That Man’s 101st Bad Ending

On the night when the moon dances-4

“…you, that?”

Adele and Lotos stare blankly at me, reminding me that they don’t know about my previous rounds.

Hey, hadn’t this happened before?

In that cold snowy field, the two of them who witnessed this blue flash also made that kind of expression.

I was quite cheeky at the time, so I called myself a genius and dismissed it.

Shall I say that again? However, seeing the face asking for an explanation somehow weakened my heart.

There are a lot of awkward parts to just look around because he’s a genius.

“There must be a lot of awkward parts to call it a talent.”

“If I had grabbed the sword without knowing, that might have been the case. By the way, your hands are soft.”

“…It is difficult to explain now.”

As my gaze turned upward, Adele’s eyes also turned to the building where Jay lived.

You will soon realize that the time has come.

Maybe there are people moving up there.

“Shouldn’t we save people?”

“Is what you’re trying to tell me a secret from you?”

It’s a secret. It’s not something I’m trying to hide.

It was just that it was not pleasant to be treated as a psychopath.

It is not a funny reality that people die and return 100 times.

Always returning to the summer days of my 20s, repeating a miserable death again.

Even if he borrowed the power of an artifact, who would believe it?

“Speak, don’t stare at me like that.”

A woman named Adele was a person with whom I had many ties.

If such a person sees me as a lunatic.

Well, it won’t feel too good. to hide it.

Because I didn’t want that person’s eyes to contain hatred and contempt. I have no choice but to say that my past is a secret.

“It’s a secret…”

“is it.”

Adele’s face was not clear, but Adele nodded and smiled.

Thank you for laughing like that.

If there were any doubts left, it was because I did not know that I would make a mistake because I was uncomfortable.

“Then I won’t ask. Can we wait here?”

“Are you going to wait?”

“Don’t go until I tell you to go.”

After staring at me for a moment, she added with a faint smile.

“Don’t run away secretly alone again.”

“…I see.”

I felt that I was in debt in many ways.

It would have been embarrassing if I had asked each and every one of them, but I never imagined that they wouldn’t ask just because it was a secret.

To the woman staring at me, I bow my head as politely as possible.

Thinking that someday, I will definitely tell you about my past.

#

Tadak, the steps on the top of the building were breezy.

Now that I’m used to this kind of stealth, I might be able to go up even with my eyes closed.

If I took two steps from here, then one more step, I could reach the window.

As expected, the balcony caught on the tip of my hand, and I pulled my arm and headed upward.

He had experience handling a sword, but his body was immature.

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Just by simply going up, my arms pulled like this.

I always think about it, but isn’t it a really bad body?

It was fortunate that I was not lacking in stamina.

If the level I had achieved was added to that, I should be able to subdue the soon-to-be assailant.

When I went up to the balcony and looked inside, I saw Jay still asleep.

Lying in bed, unrolling the blanket, quietly… Was it the original fate to be stabbed to death?

She was truly a woman with a strange destiny. Maybe not as much as me.

“If I move one more time here, the alarm will go off.”

Her magic is magic that specializes in barriers and illusions.

I knew that although each person had magical powers specialized in a certain field, it was rare for her to focus on such auxiliary abilities as she did.

A barrier that would alert her to evacuation if she stretched out her hand even slightly.

I had woken her up by touching it before, so I needed to move carefully this time.

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Jay, who realized that there was a threat to his life, was not easily calmed down.

I don’t know how I saved her last time.

He made a fuss even if he only had a sword, so there was a time when he stunned and fought.

I waited for a while to feel the presence around me like that.

Before long, shadows began to wriggle under the building. It’s not just a feeling.

It is really moving, creeping and seeping into this building.

It was a very strange move no matter how you look at it.

I should have been able to guess the hireling because of that move, but it was pretty tricky to deal with at first.

“…four.”

This number does not change.

Injecting four assassins to kill just one woman,

Perhaps it was because he was asked to take care of it. None other than the Crown Prince.

I found out about this because of the last episode.

Even after investigating the people who could hire an assassin, no answer came out, so I searched from the top and found the name of the crown prince.

Why the hell does that name come up so much?

Adele, me, and this alchemist. Everyone was killed by the crown prince.

What do you gain by killing so many people?

In the succession to the throne, the crown prince had absolute superiority.

Since the current emperor gave birth to one son, there is only one successor.

There were many possible reasons, but they are insufficient to explain…

Took-

“You can think about it later.”

Before cutting off the head of the prince, it was something to ask at that time.

No matter how painful it is to think about it, nothing will change unless you do it yourself.

Isn’t it a lesson learned through countless lives?

Pressing down on my forehead, I moved my steps along the place where the shadow had headed earlier.

It was easy enough to remember the location of the barrier.

avoid, avoid. Take a seat in the passage leading to Jay’s door.

another angle, another angle.

I wonder if I have no intention of hiding even the sound of my own footsteps. The moment they pulled out the sword, they should have noticed.

That there is an uninvited guest in this.

Because I also had no intention of hiding it, the flames that ignited the darkness fluttered in the air.

“……”

Three appeared in the darkness. Even though they made eye contact with me, they were still silent.

It’s always been like this.

However, if there is a difference from before, it will be that this sword can withstand my magical power.

Shuk-

It was an instant that a line was drawn in the air.

Like a butterfly sitting on a flower, the assassins couldn’t react to the movement that was so natural.

that’s the patch Letting go of the tension for a moment.

When that moment of time has passed.

Blood gushed from one assassin’s neck.

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Just as the assassin’s body, staring at me with wide open eyes, was about to disappear, a sword surged at me.

