214 – Q&A with the Goddess
Contrary to what I was worried about, I was taken aback by the attitude of the Goddess who accepted the request without saying anything.
“Oh, are you really okay? When you asked me to call you earlier, you said it would be difficult.”
“It meant that it would be difficult to come here directly. I think answering your question would be fine.”
“That is enough.”
I don’t have any particular reason to meet the God of Time, I just want to ask a few things I’m curious about.
“But be careful. Unless it’s a special case like mine, the gods can’t descend directly to Middle-earth, so he can only answer your questions. Even that would be limited to a short answer at the level of ‘yes/no’.”
“Okay.”
Then you should prepare questions so that you can answer them in short answers. To get a concrete answer, it seemed that it would be possible to dig into the 20-question level.
“Can I just wait?”
“We have already finished talking.”
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“Already?”
“Yes. If you close your eyes and open them, you will be able to meet them.”
For some reason, the goddess who told me how to meet the god of time had a rather gloomy expression.
I was concerned about that appearance, but I was hesitant to say anything recklessly because I couldn’t get involved in family problems.
After hesitating for a while, I finally closed my eyes slowly, deciding that I should take care of the business quickly.
When I lifted my closed eyelids, the ruined landscape of the temple disappeared and the whole temple was transformed into a splendid temple with a pure white image.
As soon as I saw that unrealistic space, I intuitively realized that this was the inner image world. It felt like I was dreaming.
‘Where is the god of time?’
Since it was all alone, I felt a bit spooky and hurriedly looked around. Then, inside the temple, I found something that looked like a ghost creeping up on me.
The woman in front of her, whose face was completely unrecognizable because of the bright light, seemed to be the god of time when she saw it circumstantially. From the way she spoke, I guessed that she must be a sister, but after all, she was a goddess.
She doesn’t walk, but floats low in the air and slowly approaches, but her legs are not visible under her dress, so it feels like a real ghost.
I continued to make awkward eye contact with the goddess of time who approached me like that. She had a hard time communicating, and since she was so obscured by the light that I couldn’t even read her expression, I had no idea what she was thinking.
Did I say I had to ask a question first so I could answer it…?
I shook my head and bowed my head as politely as possible. I didn’t want to incur a grudge against God for being cocky by stiffening my neck.
“Hello…?”
After cautiously handing over the greeting, the other person immediately responded.
It’s not an ordinary upbringing, but a mysterious way that sounds like a hum in your head. I hadn’t actually heard her voice, but I thought it was a very beautiful voice without realizing it.
[Nice to meet you.]
In my head, it was translated that way, but in fact it didn’t feel 100% consistent.
Should I say that I feel the emotions inside rather than the meaning of the words? Even though it was simply a greeting exchanged at the first meeting, so many emotions were mixed in a complex way that my heart was pounding.
If I had to choose one emotion that I felt the most distinctly among them, it would be sadness close to affection.
Why? The only reason I could guess was that I was an apostle of the Goddess.
Are you feeling the love and hatred of longing for your sister even though you resent her?
Regardless of the reason, I guess it’s fortunate that he didn’t seem to harbor any outright hostility towards me.
I handed her questions as carefully as possible so as not to provoke her.
“I had a question, so I took the risk of rudeness and came here. You may be a little embarrassed, but would it be all right if I ask you a few questions?”
[I watched.]
“…Yes?”
At the moment, a rather unexpected answer came out, making me wonder if I had heard it right.
After a long time, I guessed it, and then asked again to make sure I understood it correctly.
“So… You mean you were watching me talking to the goddess?”
The goddess of time responded with a nod of her head.
I was prepared to hear that communication would be inconvenient, but it seems that there will be more difficult questions and answers than I thought. It’s almost like solving a riddle.
It’s impossible to directly intervene in Middle-earth, but is it possible to observe? For some reason, I felt uncomfortable, as if I had been stalked, but then the conversation would be much easier.
“First of all, you are the Goddess of Time who gave Hayangi her powers, right?”
[White?]
“Huh?”
I was taken aback when I got an unexpected response from the first question.
You don’t know Hayang? So you’re saying I’m not the Goddess of Time I’ve been looking for? Could it be that there are multiple gods who control time?
“You really don’t know? She’s an all-white girl who lives in the clock tower in the Mirror World…”
[Ah, that’s right.]
