Memoirs of the Returnee - Chapter 122



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Returner’s Notepad Episode 122

Mental Strength (2)

Clumping ───!

Akane’s technique weighs on my body. However, it may not be a technique that adjusts gravity itself. In that case, it is great magic.

It’s probably a spatial technique that brings down objects using this apartment as a medium.

“… … Tsk.”

Partial immunity to magical interference. I don’t know how much that ‘part’ was, but it certainly wasn’t all-powerful.

Of course, the force pulling on my body itself can be largely destroyed or ignored. However, it means that you cannot resist them 100% and the weight of the ‘air’ still remains.

The severity of the technique becomes worse as it approaches Akane. Every time I take a step and step again, it feels like every bone in my body is twisting.

If it were a normal person, all of my joints would have been crushed already.

I also understand why Gerken collapsed.

The guy probably crawled away.

By enduring this crazy gravity with my whole body, I made it that far.

Indeed, in terms of mental strength, he is far superior to anyone else.

I think it might be mental illness.

I walked. It didn’t crawl. I stood on my two legs and took one step at a time.

… … thud.

Footsteps echoed. I crossed the Elysee with those same strides.

I think the weight on me now would be about that of one or two adult gorillas.

… … thud!

I moved my limbs, which became heavier the more I walked. I carried a body that didn’t feel like my own.

thud!

Akane’s expression slowly hardens as she looks at me getting closer.

The face that looked like a mentally ill person is no longer there.

I’m interested again. Like a person who found something useful in muddy water.

Boom!

After walking three more steps, I was in the same line as Gerken. Gravity has also reached its peak. It really felt like an elephant was trampling on my shoulder.

Isn’t this going to lead to noodles?

I reluctantly lifted my knees. I prepared to walk while enduring the force of gravity.

Boom──!

Just one step.

With that, I overtook Gerken, and my whole body burned red.

Is it pain or heat? My body is so hot that it feels like it’s going to melt.

Even in the heat, once again, for the last time.

thud.

Akane’s feet. As I lower my head, I see black slippers and gray socks. Isn’t it a bit of a combination of slippers and socks?

I raised my face.

There was Akane.

Right under her nose, I looked into her crimson pupils.

“… … .”

I can’t say anything. I didn’t even have the strength to move my lips.

Instead, she looked me up and down. He lightly licked her lips with his tongue, as if she was amazed.

He soon smiled and nodded.

“It’s first place. Paradoxically, you have a useful body… … .”

I have no memories after that.

I would have fainted, fainted, or whatever.

* * *

When I opened my eyes again, it was a white ceiling. I lay down and blinked blankly. My whole body was sore, and my brain was still loading.

─Are you awake?

A voice came from my right ear. Her left ear was deaf. In a daze, I whipped my face from side to side.

A space like a public health center. Akane was sitting on one side. She was wearing a gown and was pouring liquid into a reagent bottle with a dropper. It seems like some kind of research or restriction is being done.

I asked her.

“… … Evaluation test. Are you done?”

─Three days ago.

My ears were deafening. I shook my head.

“yes?”

“You slept for three days.”

Fortunately, the eardrum was quickly restored.

“The other seniors have already left. I’m the only one working overtime because of you. “Unpaid volunteer work.”

Fluffy, fluffy-

Akane shook the reagent bottle. he asked me, staring at the liquid mixing inside.

“Who do you want to kill?”

“yes?”

“I asked for lethal poison.”

“uh… … ah. “There are a lot of people I want to kill.”

There are many. A lot. It’s full of things.

Probably, we will end up killing quite a few people in the future.

Akane chuckled.

“It’s easy to kill someone you want to kill. “It is difficult to face one’s contaminated self after killing.”

He transfers the liquid from the reagent bottle into a glass container the size of a fingernail and throws it at me.

“Take it. “If you don’t get it, you die.”

“Ugh!”

I received it with both hands. My heart almost jumped out.

“It’s deadly poison. Classification: Neurotoxin.”

The color itself is ordinary. The capacity is also extremely small. 3g at most?

“That capacity can kill 1,000 elephants.”

1,000 elephants. It’s a very cruel thing to say, but the Groul I’m trying to kill – that is, the ‘S-class monster’ – is different from modern animals, including humans.

“I’ll take it. But, is it okay to give something like this to a senior?”

“A producer just produces. From then on, it is up to the user’s moral standards and value judgments. I don’t care if you kill someone with the prosthetic hand I gave you. Of course, given that it is a poisonous substance and that you have already revealed your intention to kill, there may be an unintended intention… … .”

