285 – A Thousand Years of Waiting
When the boy woke up from a deep sleep, the world had already become dark with dusk.
The boy looked up at the ceiling of the hut blankly for a moment, then belatedly came to his senses and hurriedly raised his upper body.
This is because I thought of the ominous possibility that they might have left while I was asleep without even saying goodbye.
But fortunately, the two goddesses were sitting at the window table and waiting for the boy to wake up.
The boy sighed in relief when he saw that and then asked with a worried expression.
“Weren’t we supposed to leave as soon as night fell…?”
“It would have been like that originally.”
The goddess answered calmly, stood up from her seat and slowly approached her boy.
“I’m asking just in case, do you know what my name is?”
“Name… For sure···.”
When her boy frowned slightly and placed his hand on her head, the goddess immediately stretched out her arm to stop him.
“Don’t think any more. It would be difficult if she lost her mind and fell down again. “It doesn’t seem like you have enough uncertainty yet to completely guess my name.”
“···Uncertainty?”
When an unfamiliar word he had never heard of appeared, the boy repeated in a daze.
“It is a temporary name. The ‘possibility’ you proved is the power to defy confirmed fate. That ability can literally make the world expand into uncertain probabilities and possibilities.”
“I have that kind of power? “Why?”
After answering that question, she shook her head slightly and said.
“We thought about it too, but couldn’t find a clear answer. “When I looked at your past, there was nothing special about it.”
“All I can guess is that you were born with that power. “Maybe it’s a preparedness plan that the Wheel of Fortune has put in place on purpose.”
The boy did not understand what the goddess said.
According to her explanation, her own abilities are a risk factor that could destroy the predetermined fate, so why does fate deliberately create such uncertainty?
“To put it simply, it is an initialization device. If the system of fate itself is polluted and headed for destruction, beings subordinate to fate can never prevent that destruction. So, to prepare for the worst, I hid a reset device in a corner of the world that would return everything to a blank slate.”
After listening to Eterna’s explanation, I understood a little, but the question was still not completely resolved.
“In the first place, destruction or reset… “It sounds similar to me.”
“The destruction spoken of here is not simply the destruction of the world. An apocalypse where all conceptual beings, including humans and even gods, disappear, become a state of complete nothingness, and stop forever. “A space where even the wheels do not move.”
Do you mean that such destruction could come?
Because it was too large a scale for a human to understand, the boy only felt a creepy yet vague sense of fear.
“Of course, this is just a guess and is not certain.”
“The important thing now is how to utilize the power of uncertainty.”
The goddess looked at the boy with a very serious expression, as if this was the real point.
“I’ll ask you one last question. Do you want to pioneer a future with us no matter what hardships there may be in the future?”
The answer was decided from the beginning.
“Yes. “I will never run away and fight until the end.”
“···Okay. Well, let me explain now. “A way to twist fate.”
She hesitated for a moment and then slowly began to talk.
“First of all, the most urgent thing is to develop your capacity for uncertainty. “It is virtually impossible to defy fate with only the slightest possibility now.”
“Then what should I do?”
“I have to change you. You, who are just an innocent country boy now, cannot face the great destiny head on. “The reason you were able to prove even the slightest possibility was because we were by your side.”
After that, the goddess spoke while holding the boy’s shoulders.
“From now on, you will experience a dimension where values and ways of thinking are universal, which are completely different from the place where God does not exist and fate is just an old and worn-out idea.”
“···Is there such a world?”
“There is. However, the world you will experience is nothing more than a fake stage carefully created to imitate the real thing. Of course, you who live there will lose all your memories of this place and live a completely new life, so you won’t even realize it.”
A new life in a completely different world.
Even if I just listened to the story and tried to infer it, it was hard to even imagine how different it was from here.
“And then?”
“Once you have accepted the way of thinking of that world and developed the power of uncertainty sufficiently, you can return here and regain your memories. Then we can solve everything else.”
