The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed - Chapter 260



261 – Configuration Error

When I heard that Roel also had inexplicable contradictions, I felt goosebumps running down my back.

I had been thinking that there was a possibility that Roel had regressed. It occurred to me that perhaps the contradiction Raelan mentioned might be a clue to explain Roel’s return.

But I couldn’t completely believe Raelan’s words, so I asked with a bit of caution.

“Surely, you found a contradiction in Roel as well?”

Raelan smiled coldly at my question.

“You don’t think Ilya wandered around a place where there was nothing for no reason and found you by chance, right?”

At Raelan’s question, I narrowed my eyebrows. Because it sounded as if Ilya’s saving me was planned.

But the more I thought about it, the more strange it seemed. Even I, who created the passage, did not know that the passage led here in the first place, so how could Roel know that I would arrive there and send Ilia in advance? I couldn’t explain it other than a coincidence. Ilya even mistook me for a devil and tried to kill me.

When I told Raelan about this, he smiled strangely and stroked his chin.

“That’s why I said it was an inexplicable contradiction. Is my prediction correct? Hehe, it seems likely that Roel will be the most dangerous person to you.”

“Raelan. Please explain properly. “What on earth happened?”

At my urging, Raelan sighed softly, nodded, and began to explain.

“Before you showed up. “Roel suddenly started shaking as if he had been struck by lightning, and he suddenly canceled all his plans and left without telling me his destination, saying he was going to search Ilya and the surrounding area.”

“Search… ?”

“Yes, I went straight to where you are with Ilia. “I don’t know how you were there or how Roel found out, but it was clearly an intentional act to save you.”

At Raelan’s words, I wiped my face with dry face. How did Roel know that I came from another world? Is there any way for Roel to find out my location? ? I feel like something unpleasant is stirring in my chest.

Raelan continued his explanation.

“When Roel brought you unconscious, Konrad and I naturally thought you were a demon disguised as Roth… Roel was convinced that you were an ordinary person and not a devil. “That is Roel’s inexplicable contradiction I was talking about.”

I felt like I finally understood what Roel’s inexplicable contradictions Raelan had talked about were. Even if I explained that finding me was truly a coincidence, the reaction that followed was evidence of contradiction.

Raelan and Konrad, who saw me, who had died at the hands of Roel, alive and well after a few years before destruction, naturally thought that my existence was a trick of the devil or that there was some kind of hidden trap, and they were very wary. It was a little disappointing from my perspective, but it was a common sense reaction.

However, Roel was convinced that I, who suddenly appeared for the first time in several years, was not a devil, but his younger brother. Why did Roel not have the slightest suspicion towards me when his younger brother, whom he killed with his own hands, was brought back to life after several years? Could it be that Roel has some secret that makes it unnecessary to doubt my existence… ?

As I moistened my dry lips with saliva, Raelan must have read my expression and decided that my explanation was sufficient, so he told me another story.

“I have a few questions to ask. “This is an important question that determines what we must do in the future, so I hope you will focus and answer.”

At Raelan’s words, I nodded, pushing the questions about Roel to the back of my mind. Raelan asked, nodding in satisfaction at my concentration.

“It doesn’t seem like your coming to this world was planned. Am I correct?”

I wonder if he had even noticed it until then, but he didn’t even know what year it was, and it seemed like he was mistaken in thinking it was the original world, so it was worth it. I nodded.

“Somehow, I was trapped in a dimensional gap, and while looking for a way to escape, I ended up here. In fact, I never even thought that other worlds existed.”

Just being possessed by a novel was a complicated thing, but the fact that there was a place with a different world line from that world was truly unexpected. This does not exist even in the discarded settings.

Raelan asked with a skeptical voice.

“Is there a way to return to the original world you lived in?”

“When these runes surrounding your wrist turn green, you will be able to create a passage back to the original world.”

For added persuasiveness, I raised my left wrist and showed Raelan the runes forming a circle, but for some reason, Raelan only narrowed his eyes and glared at me.

“… I can’t see anything on my wrist. “I don’t feel any magical flow.”

