Memoirs of the Returnee - Chapter 281
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Episode 281
Frequency (1)
Although Sierin’s words were quite sudden, I pretended to be calm and asked back.
“Do the frequencies overlap?”
“… … .”
Sierin looked at my face quietly.
A suspicious gaze. It’s quite sharp, as if it’s trying to dig into your chest, but compared to Jahanna, it’s just an infinitely docile cat.
“Ms. Sierin. She’s holding your wrist.”
Soliet glared at her discontentedly. Sierin pursed her lips and took a step back.
“……joy.”
I asked as if I had no idea.
“What do two frequencies mean?”
Sierin sat down on the chair, grumbling.
“I just told you~ It’s a goldfish?”
“yes?”
“I can sense the frequency of the soul. Once I sense the frequency, it is remembered in the skin. So I can find a person, no matter where they are, dead or alive. But you.”
Sierin extended her slender finger and pointed at me.
“Strangely, the frequency doesn’t match.”
“What if it doesn’t fit?”
“It’s unique, it’s unique!”
He frowned and crossed his legs, perhaps in annoyance.
“Your frequencies are entangled in a spiral.”
“So.”
“… … I just said it was unusual. I told you it was the first time I’ve seen it in my life, so I’m really nervous~?”
Sierin raised her chin imperiously. Eric snickered.
“You guys, take that into account. Even the drinks in the fridge are lined up. This is an obsessive-compulsive disorder.”
“Do you want to fall behind?”
Sierin’s murderous gaze stabbed Eric. Eric shook his head as if it was nothing.
Whoosh- Sierin looked back at me again.
“Anyway. That’s what’s bothered me since I first saw you. I feel two frequencies at the same time, and even their separation becomes clearer each time they meet. I don’t think there are two souls inside you… … Do you have a relic?”
“yes.”
“I guess it’s because of that… … .”
Sierin was left to her own devices.
As for me, I was quite sweaty.
If it’s because of the regression, can the frequency before the regression still remain? I’m just a soul. Does that mean time is entangled?
“I… … Miss Sierin. What about Soliet?”
I asked about Soliette.
If regression is the cause, there may be some differences for Soliet as well.
Because she seems to have some, ‘very few’, memories from before her regression.
“……hmm?”
Suddenly, Sierin looked closely at Soliet. Her eyes narrowed.
Cheee …
Solliet turned her head away from the laser-like gaze as if avoiding the sunlight.
“What, what’s going on all of a sudden?”
“You’re weird too?”
“yes?”
In that moment, my heart sank.
“There’s a bit of confusion. Not as blatant as this… … but if you look closely, you can see it.”
“… … Yes? What does that mean?”
Solliet asked me back just now. Cierin looked very annoyed.
“No, I don’t mean it, I just think it’s weird! What the heck are you two? Are you dating?”
“Will you date me?”
Sieric answered instead, looking intently at Soliet.
I think you want me to say no.
“Oh, no. We’re dating.”
Solliet shook her head shyly.
“Haha. Of course.”
“… … .”
I looked at that soliloquy silently.
Frequency confusion
Not exactly like me, but definitely a singularity.
“What, why are you looking at it like that, Zion?”
Is there something about her?
Is something coming?
“Are you thinking of going to the lab right away?”
Eric asked Solliet. It was a natural change of subject.
“If you’re thinking of going, I’ll take you there, Solly.”
Eric, who was calling her by a nickname that didn’t sound like a nickname, was scratched by Sierin.
“You can’t go, you idiot. Go work, you ox.”
“… … What, Bull? I told you not to call me that. This bitch keeps saying weird things all the time-”
“If you’ve eaten hidden class, then get some work done.”
“Huh? Hidden class?!”
Soliet’s eyes widened. She was still an ordinary thief, but she still had an attachment to and longing for the hidden profession.
“Ugh. This guy’s an architect-”
“Hahaha. Architecture, yes. The art that most greatly expresses human imagination.”
Eric covered Sierin’s mouth and smiled broadly.
“A truly magnificent hidden class that carves the world by carving out nature. Noble Architecture – Evil!”
Sierin bit Eric’s palm. Thud- He spat and laughed mockingly.
“You little punk. This guy is a class construction worker. He’s really just a construction worker. The class name is ‘High-level construction worker.’ Thanks to that, he’s really good at his job~ Like a hundred bulls-”
“How many times do I have to say architecture? You crazy bitch!”
Of course, construction workers have a very sacred job, but Mr. Eric seems to want a name that sounds a little more sophisticated.
“Who’s looking at someone crazy, crazy bottles!”
“Crazy bitch, crazy bitch, crazy bitch─”
Finally, Eric’s mask came off, leaving the two of them bickering in the world behind.
