V2C32 (1/2)

(032) Prologue

Translator: Tseirp

5 days has passed since Onii left.

The room within the mansion that was changed to be under my name is now an empty shell. Instead of having a lived-in feel, the environment of the room now felt like it is doubtful if people have really lived in it.

That’s because all the memories of the parents that nurtured us thinking that Onii and I were their own children was stowed away within me by spatial magic.

Then, I looked at the photo sticker taken at the game center stuck behind my handphone.

I alone was reflected in it, the figure of Onii who was supposed to be beside me had disappeared, the words that should have read “Miri & Ichi” had became only “Miri”.

It’s extremely unnatural, I glared at my treasure that has been stained.

It’s not only the picture, from Onii’s middle school graduation roster, from the phone book, from the residence registry, and from everybody’s memories apart from mine, Onii has disappeared.

I plopped myself down spread eagled on the flooring with nothing laid out on it.

This world is treating it as Onii, Kusunoki Ichinosuke, never existed from the beginning.

Of course, it was fraught with many contradictions. Making a single person disappear is synonymous with changing the whole world.

However, nobody noticed it. The world did not notice.

Other than myself, Onii lost everything.

To be able to do such a thing, if there is an individual capable of remaking the world, then it is not human. It’s a life form that surpasses the realm of human.

( … Damn Goddess.)

I glared at the ceiling … at the culprit that wasn’t there.

If the Goddess wasn’t there, Onii would have died. That I understand.

However, the crime of stepping on Onii and my memories can never be forgiven.

I can make an educated guess as to where Onii disappeared to.

5 days ago, a traffic accident involving a truck occurred and a large number of horses ran away.

It was reported that thankfully, apart from the truck driver and suspected horse thief suffering from light wounds, nobody else was injured.

I was confident that Onii was there so I began investigating.

I asked to see the feed from the surveillance camera located at the convenience store directly in front in exchange for money and began investigating from there.

I saw a horse make unnatural movements as if it trampled on something invisible.

Onii must have been there.

However, there was no longer any trace of magic at the scene.

The path to the other world “Otherworld” can’t be opened from there.

I took a felt-tip pen and began writing a formula on the floor.

There’s a law to the time and place the door connecting to the other world opens.

These 5 days, I devoted myself to search every angle for the places where the door to the other world opened in the past.

Because it would be easier to decipher the formula if there was more data.

Then, I found out that within 20 years from the day Onii was transferred, a total of 5 transfers occurred. After deriving the law to the transfer, all that was left to do was to go to the place where the next door would open.

It was just data, an easier task than completely understanding the movement of stock prices that can control a person’s emotions.

Then, I continued to intently write the formula on the floor.

In that room that was devoid of any curtains, beds or tables.

In order to meet with Onii once again.

Onii must be suffering in the otherworld for not knowing right from left.

In a world with no gas or electricity.

Which is why I must quickly help him.

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Job: Philanderer 【Commoner Lv30]

This happens when you don’t commence on a job and stay as a Commoner.