“yes… ? Is that possible? “It looks so clear.”

As if he really couldn’t see the runes, Raelan took out a staff from his pocket and used some kind of magic on my wrist. As the vapor-like thing gently wrapped around my wrist and slowly disappeared, Raelan asked in an irritated voice.

“really… “Does it even exist?”

At the skeptical look, I shrugged my shoulders.

“It’s not a lie.”

“Is this a type of magic that cannot be seen by anyone other than the user…? As expected, the new master is full of unknowns. “I’d better research that magic in more detail later.”

Raelan, whose eyes were shining with interest, scratched his temple as if organizing his thoughts, and then suddenly asked me.

“What are you most curious about right now? “Don’t worry, just say whatever comes to mind.”

Although I was taken aback by Raelan’s sudden request, I immediately spoke out the thoughts that came to my mind as told.

“I wonder how Roel lost his arm and why the world is destroyed when the Demon King dies.”

Raelan smiled vaguely and said in response to my question.

“To think of a question that cuts right through the point… Do you have great intuition? Or do you have a special talent for reading the flow?”

Raelan, who was mumbling something strange and incomprehensible to himself, smiled and answered my question.

“It was two questions, but since the story is connected, I’ll explain them all at once. The cult leader revealed himself to us shortly after the Demon King died and Roel’s warrior party returned. In the meantime, the leader of the Chaos Cult disguised himself as dead, deceived all of us, and secretly prepared to descend on ‘Him’, the believer of the Cult.”

Of course, what the religious leader believed in was the god of the Chaos Church. But Advent would have been impossible. There was no God to answer the call in the first place. Because the Chaos Church was a cult.

But when I heard the next words, I felt as if time had stopped for a moment.

“When the cult leader revealed himself to us, he had already descended on his body. So Roel-”

“Wait a minute! “God has come down?”

In response to my urgent question, Raelan nodded, observing my expression with sharp eyes.

“Yeah, I’m sure. The cult leader killed the survivors with a single blow with tremendous strength unlike before. Without Roel, there would have been no survivors. In the fight with the cult leader, Roel lost his arm. We retreated, and the cult leader created a chaos bug to destroy the world. And with the power of God, he planned to bring the light of the sun and moon together and throw the whole world into chaos. Ellie sacrificed herself to share the chaotic sky created by the cult leader, but in the end, she only gained a little time. “Ellie’s magic is being swept away by chaos and disappearing.”

“That doesn’t make sense… .”

I was curious about who Eli, the man who divided the heavens, was, but more than that, I couldn’t believe that God had descended on the body of the religious leader. The Chaos Church is simply a mid-boss and pseudo-religion created for Roel’s growth. I never thought about what their faith believed, and I didn’t even bother to create a setting for the God of Chaos Religion. Chaosism was born by adding words about religion that I picked up somewhere.

How could a non-existent god descend on the body of the cult leader? Suddenly, an ominous sense of discomfort stirs in my mind. Thinking something might be wrong, I took out the setting book and checked for clues to resolve the discomfort in my head.

Seeing me like that, Raelan asked in a puzzled voice.

“What am I doing alone in the air… ?”

Despite Raelan’s question, I checked the settings book without saying a word. And when I finally checked the settings book to the end, I couldn’t help but distort my face.

“doesn’t exist… .”

Until now, I had thought that Chaosism was simply a pseudo-religion. However, after checking the setting book, the word Chaos Cult is a ‘pseudo’ did not appear anywhere in the novel. As a writer, I was the only one who perceived it that way.

Then everything is explained. The reason why the religious leader was able to descend a non-existent god… .

These are the cult leader and Confsion who fought Roel with the power obtained from the God of Chaos Cult. Of course, I thought it was fake and never thought about the source of the power. However, since there is no mention in the novel that the power is false, this is a setting error.

What would happen if probability worked to eliminate that setup error? It’s very simple.

Probability is what makes the God called ‘Him’ that Chaosism believes in exist. If the existence of God is true, the strength of the cult leader and Confsion becomes probable by explaining that they received power from God as the cult leader said.