My Lord Who Is Being Prudent! [EN]: Chapter 293

293. Kyle’s Journal (3)

A white burst of light filled his vision.

Cyan closed his eyes and pondered quietly.

The scene he had just witnessed was Kyle’s memory.

And what it implied was one thing.

‘Kyle was from another world…’

There were many stories about this.

But that wasn’t very important.

What was important was that Kyle was not from the same world as Cyan.

Kyle was an absolute powerhouse known as the Heavenly Demon in the world of Murim [a genre of Korean fantasy fiction featuring martial arts and historical settings].

How could this be possible… Honestly, he didn’t know.

Even after watching the scene, Cyan couldn’t understand.

Above all, it was just Kyle’s memory.

A reality reconstructed based on Kyle’s memory.

And memories are inherently distorted and glorified.

Therefore, there was no guarantee that what Cyan saw was the truth.

‘But it doesn’t seem like it…’

The scene he just saw was one that could never be distorted or glorified.

And to be honest, Cyan had a vague idea.

‘I could see the heterogeneous aspects of Kyle.’

He didn’t have to go far.

The Demon Soul Asura Sword that Cyan was learning.

Kyle’s sword was completely different from the swordsmanship of the continent.

‘First of all, the name itself was so unfamiliar.’

Also, throughout the history of the continent, countless studies have been conducted on swordsmanship.

It was safe to say that almost all possible forms of swordsmanship had been developed.

But Kyle’s Demon Soul Asura Sword was different.

A complete novelty that could not be seen on the continent.

At first, he thought it was the result of Kyle’s outstanding skill.

Of course, that must have played a big part.

But if it was from another world, he could nod his head.

‘Is that why Charlotte couldn’t learn it?’

In the past, Cyan checked Charlotte’s records in the Imperial Library.

In Kyle’s memoirs written by Charlotte, Charlotte wanted to learn Kyle’s sword.

But Charlotte couldn’t learn Kyle’s sword.

‘What did she say was the reason back then?’

Something about the constraints of causality.

At the time, he didn’t know what she was talking about, but that causality was Kyle’s original world.

In other words, it seemed to be something related to another world.

Anyway, it was enough to explain why Charlotte couldn’t learn Kyle’s sword.

‘The problem is why I can learn it…’

This was a bit of a question.

Like Charlotte, Cyan was a person from this continent.

A native who was born and raised only on this continent.

In the first place, Cyan didn’t even know that other worlds existed.

But Charlotte couldn’t learn it, but Cyan could.

‘Then it’s all because of Mobile Lord.’

This could only be explained this way.

Therefore, Kyle and Mobile Lord.

That meant that the two were related.

‘But Kyle didn’t seem to know about Mobile Lord either.’

That was because there was no Mobile Lord in Kyle’s world either.

There was no such thing as a smartphone, and Kyle didn’t have anything related to it.

Nevertheless, Kyle and Mobile Lord have a clear connection.

That’s the only way to explain why Cyan can learn the Demon Soul Asura Sword through Mobile Lord.

That means.

‘Kyle met Mobile Lord in this continent.’

If so, when did Kyle meet Mobile Lord here?

What did the other Arnaizes know about this?

He knew Kyle’s past, but the questions remained.

No, only the existing questions became deeper.

And the key to solving that question.

Whoosh!

The light gradually weakened in his closed vision.

The familiar scenery unfolded in his slightly opened eyes.

Honestly, it wasn’t a familiar scenery.

That’s because it was a scenery he had never seen before in his life.

However, he didn’t feel the heterogeneous feeling he felt in Kyle’s world just now.

The thought that it was unfamiliar but familiar came to his mind.

There was no doubt that this was the continent where Cyan lived.

Even the continent a thousand years ago.

“Cough!”

Kyle’s voice was heard for a moment.

Blood gushed out of his mouth.

Kyle’s body staggered.

Kyle straightened his staggering body by sticking his sword into the ground.

His body, covered in blood, didn’t seem like a living person at all.

Honestly, he thought it was a corpse walking around.

‘But even so, I can feel this power…’

Even now, the dragon’s instincts were trembling with fear.

It was constantly ringing the alarm, telling him to run away right now.

Cyan had nothing to say.

“Here is…”

Kyle, who had regained his senses, calmly looked around.

His blood-soaked eyes didn’t seem to be able to see clearly.

Even so, Kyle seemed to realize that this was not his world.

Just like Cyan realized that it was his continent.

Kyle quietly lowered his gaze.

Was he recalling the previous memories?

Kyle was silent for a long time.

Only the sound of his panting could be heard emptily.

How much time had passed?

“I won’t… forget.”

Kyle muttered in a low voice.

“I… I will definitely return.”

The look in Kyle’s eyes did not contain hatred.

There was no anger caused by betrayal.

Only sadness.

Perhaps longing.

“To keep… my promise with you.”

A promise to dye the whole world with demons.

A promise with Wang Dae-ju to make the world a demonic world.

Therefore, this was not like revenge.

It was not a judgment to punish the betrayer.

