I Will Be the Only One Who Heals at the Prison Academy - I Will Be the Only One Who Heals at the Prison Academy chapter 484

Side Story – Like Flowers Blooming on a Spring Day # 3

Side story – Like flowers blooming on a spring day # 3

There are many types of games that are played by multiple people.

It’s like board games like sitting around a square board and throwing dice.

It goes without saying that online games are played while sitting in front of the computer.

Games that have been handed down from ancient times, such as chess, chess, and baduk, also required others.

If you ask what is the most difficult thing in such a multiplayer game, the answer will probably vary from person to person.

But I dared to assert.

Finding someone to be with is the most difficult thing in itself─

Playing games with someone was more difficult than I thought.

It’s not easy to gather people with similar tastes, tendencies, and similar skills in one place.

In that sense, the old game master was a very good opponent to me.

Tak-.

“Check.”

Look.

If I let my guard down for a moment, the opponent’s knight comes after my king.

This feeling of confrontation is good.

The opponent cannot be too weak.

But it shouldn’t be too strong either.

In order to enjoy the game, a perfect level of confrontation is good.

And the best thing would be when I dramatically win against such an opponent.

Because the game is more fun when you win.

“Checkmate.”

I announced my victory by driving the opponent’s king with my queen.

It’s already been a few rounds.

It feels like the record is about 7:3.

I was a 7 and the game master was a 3, but the reason I achieved favorable results was not simply because I was good at it.

I was able to clearly understand the reason in this edition.

So, I decided to ask about something that bothered me earlier.

“Why don’t you use a queen?”

Queen.

The queen was the most powerful and important piece in chess.

However, the game master did not use the queen at all.

Sometimes it felt like I cared for the queen more than the king.

Slurp-.

The game master picked up the queen with his wrinkled hands beneath his robe.

Then he placed it on her palm and said.

“You mean Ekaterina?”

“Ekaterina?”

“It’s my queen’s name.”

The game master seemed to have given a name to the queen on his chessboard.

Thanks to that, I felt like I knew why the game master didn’t use the queen.

Of course, I said it as if the game master was explaining it without me having to realize it myself.

“If you give it a name and pay attention to it, affection will develop. Even if it’s just a piece on a chessboard. “You would understand.”

“Of course.”

I completely understood.

Because there were a lot of game characters that I liked.

Even though we know that the characters in games, comics, and novels are not actually living people, if we devote attention and time to them, they become precious.

Like the little prince’s rose.

When they are happy, I am happy, and when they are sad or angry, I also become sad and angry.

I asked because I knew that well.

“Was Nike the queen for you?”

“…”

The game master kept his mouth shut in response to my question.

Then, I just started organizing the pieces on the chessboard one by one and putting them in the drawer.

I watched that lonely-looking figure with eyes that were not covered by the eyepatch.

How much time has passed with that feeling?

The game master opened his lips, hidden by his bushy beard beneath his robe.

“Actually, I am. I thought it would be okay for Ludens’ play to continue forever. It wasn’t boring at all. “Same play, same ending, same characters, even if it repeats forever.”

“I see.”

“Still, it was fun. The score isn’t important. It doesn’t matter whether you win or lose. It’s fun to be able to roll dice forever and do what you like. At least for me, Ludens was a place of joy forever.”

“…”

His story was contradictory.

He said he could repeat the game forever, but he was the one who wanted to completely turn this game over and start anew.

The game master must have sensed my thoughts and opened his lips to add another word.

“But the others didn’t seem to have much fun. It seems that the gods who threw dice with me, and even the characters on the board, were bored with eternity. So, as a game master, I had no choice but to prepare something new.”

“Is that what happened?”

“That’s how it happened.”

The game master nodded.

Of course, I already knew his story his was false.

He was a person similar to me.

Because I wasn’t the kind of person who would upset the game board just because other people didn’t find it fun.

Even if others leave the game board, he is the one who will remain alone and roll the dice.

So it is false to say that we were trying to prepare a new game for others.

However, there was no intention to pursue the truth.

Because one eye, visible beneath the Game Master’s robe, was looking at Nike, who was sleeping peacefully, lying under a blanket.

Nike was sleeping snuggly with Arnoy.

The sight of him sleeping peacefully without talking while enjoying the bonfire looks peaceful and peaceful.

The game master looked at Nike and said to me.

