Academy’s Weapon Replicator

Chapter 152: Balance (8)

In front of me, Frontier tried hard to appeal himself.

What happened in the past and what we did together.

These are stories I also know. When I fainted after reading the diary, memories of Frontier’s past came flooding back.

These are memories that flowed into me, but the real frontier is things I experienced myself. He eagerly brought out his memories one by one to Ajie.

Memories from childhood, trivial conversations.

I thought as I looked at Frontier.

There’s no need for that.

Even if you don’t do that, it’s already gone.

“okay.”

Ajie closes his eyes deeply, then opens them again.

“You are my younger brother.”

Atjie will know.

You might be fooled by a fake person pretending to be your younger brother,

There’s no way you wouldn’t recognize it after meeting your real younger brother.

“haha! also! After all, he’s my brother! “I believed you would understand!”

Frondier was overjoyed.

Then he immediately turned his hateful gaze towards me.

“Hey, fake! “Give me my body!”

“… … .”

I had nothing to say.

I don’t know how to return this body to Frontier.

… … If only I knew.

If I had known, would I have given this body to Frondier?

“Give it to me! “You fake b*stard!”

Thump thump thump.

Thump!

Frondier roughly walked over and grabbed me by the collar.

I didn’t resist.

I had no right to do that.

No, I didn’t have the will to do that.

“By the way, Frontier.”

Atjie opened his mouth.

I inadvertently looked at him and Ajie, and received Ajie’s cold gaze in return.

“I didn’t call you.”

“… … .”

Frondier looked at Azier, appreciating him.

“huh! “Brother, why did you call me?”

“Let me ask you one thing.”

“Sure, whatever!”

Frontier grins. He released his hands and looked at Ajie.

Atjie asked.

“Why are you here?”

“uh… … ?”

Ajie’s indifferent gaze.

Frondier made a sound of confusion for a moment, but then quickly answered.

“So I told you, bro. That guy killed me! “They took over my body and turned me into a soul!”

“That’s not what I’m talking about.”

Atjie shook his head.

He looked around, looked at the distant passage, and then looked at the frontier again.

“Why are you waiting in front of Tartarus to enter here?”

“… … Ah, yes… … ?”

When Ajie spoke up to that point.

Finally, I felt uncomfortable and opened my eyes.

Tartarus is the place where the worst sinners come. It is a similar place to Nastrond.

There is a place for ordinary dead people to go. Helheim is a representative example, and there is also the Nether ruled by Hades.

But why is Frontier here?

“I knew you to be a lazy and timid child. My family encouraged it. we are.”

Ajie paused for a moment there.

However, he speaks again without a single change in his face.

“Because we were a family that instilled inferiority in you.”

“… … !”

When Ajie said so.

I took a deep breath and felt like I had turned into a stone.

why me?

I am not a frontier.

I am not the one who will be hurt.

“Tongue, bro.”

“But Frontier. Even if that were the case, as far as I know, you didn’t commit a crime to the point of coming to a place like this.”

Ajie’s head tilts.

“What did you do, Frontier?”

There was a familiar smell in that tone.

Yes, Ajie’s voice towards Frondier was like this.

Frondier rolled his eyes and said.

“No, this means there was some mistake! See, since I didn’t die properly, the process of coming back wasn’t normal either!”

In those words,

“No, that can’t be possible.”

Campe said.

“Only Thanatos can be sent to Tartarus regardless of sin. But you’re not dead like that. “You came here rightfully, Frontier.”

In other words, it is not a mistake.

Frontier committed a crime.

Atjie asked Campe.

“What is this guy’s crime?”

“I can’t tell you that. It’s the only right of a sinner. Even if you are family, you cannot spread the word without your consent.”

After saying that, Campe laughed provocatively.

“Can you guess? “This guy’s sin.”

At that, Ajie calmed his eyes.

And those eyes soon,

turned to me

“… … “What do you think?”

“… … what?”

