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5 Boy who leapt through time
Add realized he was lying on a bed when he ca that
happened was a dream But that was impossible
There was no way this dull pain, this rage was fake
Add abruptly raised himself up as he heard someone speak from besides him
“It would be better if you stayed lying down It hasn’t been that long since your wounds healed”
It was Ara, no Eun as peeling an apple with a fruit knife White hair and the fox ears curling
up and down made it certain
Add sent Eun a burning glare but she didn’t stop peeling the fruit
“I healed the wounds on your body They called it clairvoyant powers back in the day It doesn’t end
with just increasing one’s natural healing ability and…”
Add reached out sideith his hands Dynaainst a wall at the corner of
the roo violently
“…You, You knew didn’t you?”
“What do you mean?”
“About how Eve, Eve would be destroyed again!!”
That’s right Eun said she could look into the future She must have known about this future where
Eve was destroyed
It wasn’t just this ti to be destroyed…from the start
There was no doubt about this when you examined every words she told him so far
Eun nodded without even a hint of denial Add had expected it to be true but he clenched his fists
because Eun had reacted so clearly
“I’m on boy’s side What are you curious about?”
“…”
“Boy didn’t askhe was curious about So I didn’t particularly tell him”
Let’s cal to coht now Not only that,
Eun’s cooperation was necessary in order to tiain
“Where is Eve?”
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“In the other rooo look if you want”
“…”
“Just dissecting and researching the destroyed Nasod would advance your research greatly”
Add looked at Eun with a fearso smile
“Ah, is that so? What you wanted was the Core? Unfortunately, that’s been destroyed”
“…Why didn’t you tell me beforehand?”
“About what?”
Add’s blood pressure was about to soar through the roof after seeing Eun play dumb If possible, he
wanted to hang Eun upside down and torture her until she spat out everything
But noas the tiather information
“Why didn’t you tell me when you already knew Eve would be destroyed?”
“Because nothing would have changed even if I told you”
Eun withdrew her smile and spoke seriously
“My foresight isn’t absolute Let’s see, how shall I explain this? Should I say it’s like number of cases?
If one were to say fate is like a dice I can merely tell which number will come up from the die more
precisely than other people”
Eun’s tails shook voluptuously
“If future is a gaame where the dice called fate is rolled endlessly, lives of the present are
the ones that ive information to those
around e the future I’ve seen”
“That’s different from what you said before Just what are…!”
“Boy, have patience Calm down”
Eun calain
“It takes enors that are not directly
related to me One must pay an equivalent amount of price in order to peek into the secrets of the
universe It’s not so you do mindlessly”
“…”
Eun was confessing that even she needed to reat sacrifices in order to see into the future
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“So I reat effort to peek into the eyes of the dice Then let those around me know of the
results I’ve seen But doing so causes a ripple, changing the distribution and the future Didn’t the
boy also knoould happen this time around?
“…”
Add had seen Eve be destroyed two times already That hy he had decided to stay back in
Elder this time
“But hoas the result?”
“…Are you saying that Eve getting destroyed is a decided future?”
“No, that’s wrong There is no such thing But how shall I put this? If the normal die of fate is 6
sided, and have 6 unique results…… Girl’s fate is a 100 sided dice, and up to 99 are similar results”
It h chance that Eve would be destroyed Eun laughed slightly as
Add trembled
“Everything that is born dies so that is created is destroyed someday It is
simple flow of the world The 100 sided dice I mentioned just now also applies to boy’s fate as well
It’s the law of mortality”
“Stop with the wordplays I have… no intentions of playing around”
Addthat Eun had taunted hiain Electrical current
much more powerful than before sparked out of the Dynamos
“Do I look like I’retful”
Eun held out a dish containing neatly cut apples towards Add Eun made a sly smile when Add
didn’t take it
“But I also know of a way boy can achieve his goals”
“What is that? Tell ht now…!”
Eun shook the dish up and down slightly when Add angrily pressed for an answer Add reluctantly
accepted the dish because of her gesture that said she’d only talk after he had accepted it
Eun made a satisfied ss Her body was Ara’s but
one could tell they were co how the lavish aura flowed out of
her even when she was sitting still
“Boy, don’t get your priorities mixed up”
“What?”
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“What was the reason why the boy wanted the girl? Wasn’t it extortion of the Core?”
Add closed his ht, Eun’s indication was correct Didn’t he join the El Search Party
in order to steal Eve’s Core in the first place?