“Nike now sleeps comfortably even in forests like this. Even when he was young, there were times when he couldn’t sleep because he was scared of the night in the forest.”

“I see.”

“He was a small child. He was smaller than even the little nymphs. “I can’t forget the way he followed me, who was several times bigger than me, and imitated this and that with his small palm.”

I imagined young Nike and Lesh, the forest owner.

It was an ironic situation now that we know that Lesh’s true identity was a game master.

“Hel, the goddess of death, broke the rules. She brought the dead back to life at will through Nike. Nike himself was one of them. “I had to kick Nike out like that.”

“But I didn’t. Why did it happen?”

“Let’s just say it was just a whim. Sometimes I feel like I want to enjoy the whims of a game that repeats itself forever. But I quickly regretted it.”

“Regret?”

“I shouldn’t have made eye contact with those emerald green eyes. I shouldn’t have heard the giggling laughter. They shouldn’t even give it the name Moke Moke. But by the time I realized it, it was too late.”

“…”

“Nike called me daddy. Even though Nike was the game horse and I was the game master. But before I knew it, I was no longer the game master, and Nike was no longer the horse of the game.”

“So you intentionally defeated me? “I prepared all the characters and episodes to avoid the destruction of a world that can no longer be considered a game.”

I thought the game master had defeated me on purpose.

However, the reason was not known, so the hypothesis was not confirmed.

My guess was that they may have lost on purpose because they felt that a game that could never be cleared would be sad for the production team.

But listening to the story today, it seemed like he decided to stop repeating the game for Nike. Because the country was defeated by a warrior.

Of course, he shook his head and denied it.

“You lost on purpose. I wasn’t soft enough to do something like that. And my role wasn’t that light. If you are who you are now, you would know. “The ‘end’ of this universe is just around the corner.”

The end of the universe.

At those words, I could feel my left eye throbbing.

When I touched the blindfold with my hand, the game master asked again.

“You probably saw it too. That this universe also has a lifespan and comes with limits. “Because you must have seen the same thing I saw, Victor.”

“Okay. “I saw it.”

As the game master said, the world and universe we live in had an end.

Not something like an ending, but a literal conclusion.

It was a completely flawless end that could not be avoided or ignored.

It is approaching us day by day.

No, maybe we are moving towards it.

The game master said.

“I repeated the game because the only way to avoid the end of the universe was to go back in time. But now time has started to pass.”

The reason the game master repeated the game by rotating Ludens’ universe was not only because it was fun, but also to avoid the complete end that would come one day.

But now that the eternal spinning wheel and dice have been destroyed, we have no choice but to move forward.

“…”

I wondered if what I did was a good thing.

The game master said to me.

“Of course, for you humans who are lost in a fleeting moment, that final day will be a distant eternity.”

That was it.

Even if the world comes to an end someday, there will already be no trace of me, my family, and my friends. It means I don’t have to worry.

“People’s… How can human life be so short? Just like a flower in spring… Something that sparkles in a small moment of the season. Nevertheless, it seems so foolish to live as if tomorrow will last forever.”

“That’s right—.”

Well, compared to the players and the gods, it is natural that human life is as short as a spring flower.

The game master said while looking at Nike.

“But, I guess I’m even more foolish. Even though we already know that it is a flower that blooms and withers in an instant, we have no choice but to lose our attention—.”

Sssss-.

A strong wind blew.

Thanks to this, the blanket covering Nike’s body was slightly disturbed.

I got up from my seat and covered Nike with a blanket.

Sreuk-.

At that time, Nike wakes up, blinking her thin eyelashes.

“Hmm, what was that just now? “It was windy.”

I looked around.

The game master who was playing chess with me was no longer visible anywhere.

Instead, a tree branch with pink flowers in full bloom was placed where he was sitting.

Nike is surprised to see that.

“… It’s a pink azalea! This is my favorite spring flower! To see this, you have to go at least to Mokemoke Forest in Rashgard. How did you get it? Huh?”

Nike held the flowery branches like a bouquet in his hands and smelled them.

It was Nike who sniffed the scent as if it was very good.

“Azaleas smell good!”

Nike smiled brightly.

Even a sunflower soaked in sunlight couldn’t smile so brightly.

It was clear that anyone who saw that smile would lose their attention.

“And Victor, I love it!”

Nike embraced me with flowers.

It was a spring night with spring flowers still in full bloom.