I Don’t Want to Hear It!
20: Memokeeper: Gua!
I Don’t Want to Hear It!
Chapter 20: Memokeeper: Gua!
I Don’t Want to Hear It!
“So, what’s your purpose?
Has living as a Memokeeper for too long made you want me to help you find a dignified way to leave, or do you want to eat a grand slam of memories?
Let me say this first…
prying into other people’s memories without permission will make you suffer.” Wen Jin kindly reminded the girl Memokeeper before him.
The Memokeepers of the Garden of Recollection liked to pry into other people’s memories.
This had long since stopped being a secret in the Universe.
In the eyes of some major powers, these Memokeepers were sometimes even more detestable than cockroaches in the sewers.
After all, no one would like someone extending the tendrils of memory into their brain, then taking away and cherishing the memories they regarded as “taboo.” But sometimes, some naive Memokeepers would often run into existences they could not afford to provoke.
For example…
A certain renowned “attack sister” in the Universe, Miss Black Swan, was probably the only ruthless person in the entire universe who dared to pry into the memories of an Emanator of Nihility.
Although Wen Jin was not an Emanator, merely a Pathstrider bearing a mysterious curse, his memories were still enough to make the vast majority of Memokeepers who dared to pry pay the price they deserved.
So then…
what kind of choice would this mysterious Memokeeper before him make?
After hearing Wen Jin’s words, the girl before him straightened her posture, a calm faint smile hanging from the corners of her mouth.
“How could that be?
I cherish my hard-won life very much.
Memokeepers are the people who value their lives the most in this world.
No one would risk their life to investigate the memories of an absolutely [dangerous person], especially you…” Those azure eyes narrowed slightly.
Wen Jin could even glimpse his own reflection from that clear blue sea.
“The IPC’s people don’t understand you, but I do, so everything just now was only something I simulated based on the fluctuations in your heart.
Don’t worry~ those are all the things you want most right now…” Then, the girl curled her fingers and began counting off the things Wen Jin wanted most at this moment one by one.
“A heavy-flavored meal that can satisfy your taste buds, a reassuring place where you can quietly rest, a little shop that can make you forget [Destruction] and enjoy the present.” As she spoke, the pink-haired girl’s hand changed once again, and a large beer mug appeared in her hand.
But what was inside was not beer, but an orange-yellow, fresh, sweet liquid with ice cubes and sliced lemon added.
Almost the instant he saw that thing, Wen Jin’s eyes lit up once again!
“And a cup…
of high-sugar drink that can refresh your heart, as well as…” After handing the drink to Wen Jin, the pink-haired girl tilted her head slightly and looked toward the emerald-green potted plant on the windowsill.
“[Hope] budding within [Destruction].” “I can sense it.
In the eyes of the world, you are someone who prophesies disaster, yet you seem to hate this power more than anyone else.
Although I don’t dare pry into your memories, if you want to share them with me, I don’t mind serving as a special listener.
How about it~” The pink-haired girl blinked, propped her cheek with one hand, and once again put on the posture of a girl next door.
As if she had already determined that Wen Jin before her would fall for this act.
And the facts proved…
He really did.
Who would refuse a beautiful girl eagerly wanting to listen to your troubles?
Even though her identity was unknown, even though she harbored ulterior motives, even though she was trying to use Wen Jin’s own loneliness to satisfy her curiosity.
But none of that mattered, because he really did need someone to confide in.
As for the information that might be leaked…
Heh, it didn’t matter.
Whether it was a conspiracy or a confession, the worst possible ending was something ordinary people would avoid like the plague, but he would gladly accept it.
“Clack~” Wen Jin placed the already emptied mug on the table and softly said to the girl, who was full of expectation: “Another cup, please.
Thank you.” “…” Under the girl’s silent gaze, the drink in the cup rose up once again as if by magic.
Only this time…
the drink filling the cup had changed into a glass of dark caramel-colored sparkling water.
“Oh~ Thanks!” Wen Jin unceremoniously raised the cup again and gulped it down in a few swigs, even letting out a refreshing burp amid the girl’s disgusted expression.
Although it was a false sensation, to Wen Jin, he was still enjoying it.
Being able to relive these hard-won memories once more was also a good thing.
At this moment, the girl looked at Wen Jin, who was calm and composed, and even seemed to want another refill, and her pink lips pursed slightly.
“Hey, hey, hey.
The mighty Lord of Extinction is actually ordering a little girl around like a drink machine?
Even the Interastral Peace Corporation would have to accuse you of being immoral if they saw this!” “Little girl?
Has no one ever told you to respect your elders?” Wen Jin gently set down the empty cup, and under the mysterious girl’s indignation, he finally opened his mouth.
And the moment he opened his mouth, it was a bombshell.
“The story…
has to start from a cluster of firelight on Adlivun…” “Wait!
Wait!!
Hold on!!
Isn’t there something wrong with your story?
Don’t say any more.
What I wanted to know was the story related to you, not Nanook!” The little girl covered both her ears, putting on an appearance of refusing to listen to “harmful information.” If she listened to the whole thing, wouldn’t the Antimatter Legion come knocking at her door while she was sleeping in the middle of the night?
“Is there a possibility…” Looking at the girl’s stress response-like appearance, the corners of Wen Jin’s mouth lifted into a faint smile.
Then, under the girl’s gradually shocked gaze, he said faintly: “That this is my story?” “What?!” “You…
you…
you really are Nanook himself!?” For an instant, the mysterious girl was as if struck by lightning.
Her originally calm and composed appearance vanished in an instant.
She was a Memokeeper, and what Memokeepers were best at was discerning whether someone was lying, but very clearly…
This guy before her…
did not show even the slightest trace of lying.
In other words…
everything he said was true!
N-No way!?
There really was an Aeon so bored that he opened an alternate account, then randomly scared a kind and adorable Memokeeper to death!?
“…” Looking at the girl’s completely panicked appearance, the arc at the corners of Wen Jin’s mouth rose by another degree.
He lightly tapped the empty cup before him, signaling for the girl to refill his drink.
Then, under the girl’s trembling expression, he slowly said: “Don’t worry, I am not Nanook.
It’s just that…
in a certain sense, we both originated from the same starting point…” When that god of Nanook transformed into endless fury and burned all of Adlivun to ashes…
the one whose turning point of Destiny was likewise set in motion was a young man from Blue Star.
Then, Wen Jin began to confide in this already frightened-stupid Memokeeper about that experience related to [Destruction]…
★ ★ ★ T/N: If you spot mistranslation, do tell me.
★ ★ ★ Shilling time!