I can’t help but feel like jumping to conclusions and getting comfortable with such a disgusting story.
And I want to be drunk with a sense of justice.
If I wasn’t a withered old man, I would have jumped to the conclusion.
Getting older is not such a bad thing.
She seems to be hesitant to speak, so I gently encourage her to continue.
“So, what about those surviving children?”
Kiara let out a small breath and slumped.
“After the apostle left, they all buried their bodies by the sea. Fortunately or unfortunately, there were not many bodies left with a proper form ……”
“So there’s only children ……”
Kiara looked up and laughed emotionlessly.
I wondered if this was what empty laughter felt like.
“I had to do something, that’s what I thought.”
“And then what?”
“They all talked about it. And decided that they weren’t going to …… do what she said.”
“But it would be dangerous. If she got suspicious, it would be a problem.”
There was silence for quite a while, and then I looked at Kiara and saw that she had a dark and gloomy expression on her face, like a ghost.
Is this what a ghost looks like when it smiles?
She had an empty, cold smile that made me think so.
The base was a beautiful girl, so the impact was different.
Ugly ghosts are just scary.
The ghost of a beautiful girl is a unique mixture of mysterious beauty, emptiness and fear.
She began to speak quietly, but her hands were clenched tightly.
“If they all commit suicide together, their hands will be unreachable. It’s the only way a helpless child can stand up to an apostle who has the world on her side.”
You’re right, there’s also necromancy, but there’s no talk about the apostle using it …… So they thought they could escape by dying.
I wonder if that blade reached the apostles.
I wonder if it even grazed her.
It may not have mattered.
You told us to live and tell our story, so I will die.
I guess that was the only thing …… they could do.
I understand the logic, but I don’t know how they felt when they made the decision to die.
I don’t want to irresponsibly tell people to live because death is the end of everything.
Because I don’t understand the situation correctly at that time.
I can’t be responsible for the rest of their life either.
If I self-righteously impose on their life, how much responsibility can I take for that life if I let them choose it?
If you leave the rest up to the individual, you’re interfering with people’s lives and deaths just for your own satisfaction.
It’s no good. I’ll get caught up in it if I think about it too deeply.
Let’s hear the rest.
“What then?”
Kiara shook her head.
“Eleni’s lore is extremely scarce. So we don’t know what the outcome was.”
Is it because they’re making problems here and there that they have left only safe traditions to cover-up?
“So that’s how they ended up using it as a base.”
“I checked every bit of lore that was left. I checked all the remaining legends. The only thing I could find was that she used it as a base.”
I let out a gasp, and I had to find out why she had told me this.
I have to be the one to understand this feeling.
If it is possible, I would like to fulfill her wishes as her brother.
But if she was convinced that I was hiding the Apostle’s power and asked me to help her retaliate, I would have refused.
I can say this because I’m uninvolved, and there are no more people who can be directly punished.
If I killed the unrelated descendants, I would be no different from Eleni and Vasileos.
“So what do you want me to do?”
“There is a large tree standing near the seashore, just outside the town. Place any kind of flower at the base of it.”
I was relieved that it wasn’t retaliation, but I wondered how she would face her hatred in the future.
“Is there only one tree?”
“It’s now named Tombstone Tree.”
Did someone find the bodies of the children?
It’s a bit redundant, but I’ll check it too.
“The children are there?”
The ghostly expression from earlier was gone.
Kiara nodded in silence, but I could see the subtle wavering of her emotions.
I’m sure that in theory, she knows that the target of her retaliation is no longer there.
Is she trying to come to terms with her past somehow?
Then, as an old man, and as her older brother, I should help her to reach the exit.
(T/N: I don’t really understand if she’s one of the children in the story she said or not, because it was said that there was no target of retaliation already, meaning that the fifth apostle is already dead, but it was also said that she(Kiara) is trying to come to terms with her past. I guess I can’t understand because I still don’t know her motive.)
“At what time did you remember?”
Kiara looked surprised for a moment, but then quickly smiled.
