Diary 1

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As per usual the Koreans were sent back to the other room by the stupid slime. But not before tcf!Cale told them all the important things that they needed to know in that situation.

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Chapter 663: I guess I do have to step in? (5)

"Like the loving meddlesome you are" tboah!Bud was addressing tcf!Cale because he was 100% sure it was talking about the transmigrator who was already in the midst of chaos.

Cale was about to look at the diary when he heard a voice that made him turn his head.

"A diary?" tboah!Beacrox was about to think that the transmigrator writes a diary but then remembers 'that' so he refute it.

But tboah!Toonka didn't. "Do you keep a diary?" he asks tcf!Cale.

"Why would he need a diary when he can record and remember everything" og!Cale reply incredulously as if he was the one who got offended.

"Human! What does that mean?"

Raon, who could not see the diary, puffed up his cheeks as if was upset about what he had just heard.

"Human, you are not someone who would be affected by that white thing!"

"Did it say that you're related or something?" tcf!Bud asks and then something hits him.

Gasp! "Don't tell me he's like your long-lost brother!?" Is what his mind concluded.

"What!"

"Heck No!"

tboah!Cale and og!Cale strongly disagrees as tcf!Cale showed a disgusted expression.

"..."

"Right?!" They ask looking at his father.

You know, just to be sure. Because no. Just no.

"Of course! I don't abandon my children" which his father declares.

Both Deruth also knows that Jour would never cheat on him.

It was based on what Cale had just mumbled.

'I must have been one of the souls that was impacted by the reincarnator, the White Star.'

"Does that mean the curse on the white star was also placed on the young master?" Tcf!Cage said frowning at what she concluded.

...!

Now everyone frets that the young master has to share the same curse as the white star.

But it's only a theory. They certainly hope it wasn't the case.

Raon waved both paws around as if to object to that statement.

Pfft. Cale let out a quiet chuckle.

"Somehow hearing the young master chuckle melts my heart." tcf!Taylor thought that the young master deserve to be happy and carefree.

But he didn't respond and just patted Raon's head before turning back toward the diary.

Reincarnators.

Existences that maintain their memories while getting new bodies unlike regular souls that would get new memories and new bodies with each new life. The variables that would affect other souls.

"Exactly like the b***** white star" "

'It is highly likely that I was the soul that was affected by this reincarnation of the White Star.'

"Wait. Huh? This is confusing!" tcf!Toonka complains.

"Does that mean the young master was supposedly have been born in our world since his soul was the one who got ejected from the current white star body?" tcf!Mary ask what she thought about all of this information.

"But since white star stole his body then the young master soul was reincarnated in a different world?" Tcf!Tasha said thinking deeply.

Somehow it makes sense but somehow it's all wrong.

The current White Star's face was similar to Kim Rok Soo's face.

Cale organized his thoughts.

'Kim Rok Soo was living in a different dimension after being affected by a reincarnator. If he switches places with a transmigrator and is brought to this world...'

"Wow" tboah!Toonka said. "... I'm still confused"

They sweatdrop at hearing that.

The simple answer was that this was the cleanest and most efficient way to take care of things.

Of course, this was a decision made by a god who did not want to impact numerous souls.

Single-lifers and Immortals, the 'exceptions.'

Reincarnators and transmigrators, the 'variables.'

Finally, the mysterious existence of the Regressors.

"The what and the what?" tboah!Toonka's mind is blown.

While both Toonka give up on thinking, a certain red hair was having a bad foreboding.

He ignores it.

"I'm sure I won't be involved in any of that"

That's what he thought

... before finding out who the diary belongs to.

"...Ha."

Cale couldn't help but laugh in disbelief.

However, what he read next in the diary made his thoughts move in a different direction.

Cale's gaze headed back to the headstone.

"Mom"

"it's my mother's diary" a hope-filled expression covers tboah!Cale as he remembers that there is something to look forward to.

Looking at tboah!Cale expression, og!Cale who has not yet spoken about his reincarnated mother because he didn't find the right time to tell was now not sure if he should even say it.

