The Munchkin Disciple Wants To Stop Being Obsessed Over - Chapter 170



Daphne’s Past (1)

After much thought, I told a story that I had known all along.

It was definitely like that.

The story that came out of my lips disappeared into thin air like a lie.

“Fuck. Why are you suddenly like this?”

Embarrassed, I blurted out a curse without thinking.

“···.”

Daphne was looking at me with surprised eyes, and seeing her made me naturally think about what the situation was.

‘It’s like the teacher asked me a serious question and I answered like, ‘Fuck.’

It was a situation where it wouldn’t be strange if I got hit like a dog on Boknal right now.

“I, I didn’t mean to swear… I, I was trying to answer honestly, but, strangely, it didn’t come across….”

“···It’s the same.”

“Yes. Of course you wouldn’t believe it… Yes?”

“He said it was the same.”

A dull voice.

I thought I would get hit, of course, and tried to make excuses while stammering my words, but I had to tilt my head. What do you mean, they’re the same?

“A long time ago… there was a man who couldn’t say what he knew like you. When I asked him something, he would answer, but no one, including me, could understand his answers.”

“Graham···”

“Berheim.”

Daphne continued with a bitter expression.

“He knew something that others didn’t know, just like you.”

“You knew something…?”

“Yes. Berheim knew the fate that was laid out for others, just like you. He knew what was going to happen, he knew who the enemy was, and he knew what to do.”

“···.”

A sudden, unpleasant feeling of discomfort came over me, and I was speechless.

‘If you just listen to what the teacher says…’

That sense of discomfort gave rise to doubt, and led to a hypothesis.

‘Berheim, that author…’

An unexpected hypothesis: Could it be that he was a possessed person like me?

My mind starts to become very complicated and I start to feel suffocated as if my stomach is blocked.

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“I don’t know Berheim, what kind of person he is.”

“That must be so. I never once told you about that old, forgotten person.”

“why···.”

Didn’t you tell me?

When asked, Daphne rested her chin on her hand and looked out the window for a moment, then answered while pressing her chest with her fingers.

“It hurt here.”

“···.”

“Camel, you with your eyes would know. What this invisible chain that is squeezing my mind means.”

Although I don’t know the details, I nodded my head, guessing that the invisible chain was related to some kind of contract.

“Let me tell you my old story. It seems necessary to do so···.”

Daphne stroked my hand with a sad smile for some reason.

“It was a long time ago, when I was about your age.”

And then, for the first time, he began to tell his old story.

****

The first time I learned his name was on a spring day when I was 20 years old, the day when the third-year students’ first semester midterm exam scores were announced.

“Oh my god, Daphne isn’t the head girl?”

“Berheim? Isn’t that the kid who always comes in last?”

“Wow, as I live, there comes a day when I see Daphne, who is called a peerless genius, lose to someone.”

The whispering of the people came to me as an unfamiliar stimulus.

“Who is it···?”

The first feeling I had was doubt about the defeat I had never experienced before.

It was worth it. Because, whether it was swordsmanship, magic, or academics, I was never not overwhelming in any field.

So I went to see him.

“Hey. You’re so good at fighting? Come with me.”

I was very suspicious, so I went to him and picked a fight to make my suspicions come true.

That’s what it was.

“···What the hell are you doing?”

He gave me ‘defeat’, even though I had never lost to anyone before.

“My name is Berheim. Not Nigger.”

After saying that with a blank expression, he left.

“That unlucky kid···!”

For the first time in my life, I felt humiliated and ashamed, and for the first time, I started to ‘make an effort’ to beat someone.

But, he is so arrogant.

“If you do that, mana will be stored inefficiently.”

“You, what are you doing! How long have you been watching me?”

“I was just passing through.”

It slowly began to approach me like that.

It was absurd. The place where I was sweating bullets was the northern end of Adenia, where there were no people, and I was passing through that kind of road.

“I was just passing by.”

He happened to pass by wherever I was sweating and gave me something of his own as a favor.

“You’re really unlucky.”

“Usually in these situations you would say ‘thank you.’”

