Chapter 223 – Yogtos

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“Little boy…!”

Outside of his consciousness his, which he thought was immersed in darkness, Cleon flinched at the sound of someone calling him.

What happened? Certainly, the moment after subduing the Sun King. Black dirt dripped from the ceiling and engulfed them.

Cleon, holding his dizzy mind inside his heavy body, was trying to open his eyes somehow.

“Cleon!”

Unlike the thick man’s voice from before, this time a gentle woman’s worried voice was heard.

The voices on both sides were familiar somewhere, and she felt a soft hand resting on her body.

And then the presence of warm healing magic.

I felt that the functions of my body, which had not been moving, were slowly recovering.

Thanks to that, I feel that my eyelids, which only felt heavy, become lighter little by little.

When Cleon slowly opened his eyes, he realized that he was lying with his head in someone’s lap.

And what caught her eye was a woman with light blue hair, dressed in a nun’s uniform.

“Esca… Mr…?”

When he casually called the name, she could see her worried dark face her light up a little.

“It’s good Cleon, you’ve come to your senses!”

He sighs in her relief and watches her caressing her Cleon’s forehead her gently, and Cleon blushes that he is not her child her, but she himself has been taken care of by her.

“Why is Esca-san here…”

The fact that she is here, where she is supposed to be in the place of her royal capital her, when Cleon senses her doubts her and asks such a question …

“I called. Well, it’s good if you’re not dead, but you’re still a long way off.”

Again, a familiar male voice was heard.

As Cleon slowly turns her head to where she heard her voice her-

There, the muscles and rough skin of her whole body that did not deteriorate at all for her age her. And a man with her tousled hair was looking down at Cleon.

A famous sword that was rusted red with the blood of many people on its waist.

In her hand her, Cleon’s wooden sword used for sparring was held.

It was to astonish Cleon with its impressive gorilla-like appearance of her.

“Get on, uncheck!? Why are you here!?”

Jump! Raising her upper body of her, Cleon realized that his gaze of her was too low.

Looking down at his hands her, the calluses carved from countless sword swings still looked as soft as new flesh.

“What is it? Is it a problem that I fell and hit my head on a rock? My head must have gone crazy.”

“Mr. Talcheck!”

When Talchek looked at Cleon and muttered indifferently, Esca raised her voice as if to criticize him.

Ugh Talchek flinched at the sound of Esca’s voice and then dropped his shoulders.

He’s Talcheck, who doesn’t even lose to Lecia or Luti, but he’s the only one who showed a weak side to Esca.

As such, it has always been Esca’s role her to assume the role of holding his reins her.

The daily scenery of the days we spent together, like a fleeting dream day.

Cleon put his hand her to his forehead her as he felt his head her fill with confusion.

‘What happened… Is this, am I looking at a kaleidoscope?`

To say that, he was sure of the sensations he felt in his body of her, and he was also aware that he was breathing.

Seeing her bewildered expression her, Esca and Talcheck look at Cleon and she meets her eyes her once.

“Little boy. Today’s sparring is over. If you’re not feeling well, go home and sleep.”

“That would be great. Can you walk alone? I’ll pick you up if you don’t mind.”

When Cleon heard Esca’s words, she shuddered and waved her hand.

“Oh, no! No matter how… I’m old too.”

“Yes?”

However, when Esca heard her Cleon’s words of her, she covered her mouth with an equally surprised expression.

Next moment, Fang! I heard a thump and felt a tingling sensation on my back.

Of course, the gorilla did it.

Haha! What is it, kid, are you pretending to be an adult? Isn’t it a bit early for a guy who faints from a fall to say such a thing?”

“Uncheck… Cleon is a patient now!”

“Isn’t the head hurt? What’s wrong with hitting the back?”

“The human body is precise! And with your strength, you can hit the back and the impact is all over the body-“

The next moment, Cleon felt something dripping down his forehead her.

At the sudden sensation, she raised her hand and wiped it-

Red blood oozes from the fingertips of her, and a sudden feeling of dizziness.

“Hey, Cleon!?”

Hearing Esca’s screams, Cleon collapsed backwards once again, losing consciousness.

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When Cleon opened his eyes again, he found his body her under the covers her.

All of the painful parts were healed, and the condition of the body was completely restored.