He knows himself, the moment they leave this place the prior thing his past self would do was to go to the death temple and make the deal. It would be good if it happens but what if it didn't?

og!Cale founds out. The one who should've exchanged with him was Choi Jung Soo, not tcf!Cale. Also, that death only ever asks the deal when Choi Jung Soo is dying, the same as him. And that will happen when he was 40 and tcf!Cale was 36.

So if his past self finds out about his reincarnated mother but couldn't make the deal without anyone dying, it will weigh down on his mind and eat him up with guilt and self-loathing.

But if he doesn't find out and be with his family and his mother's diary then he wouldn't have to choose between them.

To leave or to stay.

His family in his world or his reincarnated mother in another world.

It will be a hard choice because to him-the current and the past-it will always be family.

And his father, stepmother, step-siblings, and reincarnated mother are family to him.

So for now he will wait and see.

Cale's biological mother was from Baron Thames's family.

Cale recalled the information he managed to sneakily get out of Duke Deruth before coming to this grave.

tboah!Cale and og!Cale was focused on every word that pertains information about his mother.

They wanted to know what was on his mother's mind when she sacrifice herself.

What did she feel?

Why did she leave everything behind?

Why did she have to die?

And...

Is it worth it?

'Cale Henituse's biological mother's household is said to have perished.'

Jour Thames had been the only surviving descendant.

'Duke Deruth fell in love with Drew Thames when they met at the academy and asked her to marry him.'

"Ohh an Academy love life" surprisingly it came from Countess Violan who was teasing her husband.

"Wait." tcf!Cale suddenly voices out as he finds out something.

"We have an academy?" He asks.

"..."

There was a moment of silence.

Then everyone decided to not sweat the details.

There were no nobles with the family name of Thames in the present Roan Kingdom.

It was because Jour Thames, the only living descendant, chose not to continue her household. With nobody left to continue the family, the name was naturally removed from the list of nobles and eventually disappeared from people's memories.

tboah!Cale frowned deep in thought.

Should he continue and revive his mother's household?

...but the deal...

He was having a crisis on what to do and what he wants.

So for now he'll gather more information and then decide afterward.

It was just the maternal family of an extra in 'The Birth of a Hero,' and the book didn't even mention that extra's biological mother's name or her family.

"I know you're only stating facts but I still want to say that we are not just extra "

"Yes, especially my mom"

og!Cale and tboah!Cale scowls (pout). Hmph!

Which tcf!Cale cursed the system and the stupid slime for showing his thoughts.

"That's odd."

Cale felt that it was odd no matter how many times he thought about it.

"...It looks like they had been doing research without anybody knowing about it."

Based on what he knew so far, the Thames household didn't seem to share the results of their research with anyone.

"It is amazing how they keep all of that a secret" tcf!Bud would bet that even the guild directory that has vast information from thousands of past to the current would not have known what the Thames household was researching.

Jour Thames, the only living descendant, didn't even mention the details of her perished family's research with Duke Deruth.

"I was not trusted enough" Deruth sullenly thought.

Was he so unreliable that he can't be trusted by his own wife to share her burdens?

Even her planned death was kept silent from him.

He could've helped her.

He could've lightened her load.

He could've stopped her death.

If she had opened up.

No.

"If I had noticed it sooner."

"If I had talked more to her."

"If I had done something!"

A hand reaches out to him. He look at his current wife who was a strong woman that always stay by his side.

Yes, there is no use in thinking of what if. He failed his lovely Jour but this time he won't fail again.

He grips his wife's reassuring hand.

This time he will protect his wife.

And he will protect his family.

'The research was conducted in secret but it is extremely valuable.'

The White Star would most definitely use this information for evil if this diary ever fell into his hands.

"Like I'll ever let him" tboah!Cale snarl just thingking about it.

That b****** already got his mother's ancient power.

He will never give nor let his mother's possession be stolen again.

