The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed

289 – The same world

How can we be sure what is right? The definition of right is different for each person depending on their education, experience, and background. What may be praised for good deeds by others may be punished as bad deeds by others. There have been times when what I thought was the best way was actually a bit of hypocrisy.

Even if Jin Xian ate Roel’s lovers, would I have the right to criticize him for that? Of course, there was aversion to cannibalism, but I couldn’t shake the feeling that it was Jin Xian’s unique ability that forced him to choose that way in the first place. It’s not greed, it’s because it wouldn’t have happened if I had acquired other unique abilities.

More than anything else, I was curious about the butterfly effect that Jin Xian’s actions would have brought to the world. How would the flow of the story have changed if the important characters who would lead the story were absorbed?

“… “I don’t think you would have acted impulsively simply with the idea that an extra would become the main character.”

In response to my question, Jin Xian twitched one corner of his mouth with an expression that seemed obvious.

“Of course, I made a plan and trapped them one by one. At that time, he didn’t have the confidence to win in a fight with Roel. “If someone got caught in the trap I designed, I would eat them leisurely.”

An image of Jinxian opening its wide mouth and devouring someone came to mind, and I sighed and stopped imagining it.

“Have you ever thought that if the character leading the story disappeared, the flow you knew would change?”

What I was most wary of was variables. Because Roel messed with Confsion during summer vacation, Mesmer and Jamie, who did not appear in the novel, became members of the new Confsion. What created an unexpected variable almost killed her beloved Luna.

“I thought that my possession would have created a variable anyway. If I cannot prevent all variables, I have decided to gain the strength to overcome any variable. “I also wanted to beat Roel, the main character of the novel.”

I also understood Jin Xian’s choice. Although it is an extreme choice, it may be the simplest but best way to develop one’s own capabilities rather than worrying about numerous variables. If I had been able to grow tremendously enough to overcome the variables, I would have thought deeply about that choice.

“After absorbing all the talent I wanted, I ran away from the academy and wandered the continent. I needed time to make all of my talents my own, and I was planning on collecting all the scattered pieces of the Emerald Tablet. “In the end, after one year, I completed the Emerald Tablet.”

Suddenly something flashed in my mind. She realized that what she had taken for granted until now was wrong. The Emerald Tablet is an object that does not appear in the original novel. Because it was a discarded setting. Collecting it meant that the world Jin Xian was in was the same as mine.

“… “The world you were in was also a world with discarded settings.”

This explains why Jin Xian did not care about the twists in the flow of the story and focused only on growth. Just because the discarded settings exist as they were, variables are created in the original story.

Jin Xian smiled bitterly and stroked his chin.

“Yeah, I was the last one in the world where the discarded settings were used. I guess my failure must have been painful. “Maybe they decided that it was impossible to control the variables.”

However, Hope Loss chose to revive the discarded setting that had been abandoned in the beginning for the very last world. That choice has a clear meaning. A good reason for the obsolete setting to exist. If you find it, Hope Ross will be able to reach the ending he wanted.

After gathering my thoughts for a moment, I focused on the conversation that had ended. If the world Jin Xian was in was the same world as the world I was in, it would mean that I could complete the Emerald Tablet in the same way.

“How did you complete the Emerald Tablet?”

“Kkekeu, did you become greedy because it was a world where the same discarded setting was revived? I can’t believe my money was taken away so easily… “Even though I’m the speaker, my stomach hurts so much?”

When Jin Xian contorted his face playfully, I responded in a playful voice.

“I plan to make you reveal everything you know, so be prepared.”

“… Unlucky b*stard. Before, he was at least sympathetic, but now he seems to have completely accepted that I am the speaker. Okay, okay, I’ll tell you everything. “Is there anything I can’t do to see the end of every story?”

Jin Xian spoke as if acting, and leaned back on the sofa like a deflated balloon.

