actually loop next year.

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