A super traveler in a peaceful world

Irena also stopped eating, drank a sip of black tea and looked at her without saying a word. Of course, she didn't understand why the other party said such a thing, which was tantamount to exposing her own scars. It was just with An Luo. I roughly guessed that the content of the commission should be related to this matter.

...

As Estelle, a person involved in the adaptation of the real events of "Ni-Chome Murderer" and one of the two most important protagonists, said that she, as the executioner and arrester, and Serena, as the murderer, grew up playing together. The older one becomes smaller, and they are as close as sisters.

The two are sisters, but their identities and backgrounds are quite different. Estelle is a genius magician, while Serena comes from a wealthy family but is just an ordinary girl. However, the relationship between the two is very good... However, They separated in about 11 years so far.

Estelle, who showed astonishing talent as a magician even as a child, left Zhonggo Rostlov 11 years ago in order to study. She spent five years practicing magic abroad and was promoted from a wizard to a trainee witch. In the end, she was recognized by her mentor and became a witch. After she came back, she was hired by the king with a high salary.

Estelle is considered a winner in life in every sense. After all, becoming a witch is basically synonymous with success.

But when she returned home in fine clothes and prepared to share the joy of success with Serena, she could no longer be happy because... her childhood friend who was a sister to her, Serena turned into a murderer. A happy murderer.

"——But...that child was not like this at first. She was originally a girl with a cold mouth but a very gentle heart!"

Estelle tried hard to control herself from shouting. The hand holding the photo couldn't help shaking. She suppressed the pain in her heart and murmured the reason for the change: "A year after I went abroad, Serena's parents... She was stabbed dozens of times and killed by robbers wearing black cloaks who broke into the house. Although Serena escaped by chance, she lost her parents and was adopted by her pitiful uncle. However, this was just another unfortunate incident. beginning......"

"specifically is?"

"She was abused at her uncle's house, so her originally kind heart was twisted, causing her to hate humans and the world. Finally, after killing her uncle, she embarked on a path of no return, seeking pleasure. Killing people, killing people over and over again.”

"Is it true that I was finally caught and executed by you three years ago?" An Luo carefully observed Estelle's face and asked.

"This is true... However, I actually wanted to let her go. I thought the child would definitely correct herself... But I still chopped her off under the pressure of His Majesty the King and the people. head of......"

"That's it...it's really a sad story, but now that the situation has come to an end, please bear with me and bear with me."

"No! I, I can't just accept this!"

Estelle bit her lip tightly and almost growled as she refused to accept the change of mourning. In other words, what she really refused was "accommodating the change".

"Uh... Let's put it this way, we... No, you hired Irena to dig graves? Turn that Serena into a corpse to accompany you?"

"Huh? I..." Irena didn't ask about the work content, but persistently asked about the remuneration first. She looked at the table full of a large bag of gold coins that would allow her to travel extravagantly for three years. , hesitantly looked at An Luo and pointed at him, and ordered: "I will give you ten gold coins, you go."

"Are you the contractor?! You said so much about yourself, but you only gave me 10 gold coins when subcontracting. Isn't this too evil?!"

"Then twelve."

"At least fifty."

“Aren’t your bids too harsh?!”

"You're too stingy! Are you going to send a beggar away for two more gold coins?"

...

...

The uneven distribution of spoils is the biggest reason why An Luo and Irena quarrel from time to time, and now it is another time to share the spoils... No, it is not considered spoils, it is the uneven distribution of interests that leads to the two of them bargaining. This makes Ais Dai'er sighed loudly again: "...You two, can we discuss how to divide the money later? The most important thing is not to discuss how to transfer the project and steal money in front of me, the client. It’s about oil and water.”

"It's over, I forgot about it!" Irena subconsciously covered her mouth, but An Luo showed a scheming smile and waved his hand: "It's okay, you are fired, and then... Miss Estelle, I just All it takes is fifty gold coins, and I can get it out for you even if it’s buried in the imperial tomb, well, although it’s not possible to just bury it in the imperial tomb.”

