Arc 25: Daydream Believer

Chapter 247: The Monologue, and [She]

Now then, I wonder where should I start from(End)

Tell me everything. Even if its only something you can say(Touya)

In one of the castles rooms, End muttered while drinking the tea that Lapis-san brewed. Next to him was Rize who had taken off her hood. The female ruler-class was sitting down next to him, slowly drinking the black tea in the same way when she was drinking sake.

I was the only one aside from these two in here. Its not like I was avoiding the others, I just wanted be ascertain the situation by myself first. That was basically how serious it was.

Even if you say it like that, this conversation will be a long one if I talk about everything, you know?(End)

Then, Ill be asking you the questions. This girl next to youRize, right? Is this girl a ruler-class?(Touya)

Thats right(End)

End easily confessed while drinking tea.

Theres no mistake that the ones called the ruler-class are the highest class of the frazes, right?(Touya)

Thats right. The lower-class, the intermediate-class, the advanced class, the ruler-class, and above them there is the [King]. The ruler-class, as its name suggests, make the subordinates types abide them, they also possess intelligence and even have emotions. I guess they dont express feelings very much though(End)

Did he notice me glancing at Rize? End wryly smiled and answered.

Let me confirm it again, but this girl is not an [Enemy], right?(Touya)

Your [Enemy] will change depending on how you think of them though. If Touya and your friends are trying to eliminate the [King], then we will become your [Enemy](End)

End, whose eyes filled with a slightly dangerous light, looked directly at me.

Shouldnt that mean that End is a Fraze?(Touya)

I may have said this before, but Im being called with a lot of names: a [Wanderer], a [person who moves between different worlds], a [Shift Walker], a [Stranger]. The world where I was born in is a world with a higher rank than the world here. I guess, I just have the ability to be able to travel to the worlds below it, but its not like Im omnipotent though(End)

A person moving across different worlds. A person with the ability to wander to different worlds, huh? It seems hes can only cross over to worlds with a lower rank than his own world, butthen this means that, perhaps he may be able to cross over to Earth, my former world.

I came to a certain world during one of my crossovers to the other worlds. That was the world of the frazes. Perhaps you can even call it the [Crystal World], I think? There I met the [King]. Although the title is a [King], perhaps its better to call [Her] the [Queen] since it belongs to a woman(End)

So the [King] of Frazes was a woman

We talked about a lot of things. So much that many years passed by. Eventually, [She] came to wish to live together with me. I also thought that I wanted to be together with [Her]. However, our kind, the [Wanderers], we dont wish to be bound by one world. That is the karma of the [Wanderers] and thats what defines us. But [She] didnt give up. There are geniuses in any world, soIn that world, [She] made it. [A method to become an existence that crosses over to other worlds](End)

Apparently, it wasnt necessary that even if the world belonged to a lower rank, the people inhabiting it were inferior. Certainly, science and technology have developed in our world, but the magic engineering of this world arent inferior to it. Theres no such thing as a substitute for recovery magic that instantly cures a wound.

However, a method to crossover between different worlds

If Im not mistaken, she became a [Core], passed through the world barrier, absorbed power little by little from the life-forms living in those worlds, and is now climbing up to a higher world again and again right?(Touya)

Right. If [She] reaches a high-ranked existence, [She] will be the same as I am, and we will be able to live together. Thats what[She] thought(End)

End spoke with a slightly sad look. Whether Rize next to him was aware of that or not, or she was just pleased with handmade cookies made by Luu, she was tasting and eating them little by little like a squirrel. She was fine with sake in the bar, and now shes fine with black tea. Is it her habit to eat or drink anything little by little?

I glanced back to End, leaving her alone for now.

Of course, voices of protest were raised from the other rulers-class. The one who objected the most was the female ruler-class that Touya also saw the other day. Her name is Nei(End)

Endemuon, did you meet Nei?(Rize)

Rize stopped gnawing on cookies and said this.

Eh? Aah. It seems shes doing well ~(End)

I see(Rize)

Saying only that, Rize started chewing the cookies again. Was Nei an acquaintance of hers? Its hard to read her emotions because she wasnt expressing it out that much.

After that, I was attacked by another ruler-class named Gira(Touya)

Gira? Aah. Hes a typical ambitious person. Hes one of those trying to bring in [Her] power(End)

I could understand that by just seeing him. He felt like an arrogant g