Two swords pouring towards me… no, three.

Even the hidden assassins reveal themselves and watch them attack.

Charleur – The sword on the wrist pops out and sprays poison.

My body would go numb if I touched it even slightly, so I twisted my body.

As if spinning, the sword moved along with the body that had returned in midair.

different from predictions. It was an attack that I already knew, so my body just reacted.

Perhaps they would have reacted if they had genuinely used a variance attack.

However, even in these repeated lives, the assassins always used the same number.

One dies, three stab at the same time. It twists its body to avoid the attack.

Chow-! Only after one assassin’s arm was blown off did their eyes become serious.

Perhaps he was caught off guard because he knew my face.

If it’s Robert Taylor, they can’t repel their attacks.

How do you know? The answer to that question was simple.

“Prince.”

Cuts off the head of the momentarily hesitant assassin.

There are only two left, and he smiles at the look in his eyes as if asking how he knew the name.

As if I didn’t like that laugh, the assassins dug into my arms at the same time.

Avoid dragging your feet backwards. Kicking off the ground, he lowered his head at the same time to avoid the sword cutting from behind.

‘Same.’

wheein! The sword that drew a round trajectory pointed downward.

My gaze was still on the tip of the sword.

I also knew it would change the trajectory here.

The response was not significantly different from before. Kwajik, stab upwards before the sword touches.

The sword filled with magical power pierced the heart, and the body of the assassin who was spitting out blood collapsed as it was.

And then stillness comes.

There was only one person who would point a knife at me any more, but even he lost his will to fight and just stood there in a daze.

Was there anything different this time?

As I turned around, spraying blood on my sword, I saw the masked assassin’s face.

“Who the hell are you?”

After wiping the blood off his face, the assassin stared blankly at him.

Even if it’s just a moment, three people died at a good time.

However, I was not included in those three.

You’d be surprised. The Robert Taylor they knew was just a fool.

At the answer he had heard so many times, he sighed and opened his mouth.

“Robert Taylor.”

“…Know. But really, is it Robert Taylor?”

“You won’t believe it anyway. Whatever you answer.”

Cheak-

I know the answer to the question that follows. so no need to listen

As I approached, the assassin, startled for a moment, straightened his sword, but that was all.

His neck was already down.

Staring at the dead head with open eyes.

Everything I needed to find out from them I found out in the previous episode.

After all, doing torture yourself is not a good experience in many ways.

I’m the one who tortures, but isn’t it just as painful as the memories I’ve been through come to mind?

I couldn’t feel anyone’s presence around me anymore.

Those far away are Lotos and Adele, so it’s fine to loosen your guard.

As he was about to step back thinking of Jay, who would wake up soon, he felt movement behind him.

“What are you…?”

When I turned my head, what I saw was a woman who looked like a child.

I didn’t know you would wake up now. I thought about my current situation for a moment before I furrowed my eyebrows as if in dismay.

A hallway stained with blood, a man holding a severed head and holding a sword in one hand.

I’m not wearing a mask, but what do they think of me who came in without being caught in a barrier?

I looked at those wide open eyes, saw his wide open mouth, and answered.

“I came to save you.”

I don’t know if you believe it, but if you don’t say it like this, you’ll scream.

#

“Ahhh…my room.”

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Jay sobbed as he looked at the blood-stained hallway.

Even at Robert’s words, I had to scream loudly,

It was only when he saw the man about to swing his sword that he became quiet.

If he had been an assassin, he would have killed himself right away.

But if you’re not an assassin, how did you even get here?

There were a lot of strange parts, but I didn’t ask any more.

He is the man who killed those assassins alone.

It was a familiar face, but maybe even that was actually covered by magic… Various delusions swirled in Jay’s head.

Fortunately, no harm was done to the vial.

It was only in this hallway that flesh splattered.

Of course, that wasn’t comforting, but what mattered was the fact that he had been saved from the threat.

And that too…to Robert Taylor.

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Jay knew this man well.

I’ve heard that he’s obviously the Taylor family’s nerd, but is it really the same person?

The suspicious face was quite odd, so Robert narrowed his eyes and opened his mouth.

“That Robert you know is right. Poor boy, problem child. I am not mistaken.”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

“I should be able to clean this up soon. Get rid of it quickly, because someone is coming.”

Robert’s gaze moved down the window.

He said he would be waiting, but he saw Adele and Lotos coming up.

There’s no need to show these two people a scene like this. Just saving enough people was enough.

“…By the way, why did you save me?”

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Jay asked, and Robert turned his head away, wiping his bloody face with a wet towel.

I was taken aback by those emotionless eyes for a moment, but I couldn’t help but wonder.

“I’m an alchemist, but my original job was a spy.”

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Jay’s eyes didn’t budge.

He was better at telling lies than anyone else, so it was not easy for even Robert to read the truth.

However, this is the truth.

Her real past, which she told directly with her mouth, and also had as data.

“A wizard who belonged to the imperial family, but betrayed the imperial family and now takes on a fugitive status as an alchemist named Jay.”

“You, how do you-”

“Arwen, I need you.”

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Jay frowned at the eyes he saw for the first time in his life.

I couldn’t read any emotions.

They weren’t lying like he was, they were just empty eyes filled with emptiness.

what the hell do you mean

He felt a sense of separation from the Robert Taylor he knew, to the extent that he could be considered a completely different person.

When he answered the question that he needed him, Robert answered while erasing the last remaining bloodstains.

“I intend to kill the crown prince.”

And in response, Jay dropped the beaker he was holding.

Clink-

Contrary to the loud noise, there was only silence for the two of them.