"No, you misunderstood, I have no intention of stealing the body." Estelle shook her head gently.

"That is.....?"

"I want to start over."

"Huh? What does this mean?"

"...Since I started working in this country as a witch, especially since the day Serena was executed, I have been studying magic in order to go back to the day of the incident ten years ago."

"seriously?"

"As long as we go back to ten years ago... we can definitely avoid the unfortunate outcome! The child 10 years ago was normal! In this way... we can definitely create a future where Serena is still alive and living a normal life. !”

Estelle lowered her gaze, her slender fingertips started to tremble again, and she pinched out a lot of wrinkles on this photo that should be very precious. Her tone was filled with pain, and she would not give up until the goal was achieved. Feeling: "I - I no longer want to live in this world without her!"

"...Is that so? Well...have you developed the magic to jump through time?"

An Luo and Irena were both shocked by Estelle's words.

Although they all guessed that the content of the commission was related to the murderer, the most they thought of was to help the murderer move a grave, or to go to the wilderness to collect a corpse or something. As witches hired by the country, Estelle was not Nice thing to do.

But they never thought that she would be so crazy and want to change the existing history.

"We understand your thoughts and the entrustment of this matter, but..." Unable to bear to look at Estelle's painful look, Irena turned away her eyes and lowered her head to take a sip of black tea, looking down at the table. He asked, bringing the topic back to the focus of the commission: "I don't understand how you want to go back, and why do you need the help of other magicians in this regard?"

"Going back to the past consumes a lot of magic power beyond imagination, so... well, you will find out if you follow me."

As she spoke, Estelle stood up and walked towards the closed bedroom door at the back of the room. She motioned for the two of them to follow her and together they came to another room inside the house.

Compared with the previous living room, which even thieves would not visit, this dark room has many more things. There are books placed on the two semi-open cabinets, and a large number of bottles and cans, but the most conspicuous thing is It was a large water tank placed on the table.

"The smell of blood is so strong...could it be all your blood in this place?" As soon as he entered the place as a person joining in the fun, An Luo's mind was subconsciously locked on the water tank, and he immediately guessed what was in the water tank. Source of blood.

"Huh? How did you know it was my blood?"

Estelle, who was about to explain, widened her eyes slightly.

"No, this is very simple, right? You just said that going back to the past requires a huge amount of magic power. If a magician wants to obtain magic power beyond his own level, he can choose to sacrifice some of his own things, right? For example, his voice, memory, smell, Hearing, vision, blood, hands, feet, etc., if you look at it, there is nothing wrong with it. Then there is a high probability that it is blood. And the magician can only sacrifice his own things and not others. There is blood here. Of course it will only be your own blood."

"What an amazing insight."

"I think it's quite ordinary...compared to this, how long did it take you to accumulate so much blood?"

"It's been a long time..." Estelle pulled up her sleeves while speaking, revealing a large number of purple pinholes on her slender forearms that looked like bruises, and continued: "Over the years, I They are constantly drawing their own blood and injecting all the magic power as much as possible, but it is still a little bit short, but now it is almost enough to just add all the magic power in my body."

"Although it feels bad to interrupt, your subcutaneous congestion is very serious. It is obviously caused by loose local compression after blood drawing, and the selection of the blood drawing site is also very particular. Why are you acting so carelessly if you don't know medical skills? Damn it, you can easily get into trouble like this."

As a half-doctor, An Luo couldn't help but say something to her about this random behavior.

"Eh, is that so? I thought it would always be like this..." The experience of drawing blood for many years was denied, or the way of drawing blood for so many years was wrong, which made Estelle couldn't help showing a surprised expression: " But aren’t you a fortune teller? How do you know this kind of thing?”

"Well, I have many part-time jobs, including being a doctor. Even if you can't stop the bleeding, you can at least use magic to heal your wounds, right?"