Fortunately, the worst did not unfold, but the answer was quite subtle.
Looks like it happened because he didn’t understand the nickname I gave him, White.
If you are your only follower, isn’t it normal to watch it as often as possible whenever you have free time? Then, you should also know the relationship between Hayangi and me, who are the only ones in contact. There’s no way she doesn’t even know the nickname I gave her, White.
After thinking for a long time about how to interpret this abstruse contradiction, I managed to come up with a guess.
“Is it possible that you can’t look inside the mirror world?”
[Yes.]
I see. I have come to some understanding now.
The fact that the Goddess disappeared from her side every time she entered the mirror world, and the reason why the operator deliberately imprisoned White in the mirror world, these were problems that could be explained under the premise that the place could escape from the influence of the gods.
So, is this goddess unable to check how her self and her household are doing? After realizing that fact, both Hayang and the goddess of time felt sorry for some reason.
“I heard a story from a transcendental person called Operator. You said that Whitei, a member of your family, is in danger of destroying the world. Are you aware of that?”
[Yes.]
“What exactly is the danger?”
Remain silent. Seeing her silence, I realized belatedly that I had asked the wrong question.
In the moment of excitement, I forgot that it was a situation where only short answers could be given.
“Do you know about my future?”
[Yes.]
“I heard a prophecy that I would meet a miserable end. Is there anything related to the prophecy and Hayangi?”
[Yes.]
I did it by chance, but as expected, the answer came back.
I had definitely guessed it, but when the answer came out, it felt like a heavy stone had landed in a corner of my heart.
I was hesitant about how to ask a question before finally opening my mouth.
“Is it right that I don’t meet Hayang anymore?”
[No.]
“·······.”
My head gets more complicated. If you get involved with Hayang, you are destined to meet a miserable end, but you have to meet? At first glance, it sounded like a completely contradictory answer.
But after thinking about it, I realized that there is room for different interpretations.
What if white is the key to preventing my terrible end?
If you accept it that way, it is correct that it is related to the prophecy, and at the same time, the reason to get closer to Hayang is naturally satisfied.
Okay. More than expected, the meeting with the Goddess of Time is reaping a great harvest. There was no problem with the limitation of answering in a short answer format as long as I fit the question into the format well. Since she was also responding favorably to my questions, she seemed to be able to shake off all doubts.
However, the good situation did not last forever. It was because I realized that her shape was slowly fading as time passed. Needless to ask, this world of images was gradually disintegrating.
That means she has no time to talk leisurely with her thousand years and ten thousand years. I began to ask the most important of the many questions that still remained in me.
“Is it possible to avoid twisting the contents of the prophecy?”
[Yes.]
First of all, it was confirmed that the method Dorothy told me worked.
I felt much more comfortable just knowing that there was a clear law of destruction.
At the moment, there were enough questions about my prophecy. Now it was my turn to ask another question.
“Is Dr. Franken, who developed magic engineering, still alive?”
‘… Huh?’
Something is strange. The Goddess of Time, who had been repeating instant answers without a moment’s delay, shut her mouth for the first time.
I’ve been silent before, but that’s because I asked a question in a format that couldn’t be answered with a short answer. But now it’s not like that, so why?
Is Dr. Franken, who was thought to be just an ordinary person, really that special?
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I told her intuition that I should ask more questions about him.
Ok, hear me out on this theory. What if MC had once been the Time Goddess’ apostle and he is the ‘precious thing’ the Night Goddess have to take from her back then.
Of course there is holes that a god can only have one apostle and she have White for who knows how many years so for that to be possible he needs to have been in this world for years before that for him to have been her apostle.
But! She looks at him with sadness and affection and he had shown symptoms of having memory loss when he mentioned the Goddess’ name as if he already knew it even though as far as I remember, he never mentioned her name before and when he thought further on it, he suddenly forgot about what he was thinking. Not to mention how even though she hates her sister, the Goddess confidently says that her sister won’t hate him despite being her apostle.
There is a chance for that to be because the Goddess thought her sister as someone who can separate her hatred for her from her apostle that didn’t do anything to her but my interpretation is still possible don’t you think
of course in the end, it’s still just a theory.
A GAME theory.
But yeah I was thinking almost the same thing. It’s just that I was thinking his current goddess snapped him up when time goddess was planning on doing it.