All Warriors Are My Disciples

54. The past, the future

Those figures reflected in the eyes beyond the blurry world.

It was definitely something I went through after falling into the game.

Spitting out swear words and shouting and cursing this nonsense.

But in the end, I gave up everything and accepted it and tried to live.

I went to see my teacher, was stubborn, asked for favors, and did all sorts of crazy things.

In the end, he was accepted as a disciple and learned everything from the Heavenly Demon.

After that, they find warriors one by one and take them in as disciples, even the part where they prepare.

All of my past was unfolding beyond that fog.

“… f*ck.”

In the midst of that, there were some situations that couldn’t be seen without profanity.

Starting with banging his head against a rock until he bleeds while chattering that this is a dream.

Sometimes I ran away because I didn’t want to be beaten by the teacher, but I was caught and beaten even more severely.

The climax was, of course, the encounter with Master who was taking a bath.

‘S, Master?!’

‘Lee, Heee!! Yes Ino Oh Ohm!!’

‘Aww! Why, why are you doing this?!’

‘You bastard! Didn’t he show no respect for his master!’

‘Knock! No! He told me to chop firewood, so I just did it!’

‘Noisy, Noisy! This, this stupid thing! Where have I seen it!’

‘What do you think you saw? Wow! No, what the hell are you trying to say to me ah!!’

It was such a miserable past.

It is safe to call it a dark history to both me and Master.

… Even if you didn’t see it on purpose, you beat it up with excitement.

It’s almost a miracle that he survived there.

If he was like a normal person, he would have died of blood clots.

Still, it seems that the training I received from my master had an effect.

After that, my past continued.

With each step, another story popped up that hadn’t appeared before.

It wasn’t just the past that I can clearly remember.

From things I didn’t know, to things I’d completely forgotten about.

As if looking back on my life, everything flows before my eyes.

At first, I was surprised and embarrassed.

As time goes by, I strangely relax and watch.

I must have looked like that and acted like that in the past.

I didn’t know it at the time, but looking at it now, it’s really ugly.

I thought of all sorts of things, but at the end, I suddenly had this thought.

– If we go one step further here, wouldn’t we be able to change the past? –

What kind of nonsensical nonsense is reason?

I’m screaming that that can’t be possible.

Strangely, such thoughts kept creeping into my mind.

Like a fog that gets thicker and thicker, I can’t get out.

Even though I thought I had to get out of here as soon as possible.

In the end, I can’t get away from the past that keeps being drawn in front of me.

“Master.”

If only one voice hadn’t been heard.

I would have been unable to overcome the temptation and walked away.

“Iris.”

“I just found it. We almost got mixed up.”

“Did you find the others? What about Master? Where are you all?”

“Maybe… I wonder if everyone is lost like us.”

“How did you find me?”

“… By chance.”

The word coincidence, though.

Your expression shows that you know something.

It was clear that he found me using his future experiences as a springboard.

“How was Master?”

“What are you talking about?”

“When you’re in this fog, you feel like you’ve gone back in time. I actually look at the past.”

“… In fact, it was like that a little while ago.”

“Is that so?”

Iris looks at me and then she walks slowly towards me.

And after showing a moment of concern, he suddenly grabs my hand.

At the moment he was about to open his mouth asking what he was doing.

The past of ‘I’ in front of me is blurred and soon merges with something and is ugly.

At first, I didn’t know what it was.

Things that are distorted so badly that you can’t even tell them properly.

It’s still blurry as time goes by, but something is starting to appear properly.

‘I’m sorry.’

I can hear Iris’s voice.

His whole body is covered in blood, and he is holding someone in his arms.

I couldn’t see it in detail because it was so blurry, but it was a strangely familiar energy.

As soon as you close your eyes and try to take a closer look, the scene changes.

It still doesn’t look right, and it’s very distorted.

But I could see them fighting something in the distance.

Screams and shouts echo from all directions.

Life is dying countless times, and there is full of despair.

The despair and resistance lights are extinguished one by one.

And at the end, Iris’s face was briefly reflected before disappearing.

“Iris, this is….”

In lieu of answering my words, Iris held my hand even tighter.

Then again, the fog seems to thicken and then shows something.

‘This time, definitely. I will definitely save everyone.’

This is also the voice of Iris.

But Iris, standing next to her, keeps her mouth shut.

If anything, what I hear now is the spittle of Iris from the past.

No, that was what Iris from the “Future” Was talking about.

Siss….

Suddenly, the darkness is so dark that even fog can’t be seen.

Everything I could barely see is consumed by the darkness.

The moment I tried to draw my sword because I couldn’t figure out what the situation was.

Everything disappeared again, and my past appeared there.

“… This is the limit.”

“Iris. Just that… That’s your past… Are you?”

I deliberately put aside the past and the next.

For Iris now, it’s the past.

At the same time, those situations that were also the future she experienced.

