Surviving the Game as a Barbarian – 336



Episode 336: To the Future (6)

“You can go back tomorrow? “What do you mean?”

Amelia avoided her gaze at my question.

“It’s not certain but there was one thing I was aware of from the beginning.”

“From the beginning…?”

For a moment her mind went blank.

‘Could it be that that’s why she made an awkward expression every time she talked about how to go back?’

I realized that the sense of discomfort I felt during the previous conversation was not an illusion but there were still things I did not understand.

“If you had something in mind from the beginning why didn’t you tell me in advance?”

As I stared Amelia glanced at me one more time then looked away.

In the end she had no choice but to ask directly.

“By any chance… do you not want to go back?”

“that….”

Amelia who had been speechless shook her head.

“That is absolutely not the case. I just thought it wouldn’t be a bad idea to stay here a little longer…”

“what? “Why?”

Her head tilted without realizing it but when I thought about it calmly from Amelia’s perspective I came to understand her.

“That’s—”

“Oh I see. i get it.”

“Do you understand…?”

“It bothered you to leave her sister behind.”

If we leave Laura will have to live alone for the next 20 years.

It is natural that he would have wanted to help people live a better life and at least he would have wanted to know what kind of life he would lead before leaving.

“It would have been better if you just told me honestly. “I didn’t know I couldn’t trust you that much.”

“ah….”

“Aren’t we colleagues? “Just say that.”

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“…I will tell you in advance next time.”

“okay.”

After quickly clearing up the misunderstanding between us I moved on to the next matter.

That may be the most important thing in the current conversation.

“So what was it that made you confident that you could go back right away even tomorrow?”

“Oh you mean that?”

In response to my question Amelia came to her senses and explained the method. I listened intently even asking a few questions and nodded.

‘Well definitely…’

It was a plausible story.

No to be honest as soon as I heard it I had a gut feeling.

Yes this was it.

The last role left to us.

***

The next morning.

After checking out early we headed to a nearby restaurant.

Amelia said there was a place she wanted to go.

Well it’s me. She wanted to finish her work quickly and go back but…

“It’s a restaurant that will disappear in 20 years…. Of course if you think it will be difficult you can just go right away.

How can you not go when you say something like that?

‘Well I won’t have time to rest when I go back. ‘He’s been wandering around every day just because he’s been working.’

Even when Amelia asked for her favor she seemed embarrassed. Perhaps he was embarrassed to show such ordinary desires…

It was a positive change worth cheering on.

Doesn’t this mean that the bond has been built up to the point where such a request can be made?

“If there is anything else you want to do please tell me.”

“Then… would it be okay if I stopped by the Arandeje Museum in District 9?”

“…art gallery?”

“There is a picture I want to see. Well… I wanted to see it but I couldn’t see it even when I went there later. “It seemed like it had been sold to a wealthy nobleman.”

Anyway for this reason after finishing our meal we headed to the museum. Amelia stared at the painting she wanted to see in silence for over 30 minutes.

and….

“…Do you mind if I look at something else?”

“Of course.”

Afterwards she toured the museum where she admired different paintings and sculptures.

Honestly I was a little surprised.

‘I didn’t know you had a hobby like this.’

Just by looking at his eyes you can tell that he is truly happy.

Well that is that and this is this.

“It’s nice to see Amelia but she’s starting to get hungry….”

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As she looked around it was already midday so she had a meal at a nearby restaurant.

and….

“Can I stop by one last place at Yandel?”

At Amelia’s request she rode in her carriage again.

The place she arrived at was the Le Atlas Orphanage.

This is where Dwalki stayed as a child.

‘There is a strangely deep connection here.’

Without entering the building we sat on a bench across from it and saw Laura through the window.

Recovering from her hospital bed she was sitting at her desk going through her paperwork.

Did you say she got a job at a daycare center thanks to a priest’s introduction?

She said “I thought she was just helping out with some chores but now that I see her doing paperwork it looks like she’s already reading.”

She wondered if her memory had not been completely erased so she tried talking to Amelia but she only smiled bitterly and shook her head.

“Probably not.”

“How are you so sure?”

“My sister… because she couldn’t read.”

“…what?”

So she’s only been learning from the priest for a few weeks so she’s good enough to handle administrative duties?

She was shocked but it wasn’t an unreasonable story.

Because such people sometimes exist in the world.

“…You were a genius.”

“I didn’t know it would be like this. “I knew her sister had an extraordinary memory but….”

“What about the priest? Didn’t she think the priest who taught her how to read was strange?”

“She said she was just in the process of her memories coming back. “She thinks so too.”

