My Lord Who Is Being Prudent! [EN]: Chapter 319

319. Beginning and End (2)

A space of pure white light.

His mind was blank, as if his soul had left his body.

The flow of thought and reasoning couldn’t keep up with the phenomenon before his eyes. He was dazed, his mind a blank slate.

Before Cyan stood a black-haired man who seemed to have a screw loose somewhere.

“You are…”

“Is this the second or third time?”

The man tilted his head and asked. He seemed confused about whether it was their second or third meeting.

But Cyan didn’t recognize the man. It wasn’t just the second time; it was the first time he had ever seen him.

“But what…”

…Just as that question arose, a memory flashed through Cyan’s mind.

It was a scene he had glimpsed in Kyle’s memories: a space of pure white light and an unidentified man within it.

Cyan quickly looked around and realized that the space he had seen then was the same as this place.

“My introduction is late. My name is Kim Seo-joon.”

Kim Seo-joon.

Of course, it was a name Cyan had never heard before.

“Keem Seo-joon…?”

And it was also a difficult name for Cyan to pronounce.

Perhaps it was because of Cyan’s clumsy pronunciation that Seo-joon burst into laughter.

“Just call me Seo-joon. More importantly, what’s your name…?”

“Cyan… it is.”

“Okay, Cyan.”

Seo-joon repeated Cyan’s name and nodded once.

Cyan looked at Seo-joon and asked, “Who exactly are you, Seo-joon?”

“Huh? Me?”

Seo-joon pointed at himself with his index finger and then made a face as if wondering how Cyan could not know him.

“You might not know me. You see, your dimension was one that was separated when the Observer was banished.”

Seo-joon quickly nodded in agreement.

“Hmm… how should I explain this? Should I say I’m a pro hunter? Or a transcender [someone who has surpassed normal human limitations]? Or should I say I’m the one who inherited the first transcender.”

“……”

Cyan stared at Seo-joon with a blank expression. He really didn’t understand any of what Seo-joon was saying.

Whether Seo-joon knew Cyan’s thoughts or not, he simply smiled and said, “Just think of me as Seo-joon.”

“You must have many questions, many things you want to ask. Among them, the most 궁금한 [curious] thing… must be about Kyle, right?”

“Do you know Kyle?”

“I do.”

Seo-joon nodded without hesitation and answered, “The sword that cuts off causality [the chain of cause and effect]. I helped create that sword.”

“…… Pardon?”

“Of course, I don’t mean I made it. I only gave hints. I couldn’t interfere in your dimension, so everything was created and arranged by Kyle.”

“No, what are you saying…”

“I can explain it, but… your current situation isn’t very good.”

“My situation? What’s that supposed to mean…”

“It means there are many people waiting for you.”

“……?”

Cyan tilted his head, uncomprehending. Then, suddenly remembering something, he asked the man, “Wasn’t I dead?”

“You were. Did you expect to be alive after using such power?”

“No, well…”

“But you didn’t die.”

“…… Pardon?”

What was he even saying? Cyan couldn’t figure out what was going on at all.

“Well, when I first came here, I also mistook myself for being dead, just like you,” Seo-joon chuckled, as if remembering the old days.

“To put it simply, you didn’t die. Originally, you should have died. The sword you used at the end… it was a sword that neither your existence nor the world could withstand.”

“But you stepped into the realm of transcendence at the end. Honestly, I can’t believe it either, especially that this boundary space would be used… I never expected it. It hasn’t been used at all since the Observer was banished.”

Seo-joon continued, making a meaningful expression. “Anyway, your existence *is* dead, but here, thanks to being drawn into the boundary space, you didn’t die. That expression looks like you’re asking what kind of nonsense I’m talking about, right?”

“Yes.”

“…… Aren’t you being too firm?”

Seo-joon wore a slightly sulky expression for a moment.

“To put it simply, beings drawn into this boundary space are transcendent beings who have escaped the laws [of the universe]. Therefore, the world you belong to recognizes you as an existence that has escaped the laws. Therefore, the world also deletes the overload and backlash that you should have received.”

Seo-joon continued to say something, and Cyan really didn’t understand any of it. Really, he couldn’t understand any of it.

Perhaps that’s why he said, “Okay. Just knowing that I didn’t die is enough.”

Seo-joon also didn’t continue the explanation any further. “More than anything, this isn’t my story. There are those who wouldn’t like this scene very much. I shouldn’t trouble the messenger.”

With that, Seo-joon quietly closed his eyes. At the same time, he stretched his hand forward and waved it around in the air.

“What are you doing?”

“I’m trying to send you back to your original world. If it’s any later, your situation might become ambiguous.”

“…… Pardon?”

“This is also a complex concept in many ways. To put it simply, time flows a little differently here than there.”

Seo-joon continued to speak without stopping his waving hand. “Should I say it’s a distortion of spacetime? Or should I say the mass of the dimension itself is different? I hate complicated magic systems, so I don’t know the details.”