Then, he slowly got off the bed and moved closer to the closet in the room.

On one side of the closet, there were several scabbard-like things engraved like scales.

He could see that the highest scale and the top of his head were in the same position.

At most, it will be around 150cm tall.

“…What the hell happened.”

Cleon’s body her was young.

No, to be exact, it was as if the spirit of Cleon, who had been fighting Horus up until now, had entered the ‘Cleon of childhood’.

“The things that fell from above… They were those strange monsters… They were waiting for the fight with Horus to end.”

Cleon himself thought that he was preparing to some extent, but no one thought that the quantity would appear.

“Then… Am I dead?”

It’s a very vivid sensation to say that.

Perhaps, thinking that this might be part of the illusion Tindalos shows, when Cleon tries to send a telepathic message towards Galatea or Caliburn.

With a ‘knock, knock’ sound, he felt someone knocking on his door.

At the same time, Cleon could see that a ‘pounding’ sensation overtook him.

I could tell who was on the other side of this door, just by the sound of the knock.

At the same time, he remembered a dream he had recently.

A nightmare in which his own body is young and Lesia appears and seduces him.

With Galatea’s help, he was able to escape the dream, but-

“Cleon. Can I come in?”

And, the voice heard by Cleon, who had been silent.

As expected, that voice belonged to Lesia.

When Cleon approaches and opens her door, she sees Lesia, a blonde woman about a head taller than herself.

With her sea-blue eyes, she looked down at her Cleon in a bit of surprise, then smiled kindly.

“Cleon. I heard from Esca. You said you had a harder swordsmanship lesson than usual today?”

“…”

Cleon, who had been asking such a question, looked at Lesia, who had a very distinct ‘texture’, and felt her thoughts stop her for a moment.

She was different from the girl she had seen in her filthy dreams her, full of her only lust her.

Wavy blonde hair as soft as wool.

A sweet voice calling her name her.

She looked tired somewhere, but even so, she had blue eyes that she didn’t want to show that to herself.

All of them were Lesia itself at that time.

Lesia met Cleon’s eyes for a moment and looked at Cleon, who was silently looking at herself.

And as if she realized something, she tells Cleon.

“Cleon… Is something strange today? It’s like, I’ve become an adult.”

“Le, Lesia. I…”

Cleon agonized over whether she should reveal her true identity her to Lesia.

Will revealing it change something about her?

However. Both her and this world.

It didn’t feel like an illusion, a lie, or a fragment of memory.

To the extent she felt like the real reality she lived in.

So-Cleon…

“That’s not true. It’s just a little bit of a headache.”

She said, lying and turning her head away.

Lesiah silently watched Cleon for a while, then replied, “Really?” She nodded.

“If her head hurts her, would n’t it be better to lie down? Esca said that she put a healing spell on her with great care.”

“Mmm, it’s not because of the cut that her head hurts her. It’s okay that way.”

‘Is it really?’

Lesia bent her knees slightly to bring her to eye level with Cleon, raising her hair slightly over her forehead her.

Looking at her face from up close, Cleon felt her heartbeat speed up without limit and her face her blushed.

“It’s true. Your forehead is completely healed. Thank goodness.”

“I-I said yes. I-Now is it?”

Unaccustomed to being treated like a child, Cleon stepped back from Lesia as if to get out of her hands and tidied up her bangs.

“Ahaha. Today’s Cleon is shy.”

When she looked at Cleon and Lesia smiled happily, Cleon felt that one side of her chest was tightening her, and she herself also put a smile on her face to hide her shame. .

“It’s good to work hard, but you have to be careful. It was fortunate that Esca was nearby. She almost got into trouble.”

“Yeah… Next time, I’ll be careful.”

`Next`.

Cleon felt a bit of surprise and self-loathing at himself naturally putting the words out of her mouth her.

What was it from earlier, the answer, the reaction.

Like really going back to her childhood self her.

As if they had already adapted to this situation.

She was confident that she would answer her as if forever and ever, she would stay in this past.

“Yeah. Esca said. He said that it’s better to teach me than Talcheck… My swordsmanship is actually closer to the imperial swordsmanship.”

`…?`

Cleon thinks.

As she recalls, she had never had a conversation like this with her before.

