The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed

488 – Bella

The god I met one day asked me this question. Who are you? I couldn’t give a proper answer to that repeated question. I couldn’t accurately understand the intention of the question God asked me. However, the moment I lost Ellie, who was with me until the end, and regained Luna, I was able to realize the intention of the question too late.

What I had to do was decided from the beginning. This is something only I can do. No, it would be correct to say that it is something that only I was designed to do. It is no coincidence that I was possessed by a character named ‘Ross’.

So I lied to Luna. So that my lies could be her painkiller for a little while. All she has to do is replace the lies she told Luna with the truth, as she has been doing all along. Because I have no choice but to become desperate if I don’t want to lose Luna again.

As I opened the door to the club room and went out, the hallway in the basement of the academy came into view. As expected. It appears that this was not the illusion of the 10th floor of the Labyrinth, but the real Transcendence Academy.

Suddenly this thought occurred to me.

I wonder if the Holy Grail has existed in the Messiah club room from the beginning. Given Nelson’s sinister personality, which we recently discovered, it is quite possible. Not noticing the jewel in front of him, he spins around and returns to the starting point, only to belatedly realize that the jewel is in front of him and gain enlightenment… Doesn’t it fit with the setting I set for the principal teaching lessons?

In fact, the club room was originally the principal’s secret warehouse, and was connected to a legend called the secret room at the academy. There is no twist better than this to instill a sense of futility.

The truth is I don’t know. If it had really been in the club room, wouldn’t Roel and the leader have known? Maybe it’s just my suspicions. But it can’t be helped. Mimul, who realized that the place he thought was the world was a treadmill created by God, had no choice but to doubt everything.

As I was climbing the stairs with a complicated mind mixed with doubt and despair, I realized that someone was looking down at me from the end of the stairs. When I raised my head, I saw a familiar face. Bella’s hound, Ian. I looked at him in silence as if he was waiting for me.

“The emperor is waiting.”

As expected, Bella seems to have been waiting for me. Anyway, I was planning to head to the imperial palace to meet Bella as soon as I left the academy, so I nodded straight away without rejecting Ian’s offer.

As I followed Ian, I realized that his steps were not heading towards the main gate that would allow him to leave the academy, but rather towards the Magical Arts dormitory.

The place we finally arrived with Ian was not the imperial palace where the emperor should be, but Bella’s personal laboratory at the academy. It is a familiar place that I have visited several times.

Ian, who opened the door to the lab, leaned against the wall next to the door as if not to disturb the conversation. Are you not planning on protecting Bella from me? Or maybe you thought it was meaningless. If so, it means that Ian also knows the plan. After looking at his face for a moment, I walked into the lab alone.

“Welcome.”

I smiled at the sight of Bella welcoming me, sitting at a table filled with coffee and desserts without any servants or escorts around. I took the empty chair across from her and stayed silent, waiting for Bella to open her mouth first.

As expected, Bella spoke as if she had been waiting.

“Judging by your expression, it looks like you’ve finally realized the truth. Is it because of the setting that you have to lose something to become stronger? Or did he come to his senses only after losing something? “If it were you, it might be both.”

Bella seemed more tense than usual. Like a girl about to have a fun date, the lines around her mouth did not fade over time. Because her joy was unadorned and sincere.

Honestly, it’s amazing. I would know better than anyone else that if I found out who the real culprit who killed Luna was, I would definitely make them pay with the same death. The seemingly nonchalant, unaffected look of joy was enough to convince me that he was the type of man who had planned all of this.

Bella said with a smile after seeing my satisfied expression.

“I’m sure you’ve noticed it to some extent, but I still need to explain what’s lacking, right? Where should I start explaining? your mistake? The first part of the plan?”

“… “As you wish.”

At this point, the order doesn’t matter. The only important thing is the missing part that will bring out the details of the big picture.

Bella drank coffee quietly, ate whipped cream pie topped with strawberries, thought leisurely, and then opened her mouth.

“Well, the original plan wasn’t like this. Of course, by helping you, I planned to prevent Roel from repeating his failure and save the world using our own special ending in a new way that Roel has never tried before.”

Bella continued speaking while clinking a fork with whipped cream on the bottom.

“But no matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t think of a way. Even if we stop Roel’s plan using the Holy Grail, in the end, Roel in the previous world would have tried all the ways to stop the final opponent, the God of Chaos, with advice from many people, including me.”

That is correct. In fact, even now, I can’t think of any way to stop the God of Chaos. All I wanted to do was kill the cult leader. Wouldn’t that be the greatest achievement that a younger brother with an inferiority complex can do?

