Regressor Instruction Manual (PART 5)

Chapter 851: The Last (84)

However, he should have known the third round wouldn't happen. Not even over my dead body.

"..."

"Yes. It was a dream of a new start... of everything going back to the beginning."

"..."

"You were smiling there, and it wasn't just you. Deokgu, Hayan, Hyejin, and other guild members all gathered and laughed together. Everyone was enjoying their precious daily lives without hard work or suffering. Adventures were fun, but being in each other's company was even more so."

'Let me listen first.'

"Sometimes Ki-mo joked, and Deokgu and Ye-ri laughed. You still didn't let go of your work, but you would occasionally watch the guild members train from a distance. Like you wanted, you toured the continent on a griffon and lived your hopes and dreams... You did it with everyone."

His body was trembling.

He probably judged that I would understand the nonsense he was saying.

He didn't say it was the third round, but I knew that was what he was talking about. He was most likely worried about how I, the saint who had sacrificed himself for the continent, would react to his selfish remarks.

"No one died. There were no victims in the tutorial either. The various wars and great events that occurred, the events that made you suffer... didn't happen... They didn't happen..."

"..."

"You're not riddled with memory loss. No, your mind and body weren't damaged by the various incidents that you went through. It's not just you. Everyone on the continent... looked like they were living a happy and healthy life. It's hard to describe everything, but it was the kind of place where everyone could smile."

That was utter nonsense.

I continued to look at him with a sad expression. He visibly became frightened, seemingly startled. He probably regretted talking about it, thinking that he shouldn't have brought it up, but his behavior, biting his lip hard, didn't change.

"The things that hurt you... didn't exist there..."

"You can't undo what has already happened."

"No, I can turn it back. There is a way to rewind time. You know that too, don't you?"

"How?"

"I just have to start over. Just like I saw in my dream."

"Did you think I would agree with your delusion?"

"It's not a delusion."

"Even if it isn't."

"I am telling you that it is actually possible."

'Yeah, fuck, it might actually be possible. But what can you do?'

"Something that didn't happen will not happen. If you start over again, can you be sure that I and the other guild members you know will remain the same?"

"That's..."

"Of course, there are memories I want to forget. There are experiences I don't want to think about, and I met people who made me suffer. But that's why I am who I am today. Because we went through all of that, Hayan, Deokgu, Hyejin, and our people exist today. Because we went through all these things together, our bond deepened this much."

"..."

"Everyone wants to forget the hard times, but I don't want to let go because I know that they made us who we are today."

"Maybe there is a way to return with our memories. We don't know if there can be only one regressor..."

"What I'm talking about isn't just our relationships with people. The same goes for places that have become memories. The new State will not be the one we know right now. Laios and Mirror Lake will never be the same again. Castle Rock's walls will be returned to before they were repaired, and the Federation will suffer the same fate. We'll go back to a place where the recovery plan hasn't been executed yet. The same would be true of the small town of Heren. There won't be anything there that you described before."