A NEET’s Guide to the Parallel World: Healer, the Strongest Cheat? - 234 261

Mr. Lucius’ expression, which appeared, was a complicated one.

I can’t use Emotional Sense, I don’t know for sure, but I know it’s full of sadness.

The tone of the words on Toa is unchanged, and it looks like he already understands the situation.

I don’t know Mr. Lucius these days, nor do I know Mr. Lucius today.

But he doesn’t look like this guy who wants to hide his emotions.

From time to time, I felt like I could see why Mr. Electra called Mr. Lucius “the guy.”

This guy is probably a sensitive guy.

So it’s easy to feel sad. Just like me.

But I’m hiding it.

I don’t know if that’s the right answer, but I’m trying to be strong by doing so.

Probably trying not to show weakness even in front of Mr. Electra.

Mr. Elektra knows that, and that’s why he sometimes uses words like others, like feeling distant.

I don’t know if that’s what you call it intentionally.

“Toa, no more… no more”

It’s not a simple emotion.

Inside, you must want to kill Cassandra.

No, what do you think?

How far does this Mr Lucius know?

Do you understand that Cassandra was used to be good for Ignotas?

“But…”

“You’re not dead yet, are you?”, Toa said.

A young voice but only a firm tone.

“That’s something you shouldn’t do. It’s not what Toa should do.”

“But your sister should be happy, right? ……

“Rosalia doesn’t want it. Rosalia shouldn’t want to see Toa like that.”

“My sister…”

“Toa… you know what I mean. No more, please.”

Tears conveyed Toa’s cheek.

The expression doesn’t move.

But you’re feeling something in your heart?

Mr. Lucius turned his gaze to Mr. Rosalia floating on the lake.

But I didn’t try to rush over, and my legs wouldn’t move from there.

“Lucius…… sorry”

Cassandra was looking up at Lucius’ face as she fell to the ground.

“Mine, because…”

“Shut up…”

Mr. Lucius’ expression overlooking Cassandra is intricately disturbing.

My eyes are fixed.

Does that mean Mr. Lucius doesn’t know Ignotas did it?

“Father… what’s wrong?

Then I heard Toa with a distinctly different voice colour than earlier.

“Father, I don’t have a sister! I’ve been looking all over for you, and you’re not here!… That, what is this place?

Toa looked around as if she didn’t know why she was on the spot.

The expression is also natural, like a young child……

But when I look back unexpectedly, I realize.

“Is that it? Sister…… Dear? ……

Toa’s expression gradually starts to change.

Tears begin to spread from cheek to cheek again, and the expression gradually begins to change to nil.

“Sister…… Sister ahhh!? Sister, oh, oh, oh! Sister, oh, oh, oh!

What do you mean… what’s happening to Toa?

Toa grieves and screams as if she were just the first to know of Mr. Rosalia’s death.

A gust of wind began blowing around Toa so that the same sight was repeated again as earlier.

“Sister, oh, oh!

Toa keeps screaming like a confusion.

But is Mr. Rosalia in Toa’s eyes?

I didn’t think that was… Toa anymore.

Even the grief felt like it was something different from Toa’s again.

“Toa! Enough! Stop it! You’ll be swallowed by the Ruling!

“Ruling” … yes. Toa is not Toa now.

Mr Lucius said.

The inherent skill “domination” gives the host another personality.

Is this the other Toa?

“Not good, huh? We have to kill him properly, right?

That was no longer the child’s eye.

He looks at Mr. Lucius with his pupil’s open eyes tilting his neck a little diagonally.

He lifts only one thin razor and corner of his mouth and smiles like a kid who played a prank.

“Toa, forgive me…”

“What are you apologizing for? It’s not your father’s fault, is it? Because this is Cassandra’s fault. Cassandra stabbed her sister with a knife, so she died? Yes… my sister is dead. I’m not coming back. Such a reality, do you think this child (,,) would take it? That’s why I’m trying to ease things up, right? This kid… don’t let Toa break.”

“Toa? …”

At that time, for some reason, Mr. Lucius had a slightly surprising, puzzling look.

“You… what? Isn’t it due to the Ruling?

“What are you talking about? Am I me? It’s Toatrica, right? You know that. – Dad.”