Akane stopped talking and looked at me intently.

“Humans must take responsibility for the direction they want to go. “What you do is none of my business.”

She took out a cigarette from her pocket and asked. I put the poison in my pocket.

“ah. “Can you give me an appraisal as well?”

“I hope so much. “You mean Relic?”

“… … Did you know?”

Akane frowned. Cigarette smoke swayed like an earthworm.

“I am a designer. I know everything that happens in this maze. “I was lucky enough to find two.”

“Perhaps you arranged it on purpose-”

“Ask me if I’m out of my mind. How much does it cost? The design of the maze is only structure and concept. Obstacles are placed by inducing those who were originally in the dungeon. “The relic of the snow mountain and the butcher’s relic are not mine, but the meaning of this ‘crack’.”

If I had known, I would have eaten it. Akane added, licking her lips again.

“then… … .”

I took out the relic from my inventory. Akane’s red eyes flashed slightly.

“It seems to be a relic related to killing or combat. “If it’s C-level, it’ll be useful enough.”

“oh. thank you.”

“Go now.”

Akane flexed her hand.

Tiring- Then an alarm rang on the smart watch.

[Sion Askal’s evaluation is over.]

Druddudddddddddddd!

My hand clutching the blanket shook and the space changed.

“… … .”

I stood unsteadily.

I looked around blankly.

It was a port.

Outside the maze, a port where you can see the portal of the crack.

there was nothing. The scenery itself was empty, as if the seniors had already left, and there was only one small fishing boat stationed there.

“student! It’s finally here! get on!”

A sailor on a fishing boat shouted. I thought for a moment and then answered.

“… … “Go first.”

“What are you talking about? “I even received money to bring students back when they came out.”

I stood with my back to the dock. I looked into the still glimmering portal.

“student!”

cried the sailor. I waited in silence. While fiddling with the deadly poison in my pocket. Hair blowing in the blowing sea breeze.

5 minutes──

15 minutes──

30 minutes──

“Hwaaaam.”

It’s still boring enough to make you yawn.

Well, shall we fight today? Are you fighting right now?

If it was a conversation between S-class people, it could be felt even from outside the aisle.

“… … Hey student! “If you don’t come, we’re really leaving?!”

“yes.”

I looked at my watch. Before I knew it, an hour had passed.

Kdudddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd of themselves of my of my of theirs… … .

Just then, a faint vibration on the road surface.

I lifted my face. A wave was emitted from inside the portal.

“W-what is this?”

The fishing boats became bustling. The sailors moved quickly. The anchor was retrieved and the bow was turned.

“student. finally… … .”

──────────!

The shock drowned out the sound. The portal shook as if it were exploding. Pieces of magic flew everywhere like broken windows.

The fishing boat has already turned around. They were running around, but I was going in the opposite direction.

———!

Second shake.

The portal shook loudly again. Part of it was fragmented and fell on the road. The size of the portal itself has also been noticeably reduced.

——.

Third shake.

This time it was closer to an aftershock. There were no significant repercussions.

“… … “Are you done?”

The expert’s fight is surprisingly not long. The density of each moment is so high that exchanging hundreds of sums in an instant is an S-class duel. Instead, the aftermath is like that of a magic nuclear bomb.

“… … .”

I wait quietly, and it continues to be calm.

It’s quiet.

“… … after.”

I sighed. I took out the relic from my inventory.

A bright and brilliant C-class relic.

Of course, transplanting an unidentified relic is a gamble. However, there are no benefits at all. ‘Emotion’ is the act of peeling off the outer layer of a relic, because that outer layer is ultimately a relic.

In other words, when appraising, the performance of the relic is reduced to a very small extent. Instead, you can easily understand how to use it by excluding the risk of ‘relic conflict’.

However, the “Treasure Hunter” I transplanted has little chance of conflicting with other relics. This is because the attribute itself is ‘life’.

Also, there will be little chance of obtaining a C-rank or higher relic in the next few years… … .

I attached the relic to my left arm. It was transplanted as is. I felt hot, but it was bearable.

“Haaaa… … .”

After taking a deep breath, I entered the portal again.

* * *

… … Inside it was already hell. The vast space that once housed the hospital, snowy mountain, maze, and apartments had already shrunk infinitely, and dark red traces of ash were rolling in like flower petals.

I turned on the SZX-9500.

A place where a huge crater was created as if a meteorite had collided. In the middle of it all, the monster ‘Growl’ was seen.

It has already lost its human form. His limbs had disintegrated into black powder, and his head was stuck to his stomach, as if he had been attacked while he was regenerating.

