Memoirs of the Returnee - Chapter 255



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The Regressor’s Notepad 255

After the rain (2)

Soliet sat quietly in thought.

I looked up at the night sky while buried in my sleeping bag and turned around to look somewhere.

“… …Are you awake?”

I asked Javed, who was sitting next to me.

“No, not yet.”

He answered.

Soliet had a strange expression on her face.

“I have a feeling it’s going to rain tomorrow.”

This is for confirmation.

“Is that so?”

“yes.”

What am I doing in this tank of the soul, and why does this journey continue endlessly?

It’s to confirm that.

“… … See you tomorrow, Mr. Javed.”

“Yes. Sleep well.”

Soliet quietly closed her eyes.

… … thud-

Bam-

A drop of water falls on her cheek. Solliet slowly opens her eyes.

“Oh, it’s raining.”

Before we knew it, the party members were hurriedly getting up and folding their sleeping bags.

Bam-

Bam-

Solliet looked at the water droplets hitting her face.

Again, I quietly closed my eyes.

A hollow smile spread across his lips.

Now I understand.

Here, everything you unconsciously wish for comes true.

Because I wanted the trip to never end, it never ended, and because I wanted company, company showed up.

Fact──

It’s been like that from the beginning.

She thought she had found out about the game by chance.

He said that he stumbled upon Bedundun while searching for ‘nightmare’ on the internet and got a clue about nightmare.

What if it was a mistake?

If it wasn’t just a coincidence that he came here, but that Nightmare had lured him here.

“Solid. Get up now. The rain is getting thicker.”

Solliet opened her eyes. The group called out to her, laughing.

“They said it was going to rain. It really is.”

I looked at Javed as he said that.

“……yes.”

Soliet answered quietly.

“It looks like this trip will end soon.”

She seems to know now.

What’s at the end of this tank?

Who will be waiting for you?

* * *

I returned to the Intelligence Service for a post-mortem meeting on the Sirimus operation.

“… … This is all for cross-checking the content related to Representative Sirimus.”

After a meeting that lasted a full three hours.

“Let me check one last time. Did the three of you move as a team?”

Director Gedler asked.

“Yes.”

Belmore answered forcefully.

“The merit of finding the whereabouts of Sirimus’ son Le Coq, and investigating and discovering the monster treatment center… … Therefore, the person with the greatest weight is Team Leader Belmore. Is that right? I would like to ask the team members for their opinions.”

“Yes, that’s right.”

This time, I answered. Riley nodded as well.

“Confirmed. The Sirimus agenda will be treated as top secret and sealed in the Intelligence Bureau database. I want you to forget about the operation for now. Let’s go.”

“yes!”

Belmore rose to his feet.

We went out together.

“Whew~ This is good.”

Riley looks at Belmore, who is stretching, with a look of discontent in her eyes.

“Why are you looking at me like that again? Why again.”

“Do you like it when your teammates catch the ball?”

Riley shot back coldly.

“No, he said he would give it to me. He said it was the duty of a second-in-command or something.”

Belmore pointed in my direction.

I nodded.

“Congratulations on your nomination as team leader.”

“… … Oh, that?”

Belmore was nominated for team leader.

“I’m just a candidate. If I become a team leader, I’ll have achieved my life goal.”

Of course, Belmore still has 2-3 years left in his career, and honestly, his career is still in its infancy, but he will probably be elected without a hitch.

Thanks to solving such big cases.

“Well done.”

Riley crossed her arms.

“Ah~ Why is this happening? Oh, right, Sion. Princess Jahanna, what was that? Anyway, do you know where she’s moving in?”

“yes.”

“That security guard, do you want to do it?”

“Yeah.”

“… … What? Why don’t you refuse?”

Belmore raised his eyebrows with a strange expression.

“Aren’t you on the Jia line?”

“He is also a direct chaser.”

“Uh. What… … Then, I’ll be going to work at the Sky Garden starting today. They said they’re going to have a separate security team.”

“yes.”

Build up your security team with Chaser and even provide separate training.

That means this move-in is a pretty big event.

* * *

Sky Garden Section 2.

I went to work at the security team’s training ground. There were about a hundred chasers.

