"Listen carefully to what I'm about to say."
"I'm you from another future! You're being deceived right now!"
"The ones you have to face aren't Orsted, or Rudeus and his descendants at all!"
(For now, we'll call the future Hitogami the Old Man God.)
The Old Man God's expression was grave as he spoke to Hitogami, enunciating every word. There was not the slightest hint of a joke in his tone.
"What?!"
Hitogami's eyes widened in disbelief.
There had clearly been nothing wrong with the future he saw. Orsted and Rudeus's descendants had ended him in the end.
But why would this future self say that those two weren't the ones he had to face?
"Hey, hey, hold on."
"Do you know what you're saying? I can see the future! The ending I saw is how I die!"
Hitogami spread both hands, unable to hide the surprise on his face as he forced confidence into his voice.
When it came to grasping the future, no one in this world had more authority to speak than he did.
"What you saw wasn't wrong."
The Old Man God nodded, cutting him off.
"I used to think that, too."
"But what I'm telling you is that if you keep fixating on them and carry out that plan of yours with that mindset, you'll die, and you'll die horribly!"
The Old Man God spoke to Hitogami in a grave tone, and his expression did not look fake either.
"Why?"
Hitogami was somewhat puzzled. Could merely carrying out a plan bring such an enormous backlash?
Though full of doubts, he never questioned the identity of this "self" before him.
Apart from someone holding the key and the Creator God himself, he was the only one who knew the location of this world of nothingness and