“Brother is such a strange person. You want to know everything, and I feel like you know everything. And even when something is foreign to him, you try to understand it first. You’re really strange.”
No, I’m not, I want to know because I’m aware of my own ignorance.
And you just talk about what you know.
Before my reincarnation, I liked a ton of mysteries.
I used to buy books like “Monthly Zero,” and I also enjoyed reading about ancient alien astronauts.
Even if the story was outrageous, I would listen to it first.
Thanks to my love for history, I know more about Socrates than most people.
I know Sun Tzu, Han Yue Tzu, the theory of monarchs, the theory of war, and so on.
Even in other worlds, human nature remains the same, so I can apply it.
“There’s nothing strange about it, yes, I’m just trying to understand what I’m ignorant of.”
I unexpectedly made a cool remark.
I don’t want it to be added to my black history later.
Come to think of it, Kiara has always been a strange child.
She has not cried much since she was a child, and she is quick to speak up.
Since she was a child, she often had nightmares and would crawl into my bed.
She stopped having nightmares when he was about 10 years old.
And she couldn’t fit in with other children her age anymore.
There was a story about a kid who had memories of his previous life before he was reincarnated, and how he had a hard time passing on his memories of his previous life to his parents.
Over here, it’s the bad behavior of the apostles …… You can never talk about it.
At first, it was said that Kiara was an apostle.
If what she said earlier was true, it would have been a very cruel torture.
Even if she tries to deny it, people around her expect things from her.
And they innocently believe in the rightness of the apostle.
They selfishly expect you to be someone you detest.
I’m amazed she could put up with that until now.
And now it’s clear why she’s so mature.
If you’re going to live in a mafia stronghold, you can’t live with a flowery head.
You have to be realistic in your own way.
And even after being reincarnated with hatred and despair …… she was probably still trying desperately to figure out how much and what to tell others.
Kiara wants to find a good man and make him happy, and she is well qualified to do so.
I couldn’t help but sit up and gently stroke her head as I used to do.
Kiara leaned back against me, closing her eyes happily.
“It started when I was about 3 years old. How could you think that an ordinary person could be reincarnated?”
“Compared to the regular appearance of apostles with extraordinary powers. It’s not at all strange for a person’s soul to be reincarnated.”
(T/N: Ohhh, now I understand.)
In a world with magic, reincarnation would be possible.
But even though it seems like everything is possible, I feel like there is a logic to it.
That’s what the gods said. Cleanse the world.
It’s impossible to do that without certain rules.
I’m not there yet, not with my knowledge.
I’m starting to see the path I should take.
At first, I restrained my power out of fear, but now I’m sure I’m on the right track.
And the first thing I need to do is learn the rules of this world.
" "
Kiara gave me a strange look.
“Didn’t you think I was imagining things?”
“I’ve been watching you since you were a little girl, Kiara. You’re too mature and too realistic compared to children your age. If I’m delusional enough to be fooled, that’s quite amazing. Then we can go out.”
“That freedom of thought is amazing. Maybe the Sage in the old books was someone like Brother.”
No, that’s not true.
It’s just that I’m a cheat reincarnated and have more knowledge cards than other people.
When Kiara sees me shrugging my shoulders, she grips my hand.
“Were you worried about what happened to the other children, or is it just me? If so, why? I thought about it, but I couldn’t come up with an answer. The mixture of life, death, despair, and hatred inside me made me feel like I was going crazy. In such a situation, even if I said something strange, only my brother listened to me …… and answered me seriously.”
She was staring at me.
I was embarrassed, but I felt like I shouldn’t turn my gaze away now.
“And then I thought. Brother is the only one who doesn’t unconditionally worship the apostles. I thought, maybe I’m not the only one who is different. I thought maybe you would understand me.”
In the past, Kiara asked, “Are the apostles so great?” and I defended her when she got a lot of good scolding from the people around her.
Kiara’s eyes watered as her emotions ran high.