Nevertheless, it survived.

Obviously, he’s breathing.

“… … .”

I was nervous.

The guy is clearly unconscious. However, even his unconsciousness is a threat to me now.

I walked towards him.

… … Humans overestimate their complexity.

I remembered the day I met him before his return.

… … In reality, it is simpler than any other animal. The more you eat, the more you understand.

His dark and fishy tone spread into my ears.

… … Humans ignore the source of existence. He rationalizes it by saying that he was born because he was born, and that obsession is too heavy in a short life.

Growl.

He is a stone monster.

It is a naturally occurring monster.

I have never been a human, and I have never been a monster. It was really just a ‘stone’.

… … The origin is not on the continent. It’s not in space. The source is within me. My origin is my source. My causality is my source.

My legs stopped working.

Approximately 1.5km.

The minimum distance at which a mortally wounded bastard cannot detect me. That’s it.

… … I explore myself. That’s the only reason I cooperate with Zedric of Libra… … .

I took out Akane’s poison. I breathed Perion into it.

I wonder if neurotoxin would work on stones, but this guy is a stone that has mutated all of his ore veins into ‘nerves’, or magic circuits.

It is a man-eating monster that fixed its existence as a human by consuming humans.

At least as long as it’s a monster, it will definitely work.

I threw the poison high into the sky. By thoroughly calculating the impact and trajectory, use the most accurate muzzle.

Hwieeee───.

The glass bottle draws a rainbow-like parabola and slowly sinks towards Groul.

Groul reacted instinctively. He spread a ‘screen’ to stop the falling glass bottle.

Jjaeang-!

The glass bottle was broken. The neurotoxin seeped into its body through the membrane.

The very next moment.

──────!

Groul’s body twisted. Dark red magical energy was released in a bizarre way. Even in a split second, it convulsed, forming dozens of different shapes.

That’s how I found myself.

─■──■──■─!

The guy extended his magic power towards me. It plunged into my neck and waist like a sword blade. As if trying to separate the five bodies, they press together with each other… … .

Rustling-

loses its shape

Like sand, it oxidizes into dry, fine particles and falls on the road surface.

“haha… … .”

I grabbed my heart. At that time, Relic reacted belatedly.

Relic on the left arm. The just-implanted Relic absorbed Groul’s withered magic power. Like absorbing.

“… … “What is reaction speed?”

If you’re going to do it, do it before that.

I looked to the other side again.

Where Groul used to be, there is now only dark red sand. It collapsed. The one who survived before returning was killed more than 10 years earlier.

So did you finish it? Let’s not say the same thing.

“I almost died.”

I got up. I looked around to find Akane. I searched everywhere with the SZX-9500.

“ah.”

there is.

Location quite far from the crater.

She lay there as if hiding, but it was miserable.

It was as if he was already dead.

Although only 1/4 of her body remained, including her head, chest, and right arm, her survival was entirely thanks to her right arm.

A right arm as black as coal.

The arm of the monster that turns her into a monster connects her nerves and acts like an internal organ, forcing them to pulse. Even that seems unlikely now… … .

I suddenly wonder.

Can this corpse, which is less than half of its size, survive on its own?

“… … three days.”

Akane postponed the battle for three days because of me.

What if Groul had taken a little more precautions during those three days?

Or, what if Akane let her guard down a little more?

I can’t help it.

I held Akane in my arms. It felt light, perhaps because there was only a part of the body.

“let’s go.”

Whether human or monster, they are capable of nursing and healing above average.

As I always say, there is nothing I haven’t done in the underworld.

I left the dungeon, stepping on a pile of ashes.

Shootaaa——

It was already raining outside. It was a shower. In addition, several ships were approaching this way, emitting lights.

I quickly hid myself.

I ran in the opposite direction of the light—into the forest.

Of course, this is because the continent hates monsters.

[There may be monsters in the underworld. However, if you see a monster that has come to the ground, please report it immediately or call 666.]

This is safety education that Edsilla citizens, no, continental citizens learn from the age of two.

[Article 3, Paragraph 2 of the Edsilla Monster Related Act.

If you are aware of the existence of a strange person but do not report it or intentionally hide it, you will be subject to imprisonment for more than 10 years and an order to disclose information for more than 20 years.

However, if the monster’s violent actions are confirmed, extenuating circumstances will be taken into account.]

It is a law that deals with monsters.

Just hiding it can result in more than 10 years in prison.

It’s just as long as my lifespan, but whatever.

If you don’t get caught, you’re innocent.

Pasasasak-

I went through the grass and trees of the island and hid deep inside.