“Momo…” (Makoto)
I grab the arm of Momo.
Thin arms.
I could also feel her cold body temperature.
“Y-You must not! Please let go of me, Makoto-sama!” (Momo)
“Makoto-san, it is dangerous! She is already the familiar of the Demon Lord!” (Abel)
Momo and Abel shout.
“It is…dangerous?” (Makoto)
“Yes. Right now I can move on my own will, but the voice of Bifrons-sama is always resonating in my head. If he were to give me the order to restrain Makoto-sama, I am sure I wouldn’t be able to go against it…” (Momo)
“Makoto-san…the vampire father and child have a strong String of Fate connecting them. The child cannot go against their parent. Momo who has turned into a vampire by Bifrons is already…” (Abel)
String of Fate…I have heard about that.
If I remember correctly, it was from Furiae-san.
That she could see the Strings of Fate as a user of destiny magic.
Bifrons is using Strings of Fate to control vampires…?
“Momo, you are okay currently, right?” (Makoto)
“Yes… I can hear the voice of the Demon Lord-sama, but I can move my body freely. But I think I can’t go far away from the Demon Lord Castle.” (Momo)
I see.
This is troubling.
With this, I can’t run away together with Momo.
At that moment, words floated in front of me.
[Will you abandon the Great Sage-sama Momo?]
Yes
No ←
A bad natured choice showed up.
It must be asking me full well I will choose No, right?
But what should I do?
What can I even do to something like a String of Fate?
In the first place, I can’t see it…or can I?
I have the destiny magic Ira-sama gave me.
I am still a complete newbie, but could I use this?
I pondered for a bit, and used the Perspective Change of RPG Player to check Momo.
Destiny Magic: Elementary Rank.
I gather mana in my eyes and look at Momo.
I couldn’t see anything at first, but…I slowly managed to see string-like lines that were extending from Momo.
Oh, looks like I can do it.
Within all of those, there was one red string glowing ominously like blood.
It must be this one…
This is what’s tying down Momo.
Because of this string, she can’t go against Bifrons.
If I could cut this…
I take out the dagger of Noah-sama from its sheath.
“Makoto-san?!” (Abel)
“M-Makoto-sama?! What are you going to…?!” (Momo)
Hero Abel and Momo raised their voices in surprise.
Of course they would react like that if I were to unsheathe my dagger all of a sudden.
“Momo, trust me. Can you stay still?” (Makoto)
“…Yes, I trust you.” (Momo)
When I asked this, Momo nodded as if she had resolved herself.
“Thanks.” (Makoto)
I wrap destiny magic mana around the dagger of Noah-sama.
And then…slowly cut the blood red string extending from Momo.
“Hau!” (Momo)
Momo quivered.
“Momo!” (Makoto)
I hurriedly catch her in my arms.
“…Haah…haaah…haaah…” (Momo)
I could hear the rough breathing of Momo from her small mouth.
I waited for her to calm down.
“Momo-chan, are you okay?!” (Abel)
Abel must have gotten worried too, he came running.
“M-Makoto-sama…” (Momo)
“Momo, can you still hear the voice of the Demon Lord?” (Makoto)
“Makoto-san, just what in the world did you…” (Abel)
Momo fixed her breathing, and she looked at me with her red eyes.
“I can’t! I don’t hear the voice of the Demon Lord-sama anymore. Also, the pressure that was tying my heart is gone too!” (Momo)
“?!”
Alright, it went well.
As expected of the dagger of Noah-sama.
It can cut anything.
“What did you do just now, Makoto-san?” (Abel)
“I cut the String of Fate.” (Makoto)
“…Huh? No, there’s no way…” (Abel)
“Momo, are you free now?” (Makoto)
“Yes…it is completely different from just a moment ago. I have been freed from what was tying me. Makoto-sama…that’s amazing.” (Momo)
Momo grabbed my sleeve with spellbound eyes.
It feels weird having her make that kind of face when she looks like the Great Sage-sama.
“Something like that…that’s…in the realm of Gods.” (Abel)
Hero Abel was still absentminded.
“Really?” (Makoto)
Well, it is the sacred treasure of Noah-sama after all.
It should be able to do at least that much.
“Then, Momo, Abel-san, let’s hurry and ru—” (Makoto)
“To think you would brazenly appear.”
A voice as if ridiculing us resonated and a squall of wind blew.