“It was because of you that I was able to make it this far without breaking down, brother. It must be rare to find someone like Brother. So I guess my second time was lucky.”
Oh, man, this pure ray of gratitude is too bright for an old man with a depressed mind!
I have to change the subject before I faint in agony!
“I’ve never seen an apostle myself, so I don’t believe in the righteousness of apostles unconditionally. And besides, Kiara isn’t really different. If you’re right, it’s the apostles and the world hiding inconvenient facts that are different.”
I said it with a certain amount of coolness, but I knew he was picking up some sort of nerd from the modern world.
I just can’t bring myself to worship it.
Even before my reincarnation, before my memories returned, I was not pure enough to believe in anything unconditionally.
Kiara laughed at my overly confident statement.
“But you’re definitely in the minority.”
I know that.
I shrugged my shoulders.
“I know that, but numbers are only a comfort.”
Yes, mass incitement is a technique that existed in the original world.
There is no such thing as absolute justice in large numbers.
It’s just an advantage to get things done.
Kiara was nodding her head in a dumbfounded but impressed manner.
Suddenly, she leaned forward to see what I was thinking.
A straight face itself.
“Six months, I’m going to really! Really! Miss you, but please come back safely.”
“I can’t live on my own, so I’ll come back.”
Sadly, I’ve decided not to use my physical abilities, magic, or any other cheat abilities.
I’m not so naive to think that I can live with abilities that are a little below average.
I’ve chosen to be a nobleman’s son to make things easier.
I’m not going to give it up easily.
“Also, may I ask you to do me a favor that I ask every six months?”
I almost blew up at the subtlety and tightness of the question.
“Sure.”
Kiara had an angelic smile on her face, but her aura of being absolutely sure to be heard was buzzing.
“Can I sleep here today like the old days?”
This is the type of woman who, when she gets married, will make it look like she’s standing up for her husband and then firmly manipulate him.
I don’t want to cause a problem, though, because we’re siblings.
If she finds out, my black history will be more than just a page ……
It will be a black history carved in stone …… for sure.
I can’t help but feel like jumping to conclusions and getting comfortable with such a disgusting story.
And I want to be drunk with a sense of justice.
If I wasn’t a withered old man, I would have jumped to the conclusion.
Getting older is not such a bad thing.
She seems to be hesitant to speak, so I gently encourage her to continue.
“So, what about those surviving children?”
Kiara let out a small breath and slumped.
“After the apostle left, they all buried their bodies by the sea. Fortunately or unfortunately, there were not many bodies left with a proper form ……”
“So there’s only children ……”
Kiara looked up and laughed emotionlessly.
I wondered if this was what empty laughter felt like.
“I had to do something, that’s what I thought.”
“And then what?”
“They all talked about it. And decided that they weren’t going to …… do what she said.”
“But it would be dangerous. If she got suspicious, it would be a problem.”
There was silence for quite a while, and then I looked at Kiara and saw that she had a dark and gloomy expression on her face, like a ghost.
Is this what a ghost looks like when it smiles?
She had an empty, cold smile that made me think so.
The base was a beautiful girl, so the impact was different.
Ugly ghosts are just scary.
The ghost of a beautiful girl is a unique mixture of mysterious beauty, emptiness and fear.
She began to speak quietly, but her hands were clenched tightly.
“If they all commit suicide together, their hands will be unreachable. It’s the only way a helpless child can stand up to an apostle who has the world on her side.”
You’re right, there’s also necromancy, but there’s no talk about the apostle using it …… So they thought they could escape by dying.
I wonder if that blade reached the apostles.
I wonder if it even grazed her.
It may not have mattered.
You told us to live and tell our story, so I will die.
I guess that was the only thing …… they could do.
I understand the logic, but I don’t know how they felt when they made the decision to die.
I don’t want to irresponsibly tell people to live because death is the end of everything.
Because I don’t understand the situation correctly at that time.
I can’t be responsible for the rest of their life either.
If I self-righteously impose on their life, how much responsibility can I take for that life if I let them choose it?
