284 – True Name of the Goddess
“···Guess the name?”
“Okay. If you guess right, I’ll accept what you said. “If I can really defy fate, I won’t have to say goodbye here.”
The goddess answered the boy’s question casually.
She was already making a decision in her mind.
It would be absolutely impossible for the boy to guess his own name.
It wasn’t just because the boy wasn’t taught his name.
Each of the gods has characteristics according to the area they preside over.
Her characteristic as the goddess of lies is concealing her true name.
It is literally hiding the real name. Even to other gods.
Her name is not known to anyone unless she is acknowledged by herself. Therefore, even her gods call her by different aliases.
All of those pseudonyms will later be recorded as great names in mythology that people talk about.
Nix, Thoth, Loki, Kali, Hermes, Tsukuyomi, Nephthys…
She had many other names, but she was not one of her true names.
The only person who knows her true name, the Goddess of Lies, is her younger sister, Eterna.
There was no way for a mere human boy to guess the true name that even other gods of the same rank did not know.
Literally 0% chance.
Guessing the true name means destroying the divinity of the Goddess of Lies from the very root.
In other words, it is the most reliable way to prove the possibility of ignoring the laws of the world.
The boy could only look at his goddess with a face filled with embarrassment, and even after a while she showed no sign of opening her tightly shut mouth.
It is natural. Even if she was a human and not a goddess, guessing her name without any clues was next to impossible. The only way is to throw out the most common names and hope for a lucky guess.
Of course, the true name of the goddess cannot be the same as that of a common human woman.
A test that was absolutely impossible from the beginning. Therefore, it was the most suitable problem to make the boy realize that he is a weak being who cannot defy fate.
There was no trace of anticipation in Eterna’s eyes as she looked at the boy behind her.
I was filled with only regret, hoping that the boy would accept reality as soon as possible and be in less pain.
But the boy did not easily admit his limitations.
Even though she knew it was impossible, she forced herself to close her eyes and think deeply.
She herself did not even know what she was struggling with.
Following the intricately tangled threads in my head, all kinds of dizzying thoughts disappeared and reappeared again and again.
The goddess admired the tenacity, but also let out a bitter sigh.
Even if she thought about it for a thousand years, it would be impossible to get the answer right just once.
No, even if given infinite opportunities to answer in the first place, the boy would never figure out the correct answer.
The true name of the goddess is protected by false divinity. She is so unrecognized even by other gods that they call her by an assumed name. There is no way a mere boy could guess her.
“Give up. No matter how much you think about it, it’s just a waste of time.”
Despite gentle dissuasion, the boy did not even pretend to listen.
Due to his stubbornness in not responding no matter how many times she called him, the goddess walked up to her boy and tried to grab him by the shoulder to end this meaningless test.
“···Hmm?”
Then the goddess stopped for a moment and slowly retrieved her still hand from the air.
The atmosphere of the boy standing with his eyes closed was strange for some reason.
The boy maintains his posture without any disturbance, to the point that at first glance, it seems as if he has stiffened.
The very slight rise and fall of his chest and small breathing sounds were the only signs of the boy.
Even if you don’t know what you’re thinking, you have incredible concentration.
At that level, it is no longer simple meditation. It was similar to the moment when a saint who had reached a state of enlightenment through long practice attained enlightenment.
Although such humans are few and far between, they sometimes show deep insight and wisdom that would surprise even the gods.
But usually such realization requires minimal knowledge.
Having more knowledge does not necessarily mean being wise, but wisdom comes with various elements such as thinking ability, cognitive ability, and judgment. Life is experience and knowledge that allows you to see the world through your own eyes.
Boys are too young and immature to achieve enlightenment.
Life experience of only about 10 years. Insight limited to a very small space called a rural forest village.
It is impossible even for a genius of the century.
Even if you have the talent to learn ten things by learning one thing, you cannot build a sharp tower from a blank slate without learning anything.
That is creating something from nothing. This is ignoring the laws of reality.