Speaking casually, An Luo took out his wand and used the magic of time reversal, which quickly restored the wound on the girl's hand to a smooth and white state.

Although the name of this magic is to turn back time, it does not really turn back time, so you can choose not to let the blood in the water tank go back, or... the blood (cells) in the water tank have died after such a long time. There is no point in going back.

"My magic power is basically injected into it, and I basically can't use magic... But, thank you," Estelle was a little surprised. It turned out that An Luo was also a magician, and then smiled at He nodded and lowered his sleeves again.

"It's okay, it's just a little effort." An Luo smiled nonchalantly.

The way the two looked at each other and smiled made Irena, who felt ignored, couldn't help but coughed deliberately "Cough!" to attract the attention of both parties to her.

"What's wrong? Is your voice bad?"

Estelle looked over in surprise.

"Put my matters aside for now. Compared to this, you haven't said what you plan to hire me for?" Irena, who was a little unhappy just now, suddenly showed a smug smile: "Well, even if you don't tell me, Having said this, I can almost guess it, because you will have no magic power after you go back, so you plan to hire a magician to protect you, right?"

"There's something slightly wrong."

"Eh, isn't it right?!...What's wrong?"

Irena, who felt that she was being outdone by An Luo, showed a slightly proud smile of her intelligence, and then froze again in the blink of an eye.

"Haha, you are so impatient." Estelle shook her head and smiled, taking out two rings from her pocket and saying, "Miss Irina, you just need to put on this ring and go back to the past with me. I will figure out the rest myself.”

"Is this?" Irena was confused and didn't understand why she was given the ring at this time.

"In order to make Serena happy, I made something when I was a trainee witch practicing abroad. I only need to bring this with me so that both parties can share each other's magic. In this way, as long as you follow me, I can use magic even if I go back to the past. .”

At the end of her speech, Estelle asked tentatively with a hint of nervousness: "Miss Irena...are you willing to help me?"

Irena thought for a moment, then simply put on the ring, smiled brightly at the nervous girl, and replied cheerfully: "I was quite interested in this country ten years ago, after all, I am A traveler."

"——Um, can I interrupt you for a moment."

When Estelle wanted to say something else, An Luo raised his hand slightly.

"What? Sir joining in the fun?"

".....I have a name for now."

"You're joking, Mr. An Luo, right?" Estelle changed from her previous seriousness. Because she had received the promise from Irena, she was in a good mood and asked with a smile: "Is there any problem?"

"You developed this magic by yourself, and since it consumes a lot of money, it shouldn't have been tested, and there's no way to prove its safety... Isn't that wrong?"

"This...I can't deny it."

Estelle's face froze, but she did not deny An Luo's words. She just cast her expectant gaze on Irena: "But 90% of the stability can still be confirmed, and there is no problem with safety! Otherwise, I wouldn't dare I'm betting my whole life on this, please...believe me."

"...."

The problem that she had not noticed before was pointed out, which made Irena hesitate for a moment, but she still gave a positive answer after pondering for a moment: "Travel itself has risks. If I am careful about everything, I will not leave home and embark on the journey." The journey is over, but please, Miss Estelle, don’t hide anything anymore.”

"There's nothing to hide, I swear."

"Then let's go together."

Irena grabbed Estelle's hand, smiled slightly and did not hold her accountable for concealing potential risks. This made Estelle's expression obviously touched, but this scene made An Luo unable to hold back. Interjected again: "...You do it all for the sake of money, right?"

"That's one thing."

"...You don't deny it?"

Estelle suddenly had the urge to return her feelings to her, but An Luo continued: "Although it shouldn't be up to me as the exposer, but spending so much money to hire someone to perform a task is not a good idea. It’s not a big deal that the mission itself is risky, it can even be called a matter of course, but Miss Estelle, you should actually explain the matter clearly from the beginning, so that both parties can cooperate candidly.”