Maybe these sisters’ real talent wasn’t killing people.

It’s just the environment made it that way.

How would Amelia have grown up if she had been born into an ordinary family? She seems to like painting maybe she became famous for that or something —

“What are those eyes?”

Oh did she stare too hard?

“…It’s nothing. How long are you going to see her more than that? “I think your sister is leaving work now.”

“Now… I have to go.”

After Laura finished her paperwork and put on her coat we stood up.

and….

I’m sorry.

She picked the lock of the locked sewer and stepped down it.

After all this is the only way to Noark.

“I didn’t know she would end up there again. “Something won’t happen right?”

“It’ll probably be okay. “Even if it’s not a cemetery there’s another way to sneak in.”

In the past Noark’s identity was needed so she entered the country officially through a broker but now there is no need for that so she entered the country illegally through a route known to Amelia.

Is she on the road leading to the lord’s castle?

“But what happens to Noark in the future?”

While we were going we talked about Noark.

There had already been such a big incident involving the royal family the lord of Orculis Castle and us the fourth force that I was curious about what would happen afterwards.

“If it’s Noark the Chada Seongju would be hard at work right now.”

“Repair?”

Of course I knew that it would somehow be resolved but I was curious about the process.

“First we joined hands with the royal family to attack and then lost. How can we make things right?”

“That’s because Orculis needs this city too.”

I thought it would be okay to get my hands on it but after listening to the story there was a reason.

“In order to open the portal leading to the labyrinth in Noakre the blood of the castle lord’s family is needed.”

So as soon as the Chadae Seongju learned of his father’s death he killed all members of the family except himself.

They were concerned that they would rule the city by turning their weak brothers into puppets…

‘I’m a bastard. ‘You make that judgment right there.’

Afterwards Chadae Seongju brought about a truce by giving up a certain portion to Orculis and gradually stabilized the city.

This is the entire picture of this city for the next 20 years.

“You’ve arrived.”

We soon passed through the sewer and arrived at Yeongju Castle moving secretly to avoid the eyes of the guards and escape from the castle. Then passing through the city streets that still smelled like coal we arrived in front of a small mansion.

“Yandel could you wait a moment? “I will go alone.”

“Sure.”

It was Amelia’s house.

***

There was no reason to knock loudly.

Because back then I didn’t live with the door locked.

It was a feeling of desperation to make everything happen.

Sigh-

Amelia opened her door and entered her house and looked around. She only had basic early furniture but she was more familiar with it.

This house that my alchemist grandfather prepared for me has always been in this condition.

Even when she became an adult and she left this house.

“….”

The girl who was curled up against the wall probably sensed her presence and raised her head to look at herself.

“Emily…?”

A strange image appeared in the colorless pupils.

Although she didn’t have the mind-reading skills that Amelia possessed she could clearly tell what the other person was thinking because she was her past self.

“Ho maybe…”

Expectations just in case.

The hope that her older sister might still be alive.

“Your sister is dead.”

“ah….”

Amelia said clearly and the girl lowered her head.

The image that appeared in the girl’s eyes had suddenly disappeared.

However Amelia forced her girl to stand up.

And she spoke one-sidedly.

“You will soon enter the labyrinth again. And like before you will live a life like a gutter meeting many people and killing them again.”

“…So.”

Her provocative words seemed to have had an effect as the girl who was like an empty doll raised her head in protest and Amelia stretched out her hands towards her.

“Promise me that you will not kill any barbarian.”

“…Why should I do that?”

Amelia answered without doubt.

“The day will come when you will think that keeping this promise was the greatest luck of your life.”

At those words the girl pursed her lips.

She had no facial expressions on the outside but she knew Amelia.

She thinks about her childhood self after hearing this.

I don’t know why I’m saying this but at least.

She said she didn’t think this person was lying.

No I think she actually gives me sincere advice.

She is like a sister she no longer has….

Wow.

Amelia took her girl’s hand and clasped it. And she closed and closed her hand three times she repeated.

It was an action the sisters used when making a promise.

“How did you… do this…”

Amelia did not answer her girl’s question.

She simply released her hold on her hand turned her back and walked towards her door.

plod trudge.

Soon when Amelia stood at her door the girl opened her mouth and let out a weary voice.

“What if…”

“….”

“What if she posed a threat to my life if she didn’t kill the barbarian? Do I still have to keep that promise then?”

It was a question typical of her younger self.

Even out of consideration for her older sister who has taught her countless times the importance of promises she will not make promises she cannot keep.

But Amelia said she was confident.

“Then you can do whatever you want.”

