Memoirs of the Returnee - Chapter 306



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The Regressor’s Notepad, Chapter 306

New Year (4)

A winter night when the wind mixed with snow blows in whitely.

I’m with Soliet.

She listened to my story, which was so depressing, and her face looked a little sad.

But it’s not too depressing.

I hid my time limit.

Wouldn’t it be a bit excessive to add a time limit here?

I don’t even want to share my death.

“I understand now. So Zion is trying to destroy them.”

Solliet muttered, snowflakes mingling with her breath.

“Yeah. It’s a bit of a grand dream. Can you help me?”

“… … .”

Then the guy frowns. As if to ask why.

“Why are you saying this again? We already promised each other before. We’ll go together until the end.”

out.

It’s a very trustworthy word, but I don’t know how many years I have left. It’s a shame because it’s not long.

It would be nice if I could eat it sparingly.

“Again… … I feel like it overlaps somehow, Zion.”

“what.”

“That’s what our blades are aimed at.”

I nodded with a small smile.

“I know.”

Libra. They must have something to do with the Nightmare. But it’s also probably Arcne’s fault.

That’s why she must have committed suicide before her regression.

At that time, she took revenge on Arcne with her own death, cutting off the ‘line’ and thus the end of the family line.

… … At least that’s what I thought.

Tiring─

Just then, an alarm went off on the Libraphone. It was Growl’s signal.

“I’ll go.”

“Yes? Where are you going?”

“To clean.”

“cleaning…….”

Solliet didn’t ask much. She already knew there was no need to.

“Yes. Have a nice trip.”

Solliet extended her hand to me. I took her hand in mine. We shook hands.

“Uh. I’ll be back.”

She says go and I will go.

Sometimes I say, “Go away,” and she will go away.

This level of relationship is enough.

I don’t love her now, and she is slowly getting over her loss.

These experiences of burying in her heart those who have left first will be of great help to her in the future.

Because someday, I too will have to leave her side.

* * *

Knock knock.

Jade dusted herself off. The situation had already been resolved long ago.

He was the only one standing directly in his radius.

Every inch of the land was blackened. Farms that had been full of crops became black mounds. Traces of corpses were piled up in ash.

Jade hates monsters.

That’s why he burned everything he could. He preferred the sight of ashes that were close to nothing, rather than leaving behind debris that would be an unsightly pollutant.

However, he did not deal with fire. He could simply adjust the friction of the blow to ignite the regime.

All of Jade’s combat was intuitive.

He knew the limits of his violence, and that was pretty much it.

perhaps.

The entire law of physics was at his fingertips.

“… … .”

Jade looked at Blocker. Half of his face was left. As expected of someone who had built up some power, he had endured this much.

Even a clean death would have been too much for the bug, but Jade had no interest in torturing people.

This was enough.

──Rustle.

There was a sound of footsteps on the ashes. Jade already knew of his approach.

“Sorry I’m late.”

Zion Ascal. Jade looked back at him.

“Cleaning. Can you do it?”

“Yes. Please leave it to me.”

“This is your doing.”

Jade spoke as if she was blaming him. It was indeed a sin, but it wouldn’t be all bad for Zion.

“I will do that.”

Jade turned around. He didn’t feel good. Direct murder was always like this.

An uneasy feeling, as if you went out of your way to find a bug and step on it to kill it.

On days like this, Iselin comes to mind.

Perhaps, today I will have a nightmare about that day. The day I grabbed the arm of the woman who was going to leave me and pulled it out…

Jade took a step forward.

Kwaaaa …

A huge shock wave struck. A tidal wave of wind fanned out across the land, shaking the ground. The embers in the ashes flared up again.

… … Isn’t it too destructive for a simple leap?

Zion scratched the back of his neck and laughed in vain.

“what…….”

First of all, the goal has been achieved.

Jade had her own specialty, and there wasn’t much to clean.

Because it’s all ashes.

However, it was too much for him to do all of this by himself, so he planned to just give a brief, understated report to the intelligence agency.

With the help of Belmore, planting internal stimuli, and using a number of expensive explosives… … that sounds plausible.

“… … .”

Zion suddenly looked up at the sky. Jade had already left, but he had doubts about her.

The clear best in the world. The strongest with no rivals.

He was killed by Zia.

No matter how much I think about it, I can’t understand it.

He is a man who seems unable to die, but rather seems to be the closest human being to eternal life.

How did Jia kill him?

“… … So in the end, it’s a direct lineage?”

No matter how much you dig and poke around, all the secrets end up in the hands of the immediate family.

As if his revenge was directed at them.

* * *

─It is said that the Blocker forces have collapsed.

That night, Jia received news from the head of the HR team, Jin. It was quite unbelievable that the Blockers had been destroyed in an instant.

At first, it sounded like a bell being knocked on while I was sleeping.

“Are you sure… …?”

─Yes. We dispatched staff to the station to check.

Jia, who just woke up, feels like her mind is floating. Her actual hair is also floating slightly.

“Ugh… … Wait a minute… … .”

I rubbed my eyes rustlingly.

These days, she sleeps a lot. She spends all her time outside of work sleeping, that is, recovering.

─Not only Blocker, but even his closest associates were annihilated.

Jia doesn’t easily believe information. It’s just a fragment, so she only believes what she sees.

“okay……?”

She can hack electronic devices to turn them into her own eyes and ears, and she can summon countless servant horses, but unfortunately, her time is not infinite enough to observe everything. Nor is her capacity infinite.

She is becoming dull.

To be precise, it is dying.

─Miss. I think you can stop being suspicious now.

As Jin said, Jia felt the need to rely on or depend on someone.