“If Frontier stayed here for 3 years, then on the other hand, you lived as a Frontier for about 3 years.”

I couldn’t answer what Ajie said.

Of course that’s true. Atjie’s guess was correct.

However, I could not understand the intention of these words, and my mouth became frozen.

“So guess what?”

Atjie asked me with eyes that still had no clue.

“What is my brother’s sin?”

* * *

Elodie lost her expression and looked at Vishnu.

FALSE? who? What about Frontier?

Ha, the corners of Elodie’s mouth rose. I laughed because it was so absurd.

So she turned her head from Vishnu and looked at Rudra. I believe that he too has the same expression on his face.

However.

“Elodie.”

Rudra says.

“Frondier’s soul changed about three years ago. “It was around that time that the fake Mystiltein was discovered in the dungeon and a meeting was held.”

But Rudra said something strange.

It tells you when the frontier changed.

Yes, it was that time. Frontier felt like something had changed.

I discovered another look in Frontier, who was a human sloth.

But that wasn’t Frontier’s rehabilitation.

It was simply that he was a different person.

“… … Nonsense.”

“Elodie.”

“Nonsense. That can’t be possible. Who does that? How do you get that magic, and for what?”

Jerk.

Elodie stepped back.

I distanced myself from the five gods.

It looked like he was trying to fight, and at other times it looked like he was simply running away.

The five gods give her a word one by one.

“Elodie. Frontier is a spirit brought by a giant for the victory of humans.”

“I brought in someone who has a spirit that will not be greatly shaken even in all kinds of unfair situations. “The one that suited him best was the current Frontier.”

“Have you ever thought it was strange? The way Frontier speaks to you, the look in his eyes, his knowledge and amount of information that even you, your childhood friend, didn’t know about. “Because it was all just ‘regeneration’?”

“Think about what kind of person Frontier was.”

“The current Frontier is,”

At that time, Elodie’s mana exploded.

“Shut up──!!”

Wow─

Elodie’s voice rang out in the pure white space.

“Shut up, don’t talk nonsense. That can’t be possible. Frontier makes me… … !”

“I hated you. “Elodie.”

Vishnu’s voice.

Ha, Elodie sighed and looked at him again.

“Elodie. Now you know. “What did Frontier think of you in the past?”

“… … past… … .”

“I thought you were forgiven, right?”

Vishnu took a step closer.

chin.

Rudra blocked his path.

“Don’t get any closer than that. Vishnu. “We decided not to bother Elodie with more than the facts.”

“You’re just talking? Come on. Rudra. “What I say is the truth, more important than the facts.”

Vishnu paid no heed to Rudra, who was in the way, and spoke to Elodie beyond.

“Frondier was shunned by his family. Because I believed I had no ability or talent and was lazy. But in fact, he could interpret ancient languages, and that laziness was the curse of sloth. People around him who didn’t know the truth looked at Frondier pitifully. You were the one next to that guy. “Elodie.”

“Vishnu!”

Rudra’s warning tone.

Then the lifeless eyes of Vishnu turned to Rudra.

“Don’t bark needlessly. “You arrogant thing.”

“… … !”

“Is there anything I say that isn’t the ‘fact’ you like so much? We agreed that Elodie would have all the information, understand the whole situation, and leave it up to us to make future choices. If you’re going to interrupt me, claim it’s false, defend it, or prove that it’s unnecessary information. “This is not a place where things can be resolved just by shouting.”

After saying that, Vishnu smiles at Elodie again.

“yes? Elodie. You are my childhood friend. “Because the families are close, it was inevitable that it would happen.”

“… … .”

Elodie had no reaction.

However, it is heard clearly in those ears.

Vishnu’s voice. Those words. All the content and the emotions behind it.

“It was you, Elodie, who completely destroyed Frondier, who was already reeling from the opinions and judgments of his family and people around him.”

“… … !”

“Feelings of inferiority, powerlessness, jealousy. And Frontier was struggling due to defeatism. “You only found out about it later, so you suffered from guilt and created trauma.”

