Reincarnated into a Game As the Hero’s Friend

I may not be familiar with science fiction, but it would be strange to think that other worlds could not exist other than this world and Earth. I could not deny the hypothesis that there might be a third world apart from this world where the Demon King resided, or that a reincarnated person from that world might have become the Demon King.

And the hypothesis that the Demon King may have been a reincarnated person from another world other than mine terrified me. I was already worrying that if I brought in too much foreign technology into the world, it might go out of control.

“Um, Welner-sama.”

“Oh, ah. Sorry, I was thinking of something.”

Lily’s worried voice brought me back to consciousness. I couldn’t let her worry. I let out a deep breath and reset my thoughts.

“My bad. My thoughts were a little too much focused on bad imaginations.”

“Bad imagination?”

“Well…”

I wondered for a moment how much I should say, but I’d already said so many mysterious words earlier, so it was too late to think about it. Still, I thought about it for a moment because I wondered how to express it in a way that would be easy to understand.

“Yes…?”

I admit it was a huge leap to go from talking about Mazell to suddenly talking about the Demon King. I think so as well, but anyway, I should explain first.

“Nobles have their nobility, while guilds have their guidelines, and people have their common knowledge and skills, and even countries like Bain kingdom and other countries have their own rules and etiquette to follow, right?”

“Yes.”

“I was thinking that magic might be a technology brought by the Demon King.”

When I said this, she looked surprised, but she didn’t speak her mind. She seemed to be making an effort to understand the implication of what I was saying.

“The ‘Demon King’ and ‘Magic’ have a similarity since Magic and Demon can be written in the same way, right? While ‘God’ and ‘Magic’ don’t have any similarity at all.”

“Indeed it does.”

“So, when I think about where the Demon King who suddenly appeared at the end of the ancient kingdom’s period came from, I think it’s not unreasonable to think that maybe he didn’t belong to this world.”

“This world… So you’re saying that the person we call the Demon King is a traveler who came from another world during the ancient kingdom era, and that person taught them magic?”

(T/N: The reason Lily didn’t question MC too much about this theory will be better discussed in future plots.)

“It might not be a person, but a very smart monster, and it might be more correct to say that the people of the ancient kingdom robbed the Demon King of his skills rather than teaching them.”

I wouldn’t want people to think that the Demon King was a good being, so instead I was going to put a neutral impression about him. In fact, how the human side acquired magic remained a mystery.

But from what I understood, demons became more active and attacked people as soon as the Demon King returned, so I doubt that the Demon King was a benevolent being.

“I think I understand so far.”

“Right, and apparently I’m thinking that I’m becoming something similar to him myself.”

“Huh?”

This time she looked really surprised. I guess that was to be expected.

“It’s hard to explain, but I have knowledge in my head that is different from this world.”

“Different knowledge, you mean?”

“Sometimes I think differently from others, or use different ideas or expressions based on a different way of thinking, when that knowledge comes out.”

“…”

“…I just think that if I use that knowledge too much, it might somehow make me closer to becoming a Demon King…”

It wasn’t clear whether uncovering the true nature of the world, or rather its secrets, would be a benefit or a drawback. If it was from the point of view of the game, it would have just ended with congratulations upon defeating the Demon King, but it was not the same in the real world.

So, I wondered if it was necessary to do so. Knowing something would change something, or conversely, would it cause problems elsewhere? Perhaps, in exchange to destroying the Demon King, it might open the door for the creation of nuclear weapons.

The word “box garden” occurred to me. I wondered if God, or the Creator, had tried to put the Demon Lord in the box garden that was this world to improve it, and when that didn’t work out so well, He decided to add me to the box garden.

Lily must be trying her best to understand, because she was mulling it over, and I took a sip of my tea while watching her. Anyway, the tea was starting to get a little cold. While I was thinking that, Lily looked at me and talked.

“Um, so you have that kind of Skill?”

“Eh?”

I responded with a momentary stunned reaction, but Lily continued, tilting her head.

“Well, you see. Don’t people also have various kinds of Skills?”

“Well, yes.”

“So I guess that kind of different knowledge might also be a Skill. That’s an amazing skill, isn’t it?”

I was at a bit of a loss to respond to this reply, which I had never imagined. However, in some sense, she could be right. If I put it that way, it certainly would seem like a skill or something similar.

And if I think about it in terms of Skills, just as magic they were also used as a deadly weapon to kill people. Just because the Demon King used magic did not mean that all people who used magic were dangerous. Knowledge and skill were not necessarily the reason why people were harmed.

Above all, it was pointless to even think about it. Or rather, I finally realized that I had been thinking too much about it. It seemed that I had been so overwhelmed with things to do that my priorities had gone out of order in my mind.

As I exhaled heavily, thinking that I needed to organize and prioritize what I needed to do, Lily laughed softly beside me.

“Thank goodness.”

“Eh?”

“Welner-sama had a rather stern expression on your face today. I’m glad to see you back to your usual face.”

Did I really look so listless? That was a little embarrassing.

“I’m going to rest my head a bit. I’m sorry, but can you make me another cup of tea?”

“Yes. And I’ll bring you something light to snack on.”

“Thank you.”

After saying that, she smiled happily and left the room once. After stretching, I sat back in my chair and relaxed a little, finally realizing how strange it was that Lily had suddenly brought up the subject of skills in our earlier exchange.

“I wonder if, by any chance, she responded to me in a deliberately off-topic manner?”

I did not know how much Lily understood what we were talking about, but she must have noticed that I was too occupied by it. I think she intentionally tried to keep the conversation on a positive note. If so, I might have really been worrying her a little too much.

“Sorry to keep you waiting.”

“Thank you, sorry about that.”

“Don’t worry about it. Well, Welner-sama, if you don’t mind, could you tell me about this different knowledge?”

“I don’t mind.”

I wonder what kind of interesting information a girl would be interested in? Well, that might be a tough question. Even in my previous life, I didn’t know much about such things.

I decided to start by talking about fashion in my previous life and started the conversation, while inwardly breaking out in a cold sweat as I explained.

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