213 – Reception – 2
“Yeah, well… I expected there to be a secret or two.”
I took it back calmly. Then I felt that the halo of light smiled slightly.
“Did you guess?”
“Those who don’t know must be fools. There are unreasonable restrictions placed on them to prevent them from speaking out about certain facts, and they even received a definite answer that the person who bet on them was the god of the kingdom. Wouldn’t it be easier to just pass them on?”
I can’t help but think that there must be some big secret hidden behind the restrictions to keep the secret from being revealed. What remained was the question of when it would be revealed.
It is only now that I have barely managed to seize the opportunity.
“In that case, we’ll be quick. You’re ready to get to the secret.”
“Preparations have been made since before. Like that bastard, I just talked to myself, or like the goddess, I just didn’t hear it because it came back saying it wasn’t the time yet.”
Since they were still in the form of halos, I wondered if they were goddesses, but the popes themselves told me that the sun and moon were in the form of women, and they had feminine voices, so they were probably right.
The lights just laughed after hearing my words. It seemed that she was going to babble about what she said.
“The identity of the little witch is probably as you expected.”
“……What did you just say?”
For a moment, I wondered if I had heard it wrong. But the answer that came back was telling me that I hadn’t heard it wrong.
“It will be as you expected.”
“Do you know what I expected?”
At the moment, the answer came out with a sharp blade, but the light group laughed and passed it over as if they understood everything.
Of course, I couldn’t tell if she was really laughing because I couldn’t see her expression. It just felt like it was all there was.
“Remember who I am. There’s no way you wouldn’t even recognize that?”
In order to come up with such a confident answer, didn’t I have to let go of it even after being ridiculed by him for failing to catch even a single dragon properly?
She stared at the goddess. As she did so, she felt as if she was averting her gaze.
“The ability I have and the ability to grasp it are completely separate. Just as humans cannot smell with their eyes or taste with their ears, neither can I. So I can’t help it. I can never say that I lack strength. No. The nature of the power they possess is different.”
The group of lights eagerly lined up her excuses. It was an explanation that seemed incomprehensible, but also made sense. In short, does it mean that it is not a matter of power, but rather a matter of compatibility?
“It’s been a long chat. Now let’s get down to business. What you really wanted.”
I had a strong feeling that he was trying to change his mind, but I didn’t want to question him further. It was because the curiosity about Nix’s identity was much greater.
“As you expected, the little witch is a human from another world.”
‘As expected.’
I was amazed at myself for being able to remain calm after hearing that.
The reason was unknown. Was it because I was expecting it a long time ago, or because I thought it would be the case? Maybe the goddess did something to keep me from falling over in surprise.
“To be precise, I must say that it was once. Now I have lost all of my identity as a person in that world. But I will not go into detail on this point. Would you mind discussing philosophy with me here?”
Nodded. Having come this far, what defines a person? I didn’t want to discuss anything like that. That’s what the philosophers who will appear someday will do, not me.
‘A different world is probably…….’
You are referring to Brightest Darkness 3.
And furthermore, even Brunet 1.
As users guessed through the list of items and descriptions that appeared in the game, it was the same worldview from brunet 1 to 3, only the timeline was different.
Summarizing the words of the goddess, Nyx seemed to be an NPC that appeared in Brunet 3. No, it might be ambiguous to call them NPCs now. He said he came from another world.
It was so complicated that it felt like his head was pounding. I only played 200 hours of Brunet 3, so my memory was vague, but there were no NPCs that could be called witches.
So who the hell was Nyx?
Leaving my doubts behind, the goddess continued.
“The fact that the child’s personality split into two is also a side effect of having crossed the world and accepting some of my powers.”
“……You accepted the power?”
“Yes, it is.”
“But I didn’t feel any divine power from Nyx—”
“Because it was fundamentally different from such kind powers.”
The light group let out a small sigh. No, it seemed to exhale.
“What did the little witch confess to doing to you?”
“They said they cast two spells on me.”
“Neither of these are powers that can be used as human souls. If I did something wrong, my mind would have collapsed.”
“Yes?”
“That’s why the little witch’s personality was divided into two. To share the burden.”
I never thought there would be such an inside story.
In the game, it was just someone walking down the street grabbing a newly created magic and testing it, but here, the result was the same, but the process was changed to a completely different magic.
How did you know that without any information?
‘…… Wait for a sec. Then why did you use magic?’
Judging from my way of speaking and actions, I can guess that the god of Seongguk cared for or liked me quite a bit. Then, why would it not have been better if they had brought it here and provided a lot of support for this and that?
It would have been much better to have decided and pushed from the beginning rather than giving a penalty by walking to such magic. That side can make me grow much faster.
It is even more so when I think of the hardships I went through in the beginning.
“Wait a minute. Then why did you cast a spell on me? If it wasn’t for that spell, I would—”
“You must have already been attacked and killed by it.”
The voice of the goddess calmed down. He paused, stopping what he was about to say.
“The reason why it just went away when I first encountered it. You don’t know.”
I reflected on my thoughts. She even had the World Eater come directly to the imperial palace, but she said something and just left.