If you leave the rest up to the individual, you’re interfering with people’s lives and deaths just for your own satisfaction.
It’s no good. I’ll get caught up in it if I think about it too deeply.
Let’s hear the rest.
“What then?”
Kiara shook her head.
“Eleni’s lore is extremely scarce. So we don’t know what the outcome was.”
Is it because they’re making problems here and there that they have left only safe traditions to cover-up?
“So that’s how they ended up using it as a base.”
“I checked every bit of lore that was left. I checked all the remaining legends. The only thing I could find was that she used it as a base.”
I let out a gasp, and I had to find out why she had told me this.
I have to be the one to understand this feeling.
If it is possible, I would like to fulfill her wishes as her brother.
But if she was convinced that I was hiding the Apostle’s power and asked me to help her retaliate, I would have refused.
I can say this because I’m uninvolved, and there are no more people who can be directly punished.
If I killed the unrelated descendants, I would be no different from Eleni and Vasileos.
“So what do you want me to do?”
“There is a large tree standing near the seashore, just outside the town. Place any kind of flower at the base of it.”
I was relieved that it wasn’t retaliation, but I wondered how she would face her hatred in the future.
“Is there only one tree?”
“It’s now named Tombstone Tree.”
Did someone find the bodies of the children?
It’s a bit redundant, but I’ll check it too.
“The children are there?”
The ghostly expression from earlier was gone.
Kiara nodded in silence, but I could see the subtle wavering of her emotions.
I’m sure that in theory, she knows that the target of her retaliation is no longer there.
Is she trying to come to terms with her past somehow?
Then, as an old man, and as her older brother, I should help her to reach the exit.
(T/N: I don’t really understand if she’s one of the children in the story she said or not, because it was said that there was no target of retaliation already, meaning that the fifth apostle is already dead, but it was also said that she(Kiara) is trying to come to terms with her past. I guess I can’t understand because I still don’t know her motive.)
“At what time did you remember?”
Kiara looked surprised for a moment, but then quickly smiled.
“Brother is such a strange person. You want to know everything, and I feel like you know everything. And even when something is foreign to him, you try to understand it first. You’re really strange.”
No, I’m not, I want to know because I’m aware of my own ignorance.
And you just talk about what you know.
Before my reincarnation, I liked a ton of mysteries.
I used to buy books like “Monthly Zero,” and I also enjoyed reading about ancient alien astronauts.
Even if the story was outrageous, I would listen to it first.
Thanks to my love for history, I know more about Socrates than most people.
I know Sun Tzu, Han Yue Tzu, the theory of monarchs, the theory of war, and so on.
Even in other worlds, human nature remains the same, so I can apply it.
“There’s nothing strange about it, yes, I’m just trying to understand what I’m ignorant of.”
I unexpectedly made a cool remark.
I don’t want it to be added to my black history later.
Come to think of it, Kiara has always been a strange child.
She has not cried much since she was a child, and she is quick to speak up.
Since she was a child, she often had nightmares and would crawl into my bed.
She stopped having nightmares when he was about 10 years old.
And she couldn’t fit in with other children her age anymore.
There was a story about a kid who had memories of his previous life before he was reincarnated, and how he had a hard time passing on his memories of his previous life to his parents.
Over here, it’s the bad behavior of the apostles …… You can never talk about it.
At first, it was said that Kiara was an apostle.
If what she said earlier was true, it would have been a very cruel torture.
Even if she tries to deny it, people around her expect things from her.
And they innocently believe in the rightness of the apostle.
They selfishly expect you to be someone you detest.
I’m amazed she could put up with that until now.
And now it’s clear why she’s so mature.
If you’re going to live in a mafia stronghold, you can’t live with a flowery head.
You have to be realistic in your own way.
And even after being reincarnated with hatred and despair …… she was probably still trying desperately to figure out how much and what to tell others.
Kiara wants to find a good man and make him happy, and she is well qualified to do so.
I couldn’t help but sit up and gently stroke her head as I used to do.
