Became the Academy Romantic Phantom Thief - Became the Academy Romantic Phantom Thief chapter 288

288 – A novel is a prophetic book

I know a way to escape.

She asked just in case, but she didn’t really have high expectations, so when I got her positive answer, she was surprised.

Nothing can be done in this pure white temple.

It is located in the innermost part of the Sky Temple, so no matter how you try to escape, you are bound to be discovered by other gods. Of course, using divinity is also impossible.

An unknown being, not even a god, knows a way to escape from this situation.

I thought it might be a lie, but I couldn’t think of any reason for the other person to deceive me.

In her current state, all she can do is look up at her sky. If you want to get something from yourself like this, you have to get out of the Temple of Pure White.

In other words, the mere fact that her partner, whom she does not know, hangs out with her is sufficient grounds for trusting her.

Then we must ask what the method is.

However, communication with the other person has no choice but to proceed with the choice of ‘yes’ or ‘no’.

Should I guess, narrowing down the scope one by one, like asking twenty questions?

Of course, her time is so overflowing that it doesn’t really matter to her, so such a method is not theoretically impossible.

What was important was not oneself but the other person.

Unlike her, who lives an immortal life and considers even the passage of time meaningless, her ‘gaze’ observing herself from thin air was not God.

Even though it seems like I’ve been observing myself for a very long time, the only time I actually felt gazes was for the first time and now.

The opponent is not watching continuously, but is observing separate scenes by skipping the timeline.

I don’t know how long it will take to ask 20 Questions, which only involves ‘yes’ and ‘no’.

You may have to go through thousands of years of tedious questions and answers before you get the answer you want.

You may be able to handle it, but the other person may not.

Besides, if you waste time like that, you never know what will happen to the sleeping boy.

Until now, there was no way to know the boy’s safety, so I tried my best to forget it, but I couldn’t stay like this since I heard from my gaze that the boy was still alive.

We must escape this damn temple as quickly as possible and go down to the ground. So there is no time to leisurely think about twenty questions or something like that.

How should I ask questions to find out how to escape with the minimum number of questions and answers?

You must reason directly rather than waiting for the other person to spoon-feed you.

A non-god knows a way to escape from the White Temple. It was something that was originally impossible, but the other person had a card that made it possible.

Knowledge of the future.

It is completely different from prophecies that only provide a glimpse of possibility.

A fixed event, for him the future is nothing more than a fixed past.

Even the variables of uncertainty, which even the goddess of time cannot fully read, are not a problem for him.

Therefore, if the other person can tell you information that you do not know, it will be about future events twisted by uncertainty.

After making a decision in an instant, Eterna asked in a calm yet confident tone.

“I guess I just have to wait?”

His eyes watched her closely, as if telling her that she was the right answer.

A being caught up in the wheel of fate cannot control the variable of uncertainty.

In other words, a future that you cannot see means that it has nothing to do with how you act.

In the end, nothing changes.

She just waits endlessly, trapped here, just like she has always been.

She was vaguely waiting for her moment of escape, not knowing when it would be.

However, unlike before, Eterna’s expression was much brighter.

Just knowing her faint hope made her heart feel much lighter.

It’s okay. As always, the wait will be fleeting.

Even when her gaze suddenly disappeared, she didn’t care at all.

She looked up at the sky and waited for the future, which she did not know when would come. She always had the same clear and blue sky, but one day she would be able to see a cloudy sky full of dark clouds again.

And how long has it passed?

A change came to my daily life that was always the same. Someone was calling her from her land.

I intuitively realized that this very moment was the moment of her escape that the gaze had mentioned.

She closed her eyes and concentrated her mind, listening to her voice calling to her from her land.

Its identity is none other than a small fox.

She was white.

“···Oh my god. “Is it really white?”

I don’t know how long it’s been. It felt like she had just broken up with her yesterday, but it also felt like an eternity had passed.