The Mist that I made with water magic was cleared out.
At the other side of the cleared up mist…there’s demons and monsters surrounding us, their eyes directly looking at us.
We are surrounded from all directions.
A trap, as expected.
Even within the demons and monsters surrounding us, there’s a demon who pulls my attention.
A demon in his prime of life wearing red armor and helmet.
He is more than 2 meters tall and the mana covering his body was stronger than any demon around.
“Impenetrable Demon Balam…” (Abel)
I heard Hero Abel gulping.
I have heard that name before.
Momo and the Earth Hero-san told me about it.
One of the confidants of Demon Lord Bifrons.
“But the Earth and Wood Hero are not here, huh… The only one here is the Lightning Hero. The other one is…a weak human. A miss.” (Balam)
Balam brushed his beard while saying this unamused.
“The Demon Lord-sama told me to capture all Heroes aside from this so-called Light Hero. But cut off their legs so that they don’t run away again.” (Balam)
““Yes sir!””
The subordinates of the demons responded to the order of Balam, and the monsters roared in response.
(‘So-called Light Hero’…huh.) (Makoto)
The demon lord army isn’t aware that Abel is the Light Hero?
I glanced at the person at my side.
Hero Abel is on guard of the surroundings with a nervous expression.
He didn’t react to the words ‘Light Hero’.
There’s a number of points that bother me, but we must overcome this first.
I pulled Momo closer by the shoulder in order to protect her.
Momo held my clothes tightly.
She is trembling.
But it is not from fear…it is a different emotion.
She is glaring at the confidant with eyes of hatred.
It is the first time I see those kinds of eyes from her.
“Momo…did he do something?” (Makoto)
“He is…the one who devoured my mother…” (Momo)
“?!” (Makoto)
When I met Momo, she told me that her mother died 3 days ago.
It has already been several days after that, but it must be a fresh memory in Momo.
The memory of her mother being killed.
I don’t know how that chagrin of being used by the killer of your mother could feel.
“Makoto-san, we are surrounded. There’s not that many. We should aim for one point to break through, and run away -before reinforcements come.” (Abel)
Hero Abel whispers to me.
Hearing this, Momo nodded hatefully.
“…Within the confidants of Bifrons, General Balam is the one with the most seniority. He is really strong…” (Momo)
“Right, we must not fight him. Let’s run.” (Abel)
Abel nodded at the words of Momo.
The voices of the two were filled with tension and stiffness.
“Makoto-san?” (Abel)
“Makoto-sama?” (Momo)
“…”
I didn’t answer the call of Abel and Momo.
I look around.
The hundreds of monsters and demons surrounding us.
They all must have the Divine Protection of the Great Demon Lord, I could sense powerful mana from them.
They must be monsters far stronger than the ones in my present.
It is a despairing situation.
And yet…my heart was at peace.
Even though I am in this kind of situation, the words that surfaced in my mind were ‘not even a match’.
…Is it because of my Skill?
(Clear Mind…undo.) (Makoto)
But it didn’t change.
My heart wasn’t shaking at all.
It was completely calm.
This must be that.
Noah-sama is not here with me now, so I can’t talk to her which is a shame, but if she were here, I am sure she would have told me…
‘Makoto! Kick the ass of these small fries already!’
“Right, Goddess-sama.” (Makoto)
When I muttered this, Hero Abel and Momo looked back.
“Momo, as an apology for being late in getting you, I will avenge you.” (Makoto)
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Thanka for the chap! I asked a long time ago (like chap 120 or so was just released) but what chap are the raws up to now? At that time they were at about 240-250 somebody told me.
The raw is currently up to 276. Right now the author is releasing at a rate of about 1 chapter per week.
Nooo.....i dont wanna catch up and get reduced releases...but i want more.....so cruel.
A paradox.
Should we get less chapters per week to make them last longer or should we continue as we are, catch up and have only one chapter per week after?
“Momo, as an apology for being late in getting you, I will avenge you.” (Makoto)
Yeah, time to show off your power to Abel and Momo !
He didn’t react to the words ‘Light Hero’.
Abel doesn't seem to have the Light Hero skill yet. Was it part of the history rewriting ? Also, how are they aware of the existence of the Light Hero ? Did someone from the demons' side came from the present ?
I couldn’t see anything at first, but…I slowly managed to see string-like lines that were extending from Momo.
