Regressor’s Life After Retirement

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[ (Side story) Do, do, now ]

“Where you used to live Landlords of the World. “Are you sure he’s dead?”

“……”

A silence that felt extremely long passed between the two.

The great man saw Lilith’s eyes shaking violently and her fists clenched.

And I saw him trying to erase his agitated emotions from his face.

Phew.

Lilith let out the breath she had been holding and answered coldly.

“He’s dead. Are you sure.”

His tone was so decisive that even he was surprised.

It was clear from his attitude and eyes that he didn’t want to talk about the same topic anymore, but he didn’t stop asking questions once he started.

“Are you really sure? “Did you see the body?”

“Man, really…!”

Lilith looked at the great man with an expression of incomprehension. His usually playful expression was showing anger that he couldn’t hide.

There was a sharp edge to her voice.

“Why are you suddenly asking such a question? Are you asking me to explain in detail what the atmosphere was like at your uncle’s funeral?”

“I’m asking about Redfinger.”

“What on earth does your death have to do with Redfinger?”

Lilith stopped talking and looked at the great man with a shocked expression.

-I was looking for someone.

Daein said that just a few minutes ago.

Afterwards, she asked if the landlord in her world was really dead.

And Redfinger is an organization that came from Lilith’s world line.

Lilith, who found out what Daein was guessing, shook her head vigorously and denied it.

“Nonsense! “Do you really think that?”

“perhaps.”

The great man nodded slowly.

The circumstances he had gathered were increasingly leaning toward one possibility.

There is a possibility that the landlord of the other world may be the ‘him’ mentioned in Red Finger.

The great man continued speaking calmly.

“Of course, maybe not. Maybe it’s all just my imagination. Because there is no accurate evidence. “I may have completely missed the mark.”

That’s why I’ve postponed asking this question until now.

Because I didn’t want to delve into Lilith’s deepest wounds or give her false hope without any solid evidence.

‘But I can’t put it off any longer.’

It won’t be long before Soshinhan will infiltrate Redfinger’s base.

Afterwards, a battle could occur at any time depending on the situation.

“You have to prepare for every situation with as much data as possible. “That way we can minimize the damage on our side.”

Daein intended to mobilize all available power to eradicate Redfinger.

No matter who the enemy was, it could not be an exception.

“If the other person is really that guy….”

“It’s impossible. There’s no way that would happen. “That’s nonsense…”

Lilith slowly backed away and shook her head. The expression looked very confused and scared.

-Suddenly.

Daein grabbed her arm as she tried to walk away from him.

“Why are you avoiding me? Is it really impossible? “I need to hear why you think it’s impossible.”

“…….”

“Shall we sit there and talk for a moment?”

The man pointed to a bench in the park with his chin.

After a while, the two sat side by side on the bench with an ambiguous distance between them.

“It’s chilly.”

“…….”

The night air in New Seoul was cold.

Daein did not urge, but waited for Lilith to speak first.

As I waited and looked up at the sky, I saw a full moon blurred by the moon halo.

Under the full moon, the statue of the immortal hero Dae-in Lee was shining lonely in the moonlight.

‘How come you look even worse today?’

A huge statue depicting the scene of him piercing the heart of Baal with Longinus.

However, he was created as a mythical hero that only people talked about, and did not bear much resemblance to his real self.

“I’m curious about one thing.”

Daein asked Lilith, who was sitting next to him, without thinking about it.

“Is there a statue like that in the world you live in?”

“…….”

“I thought it would be better not to see that. What is that really? “It will be removed from Seoul someday.”

The great man frowned in disgust.

Lilith, who had been quietly watching the profile, ended her short silence and opened her mouth.

“There is a statue of him in the world I live in, too.”

“Is that similar to that one?”

“no.”

Smiling, Lilith raised her head and looked at the statue floating in the sky.

“It’s much bigger than that. Moreover, it is not only in Seoul but also in major cities around the world. “There are a lot of them in other dimensions.”

“…no way. “You’re kidding, right?”

“Really. He’s barely an immortal hero here, right? “In our world, there are dozens of religions that worship uncle as god.”

“and. “At that point, I would be so embarrassed that I wouldn’t have anything to say even if I died.”

“…under. “I’m angry, but it’s funny.”

Lilith laughed helplessly and let out a long sigh.

Her white breath seeped into the night air.

Red eyes were no longer searching for the sky, but for the past.

“The war against the demon world that I experienced… was much longer and more difficult than what you and little Lily experienced.”

“hmm. “I guess so.”

I knew that if Daeindo Lilith had not received future technologies and information in time, the last war against the demon world would have been much more difficult and prolonged.

“We’ve been fighting for over several years. “Countless cities were destroyed, races died, and those who survived went half crazy.”

Lilith’s voice was calm.

She was trying her best to suppress the sad feelings that came with the memories of the past.

“…So, among the people here, there are people who don’t exist in the world I live in.”

Lilith didn’t say who they were.

But I was able to remember Daein.

The way she treated Wang Gu-ho and Min-jae especially warmly.

The face that looked affectionately from afar at Wendy, who came to visit the restaurant not long ago.

“To make matters worse, Pandemonium, caught in the middle, has formed an alliance with the Demon World. In the process, Soul Eater and Baal merged.”

“It went similar to here.”

If the information about Pandemonium had not been relayed to Lilith, it would have taken considerable time for Daein to find out their home base on his own.

And Wendy couldn’t have been saved either.