To be honest, she didn’t think Hayang was still alive.

That’s her, because she was taken away by her older sister in such a miserable way. Even though she was obviously harmed and died, she didn’t think it was strange.

When she thought about it, the only being on earth who could call her first was Hayang.

It is impossible for an ordinary human to call on a god in the sky. This is only possible if they are members of her chosen family and have reached the level of her transcendental state.

Trapped in the pure white temple, it was impossible for her to look down at the ground.

But on the other hand, it is possible for Hayang on her land to call himself a member of her household.

Then why did it take so long for Hayang to call her?

What happened after she was taken away by her sister in the first place?

The information I knew was sorely lacking.

She put aside her surge of joy and realized that she had to get information first.

“Hayang. What happened to the child? Are you okay?”

After a while, I heard a girl’s voice in my head.

‘I found a way to take out the goddess.’

An answer that is completely separate from the question. After realizing that Hayang had deliberately avoided her question, her breathing began to become increasingly difficult.

“···Hayang. “What about that child?”

After a moment of silence, Hayang answered quietly.

‘The goddess of the night said this. She said she would let me know when she leaves the Temple of Pure White.’

“······.”

Afterwards I frowned at her and bit her lip.

The older sister who trapped her here.

She is the older sister who betrayed her.

What on earth is the plan this time? With what kind of coaxing and lies is she trying to deceive and betray herself?

I won’t care anymore what her sister had plans. No matter what she said, she could never forgive.

It didn’t matter how long she had been trapped here.

What Eterna can’t stand is that she didn’t even tell her why her sister betrayed her.

Whatever the reason, if she had told me honestly, she would have understood everything.

No matter where she was trapped, she would have waited with a happy smile, no matter how long it took.

It’s already too late. We can no longer go back to the same relationship we had before.

Before she was her own sister, she was the goddess of lies.

She was a pathetic and ugly older sister who could not even tell her true feelings to her only younger brother and only showed a false side.

But right now, escaping here and getting the boy back was the priority.

After that, I will never speak to her sister again.

After barely calming down her anger, I spoke in a cold voice to Hayang, who seemed to be following her older sister’s words.

“Tell me what the method is.”

‘···I have to make a deal with some human man.’

“Human man…?”

When she asked in a daze about her completely unexpected means of escape, an answer flowed from Hayang.

‘This is a man named Franken.’

***

It all starts back when the Goddess of Night ascended to the sky and created her dream dimension.

She imitates other worlds and partly creates them herself, shaping the world the boy dreams of living in.

After a thousand years, the dream dimension was finally completed.

Delighted that she had finally finished everything, the goddess carefully inspected the world one last time.

Then I discovered it.

Dangerous variables that should not exist. In a false world, information about true reality exists in the form of ‘fiction.’

A distant future history unfolds with a human boy as the main character.

So to speak, this novel was like a kind of prophetic book.

This was dangerous. If a boy reads that novel, it may have an influence on the formation of his values.

In order to increase uncertainty, you must have a completely new way of thinking.

You may wonder how much of an impact a novel can have, but if you realize through that novel that this is a fake world and that you are only dreaming, all your plans will be ruined.

As soon as the goddess realized the fact, she tried to erase the existence of the novel.

But it was impossible. For some reason, the novel is connected to the origin of the world, so the moment the novel is erased, even the dimension becomes distorted.

In the end, this was the limit of counterfeit products. No matter how perfectly decorated it is, it is fake. It was impossible to prevent information from the real world from leaking into the dream dimension.

It would certainly be the same even if the finished product was destroyed and a new dimension was created over a thousand years.

I had no choice but to leave the variables like this and go down to the ground.

‘···Wait a minute. ‘A variable?’

A variable that cannot be erased. Uncertainty.

It was realized not only in reality but also at the level of dreams.

What this means is that the content of the original work, which borrows the form of a novel, contains uncertainty.

In other words, one of the characters in the novel was a boy from the future.