The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed - Chapter 287



288 – Unique Abilities

There was nothing wrong with what Jin Xian said. My goal of doing anything for my loved ones may have been just words. I smiled bitterly and sighed.

“… “If I accept that I am a disgusting hypocrite, what changes?”

Jin Xian smiled at the self-deprecating question.

“It puts your mind at ease. “Just as calling someone stupid is a compliment to someone who is acting stupid, you will never be weighed down by your own guilt.”

“… “It’s exactly what I need right now.”

“Yes, not being afraid of hypocrisy. That’s probably the biggest advantage I can give. “It’s the perfect remedy for you who feel inferiority complex, depression, and amplified guilt.”

With those words, the conversation ended. After breaking the silence for a long time, I opened my mouth with a vague feeling.

“… “If I were with you, a lot of things would change for me, right?”

“You must be mistaken. Our becoming one is not about possession or mixing of souls. All it takes is for something that was once to return to its original form. Rather, you won’t feel anything. “Change will feel natural.”

I smiled at Jin Xian’s words and said playfully.

“For someone who wants to think simply, the explanation is really long.”

“… “I regret that it would have been much easier for me to explain that it was a necessary medicine for patients with severe depression.”

We made eye contact and burst into laughter without even having to say who went first.

“Okay, so now it’s time to rob the Loss of Longing.”

As I said that, I smiled and held Jin Xian’s outstretched hand.

*

“Are you back, idiot?”

Hearing Jin Xian’s voice, his vision suddenly began to appear. I can see the sofa and the universe. She returned to the living room where Ross of Longing was.

Jin Xian, who was sitting on the sofa eating popcorn, looked at my face and smiled mischievously.

“It looks like the essence has been recovered. How do you feel that something has changed?”

“Something has changed… “My head feels as cool as if I washed it with toothpaste, and the synchronization rate appears before my eyes.”

The last synchronization rate I saw was 42%. The synchronization rate that appeared before my eyes was 28%. We still don’t know why the synchronization rate continues to drop. What might happen if the synchronization rate becomes 0? Before I could ask a question about this, Jin Xian spoke first.

“be careful. “It’s over when the synchronization rate falls below 10%.”

“I guess you know what synchronization rate is?”

Jin Xian gave me a puzzled look at my question.

“No one in the multiverse knows Ross better than I do. “Look at me.”

As he said that and gestured towards himself, I looked at him wondering what he was talking about, and suddenly I understood what Jin Xian had said. Why did Ross of Longing take on the appearance of Jin Xian rather than Los? The question I had when I first saw it has been resolved.

“Surely the synchronization rate has reached 0%?”

In response to my question, Jin Xian looked relaxed and sighed in satisfaction.

“Ha, now the conversation can continue without having to explain everything. That’s right, my synchronization rate reached 0%, and the world I was in recognized me as writer Jin Xian, not Ross, so I came to this outer universe to run away from the world’s negativity.”

I was able to figure out various things from Jin Xian’s words. If the synchronization rate reaches 0%, the synchronization will be broken and you will become a complete true vision. If that happens, you will be expelled from the world.

From the conversation just now, I was able to guess why my synchronization rate had dropped so far.

Because he was freed from the constraints of a saint and regained his essence as a writer, Ross’ synchronization rate set by the saint fell. The fact that the synchronization rate dropped even when the Jin Xian inside me took control of my body and saved my life adds to the persuasiveness of the speculation.

One good thing is that my sync rate is now at 28%. Unless the true vision secretly hidden by the saint exists within me, the synchronization rate will not drop further than it is now.

With a little relief, I remembered that I would have to pay attention to the synchronization rate in the future, and suddenly I had a question about the longing Ross. Suddenly, I felt like the writer’s curiosity had grown tremendously in my head.

The conversation I had with Ross of Longing so far quickly flashed through my mind. Somehow, when I looked back on my memory, I felt like Jin Xian had given various explanations, but he had left out important information. I asked Jin Xian directly so that he could not avoid the answer.

“I think you can tell me now why you gave yourself the word ‘craving.’”

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Jin Xian put aside the popcorn container he was holding and smiled.

“I have become sharper because I have regained my essence as a writer. As expected, has it been developed to an extreme level? Well, it’s nothing to hide, so I’ll answer. “Before that, what do you think your craving is?”

