Chapter 162: Just an Unfortunate Event (4) (2/2)
“N, no.”
“You did something. Right?”
“No…! I didn’t do anything, okay…? Ahhh…!”
With her ears flushed red, she hurriedly dived into the blanket and buried her body inside. “Please don’t talk to me. I want to die…” she murmured before pressing the pillow down over her head.
Even then, Yu Jitae talked to her amusedly.
“Were you acting just then? Acting how you’re normally like?”
– ……
“Are my senses telling me the truth right now?”
– ……
Twitch twitch. The pillow wriggled as she protested with her whole body. When he tried to lift both the pillow and the blanket, Bom resisted with all her power. Even then, the blanket was about to be lifted up, so she even flapped her legs in resistance.
– Please don’t tease me…
She sounded like she would cry any time soon and was desperate, so he had no choice but to stop.
He turned the light off.
*
He spent the night with open eyes. At night, he would merely wait for time to pass by without doing or thinking about anything, but a strand of thought barged in through the gap today.
What was causing Bom to feel perplexed. Yu Jitae continued dwelling on that sudden topic.
– Ahjussi.
Bom opened her mouth again after a long time. She was still buried inside the blanket and the pillow, and he looked at the bulge under the blanket.
“Why.”
– There’s a problem.
“What is it.”
– I can’t see Providence.
Yu Jitae, who was blankly staring at the ceiling of the tent, raised his body.
“What?”
– The Eye of Providence was blocked. I can’t see Providence right now.
Only then did he realise what Bom meant by feeling under the weather. This definitely wasn’t a trivial problem.
“Why are you saying that now.”
– …
“Since when was it. And what’s the reason.”
– It’s been a few days. I don’t know the reason either.
“What about your family? Has there been any green dragon like that in your family?”
The pillow twitched. She shook her head.
This was an element that could deviate from daily lives and was something he had never seen before in the previous iterations. After contemplating the situation, Yu Jitae frowned.
He opened his mouth with a lower voice.
“Bom.”
– Yes.
“I don’t really understand. If it’s already been a few days since you weren’t able to see Providence, that’s before you even mentioned the dispatch.”
– Yes.
He scolded her.
“Why would you insist on a dispatch when you’re in that kind of situation. Even if I suggested it, you should’ve stopped me.”
– Yes…
“You should know how to choose the time and place. What in the world were you thinking.”
– …
Her voice became smaller and smaller and soon she turned silent.
More and more words muddled with irritation and worry reared their heads. The Regressor found his own words to be strange, and it took some time for him to realise that he was preaching to someone.
However, his words weren’t over the top considering the things that were on the line.
– Are you angry?
“No. Whatever.”
– You are not angry?
“I’m not. Stop talking nonsense and sleep. We’ll go back as soon as the sun rises tomorrow.”
– Yes.
“And if something like that happens again, you have to tell me straight away. Got it?”
Bom stayed silent for a bit before opening her mouth.
– …The reason I stayed silent.
– Is because I was embarrassed.
“What?”
– Without the Eye of Providence, I’m not a green dragon – I’m just a lizard. We have the same colour as well…
– It was too embarrassing to say that to someone else…
– The other kids don’t know either.
Bom calmly began talking about her inner thoughts. Perhaps it was because she was hiding under the blanket, that her hidden thoughts were being revealed.
– And besides, nothing would have changed even if I told you. The Eye of Providence is unique to our green race and it’s not something others can help with or anything…
She concluded with a powerless voice.
– That’s, just how it is…
His eyes twitched.
“Who said that.”
– Sorry?
“Who said the power to look at Providence was unique to the green dragons.”
– …My father.
To dragons, it was common sense. Bom knew that Yu Jitae was a dangerous being with a high level of status as an existence, but she also knew that being a high-level existence had nothing to do with seeing Providence.
So when she heard Yu Jitae mumble something, she was extremely surprised.
“That must be how it is in your world then.”
In surprise, she stealthily lowered the pillow and lifted her head above the blanket. Her hidden head popped out from the blanket mountain.
“What did you say just then?”
The Regressor refrained from giving explanations. In order to explain it, he had to explain his past and everything he tried for in the previous iterations in search of strength. Such things weren’t the greatest stories to share with Bom.
“Come here. Get up.”
Bom hesitated before standing up from the bed.
Yu Jitae reached out.
“Hold my hand.”
“Why…?”
“Let’s find out together what blocked the Eye of Providence.”
Bom blinked her eyes before carefully holding his pinky by the end.
“How? What’s the principle behind it?”
Dragons synchronised themselves with others’ memories and emotions. The closer the medium to their mana, the faster and deeper will be that connection.
“Don’t try to know too much, and the things that will happen from now on could be a little bit dangerous. Even if you’re scared, trust me and don’t ever let go of my hand.”
“Ah, okay.”
“And don’t say anything to the kids either. Got that?”
“Yes…”
“Alright. I trust you.”
Yu Jitae delicately controlled the mana and made them into walls that surrounded all six sides like a cubical alternate dimension.
Mana started blooming with the beating of his heart. It was extremely immense. Feeling as if an unrealistically enormous statue was closing in, Bom felt her senses being suppressed. Her body flinched unconsciously but she didn’t let go of his hand.
He started using the authority which he had never used completely ever since the start of the 7th iteration.
It was the power to interfere with the world’s Providence. The one which had countlessly flipped the flow of the world that was following the given Providence into the apocalypse.
The one and only authority that allowed his memories and existence to continue.
[Vintage Clock (EX)]
The world started turning upside down with Yu Jitae at the centre.