215 – The Goddess’ Lie
“Can’t you answer the question?”
When asked if Dr. Franken was still alive, the goddess of time didn’t answer right away and just kept her mouth shut.
Obviously a different reaction than before. There must be something.
“So, is it true that Hayang helped Franken?”
The Operator said that the source of magic engineering technology is the power of time. Franken, a technology developer, made it with the help of Hayangi, and because the danger was enough to destroy the world, he locked it in the mirror world.
But this time, no answer came back.
Is there a standard for answering? I couldn’t even ask why they didn’t answer because only one answer was possible. Even more so, if I could recognize his expression, I would have guessed it.
“Are you two close friends?”
Another silent answer.
At this point, I have no choice but to make a decision. That she was dodging her answer to all questions about Franken. Seeing as she kept her silence even to the point of asking to confirm that she couldn’t answer, there seemed to be no room for compromise.
I thought that perhaps the key to solving the emerging questions was Franken, not anyone else.
‘What should I do?’
It was difficult to guess something hastily with the information we have now. I need to get more clues, but the goddess of time keeps her mouth shut about Franken, so it’s just frustrating.
After thinking about it for a while, I decided to proceed slowly by asking around one by one.
“Do you know about the Magic Engineering Association?”
[Yes.]
“Do you know about Operator, the vice president of the association?”
[Yes.]
Okay. So far you can answer without any problems. It can also be inferred that the topic that the goddess cannot answer is limited to “Doctor Franken,” Not “Magic Engineering.”
“Is the person who imprisoned Whitei in the Mirror World the Operator?”
[Yes.]
“Her family was imprisoned, right? Didn’t she intentionally stop it?”
[Yes.]
To think Hayang deliberately condoned being trapped in the Mirror World. She couldn’t believe it, but when she was told that she was, she didn’t feel very good.
I think I got used to it after going in and out of it several times, but the mirror world was a very desolate and lonely place compared to reality.
Above all, the landscape of a desolate city where no life exists has the power to depress the mind.
If he knew what kind of space the mirror world was, he would not have abandoned his precious family and stood by. Could it be that the Goddess of Time only regards Hayang as a chess piece?
“Aren’t you worried about White?”
[No.]
“…Are you worried?”
[Yes.]
I don’t think that answer was false. It was because her answers had been delivered in the form of thoughts and emotions from the beginning of the conversation until now, so she could clearly feel that she was really worried about Hayang.
So, is there a special reason why Hayang can’t be saved right away? I’m not sure, but it’s probably related to the complicated problem of magic engineering.
“Then is it okay if I take Whitei out of there?”
When I asked a question, she gave an answer other than yes or no for the first time.
[Yet.]
Not yet. I frowned at the rather subtle answer.
Is there any particular reason why you shouldn’t take it out right now? There would be no special changes in the mirror world as time passed.
It’s frustrating. I just wanted to ask what I should do coolly, but I couldn’t because I was in a situation where I could only give a short answer.
To make matters worse, the goddess of time was gradually fading as time passed. She is now translucent enough to see the scenery behind her. It must mean that there is not much time left.
It can’t end like this. There are too many mysteries yet to be solved. At least one sure clue had to be taken.
“Is my destiny still the same? Has anything changed at all?”
[Yet.]
“Still… Are you saying you can change?”
[Be careful.]
At the same time, her form began to collapse rapidly.
A situation where it seems as if a reaction is coming from forcibly spitting out an answer outside the set limits.
Really, it means that he left me a warning even at such a risk, if I really think so.
Be careful. From what?
I urgently shouted to the goddess of time who was scattering like powder.
“Wait a minute! What should I be careful of!?”
[My older sister.]
···What?
[She is the goddess of lies.]
“Wait. What the hell is that…”
At the completely unexpected answer, I involuntarily backtracked and was thrown into confusion.
In my heart, I expected an operator. Because she was a suspicious man with nothing properly revealed.
Even if it wasn’t him, but the chief engineer, or Dr. Franken, or even if he told me to watch out for Hayang, I would have accepted it without much agitation.
But be careful of the goddess. How the hell am I supposed to interpret this?
She was more reliable and reliable than anyone else. She made many different connections in this world, but if I were to choose the most precious being to me, I would say that the Goddess was first.
Maybe he was deliberately trying to confuse me.
Since he said he had a rough relationship with the goddess, there were plenty of possibilities. If that was the intention, she must have been treated very well. In fact, I’m in a huge panic right now.
But I already knew the answer. The fact that the Goddess of Time gave me sincere advice.
Because I felt a flood of desperate emotions from her voice telling me to be careful.
What is the reason for pouring out so much sorrowful feelings to me, who is talking to her face-to-face for the first time in her life?
Is it the price of saying too much? The Goddess of Time eventually lost her form entirely and became a group of light and scattered. In the twinkle that disappeared into the air, the last faint voice tickled my ear.
[I am always watching.]
With the last word resounding softly like a faint confession whispered to a lover, she completely disappeared.
I was left alone in the white temple, and I chewed over and over again at her warning, feeling my inner world slowly crumbling.
I felt a very familiar and cozy presence calling me from beyond the darkness that engulfed the light.
But now, the existence of such a goddess was not welcomed. Rather, I began to be reluctant enough to step back from the darkness without even realizing it.
As if my resistance was meaningless, the darkness engulfed everything, including the temple, and attacked me.
When I closed and opened my eyes at the same time, I was back to my original reality.
The scenery has not changed at all compared to before entering the inner world. The space where the sunset hides itself and the soft shadow of the night casts a unique loneliness.
In the vacant lot of the ruined temple, the goddess who borrowed Dorothy’s body was standing in front of the withered old tree that was standing alone and showing off her presence.
“Are you back?”
“Yes.”
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I felt it from a while ago, but with Dorothy’s voice and talking like that of a goddess, I felt a sense of incongruity.
“Did you find the answer you were looking for?”
“…Well. I don’t think it’s completely resolved.”
No, it just made things more complicated in her head. To hear a warning to beware of the goddess she trusted and relied on the most. To be honest, I still doubted her memory, wondering if I had heard something wrong.
‘I was the god of night and lies.’
‘She is the goddess of lies.’
When she first heard that from the goddess, she passed it by without thinking. Because the characteristics of my ability called magic itself originated from lies. Of course, it was a logical flow that the goddess who bestowed such authority was a god of lies.
But after hearing her warning from the Goddess of Time, the words hit her differently.
What kind of existence is the goddess of lies? Are there any lies mixed in with her words?
Come to think of it, I knew very little about her except for her long time with her goddess.
I also learned today for the first time that she is the god of night and lies and that she had a sister.
How many more things I don’t know. Was everything he told me really true?
When she first heard about my fate from the witch of prophecy, the goddess comforted me and lifted me up from the shock.
‘Don’t worry. Even if you meet a terrible end like the witch said. I’ll stay by your side until the end.’
You don’t know how much comfort those words gave me.
If those words were a lie, if all of her warm arms that embraced me were fake.
I didn’t have the confidence to hold on.
If that’s really the case, then I…