30 Years After Reincarnating, It Turns Out This World Was A Rofan?! novel Chapter 256

It was as unsteady as the wobbly steps of a newborn bird just learning to walk.

“Whew! Whew...”

The child, whould only crawl, now looked like he was struggling to walk unsteadily, and it seemed utterly ridiculous that a grown adult would walk like that.

However.

“Hang in there, Iliad! Just a little bit more!” “Keep going, Father!” “Just a few more steps... just a little more...!” “Wow! Amazing!”

Rather than laughing, the people cheered him on with unwavering seriousness, and they were ecstatic at his every step.

Drip, drip...

“Hah, hah...”

Iliad was drenched in sweat, and his body was soaked through. freewebnoveℓ.com

Thenstant spasms in his legs revealed just how excruciating and painful the experience was for him.

Though it seemed like he might need help, if they intervened now, all of his efforts would have been for nothing.

So.

“Just a little more, just a little more...!”

Euragement was all theyuld offer.

“!!”

With a fierce, almost desperate shout, his steps stretched another ten paces.

Thirty paces in total.

-Waaaaaa!!

Iliad, having taken those monumental thirty steps, raised both his hands triumphantly, and the crowd rushed to him, roaring in joy andngratulating him.

And in the midst of this.

“...If someone didn’t know better, they’d think he won the World Series or something.”

Ihanuldn’t help but sigh.

Ofurse, he was happy too, no doubt about it.

“I told him to take it easy and rest for a while... but he just doesn’t listen at all.”

It had already been three long hours of this, so it was strange that he wasn’t sighing more.

...

Ihan thought he might finally understand how doctors must feel when their patients refuse to follow instructions.

***

Undoubtedly, Iliad's body had bmempletely broken to the point that it was impossible to repair it.

Before he became a demonic being, heuld have at least walked with a crippled leg, but after undergoing the process of bming a demon, the damage to his body became so severe that his inability to walk now seemed like a blessingmpared to the permanent disabilities that spread across his entire body.

In a way, it was an expected result.

By recklessly using his life force to forcibly heal his body, it was only natural that his physicalndition would deteriorate, and on top of that, his lifespan had drastically shortened. To make matters worse, his heart had been destroyed and then restored, meaning that its durability had weakened as well.

Thanks to the miraculous treatment of an aura user, his drained life force was replenished, and the regeneration of his heart was progressing without too much trouble. However, even so, there was no way his bodyuld bensidered normal after all the destruction.

Aura wasn’t a cure-all, and the world didn’t work like a fairy tale where everything always ends positively.

In truth, Iliad was now in a position where he needed to worry not about walking, but whether he would /N_o_v_e_l_i_g_h_t/ even survive until tomorrow.

“W-wait! The head of the family is walking!?”

“???”

It should have been expected, yet the moment word spread that Iliad was toddling around in the training ground, the area was immediately filled with people.

It was a training ground so vast ituld fit three baseball stadiums, and yet, it took less than five minutes for it to fill with people. Could you believe that?

In a sense, Iliad walking again was like a miracle for House Offen, something beyond imagination.

[Waaaaaa!]

The same cheer from earlier echoed once more.

Ihan had joked about it being a World Series victory, but this was probably even more intense, wasn’t it?

“Is this the Super Bowl or something?”

“What’s that?”

“...It’s a thing. But why are you here? I thought you’d be busy cheering for your son.”

“Well, Iliad won’t hear my cheers anyway. He’s so focused.”

“Hmm, so you knew that?”

“...It’s probably rude to say, but I can't get angry because I have my own karmic debt.”

Felicia grumbled, but Ihan wasn’t particularly surprised to find her standing next to him.

However, while it didn’t surprise him, the next words did.

“...How did this happen?”

“What?”

“Iliad. How is my son walking again?”

“Oh, that? It’s nothing major, really...”

“Nothing major? My heart is racing here!”

Felicia stilluldn’t hide her astonishment, though she was clearly overjoyed. This reality felt like a dream to her.

Once again, I’ll assert that my son...!

“He wasmpletely broken. But you’ve raised him again...”

Felicia was immensely happy. It was as if the joy she felt when Iliad was born had been rivaled.

But at the same time...

“Curiosity is unavoidable, I suppose.”

She had lived for over ninety years and explored a third of the entirentinent—an adventurer ofnsiderable renown. She had experienced enough to be unfazed by most things, yet this phenomenon was something she had never euntered before.

Raising someone who had beenmpletely broken... What kind of miracle was this?

“Were you a saint, by any chance?”

“Do I look like a devout man?”

“No. If anything, you’d be more likely to swing an axe at the heavens.”

“...I’m not that reckless.”

“Stop talking nonsense and just tell me. How long are you planning to keep this old woman waiting?”

“It’s not like I’m the one in charge of this...”

Ihan was baffled, but he understood that it wasn’t easy to suppress someone’s curiosity, especially when it was about their own child.

So, with little hesitation, he finally answered.

“It’s not that special. Right now, the guy is in a sort of puppet state.”

***

What Ihan did wasn’t really anything special.

“I just made him feel ki,” he said.

“Ah, so it’s the ‘Munhak’ that you founded?”

“It’s not that grand to be called Munhak...”

The principle was simple.

It was about drawing out the primal strength inherent in the human body. Strength from muscles, bones, tendons, and organs.

And Ihan?

“I simply taught him the basic sensation of ki in his body. In other words, I showed him a new path.”

“...And just with that, he’s able to move like that?”

Felicia’s skepticism grew as she listened.

She understood the principle, but it was hard to believe that it was just that which allowed Iliad to walk.

Honestly, something like thatuld be done with aura if you had it, and it wasn’t a difficult process.

That meant it was something she had already attempted herself, so Ihan’s words weren’t making sense to her.

And as expected, she voiced her doubt.

“Ofurse, it would be impossible for you. You don’t truly understand themplexities of the human body.”

“Huh?”

“I’m what you’d call an ‘expert.’ I understand the movements of muscles, the bones, the organs, and themplex structures of the human body, including the nerves.”

There was an undeniablenfidence in his tone, thenfidence that onlymes from experience.

But thisnfidence was reasonable.

Is it easy to stimulate the body in a way that looks simple?

Is it easy to teach someone these techniques?

It’s only possible because of experience—because he’s done it hundreds of times.

“I used to experiment quite a lot as a spellcaster,” he thought to himself.

In this sense, Ihan was one of the rare experts on bodily functions, and that was why heuld do what he did.

“I put two things into Iliad’s body. One is there that allows him to feel ki, and the other is a mechanism for transmitting power.”

“Mecha...what?”