Eyes that even the abnormal see.

I don’t know why, but Mr. Lucius was confused.

Toa in front of me is another personality, so to speak, born from the side effects of “domination”.

I am sure that is from Mr Lucius’s explanation.

What the hell are you so doubtful about?

But to leave the problem behind, Mr. Lucius leans over clouding his expression.

And I looked up, and I said, “I’m sorry.”

“Sleep” – he muttered.

That was probably Mr. Lucius’ “reign”.

So Toa’s eyes vanish, and then his lid slowly falls off.

Mr. Lucius quickly supported Toa, who had lost consciousness and fell at the forefront.

At that time, the wind had already stopped, and there was a father holding his daughter in grief.

“Maricias……”

“… Yes!

Mr. Lucius called Maricias to peek out of the shade with his back.

“Bring Cassandra home. Stay away from me…”

So Mr. Lucius holding Toa disappeared with the smoke.

Everything, including the lake and the woods, is wrapped in black shadow curtains, and I am returned to darkness again.

And the sound of the rain grains that kept coming down also disappeared.

Only a bad aftertaste lingered and resented my helplessness knowing I couldn’t do anything about it.

This is supposed to be a memory of the past, but there was regret in me.

Because I have Emotional Sense… I don’t know that.

Maybe I’ve read Mr. Lucius’ emotions showing these.

But I don’t know that.

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– So there was another change in vision, and all at once the black curtains peeled off.

Gardens. The usual gardens.

Then I found one there, a young Toa.

“Why is everybody so small?

Toa snapping to herself in front of the flowerbed.

No, I’m not.

Around Toa were the pixies I had seen only once before.

The numbers are so annoying to count.

“It’s not small! I’m still big, aren’t I?

Toa suddenly gets angry at Pixie for saying something bad.

But that’s not a big deal.

Toa was smiling immediately.

Apparently Toa understands Pixie’s language.

Nem said. Pixie needs to return the word.

But only Toa is going to have a conversation with them.

“Electra, how’s Toa doing?

So I looked back, and there were two people behind me.

“… I don’t know. Looking at it this way, it looks nothing like before… but it’s not, is it?

Mr. Electra was staring at Toa with his vain eyes as he hung on the white pillar of the balcony.

I guess Mr. Rosalia’s death has something to do with it.

“Oh, no. Toa is just forgetting. Temporarily…”

“Why did she take control… even if she couldn’t help it…”

“I can’t help all this. Wolzwola’s blood must have come out colorful.”

“I can’t do this to that kid right now! That’s how much you know!

……

“But even you need mental strength, right?… If she (,) comes out again, Toa will be broken”

……

Mr. Lucius did not try to answer, he was just listening in silence. That’s all.

At that time, Elektra, who was feeling down, turned her attention to the garden.

“… Toa? Where’s Toa!

To that word, Mr. Lucius’ expression changes the blood phase.

“There’s no Toa…… Lucius! Toa’s not here!

“I know!

Mr. Lucius pushes and kills a hurried look and rushes to the garden.

But I checked the area and there is no sign of Toa.

“Toa! Where are you!

There is no call, no response, no pixie appearance.

The garden was quiet.

At that time, I felt shaking at my feet like I was suddenly dizzy, and I closed my eyes only for a moment.

And when it opened, for some reason, it wasn’t a garden… it was a forest.

‘Where… where am I?

There is no voice. I mean, still in memory.

And this would still be in the Great Forest.

It was just a forest area characteristic of the Great Forest.

High above, many trees cover the sky.

The roots are thick and sticking out of the ground. Everything is huge.

Nor are trees growing without gaps, but rather places of openness.

So I found Toa in front of me.

“I want to go this way! Never mind!

Toa was swarmed by pixies for some reason.

I’m trying to get rid of them with my hands like I don’t want to.

But if you look closely, the look on Pixies’ face is strange.

It’s like I’m in trouble……

They seemed to be pushing their hands forward and urging them to turn back to Toa instead of saying, “No, no, no, no.”

“Why not! You should all follow me, right? Everybody wants to see your sister, too, right?

From Toa’s words, you’re probably not mistaken.

I mean, this is a dangerous place.

The Pixies know that, and they’re trying to get Toa home.