“I… I must…”

Kyle muttered to himself as if making a pledge.

“Return…”

Thud.

Kyle finally lost consciousness.

And once again, a burst of light filled his vision.

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The burst of light that filled his vision quickly subsided.

And the scene that reappeared was the scenery of a village.

To be exact, it was the scenery of what used to be a village.

“Kieeeeeek!!”

But now it was a scenery that was no longer a village.

The village was on fire.

Broken debris was scattered everywhere.

And things that were presumed to be villagers were scattered all over the place.

“Kieeeeeek!!”

The grotesque scream that was heard in between made him fully understand the cause of this tragedy.

‘Demon…?’

The demons that plunged the continent into chaos a thousand years ago.

Cyan could clearly feel the malice in the scream.

Also, at the same time, the thought ‘Demon Lord?’ came to mind.

But Cyan quickly shook off the thought.

The malice he felt was too weak to be a Demon Lord.

There was a clear malice, but its strength was weak.

Therefore, it could be simply referred to as a demon.

The demons were brutally ravaging the village.

They were chewing on the scattered pieces of the villagers’ flesh, bursting with emotions such as joy and delight.

Scenes that were too terrible to watch were continuing.

Only the scenery where life had disappeared and only death remained was full.

And towards that death.

Flash!

A streak of light flashed.

Splash!

Crimson blood splattered all over his vision.

It was a flash that even Cyan couldn’t recognize.

Therefore, it was not difficult to know whose it was.

‘He’s amazing.’

At the same time as Cyan’s exclamation, Thud!

A demon collapsed to the ground.

Soon, a handsome black-haired man, Kyle, stood in front of him.

Unlike before, Kyle’s condition seemed quite good.

He was not Kyle who was bleeding and dying.

It seemed that a considerable amount of time had passed since Kyle came to this continent.

Kyle was standing on the corpse of a pierced demon, holding a sword.

With Kyle’s sudden appearance, the demons’ gazes were focused.

Soon, they discovered the corpses of their fellow demons that had been slaughtered and screamed.

Kieeeeeek─!!

Thousands of malice resonated and threatened death.

It was not necessary to bring out the monsters that lived in the forest of darkness.

The demons of a thousand years ago that plunged the entire continent into chaos.

But it didn’t mean much to Kyle.

Even the Demon Lords couldn’t dare to do anything to Kyle.

But what could ordinary demons do?

Of course, how could the concept of a demon be ordinary?

Flash!

In front of Kyle’s sword, everyone was just ordinary.

Kyle quickly cleaned up the demons that had attacked the village.

It didn’t take long.

And it didn’t take many steps.

Maybe that’s why.

“······”

Kyle’s face, cutting down the demons, contained two emotions.

Anger at the demons who had ravaged the people.

And the self-reproach that he could have saved the people if he had come just a little earlier.

That’s how Kyle killed all the demons in the village.

And he left the village where no one was left, and took a step.

Like that, one step, two steps.

Just as he was leaving the village.

“Please, tell me your name!”

A great shout was heard from behind Kyle.

‘Huh…?’

Cyan tilted his head without realizing it.

That’s because Cyan didn’t feel it.

It seemed to be because of Kyle’s power.

It seemed that his existence was buried in that great power and he couldn’t recognize it.

Also, Cyan’s senses seemed to be wary of Kyle’s power and couldn’t recognize it.

‘More than that, was there anyone alive?’

Cyan turned his head in the direction of the sound.

And the face he confirmed.

‘Crown Prince… Your Highness?’

Cyan wondered if he had seen it right for a moment.

Also, he wondered what the hell was going on.

Why was Crown Prince Conrad here?

Cyan’s mind was swept away by great chaos.

But after rubbing his eyes and looking again, he could quickly grasp the situation.

Of course, that man was not Conrad.

That’s because the current situation is a virtual reality that reconstructs Kyle’s memory.

In a word, it’s an event from a thousand years ago.

There was no way that Conrad, the Crown Prince of the current era, would be there.

But there could be someone who looked like Conrad.

Someone who looked almost exactly like Conrad.

No, someone who Conrad looked exactly like.

‘It’s Charlotte.’

Conrad’s long-time ancestor. The leader of Arnaize, Charlotte.

That man was none other than Charlotte.

‘But why is Charlotte here…?’

Naturally, a new question arose.

But that was only for a moment, and Cyan was soon able to realize what this situation was and when it was.

‘Ah, this must be when Charlotte first met Kyle.’

Kyle’s memoirs that he saw in the Imperial Library.

In the records written by Charlotte while observing Kyle, the same thing as the current situation was written.

The only survivor of a village ravaged by demons.

And the event that was the reason and reason why Charlotte took up the sword for revenge.

‘That was the time.’

Cyan understood the situation and nodded his head.

Kyle stopped walking and stood there.

Charlotte’s words asking him to tell him his name.

Was he pondering those words?

Kyle was quietly looking at Charlotte.

The same situation as now was written in Kyle’s memoirs that Cyan confirmed.

