The Broken Possessors of the Infinite Regression Academy - Chapter 202
Chapter 202 – Side Story: How did you come back?
Latina looked very confused when she heard about the outside world, but later she came to understand it somehow. It seemed that she came from a world where humans and monsters fought until one of them was destroyed.
I just had to rack my brain to come up with a plausible answer to the question of what the original Earth was like. It was a question that couldn’t be clearly defined.
“Now it’s Mira’s turn.”
As soon as Latina finished explaining, she confidently demanded an explanation, saying that it was her turn. The rest of them moved as if they had been waiting for those words and took me to the top floor of the Eternal Guild headquarters building.
It was a large room that could easily accommodate ten people and had a few more beds left over, prepared for when I would return someday. There was even an elevator inside the room that would take me to my room on another floor.
“If you don’t have a place to live, you can live here. We’ll take care of everything.”
“… … Doesn’t the intention seem too transparent?”
“Intention? What intention? We don’t know. Isn’t that what everyone else is?”
The attitude of shamelessly avoiding the question was top-notch. Latina, who clearly had not agreed with the question beforehand, joined the ranks quite naturally.
I can’t say anything because I held on, hoping that I would return, even with this kind of thought. I had no choice but to train myself and hold on in many ways.
“That’s right. Didn’t you say you were busy with your requests? There’s also the Gate subjugation. You can do it later when we all have free time, so go ahead and come back. I’ll be waiting.”
“The request has been cancelled.”
“You broke it? Why?”
“It’s to make time, even if it means forcing ourselves to do so. You don’t know how busy we are, so you can say so calmly that we’re waiting for time to pass. If we do that, the opportunity will never come until we die. Anyway, we just have to get there before the gate pours out the monsters.”
Except for Latina and me, everyone else seemed to agree with what Elisier said. It was obvious that the two of us didn’t know. I wondered if the Earth was in that serious of a situation.
“In the end, it’s not us who are the ones who are going to be disappointed, but them. What’s the point of breaking the contract? They won’t stop asking for our help in the future. So it doesn’t matter if you show your guts a few times. Those who will curse at us for this are the ones who will do whatever it takes to curse us, so just ignore them.”
I saw Laura smiling a little creepily and I laughed along awkwardly.
“So, what really happened?”
“I’ll tell you. It’s a bit long to tell standing up, so where should I sit… … ?”
Before I could finish speaking, someone had me pulled up and sat on their lap. With my body proportions, there was only one person who could handle me like that.
Chairman Erestica.
My body, which was sitting on a thick and fluffy thigh the size of my waist, was pulled by large fingers. The round thing near my head spread apart to the left and right, and my head went inside.
A heavy, even violent, weight and warm warmth enveloped my head. At the same time, a sweet milky smell filled my nasal passages. The smell seemed even stronger than before.
‘… … What on earth is this?’
I laughed inwardly. The feeling of my lower abdomen being soft and smooth as it spread down my back, or the elasticity of my thighs as I sat down, didn’t even register in my head.
Is this really the size a person can grow to? Well, strictly speaking, it’s a dragon, not a person, so it’s possible. I just don’t understand why it grew so much bigger. Did they grow it on purpose?
Erestica hugged me tightly with a bright smile. As my head buried itself deeper between her chests, my left and right field of vision narrowed significantly. Even the sound sounded a little muffled.
“What’s wrong, child? Didn’t you need a place to sit?”
“I didn’t want this.”
“You’ve been patient for so long. I hope you’ll let it go just this once.”
“… … .”
Could it be that the reason I’ve been showing the other kids that I’ve been giving in to them up until now was for this? Everyone seemed to be thinking the same thing as me, looking back and forth between Erestica and me with bewildered eyes.
“… … Did you hate it? I’m sorry. I guess this kind of thing happens to other kidsㅡ”
“No, that’s fine. Since your mouth isn’t blocked, I guess I can say it like this.”
The sobbing chairman tightened his arms around me again. I couldn’t see his expression, but it seemed like he was smiling.
In the first place, only the chairman could do this kind of pose. Even if he were not tall, his chest was too small to completely cover his head.
Elisier, Rosaria, and Nika, whose sizes are such that they would never be outdone no matter where they go, as well as Laura, Priscilla, and Latina, whose sizes are not objectively or subjectively small, are all too small to fit their entire heads in between.
Leona… … .
“… … .”
Well, he seemed a little dazed. Unfortunately, that was out of my hands.
And it’s not like Leona doesn’t exist at all. It’s just that the comparison is too extreme.
“What happened after the dimensional gate closed?”
I began to explain, trying hard to ignore the feeling of two huge lumps of fat pressing down on my head and shoulders, and the warmth of Erestica that enveloped my entire body.
“Cough!”
