You mean...... Did the real Frederick perceive himself in a nightmare? And then I told you the information? ”

Thirteen Incense, who had just woken up, listened to the husky's narration, and gradually understood it through the addition of the barrage.

So he suddenly looked at the husky with a somewhat strange gaze.

"Yes, Brother Ha."

- Are you so sought-after,?

How can I jump out in time to raise you alone even if I'm not there...... It's as if the whole world is preventing huskies from becoming self-reliant.

This is the legendary person who is loved by the world...... The dog?

"yes, but I didn't understand it at all. Do you have any clues? ”

The husky said calmly.

As he spoke, he handed over a lamb chop.

"Give me saliva to drink first, my mouth is so dry."

Thirteen Xiang complained, but still took the lamb chops.

He leaned back on the bed and thought for a while, but then said slowly: "There are a few things that can be determined at the moment.

"First of all, 'Professor Wolf' has been Professor Gray from the very beginning. According to the outside, it was supposed Frederick who became Professor Wolf. But considering the main quest on your side, there is a step to save Frederick...... I can assume that Frederick Melvin is also dead. ”

"Frederick is dead too?"

The husky was surprised: "What do you mean...... Our brothers are dead? ”

“…… Three? ”

Thirteen Xiang was stunned for a moment, and didn't react to where this third came from.

But he quickly realized something.

…… Oh, it's Ingrid.

So he nodded: "You're right.

"I think here's the thing – Professor Gray designed a bureau. He shows Justes that if Ingrid hadn't been killed, she might have jeopardized Frederick's safety. And make him believe that this possibility is true.

"That's why he made Justus 'travel back in time', killed Ingrid, and 'changed' the past...... Do you perceive the problem? ”

"That is to say......"

The husky held it with a solemn face.

The corners of Thirteen Xiang's mouth twitched, and she reminded: "Don't forget, Ingrid is dead in the 'Historical Ending'. ”

Before they entered the nightmare, they learned that "Ingrid" and "Justus" were indeed dead.

Ingrid was one of the few victims of the earthquake that year; And Justes was stabbed more than ten times in his body and was judged to be a suicide.

"—So, what 'fate' did Justus change?"

Things were going the way he had hoped.

Or rather, that's what history is.

He simply didn't have anything to change.

"The fundamental problem is that this is a third level of dreams."

Thirteen Xiang replied.

“…… That's why there are three layers of nightmares. ”

At the same time, Annan, who was outside the nightmare, also explained this to the delicious wind goose around him.

Annan sighed slowly.

With a low sigh, complex emotions visible to the naked eye, like gray smoke, were slowly pushed out of Annan's lungs.

Almost at the moment when Thirteen Incense entered the most superficial nightmare.

Annan had already fully read this nightmare.

"The mechanism behind it is not difficult to understand. It's even a lot simpler than a gallery nightmare. ”

So much so that I was able to understand it after just a little cloud.

Of course, it may also be because you are on the outside that you can see clearly.

Annan glanced at the delicious wind goose, which was still a little confused, and said simply: "If you are confused about this, then this is a good thing...... Because you care too much about what the 'truth' is, you will be confused about it. ”

“…… I don't really understand it yet. ”

The delicious wind goose paused, but still lowered his head and said directly.

He doesn't like to pretend to understand.

The main body of this nightmare always revolves around those three people.

"It's a matter of [understanding]."

Annan – or rather, "Girlandaio" tapped his temple lightly with the middle finger of his right hand and made a hard sound: "What you lack is understanding." Thinking beyond logic...... Thinking beyond what you see. ”

The key to unlocking this nightmare was put in the nightmare.

Other words.

"Allow me to sell the most important part first. It's like putting a rich entrée on the back of a soup.

"Let me start at the beginning—"

The corners of Annan's mouth went up, revealing a smile.

And in the nightmare, Thirteen Incense also said something similar to him:

"After knowing the true identity of Professor Wolf, we naturally have a question - who is Frederick, who has been stripped of his surname?"

"Professor Gray?"

The husky sat obediently on the edge of the bed and couldn't help asking, "Did he kill three people one after another and steal Frederick's identity?" ”

"Right...... Not right either. ”

Thirteen Xiang sighed, and her expression was a little complicated: "It should be said that 'Frederick Wolfheart' is one of the identities of Professor Gray.

"We know that Ingrid is long dead. And Justes has been dead for some time, and the autopsy turned out to be 'suicide'.

"There's a typical narrative trick here......"

He looked at the husky and said slowly: "At first, we thought that the premise that Justes was killed by Frederick was because 'Frederick' became a believer in the tragic writer and gained power, and the last person Justes saw was Frederick.

"But then we got the intelligence that Justers and Frederick weren't that bad. And Frederick may have been killed as well.

"From this point on, we have to decisively abandon the preconceived judgment that Justes was murdered by Frederick and disguised as suicide. Because of our new intelligence, there has been a conflict with the basis of old speculation. ”

Why was the idol wizard of the silver rank at that time able to murder the shield of immortality that was higher than his own rank with a long defense and vitality?

Why has it been so many years that no one has found out that the murderer of the Shield of Immortality is Frederick?

The answer is too simple.

It's just because of prejudice and preconceived attachments that Nefertari, Annan, and the players ignore this possibility.

- It wasn't Frederick who killed Justes.

Does Professor Ash really have what it takes to make Justes travel back in time to save Frederick?

Obviously, he didn't. If the person in the mirror had done it himself, with the mirror he had set up in the past, he might have barely been able to do it.

But Professor Gray is bound to be unable to do this.

That is, in fact, from that time...... Even before that, Justes was in a dream.

He [saw], Frederick was

- The so-called Dream Eater.

Of course, what will be swallowed will not only be [dreams].

"Let's put it simply."

Annan's fingers crossed, and the middle-aged man with black hair and black eyes made a calm and reliable voice: "Frederick Melvin and Justes did not die at the same time.

"The time of Frederick Melvin's death...... More before Justes.

"What Justers saw, the possibility of 'if Ingrid hadn't died,' the future he was going to change—

"Actually, it's been Frederick's nightmare all along."

Yes.

"—The order of death is reversed."

Thirteen incense said simply.

It's not "Frederick follows Justes to the Ember Barrens".

The real purpose of Justus's trip to the Coal-Barren Lands...... It was at the betage of Professor Gray that he collected the body of his only friend, Frederick Melvin.

That is, the second nightmare of "saving Ingrid" that they have just broken free.

And the makers of this nightmare......

It was the "Gray Professor".

Or rather, "Dream Eater" Trisino Setti.

(End of chapter)