How the Reincarnation Seat Destroys the Original - Chapter 12



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Episode 12. The Price.

While the others enjoyed the small party, Kael chose to isolate himself and became lost in thought.

“First of all. Are the urgent matters finished?”

Immediately after returning. With Mabel’s intervention, I had very little time to be alone and think. I poured all my energy and time into the ‘deal’ that suddenly came up.

Have you given up on returning to your original world now?

Kael asked himself a question.

“…I didn’t give up.”

I didn’t want to give up, and I couldn’t give up. It was a thousand years. For a thousand years, I was able to survive in this world with that one goal.

To me, giving up on that goal was no different from giving up on life.

Wasn’t the reason you joined hands with Mabel also just for the sake of your goal?

?Kael-!!!?

He laughed at himself as he continued to hear the voice of his child approaching him, as if it were an auditory hallucination, no matter how hard he pushed away.

It wasn’t this bad in the original world, but after experiencing countless breakups, I was left alone.

I realized that in this world, maintaining and building relationships with someone is poisonous to me.

No, I just didn’t know.

Maybe I wasn’t originally like this?

A question suddenly popped into his head, and Kael muttered.

“It’s not important.”

The appearance of a god who never existed.

The first reincarnation I encountered was someone like myself.

And…regression.

Even though a lot had changed from before, the original story continued to flow.

“Should I intervene in the original work?”

If the ending that did not intervene in the original work is a regression.

Wouldn’t it be possible to intervene in the original work and change the ending?

But how?

Can I break causality with my own power?

As my thoughts continued to wander, I could not come up with a clear answer. Instead, it only made my mind more complicated.

First of all, tomorrow I would be able to hear Mabel’s conversation with God, and there might be a clue there that would allow me to return to my original world.

The goal had not changed; he would return no matter what the cost. For now, he just had to be sure of that.

A slow, heavy breath escaped his mouth.

* * *

“I came to pay the price!!!”

Early in the morning, Mabel appeared, forcefully opening the door to the office where Kael was.

I cried yesterday! Kael, facing Mabel’s face, with her eyes swollen and smaller than usual, as if she was protesting, put down the documents he was holding and got up from his chair.

Without the usual swear words or gestures, a sound-blocking spell was cast over the office, and he sat down on the sofa, gesturing across from me.

“How about using divine power to do something about those eyes?”

“When is it that you are told to hide your divine power?”

“Were you holding some ice?”

“This was also relieved with an ice pack!”

… If it sank to that extent, I guess he didn’t even open his eyes when he woke up.

Kael didn’t say anything more about the snow, and Mabel jumped up and sat down in the spot he had pointed to with his chin.

“Well, where should I start talking?”

“From the beginning.”

“Okay. I got hit by the so-called reincarnation truck.”

The reincarnation truck. One of the most common reincarnation clichés.

Mabel, who was a fairly upstanding office worker in her previous life, continued her story by adding that after working overtime, she bought a can of beer to drink while reading a novel and was hit by a truck on her way home.

Oh, he’s dead.

She closed her eyes to the pain that was about to come and the flashing headlights of the truck, but when she opened them again to the surroundings that were too quiet, let alone pain, Mabel in her previous life was able to face a colorless space.

– Tick tock.

In a space filled with the sound of an analog clock, a rare sound these days, she saw a person wearing a half-mask split vertically, revealing only half of his beautiful face.

The situation was very familiar to her.

Because I’ve ‘read’ it countless times.

“My name is Janus.”

The voice that flowed out was heavy and had a deep resonance.

Of course, the gods in the text also mostly used informal speech. As the saying goes, reading and experiencing are different things, and the sight of a god speaking informally from the very first time they met stirred up the instinct of a Confucian girl hidden inside her.

“You’re not going to say things like, ‘It was my fault that I died, so you’ll let me reincarnate.’ Or, ‘You’ll grant me one wish.’ Are you?”

I didn’t have the guts to ask why he was speaking informally, so I asked that.

“… Uh… It’s not like you died because of my mistake. I tried to reincarnate you and grant you one wish…”

Her beautiful, half-revealed face held a sense of embarrassment, and her timid answer, contrary to the atmosphere felt in her voice, made Mabel in her previous life feel guilty.

“I, I didn’t mean to blame you… Well, what is it? Why are you trying to reincarnate me?”

“There is a reincarnation like you in the world that will reincarnate you. That person will return this time, and due to the causality of the world, another reincarnation is needed, so I brought a soul that fits the conditions.”

Looking at the god who introduced himself as ‘Janus’, who sounded awkwardly like he was reciting a prepared script, she summarized the information I had heard.

“So. The causality of the world was broken, so a reincarnation was needed to reverse the causality. My soul happened to be there, so you brought me here to reincarnate?”

“right.”

“What are the conditions you mentioned?”

“Become a handful of ashes. The only condition was that you had to read the novel from beginning to end.”

Become a handful of ashes.

She blinked at the title of a novel she had recently read with great interest, one that had just been completed yesterday.

“Will I be reincarnated into the world of that one handful of novels?”