Oh, looks like I can do it.
Within all of those, there was one red string glowing ominously like blood.
I wrap destiny magic mana around the dagger of Noah-sama.
And then…slowly cut the blood red string extending from Momo.
He cut a String of Fate ?
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Abel's reaction was best to it... I wonder how demon lord himself would look if it happened in front of him
If we think about it it should be obvious why he hasn’t awakened as the light hero.
There is no sunlight.
The sky is completely covered by dark clouds like when Sakurai was fighting against the demon lord.
Without light he isn’t aware he is the light hero until Makoto clear them up
Didn't they say that the clouds didn't clear up until after Iblis was defeated? Iblis meanwhile could only be defeated with the Light Hero skill so that would make this a catch-22 situation. I think Instead it'll be like your standard situation where the hero gets cornered or has just experienced something traumatic and that awakens his hidden secret power. That happens so often in games or stories.
If the white loli was able to clear them up Makoto with plenty backup from the spirits and 999 of proficiency should be able to do the same.
so at least Makoto need kill few demon lord and iblis executive to clear up sky abit then once again Make a sunlight with his magic to help Abel.
I think he just need to control the clouds like momo-chan did when Makoto supercharged Sakurai with the magnifying ice glass
@tacos1 Alternatively, they have to ride that dragon to fly above the clouds.
Wow, Kara no Kyoukai had such a fitting scene...
Still, I'm once again surprised by the immediate readiness of your weeb materials.
Since there have been more clues revealed, I'll go ahead and give my theory as to how the past was changed. I didn't want to a few chapters ago, but we can see Bifrons went to The Great Demon Lord for information... in other words The Great Demon Lord HAS INFORMATION about Abel, and clearly he should not. This makes me think they didn't send anyone back in time, and they didn't cast some spell that directly changes the past (something obviously god level would be required to do that). I think they sent DATA. Was it something like connecting consciousness/memory of the past and present Great Demon Lord? Some other method? But sending information might be a loophole to the rules? If not maybe they just sent a letter? I mean if Makoto could be sent without being noticed, a single piece of paper could also be sent as well.
I think it is like this -
Original history: Chalk (white) Statue Edition.
There was no Makoto. Just Abel and crew. They didn't get captured. It was Abel who originally stumbled upon Momo (Great Sage) being attacked, and saved her. But eventually Momo did get captured, and Abel went to save her. She was a vampire when he found her (just like here) but he freed her by defeating Bifrons. Furthermore I am assuming there was no blackened sky. Simply put, the demon side didn't know where was a reason to do so. Perhaps the spell itself hadn't even been developed until the end of this loop. But it seems to me to be an anti-Abel counter measure, and they didn't even know about Abel until after he became a big problem. They may not have know the finer details of his abilities (including the requirements of sunlight) until after everything was over already. But this info could be sent to the past...
Second history: Green (copper?) Statue Edition.
Makoto getting things "close enough" - of course we're all assuming he'll succeed at that. Presumably Abel does indeed win over The Great Demon Lord, but with the help of Makoto too (who will be intentionally written out of this history). No doubt because Makoto ordered that his existence was to be erased from all their stories. I think that at the point the changes from this loop started to affect "present time" (sometime after Makoto first saw that white statue of Abel), Great Sage suddenly became so much more accommodating to Makoto. I don't think the first time they met (from Makoto's perspective) that she recognized him. But at some point she clearly was favoring him entirely too much... and clearly she lied about meeting him in the past (probably by his own orders). And then Bifrons also reacted to seeing Makoto. So the changes rippled in before that point.
As we see clearly now, the demon side knows entirely too much in any case.
3rd history: Ashen Statue Edition.
Abel was only known as a "hero", not a "savior". The "current time" was likely in a very tentative/unstable state. As we know, Makoto departed from this point. Probably I shouldn't say more about this, at this time. But through all those, Makoto alone wasn't affected while everyone else was.
And a reminder, this is only my theory and could still be wrong. Maybe I'm spot on, close, or totally off. Time will tell.
The thing about the Pitch Black Clouds though, is that it has been mentioned pretty consistently, and even Makoto remembers being taught it when he went to the Zagan fight. Considering that he seem generally unaffected by the ripple effect, it would seem inconsistent for the Pitch Black Clouds to be a result of time tweaking. One way to reconcile the clouds with Abel somehow having access to his powers is..., remember the dragon? It's possible that the dragon can fly above the clouds, stay there for a while for Abel to recharge, and then swoop down, rinse and repeat.