*If it weren’t for Merlin Instructor’s insight, my brain cells might have exploded.*

“But because you transcended, the causality for me to intervene was created. I’ve already paid for the causality with my black card, so don’t worry. Oh, of course, you have to pay me back later?”

*Whoa!*

Seo-joon looked slightly surprised, as if he had made a mistake. He scratched the back of his head and then stretched out his hand again, waving it in the air.

“Actually, I was in a similar situation to you, and in my case, it took a very long time to return. Because of that, Seo-yoon nagged me so much…”

*So much so that I’m still being nagged even now.*

“Seo-yoon?”

“Huh? Oh, my wife, Park Seo-yoon. It might sound unfamiliar to you, like my name?”

It did sound unfamiliar… that’s right.

Kyle’s real name, as well as the name Kim Seo-joon, carried the same unfamiliarity.

*But that’s not the problem right now, is it?*

“Are you married by any chance?”

“No. Not yet…”

“Really? Then a lover?”

“Not yet a lover either…”

“Don’t you even have someone you like?”

“Someone I like…”

“You do?”

Seo-joon smiled and looked at Cyan. “From the looks of it, it seems like you also have someone to be nagged by. In that case, I can’t keep you here any longer.”

Then he began to accelerate the hand waving in the air.

“Consider yourself lucky. This may look simple, but it’s something only I can do.”

“……”

“I’m serious, you know? Even the Director can’t do it. And do you know how much the causality cost is? If you heard about the causality I extorted… no, collected to return to Earth…”

“Whether it’s real or not, I don’t understand what you’re saying at all.”

“Ah, right.”

Seo-joon nodded as if he understood. “I’ll come find you again later.”

That’s it.

With Seo-joon’s words that followed, *Ttang!─!*

A clear sound echoed throughout the space. At the same time, an unknown force swirled around Cyan.

Following that force, Cyan’s body was gradually fading away.

“There’s a moment of time, so I’ll ask you just one thing.”

And Seo-joon’s voice was heard. Cyan slowly raised his gaze and looked at Seo-joon.

“Kyle created the sword that cuts off the fate of causality here, and he arranged that sword to return to your world. And it was literally an ‘arrangement’.”

Arrangement.

In the dictionary, it meant to arrange appropriately.

“Whether you could use that sword, and whether you would use that sword without being misguided… Kyle couldn’t interfere at all.”

Literally an arrangement.

Kyle had only opened a path of very slim possibility that could not be realized.

Of course, that in itself was an amazing thing to be able to do.

“It was Cyan who broke through that slim possibility. Only you.”

Overcoming all the hardships and adversities that had passed, turning that possibility into an opportunity and cutting off fate.

“All those things were created by you.”

Seo-joon’s two eyes looking at Cyan. In Seo-joon’s eyes, the same playfulness as before could not be seen.

“What about you was able to cut off the causality of fate?”

Seo-joon asked, and Cyan was momentarily speechless.

“That’s…”

He didn’t know what to answer. Honestly… I don’t know. I didn’t know what to answer to that question.

Cyan was an ordinary son of a noble family. Of course, that noble family was Elandur, and he was not a son but a bastard.

In fact, it couldn’t be said to be ordinary. A hopeless dullard, a scoundrel of the Marquis family. From this point on, he was far from ordinary. He didn’t have any particular talent either.

He didn’t have any particular talent, either.

He was relieved to have survived another day, wondering how to live while being mindful of others tomorrow.

Cyan was perhaps less than ordinary.

That was Cyan’s existence.

Then, he was exiled as the lord of the territory called Ruben.

In the midst of death, he accidentally encountered Mobile Territory [a territory that can move].

He cried and laughed with the territory residents, experiencing countless things.

In the process, he forged many new relationships.

Amelia and Lucas of the Brahe family.

The Crown Prince of the Empire, Conrad.

The Princess, Elena. The Saintess, Aria.

The vengeful spirit of a thousand years, Leah.

The dwarf chieftain, Semir. The dark elves Asrandiz and Sera.

The beastmen Karis and Diana.

Sometimes laughing with them.

And sometimes crying.

He had experienced so many things.

And all those moments were a happiness to Cyan.

‘Lord! It’s a good day today!’

‘Looord! Berry keeps, keeps calling me names!! Waaah!’

A normal day to be with them.

‘Ughhh… Lord… Can’t you stop dissecting corpses…’

‘At this rate, I’ll die because of the monster corpses, not the monsters themselves…’

Those everyday lives that could be considered boring.

All those moments when he felt the weariness of daily life.

‘You guys! This is all money, money!’

It was an unparalleled happiness for Cyan.

The reason why someone who couldn’t even reach mediocrity could become special.

The reason why a hopeless dullard and scoundrel could come this far.

It was because he was with them.

It was because he wanted to be with them.

Through these numerous events and experiences, Cyan.

Through the days of crying, laughing, and chatting with the territory residents.

Cyan had simply made a choice.