“… … Let’s go. Soliette.”
“Yes. Let’s go.”
We have terminated the connection to Bedundan.
***
─… … How is your body?
A memory like a hazy, misty cloud.
Before my eyes, a nostalgic ‘olden days’ vaguely come to mind.
─Zion. How is your body? Answer.
Solliet asks me about my health while I’m hospitalized.
─Answer!
I shrug my shoulders, looking at the scar on her shoulder.
─It’s the same. I’m more worried about you. Every time I see you, a scar appears.
─What are you talking about? I know there’s no need to worry.
Then Soliet responds with a smile.
Probably around this time. I have about five years left to live, and Solliet is a few weeks away from committing suicide.
By this time, the entire continent had become aware of Soliet’s strength.
─Zion will be okay too.
A voice filled with unexpected confidence that I would be okay.
─Answer.
─… … Ah, why do you keep answering?
─I’m asking you to answer because you didn’t answer.
I laughed in vain.
Solliet’s words of comfort were always abrupt and full of too-purposeful affirmation, but I liked them.
─What are you laughing at?
─Why. You can laugh.
─I’m serious.
─What are you serious about?
─I just have a strong feeling that I will help Zion get better.
─Okay.
I reached out and placed my hand on her cheek. It took a little courage.
Solliet looked slightly embarrassed, but looked at me quietly.
─I just need you to be by my side.
I felt weak around her.
If she had been by my side for the rest of my short life, I probably would have given up on revenge.
─… … No. That’s not the right way.
Soliet shook her head.
For Soliet before her regression, revenge was the right path.
I was sad about it and it was a shame.
─Are you the right path for me?
─No problem. There must be a better way, for sure. So take care of your health. Quit drinking coffee and smoking.
─First of all, coffee is a health food if you drink it in moderation. And cigarettes… … I’ve already smoked too much. Irreversible damage has already occurred, that’s what I’m saying.
Soliet narrowed her eyes.
I quickly changed the subject.
─Ahem. By the way, how are you feeling?
─How does it feel to become the strongest?
She answered as if she had been asked this question before.
─Uh.
During this time, Soliet was a supreme being feared by all cartels, monsters, and even families.
Jade was also dead at the time, but Jade was bare-handed, while Solliet used a sword as a weapon.
─Isn’t it vain?
─No. It’s rewarding. Because I get to help people I like.
Soliet said.
Her voice, which still remains in my memory, is very different from the current Soliet.
A strong, husky tone, I would say.
I cried so much and suffered so much that I completely changed.
─I’m sure you’re not the one who likes me.
At this time, there was no room for me to delve into Solliet. She was too full of sorrow.
─… … Later.
Solliet smiled bitterly and pressed her lips to my forehead.
─You’ll find out later. Zion will definitely be okay.
You’ll find out later.
─… … Okay. I guess the surgery will go well today.
Solliet clearly said so, and I tried to believe it too.
From my point of view, it was so pointless, so selfish.
She committed suicide shortly thereafter.
I repeated her words at her funeral, but I just couldn’t understand them.
Without you, I can’t be okay.
“Zion. Zion. Zion.”
“… … ?”
A hand shaking my shoulder woke me up. I looked at the person sitting next to me.
It was a soliette.
The current Soliet.
“We have arrived.”
“… … Ah. Really?”
I rubbed my eyes. I lightly slapped my cheek to wake up from my dazed state.
“You drive well. You fell asleep right away.”
By the way, Soliet drove today.
“Hahaha! I told you. Zion, you said you’d get into a car accident, but you’re sleeping like you’re in a cradle?”
Soliet shrugged proudly.
“Let’s get down.”
“yes.”
We got off. There was a mountain right in front of us. To be exact, a mountain with a tunnel through it. But the entrance was blocked.
This is one of the locations of the research lab that Sierin marked.
“It’s in the basement. Let’s go.”
“Yes. Stay alert, Zion.”
Soliet took out her sword. I took up my sword as well.
Whaaa!
Soliet cut the entrance to the tunnel. We advanced through the horizontal cut.
***
A hidden space at the underground end of the tunnel.
We discovered what appears to be a closed laboratory.
“There is nothing.”
After so much time had passed, there were no clues. Broken reagent bottles, unidentifiable furballs, broken measuring instruments, pieces of computers, etc… Most of it was just traces.
“I know.”
“But, can you take this off? It’s stuffy.”
I saw Soliet. She was now wearing a face mask. Me too.
Both of them have a very ordinary impression.
“Shut up, Jelly.”
There is a possibility of wiretapping as well as surveillance. So Soliet is jelly and I am candy.