Because that won’t happen anyway.

Soon Amelia opened the door and went out.

and….

“Oh one last thing.”

“….”

“Keep the door locked.”

Amelia quietly closed the door and turned her back.

In an alley a short distance away she saw the figure of a barbarian waiting for her.

“Are we finished talking?”

“okay.”

Promises will be kept.

Even if our intentions were unknown and we could not prevent her sister from dying.

Because it is true that she received help from us.

Her older sister taught her that whenever she receives help from someone she must repay it.

“Amelia. But there was a blonde kid watching me from afar from earlier… Shouldn’t we solve this?”

Amelia turned her head to follow the barbarian’s gaze.

Then she saw a boy with a familiar face.

“Ah I was wondering why it looked so familiar. Is he the Guardweaver Drows?”

“Yes that guy is right. “His real name is different though.”

Even as Amelia said that she felt unfamiliar.

That boy later informs her of the existence of a treasure called a stone fragment of her records. And just before he can take over he betrays and runs away alone turning into an enemy.

The scar on his ear also appeared at that time.

That was the reason why the castle lord and Noark made an oath not to commit murder. Well since there was an exact period from when to when it didn’t work in this era.

Anyway that’s not what’s important.

‘It’s strange that I don’t feel anything.’

Even when I see that face I don’t feel angry.

As if the old feelings of anger and hatred in my heart had disappeared.

“Shouldn’t we do something?”

At his worried question Amelia realized the cause of this seemingly calm feeling.

“No it doesn’t matter. “Leave it alone.”

“Leave me alone?”

In the end looking back it was a process.

Even the pain I went through by becoming entangled with that guy.

To meet this man in the future.

“…Why are you smiling all of a sudden?”

“I didn’t laugh.”

“You laughed?”

“….”

Amelia walked forward completely ignoring the barbarian’s persistent questions.

Then the barbarian hurried to catch up.

“Hey but why doesn’t this work?”

“Well it will work soon.”

“What if it still doesn’t work?”

“Then we’ll just have to live here together. I don’t mind though.”

“Uh… that’s a bit… no it’s definitely not that I don’t like you…”

The barbarian furrowed his brow as if troubled.

Amelia laughed again without realizing it.

She had a real smile not the awkward smile she used to make in front of the mirror.

Swish.

Amelia stopped walking and turned her back causing her body to collide with the barbarian who was following behind her.

And that moment.

Flash-!

The world was bathed in pure white light.

***

‘Iron Mask…?’

It was completely by chance that the blond boy found them. They caught his eye while he was wandering around the streets looking for drunk people he could rob.

Although he was not wearing an iron helmet as rumored…

There was no person in this city with such an enormous physique. No he thought there were only a few on earth.

Maybe it’s a barbarian.

‘More than anything the red-haired woman next to me….’

It was the famous Iron Mask and Emily.

After the boy saw the woman enter the house he hid and observed them.

Soon after the woman came out of the house and joined the Iron Mask.

But did she feel this gaze?

“…!”

The boy felt like he was making eye contact with them and he craned his neck.

It was that moment.

A brilliant light burst out and brightened this dark underground city.

Flash-!

A flash that seemed like a fleeting moment.

As the flash subsided chaos came to the deserted streets. The drunk people jumped to their feet and those inside the building gasped and opened the windows.

“What! “That light just now!”

“…magic?”

“There’s something wrong with your body right?”

Everyone was confused and looked for the cause of the situation.

However the blond boy hiding in the alley was different.

‘The iron mask has disappeared….’

they are gone

However the boy did not question the reason.

The boy who had been forced to survive in Noark from the moment he was born ran away relying only on his instincts.

and….

‘…this stone! Light came from this stone.’

The boy picked up the rock that had fallen on his clothes put it in his arms and quickly hid in the alley.

And how long has it been?

“excuse me! Light burst out from there!”

“I looked from that window over there and light burst out and the person disappeared?”

A guard who came to see the commotion at night began to listen to the situation and realized the identity of her man and woman in the center of light.

“A man who looks like a barbarian and a woman with red hair?”

“Iron mask! It’s an iron mask! The one the Lord of Seong was looking for! “Examine the remaining traces!”

“Identity card! “There is an identity card among the clothes!”

“Level 6 Explorer Nivelz Enche… Is this Iron Mask’s real name? “What about the women’s identity cards?”

“Too bad it wasn’t found!”

“Chief they say some kid stole something from here.”

“what? “Where did you say you went?”

Soon the guards rushed to the alley where the boy disappeared but they were unable to find the boy who had already disappeared.