Re:Zero - Jobless Reincarnation: Succubus Sword God? I don't recognize it!

Chapter 584 Before the Reunion

It's said to have two options, but there's really only one.

Nobody wants to die.

Timothy was no exception.

In Rudy's timeline, he was a competent captain, but this series of assassinations caused by the butterfly effect subtly changed his mind.

In the past, licking blood from the edge of a knife meant that the rewards for surviving monsters were immediate.

Looking at the various items looted from the monsters, despite the hardship, injuries, and bleeding, the sense of accomplishment from the timely feedback can, to some extent, compensate for the trauma of the constant departures of teammates, and at the same time, one can feel the joy of avenging their teammates.

Each mission lasts at most a month of hard work, after which a period of rest and adjustment is granted before continuing the journey.

However, this mission had nothing to do with monsters; it was merely an escort mission.

It was just an escort mission, but two temporary team members still died along the way.

The promised money has yet to be delivered, but assassins keep coming in droves, leaving the team exhausted. Every day they wake up to a predicament where death looms large, and they don't even know the identities of the people they're protecting.

All they knew was that the other party was a noblewoman.

The pampered and naive Asura noblewomen.

They risked their lives for her.

Timothy used to live in mud pits, surrounded by adventurers. He didn't think his own life was valuable, nor did he think the lives of adventurers were valuable. Everyone was just trying to make a living, and adventurers had to be prepared to die at any time.

It's a business that's inherently risky and dangerous.

But reality bluntly told him that there is a gap between people.

Some people's lives are really valuable.

All she had to do was throw out the gold coins, and people would flock to her side to risk their lives.

Timothy had had enough.

He suddenly realized that he never thought his life was worthless; he just had to stop valuing it.

He wanted to earn enough money to completely shed his identity as an adventurer.

He wanted to settle down and completely escape the torment of death.
He wants
thump.

Timothy knelt on the ground, covered his face with his hands, his expression contorted, and tears streamed down his face.

"Patrice, I killed her. I accepted the proposal from the Cult of Gods. I've had enough. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry."

Sarah, Susanna, and Dirich, who were standing to the side, were still confused as to why the two had suddenly become so tense. But when they saw Timothy's appearance and heard 'Reiner's' voice, a look of surprise appeared on their faces.

What does "the sect of gods and men" mean?
Sarah suddenly flew into a rage and looked up to kick Timothy, but Susanna quickly grabbed her.

"Susanna, let me go!! Did you hear that? It's him."

Sarah, calm down.

Dilik stared blankly at Timothy, his memories of the journey flashing through his mind. He then realized that some important decisions regarding the tutorial, the route, when to set off, when to camp, and when to avoid danger had been more or less influenced by Timothy.

Almost the instant he understood, he reached for the sword at his waist.

The captain of the adventurer team they had hired all along turned against them at the last moment of the escort mission and colluded with the kidnappers.

'Reiner' kicked Dilik so hard that Dilik fell face-first to the ground just as Dilik touched the hilt of his sword.

He crouched down and looked at Timothy's face, then glanced at Susanna, who was clinging tightly to Sarah.

In Rudy's timeline, it seems these two eventually left the adventurer's party, got married, and settled in Sharia? It seems it was Timothy's suggestion; it appears he had long been tired of the adventurer's life.

For profit?

Is he a subordinate of the apostle of God and man?
No, if Timothy wasn't an apostle of God and man, then he couldn't have accurately guided the Dirich and his people to find themselves.

He bears traces of 'futurism'.

"explain."

Timothy covered his face and said quickly as if venting his anger, "Don't kill me. Don't kill me. It's the Cult of Gods. After arriving in Pepin, the people of the Cult of Gods secretly found me and wanted me to do things for them. I refused them, but that night, a god appeared to me in a dream. He told me that if I wanted to save enough money and quit the adventurer life that I was tired of, I had to do this."

The nobles we're escorting don't value our lives, so why should I be so loyal?

"You!!" Dilik scrambled to his feet, his face contorted with absurdity.

Such a greedy and unscrupulous person, using gods as an excuse? How can there be such a shameless person? Such an absurd reason.
“What did He say?” asked 'Leiner'.

Dirich turned to look at him, dumbfounded: ? ? You actually believe that?

Timothy clutched his face, his eyes wide with rage:

"He just told me what to do and when to do it. He said to find you, bring you back to Pepin, persuade you to become the new captain of the Counter Arrows, treat you well, you are a hero, the Counter Arrows will not disgrace the name of the previous captain in your hands, and I will also get enough money."
"Money will tell me where the hero's treasure is hidden."

Timothy looked blank as he said this.

The words that had convinced him so deeply in his dream now sound incredibly unreliable when spoken aloud.

But why did I so firmly believe in that deity in my dream, as if I were bewitched?
No, were those dreams real? Or were they just my hallucinations?

Timothy's mind was in a mess, but Sarah's mind was perfectly clear.

She suddenly stopped making a scene, staring wide-eyed at Timothy, and suddenly felt that although this captain was extremely wicked and had been spouting nonsense for a while,
The final conclusion was remarkably correct.