No magical devices have been found, but who knows?
“From the beginning, the pseudonym Jelly-”
“fizzle.”
I bent my knees. I put my hands on the ground. I closed my eyes and drew on my magic power.
I’m trying to download the ‘memories’ left in the place using “Notepad”… … .
─Eww
─Case 53… …Failure. Subject discarded.
─Save me!
─Case 73. Failure. Subject discarded.
─Gyaaaah!
─… … Case 103. Failure. Subject discarded.
Apart from the fragmentary deaths of these people, there is nothing left. Perhaps it is because the research itself was done so long ago.
“It seems like quite a few people died.”
“Did you see something?”
“Oh. When people die, they release magical energy. I caught a trace of it for a moment, but that’s all there is to it.”
The urban legend that says that when a dead person is weighed, they are several grams lighter than before they died is all due to this release of magic power.
“Were there any hints about the family?”
“Oh. The great families wouldn’t leave their names in a place like this.”
According to Sierin, not only Arcne, Libra, and Aventaher, but also Glofeld, Pencia, and Kruan──six of the famous ‘Families of the Round Table’ are involved.
“But let’s collect evidence. If we show it to Sierin, she’ll find something.”
Sierin’s frequency can also be used on objects or evidence.
“yes.”
Solliet put several things in the evidence bag.
“But, let’s say we collect evidence like this.”
Soliet asked, crouching down and collecting various things.
“How do I access the main gate?”
“Approaching… … Ah!”
Suddenly my eyes opened wide.
“I figured out a way.”
“What method is it?”
Solliet asked.
“You know what? Oddly enough, the more successful a person is, the more he or she clings to superstitions.”
… … .
“What is this?”
The next day, near Edsilla.
Solliet laughed bitterly as she looked at the old building I had purchased under another person’s name.
[Castrology]
“Castology?”
It is a compound word of card and astrology.
There’s no particular reason, I just wanted to make it look like it was there.
“It’s like Tarot cards. I’m going to be a card player. I’m a gambler, right?”
I can change the form of the card with [Bedondon]’s skill, “Trick”. I can also do “Card Drawing” which actually has an effect.
With this, I plan to make full use of the future I know to have the ‘Houses of the Round Table’ come to me directly.
“Is it possible? I don’t think anyone would believe it.”
“No. Trust me. The Glowfeld family in particular relies on astrology whenever they make important decisions.”
Libra is less so, but most of the houses of the Round Table have turned to astrology for help, to a greater or lesser extent. Not simply as a blind believer in the cult, but as a way to alleviate their own ‘self-doubt’.
“It may take some time, but the results will definitely be effective.”
Of course, since we’re just starting now, word of mouth is necessary.
It may take several years, but only once.
I can make you obsessed with me in just one meeting.
“Zion. Do you know how to read cards?
“Sierin told me to give you two frequencies. I guess something strange came down to me.”
“Ah, that could be possible.”
That could be the case, though.
I continued, holding back laughter.
“And, in this astrology, packaging is more important than the dragon. If you package it well, you can quickly become number one in this field.”
“… …Does that mean you’re committing fraud?”
“It’s not a scam, it’s technology and marketing.”
It’s absolutely not a scam.
Because I plan to only reveal their futures to the ‘celebrities’ who visit me.
In that respect─
“Where are you calling from?”
“I have connections. I’ll try to bring in a celebrity first.”
I called Growl.
It’s not that I don’t know, but there are quite a few celebrities that I follow on SNS…
***
[Castrology]
One autumn day, third-year singer Benjamin looked up at the shabby signboard of a dilapidated building.
Thump─!
I asked the manager as I closed the door of the luxury van.
“… …Is this the right place?”
“I think so.”
The manager answered.
“I feel like I came here for nothing. What is Castrology?”
Celebrities who are extremely worried, anxious, and anxious about the future often tend to lean on such pseudo-superstitions.
“Mr. Benjamin, who recommended this place?”
“Grow, that guy. Why am I looking at the SNS? You know?”
“Oh, you mean that cat influencer?”
“Oh. A friend who raises a cute cat.”
Celebrities who are always on the guillotine and subject to public criticism receive great healing from cute creatures like cats.
Benjamin asked the manager.
“Have you prepared the songs to be included?”
“Yes. But can I tell you? If it gets leaked-”
“Oh, it’s okay. I just have to choose a title anyway. And, friends who raise cats don’t lie.”
The album will be released in a week. Right now, my only concern is what to make the title track.
“Let’s go.”
Since it is a friend’s recommendation, they said they won’t charge much for the extra fee, so whether it is horoscope or card reading, there is no harm in getting it done…
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