The research falling into the wrong hands might have been the reason they kept it a secret, but the problem was that the family that had been keeping this secret was no longer around.

"The only living descendant, huh?"

That meant that there was absolutely nobody else in the world. It meant that they were all dead.

"A household doing research but suddenly 'disappeared', doesn't that mean someone found out about it?" tcf!Hannah hinted.

"And it might be the reason for the decline..." tcf!Jack clench his hand together feeling downcast at what they thought.

There are only two options that they thought of.

Either an outsider or a betrayer.

"...It gets weirder the more I think about it."

Jour Thames. She had an ancient power that allowed her to see the annual rings of all living beings.

She was skilled enough that she could tell that her own son was born with the variable life of a transmigrator.

"Is that why..." she died? was the silent question of og!Cale and tboah!Cale.

"She knows that something will happen to me so she chooses to do 'that'."

They hate the fact that it all made sense.

They hate the fact that he was once again the reason the people he treasured died.

Someone like that didn't know how the other descendants of her family died?

Most importantly, even if they were just a Barons family, one of the Roan Kingdom's noble households had slowly disappeared without a trace. But that descendant's spouse didn't even know the reason?

That stab right into his heart. Deruth met her as the only descendant and his wife doesn't seem to want to talk about it

So he didn't push to know more than what his wife wanted to let know.

Was it undeniable trust or neglect?

Her spouse just said that that had been the case from the moment they met.

"Mm."

Now that Cale decided to live the rest of his life as Cale Henituse... He thought that he should look into some things as they related to the original Cale Henituse.

Something touch at og!Cale's heart. He knows that tcf!Cale was the one who got dragged in all of his mess.

But to think he would do something for him even though he should not feel obliged nor have a reason to do so.

"He really is meddlesome" he fondly thought.

That naturally included learning more about his mother, Jour Thames, and his maternal family, Baron Thames' household.

"Baron Thames' household.." tboah!Cale whisper.

... Having more information about his mother.

This.

This makes him want to stay.

To know more about her mother...

... While being with his family.

Simply that.

He shakes his head.

The safety of his family comes first.

And he would do anything to keep them safe.

"...This is really-"

'It's really fishy.'

For some reason, just thinking about the Thames household gave him the chills.

'I feel like I'm going to get involved in some complicated mess while looking into this family.'

"You think?" tcf!Beacrox snorted.

tcf!Cale ignores that.

As he also ignores the task he set himself in the future.

He'll let his future self thinks about it.

They were researching 'time and life.' Just that alone made it extremely mysterious.

A family pretending to be a simple Baron's household was researching this in secret before they all perished except for one living descendant.

"It really is a mystery how that happened" tcf!Alberu knows every noble family and some of their secret.

And to find out a Baron household was conducting research about time without anyone finding out for many years and suddenly decline piqued his interest.

He'll add finding out more about the Thames household to his to-do list.

That remaining descendant didn't even try to carry on the family name.

"...Something stinks."

There was definitely something to this.

"Human! I didn't fart!"

Pfft.

That has everyone laughing at the cute little dragon's antics.

Cale's face that was about to turn serious instead turned into a frown. He looked toward Raon who was sniffing around.

"Sniff, sniff! It doesn't smell stinky! Human, where do you smell the stink?"

"Hey! I don't stink!"

tcf!Raon landed on tcf!Cale "Human! I smell amazing!"

"Haaaaaaaa."

tcf!Cale echo his sigh as he patted Raon.

Cale just sighed and shook his head. But he still observed the energetic Raon.

"Human! Moving around alone with just the two of us reminds me of when we did this in the past!"

Raon was quite happy right now.

He had done something similar not long after he first met Cale. He was remembering how the two of them moved around taking care of things.

"Human! Let's go on a journey once we defeat that white thing!

"We'll join too nya~"

tcf!Cale pale at what the nonsense the children were saying. But then he thought that it means a leisure journey like a tourist on a vacation.

That eases his mind.

Cale firmed his resolve while looking at Raon.