I do want to see though, when Makoto finally returns, he is the one greeted as the Savior Returned. Seems to me that the last change is heading there, with Hero Abel being disassociated from the Savior. Maybe once the timeline stabilized, Hero Abel will be separate from the mysterious Savior, who disappeared after the defeat of Iblis. Maybe rather than the Savior, Hero Abel will be known as someone who worked closely with the Savior instead?
Remember Makoto's fight against Zagan alongside Sakurai and Momo?
The cloud won't be totally cleared unless Iblis is defeated, but they might be able to make little crack for finisher when fighting Demon Kings
Either he doesn't have it yet, or he simply doesn't realize that he has it. The most glaring aspects of the Light Hero skill needs sunlight after all. And I don't think there's any precedent of someone having two hero skills, so he had no reason to suspect anything. There's the question of Soul Books, but I don't think a Soul Book is something you check on routinely. Again, since there's no noticeable changes, it might simply be that there was no reason for him to remember about checking his Soul Book. And that's assuming in the dark times of the past there are still Soul Books.
I think Abel was unaware of the skill thanks to the clouds covering the sun. We have to remember that bifrons is a king of vampires who's weakness is the sun, it really isn't an option for the clouds to not be present. He only became aware of it after Bifrons was defeated in the original timeline and the clouds cleared up over the human continent. Why did the clouds clear after bifrons was sealed instead of when Iblis fell? Listen, as strong as Iblis is do you really think they have the power to spare to cover the whole world (or at least every continent) in clouds? Either Bifrons cast the spell alone, Iblis lent him the power to cast and keep it maintained since his people majorly benefit from it or Iblis used him as some sort of medium to cast the spell themselves.
Unless I'm remembering hints in past chapters wrong.
Poor makoto cant feel anything anymore... thanks for chapter and bois its finally here... our makoto clappin demon asses
Not gonna lie I quite pity makoto cause of this... as it was once said that the time he fought goblins for first time was last time he fell thrill in fight... I think that after he got spirit magic then his skill rpg player started to consider every enemy weak thats why he wouldnt be able to feel any thrill or emotions in fight... its sad for person that will still have to fight for rest of his life
? I remember that in his other fights he felt emotions, but this time he don't feel fear probably because of the transformation in Spirit King, I mean, after reach that level, fight a demigod, and be in the past when there are no interference with the spirits, is probably natural, could also be Clear Mind, but in that case he wouldn't had feel anything with Momo.
Just like a certain one punch hero. No thrill, no adrenaline. Just a punch and done.
Yeah, no Makoto can still feel, but his lack of fear is not from RPG Player or Calm mind. Its probably from the Spirit King transformation and spirit magic in general being war magic.
He has been fighting people using what is equivalent to tactical nukes as if it was normal. I think he finally realized that spirit magic is super strong after hearing what happened to Alex.
He can still feel emotions but the enemies are to weak for him.
Thanks for the chapter~
Cutting the thread of fate?
That knife's pretty... cutting edge.
I'll see myself out.
But thanks for the chapter.
I'm laughing like crazy for the bloodbath that will be coming soon.
Thanks for the chapter!
People talking about the thread of fate, but Makoto straight up turned off Clear Mind while surrounded without even flinching. What a badass move, they are all fucking dead.
He's just that much of a gamer.
dude has a good gaming chair
Side effect of Clear Mind and all the other mind stabilizing skills is that it makes the user lose some of his emotions. Or at least there’s a risk of it. Makoto who almost always use it 24/7 will have a higher chance of losing his emotions which is why he’s like that right now. Noah explained this when Janet was proposing to Makoto back then. I just fear that when he returns to the present, he’ll become an unemotional killing machine.
That's only when it's at 100% that he runs the risk losing his emotions. They never said there was a negative side effect for having it on below 100% all the time. I think he's not feeling any danger here even without Clear Mind on because these guys are literally small fries compared to the enemies Makoto has already faced.
The chapter is really gratefully appreciated, thank you very much!!!
Yo thanks bro
I wonder if he can do again the Blood Pact, would be interesting if he can, and Makoto seems like will train a lot his Sun Magic to the point it can be considered the "Light Hero", I wanna see that already.