Chapter 294

Yiel seemed to remember something and looked at Leah.

"Leah! This...this seems to be..."

"I know it without you having to tell me."

Leah's expression was a little serious.

She remembered the time when she and Will were locked up in the cold storage together, and also about the time when Will was targeted by a small group in the class, and...all these things were more or less related to her.

"You...you knew this would happen from the beginning...right?"

Leah bit her lip.

"Then...is the thing that you have always wanted me to accept as my student...also part of your plan?"

She seemed to have guessed where some of the answers to this question would be - something must be described in the "Witch Leia Chapter".

She thought of the various methods used from the beginning, of Will who seemed to be inducing her from the beginning, and of...

Will tries to bring her out of her isolation from everyone.

"Go on, next page."

Thereya looked particularly cold and continued to turn the page.

Further on, in addition to the strange crossed-out "if task" that can still be seen and the "continuous task" that has been changed again and again in several versions, the number of the task suddenly becomes extraordinarily out of the ordinary, leaping forward all of a sudden. Arrived at number 800.

"It was written newly. Even the quality of the paper is different from before."

Treya stroked the paper in her hand and spoke like this.

"No wonder, the numbers seem to have jumped a lot. Although I haven't been able to read the previous content, I guess that the numbers are probably related to the chronological order, right?"

"Task 801, get the name of Qiming Star. Mission reward, give yourself a beautiful cabin."

"...Is this where you're talking about?"

"Why was he named after the Star of Light? As far as I know Will, he... doesn't seem to be someone who would take this name."

"Iel understands! If it were the young master, he would definitely have a name like 'Messenger of Destiny'!"

"You must have been pickled by him."

"If it is the chronological order that Leah guessed, then what follows...is different from the current reality we know."

Thereya turned another page.

Will's habit of writing leaves a lot of room for changes and additions - they discovered this just by reading these pages.

"Mission 803...find...find the new dungeon in Novis Town, the Top of the Galaxy...and say hello to the Empress there..."

“…Novistown.”

"Isn't it right here?! But the underground city here..."

"Yes, the last dungeon was the Wizard of Oz, and now..."

"There is no dungeon here now. Yiel has discovered it."

Some bad premonitions arose in the hearts of the three people.

This page seems to be just a "stall strategy", and the following three pages contain nothing, as if leaving enough space for a "series of tasks".

Then……

Thereya continued to turn the pages anxiously.

On the page that was only one page away from the final mission, they saw——

[Task-1: Accept death (try it if possible to avoid it). 】

[Important information: The name of the dungeon where the slime killed him: Corridor of Dust and Skeletons. 】

A piece of yellowed paper and a piece of immature handwriting, it looks like a task written long ago.

But it was more shocking than anything they had seen.

Chapter 327: The fate of an insignificant character dying

[Task-1: Accept death (try it if possible to avoid it). 】

[Important information: The name of the dungeon where the slime killed him: Corridor of Dust and Skeletons. 】

Compared with all the tasks, it is simpler and even easier to understand, but for the three of them, it is more shocking than any of the previous ones.

"Death...death?! What's going on? Why...why would the young master...write on this page to accept death?"

The word that Yiel caught first was undoubtedly "death". The ears on top of her head stood upright as if they had caught some particularly big threat.

--die? What death? Is the young master facing death?

——Death...means never seeing the young master again? Never hear him speak again?

This word was originally very far away to her. But at this moment, when it was before her eyes, the jokes about death that Will had "taught" her seemed to be rushing towards "realization".

"Being... smashed to death by a slime... This description, this description is very familiar to Yiel, very familiar!"

Staring at this line of words, her eyes grew bigger and bigger. Just these few lines of words reminded her that from a certain time, when she walked into Will's room in the morning, she could see Will holding a slime on his head.

Elle always thought it was another of Will's special habits. But she seemed to have forgotten one thing. Will always puts efficiency and results first and does not do useless work.

"Accept...avoid...give it a try..."

On the other side, Leah recited these keywords intermittently.

"Damn it, why didn't I realize before this page-"

She banged her fist on the table anxiously, and used her other hand to lift her hair from her forehead. She used this action to calm herself down.

Will is not as mature as a "student". Will seems to have the ability to predict things as if he were a god, and he has arranged a series of "follow-up stories" for writing this "Task System".

Leah, who once regarded him as a "student who was more precocious", flashed a series of his actions in school.

All of them foreshadowed one thing, something she should have discovered earlier...