"...Yeah."

He made up his mind.

'We need to take care of the White Star first.'

And once they take down the White Star...

'I'll rest!'

"The most pitiful joke that I ever heard" the Mercenary King (un)helpfully supplied.

Which tcf!Cale ignored, as he agrees with his future self.

He will definitely get some rest.

He will also relax and do nothing.

He'll make a field that's so small that it could barely be considered farming.

'...Yes... my maternal family... one day... Yes... one day... mm... just... mm......'

He would push back the issue with the Thames household for later, much much later.

tcf!Cale was nodding to his future self frantically as he also ignore the pitying gaze everyone including the slime gives him.

Cale chose to avoid this topic for now since it scared him a bit.

'What could happen?'

"Famous jinx word" og!Cale unhelpfully said.

tcf!Cale ignores that too.

He tried to calm himself that nothing will happen but it still kept weighing on his mind.

He had a feeling that something was going to happen.

He felt as if he had some clues about what would happen in the future, but Cale chose to feign ignorance for the time being.

'...There's no way something like what happened with this White Star bastard would happen again, right?'

"Of course because it only mentions Single-lifers, Immortals, Reincarnators, transmigrators, and Regressors. Totally not a big scale" tboah!Cale snorts.

"That's right" tcf!Cale agrees completely and consciously ignoring the dripping sarcasm.

If something as annoying as what happened with the White Star happens again... If the scale of that event was as big as this one......

"That's just wrong."

Cale shook his head.

"I'm just having a delusion."

"Yeah, delusional of having that slacker life," someone said.

tcf!Cale ignores that too.

He masters the art of ignoring and he will use it.

Yes, everything he was feeling right now must be a delusion from being unable to rest because of the White Star.

How could it not be?

The pity everyone feels for the young master increases.

"Pyah"

"What do it mean 'fighting!'?" tcf!Cale doesn't need the encouragement thank you very much. Tsk.

The incident with the Thames household happened tens of years ago.

But Cale had not learned anything about it until now.

He had been on both the Eastern and Western continents. If Cale and his friends had not learned about it while sweeping around left and right, it was normal to think that nothing was going on.

(In another room,

"He has friends!" st!Lee Soo Hyuk wipes the tears in his eyes, happy for his dongsaeng.)

tcf!Cale sneeze.

'It's just something that happened a long time ago that people forgot about.'

He decided to not put much meaning into it.

He decided to only dream about having that slacker life after taking care of the White Star.

"Yeah. I'll just rest once this is all over."

"Ah, I could already see my slacker life" tcf!Cale smirk daydreaming about his lazy and rich life in the future.

"That's right, human! You can rest for about a year before we go see the world!"

Maybe he was being overly sensitive because he had just been thinking about the Thames household, but...

Cale had a feeling that seeing the world with Raon might lead to a lot of incidents as well.

'I'm just going on a leisure trip with the children. Nothing should happen."

tcf!Cale nods agreeing with his future self.

"Another famous jinx word" og!Cale supplied unhelpfully once again.

Cale thought about traveling the world having fun and relaxing as he brushed aside his unnecessary ominous feelings.

He decided it was nothing to worry about and that he was just being overly cautious.

Cale felt more refreshed before he frowned after reading the next sentence Drew Thames wrote in the diary.

"What?"

Almost everyone was shocked at what they heard.

Jour Thames. The mother of Cale Henituse knows about the switching.

"Hmm?"

'Why is she randomly apologizing?'

"So she knows about what will happen to the young master because of her ancient power" tboah!Rosalyn was amazed even with just that, Jour Thames predicted what might happen.

"And it also must be because of her family research about time" tcf!Rosalyn was also amazed by the researcher who can predict and plan things ahead of time.

This arrangement that Jour Thames had left...

The corners of Cale's lips curled up. He was wondering why she was apologizing, but if she prepared something, it must be the remaining part of her ancient power.

"...It must be this."

He was certain it would be the ancient power.

