The first person to raise her voice was Han Su-Yeong. “What the hell? How can you even think that? Does one's intelligence get worse the more you regress?”
“Taken words right out of my mouth. To think that a so-called writer would cook up something so unpleasant.”
She and Yu Jung-Hyeok growled and glared at each other.
And the first one to back off was also Han Su-Yeong. “Fuu…. Right, regressing three times could mess with your mind and cause you to dream up weird things. So…. You're saying that 'Secretive Plotter' is 'Kim Dok-Ja from the future'?”
“That's what I think.”
“Fine, well. It's not completely impossible, I'll give you that. All sorts of crazy things happen in the
Han Su-Yeong was about to say “A novel can also become reality in our world” but quickly swallowed those words back. Even if that was true, she thought that such a thing shouldn't be mentioned in front of Yu Jung-Hyeok.
So, she said something else. “Wouldn't it be quickest to ask the 'Secretive Plotter'? Did you try to confirm it?”
He nodded his head. “I had a deal with him. If I do something for him, then he'd answer a single question of mine.”
“What did you ask him?”
“I asked if his identity was truly Kim Dok-Ja from the future.”
“And then, what?”
“He said that he wasn't.”
“In that case, why are you…..”
“Let me be more clear. He said, 'Once upon a time, I might have been someone, but now, I am no one.'”
….Might have been someone, but now, they are no one?
Han Su-Yeong quickly realised what was wrong with that statement.
The 'Secretive Plotter' didn't implicitly deny being 'Kim Dok-Ja from the future' in that reply. No, what he said was much closer to 'I might be Kim Dok-Ja, or I might not be' than anything else.
In that case, Yu Jung-Hyeok not backing away from his guess made sense.
Han Su-Yeong asked one more time. “Was that all you asked him?”
“He knew of all the regression turns I've lived through.”
He was something once upon a time, but now, just a simple 'Secretive Plotter'; a being that knew every regression turn Yu Jung-Hyeok had lived in.
“Anything else?”
“No.”
“You kidding me? You fought like crazy just to ask him only that?” Han Su-Yeong yelled at him while panting like an angry bull. “That guy didn't exist in your previous regressions, right? If you couldn't find out his real identity, you should've at least tried to learn other info, you know?!”
“….I did hear what his goal was.”
“What was it?”
“He said that there was something he wanted to change. And, someone he wished to kill, as well.”
It felt as if the more she heard, the deeper she was being sucked into the quagmire. By flipping the term 'someone he wished to kill' around, you'd get 'someone he can't kill yet'.
Was there a being on the level that even a godly existence like 'Secretive Plotter' couldn't do anything about?
“That's all I've heard from him. That was all the questions I was permitted to ask.”
“You couldn't dig out more info, though?”
“That means I'll have to make another deal with him. If I do, then I'll have to bear a heavier cost than the last time,” said Yu Jung-Hyeok, and he shifted his gaze to the sky.
She also looked up as well and activated [Midday Tryst].
– Is he looking at us?
– I can't sense his gaze.
That was a slightly disappointing result; they were chatting away openly like this so that the subject in question would hear them, but it seemed that he wasn't even watching them right now. Should she say it wasn't like 'Secretive Plotter'?
Han Su-Yeong spoke.
– Well, this is problematic. If a godly being on that level decides to butt into the middle of something important, then no matter how good our plan is, it'll be useless.
Especially so when on a stage as important as the current 'Great War of Saints and Demons'; if a small variable could flip the table on its head, then there was no way she'd not be concerned by it.
However, Yu Jung-Hyeok's thoughts were different from hers. “He probably won't step forward personally.”
[Nebula,
I smirked and replied. “My parents.”
Chapter end
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