Kiara leaned back against me, closing her eyes happily.
“It started when I was about 3 years old. How could you think that an ordinary person could be reincarnated?”
“Compared to the regular appearance of apostles with extraordinary powers. It’s not at all strange for a person’s soul to be reincarnated.”
(T/N: Ohhh, now I understand.)
In a world with magic, reincarnation would be possible.
But even though it seems like everything is possible, I feel like there is a logic to it.
That’s what the gods said. Cleanse the world.
It’s impossible to do that without certain rules.
I’m not there yet, not with my knowledge.
I’m starting to see the path I should take.
At first, I restrained my power out of fear, but now I’m sure I’m on the right track.
And the first thing I need to do is learn the rules of this world.
" "
Kiara gave me a strange look.
“Didn’t you think I was imagining things?”
“I’ve been watching you since you were a little girl, Kiara. You’re too mature and too realistic compared to children your age. If I’m delusional enough to be fooled, that’s quite amazing. Then we can go out.”
“That freedom of thought is amazing. Maybe the Sage in the old books was someone like Brother.”
No, that’s not true.
It’s just that I’m a cheat reincarnated and have more knowledge cards than other people.
When Kiara sees me shrugging my shoulders, she grips my hand.
“Were you worried about what happened to the other children, or is it just me? If so, why? I thought about it, but I couldn’t come up with an answer. The mixture of life, death, despair, and hatred inside me made me feel like I was going crazy. In such a situation, even if I said something strange, only my brother listened to me …… and answered me seriously.”
She was staring at me.
I was embarrassed, but I felt like I shouldn’t turn my gaze away now.
“And then I thought. Brother is the only one who doesn’t unconditionally worship the apostles. I thought, maybe I’m not the only one who is different. I thought maybe you would understand me.”
In the past, Kiara asked, “Are the apostles so great?” and I defended her when she got a lot of good scolding from the people around her.
Kiara’s eyes watered as her emotions ran high.
“It was because of you that I was able to make it this far without breaking down, brother. It must be rare to find someone like Brother. So I guess my second time was lucky.”
Oh, man, this pure ray of gratitude is too bright for an old man with a depressed mind!
I have to change the subject before I faint in agony!
“I’ve never seen an apostle myself, so I don’t believe in the righteousness of apostles unconditionally. And besides, Kiara isn’t really different. If you’re right, it’s the apostles and the world hiding inconvenient facts that are different.”
I said it with a certain amount of coolness, but I knew he was picking up some sort of nerd from the modern world.
I just can’t bring myself to worship it.
Even before my reincarnation, before my memories returned, I was not pure enough to believe in anything unconditionally.
Kiara laughed at my overly confident statement.
“But you’re definitely in the minority.”
I know that.
I shrugged my shoulders.
“I know that, but numbers are only a comfort.”
Yes, mass incitement is a technique that existed in the original world.
There is no such thing as absolute justice in large numbers.
It’s just an advantage to get things done.
Kiara was nodding her head in a dumbfounded but impressed manner.
Suddenly, she leaned forward to see what I was thinking.
A straight face itself.
“Six months, I’m going to really! Really! Miss you, but please come back safely.”
“I can’t live on my own, so I’ll come back.”
Sadly, I’ve decided not to use my physical abilities, magic, or any other cheat abilities.
I’m not so naive to think that I can live with abilities that are a little below average.
I’ve chosen to be a nobleman’s son to make things easier.
I’m not going to give it up easily.
“Also, may I ask you to do me a favor that I ask every six months?”
I almost blew up at the subtlety and tightness of the question.
“Sure.”
Kiara had an angelic smile on her face, but her aura of being absolutely sure to be heard was buzzing.
“Can I sleep here today like the old days?”
This is the type of woman who, when she gets married, will make it look like she’s standing up for her husband and then firmly manipulate him.
I don’t want to cause a problem, though, because we’re siblings.
If she finds out, my black history will be more than just a page ……
It will be a black history carved in stone …… for sure.
