Became the Academy Romantic Phantom Thief chapter 213

213 – The Goddess of Lies

Obviously Dorothy’s eyes were bright orange.

But now it was shining in a completely different dark blue color.

That color felt quite familiar. Because it’s a color I’ve seen so often while working as a phantom.

I can’t count where I’ve seen it, but if I had to pick just one, I’d say it’s the crow’s eye.

In other words, it was the Goddess who took over Dorothy’s body now.

I asked her, frowning.

“What are you doing?”

To my question, Dorothy answered in a calm tone.

“Don’t worry. Because she has no intention of harming this child. It’s just that I’ve taken measures to prevent other third parties from hearing what I’m going to share with you.”

That is, the reason Dorothy took her body was so that she could not hear our conversation.

“How did you do it? You weren’t able to use your abilities yourself, were you?”

Why did the Goddess ask me to collect her jewels?

She wanted to regain her power contained within the jewel. I couldn’t handle the power as a god until I got all the jewels back, so I used some of that power instead and continued to strengthen it.

“Because this is my temple. At least this inside can be said to be my own space separated from Middle-earth.”

“Is that so?”

“That’s it.”

Silence came for an instant.

The Goddess said she would tell me all the things I was curious about, so she would answer me obediently if I just asked.

But I didn’t know what to ask. There were so many incomprehensible points that it was not easy to formulate it as a clear question.

I managed to pull one out from my mind full of doubts and asked.

“…Is this the temple I was looking for?”

“You can say yes or you can say no. The ruined temple you were looking for is correct, but the owner of this temple is not the god of time.”

It’s already complicated, but even the answers are really confusing.

First of all, it seems certain that the goddess is not the god of time. In the first place, this was an answer that was somewhat expected from the beginning, so it was not that surprising.

If she were the god of time, she would have been given the ability related to time like White, rather than the phantom thief who was chosen as an apostle.

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“Then why did Vivian tell me to go here? I must have asked about the god of time.”

“Because I am acquainted with the god of time.”

Another ambiguous answer came back.

I pondered over the goddess’ answer and slowly thought about it.

If it was literally just an acquaintance, Vivian wouldn’t have bothered to tell me that. It would be more reasonable to think of it as a special relationship with the Goddess.

“Were you two friends by any chance…?”

“No, it was a family. That guy is my sister.”

I blinked at an unexpected relationship.

Well, in mythology, there are often cases where the gods are a family. Come to think of it, aren’t they related by incest rather than often? Is that only Greek mythology?

“I was the god of the night and lies.”

Oh. I didn’t know that the Goddess would reveal the realm she so obediently governs.

Still, it was an ability that matched the feeling I had roughly guessed from before.

The element of magic itself is based on lies, and the element of night makes sense when you think of how powerful it is when it’s dark.

“Then, where does the Goddess come from?”

It was a pity that I couldn’t figure it out at once because I didn’t know Shinhwa very well. Dorothy would have recognized her identity as soon as she heard the director’s area.

“There is nothing like that.”

“Yes? Really?”

“In the first place, the division of gods into local myths is only a classification of humans. Actual gods are intertwined in a much more complex relationship than that and rule over all things. Even the commonly known names of gods are nothing more than labels that humans have attached to them according to their taste so that they can call them conveniently.”

Oh my God. This was a shocking fact that was hard to believe.

So you’re saying Zeus’s real name isn’t Zeus? The most basic concept of the myth we know is information that will be destroyed. I wonder how Dorothy would have reacted if she had heard this.

“Then, does Goddess have a name among humans?”

“Yes, of course. There are also very famous gods that you would know just by name.”

“Yes? Are the gods?”

“Didn’t you tell me? The local myth itself has been passed down through the mouths of humans and distorted. There are countless cases where the gods of completely different myths are in fact one and the same.”

The more you listen, the more shocking the story continues. Then, it is possible to develop things like Zeus and Odin being the same person, or God and Buddha being the same god.

