Mysteries: Arcana Wars

Chapter 421 Dusk is approaching

As the sun set, Derrick sat on the rocks on the shore, enjoying the sea breeze and watching an orange moon slowly sinking into the sea.

Even for Bayam, the December sea breeze was a little chilly. Derrick touched his pants out of habit, but found that he no longer needed the assistance of the exoskeleton.

Klein walked up, put the large wooden box aside, and sat next to Derrick.

"I'm going back to Backlund tonight, so I came to say goodbye to you."

"So soon? I thought Mr. World... I thought Mr. Klein would at least stay in Bayam until the Winter Festival."

“I hope to spend a vacation here.”

Klein shrugged.

"But, according to the latest news from Miss Magician, the Abraham family has finally decided to launch a rocket on Winter Liturgy Day to send the new [Outpost] space station and astronauts into the starry sky."

"That's tomorrow." Derrick was a little surprised. "This is too hasty. They should prepare for a few more months."

"Time waits for no one, Derrick. We are fighting a war without the smoke of gunpowder."

Klein pretended to be mysterious and told Derrick about the warning from the illusion Melissa, exaggerating it.

“Now, time is life, and Abraham can’t wait that long.

"The enemy will not give us the opportunity to prepare everything. As long as we can do it, we must do it immediately."

“…I see.” Derrick sighed, “So, is there anything I can do for you?”

"No, you don't have to do anything at this time."

Klein pointed at the rock beneath him.

“Your mission is to stay in Bayam.

"In order to shorten the preparation time as much as possible, this rocket launch will be held at a launch base outside Backlund.

“But in fact, the conditions at Bayam’s launch base are superior.

“If there is a problem with Backlund’s launch, Abraham will contact Antigonus immediately to transfer the rocket to Bayam for launch.

"Now, you will be with Antigonus and be on standby at all times."

"Ok, I see."

Derrick felt a little disappointed that he couldn't contribute to the fight, but he quickly accepted his position.

"The situation in Backlund is too complicated, and I am unfamiliar with it. I am indeed not suitable to participate in the operations there.

“But I suggest you bring my brother, the Seven of Hearts, and his friends, the Five of Clubs and the Three of Diamonds. They will be very capable assistants.

"The Seven of Hearts had been stationed in Backlund before, the Three of Diamonds had been traveling around to assist, and the Five of Clubs rarely left Rorsted, but they were very capable at work. They were all very good helpers."

Klein gladly accepted the proposal. This was exactly what he wanted. Where else could he find such a useful teammate?

“That’s a good idea.”

Derrick gave Klein a cheerful and bright smile, a grin that came from the bottom of his heart, pure and without a trace of impurities.

"I knew that Mr. Klein is the most reliable!"

cough cough...

Klein blushed secretly in his heart.

"Is Mr. Fool okay now?"

Derrick changed the subject and asked quietly in a low voice.

"I have been unable to contact Him since He was revived."

"Normal. We can't contact Him either. It seems that all concepts and names referring to Mr. Fool are invalid."

Klein started talking nonsense with some nostalgia.

“Believe me, everything is in Mr. Fool’s plan, there will be no problem.

“He knew this would happen a long time ago. This is Mr. Fool’s way of hiding his tracks and protecting our Tarot Club.”

...Although I don’t know what plans I have made, everything is now in my plan!

Well, that’s definitely the case!

...Uh...I think so...

Every time he thought of this, Klein felt a little guilty.

You can't tell Derrick that even the Fool doesn't know what the plan is!

According to Leonard's instructions, Derrick did not know that "The Fool" was "The World". And now Klein has more than a thousand years less memory than Derrick, so this scene has become much more difficult to perform.

Seeing that the topic was becoming more and more dangerous, Klein decided to slip away in order to prevent himself from getting crazy and accidentally exposing himself.

"Well, Derrick, take care."

Klein patted Derrick on the shoulder, stood up, put on his box and left. But after he took a few steps, he was stopped by Derrick again.

“Mr. Klein, tell me, Mr. Fool, why do you do this?”

"……?What?"

Klein stopped and was unable to react to this strange question for a moment.

"That's because we were severely injured in the [Skyward War] three hundred years ago, and Mr. Fool was forced to fall into a deep sleep."

In fact, he knew nothing, so Klein chose a very official answer.

"Do you think this could be a form of...punishment?"

punish?

Klein was a little surprised.

During this time, he heard many descriptions from people.

Strategy, reward, help, hibernation...

This is the first time I've heard such an expression:

【punish】.

Klein did not respond, but just listened to Derrick's talk in silence.

“These past few days since I came back, I’ve been thinking, what’s the difference between me and my brother, Seven of Hearts?

“Or rather, we have been walking in this world as angels for too long.

"So much so that twenty or thirty years of human life is just a blink of an eye, a fleeting glimpse, and has become an insignificant memory in our life span of more than a thousand years.

"This memory is too small, too boring, too calm and monotonous to be preserved in the turbulent and magnificent events that follow. It has been polished away by the so-called divinity until only a few fragments remain.

"But now, with the blessing of Mr. Fool, we have once again returned to this world as human beings and are forced to think about ourselves.

"If the Seven of Hearts had been chosen by Mr. Fool to become the Sun in the Tarot, would he have achieved more brilliant success than me?

“If I, as a human being, were put into a death scenario right now, would I still have a chance to break free from the constraints of the story and the character?

"I can't tell the former, but I ask myself honestly that I can't do the latter."

The two fell into a brief silence.

As the instigator, Klein felt that he had no way to comment on anything.

When Derrick entered the Tarot Club, it was not a carefully selected decision, but a pure accident. Because of his helpless and immature negligence, an unexpected result occurred.

As for the Seven of Hearts, even though she has lost her memory now, it is very likely that she was the one who created this dead end.

“This tells me that I will never be an ‘angel’ who can succeed in everything.

“In fact, my brother almost died in this operation because of my wrong decision.

"I have disappointed Mr. Fool.

"If I had firmly chosen my brother, the Seven of Hearts, or cut the lifeless God's Messenger into pieces, if I had firmly stayed, my brother would not have been contaminated by the unknown and strange pollution, and he would have survived."

“When I thought of this, I suddenly understood why Mr. Fool wanted to erase our memories and punish us to become human again.”

Derrick turned and looked at Klein.

“This is a lesson, a painful lesson.

“Even if we have lived for thousands of years, every time we go back to the past and return to the perspective of ‘human’, we can always learn new lessons.”

The red light of the setting sun outlined Derrick's cheeks, and he gave Klein a smile as warm as the setting sun.

“Since Mr. Fool has chosen me, I should try my best to play my role well, so as not to let down those sacrifices and expectations, and not to let down the flowers and applause.

"Mr. 'World', I'm ready. Please give me your guidance in the coming days."