Death.

For a person, it means disappearing from this world in the true sense.

For her, it is a distant and terrifying word. The "witch" with such a long life is still far away from that death...

"No, why... why didn't I realize when he kept talking about it that this death, he must be referring to..."

"Destiny?"

Treya took over what Leah hadn't finished saying.

She didn't seem to have the same fluctuations as the two of them, but she clenched her fists.

Treya's eyes swept across this page of "Task System". In addition to the light held by Iel, it seemed to be covered with a faint moonlight coming in from the window.

This book is "colorful" in her eyes - perhaps because it is so closely related to Will.

But...

If... Will is dead...

Doesn't it mean that she can't even find this color?

"If it is fate... Iel, when did he first mention this word?"

More anxious than before, she threw a new question to Iel.

"When he was very young, even I don't know when it was the earliest... But this book should have been written by him... when he was ten years old."

"Earlier than I expected..."

"Why do you ask this, could it be..."

As he answered the question, Iel, who was originally confused, sorted out his thoughts.

"You mean... the so-called 'fate' mentioned by the young master... Could it be... Could it be..."

Iel stopped here, and his voice, which was originally high-pitched as a half-orc, gradually became low.

"...Did he know that he would die in the Corridor of Dust many years later?"

"Yes. I have read the mission system he wrote like a diary. Even the dullest person will understand it!"

Liya raised her head, bit her lips, and tears came into her eyes.

"Will - your master, your 'fiancé', and my good student... He knew from the beginning when, where, and how he would die!"

"This book is his... declaration of resistance, no, it should be 'acceptance' of fate."

Treya didn't care about Leah's roar, and turned the page with her fingers.

After this page, it was the first time she saw it, but Iel and Leah had seen it a long time ago.

The "heroine" is written with full content.

When Treya saw this for the first time, her pupils were slightly dilated, and the purple left by the devil in her eyes was gently hit by the moonlight, which seemed slightly dim.

The person who taught her what "desire" is, as expected, also has his own "desire" that he can't give up?

However, after reading this "chapter" he wrote to himself, the three people did not find the "answer" -

Where is Will now?

There are more and more mysteries about him, and the doubts are getting thicker and thicker.

It is also more difficult to infer his thoughts than before.

They once thought that with their "love" and the "contact" between Will and them that goes beyond friendship, even if they are not the people who know him best in the world, they must be the people who can control him best in the world.

But now...

If his "living" is based on a known "death" that is so close.

Everything he has done seems to be overturned.

"If...if the young master accepted his own death and wrote these tasks, what was his purpose..."

"The heroine? It must be the heroine! So, was it the one who took him away, Shuna?"

"I don't think so. At least he definitely wasn't writing this book..." Treya denied Leah, "Because, Iel once told us that the time he corresponded with that woman was much later than the time the book was written."

"Yes...yes. When the young master wrote this book, he hadn't received Mr. S's first letter yet."

"So, that idiot...he...he clearly knew his own death, but...what on earth was he doing all this for..."

"The answer, maybe in..."

Trya flipped through the "Task System" and turned to the very beginning, the first page of the "Task System", which was written "Maid Iel Chapter", and Iel strongly prevented it from opening it.

"In the chapter that belongs to us."

"..."

The three of them didn't speak for a while.

But this "silence" didn't mean that they didn't do anything at all.

As the most direct, the least concealed, and the most outspoken, Leah wiped away the tears from her eyes first, and then rushed to the "Task System".

She flipped through the task system and found the beginning and end of "Witch Leah".

"Liya - what are you going to do?! Don't flip through... the things written by the young master."

"Take away the part he wrote to me. Of course, I don't want others to read my chapters, but... I take away a part of myself, is that okay?"

Lia tore off the loose-leaf, folded a thick stack of about fifty pages of paper, and put it into her ring.

Then, she turned around and walked towards the door.

"...Where are you going?"

Trea asked coldly.

"...I don't care, I'm going to the Dust Corridor - although I don't know where this place is now, and I don't know where Will is, but as long as...as long as the Dust Corridor is destroyed, he won't die in it-right?!"

"Yes!" Yi Ai stood up, the ears on her head stood up particularly firm, and the lamp in her hand was shaking, "As long as...as long as it doesn't exist, the young master won't die there."

Then, Yi Ai lowered her head, and her gloved hands also opened her own chapter and collected every page in it.

"Are you going to leave tonight?"