Cale continued to read with a bit of expectation.

tcf!Cale was also having the same expectation.

tcf!Witira who notice whispered to his brother "It's kind of cute how he's like a little child that will receive candy"

"Yes, He's pure and innocent" tcf!Paseton whispers back.

'Hmm?'

"Hmm?"

tcf!Cale got curious why is she suddenly talking about the Forest of Darkness.

'...The Super Rock and the Dominating Aura?

I already got those.'

"Super Rock!" tcf!Dodori was sparkling in glee.

He knew it!

He finally found a real hero!

"Time to join his party" tcf!Dodori was already imagining all the conquest they will face TOGETHER!

Cold sweat suddenly runs down on tcf!Cale's spine.

He shivers.

Why?

A question filled with grieving confusion was asked silently.

tboah!Cale and og!Cale still couldn't (wouldn't) understand why his mother sacrifice herself just to hide the ancient power.

He still couldn't (wouldn't) understand why she had to die.

'...The White Star took that though.

Both Choi Han doesn't want to think about it.

Doesn't want to think that it was that exact ancient power that was the reason why his family died.

That it was Jour Thames, mother of Cale Henituse's fault that the village was ransacked.

No.

He doesn't want to bear a grudge especially if it was done with good intentions.

Because there must be a reason why she hides it.

Why she choose the Harris Village.

Why she choose his family.

There must be.

He grips his hand.

That is the essence of her power?

Should I be relieved that the White Star doesn't have this information and can only tell that a person's time has been warped?'

"... Uhh...mm......"

"Human, why do you have such an expression? Did someone smack you from behind?"

tcf!Pendrick suddenly had an image of a woman which is Jour Henituse smacking the transmigrator from behind.

Cale's hands were shaking as they held the diary up.

He mentally thought the name of the person he would now live as, the original name of the bastard who will now live as Kim Rok Soo.

'...Hey, Cale Henituse. I thought you said that your mom seemed to know everything in advance and prepared for it? It doesn't seem to be the case.'

"Apparently" og!Cale said grudgingly as that b****** white star took her mother's ancient power.

And now she died for nothing!

He hated that.

tcf!Cale flinch. "It's late, but why can they also read what's on my mind!?" He didn't really care much before the previous chapters but if it hurts others it's troublesome.

He then noticed some other statements.

"Oh mom" tboah!Cale said sighing as og!Cale's grudge slowly melts away.

They were reminded of the love of his mother.

She was always thinking about him, her child.

But he will never be ok with her sacrifice.

Cale let out a sigh.

"Huuuuuu."

Cale stared at those words, 'I'm sorry' for a while before closing his eyes for a moment.

"The young master must have really been moved by that, he really has a very kind heart" tcf!Taylor thought as he too was moved by the kind-hearted mother.

"...Human, are you okay?"

Raon cautiously observed Cale's face before peeking at the diary.

"Huh?!"

His eyes then opened wide.

"Human, this!"

Smile. The corners of Cale's lips curled up.

Just in case.

"So mother didn't die in vain." og!Cale thought, it still doesn't ease the pain of her sacrifice but it does bring a little bit of comfort knowing that her mother sacrifice herself just so that the enemy could steal her power.

"She really is prepared for everything." tboah!Cale said fondly.

She even prepare for if ever her ancient power was stolen by the enemy and her works didn't go in vain.

She seemed to have hesitated, not knowing whether these would be helpful.

"Human, is the 'half of my power' she is talking about the ancient power?"

Flip.

Cale turned the page and both Cale and Raon could see the contents written in there.

Cale's mouth opened.

"Hehe."

"Aww, what a cute 'hehe'" tcf!Litana commented as she heard that laugh.

If only she could see his expression right at that moment.

He read one of the statements written there, almost as an addendum, out loud.

"A reincarnator's soul will not lose its memories because you kill its present body. A reincarnator is someone who can record the memories of many lives in their soul."

A reincarnator was said to be someone who got a new body but maintained their old memories instead of getting a new body with new memories like everybody else.