I can’t stand this. I’ll have to ask Dorothy later when she wakes up.

“Then, the name the goddess gave her when they first met was…. What?”

I started talking naturally, but it suddenly cut off.

···Did I know the name of the Goddess?

While her head was pounding, the goddess who borrowed Dorothy’s body was looking at me with a pitiful look and smiling bitterly.

I grabbed her forehead and frowned at her, slowly regaining her composure.

“Uh, how far have we been talking?”

“It was said that there are many cases where the gods of completely different myths are the same.”

“Wow. It’s really amazing.”

What should I ask now?

Ah, the goddess was talking so exciting that she forgot her original purpose for a while.

“Then the god of time is the goddess-sama’s sister, right?”

“Yes.”

“Can you call me? Or just talking is fine.”

“Perhaps that would be difficult.”

I asked with her eyes wide open at the unexpected answer.

“Why?”

“That child and I don’t have a very smooth relationship. Now.”

“…Has something happened?”

At my cautious question, the goddess kept her wry smile.

“To say the least, I was quite playful. That’s why I had a lot of accidents big and small.”

That wasn’t particularly surprising.

Only the way he speaks is polite, but as he said, it was close to a mischievous mess.

Isn’t the goddess I’ve been seeing right now a pervert who always chants harem? In fact, she was not only that, but since she was attached 24 hours a day, she was the type to talk loudly next to me anytime, anywhere.

Her fortress was rather empty because she kept her mouth shut. She was a bit lonely when the goddess she always talked about disappeared.

“Is that why she was hated by her brother?”

“Similar but different. In the midst of an accident as usual, her younger brother, who was observing me, lost interest. So she crashed after me. Quite a lot.”

“… Um. You should have been an example to her brother.”

The Goddess unexpectedly nodded her head obediently and let out a sigh. Seeing her talk like that, did her brother really hit the jackpot? If it was God’s prank, I couldn’t figure out how big it would be.

“So what?”

“The world almost came to an end.”

“…Eh?”

“It was a problem that could not be ignored, so someone had to pay the price. So I received the punishment on behalf of my younger brother, and thanks to that, I am in this state now.”

I never imagined there would be such a behind story.

I guessed in my heart that the goddess might have lost her powers because she fought with some other god, but she could never have thought that she was in this state because she herself paid for her sins.

I wondered if the punishment was too harsh, considering that the existence of God had barely nestled in the staff and was abandoned, but hearing that the world was almost destroyed made me think that was the case.

However, there was a part that I did not understand even after listening to the story.

“Isn’t there any reason for the two of you to have a bad relationship when you’ve only heard about it? Rather, it would be better if her younger sister thanked the goddess.”

“That part is very embarrassing. I took the most precious thing from him.”

The more you listen, the more twists and turns of twists overflow.

“…Is there a good reason?”

“Of course. Because that was the reason my brother had an accident and that was the existence that almost destroyed the world. I had no other options.”

After hearing the story, it was definitely an embarrassing situation.

It seemed a little immature that the world was about to perish and she complained about having her precious things taken away, but didn’t she say that the goddess started it in the first place? The god of time said that he only followed the actions of the goddess after seeing them.

I understood roughly, but it feels like nothing has been resolved in the end.

After thinking about it for a while, I carefully asked the goddess.

“I was going to ask the god of time about my fate, but that would be too much, right?”

“···No. It will be possible.”

“Yes? But he said he hates the goddess. Then, of course, he would also hate me, the apostle.”

“You are fine.”

I’m fine? I was confused about how to accept this contradictory answer that didn’t fit at all.

I wish I could explain something more clearly, but the goddess kept her mouth shut with only a short answer.

“Then… Let me meet the god of time.”

The goddess mumbled her mouth several times as if she wanted to say something, but she finally accepted my request with a nod of her head without saying anything.

“Yes. Please.”