The balancer standing in front of them is, of course, Beckman.

“… … .”

I lined up in the training grounds, and the guy glared at me in the face.

Am I the only one who can see it among a hundred chasers?

He is such an honest guy.

“This move is important.”

To move in literally means to move in. However, it is not a house, but to move into newly developed or reclaimed land.

It is the right to the ‘magic space’ that is inside Edsilla, but not Edsilla.

It is not yet known what crops can be grown there or what goods can be imported.

But since it is a lawless area where a gold mine has been discovered, fighting is bound to break out.

“The security is divided into three teams. The first team directly protects the immediate family as Libra’s chasers. The second team patrols the immediate family’s area to detect hostility and kill enemies on their own. Lastly… … .”

Beckman looked at me again.

“A third team that scouts for enemies outside the immediate area.”

And then he took a step towards me.

“A guy like you. A guy who is just entering his first year will be in charge of the investigation.”

The other chasers’ laughter echoed softly.

Beckmann’s attitude seems to be somewhat cool to them. My likes and dislikes in the intelligence agency were like that to begin with.

Because I’m the one who killed the team leader.

“yes.”

“I will now distribute the team members. Team 1 will now send a message using the Libra phone.”

Tiring – There was a ringing sound.

Just by looking at it, you can tell that the guys under Beckman’s command and those who cling to him are the most important first team.

“Now the second team.”

Next, almost half of the teams were from two teams.

“Team 3.”

Ding- ding- ding- ding-

It rang exactly four times.

One of them was me, of course, and the other three were… … guys whose faces I didn’t even know.

“The training schedule will be announced later. Team 1, follow me, and Team 2, take a short break.”

There is not a single word about Team 3.

No, don’t you know how important reconnaissance is?

Tiring─

Just then, an alarm went off on my Libra phone.

It was Gia’s call.

“… … What should we do?”

One of the remaining three looked around and asked.

“Let’s exchange numbers first, and I’ll contact you later. I have work to do right now.”

“… … .”

We nodded and exchanged numbers.

* * *

Hanging gardens.

I entered Gia’s office. Gia was sitting in an office chair that was larger than my body.

“You don’t have to do it.”

Her first words made me tilt my head.

“If I’m going to be treated like that… … .”

aha.

It means that he is worried about being treated poorly by the security team.

However, it is not clear whether this is acting or sincerity.

“it’s okay.”

Jia showed a slightly dissatisfied expression.

I asked her.

“Miss. Is your ambition still valid?”

“……huh.”

Jia nodded.

His eyes, which were always droopy, become filled with confidence when he talks about his ambitions.

I’m also curious.

What kind of personality, what kind of temperament in her heart, could have planted such an ambition in her? She could have been born as the youngest of Libra and spent her whole life just playing around.

“Yes. In that case, I will try to help you, young lady.”

“Help… … ?”

“There is an operation.”

In order for Jia to ascend to the throne, she must overthrow her siblings.

However, there may be several ways to do this.

“I will make Princess Jahanna give up her succession.”

Before her return, Jahanna is defeated by Zia. She is completely ruined and imprisoned.

It’s not a good method.

Because of the sword dance she performed just before her defeat, tens of thousands of people died.

“… … Give up? Sister, yourself?”

“yes.”

Besides, Jahanna is now shaken by some emotion she doesn’t even know about.

If he wasn’t shaken, there would be no reason to keep Carlos alive. There would be no reason to watch him every day.

“… … It’s impossible. My sister is not the type of person to give up what’s hers.”

“It’s possible. I’ll design it myself. I’ll make Jahanna Gong weak.”

Designed to arouse Jahanna’s emotions and make her believe that there is something more important than succession.

How to turn Jahanna from a murderous psychopath into a normal human being.

I will make her get down from her seat on her own.

“No matter how many years it takes, I can do it step by step. To do that, I need your help.”

“… …my help?”

“Yes. What does Princess Jahanna like?”

What does Jahanna like?

“… …What does your sister like?”

“Yes. I need some old-fashioned nostalgia.”

However, what ‘the current Jahanna’ likes is not accepted.

She probably already forgot what she likes.

So we need memories from our childhood.