"What you said makes sense. This is all my fault. I'm really sorry..."

"Ah, finally, I actually have a question."

"Uh... Is there any more?"

"Don't show such obvious disgust, okay? It's really..."

Faced with the girl's explicit disgust and slightly worried expression that he would disrupt the situation, An Luo sighed and sat on a chair nearby, spread his hands and said: "After interfering in the past, what impact will it have on the present? Have you considered it?"

An Luo personally knew something about the theory of time travel, but no matter how he thought about it, as long as time jumps were involved, there would be many things that were difficult to explain. This made him have a lot of questions about how time jumps in this world actually happened.

Chapter 24 Time Rewind·Unexpected Robber

Based on past science, An Luo was full of confusion as to what kind of magic Estelle could use to return to the past or what impact it would have. However, Estelle shook her head with a smile and gave He understood: "If you are worried about being changed now, you don't need to worry about this, because even if we go back and change the past, there should be no change when we come back."

"Should?" An Luo grasped the key point of what he thought was a big problem in these words.

"It can only be expected, right? After all, it's not something I've experienced myself, so I can't be sure."

"So......"

"But I have studied a lot of documents. In the past, the few people who completed the magic of going back in time basically said that even if they changed something when they came back, it has not changed until now, because it can generally be concluded that what has happened has not changed. The method can be changed; based on this situation, I personally came to the conclusion that even if we interfere with the past, the world will still be the same world when we come back and will not change, but the world without killing the magician will create a new one. world, just like when everyone makes different choices, a new and different world will emerge.”

"...Are you talking about quantum mechanics? Multiverse theory? If that's the case, what's the point of changing the past?"

"Of course! It's really rude of you to say that!"

Estelle glared at An Luo for a moment, then showed a gentle smile and put her hand on the place where the photo was stored in her pocket: "For me, as long as I know that there is a world where Serena is still alive. I can feel relieved, but... Speaking of which, what is quantum mechanics?"

“Let’s put this aside for now, but the multiverse theory, which has not yet been proven in physics, is just as bold and idealistic as Schrödinger’s cat.”

"Schrodinger's cat?"

"That's not the point, cough."

An Luo coughed dryly, pondered for a while, and then said: "You haven't thought about the theory that when you make different choices, an extra universe will be created. Then it will not cost anything to create an extra universe inexplicably. ?Where did this energy come from? Besides, even if people in the past were unable to change after they went back, maybe they changed too little about the past and were completely corrected by the revisionism of history by the world itself, which led to those who intended to change the past. There is no way for people to get rewards, or the documents you obtain are not accurate in themselves, just to prevent others from learning from them and changing them deliberately."

"Well... what you said is not impossible, but... I'm sorry... I don't understand what you said at all..."

Estelle originally wanted to reply or discuss it with him, but what An Luo said made her head full of mush. Although there was no way to understand what he said, she thought it was possible before. However, the multiverse theory also became untenable.

And not only Estelle, but also Irena was also confused, unable to understand what An Luo said. This also made An Luo give up discussing with the two witches. It was difficult to verify. Even for modern times it is an imaginative academic inquiry.

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...

In the dark room, the sun was setting little by little, but the three of them were thinking quietly about something.

As a member of the Witch Team, Irena spent a long time to get rid of the problem of time travel that no matter how much she thought about it, she could not get the correct answer.

She simply gave up thinking, stared at An Luo's face and said suspiciously: "An Luo, these random things you said, things that seem to make sense but are not easy to confirm in practice... are not all possible. Are you talking nonsense?"

"...Why do you first suspect that I am talking nonsense at this time?"

"Because you always like to talk serious nonsense. What is Schrödinger's cat? Who is Schrödinger?"

"I'm a famous cat abuser and physicist over there."

".....ha?"

"Well, you don't know it, and I can't figure out the answer to this question myself, so I'd better put this question aside for now. Besides, there's no point in thinking about it here. Let's just go and take a look."