There's still some rationality left.

Susanna's mind was in turmoil, but she shared similar thoughts with Sarah.

Dirich was stunned, then panicked and blurted out, "Lord Reiner! This...this...this is utter nonsense! How can you believe it? All this talk of gods and such is too strange. I was the one who recruited you first!"

Sarah suddenly looked at Dirichlet: "Lord Reiner cannot become a servant of your nobles! He is a hero! How dare you recruit him?"

Susanna nodded in agreement. The group exchanged tense glances.

'Leiner':
It's not about what you guys are doing. This topic has gone way off track.

He flipped the blade and pressed it against Timothy's forehead.

The blade pierced the skin, and blood seeped out.

Susanna gasped in surprise, wanting to reach for 'Reiner's' sword, but then hesitated.

Timothy, however, just stared blankly at the blade, his face ashen.

Seeing this, 'Reiner' asked in surprise, 'Do you want to die again?'

Timothy remained silent.

"Leiner" then asked, "What else did He say to you in the dream?"

"...No...Then...do gods really exist?"

'Reiner' looked into his eyes for a long while before glancing at Susanna beside him and sheathing her sword:

"He is untrustworthy. Those who listen to him often come to no good end. You were deceived by him. Now, looking back on your previous actions, don't you find them absurd and laughable?"

Timothy just kept murmuring Patrice's name.

'Leiner' straightened up and looked southeast.

The snowstorm subsided, and the hazy outline of the town appeared intermittently at the edge of the horizon.

He then turned to look northeast.

'Location search, target, Alice.'

Wisps of ethereal smoke broke free from the surrounding air, exploring, swirling, and twisting, forming a gaping void.

Over there, in the same forest, amidst the same icy snow, lay the same landscape.

The red-haired girl sat in a sheltered tree hollow, which looked like the lair of some kind of monster.

Two years had passed since I last saw her. The slight childishness on her face had completely faded, and her face was thinner, but her jawline looked more delicate. Her once bright red hair was now covered in blood and sawdust, and she was wearing a rather thin leather jacket, making her look very slovenly.

However, his raised eyebrows remained proud, and his red pupils seemed to burn with flames forever.

Oh, there really is a reflection of the flames.

Beside her, a campfire burned in a tree hollow, with a long knife skewering a hairy bear leg that was almost charred.

She frowned, poked at the charcoal with her finger, and after a moment's hesitation, broke the bear leg in two.

He put it in his mouth and started to bite it.

Judging from the way her jaw muscles were bulging and straining, the meat was practically cooked to a crisp, like it was made of charcoal.

Ten seconds later, the smoke and dust dissipated.

Allen, who was pretending to be 'Reiner', twitched at the corner of his eye.

We really should bring Ellie back; what kind of food is the kid eating all day?
but
It is currently safe.

—His attempts to leave along the way were not purely for testing purposes, but rather because he discovered through location retrieval that Alice was not only not in Pepin, but was even in a different direction from the direction guided by the apostles of gods and men.

Allen then looked at Timothy, who was sitting slumped on the ground, looking like he'd lost his soul.

What on earth are the gods and humans up to?

Do you really believe that you absolutely have to save Ariel?

And they even chose such a weak apostle of God? Wasting a spot? Moreover, their conversation with Timothy seemed too perfunctory, completely lacking the usual sense of scheming and pressure.

Are you really out of cards?
Garr himself is Elise’s apprentice and is far superior to her, so it is not advisable to use the apostle form to sow discord between them.
So they created a cult of gods to pretend to be supernatural?
baffling.

Allen looked at Pepin and narrowed his eyes.

"Let's set off for Pepin. I'm in a hurry, so I'll have to trouble you all to hurry."

-

It is located northeast of Allen's position, on a slope beyond two mountain peaks.

Alice emerged from the tree hollow carrying a charcoal-burnt bear leg.

After two years of sword training, the child's physique has completely developed. He has long legs, long arms, and a long neck. Because of sword training, he is not slender but looks exceptionally strong.

Outside the cave, a bear-like monster as tall as two people was beheaded with a single blow, the blood from its severed neck frozen into ice shards.

She stretched in the now much lighter snow and pulled a map from her pocket with a whoosh.

He opened it, frowned, and stared at it for a long time, until the snowflakes blurred the ink on the map, before finally uttering a few words.
"What is the pronunciation of the character '平'?"

Trying hard to remain patient, Alice scrutinized the map for a long time, but her brows furrowed more and more. Finally, she shoved the map away with a clatter, abruptly turned to the side, and let out a furious outburst:

"Hey! I said, where is this? Isn't this right here? Why can't I see a town?"

As soon as she finished speaking, all that answered her was the howling wind.

The eldest daughter of the Boreas family, now an illiterate swordswoman with red hair, stared intently at the bear's corpse head on the ground.

The latter stared at Alice with unseeing eyes.

Monsters can't speak human language.

Besides, it had been dead for several hours.

(End of this chapter)