But unfortunately, even I, who am a fan of Libra, don’t know much about Jahanna from that time.

“……ah.”

Jia furrowed her eyebrows as if a thought suddenly occurred to her.

“In the past… … there was someone my sister admired.”

“yes?”

I asked back without realizing it.

It was something I never thought I would hear.

“Yeah. Maybe even my sister didn’t know her own feelings, but it was when she was in high school. I was still very young… … .”

……bang!

The door to Jia’s room opened roughly. Jahanna, with her face like a goblin’s, strode in.

“Hey. Did you use my fountain pen again?”

This time, the subject of venting one’s anger was a fountain pen.

Gia responded quietly.

“… … No.”

“Anyong, you’re going to die. Hey. Hit me with the palm of your hand.”

“… … I didn’t write it.”

“Tell me!”

“……yes.”

High school student Jahanna’s daily life was one of tormenting Gia.

Every day when she came home from school, she would take out her anger on Gia, and since Gia would be bullied anyway, she would steal and use Jahanna’s things on purpose.

“Sister… … it hurts.”

“I hit you because it hurt, so what? If you get caught again, I’ll break it then?”

After a few hard slaps to the palm, Jahanna turned around satisfied and didn’t touch him for a while.

Those were the days.

but…….

It was just another day, nothing special.

Was it Monday or Tuesday?

Anyway, Jia wrote a letter with Jahanna’s favorite fountain pen. Then she prepared herself mentally and waited for her.

If you actually steal, you get beaten up pretty badly.

But Jahanna didn’t come.

He didn’t come at the scheduled time every day.

Jahanna is surprisingly obsessive about routine, so I wondered if something was wrong.

But even after a day, even after two days, no matter how long he waited, Jahanna did not come to him.

It was nice that it didn’t have to be a hit, but after about a week, little Zia became curious.

She followed carefully behind Jahanna as she left school.

“… … What could it be?”

As soon as Jahanna got up to the hanging garden, she headed towards the flower garden.

Deep inside the garden that my grandfather personally renovated, there is a small sand training ground where three generations of scarecrows have been placed.

There was a knight standing there.

I think I was in my mid-20s.

Jahanna turned around and watched him hit the scarecrow.

Jia had a gut feeling at that moment.

Sister, you can like someone too.

* * *

─Our first meeting was in the garden… … .

I definitely took Gia’s hint.

To elicit someone’s emotions, simple, one-dimensional methods are not enough.

It is effective to utilize old memories.

People tend to beautify the past without realizing it and miss it.

You can understand this by thinking about the magnitude of romance contained in the mere mirage called ‘first love’.

─My sister still goes for a walk there sometimes these days.

First of all, I trained in the security team. Even though I was assigned to the third team, which was the worst, I was given an excuse to go to work at the sky garden every day.

─I guess that’s why I met that knight.

After finishing the security training, I headed to the place that Zia had told me to go.

“Is this it?”

As you pass through the flower gardens filled with beautifully blooming flowers and trees, strangely enough, there is a place where part of the ground is covered only with sand.

“……scarecrow.”

The three scarecrows are also shaking their bodies. They are guys with deep traces of time and scars.

─Nothing much happened between the two of them. My sister just watched the knight for three months, and then learned swordsmanship from the knight for the next three months.

I took out my wooden sword.

Knock- knock-

He displayed his Asuka-style swordsmanship and struck the scarecrow.

─Just before entering university.

I trained my swordsmanship like that for about three hours.

Without thinking about who is watching, I just train myself.

─That article died after I entered college.

Then it got late at night.

I left the flower garden.

It’s not something that can be done in one day anyway.

Since Jahanna is also a busy person, the days she can walk around this garden are limited.

I returned to the garden the next day.

There was no income again, but it came the next day as well.

It was the same the next day and the next day.

For a week, at the same time every day, I only practiced swordsmanship by hitting a dummy.

… … Sigh.

I felt a very faint presence.

I thought I knew who it was, but I didn’t show it. He didn’t approach me first either.

Bam─! Bam─!

I was confident as I swung my wooden sword at the scarecrow.

Places will evoke emotions, and memories will gradually overlap.

Slowly, her mind will change.