“Han…what did you say?”

“Han.Jum.Jaeyo. It’s an abbreviation for “a handful of ashes.”

“Why do you shorten it?”

“These days, the names of novels tend to be long, so it’s common to shorten them.”

At the expression of the god Janus who seemed to be unable to understand, Mabel in her previous life smiled, finding him cute even though he was clearly older than her.

“The time given to you and me is not much. If you tell me your wish, I will reincarnate you immediately.”

“My wish is….”

As if there was no need to even think about it.

Without a moment’s hesitation, she told him what she wanted, and the god Janus nodded and promised to grant her wish.

“When I opened my eyes, I was wrapped in a cloth and placed in a basket, abandoned in front of the temple of Janus.”

When Mabel announced the end of the story, Kael, who had been listening silently, asked.

“Didn’t you say you made a wish?”

“That’s right. I made a wish.”

Mabel’s empty wish to the god Janus was nothing other than ‘I wish I had a family who would love me.’

“You acted innocent in front of me. You tempted me by saying you would grant my wish. But instead of having a family that would love you, you ended up becoming an orphan.”

Mabel, her feet floating in the air without touching the floor, slammed her fist tightly onto the sofa.

A god who allows reincarnation without granting one’s wish.

It wasn’t my intention to say that, but the way it looked was truly shameless.

Kael crossed his arms and thought about what Mabel had told him.

1. The reincarnation that the god Janus spoke of was none other than himself.

2. The causality is distorted as a result of regression.

3. Another reincarnation was created to correct the broken causality.

In summary, I could see that the god Janus was correcting the causality that had been distorted due to my regression.

In that case, there was a strong possibility that the god Janus was the one who reincarnated and regressed.

But even if that were the case, there were parts that I didn’t understand.

Why did the god Janus reincarnate himself into this world and make him return, even breaking the law of causality?

If he reincarnated himself, why didn’t the god Janus exist at the time of his reincarnation?

There were so many parts I couldn’t understand.

Meanwhile, Mabel tilted her head and asked.

“But Kael is also a reincarnation. Do you know who the reincarnation that the god Janus spoke of is?”

Kael, who met my clear purple eyes, seemed to be contemplating something and did not give an answer right away.

“Kael?”

A person who was reincarnated to correct the distorted causality.

If you kill someone like that, the law of causality will be broken again, and then you can return to your original world, right?

…should I kill him?

He was a weakling who could easily be broken with a single gesture.

“Kael. Are you okay? Hugo said that Kael went in early yesterday because he wasn’t feeling well. Are you still feeling well?”

The eyes that met his gaze were filled with concern for the person who was thinking of killing him.

He is naive enough to believe everything Hugo tells him, and he is so thirsty for affection that he only asks for a ‘family that will love him’ when he believes God will grant his wish.

“I… was really curious about the conversation. I came right after eating. I didn’t know you were in such bad shape. I’m sorry.”

If I told you I was going to kill you, how would you react?

At least he wouldn’t be looking at himself with those eyes.

“I’m fine. Yesterday… I went in early because I was tired.”

Kael’s mouth opened, and a soft voice flowed out. He closed his eyes for a moment, taking in the sight of Mabel breathing a sigh of relief at his words, saying, ‘Phew. Thank goodness!’

Yeah, let’s admit it.

Just like Mabel is thirsty for affection.

He admitted that he too was thirsty for affection, for connection with others, and that this child had moistened his parched loneliness.

But don’t kill me.

To use it for my own purposes.

In return, he decided to grant the child’s wish.

In order to do that, there was something he had to reveal to Mabel. It was something he had been planning to tell her anyway. Kael thought about how to use it more effectively.

“I asked if you knew anyone who had been reincarnated and even returned.”

“Huh? Yeah. Right. Does Kael know?”

“The person in front of you.”

“If it’s the person in front of me….”

Mabel pointed at herself with her finger, then at Kael in front of her.

He nodded as a short finger pointed towards him, confirming once again that it was he who had been asking the child.

“If you don’t believe me, just read this. You can see it. You can probably read it.”

– Charurk.

A somewhat eerie sight of a purple book being pulled out from his chest. Mabel froze for a moment at the sight.

“That… doesn’t hurt, right? It looks like it hurts when you put it in. It looks like it hurts when you take it out.”

“It doesn’t hurt at all. Don’t worry.”

“What are you worried about?”

Kael placed the book in front of Mabel, who denied it with a blank face.

Mabel opened the book, which was no different from an encyclopedia, and read the words written on the very first page.

“The Chapter of Reincarnation. Chapter 1. The First Reincarnation.”

Mabel continued reading the book.

As each page was turned, the child’s face turned bright red as if he had never blushed before. Instead, it turned as pale as the page he was turning.

“Second reincarnation… Third reincarnation… .”

The child’s hand opened the book to the center.

“… The tenth reincarnation. If the first reincarnation was 1000 years before the start of the original story… Kael… has been reincarnating for 1000 years?”

A pale, tired face.

Perhaps because of that, her clear purple eyes were filled with tears, and her lips were trembling slightly as she spoke.