Leon Greyrat: The Second Son - Mushoku Tensei OC

Chapter 91 - A Vow of Preemptive Revenge

— Leon Greyrat —

After Oldeus had passed, Rudy quickly cremated him into a pile of ash, deciding to bury him in his garden while I went upstairs and rocked Aria back to sleep, my mind plagued with various troubling thoughts as my daughter eventually calmed down and fell back into a deep slumber.

This beautiful girl... my beautiful, baby girl... she was being targeted?

This being that I had never seen wanted her dead? My Aria? My family?

Even just the thought of it made me want to kill this Man-God, and that was without him actually accomplishing his goals in a previous timeline.

I wouldn't let him win.

He might have made Rudy his enemy in another world, but to make me one as well... that was his greatest mistake.

I would have to talk to Shizuka to see if she knew how to reach the Dragon God, just like Oldeus had told me, but that could wait until later.

With the sound of Rudy closing the front door once again, signifying his return, I placed Aria back in her crib, ignoring her small murmurs as I then checked in on Sylphy and Roxy, seeing them both resting in my bed, cuddled close together, but with a small space ready for me to climb into.

Dammit... I wanted nothing more to climb into their embrace and tell them how much I loved them, but there was something else I had to do first.

Something we had to do first.

Marching back down to the study, I took a seat next to Rudy as we stared at the old and weathered diary that was eerily similar to Rudy's.

"Well... I think we know what this is," Rudy said. "So... I'll just open it."

I nodded in agreement.

Turning the stone slate to the first page, we were instantly met with the sight of... a mess of scribbles.

"The hell?" Rudy said, pointing down at the mess of scribbles. "I can see part of my first entry, but... there's something else there."

Narrowing my eyes, I saw that the date was from today's, but there was also another year scribbled next to it.

How confusing... was it from the other timeline?

But... in the other timeline, he shouldn't have written it, right?

They should be completely separate.

But it made sense, if this was the date Oldeus used as a guide to return to...

Never mind, this wasn't getting us anywhere.

"It's probably something to do with the mess of timelines," I said. "It's not really important, and thinking about it more will hurt my head, so let's continue."

And so, that's what we did, flipping to the next page.

Luckily, it seemed that only the first entry was a mess, so the rest was relatively easier to decipher.

And so, we began to read the story of one Rudeus Greyrat from another life.

A sad, broken man who had lost everything and became a monster in his path for revenge.

At least... that's what he called himself before he died.

'Aisha was pretty down this morning. She found some "weird mouse" dead, I guess. Maybe she's not a fan of rodents.'

'Apparently, someone found a cat with Petrification Syndrome in the neighbourhood. Scary stuff. I'll have to remind my family to wash their hands and rinse their mouths carefully.'