Frondier hated Elodie.

After finding out, Elodie was only thinking about how she could be forgiven. Although I couldn’t express it accurately, my unconsciousness continued to grow and eventually became a trauma.

In a dream created like that.

“You thought you were forgiven, right? To Frontier.”

“… … Then, that dream too.”

“of course.”

Vishnu shook his head.

“He is not a frontier.”

“ah… … .”

“He committed a crime, Elodie.”

Frontier, whom Elodie met in her dream.

The Frondier who said he was jealous of her and actually felt sorry for Elodie.

That person.

“You pretended to be Frontier and pretended that Frontier forgave you.”

“Ahhh… … .”

“Frondier has never forgiven you. “Elodie.”

Elodie’s hands trembled.

She smoothed her face with that hand. The texture of the face is like clay. The feeling is strange.

Vishnu spoke to Elodie.

“So it’s a choice. “Elodie.”

“… … select?”

Elodie asks. This time, all five gods nodded.

Agni said.

“If you forgive the current Frontier, that is, the fake, you will have to send him to the original world. With your own hands. “The only one who can do it is you who can use four element combinations.”

It was Indra who spoke next.

“But if you can’t forgive the fake, you’ll have to fight him instead of returning him to the original world. Or you can reveal the truth yourself and send him into the abyss.”

in other words.

If Elodie forgives Frondier now, it means farewell.

If you cannot forgive, it naturally becomes a chain of hatred and fighting.

Either way, Elodie will no longer meet Frondier like before.

Either way.

“That… … . “Choose?”

Elodie asked helplessly,

dump.

I sat down.

She didn’t have the strength to stand. As if all her strength had been drained from beneath her feet, she looked blankly into space.

I do not know what should I do.

What will happen if I don’t make this choice?

If you pretend that you haven’t heard anything so far.

Can I meet and talk to Frontier again?

──Can I see that person as ‘Frondier’?

“Ugh.”

Elodie bit her lip. Hide your face with your arms. A very distorted face. My eyes are shaking.

The five gods watched in silence.

Vishnu was looking at the other gods and speaking with his eyes instead of words.

‘Elodie is not ready.’

As Vishnu said at the beginning.

That may be true.

Elodie had no desire to choose.

What happens if you make a choice?

How can preparing your mind be this difficult?

Elodie sat down and hugged her knees. Crying without making a sound. Shoulders shaking occasionally.

A habit from when I was young again.

‘… … Frontier… … .’

The memories I had with Frontier so far came to mind.

─Did you want to say thank you?

─Because you are not okay, I… … !

─Now that I have reached puberty, I will run away from home.

─I’m sorry, Elodie. I have been jealous of you for a very long time.

─If it were a little too late and Elodie disappeared from the world. I will be your next enemy, President.

─Just as I exclude my potential enemies, I will also exclude Elodie’s enemies.

Little by little, little by little, into the past.

She goes back through her memories of someone she believed to be Frontier.

“… … Pron… … .”

And that memory finally,

─I know.

“ah… … .”

I brought up a memory from a long time ago.

Frondier’s words to Elodie, who was foolishly worrying about joining the club.

─Because you look like me.

─It seems like you are alone.

─I feel like I’m alone in a remote place, and I feel like I won’t be able to get out of this lonely place.

─Even if you talk and smile with other people, you don’t feel like you are truly understood.

“… … okay. “You back then.”

I see

It was something like that.

“That’s what you meant.”

Something I couldn’t say to anyone, something that would have been dangerous to say.

You only did it for me.

Because I look like you.

Even if it is a pain that no one can understand.

I just can’t do it alone.

I shouldn’t understand everything, but it’s something I can convey to myself.

That was not what Frontier de Roach said.

Those were your words.

“I understand.”

Elodie said.

The light returned to her eyes.

Lively, tearful eyes sparkle,

Holding onto more things than the tears I shed.

“I didn’t like Frontier.”

I──