Childhood Friend of the Zenith – 315 (Part 1)



315 (Part 1)

<Chapter 316> The Record of the Disaster. (6)

The view before me is hazy.

The field is filled with rosy leaves.

It feels somewhat suffocating yet for some reason it also feels warm.

‘Ah.’

It’s distant.

The thoughts that had been complicated until just now feel momentarily clear.

‘Complicated thoughts?’

What was I thinking?

I had felt an overwhelming sense of fear.

I can’t quite remember. Yet the thought that I must not forget lingers.

I turn my head filled with a throbbing headache to recall.

‘…!’

I was momentarily dazed by the comfort.

But it quickly came back to me.

– You are a disaster.

It was what Yeon Il-cheon had said to me.

– Have you ever thought it strange about your regression?

It digs deep into my heart and takes root.

– That is fate.

The slight comfort I had felt inside.

Once again I felt it being painted over in dark colors.

‘Disaster.’

The Blood Demon called it a disaster.

If the disaster is tied to karma.

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Unlike when Yeon Il-cheon mentioned the disaster and I thought of the Heavenly Demon.

He referred to me as a disaster.

‘Am I a disaster?’

This is something I had never considered.

I regressed through death.

Having regressed I now wanted to live a different life.

Did I wish for a peaceful life?

Or did I wish for a safe life?

If not that.

‘…Did you wish for a life where she would be happy?’

Could it be that she wished for a life where she not I would be happy?

Whatever it may be.

There is something secretive about my regression.

If that secret brings about disaster.

What should I do?

Such thoughts fill my mind.

In a conversation that was merely a fleeting moment.

I wonder if the mental thread I had been holding could unravel to this extent.

The mental thread I had been holding.

Perhaps it was due to a shallow hope.

‘Am I now afraid of guilt?’

Did I want to forget that I was a villain and a demonic practitioner?

The hope that I could erase the things I had done had swelled so much.

And then living like that.

Hearing that it was all your fault made me feel so wronged.

‘Damn it.’

A hollow laugh escapes.

Since when had I been a good person?

From the very beginning I had no intention of being a hero even after regressing.

‘Screw it.’

I am a person who lives as I please.

The reason I endure doing things I don’t want to do.

Is that it is worth it.

!

….

….

But who marked me as a disaster?

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If my regression is also tied to someone’s purpose.

‘No way damn it.’

I don’t know who it is.

But I must refuse fiercely. I must find them and beat them up.

That is fate.

If it is said that it cannot be avoided then.

I will find a way.

If I were to give up saying it wouldn’t work.

I would have run away the moment I regressed.

I would have hidden in the mountains and lived farming.

I wouldn’t be going through this hell.

Even if I have to break free I will escape.

Just as I always have.

‘In the first place I’m not even sure I’m a disaster.’

I only have a suspicion.

There is no evidence.

It is clear that the Blood Demon brought back the blood calamity in my previous life.

It’s not me.

As I refine my thoughts.

I felt something stroking my hair.

“…Hmm?”

It was a rough and coarse hand.

The touch that stroked my head felt like Elder was trying to pat my head.

It was a dizziness I hadn’t felt in a long time.

Curious I shifted my gaze.

The plum leaves surrounding me seemed to take on a human form.

They were stroking my hair. What is this? It’s scary.

This… could it be.

“…Noya?”

[Seeing you act pitifully I contemplated whether to smack your head but since the ending is to my liking I’ll let it slide.]

“…Where have you been? What is this situation?”

It had been over a year.

When I received the punishment from my father and spent nearly three months in isolated training.

Noya had to disappear for about a year.

The problem was that it had been much longer than a year.

“Have you been in hibernation until now?”

[Heh as soon as I woke up I worked hard to keep this old body alive and yet your mouth is still full of nonsense.]

“…That’s a sign of my joy in a way.”

[If I were to be happy twice I might just fold you in half you brat.]

Heh heh.

Noya’s voice sharp and piercing as it was still had a tone that felt quite welcoming.

That aside….

“…May I ask what the situation is?”

[What do you mean?]

“The current situation.”

Including the moment I had just encountered the thought claiming to be Yeon Il-cheon.

I asked the divine Noya.

Noya replied to me.

[How would I know that?]

“What?”

[You’re asking something trivial to someone who just woke up. If I knew that would I be a shaman?]

“ ”

A shaman is in a way a practitioner isn’t it…?

A trivial thought crossed my mind.

“When did you wake up?”

[From the moment you set foot in the record.]

If that is true it means it hasn’t been long.

At that moment a memory brushed past me.

What I felt in the record.

The presence of someone other than the beast within me.

It must have been the presence of divine Noya.

“…But why didn’t you react at all?”

[…]

Noya pauses for a moment at my question.

As if choosing his words.

Noya finally answered me.

[That guy was watching you you brat.]

That guy must refer to.

The man with the deep golden hair.

It must mean Yeon Il-cheon.

“Is that guy… no is that person really Noya’s companion?”

[If you’re going to curse do it clearly.]

“No matter what cursing in front of someone is a bit….”

Though I felt quite uncomfortable I couldn’t curse Yeon Il-cheon in front of Noya.

After all he is a friend in a way.

“So is that person really the King of Iron Blood?”

[I don’t know.]

“…What?”

I was taken aback by Noya’s answer.

You don’t know? What does that mean?

“You clearly acted like you knew back then.”

I heard divine Noya say that he was glad to see the thought at the end.

[It’s because I was glad to see his face that’s all.]

“What does that mean?”

[What more is there?]

This is ridiculous.

[What’s certain is that the thought left by that guy is indeed Yeon Il-cheon’s.]

“So you’re saying you don’t know if it’s him or not?”

[The thought and the presence are indeed Yeon Il-cheon’s power. But a thought is just a thought.]

“…That’s a vague statement. So is this Noya’s power?”

The plum leaves surrounding me.

And the absurd energy I feel around me.

Is this Noya’s power?

In response to my question Noya says.

[That guy said it. That place is an arrangement prepared for me.]

“…Yes.”

Not just that record.

Perhaps all the unknown encounters I experienced.

Might have been prepared for Noya.

[This is that arrangement.]

“This is it?”

The energy wrapping around me and the feeling of a human form that seems to express divine Noya.

Even a glance made it clear.

How immense the pure power contained here is.

“…So this is Noya’s original power….”

[You’re talking nonsense.]

“Isn’t it?”

At my words Noya laughed as if it were absurd.

[Did you think this little power is all I have?]

“ ”

[I am not such a weak being.]

This little power? I was momentarily stunned.

The energy I am currently sensing is truly immense.

It is supporting and wrapping around me.

If this energy were to turn into a blade and tighten around my neck.

I wouldn’t last a few seconds at my level before being torn apart.

Such power.

Is it merely little in Noya’s eyes?

‘…Just how strong was he?’

I can’t imagine what Noya looked like when he was alive.

Even if he was a master of the past. There are so many historical records written.

At the very least I thought he was on par with the current Three Sovereigns.

‘Could it be that he was even stronger than that?’

If the current energy is described to that extent.

It’s possible.

Perhaps he was at the level of the legendary sword known as the Divine Sword…

‘No that can’t be.’

I erased the thought from my mind.

The fact that there were five such beings.

‘What kind of being was the Blood Demon who faced all those beings?’

There was also Yeon Il-cheon who became the world’s best after suppressing such a Noya as a returnee.

Facing such beings he could only seal them in the end not even die.