“As time passed, everyone became tired. At first, I felt sad and angry when someone I knew died, but later I started to worry. “In the end, we have to fill the vacancies left by those who died.”

“…….”

The great man quietly looked at the profile of Lilith, who was smiling with a bitter expression.

Each and every piece of information he received from Lilith was valuable information obtained through countless sacrifices.

As the story continued, Lilith’s voice became wet.

“In the end, it seemed like this wasn’t going to work, so he took a final gamble. “We decided to attack Baal right away.”

“It went the same way. Well, that’s probably what I’m thinking about. We formed a death squad with a small number of elites and went to the Demon World….”

“There was no such thing as a death squad.”

Lilith, who was staring into empty space, turned her head and looked at Daein.

“You entered Baal’s castle alone. “Hide yourself in secret.”

“…….”

The great man was momentarily speechless.

You went in alone?

At his reaction, Lilith nodded with a sad expression.

“It was all over when I got there. “You used all your abilities to defeat Baal, who had fused with the Soul Eater, and you could barely stand over his corpse with half of his body blown away.”

Lilith recalled the great man she saw at that time.

A man who was standing over Baal’s corpse, barely relying on Longinus.

Even if it was already dead, it looked believable.

-kid.

When he felt Lilith fly away, he turned his head and looked at her with blurred eyes and smiled.

-We can finally go home.

But Lily was the only one to return home that day.

Lilith said, fiddling with the watch on her left wrist.

“Because his right arm was missing, he unwrapped the watch with his teeth and gave it to me. And pushed me through the gate. “I’ll be there soon, so go ahead and wait… Do you know how many years ago that was?”

Tears formed at the corners of Lilith’s eyes as she tried to pretend she was okay.

The great man wordlessly placed his hand on her shoulder.

In the end, she bit her lip due to the overwhelming emotions.

“…You bastard. “Don’t tell me to wait.”

In the end, Lilith wiped away the flowing tears with the back of her hand and said, closing her eyes tightly.

“After a few months I became a manager. I immediately opened the passage to the demon world and went to look for the man. …there was nothing. Don’t ask me if I looked it up correctly. “Even now, when I close my eyes, I remember everything around there.”

She paused for a moment and spoke with confidence.

“The man is dead.”

But Daein still had doubts.

“Anyway, you were alive until the last time I saw you, right?”

“If he were alive, of course he would have appeared in front of me.”

“Don’t jump to conclusions. “There may have been circumstances we don’t know about.”

The two people’s opinions clashed and their gazes clashed tightly.

Lilith asked, her eyes wide.

“Okay, let’s say you’re alive! “Then, if you were in that situation, would you absorb the blood and souls of other living beings in order to be resurrected?”

“Hmm…”

When the Daein didn’t answer right away and seemed to be worried, Lilith’s expression became even colder.

“You won’t! And no matter how much we are the same person, we have no right to speak negatively about you!”

The great man was about to say something but just nodded.

“okay. “Because I am not the landlord who shared that moment with you.”

Another self in a parallel universe.

However, from the moment they interfered in each other’s world and their fates changed, they could not be said to be the same being.

It’s as if Daein himself has returned and many things have changed from the past.

‘But because it’s me, there are things I know.’

Daein thought of various assumptions in his head.

There is a possibility that the landlord in the other world is still alive.

But why can’t he appear before Lilith again?

If he had created an organization called Redfinger and was absorbing the blood and souls of living things, I even imagined why that would be the case.

‘Landlords are not necessarily good beings.’

Although the people here are also seriously ill, I heard that Lilith and the people in the other world regard the landlord as something sacrosanct.

It is considered blasphemous to even think of the possibility that the lessor could become corrupted or change.

But Daein’s thoughts were different.

He knew that he was an ordinary human being who was selfish and self-indulgent at times and could be easily swayed by temptation.

“…I’m tired. “Let’s go in now.”

Lilith got up from the bench. In fact, her expression looked very tired.

Daein told Lilith to go in first.

“Go in first. “I have something to think about.”

“Do you still think you’re alive?”

Daein chuckled instead of answering, and Lilith shook her head, saying she couldn’t stop him.

“Think whatever you want. Anyway… thank you for listening. “I’m sorry for getting angry.”

“Big kid. “Go in, wash up quickly, and go to sleep.”

The great man stood up and stroked Lilith’s head.

Lilith flinched but did not avoid his touch.

Instead, he looked a little sullen and pouted his lips.

“…Sometimes it’s good to be treated like a child.”

“Do you want to do this often?”

“No thanks. “I go first!”

Lilith turned around and quickly walked away from the man’s sight.

The great man looked at her shrinking back for a while.

‘I think the landlord is the culprit.’

The person who knows the most about landlords in the other world is definitely Lilith.

But because of that, she was unable to look at the situation calmly.

The conviction that the man could not possibly be behind a terrible criminal organization narrowed his perspective.

‘Maybe I don’t want to think about it. If that’s the case, I probably won’t be able to handle it.’

After roughly organizing his thoughts, Daein looked up at the sky.

There, the statue of the immortal hero was still floating lonely.

“If I received help, I have to repay it.”

Thanks to the future information provided by Lilith, Daein was able to save this world and his people.

This was possible because the landlord of the other world sacrificed himself to protect everyone.

So…

“I’ll help you this time.”

The great man got up from his seat and began to walk languidly in the darkness.

Then, I suddenly thought to myself and laughed as if it was ridiculous.

“You keep doing it and now it looks like you’re saving me too.”

[ (Side story) Do, do, now ] End

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