I was swept away by time and flew for a while before crashing back down and rolling around on the ground.
But even after I hit the ground, the torrent of time showed no signs of stopping, and I had to roll around like that for a long time, getting thrown here and there.
The thought of treating my severed right arm didn’t even cross my mind. If I didn’t concentrate and get my bearings right, I felt like I would end up hitting my head in the face and dying at any moment.
Then, I managed to find a place where I could catch it and stuck the Holy Spear in. The Holy Spear, which had been flying through the air countless times, got stuck somewhere and wrapped around the time nearby, fixing it, and the speed at which it rolled around slowed down.
I was barely able to stand on my own two feet. Now I could hold on a little longer. In other words, even though I had fixed time with the Holy Spear, I could only hold on a little longer.
Moreover, even this was not perfect. Even now, the flow was slowly seeping in between the fixed times. I looked around while putting strength into my legs and holding on to the flow.
-Kuooo… … .
It was a landscape that seemed like a sea of gold, but there was no time to appreciate or admire its beauty.
When a storm and a tsunami are raging in the sea at the same time, who would have time to watch it all? I quietly relaxed my body, which was aching everywhere.
‘I managed to buy some time… … but what do I do now?’
Blood dripped from the cut surface of the cleanly severed right arm. The drops of blood that fell into the golden halo hardened into dark red scabs in less than a second, then turned to powder and disappeared.
It wasn’t long after I caught my breath, but the flow seeping through the gap between the windows began to disappear little by little. If I stay here like this, I’ll really be torn apart. And I don’t know when time will be restored.
‘……wait for a sec.’
Suddenly, a good idea crossed my mind. Didn’t the goddess and the demon do that? They asked me not to use the Holy Spear as much as possible, as it could affect time.
Even now, I am struggling to change the flow, so if I use this well, it might be possible. I roughly stopped the bleeding at the cut site with healing magic and held the spear even stronger.
I don’t know how. I don’t even know if it’s possible. I just blindly accept the fact that the Holy Spear can affect time.
“Yeah. Anyway, there’s no other way.”
It was a loss anyway. I twisted my arm with the feeling of pulling time while infusing strength into the Holy Spear. The light beam that stretched out like a spider web grew larger and stuck to the nearby space.
Then I felt like the flow was getting a little weaker.
‘… … is it happening?’
If this method is correct, I have a rough idea of what to do. Just like before, I was using the Holy Spear to pull nearby time, as if I was ripping time itself out in its entirety.
He breathed more divinity into it. The Holy Spear shook.
-!!!!!!
A silent explosion occurred. The divinity contained within the Holy Spear burst out in an instant, erasing all of the time in the vicinity, creating a space where literally nothing existed.
It was now. The goddess and the demon opened the dimensional gate to the coordinates they had found and jumped in with all their might.
It was a really precarious timing. As soon as I jumped in, the dimensional gate was swept away by time and destroyed. If I had hesitated for even just one second, it would have been dangerous.
“Where is this place?”
The place I arrived at was a place I had never seen before. It was an ambiguous place that looked like a cave, but didn’t seem like a cave on Earth. Could it be that I entered the coordinates incorrectly after coming all the way here?
I was sitting down for a moment, thinking I should take a breather, when I heard a voice I had never heard before.
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“It’s that guy.”
“… … It was something like this.”
“You can pull back time, what the… … .”
“Maybe it wasn’t just a simple pull. The flow of time was different. It was the same when I came over here.”
The time I sat and rested was literally just enough to catch a few breaths, but it took hours for the guy who came through the gate to detect the magical reaction and find me.
It is clear that the magical power reaction must have appeared in the dimensional gate I created, so it naturally follows that the flow of time was different.
“It’s probably along the same lines that seven years have passed here while I was wandering around that world.”
Even as I spoke, cold sweat ran down my back. I almost got into big trouble. If I had been a little bit later in finding the solution, it could have taken more than ten years instead of seven.
The right answer was to struggle to come back somehow.
“That’s all I have to say. It’s your turn. What happened here?”
I shook off Erestica’s hand and got up from my thigh. It was now time to change from listening to speaking. Erestica, who had been sullen for a moment, buttoned up the shirt she had been pulling down one by one.
I feel this way again, but it was amazing that the dress shirt could hold up to that. Since he wasn’t even wearing underwear, the dress shirt had to support all the weight.
“Okay. Where should I start explaining-”
At that moment, the watch on Leona’s wrist lit up red. Leona frowned and sighed, about to throw the device away, but stopped herself. The other six did the same.
“Mira, do you have time?”
“There’s nothing I can’t do… … What’s going on?”
The question is not whether I will have time or not, but whether the people here will leave me alone.
“If it’s okay with you, I’d like to show you how we’ve been doing while you were away.”