And Kyle’s name written in the memoirs could not be known.

It was written.

But he couldn’t understand what the letters were at all.

To be exact, Cyan couldn’t tell whether it was a deleted letter.

Or whether it was a single letter in itself.

But now.

Kyle was standing there, looking at Charlotte.

His expression was calm, but he seemed to be thinking about something.

So, he seemed to be thinking about what his name was.

He wondered how he could forget his name, but… Cyan could understand after seeing Kyle’s previous memories.

Kyle was never called by his name.

Cult leader or Heavenly Demon.

Kyle had never been called by his name in his world.

Kyle stood there for a long time.

And how much time had passed?

The name that was never written in Charlotte’s records.

“Kang Il.”

With those words, Kyle left the place.

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Kyle’s first meeting with Charlotte was only for a moment.

After that, Kyle continued to roam the continent alone.

Of course, he couldn’t know what happened to Charlotte after that.

Kyle, who traveled alone, didn’t know that.

Kyle joined the Arnaizes at the very end.

Therefore, Kyle did not know what the situation was with Charlotte and the Arnaizes after that.

But Cyan, who knew the history of a thousand years later, naturally knew.

‘Maybe… Charlotte is meeting Morcru or Noemi around this time.’

The myth that is passed down on the continent.

He had read the story of Charlotte’s adventures, fighting against demons and gathering Arnaize companions.

How Charlotte made the Arnaizes her companions.

There were many touching stories along with what happened.

Cyan had been excited about that story when he was young.

He had boldly shouted to Cecil that he wanted to be like Charlotte someday.

‘Somehow, I became Kyle’s successor instead of Charlotte.’

Cyan chuckled.

Anyway, what was clear was that there was a reason why children were crazy about the Arnaizes.

There was a reason why it remained as the continent’s best seller even after a thousand years.

But how could Kyle know that story?

Of course, it was not reflected in Kyle’s memory.

‘I should read it again when I have time later.’

Well, anyway.

Kyle was still roaming the continent alone.

And Kyle’s steps contained two purposes.

The first was to find a way to return to his original world.

And the second is…

Splash!

To eliminate the screams heard from this continent.

The continent ravaged by demons.

Numerous screams were rampant in the world.

And it was not much different from Kyle’s world.

There was a difference in the type of screams, but the screams were constant.

Kyle moved for those people.

He found the demons, cut them down, and rescued the people.

Just like he did in his original world.

Even in the current continent, Kyle wielded his sword for the people.

However, there was a big difference from the original world.

Kang Il, the leader of the Demonic Cult and the Heavenly Demon, represented the screams of the people.

He became a sword for them and slashed the world.

But Kyle, a stranger on this continent.

“Thank you… Thank you so much…”

“Uncle! Thank you so much for saving our mom!!”

Kyle was not slashing the world.

Maybe that’s why.

Cyan could watch Kyle change little by little.

As time passed.

The more he wielded his sword for the people.

Kyle was changing little by little.

It could have been a misunderstanding.

No, it was probably a misunderstanding.

“Listen to your mom…”

But Cyan couldn’t shake that thought.

Kyle roamed the continent with two purposes.

And that was a day no different from usual.

Finding and cutting down demons in the usual way.

A day like any other day to save people.

That’s when Kyle met them.

【Hehe…】

It was a day no different from usual.

The endless thought of death that he felt.

The crimson malice that rose like dark clouds.

The Seven Deadly Sins.

Pride, greed, envy, anger, lust, gluttony, sloth.

The seven demons who awakened from that sin.

【What a unique human?】

‘Nurbia?’

Kyle met Nurbia, one of the seven demon lords, on a day no different from usual.

Nurbia approached Kyle with curious eyes.

Of course, she was not in Helen’s form at this time.

Even so, Cyan could be sure that it was Nurbia.

Only the appearance had changed, but the energy he felt was definitely Nurbia’s.

And that energy was much stronger.

As expected, it seemed to be because there were no restrictions on the holy object and it was her original form.

Therefore, Nurbia had a completely different appearance.

The atmosphere and appearance were that of a woman.

But was it right to define that as a woman?

In the first place, he couldn’t believe that demons had genders.

Depending on what you see, depending on the wish you want.

A demon could be anything.

【Strange… Really strange…】

Perhaps, that was the original form of the demon Nurbia.

【Why do I see my original form in you?】

Nurbia circled around Kyle.

Kyle quietly watched Nurbia.

How much time had passed?

【The form of causality is different. There is only one case like this…】

Nurbia made an ambiguous expression.

Then she smirked.

【You’re not a human from this continent, are you?】

She gave Kyle a malicious smile.

Then Nurbia ran her finger along Kyle’s neckline.

Nurbia’s expression was like looking at a cute and curious pet.

Watching Nurbia’s appearance, Cyan let out a ridiculous laugh.

There was a saying that not knowing is medicine.

But sometimes, they say that you see as much as you know.

Nurbia’s appearance mocking Kyle now.

Really novel and novel.

Squeak!

It could be said to be a new method of suicide.