“The Emerald Tablet is divided into a total of 8 pieces. Each piece contains clues that can lead to the truth of alchemy. “With natural alchemy talent and a little luck, an alchemist will be able to complete the Emerald Tablet on his own.”

“… When I thought about the setting of the truth of alchemy and the Emerald Tablet, I put in a vaguely plausible phrase, but I didn’t set the exact setting, so I don’t know what kind of ability it is. “Please explain in more detail.”

At my request, Jin Xian sighed and looked at me with an obviously troubled expression.

“I can’t explain it.”

“The words of telling everyone everything are still in my ears, but are you changing what you said?”

Jin Xian distorted his face and shouted in a rough tone.

“You idiot. You don’t know how much care I put into conveying information to you! What I am giving you is only a clue. However you cook it, that’s something you have to do back in your world. Just by telling you without processing information that you cannot find out at this point, causality is applied and a big variable is created! Are you planning to create the possibility that the cult leader will immediately invade the Academy to obtain information about the Emerald Tablet?”

I was taken aback by Jin Xian’s words. This is because I had never thought that causality could create probability in that way. Jin Xian, who read my embarrassed expression, continued speaking with a fierce aura.

“Listen carefully. If you do something that goes against the laws of the world, cause and effect will come back to you. Our enemies are taking advantage of that law. “Keep in mind that just by possessing Ross, you have given the enemy the right to intervene in the world.”

As he nodded, remembering clearly, Jin Xian stopped emitting an evil aura and wiped his face once.

“… Anyway, after becoming an archmage and sword master, I returned to the academy to defeat Roel. If I beat Roel, the Munchkin protagonist, I will become the true protagonist. Even though Roel had grown tremendously at the time, it was not enough for me, who had absorbed her numerous talents.”

“Surely you defeated Roel?”

When he asked that question in a surprised voice with his eyes wide open, Jin Xian wrinkled his eyebrows and made an unpleasant expression.

“I used magic to win in an instant. But just before the sword touches Roel’s neck… “The sword missed in an impossible trajectory.”

“… what?”

“Is it because of the main character’s buff or because of the setting that Ross can’t beat Roel…? Even if he used his magic, he only barely threatened his life and failed to kill Roel. Rather, as the battle continued, Roel grew tremendously, surpassing the realm of the transcendental at once.”

Perhaps that was because Ross was quickly caught up to his older brother no matter what he did. As Ross grows, Roel grows even more. Then I… Are you saying that you won’t be able to beat Roel in the future?

“I thought the reason I couldn’t kill Roel was the result of a combination of Munchkin’s setting of never losing, the main character’s buff, and Ross’ setting that he couldn’t beat his older brother no matter what he did. So I thought of overcoming the setting using the Emerald Tablet.”

I felt my heart pounding at those words. She didn’t know if it was possible to overcome the setting, then it might be possible for her to surpass Roel.

“But that was against probability, the law of the world. The method using the Emerald Tablet failed, and as a result, my synchronization rate rapidly dropped to 0%. When the synchronization was lost, I turned into Jinxian and faced the world’s negativity.”

“It means that trying to overcome the setting goes against probability… ?”

“If you simply like beer, you might be able to overcome it, but settings that play an important role in the flow are tied to probability, so if you mess with it carelessly, probability will work as it pleases.”

I was silent for a moment. I had no choice but to suppress my anger. Jin Xian is saying that no matter what I do, as long as there is a possibility, I cannot beat Roel.

Jin Xian, who was looking at me blankly, smiled.

“Roel is not the enemy. “He is the hero we have longed for and longed for.”

I couldn’t easily nod my head at Jin Xian’s words. The image I saw in the cult leader’s trap, the current situation where I suspected he had returned, and Roel’s actions in hiding that he was stealing everything from me were something I could never think of as the Roel I knew.

When I hesitated to answer, Jin Xian put his hand on my shoulder.

“You may not understand Roel right now, but over time you will understand his actions. “Because the beliefs of the protagonist we imagined did not change in any multiverse.”