Seo-joon’s question of what it was about him that could sever the causality of fate.

‘Because I am the lord of Ruben.’

A life with countless people, not alone.

Cyan had simply chosen that.

Cyan answered awkwardly.

‘That’s a good mindset.’

Seo-joon gave a bright smile.

‘I think we can be good comrades.’

‘Comrades?’

‘Yes. Comrades to confront the Creator.’

‘…… Excuse me?’

‘There is a lot to explain. It’s too long to explain now, so I’ll explain it later. More than that, we’re going to be comrades, so let’s drop the honorifics. I think I’m a bit older, but well, it’s a different dimension. If you’re uncomfortable, you can call me *hyung* [older brother or male friend]. It feels weird for only me to speak informally…’

This is your story, so there must be many people cheering for you.

I can already hear people cursing at me.

‘No, what are you talking about since a while ago…’

‘Later.’

Seo-joon covered his mouth with his index finger and said.

‘Let’s meet again later.’

*Thwack!*

Along with that, a clear sound was heard.

Cyan’s mind momentarily snapped.

#

A spirit that seemed to be swimming in water continued.

The buzzing in his ears made it difficult to properly recognize the sound.

In his hazy mind.

Waaaaaaaahhhhhh!

A loud roar was heard.

And *thud*.

Something fell on Cyan’s face.

It flowed down Cyan’s cheek.

And again, *thud, thud*.

Something kept falling on Cyan’s face.

‘Rain…?’

Is it raining from the sky?

However, the water droplets flowing down his cheek felt warm.

There was warmth, and therefore, some emotion was contained.

‘Umm…’

Cyan slowly opened his eyes.

And what he saw in his opened vision.

It wasn’t a sky raining.

It wasn’t a dark sky full of dark clouds either.

‘Sniffle…’

It was a woman.

The woman was supporting Cyan’s body with both hands.

At the same time, she raised her head to the sky and sniffled softly.

As if something terrible would happen if she cried out loud.

‘Sniff…’

The woman was crying very softly.

At the same time, *thud*.

A drop of water flowing down the woman’s jawline fell on Cyan’s face.

‘Who…?’

Cyan unknowingly made a voice.

At the same time, *stop*.

The woman’s movements froze.

As if she had been hit by a petrification spell.

The woman’s movements stopped as if every single blood vessel had hardened into stone.

Eventually, the woman’s head, which had been facing the sky, turned downwards.

‘Ah… Ahh…’

The woman’s lips trembled.

Her two eyes shook incessantly, looking at Cyan.

‘Who…?’

And it was a face that was not in Cyan’s memory.

He couldn’t recognize who this woman was, trembling and shaking as she looked at Cyan.

‘Ah ah…’

However, the woman could only sob.

The tearful expression was truly…

A thought suddenly came to mind that she looked like a mess.

Cyan swallowed his questions and carefully examined the woman’s face.

‘Aria?’

And he could recognize that this mess was Aria.

‘What are you doing here?’

The moment those words were uttered.

*Whack!*

Aria hugged Cyan tightly.

‘Hey, hey. W-wait a minute…!’

Cyan was startled by Aria’s sudden action.

At the same time, he resisted, but for some reason, he couldn’t muster any strength in his body.

Aria hugged Cyan for a long time and didn’t let go.

#

How much time had passed?

It was when Cyan was struggling from the suffocating pain.

‘…… Huff!’

‘Hoo, heok…!’

Aria was startled and stepped back.

Only then could Cyan inhale the breath that had been blocked by something.

Cyan barely regained his senses and looked at Aria.

And Aria’s condition was truly… terrible.

Her jawbone was shattered, and her lower jaw was misaligned.

Her hair, soaked with blood, looked like red hair instead of platinum blonde.

This was the reason why he couldn’t recognize Aria at first.

He didn’t know where she got such strength from while her condition was so bad.

‘Are you okay?’

‘……’

Cyan asked Aria.

Aria didn’t give any answer.

Just blankly.

And with a tearful expression.

‘Cyan…’

She just muttered Cyan’s name.

Cyan looked at such Aria and smiled.

And slowly looked around.

Waaaaaaaahhhhhh!

The loud roar that had awakened his spirit continued to be heard.

And those who had fallen to the floor in that roar came into view.

Conrad, Semir, Sera, Karis.

Even at a glance, their condition did not look good.

It was impossible to think that they were alive.

But fortunately, they were still alive.

Thanks to the healing effect of the World Tree and .

They were able to not die.

‘Everyone… is safe.’

Only then could Cyan let out a sigh of relief.

No, at the very moment he was about to let out that sigh.

Another scene suddenly came into Cyan’s view.

Long silver hair and unfocused grayish-white eyes.

But now not showing any movement.

‘Leah…?’

Also, a Death Knight wearing dark black armor.

But his whole body was distorted and not emitting the light of his eyes.

‘Kendrick!’

Leah and Kendrick.

The things that should have been felt from them were not being felt.