“Is that really the end? “Can I just come and experience a different world?”
Afterwards I nodded and smiled at her.
“Yes. “That’s enough.”
The boy intuitively realized that they were hiding something.
But no matter how much I ask, he won’t tell me. Moreover, they are divine goddesses, beings much greater than themselves. If you trust them and leave it to them, they will solve everything.
Nodding his head slowly, the boy asked the last question.
“When am I going to another dimension?”
“Starting right now. “Don’t worry, all you have to do is lie down in bed and fall asleep again.”
As soon as she said that, water suddenly started pouring out.
Forcibly lifting his extremely heavy eyelids, the boy refused to fall asleep right away.
The boy, who was lying on the bed and looking up at the two goddesses, spoke with difficulty in a sleepy voice.
“Wait a minute… “I still don’t know their names…”
You are so persistent. As the goddess muttered softly, Eterna also giggled in agreement.
Soon, the Goddess of Time, who was gently stroking the boy’s hair, spoke first.
“It’s Eterna.”
Then the goddess opened her mouth.
“My name is L.D.”
In the end, she did not hear the full name of the goddess.
The boy once again fell into a deep sleep.
***
A quiet silence came to the cabin.
The only sound that can be heard is the regular breathing of the sleeping boy.
The two sister goddesses, who were looking down at him with affectionate gaze, spent a long time in silence.
From now on, the boy will be in a long sleep.
For so many years that ordinary humans can’t even imagine.
In fact, they did not tell the boy everything.
You will experience a different world, but that moment will be in the distant future.
I had no choice. Even if you are the goddess of lies, creating a fake stage that completely forges another dimension is not an easy task.
If it weren’t for her sister, the goddess of time, she might have needed close to eons of time.
The problem was that they were currently in a position where they could not use their divinity carelessly.
If you use divinity on earth, the gods will immediately notice your presence. However, if you go up to the sky, you will not be able to come down to earth again to meet the boy. Taking a boy to heaven is even more ridiculous.
After much thought, the solution they came up with was this.
One to the sky. One on the ground.
The Goddess of Time remains on the earth to guard and protect the boy. And the Goddess of Lies ascends to heaven and makes excuses to the gods, and then she creates a false dimension.
Once all of her dimensions are created, the Goddess comes down to earth again under the pretext of bringing her brother herself.
And she fosters the boy’s uncertainty, thereby destroying her destiny.
In a way, this was no different from a rebellion against the divine realm.
Because of just one boy. An outrageous rebellion by two of the greatest goddesses.
Of course, twisting fate will not destroy the world or subjugate other gods.
A future that can only be shared with a boy.
The idea was to move in a moderate direction, for example, by bestowing divinity on the boy.
Of course it won’t be easy, but with the power of uncertainty, it can be done.
The two goddesses once again strengthened their resolve and faced each other.
“It will be goodbye for a while.”
“Yes.”
For a god who lives forever anyway, thousands of years pass in the blink of an eye.
Even so, the two were so close sisters that they never spent a single moment apart.
I will definitely miss you.
The younger brother has to remain alone on the land and protect the boy.
She, too, should focus only on ascending to the sky and creating her own dimension.
But the two said goodbye with smiles.
Because I was confident that we would meet again. Because I believed that hope would overflow at that moment of reunion.
They have already started to go against the wheel of fate.
Not even the Goddess of Time could read what kind of future awaited us.
I just believed.
The potential I saw in the boy.
Before dawn, Eterna left her forest and headed to her field to see her older sister off.
When she returned to the cabin alone, she looked down at the sleeping boy on the bed and made a promise.
I will wait for the boy to wake up, no matter how long it takes.
And when a thousand years passed.
Finally, her long-awaited older sister returned to earth.
Eterna, who ran out to greet her with a happy heart, stopped as she approached the approaching goddess.
When she saw her sister for the first time in a long time, her expression was completely distorted.