Childhood Friend of the Zenith – 357 (Part 2)



357 (Part 2)

“I cursed why I had to do that regretting it to the bone but in the end I thought it was okay.

I thought it might have been a little comforting for the person in front of me.

That was enough.

“…It’s all in the past.”

“…”

The woman flinched at my words.

It’s all in the past.

It never happened.

It won’t happen.

“It’s something that can be made to not exist anymore.”

“…”

The more I spoke the sadder her expression became.

Why was that?

Why was she making such a face?

I couldn’t understand.

I didn’t know what she knew but I hoped that too would become something that never happened.

That was the purpose of my current life.

“Mr. Gu….”

“Yeah?”

“Are you happy right now?”

“…Suddenly?”

“Yes.”

I couldn’t grasp the intention behind her question.

Out of the blue she asked if I was happy.

‘Happiness.’

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I asked myself again but it was hard to come up with an answer.

“I don’t think I’m particularly happy yet.”

To be honest I didn’t even know what happiness was.

I hadn’t had the time to think about it peacefully in either my past life or this life.

It was a world where nothing had ended.

For me to ponder such things.

After all the piled-up matters were resolved.

When it was time to empty my suffocating insides and slowly look around.

That would be when I could truly contemplate.

“What about you? How are you?”

“Me?”

The woman hearing my question smiled.

“I’m happy… at least for now.”

Her smiling face was so beautiful that it shook my insides but I felt that smile was somewhat forced.

As I observed that smile.

“I have something to ask.”

I wanted to get to the point now.

There were many things I wanted to hear.

Perhaps she understood my intention as she adjusted her expression.

I asked while watching her.

“…Since when was it?”

The meaning of this question was as straightforward as it sounded.

Since when had it been?

When she was no longer the current Wi Seol-ah.

When she could have become the divine sword of her past life.

I thought it wouldn’t be from the moment we first met.

The girl who handed me a potato back then surely had an innocent gaze.

“Since when have you been you? I want to know that.”

“…”

Upon hearing the question Wi Seol-ah briefly closed her eyes.

She was organizing her thoughts.

After a few seconds Wi Seol-ah opened her eyes again.

And then she spoke to me.

“It must have been around the time Mr. Gu came to this place… a few days ago.”

“…A few days?”

Just a few days?

There wasn’t much difference from my original life. Perhaps that’s why.

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I began to understand a bit about the peculiarities Wi Seol-ah had shown until now.

Occasionally her presence had made me dizzy with an unknown atmosphere and now I felt like I was piecing together those fragments one by one.

‘How on earth?’

That would mean Wi Seol-ah was also a regressor like me right?

‘Then in Sichuan….’

The formations that pierced through the notes of the Golden River Song in Sichuan.

The physical abilities I couldn’t comprehend at the time were all…

“It’s different.”

“…Huh?”

Just as I was gradually organizing my thoughts.

Wi Seol-ah suddenly expressed her disagreement.

Did she read my mind?

“What do you mean it’s different?”

“I… I’m in a different situation from Mr. Gu.”

“What’s different?”

As if she needed to correct her thoughts Wi Seol-ah continued speaking.

“Unlike being completely fused with my current body after reversing time… I’m just parasitizing this child right now.”

“Parasitizing?”

“The owner of this body is still this child’s. I’m just borrowing it.”

What that meant was.

The current Wi Seol-ah remained as she was.

And the soul of the divine sword from her past life was attached to her like the god Noya in my body.

“…That’s….”

What’s different?

If the soul had returned to its original body in the past.

Wouldn’t that also be a regression in the end?

To be precise it was different but I thought the big picture was the same.

‘Wait a minute.’

Then suddenly another thought crossed my mind.

Wi Seol-ah seemed to have a sense of how she ended up like this.

I didn’t know what method she used to get there but it felt like she had exerted her own power to arrive.

If that’s the case.

“…Did you make me regress?”

The reason I was able to return to the past.

Was it the power of the divine sword?

At my question Wi Seol-ah widened her eyes in surprise but soon made a pitiful expression.

“No… I couldn’t do that.”

‘So that’s not it huh.’

I thought I might uncover the secret of my regression but it seemed Wi Seol-ah wasn’t the one.

Should I be relieved about that?

As I tried to think that way Wi Seol-ah continued speaking.

“If I had my way… I would have wanted to pour everything into doing that but… I wasn’t a vessel that could hold that much karma. Sending me to this place in this state was my limit.”

The divine sword was undoubtedly the best in the world at that time.

The only one who defeated the Heavenly Demon who had single-handedly killed the Three Sovereigns so it was only natural.

But if even the divine sword couldn’t do it.

‘Who on earth?’

The World Tree said it wasn’t itself.

What I could understand a little was that the World Tree had a history of regressing Yeon Il Cheon by itself.

That meant such a thing was possible.

This statement ultimately meant that only a being as powerful as the World Tree known as the master of the world could regress a single human.

‘So then. Who on earth?’

I still couldn’t understand.

I knew that this world was hoping for something from me.

How could I not know? It was clear from the ongoing situation.

It was already a frustrating situation and that made me even more irritated.

The only thing I could consider fortunate was.

That I had seen the person in front of me once again.

Just as I was about to move on and think about this later.

“Do you want to know…?”

I had to pause at the divine sword’s words.

“…What did you say?”

“Do you want to know who the being that turned back Mr. Gu’s time is?”

“You… know who turned back my time?”

“I know….”

Her words made my eyes widen.

I wondered how Wi Seol-ah knew that.

But if she said she knew I hoped she would tell me.

“If you want to know I can tell you.”

“Of course then tell me….”

“But… if you hear it you might regret it.”

Just as I was about to urge her to tell me right away.

I had to frown at Wi Seol-ah’s warning.

I might regret it?

Seeing my expression Wi Seol-ah approached me a little and spoke.

“Still… will you listen?”

“…”

What was so funny that I hesitated at those words?

The idea that I might regret hearing it.

What on earth was mixed up in my regression that would make me regret it?

That statement sounded somewhat frightening.

Yet it didn’t take long for me to step over that fear and make a decision.

“I still have to hear it.”

I had regretted many things up to this point.

I was already tired of running away because of that fear.

I had to keep moving forward.

“I knew Mr. Gu would say that.”

Upon hearing my answer Wi Seol-ah had an expression as if she expected that.

“I will tell you.”

Just as I was waiting for Wi Seol-ah’s words.

Whoosh…

A breeze blew from behind.

It was the spring breeze.

“The being that turned back Mr. Gu’s time… is not me.”

As the wind swayed her hair Wi Seol-ah began to speak as if riding on the wind.

The third spring I faced after my regression.

On this day I finally.

“Heavenly Demon (天魔).”

I learned of the being that made me regress.

“It’s her.”