"That is why a reincarnator will have one large annual ring with numerous smaller annual rings mixed in there."

"Isn't this information quite valuable" tcf!Rasheel nonchalantly said despite his words.

"It might also contain how to kill that b******" tcf!Sherritt said in sadistic glee.

Everyone was now focused on each word that is showing.

Cale slowly read the next statements out loud as if he was savoring them.

"That is why a reincarnator will not face complete death because you attack their body. There are probably many ways to completely kill a reincarnator, but I, and my family, only know of one method."

"The Thames family are quite amazing for finding all of that" tboah!Ron commented. It was ashamed that it was now ruined is what he thought.

tboah!Ron knows how it feels like for a household to decline especially if they were hunted for their skills.

He had hoped that the Thames family weren't killed because of their knowledge.

Jour Thames had recorded this one method just in case.

That record was now in Cale's hands.

He slowly ran his fingers over that record.

The method to kill a reincarnator.

This is it.

They will find out what they needed to do to kill a reincarnator.

The center and foundation for the numerous smaller annual rings. That border that encompassed all of the smaller rings...

This was the method to completely get rid of the White Star...

This was the method to stop him from reincarnating again.

So the first condition is to get Jour Thames ancient power.

tboah!Cale was having a dilemma.

He wants to get his mother's ancient power but even if he gets it, it will disappear once he made the deal.

He knows the best thing to do was to give it to others who can kill the white thing.

But he doesn't want strangers getting his mother's ancient power.

But he also wants his family safe.

He sighs once again confuse on what he needs to do and what he wants .

"Human, even if you can see the annual ring, how do you attack it?"

"Down."

"Down?"

"Down?"

The children ask.

Raon's gaze followed Cale's hand and looked down.

"Oh!"

The children exclaimed in understanding.

Tsk.

Those who use weapons and magic click their tongue as they would not be able to kill him.

Raon's pupils started shaking.

"Human! Does that mean ancient powers will work?!"

"It's still ok if it's an ancient power."

They thought.

The tcf side already has a young master that has multiple ancient power.

And the tboah side knows where some of the locations of the ancient powers.

"Keep reading."

Now everyone frowns at that.

If weapons, magic, and ancient power can't kill him. Then what is it?

"...Ah."

Raon sulked.

However, Cale's eyes were clouding over the more he read so Raon continued to read as well.

"Annual rings that are stronger than a dragon." If tcf!Pendrick thinking was right then it has to be 'that'.

'That' could only rival the mighty dragons in terms of living longer.

That is...

A power of someone who lives more than a thousand years.

They could only think of one.

Raon turned toward Cale.

"...Human-"

Raon, who seemed to have realized something, looked toward Cale whose eyes were sparkling. Cale seemed to have found the answer as well.

The White Star was a reincarnator.

In order to stop him from reincarnating again, they needed to get rid of his largest annual ring.

In order to do that, he first needed 'the power to see annual rings,' and second, he needed 'the power of someone who has lived long enough to suppress that giant annual ring.'

"Is this the reason why I am here?" tcf!Pendrick thought.

As far as he could tell, he is the only elf who is not a dark elf in the current room. So it's highly likely that he was needed to bring the transmigrator to meet the 2nd condition.

... probably...

tcf!Pendrick wasn't sure, but he read and saw enough to choose to help them if needed.

The first would be possible with the remaining half of Jour Thames's power Cale would soon get, while the clue to the second requirement was something Cale had known for a while already.

"...An Immortal."

Immortals, those who live forever.

Cale looked away from the diary and looked at a tree near the grave.

He knew of one Immortal.

It was a being that had existed in this world longer than any other living being.

The records of this world were recorded in that being's annual rings.

"The World Tree."

The World Tree had once given Cale a branch that resembled a chopstick, calling it a sword.

tcf!Cale smirk. It means in the future he has both the conditions to kill the white star.

As everyone also smiles.

.

.

.

Wait.

A chopstick?

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A/N:

same Toonka, same.

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