Out of words and deeds, is Toa watching Mr. Rosalia’s ghost?

Nobody’s supposed to be there, but Toa says, “I have a sister over there!,” he complains to the Pixies.

But the pixies shake their necks to the side, pleading with their bodies to go home with gestures.

That’s when I heard such a loud howl echoing across the forest.

That sounds reminiscent of a wolf.

As the wind suddenly changed direction, the trees around begin to bother.

I felt as though the forest was engulfing me with fear so much that the sun that was slipping in from among the trees made no sense.

And Pixie is still urging him to turn back in gesture.

But their desperate persuasion was also murky, and suddenly, a louder howl was heard than earlier.

That should be it, too, because the identity showed up right behind Toa.

Toa looked back slowly, and saw what it looked like.

“… what?

I’ve seen it in Razhausen one day.

But that was prepared by the Empire in raiding the King’s capital, not a wild creature.

This is the real S-rank monster……

– That was Leowulf.

“One, one?

That’s indisputable, that giant wolf.

But Toa walks over to Leowulf, smiling nicely, as if she wasn’t afraid.

Leowulf was showing off his giraffed big fangs peeking from that big mouth.

Obviously intimidating.

“Who are you?

I don’t see why Toa won’t run away.

In front of you is a wolf with an elephant giant.

It’s not strange to be drunk the next moment.

But Toa smiled and relaxed.

And I’m leaning my neck with my doubts about Leowulf.

But at that moment, when the shadow appeared, a good amount of blood erupted from Leowulf’s neck – a large amount of blood erupting to mimic his tenderness.

Leowulf’s neck then left his torso and slipped straight to the ground.

The impact caused the ground to shake and the torso to fall, followed by an even louder shake, with a little smoke dancing around.

Leowulf was desperate.

“Toa!”

That’s when I heard voices.

When the smoke disappeared and his vision cleared, there was Mr. Lucius hugging Toa.

I can also see Mr. Electra coming late and rush over to the two of us.

“Father… Mother… why are you here? Yes! My sister is waiting in the lake! Let’s go!”

“Toa……”

Hearing the words, Mr. Elektra accidentally uttered a tear.

“Toa. Let’s go home”

With an irresistible expression of grief, Mr. Lucius smiles at Toa.

But Toa just floats an innocent question mark.

“Are you leaving? Your sister’s waiting for you at the lake? Why?”

“Rosalia is…”

Mr. Lucius, clogging the words, replied with an unnatural sad grin.

“I suddenly had an errand to run. Rosalia’s not leaving today… she’s not in the lake anymore.”

“… what’s the errand? What?”

“It’s work. Rosalia’s a princess, so she’s a little busy.”

Mr. Lucius speaks gently as he smiles.

“Huh… So when are you coming back?

“I’ll be back tomorrow. Let’s wait in the castle until then.”

Gradually, Toa leans down.

Then Mr. Electra crouched in and peered into Toa’s face.

“Toa? Let’s be good kids in the castle, shall we? I’m sure Rosalia will be back soon.”

“Really? Is your sister coming home?

Shortly after the question, Mr. Electra leaned down and hid her face.

“Mother? What’s the matter with you?

Strangely enough, Toa now peeks into Mr. Electra’s face.

Then Mr. Lucius says, “Electra,” and speaks gently.

Mr. Electra looked up with an intolerable, weak look and stared at Mr. Lucius.

“Come on, Electra…… Toa. Let’s go home. Let’s all wait for Rosalia to return.”

“… yeah!

Toa had an innocent adorable grin and shook his father’s hand.

“Electra. Come on, let’s go home”

“… right”

Slowly standing up, Toa takes Mr. Electra’s left hand with the other hand.

Mr. Electra then noticed Toa’s hand and gradually regained his smile.

On his left hand was the figure of his father, and on his right was the figure of his mother.

The young Toa’s back drifts away as the two of them draw their hands.

As if watching, the three of them had over their heads the appearance of the Pixies.

With a young smile between them, Toa leaves, as she skips from time to time.

The three figures then disappear into the light they were plugging in from among the trees that seemed far away.

Then vision filled the light and stained the white monochrome, as if it were the last.

The last thing I saw was an innocent grin, the side of Toa.