He ended up tiet destroyed before he had the chance to
make his move
“Didn’t I tell you? I want to help the boy”
“…Just what do you want to say?”
“Boy should know very well already”
Eun’s red eyes gleamed ickedness
“Travel through tiirl’s Core… Faster than the demons can destroy
her Then the boy’s ill be granted”
“…”
Add’s face turned stiff after listening to the voluptuous voice’s advice On the contrary Eun was
rin
“Think about it Although lih time with my assistance No matter
how ainst you, or even if other members tried to stop you… It doesn’t
o back to the past and try again”
“…”
“You can auard down If you fail? All you
have to do is go back 5this, you’ll succeed in the end”
What she said was reasonable All Add had to do was achieve his goal before the demons destroyed
Eve
With Eun’s help he could attempt infinitely Then at some point…He’ll obtain Eve’s Core
“…Kukukuk”
Add unconsciously burst out laughing Eun also laughed along quietly
“What’s your reason for helping me?”
“It’s because the future where the boy succeeds is related to my future Well, how about it? Do you
still suspect me? Me, who helped the boy time travel all this time?”
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Add didn’t answer Eun’s s the calculations in order to understand
his current situation Let’s do a review
What Eun said was correct
Why Eveto do with Add All Add had to do was steal the
Core before it happened
“Kukuk”
Add created a tiot up from her seat as if she was
waiting
“Then ill you go back to?”
“Last night, right after Hoff his story”
Following Add’s words, Eun’s hand started to shi+ne hite light
Wrrrrr
When Add ca at him
“Add Other people will be troubled if you ride that indoors”
“What are you doing all of a sudden?”
“MrAdd? Is there a problem?”
“……”
Eve didn’t say anything and stared at Add quietly Add looked outside theto check the
approximate time then asked
“Did Hoffo back?”
“But MrHoffman wasn’t here”
“……What?”
Add’s eyes opened widely Elsword scolded Add
“What’s wrong Add? Did you already forget e just talked about with that Blacksuy?”
“…”
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Why did the events froe when he time traveled? Add was taken aback at the fact
someone other than Hoffman had come to visit But he decided to remain silent
Fro about, it looked like the decision to go
to the Wally’s Castle hadn’t changed
“Alright, Eve Come with me”
“I’ll have to refuse”
Eve spoke back coldly Add hadn’t expected her to refuse instantly like this and was at a loss for
words for a while Seeing this, Rena smiled and pushed Eve’s back
“Rena, don’t push”
“Go ahead Important conversations have to be done privately”
“……I can’t understand humans”
Eve got up shaking her head looking like she didn’t understand Add gave Ara an eye gesture before
he left the room but Ara only blinked her eyes innocently in response
Add brought Eve up to the boy’s room He moved out to the balcony and opened the Dynamos
around the balcony to create a barrier so that the conversation couldn’t be leaked outside
“What business do you have with me?”
Eve didn’t seem too pleased that there were only two of them in this room Well even if Add
thought about it hi that would have pleased her
No, even if Add did so, it became all nonexistent when he time travelled
Eve in front of hiainst Wally Robot
with hiainst Shadow Master’s minions with him She also wasn’t
Eve that conversed with hiether
She was the 4
thEve that didn’t know anything
“What relationshi+p do Nasods have with Demons?”
“I don’t understand why you’d ask such a question”
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Eve shook her head slightly as she answered Her hairs fluttered in a cute manner
“If you had to say so, it’d be a hostile relationshi+p”
“…Is that so”
Add could finally fit all the pieces together
Why was Eve getting continuously destroyed? The ansas simple It was because the demons
were after her Wally Robot was built by the Castle’s Lord that joined up with the demons Shadow
Master was obviously a demon and the Dark Count Ran was also a demon
De to destroy her
Their reason for doing so? Add didn’t know the details but it must have been an order from
sohly ranked Nasod… They h reason
“I’ to make a prediction”
“I don’t understand Is it a superstition?”
“……You’re going to be destroyed soon”
Add told her cale in Eve’s expression Add frowned and
explained in detail
“Demons are after you You’ll be attacked by the demon’s assassins tomorrow, or maybe even today
or the day after tomorrow!”