‘···Wait a minute.’
At that moment, goosebumps appeared on the back of the goddess’s neck.
The boy has already proven his potential in a different direction than what she wanted.
But now there was something else more important than that.
What on earth was that boy thinking when he reached the state of enlightenment?
What are the materials used to build a sharp tower from a blank slate?
Maybe the boy is now…
Is he trying to guess his true name?
The goddess hesitated and she took a step back.
I was strongly convinced that if I messed with that boy now and got in his way, I would regret it and it was Marie.
Eterna also noticed the strange atmosphere flowing around the lake at some point and watched the boy with a tense expression.
How much time has passed?
Finally, the boy who had stopped started moving again.
Mouth slowly opening with eyes still closed.
Soon the boy muttered softly in a dreamy tone, as if he were drunk in his dream.
“L… D···.”
The goddess’s eyes widened and became filled with astonishment.
The boy stumbled and leaned forward, seemingly out of mental strength, after only reciting those two words.
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The goddess gently held the boy who had fallen helplessly and looked at the stunned boy with her eyes filled with complex emotions.
Although she did not fully reveal her true name, those two words were enough to prove it.
It wasn’t just a coincidence. As I said before, that is impossible in the first place.
The boy truly revealed the name of the goddess who had been hidden behind the veil of divinity.
Would she have called her name perfectly if the boy hadn’t collapsed from exhaustion?
With such a question in mind, the spirit of the goddess, who had been deep in her thoughts, was carefully awakened.
“···Sister. “What are you going to do now?”
A promise to the boy.
If you look at the results alone, it is only half a dubious success.
However, the boy perfectly proved the essential meaning of this promise, that is, the ‘possibility’.
Even she couldn’t figure out how it was possible.
God was not omnipotent and omnipotent. Rather, it was God who was tied more tightly to the wheel of fate than anyone else.
But the boy showed that he could break the bondage of the cart wheel.
True freedom from predetermined fate, something no god can do.
I can’t necessarily say that it’s a good ability. Rather, if it catches the eyes of the gods, they will judge it as a threat that will destroy order and will try to eliminate it as a top priority.
‘···This child was destined to be hated by God in some way.’
It is ironic.
Because you can defy fate, you have no choice but to face a more certain future than anyone else.
Originally, there would have been no hope for this boy.
No matter how much ‘potential’ he has, he is ultimately a young human child with no power.
The only thing that means there is a possibility is that it is not 0%, and the probability was so slim that it was safe to treat it as if it did not exist.
But things changed when the boy encountered the women who came to her forest.
“Eterna. “Has the future changed now?”
In response to her sister’s question, she closed her eyes for a moment and checked the lines of her timeline.
As we move further into the future along a straight-flowing timeline, countless future possibilities unfold.
There is no one set fate, but we cannot escape from the great thread of fate.
It is a gigantic wheel of fate in which the free will of all beings and the laws of causality that govern the world are harmonized into one.
At the very end, a small and faint uninvited guest appeared that should not have been there in the first place.
Something so fine and insignificant that unless you look closely, you might mistake it for not being there, something smaller than a mere millet.
But it was clearly not tied to the wheel of fate and was floating alone.
“···There is. “It’s so small that you can’t read it closely and you can only confirm that it’s there, but it’s definitely there…”
The goddess heard her brother’s words and sighed.
Her sigh was a product of complex emotions mixed with relief and despair.
It will be a very difficult and arduous thorny path to go forward, trusting this weak boy and relying only on that small possibility.
It might be the happiest ending for everyone to forget the fleeting memories in this forest and return to their original lives.
Nevertheless, the goddess could not ignore her ‘potential’.
She couldn’t leave the boy who tried to call her by his real name like this.
‘No matter who you are, I will accept you as you are.’
There is nothing to say even if you laugh at it and say it is a stupid choice.
But the goddess of night and lies, she decided to walk this seemingly impossible path.
“Let’s go back to the cabin first.”