Chapter 118: The Returnee

“I never thought I’d find myself getting another chance to escape within a closed Trial after I was betrayed by the scums I’ve called my brothers. Not only did it cause me not to age due to the Trials time being slower than the real world. I’ve already lost my parents, no matter what I wanted to go back and embrace my only family left, I knew that she was within the beginner’s Trials. I wasn’t able to escape from the time when anyone could participate in the first Main Trial until a certain message arrived and changed everything,” Silas was telling them his story after a few days had passed after he was fully convinced of their relations to her sister

[System: Due to the loss of countless players within the Main Trial’s first calamity. You can now register to participate in the Main Trials be sure to sign up as soon as possible, we’re only taking a few players]

“Revenge will have to wait until I found my family, Mark my words! Silas Lander will one day arrive knocking down your doors and drive his blade within your chest,” He pauses after he said those words when their breakfast was brought by Blake a food that was covered in tomato sauce, noodles, and combined with meat. Its appearance was a mystery to a few of them yet the views of the ones who Transmigrated was a homemade spaghetti completed with a few added spices

“Oh, Oh I know what happened next, after you entered the trials you’ll find a few trusted pawns that you call “allies” as a means to have some connection. After that, you found yourself knocked down on a floor when you met a little pup that suddenly turned into a Humanoid Beast that knocked you unconscious,”

“Spot on, those allies I’ve mentioned before were just a few people that I could’ve easily deceived to join their ranks. Once I’d stolen an item that they were holding into that I used my very own DNA to track anyone related to me by blood. After that, it was just a matter of time before they knew about my betrayals so I planted a bomb that might’ve slowed them down until I make my escape. This is pretty good! Im glad that my sister is eating well the only thing that was on my mind was my worries about her,” Silas slowly lowered his guard around them after he was relieved to hear news about her sister’s current condition

’A Returnee? You don’t see that kind of thing that often I remembered that once a Trial would close its base and difficulty will be back to its original state. He survived a Trial for 5 whole year’s that’s gotta be a great feat, still, that isn’t the greatest hurdle that came in his way. The Abyss also known as the graveyard of the Conquered Trials, is a place filled with death and one of the most dangerous places in the World Of Trials. Those that survived all of those things would go down to be known as Legends, looks like Morris was right, there’s a whole different world beyond our book’s perspective,’

|[Thats everything from Silas’s back story about his arrival back to the world, the first-ever Returnee to be seen. Apart from that how are the interrogation techniques youre applying to those guys, have they talked yet? Surprisingly, they weren’t the Trigger, most of our preparations are done by tomorrow I’ll get in touch once we’ve entered the hidden passage. Also, did you get laid while you’re alone with the tw~]|

When he found that their topic shifted to a pointless chat he quickly turned off his Communicator after he felt the cold and freezing wind. When his location was at the highest peak of a tall mountain just to get some reception for their Communicators to work. Confirming their suspicion along with the progress that his tools have developed after his long and tiring journey

[Morris on your left! Isn’t that one of your comrades? If I look more closely it’s that girl that punched you on your first encounter]

On his way to the bottom, he met a nervous-looking girl that had mixed feelings about the results of their findings about the man that proclaimed to be her dead sibling. Just when she decided to bail out from her decision he was then greeted by the arrival of Morris that gave her a warm and caring hug. Just once he thought to himself even if they were his creations, he can’t predict their emotions he was no longer a writer, just an author of a book he wasn’t a psychic most of his actions were to his knowledge. He doesn’t feel their pain he could only be a shoulder that they can rely on at their lowest point in life

“Morris, what’s wrong~” Startled with Morris’s recent actions that ended with him giving her his warmth to the point where he would even kiss her without anything to gain. His hands would travel the top of her body and caress her cold head and place his other on her waist pulling her to his side. Before letting go after he notices that her worries were extinguished by his choices

“W-Was it that obvious that Im deeply affected by this news? My brother… The only family I had when my parents were no longer by my side, came back after 5 years when he was presumed to be dead. I-It must be silly of me that im worried over such a trivial matter since this world was always known to be cruel to the people that lived within it. We would ignore people and make it so that we won’t suffer another loss and that’s when I met you,” She hugged him back after a few tears were shed from her eyes, it was at that moment he realizes it. They were people the same as him, they were once characters that only played within his story but soon enough his interactions with them would grow. And he realizes the reason for Jin’s plan wasn’t for him to move on and forget that horrible memory

It was for him to realize that his characters were real not just a bunch of coded data that he created for his work. They were alive and standing before him, the two of them weren’t distant from one another many would assume they would always be at each other’s side. Yet that bond of theirs proved to be a blockade for Morris’s development as a person, he never opened up to anyone but his one and only friend and his parents that raised him till he left. Their distance caused him to understand that he could seek another person to fill his crippling loneliness aside from his friend, something that he wasn’t able to find after he met his friend and later his lover

“Silas Lander that was his name It’s fine, you don’t have to cry, Esther, you’ve already gone through enough for your life to turn around for the better. Still, even if you can’t build that bond that you and your brother have lost over these years. Remember that you have us, Quon, Kyo, Blake, even Zeke, and Lillith we’ll be with you even if you don’t see us as your family,” That moment where both of them looked straight at each other’s eyes relaxed their bodies and even developed for both parties to lean in and kiss. That action of there’s didn’t have any motive behind their moves simply because they wanted to lock one another warm lips with their own. Till they were called by Lillith that called them in her Communicator telling the two of her immediate success to her interrogation

’What a cunning asshole you are Jin, to think that you’d led me to believe that this whole thing was for my chance to get laid. Only for the biggest twist to arrive, I never thought I’d say this but even though they’re only a tool for our goals I can’t just simply give them something so shallow. That I don’t even treat them as if they aren’t alive in this world only a pawn that would do as I command, thanks for helping me with my development. Nah im not gonna say it, that prick would tease me if I would thank him for such a long-time problem of mine that not even my therapist could help,’

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