“While I was worrying, a wise man came to me. That’s right, I think it’s like a fairy tale. “The emperor gained great enlightenment through the advice of a wise man who visited him in trouble.”

The fork that was moving around in the air stopped. The whipped cream on the back fell into the coffee, but Bella, who was deep in thought looking straight at me, didn’t seem to notice. Or maybe you just don’t care about the coffee you don’t drink anymore.

“The important thing has always been perspective. I thought Roel was most important to the plan, so I thought about it from his perspective. But that was wrong. Roel is not king. He was an important piece to keep until the last moment for victory. “In chess, if there is no king, he can never win.”

Bella raised her hand and stroked her cheek, her golden eyes shining, and she continued speaking in a voice filled with excitement.

“A piece that can checkmate by sacrificing itself for the king. Yes, the piece that could end everything was you from the beginning. I had forgotten that your possession of Ross was God’s plan to defeat the God of Chaos. So I realized. “God’s grand plan.”

I smiled wryly at Bella’s eyes shining with joy as if she was thinking about that time. A moment later, Bella touched her lips with the tips of her fingers and she said:

“After a long discussion with Nelson, the wise emperor took action immediately without hesitation.”

“To brutally murder Luna?”

Bella just smiled brightly despite the sharp words that came out reflexively without her knowing.

“That’s right, because that’s the beginning and end of the plan.”

“… entire?”

It was something I couldn’t understand. I know that I secretly manipulated Roel into using her Holy Grail to revive Luna, but Luna’s death is the whole of her plan?

“okay. entire.”

Bella put her fork down on the table and said with a bright expression.

“Luna’s death is not important to this plan. “It is important that the dead Luna came back to life through your efforts.”

“Why?”

I asked that question, but somehow I felt like I knew what Bella would answer even if I didn’t hear the answer.

“If you are someone who has lost something precious, you will become so desperate that you will even throw yourself into the flames to avoid losing the precious thing that you managed to regain with great difficulty.”

Bella smiled like a snake as she finished speaking. That smile gave me goosebumps on my skin. For a moment, an ominous thought crossed her mind. Could it be that Eunice, a wisecracker who read the situation, and Raelan, a madman, really didn’t notice Bella’s plan until the very end? He may have noticed Bella’s plan, but was pretending not to know in order to help her win.

If it is Raelan, it is highly likely that he secretly helped Bella’s plan succeed. He buys the book not out of loyalty to me, but out of his own victory. Since I had used that to get him on my side in the first place, I didn’t feel too betrayed.

“Now you won’t hesitate. Because I realized what role I had and what I had to do to save everyone. “The last relationship with Ross was not a coincidence, it was all planned.”

Only then did I laugh. Because I finally realized exactly what my role was. Now I understand why I was possessed by Ross and why the administrator intervened and sent me to another world.

my everything,

For the last move decided by God.

Only me,

This is something only Ross can do.

Bella got up from the table and came towards me. I could smell the faint scent of her perfume as she lowered her face towards my ear. Bella raised the corners of her mouth and whispered to me in a low voice.

“And finally, your mistake was to pass on your memories to another desperate person who would carelessly throw his life away for Roel’s victory.”

I looked up and made eye contact with Bella. I smiled bitterly at the arrogant expression that only a person caught in a terrible trap could make.

“Surprisingly, you can’t lie.”

At those words, the arrogant expression on Bella’s face disappeared in an instant. It’s natural. It’s strange that Bella, who survived the strife of the imperial palace, numerous assassinations, and politics, manages to make an expression in front of me that completely reveals her true feelings, if not on purpose.

There is something missing in the reason why Bella murdered Luna because it was all part of the plan. In fact, I can now guess what it is without even hearing it. Everything about Bella waiting for me at her academy and Roel not showing up until now… Because this play is not over.

I let out a deep sigh. And she said, forcing as much breath into her lungs as possible.

“I wanted to save you. “Unlike the novel, I hope you and Roel can be happy until the end.”

Bella smiled bitterly. She didn’t say anything. But her expression speaks to me.

There’s nothing you can do about it.

Yes, I smiled bitterly at her too.

I can’t help it.

Because each character in a novel has their own role.

So, we just do what we need to do.

I used my last remaining quantum jump.

After digesting the knowledge gained through the quantum jump, Bella asked with a smile as she slowly opened her eyes.

“So, what do I look like?”

I responded with a greedy smile to the eyes filled with pure curiosity.

“chocolate. “It looks really sweet too.”

Crunchy―――

Crunchy―――

Crunchy―――

It was so terribly sweet that I felt repulsed.