“……Is it because I feel like I don’t care much on the outside?”
“You got it right. As you complained, I could have done what you wanted. I could have. But if I really did, it would have dealt with you.”
Whoa, the halo sighed again.
“The best I could do was make it look like I didn’t care about you at all. That way it wouldn’t try to kill you.”
“You mean he’d have killed me if I hadn’t taken all my powers?”
“Exactly.”
After hearing that, I understood a little bit.
Honestly, if you ask me if I can fight and win right after being possessed here or right after the World Eater appears in the imperial palace, the answer is close to ‘no’.
Because I still haven’t learned the words I need to use when fighting him. The moment he soars into the sky and fires his breath, you have to be knocked down. He’ll know that too, so of course he won’t come down to the ground.
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But the question still lingered.
“Then, why am I still alive? He must have noticed our relationship the moment the Goddess descended here. Why did he bother to appease me instead of killing me?”
“Because I’m constantly defeated. Do you remember when he told me he was extremely arrogant?”
The depth felt in the voice deepened.
“When you first met it, you still couldn’t figure out the war situation, but it’s different now. The speed at which it ate the world gradually increased, and as you have heard, it finally left only one world. That’s why I I made that offer to you in order to ridicule you.”
After that, the explanation of the goddess continued for a long time, but to summarize the key point, it was like this.
When the god-forsaken creature died, he came to me in a hurry, thinking that the goddess had created a being that could kill him, but I, the person in charge, was too weak.
Except for some divine power, it was a bit stronger than a normal human, so the creature abandoned by the gods thought it was defeated due to compatibility problems in the fight against me, and just went back.
Even right now, the World Eater himself was winning overwhelmingly in the war against the Goddess due to the difference in their compatibility, so it was quite reasonable to think that way.
Calling it a difference in s*x has a slightly strange feel to it, but it was like that anyway. In a word, it means that they regarded my existence as the goddess’s useless outbursts.
Now, of course, I was ignoring it even though I knew it. If you just listen to the explanation, it’s a strange fight to lose like this.
‘For some reason, he visited the imperial palace at best and then went back.’
As a bonus, it was added that if you didn’t give the power then, you can’t give it now. It’s too much work to prevent him from absorbing the world he’s been swallowing as late as possible.
I wondered if it was okay for me to tell you this, but I decided to hold back and listen quietly. If it was an explanation that would cause me trouble, the other side would have stopped talking first.
“Do you have any further questions? If it doesn’t put too much pressure on you, I’ll be happy to answer them.”
I felt like the halo smiled slightly. While standing still and organizing my thoughts, I opened my mouth to a question that suddenly came to my mind.
“If what the goddess said is true, what was the game I played? Also, what did you believe in me that convinced me that I would reach this point?”
If it was the spec from the very beginning that would kill you even if you were brushed by a rubbish mob on the side of the road, a single mistake could have made the difference between life and death.
I still don’t understand how confident I was, why I had such a firm belief that it cast such a spell on me.
“…….”
The goddess was silent for a moment.
Then, he brought out a very familiar answer.
“That is not yet the time.”
“Yes, yes. You will.”
I did it by chance, but it was as expected. I knew that, and I just passed it on.
The halo receded. As the light that filled his vision disappeared, he saw Lucifer still struggling in the distance.
Come to think of it, that bastard isn’t dead yet. The words I heard here were so shocking that I forgot about them for a while.
The goddess whispered in a coy voice.
“What would you do with him?”
“How do I do it? I have to kill it.”
“I knew you would.”
A halo of light overlapped one hand toward me.
“Not as much as you want, but I’ll give you the best I can…”
“……Well, it’s roughly like this.”
I omitted the conversation about the truth of the world I had with the goddess, and the fact that the eater of the world was actually a much stronger being than God.
‘Actually, I wonder what would be left if I subtracted those two…….’
Thanks to that, it changed to mean that the goddess appeared in person to catch Lucifer, and as a result, her self-esteem was slightly crushed. Well, he’s dead anyway, so he won’t mind.
The five people who had gathered by my side were still unaware of the shocking fact that I had a face-to-face conversation with God.
“So, then… Delta. Do you still have the power that God gave you?”
Aurora, who was the first to wake up from the shock, urgently asked a question.
“Maybe?”
“Maybe?”
“I haven’t been able to take the test since I came back. Judging from what you said, I think it’ll probably stay, but just in case.”
Starting with Laura’s question, she was just about to join the barrage of questions to her knight commanders, when someone knocked on the door. Five times in a regular, regular rhythm.
It meant something related to Cecilia. The knight commanders fell from their beds at an invisible speed. Aurora hesitated until the end before returning to the sofa.
Erika opened the door. A maid working at the imperial palace walked in, expressionless to the point that she wondered if she was a robot.
“This is a call from His Majesty the Emperor.”
“Okay. I’ll prepare right away—”
“I don’t mean you guys. Commander of the Knights of the Silver Dawn.”
The black pupil picked it up and pointed at me.
“Captain of the Knights of the Dark Night. I only called you alone.”