“Like Master did, I saw my past. I’m curious about Master’s past. So I’m sorry for holding your hand just to take a look. Please don’t scold me.”

“….”

It’s a lie, that’s not true.

It wasn’t to see my past, it was to show my own past.

Though it was so blurry, it’s safe to say that I couldn’t see anything clearly.

Still, in the midst of that, I was able to clearly recognize one fact.

“… It must have been really hard.”

“I was alone. To the end.”

“What about the others?”

“No. I was alone.”

The last warrior in a ruined world.

The last survivor of a collapsed world.

For some reason, that last being went round and round, and came back to the present.

And in front of me, we are defeated.

I was saying that everyone would fall for the hostility toward the world.

* * * * * * * * * *

“Here is something!”

Recalling her own experience, Iris found her entrance.

Iris entered, and now she and her mentor will enter.

The identity of the ancient kingdom in the west is the Mirror Kingdom.

The capital of the Mirror Kingdom that has been sleeping underground has been there since ancient times.

It was wearing a very unusual yet powerful defense.

That is, to reflect that mirror to those who are looking for themselves.

What the mirror reflects is none other than that person’s past.

Originally, people are so vulnerable to lingering feelings.

The mere display of the person’s past stuns the intruders.

I can’t shake off my lingering feelings, I want to change, I want to go back.

It will wander forever like that, unable to live or die.

‘The Trap of the Mirror Kingdom. Iris-senpai was caught here and I was lost for almost a month.’

It’s not just them.

Those who came to find Iris also get lost together.

Though they are trained to the highest level in battles with monsters and monsters.

It was close to impossible for even such warriors to break through the current situation.

Even his teachers and Taesabu were not free from the past.

There is only one way to escape this trap, this fog.

To break through this without being bound by the past and not even paying attention.

And it was to erase the self of the past that settled at the end and open the exit.

‘Ahh! .’

‘Maknae! Get out with Master! Hurry!’

‘aaa!!’

My hands and feet are shaking, and my heart is pounding like it’s about to explode.

As the scene I had been trying to forget emerges in front of my eyes, my heart, which I had barely grasped, collapses.

As each precious person falls down one by one, fear, fear, and anger come.

“… “

Calm down, Iris. Come to your senses.

Are you going to fall for the same trap you’ve already fallen for?

Thinking so, Iris bit her lip.

This was a trap, but at the same time an opportunity for himself.

It is very difficult to share one’s past with others.

Even if you show it, it will only blur because of each other’s past.

If only I could show you even a part of it.

If only we could see what our end was like.

I should be able to erase all doubts about my mentor that may have been.

So Iris shook off the past that was bothering her and trying to hold on to her.

I walked and walked, thinking that it was a trap and that I had to get out of it.

I don’t know how long it took.

I don’t even know how much time has passed.

I just know that there is an end, and I know that I must get out of here quickly.

“Master.”

In the end, Iris had to find her mentor.

There is no time to delay.

Iris held her mentor’s hand and shared her past.

At first, each other’s memories collided and were completely distorted.

Then, the past or future of Iris, which had barely formed, unfolded, albeit vaguely.

“….”

Her master watched it in silence.

Anyone who didn’t know anything would have asked what that was.

Since I already had a clear sense of it, I didn’t seem to have much trouble understanding it.

“… It must have been really hard.”

At her teacher’s words, Iris forced herself to hold back her tears.

Now is the start. No, we haven’t even started yet.

There is no problem in shedding tears of joy and relief later.

“Let’s go, Master. Let’s get through this fog together.”

“What about the others?”

“Wouldn’t anyone be able to find it when they reach the end of this road?”

Originally, he and his master would wander in this trap for over a month.

A place where you don’t have any problems eating, drinking, or even sleeping.

That was the fear of the giant trap of the Mirror Kingdom.

The demons and demon worshipers take advantage of that opportunity to work.

The monsters were summoned on a large scale in the capital, not anywhere else.

At the time, Garam, the warrior of the sword, was losing a lot of time because of the man inside.

Guardian Hero Gerard and Fierce Hero Iris are trapped in the Mirror Kingdom.

And there was even his teacher and Taesabu.

The power was almost cut in half, so the remaining warriors had to do their best.

I managed to stop the spread of the monsters, but many people died and were injured.

Followers as well as warriors suffered minor injuries.

But the biggest problem is that the people of the world have come to have fear.

‘Enmity, funny enough, feeds on the fear of beings in this world. They are the ones who want to destroy this world. Funny enough, this world couldn’t exist without it.’

His teacher knew this long ago.

So I tried to use the warriors to instill courage in people’s hearts instead of fear.

But it was because there were too many interruptions and there were many unexpected things.

In the end, they weren’t as effective as expected.

‘Master. I really hope that I am the last warrior.’

I hope that the end of myself will come to a world where no more warriors are needed.

I hope that one day everyone will forget the existence of warriors and remember only peace.

The last hero, Iris Future Walker, prayed so earnestly.