If this was simply an illusion created from Cleon’s memories of her, then this conversation, as well as Esca’s healing of her from earlier.

Someday she should be replaying what she experienced, but it never happened.

‘Really, did I return to the past?’

“How is it? Cleon. I also have some free work tomorrow. If it’s okay, I’m going to watch Cleon’s swordsmanship tomorrow.”

‘Or, was what I was going through until now an illusion I saw while passing out… ?`

Lesia puts her hand on Cleon’s head when Cleon struggles with the distinction between memory and reality, which is slowly becoming ambiguous.

“…What’s wrong? Are you worried about something?”

As soon as he is receiving her warm touch her, Cleon shakes her head as if he has become a fool to think about it any longer.

“No. I’ll take care of you tomorrow.”

It was to close the eyes that faced reality.

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“Something like that… He is also a human being.”

The sight from far, no. What I was looking at from another dimension was something that took the form of a black human shadow.

Except for some, except for some, there’s something white that looks like snow.

Indeed, as if absorbing all the light, the girl in front of him was swaying in black, looking at Quon.

For some reason, it’s like making a voice when there’s no such thing as a mouth.

With the corners of her mouth twisting, Quon could sense that she was laughing at him.

Quon’s gaze turned away from that shadow and turned to Cleon.

Shadow- introduces himself as one of the ‘gourmets’ like the giant snake ‘Jormungand’, ‘Yogtos’, is one of the beings that appeared to prey on the real world from the rift of the other dimension.

Long ago, she drifted into the dimension where Quon lived with Tindalos, but later she told Horus that she was parasitized and barely survived.

When Quon asked why she told him all of it, he replied.

“This is my aesthetic. Human beings are always swayed by time, and live with regrets about the past. That’s why I hope everyone has the power to do whatever they want with time.”

As he spoke, he spread out his hands and two others—

It was shown that Verastol and Mejed were also sent to a dimension of another timeline spread inside Tindalos.

“I’ve swallowed several worlds up until now. The three people except you right now… Have been sent into the repeating timeline of a world that has already been destroyed. So, to be precise, it’s not entirely the past. There , if you could, If there is a choice that I made a mistake… In order to change it, will I make a different choice from the original history?”

If so, ask how.

“Then, my judgment is over. If even one of the three people makes the original choice. I will stop the predation of this world and return to the dimensional rift. But. There wasn’t even one.”

Yogtos speaks with a confident tone.

Quon thinks, if he goes back in time, he might try to undo a choice he too regretted.

However. He couldn’t understand why he had been sent here differently than the three of them.

“Inside you… You can feel the beginnings of the will of the gigantic world. Such people have a strong connection to the original world, and they are sensitive to it if the world they live in has changed. Therefore, you are served in this ‘special seat’. Will.”

Looking at the haze, which made exaggerated gestures like an actor on stage, Quon felt a visceral disgust.

To be precise, the ego as an angel inside of Quon-her her consciousness as an adversary against the ‘enemy of the world related to the magical power of another dimension’, which was now sealed by the magic bug, expressed her reluctance towards him.

However, more than that. Rather than focusing on hating someone.

Quon’s gaze turned to Cleon.

“…Cleon…”

Quon thought that even if Cleon tried to find happiness in that timeline, she wouldn’t blame him.

If the series of events that troubled Cleon could be eliminated.

It will be for him as it is.

But at the same time, somewhere in her heart, I want her to realize that this is a vicious trap and an illusion.

Outside – Unlike the ruins of the underground tomb, if this place has magic.

I silently put my hands together and conveyed it in my heart so that I could reach Cleon.

However, it is an act of making a hole in the body’s magic defense to form a passage connecting himself and Cleon.

Quon’s body, which was protected by divine magic, is gradually eroded by the magic of another dimension.

It was a concentration of magic power that was similar to the rift in the other dimension that Cleon had entered to intercept Jormungand earlier.

“I’m sorry…”

The chill that invaded his body and the fear that slowly gnawed away at his mana covered Quon’s body with his.

Soon, he shook his head and waited for Cleon’s choice her with determined eyes.

If possible, it was to ignite the flames in his heart of her, hoping that his voice of her would reach him.

And-

In the darkness, the flame that burns ‘denial’.

Reacting to the fire, it began to glow.