System vs Rebirth

"Hah… You really carried me all the way to this mountain!" Anna panted a few times. Even though she wasn't exhausted physically, she was too tired to react as Noel had been playing with her this whole time.

"It's your fault for losing to me." Noel shrugged while looking away as though he was trying to run away while he was ahead.

"Kh…" Anna gritted her teeth, wanting to berate him, but didn't know what to say. Ultimately, she let everything go for the time being and asked, "So, what do you want to know?"

"You said this mountain has a mining vein, right?"

"Yes. According to the information, the volcano has been inactive for more than a hundred years. But because the demons haven't done anything to the land, the minerals are still trapped within the soil. And more importantly, the lava in the past created a lot of gemstones."

"I see. So, the one eyeing for this mountain must be the Radiant Lord."

"Yeah. He has been gathering all kinds of gemstones and using them as his weapons, so yeah… it's really the Radiant Lord." Anna confirmed it.

Noel thought for a moment. "In our previous life, what do you know about this territory? I should have found the mine and taken advantage of it, right?"

"Previous life?" Anna widened his eyes in shock, not expecting Noel to drop a bomb all of a sudden.

"Come on. Anybody can figure it out sooner or later. I'm just refraining myself to avoid talking about it after knowing the truth from Old Ru." Noel raised one finger. "Don't forget what I said earlier."

Anna recalled that Noel was going to say something important about him. Because they had a draw, it seemed that it was better to disclose everything so that Noel would do the same.

Anna couldn't help but rub her cheek embarrassedly. It turned out Noel was bolder than she originally thought.

"Yes. You did take advantage of it."

"How did I take advantage of it? Do I sell it to the Radiant Lord or…"

"No. You didn't sell it to the Radiant Lord. I believe you used the gems to provide the funds for your territory."

"So, selling it to others… Considering the Radiant Lord's power, he would definitely use that as a bargaining chip or a favor, but other nobles would definitely bring me money." Noel looked down, falling into deep thought.

"Yes. It's just… I think that it's better to consider this properly. Our situation is different now."

Making him owe me a favor should be good enough in our current

we can do that. But getting all these

proceed with it, but not too

to pique the

Anna. "You were my enemies, so you must have learned a lot

to say it's wrong, but you are not wrong…" Anna was slightly

go around the territory. At least, every single place that can be reached within

case, there are two more spots you might want to consider. The first one would be the

something special about the

I couldn't say it's special, but you surely built

it's going to be a primary target of the enemies. By striking that dam, you can cause a major flood in the city. Or you could go one step further by using

you also

think about it, the river doesn't directly go toward the city. So, if I want to use the water, I have to create a canal toward this city. But if I create a water gate in a certain area, it will block the

Anna nodded in

bad idea to be honest. I will consider it later, and I might have to bring Douglas to

Noel's decision and finally pointed at the north. "And lastly, the border. Since we're

widened his eyes

mature back then, so I thought it wouldn't be

that all?" Noel asked. If these were the only special things he did, it felt a bit lackluster. In fact,

nodded her head. "Yes. That was

Why would

the mine, he didn't

weird. Why would I build them? They were

reason back then. In fact, I was so obsessed with you that I didn't even know much about

Noel shook his head helplessly. "Sometimes… I couldn't help but ask, what the hell you

we turned back time, it wasn't that the time moved backward. Instead, you were just going to a different world in that period of time. Everything was the same, but that would be the future and your present had become a past

grabbing Anna's shoulders and shaking her body.

was the same, but that would be the future and your present had become a past that couldn't be changed?"

it." Noel's

I

to change the future. Let's think about it this way… I should know that these things are useless. Yet,

annoy the future you? Something like, you both should have realized that