You need someone you can at least trust with a part of yourself. Not someone you can always be suspicious of, but someone you can trust and rely on.

A confidant who will relieve your burden and stamina.

─Chaser Zion is a knight only for Miss Zia.

Zia thought about it for a moment. It didn’t take long.

Although I had only been with Zion Ascal for two years, the intensity of their relationship was greater than that of Jin, who I had been with for ten years.

“… … Okay. I’ll hang up.”

She nodded and hung up the phone. Then she contacted Sonya.

There’s no time to sit still. If this information leaks out, other hyenas will come running.

Before that, we must swallow up all of Blocker’s forces and bases in one breath.

─… … What is it?

Sonya’s voice, deep in sleep.

Gia told her.

“Sonya… … . Blocker is dead… … .”

─… … Huh?

Sonya had a similar reaction. She must have wondered what was going on all of a sudden while she was sleeping.

“I’m not lying… … We have to move right now… … .”

─Uh… …I understand. Give the order to deploy.

Jia had already trained her troops. She had also established a mercenary group with those forces. Now she just had to deploy them and take control of all the distribution networks.

“… … .”

It’s such an important moment.

She couldn’t get up. She lay down on the bed without realizing it.

“……I’m sleepy.”

My consciousness sinks as if I’m buried in sand or sinking into the sea. I’m so sleepy that I can’t even move a finger.

Tiring ringing──

Suddenly the phone rang. She looked at the cell phone in her hand.

It was Zion.

It was Zion Ascal.

She moved her fingers and answered the phone.

─Miss Zia. The mission has been completed.

“……huh.”

Short answer.

It was Jia’s best.

─Where does it hurt?

“… … .”

Zia didn’t say anything. She didn’t even feel like moving her mouth.

─I’ll be there soon.

Zion arrived quickly. He thought it was quick, but it could have been hours. He stayed with him until he recovered, and prepared a meal for him when he woke up.

It was delicious.

* * *

The intelligence agency’s Gedler heard shocking news.

Blocker. The issue was that the force that the Information Agency had also been paying attention to was annihilated by the Belmore team including Sion Askar.

It was virtually a decisive blow to Gedler.

Belmore’s status soared, and his skills far exceeded his own expectations.

Belmore was soon recognized as one of the strongest in the intelligence agency. It was said that his skills were on par with those of a decent balancer.

“… … .”

Gedler looked at the nameplate alone in the director’s office. He saw his own name, which he had kept for a long time.

[Director Gedler]

If we stay still like this, he will prey on us.

You will be betrayed by your own subordinates.

So now it was time to choose.

Gedler left the director’s office with a bitter smile and walked around the intelligence agency.

As it happened, there was a Belmore in the hallway leading to the main hall.

Belmore just walked. He had his hands in his pockets, a leisurely smile on his face, and Sion Ascal was by his side.

The intelligence agency’s attention was focused on the two.

To Gedler, their every appearance seemed slow, like a scene from some movie.

Gedler envied their arrogance. He feared Belmore’s grand ambition and his meticulousness. He mocked himself for having misjudged him.

The day will soon come when we will pay the price for that misjudgment.

* * *

Winter somehow feels like it passes quickly.

My regression has now reached its third year, Solliet has started the new semester without dropping out, and Castology has temporarily closed.

I didn’t feel the need to run it until a family emerged that could extract more information than Glowfeld.

Also, as Dr. Killian, I have been gathering materials to prepare for whistleblowing.

Since the lab and even Killian’s residence were under surveillance, “Notepad” was used.

I have all the data and experimental processes in my “Notepad”. A perfect copy is no different from the original, so it will serve as proper evidence.

“… …Are you nervous?”

And today─ Vito asked me. Now I stand before Jedrick’s heart.

As a key researcher, I was given the opportunity to meet Jedrick.

“Yes, I’m nervous.”

Vito considered me a key researcher, a special treatment that was even more special than that given to other senior researchers.

“Don’t be so nervous. Lord Jedrick must have called to compliment Dr. Killian.”

“……yes.”

When I answered, pretending to be nervous, Vito snickered. He knocked and opened the door.

Beyond that was Jedrick, and next to Jedrick was his direct secretary, Riley. Riley had also been promoted.

“You came.”

Jedrick greeted us with an unexpectedly bright smile.

“Did you say you were a key researcher at Killian?”

“Yes. Glory, glory.”

He put his hand on my shoulder. I did my best to pretend I didn’t know what to do.

“I’ve heard a lot from Dr. Vito. He played a big role in artificial intelligence?”

Happiness was evident in Jedrick’s every gesture and face.

Well, it was a great performance. They even overwhelmed the number one company, Everett, this quarter.

“I… … was just helping Dr. Vito.”

As always, he gave credit to Vito. Vito shook his head and smiled, and Jedrick laughed too.

“Hahaha. What a humble friend.”

By the way, there aren’t many people who can hear Jedrick call them ‘friend’.

“There’s no special reason why I called you. I’m going to present version two at the Ortu Symposium in the second quarter, so you should come with me then.”

Ortu Symposium. The world’s largest technology and academic conference attended by the continent’s top scholars.

“Accompanying… …you mean?”

“Yes. As a pioneer in artificial intelligence that has brought about a revolution overnight, shouldn’t we show the world the faces of those who have walked along the way?”

I thought for a moment. I glanced at Riley. She met my eyes and raised her eyebrows.

Soon I bowed to Jedrick.

“… … If I could be with Lord Jedric, it would be an infinite honor.”

Ortu Symposium.

A place like the Milky Way where bright-eyed intellectuals gather.

It would have been the perfect stage to cover Dr. Killian’s ‘end’.