“So it’s a superstition”
Eve discarded Add’s warning as nonsense It was obvious Add would have considered them crazy
too if so
“They are too powerful No one can match up to them, not even you or the others”
“You are lying Although I don’t knohy you’re telling me this lie”
Eve looked like she couldn’t understand Well Add’s current actions weren’t logical at all But he still
decided to push forith it
“……Cooperate with my research”
“I can’t understand even more”
“I’ time travel I’m not even a person from this timeline I’m wanderer of time that
jumped to this tiet back!”
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Eve was now only blinking as she listened to Add yell Add couldn’t tell if she was so taken aback,
or that couldn’t believe, or both
Add started to feel that this was a lost cause But he still didn’t give up and spoke
“If you’re really the Queen of Nasods then think about what I just said! What can I possibly hope to
gain by lying to you like this? I’d just get treated like a crazy person Then wouldn’t it be fine to try
and assume what I said is true?”
“What do you plan to do by researching time travel?”
“…I’ll go back to the past”
Add hesitated for a moment but then let out the last part of his word
“With you”
Ti Dynamo was only for one person but it had rooms for modifications Just like
how he flew together with Eve
Also… Although it was limited to couple days, if Eun really had the ability to interpret time wave
function, he could research thatwork out
Maybe, possibilitiesto steal Eve’s Core
“I won’t go”
“You’ll only get attacked by de?”
“Even if it’s true I won’t go”
Eve refused outright She ignored the now stunned Add as she spoke coldly
“I have the mission to revive the Nasod civilization I have no intention of stopping my search for
El, or to travel to a different timeline”
“…What about the demons that will attack you?”
“Even if what you’re talking about is true I don’t think it’s so
away I must face them head on like Nasods should”
Add’s heart burned up because he knew all too well the result of what she just said He just gave her
all the inforet treated like a crazy person Despite all this
effort Eve didn’t waver
Even if she believed Add’s words her decision wouldn’t change Her course of action was firm
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“…Are you sure it’s not because you can’t leave Elsword?”
“I don’t knohy you’d bring up his name here”
Eve’s voice suddenly turned rough Again Eve’s attitude changed completely whenever Elsword
was mentioned Add was about to respond with toxic remarks but stopped himself
If he said such things he’d only et beat up
Final persuasion was a failure Then what’s left was…
“Is anyone in there?”
Sound of a door being opened was heard along with footsteps Add was extremely startled but
cal inside the room was Ara
Ara will now turn into Eun
Suppressing Eve would be as easy as pie if Eun also joined in … Add’s heart suddenly sank when
he thought about this
“MsEve?”
Ara andering around the room came out to the balcony and exclaimed Was it just a
coincidence? Ara had her spear in her hands
“We were just talking for a bit”
Eve answered but what she just said didn’t leak outside because of the barrier Add suppressed his
uneasy heart and tried to read Ara’s actions Ara tilted her head and asked
“Could it be that… I ain?”
“…”
She’s not turning into Eun? Coht after
sun had gone down completely Was her appearance restricted by time of the day?
Add stared at Ara with cos but Eve turned around coldly
“I’ll head back now if you’re done”
Eve left the balcony h Ara asked
confusedly
“C, Could it be I got in your way by co in?”
“That’s not it…”
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Eun must be asleep Just when had Add assumed so and shook his head, Ara’s eyes suddenly
narrowed as she took off her hairpin
Her hair turned white and the tone of her voice changed
“Oops, I ood time”
“…”
Add was spooked because Eun had popped out soon as he thought she was not there Eun curled
up her hands like a cat and lightly scratched the air
“It looked like you were about to attack Eve by yourself Why didn’t you invite me as well?”
“…Why are you showing up now?”
“H Then should I tell Ara to call Eve outside late at night? She’ll
probably come out if Ara asks She won’t be able to resist if the boy attacks her then”
She was correct But……
“I don’t feel up to it today You can go back”
Add shook his head as he left the balcony He saw that Eun was nored
her on purpose
He really didn’t feel up to it right now
Night
Add let out a sigh as he lay on the bed Persuading Eve was a failure as well Now there was… really
no choice but to do what Eun had suggested
To make his move and obtain Eve’s core before the demons destroyed Eve It was a piece of cake
for Add who could now perform limited time travel with Eun’s help
“Sigh…”
“Big brother Add, are you not going to sleep?”
Elsho lay on the bed across the room started a conversation There was only Add and
Elsword inside the boy’s bedroom without Raven
Still, Add hadn’t expected Elsword to start talking to him Wasn’t this the first time Add spoke with