I don’t know when it started, but he has been permeating my moments since some time ago.

Was it because it had seeped in? The suspicion I had for him had transformed into curiosity at some point.

While I was curious about him, I kept trying.

I wanted to win. To the blunt and stupid man who first made me feel curious.

However, the victory I desired from Berheim did not happen.

because.

“Sin has appeared and is sweeping the battlefield.”

The era in which I lived was a time when an unprecedented evil arrived and threw the continent into chaos.

“But, I was told I was a warrior. So, you know···”

The man who made me curious was a warrior of that era,

“I have a favor to ask.”

Because the warrior of that era asked me for a favor.

“Be part of my party.”

On the subject of heading to the battlefield, he smiled brightly and held out his hand.

“Actually, you’re the only person I can trust.”

Acknowledging me.

So, we headed to the capital of the empire.

“Berheim, I appoint you, the warrior of this era, as the commander of the Dragonblood Knights. Please swing your sword with boundless courage and strong justice, and pierce the heart of evil.”

Berheim, who was put in charge of the continent’s greatest knighthood, headed to the battlefield with me and those who had newly joined his ranks.

For three years, quite a long time, we fought on the battlefield.

“Captain Berheim and Vice-Captain Daphne have cut down ‘Greed’!”

“There will be only infinite glory before the Dragon Blood Knights!”

He always achieved victory and brought light of hope to the battlefield.

Even in the midst of all that.

“Malik, why did you call me?”

“Vice-Captain Daphne. Actually, I’ve known you for a long time…”

“go away.”

“Ugh.”

Each person’s emotions were alive.

“···Daphne, I clearly told you not to come out.”

“Hey, where are you getting the vibe from? If I hadn’t stepped forward earlier, you would have definitely gotten hurt.”

“I’d rather get hurt than you get hurt.”

“what···.”

My emotions also fluctuated at every moment.

“What? Why a necklace all of a sudden…?”

“I picked it up on the way.”

“Is this the devil’s court?”

“···.”

“fool.”

The curiosity I had, at some point, turned into love.

I asked him once.

“What are you going to do when the war is over? Well···.”

To my question, he answered with a bland smile.

“I wonder if I should go see you again.”

“What, what are you saying···.”

“Once the war is over.”

“···.”

“Go to sleep first. Tomorrow’s battle will be completely different from the previous battles.”

Lighting a fire in my heart.

But unfortunately, my heart wasn’t the only place that was set on fire.

“Eww!”

“Hey, save me…!”

“Gregory! Oh, no…!”

“I··· That’s an evil spirit···.”

“Retreat, retreat!”

The sudden descent of the evil god sparked a fire of despair across all of humanity.

“You saw it last time, even Lord Berheim couldn’t reach the evil god.”

“There is no hope.”

“We are going to die.”

After a series of defeats, everyone was frustrated.

Even in the midst of all that.

“I have to go to the door.”

“door···?”

“At the Gate of Destiny, you can defeat the evil spirits.”

Berheim did not give up.

“Captain… It was an honor to be with you.”

“Come on, let’s go. It’s embarrassing to talk with a hole in your stomach…”

“Please bring peace to humanity and our families…”

“Please… my captain… our warrior….”

He moved forward, carrying the blood and tears of many people on his back.

“Berheim···.”

“Captain, is that the ‘Gate of Destiny’ or whatever you were talking about?”

“okay.”

In that way, we were able to reach the huge gate that reached the sky at the end of the magic realm.

“‘The One Who Opens Destiny’, I have been waiting for you···.”

I faced the body of the evil spirit.

We drew our swords and conjured magic.

The evil spirit created a black filth like the ocean and scattered black rain over the world.

Malik and I, the only surviving knights of the Dragonblood Knights, led by Berheim, rushed to the evil god.

“···!”

Then, he fell down with his abdomen pierced by a black magic.

“···Ku, kuluk···!”

But I survived.

Although some pain remains, I am fully recovered.

“Ba, Berheim···?”

All I could see was Berheim standing there with his sword stuck in the ground, blood dripping from his mouth.