“What you desperately want, what you want endlessly… “Isn’t that craving?”

Jin Xian nodded to my answer as if it was the correct answer.

“The Lost of the Multiverse have various unique abilities to escape from the fixed shackles. I wanted to add variables to the planned ending by diversifying the routes. I observed them, understood their unique abilities, and named them.”

When Jin Xian waved his hand, the universe visible where the wall collapsed quickly moved away. Like the glow-in-the-dark stickers that Aria put on the ceiling of my room, I saw tiny universes endlessly repeating extinction and birth.

“I wanted to observe, understand, and predict all events that occur in the multiverse to find the reason why we cannot escape the cycle of eternal recurrence. That’s why I introduced myself as Craving.”

Seeing Jin Xian looking at me as if he was satisfied with this, I didn’t nod my head as foolishly as before. Not all questions regarding Los of Longing have been resolved yet. You should get everything you can from the conversation. An opportunity like this may not come again.

I believe the explanation that he developed a desire to understand the universe while living as an observer in outer space, but I have not yet heard the reason why the synchronization rate of Ross of Longing became 0%. If the drop in my synchronization rate was due to a reactionary attempt to forcefully break away from the restrictions of the saint, then I had to be sure to ask what Loss of Cravings did that caused the synchronization rate to drop to 0%.

“Then in the world where you possessed Ross… What kind of Ross were you?”

Jin Xian, who noticed that the question contained an implicit meaning, laughed. She had a completely different kind of laugh than before. She did not avoid the eerie light in her eyes, but faced him directly.

“Did you read my probability? Or is it the author’s intuition? Wow, you discovered my secret in an instant. Well, I was going to explain that later, but… “I’ll tell you what you’re curious about.”

Jin Xian picked up a popcorn from the popcorn container he had thrown aside with his fingers and brought it to his mouth.

“Originally, I was Ross of Greed. After coming to outer space, greed simply changed its nature to craving. The object of my greed was talent, and all of Roel’s heroines in the novel had peak talent that could not be achieved with anything else.”

For a moment, I thought that Jin Xian had created a harem by NTRing Roel’s heroines. However, I soon realized that it was strange that even if I did that, the synchronization rate would decrease.

The synchronization rate was a matter of inner soul. Even if he dated several women, even if she was Roel’s lover, it wouldn’t have any effect. If so, the synchronization rate is low because greed was satisfied in some way… .

For a moment, my eyes widened as I looked at Jin Xian. Jin Xian seemed to have sensed that I had noticed something about her, and smiled.

“I became an archmage thanks to the magical talent of my childhood friend Ellie and the infinite magical power of Flavia. “I was able to become a sword master thanks to Illya’s natural talent with the sword, and I was able to become the owner of the Emerald Tablet thanks to Rosalyn’s alchemy talent.”

Goosebumps appeared on my skin. Rather than hearing Jin Xian say that he had gained someone else’s talent, he was more horrified to hear that he had gained infinite magical power from Flavia. That wasn’t talent. It was just an innate ‘setting’ that Flavia had.

Obtaining Flavia’s infinite magical power means that the unique ability of Greedy Ross is not simply an imitation of talent or theft. That means… .

“… Yeah, I wasn’t satisfied with staying as an extra. Actually, that’s what book possession is, right? “When you possess an extra, you do more things than the main character, and from the middle, you become stronger than the main character.”

Jin Xian smiled coolly. He continued speaking while looking somewhere far away, as if recalling the past.

“When I first opened my eyes after being possessed by Ross, I was shocked the moment I saw my parents. The person looked like jelly. When I entered the academy, everything was covered in jelly. Sometimes I even saw cookies. But Roel and the heroines were different. Perhaps because it was a character in a novel, it looked like delicious chocolate rather than jelly. “The moment I saw them, I realized the nature of my greed.”

Jin Xian scooped up a hand full of popcorn from the popcorn container that was thrown carelessly next to him, showed it to me, and brought it to his mouth one by one with an ominous smile.

“Just as you obtained the Farel family’s magic book that Rosalind should have obtained, I also used my unique abilities to become stronger.”

The popcorn that went into Jin Xian’s mouth shattered with a sound.