290 – Goddess and Girl
There was a girl.
A pure white girl from head to toe.
A manager of time who was once a fox but was reborn as a transcendental person after receiving the love of a goddess.
When the girl came to her senses, there was a black-haired woman next to her and a boy sleeping in her arms.
The woman’s identity was immediately recognizable. For the past thousand years, the girl has been like a mother to her, and her characteristics match her older sister, whom she always talked about.
The girl, recalling the memory of her moments before collapsing, narrowed her eyes and glared at her opponent.
As she took a step back and got into her fighting stance, the Night Goddess glanced back at her girl and let out a helpless laugh of her own.
“Stop it. “You know very well that it’s meaningless.”
“···Why did you kidnap me?”
When her girl asked coldly, the goddess answered calmly.
“I didn’t kidnap them, I saved them. “If you were there, you would definitely be dead.”
Eterna is a god, so even if she is disposed of, her life will be preserved.
But she was not this fox. No matter how much she is a transcendental being who has absorbed divinity, a spirit being, and a member of God’s family, she is ultimately just a mortal. The moment she catches the attention of other gods, she will never escape death.
“If that’s the case, Eterna-sama too…!!”
“It may be hard to understand, but it was the best move there. “No matter what option I chose, my younger brother was destined to be captured by the gods.”
“······.”
Of course, the girl could not be easily convinced.
Even though the words were from a goddess much greater than herself, at that moment, it seemed as if the whole situation had collapsed due to her betrayal.
But she, the goddess, did not explain all of her strategies one by one.
According to him, the more people who know about the operation, the fewer variables, or uncertainty, and the more solid the future becomes.
No matter how hard she tries to increase the variables, a being bound by the wheel of fate without the power of uncertainty cannot go against the flow. Rather, the more you try to escape, the more tightly you are bound.
In other words, the best course of action is to trust the boy and follow the flow of the plan he has laid out.
“I’ll just say one thing. Everything I do is for my younger brother. “It may not make sense right now, but for now, this is the only way.”
“···Please prove that I believe that.”
“Okay. Then, I will entrust to you this child that your younger brother cherishes the most. “Is this enough?”
The goddess lifted the sleeping boy and transferred him to her girl.
A boy loved by two sisters. If the Goddess of the Night had a reason to betray her brother, she naturally had no other reason than this boy. The most reasonable inference is that she betrayed her brother to get the boy all to herself.
For her, leaving the boy who was so important to her in the hands of someone else was definitely the most convincing proof that could be expressed at the moment.
Even if she had an evil plan for the goddess, it would be difficult for her to move easily as long as the boy was with her. All you have to do is protect the boy until Eterna returns someday.
As the girl let go of her hostility, her tense tension eased, but the awkward distance between them did not diminish at all.
It was safe to say that the two were actually meeting for the first time. Eterna, who was supposed to be her bridge in the middle, was now dragged to heaven due to her goddess’s betrayal. No matter how many reasons there are, it is natural for a girl who follows the Goddess of Time to harbor hostility.
The goddess sighed and smiled bitterly as if she was troubled.
According to his plan, the fox in front of her, Hayang, also plays a very important role. In other words, if she doesn’t cooperate properly, her plan will be in vain from the beginning.
In the end, the goddess, who felt the need to become friends in order for her operation to proceed smoothly, took the initiative to speak to her somewhat clumsily.
“Shall I briefly introduce myself? “Your name is Hayang, right?”
“···If I say my name first, wouldn’t it be a self-introduction?”
“Hmm. hahahaha. “I see.”
The goddess smiled shyly and felt embarrassed.
This situation is not familiar. She doesn’t have a deep connection with anyone except her younger brother. In the case of the boy, she approached him first, so she didn’t have to make any effort to become friends.
Of course, she is the goddess of lies, so it is not difficult for her to wear a mask and deal with her in a pretentious way. She didn’t want to show that to her younger brother’s beloved family members.
“Then what is the name of the goddess?”
“You mean my name? You can just call it whatever you want. “I can’t tell anyone about my true name anyway.”
The only person who knows her name is her younger brother.
···Ah. If we had to be honest, this boy would probably know half of it.
Except for those two, even if you tell them your true name, they will be blocked by the veil of lies and will not be able to hear it properly.
So, the goddess listed some aliases that her fox could appropriately call her.
“···Then I’ll call you Bathory.”
“Okay. “I think this is the end of the statement.”
The goddess, Bathory, stretched her arms carefree and spoke in a very light tone.
“I will probably be caught by the gods soon too.”
“Yes?”
“I think it will be around a year at the latest. “She might be faster than that because she doesn’t have any intention of running away.”
I don’t understand at all. Even though she betrayed her brother, she escaped the hut and was willing to be captured by the gods? Even though she only had one year left, it felt too short for a girl who had lived for a thousand years.
“Is that part of the plan?”
“That’s the way it is. Actually, I don’t know the details either.”
It was not Bathory who conceived this plan.
In other words, you are simply following someone else’s plan. Yet she betrays her brother without any hesitation and now she is waiting for herself to be captured. She couldn’t just say that she was good at executing the plan, but she could only say that she trusted the person who came up with the plan.
“After I am taken to heaven, you will have to protect this boy for a very long time.”
“I’m already prepared for that.”
She has been by the boy’s side since a thousand years ago. No matter how long the total amount of her waiting was, the girl was ready to solemnly accept it.
It wasn’t just because that was what Eterna had done. Ever since she was just an ordinary fox, she has developed a special bond with the boy. For a girl, a boy was also a very precious being.
“And one day a man will come to you and ask for a deal. “His name is Franken.”
“Should I accept the deal?”
“Well. “Considering that nothing much was said, it may have been decided what you would do anyway.”
Are you so determined that you unconditionally choose an answer as soon as you hear the details of the transaction?
It was unknown whether the answer would be acceptance or rejection, but the girl nodded her head and stored the information the goddess had told her in her head.
“What’s the other story…?”
“I think this is all we need to know right now.”
Once the goddess finished speaking, a heavy silence fell once again.
It may be a little better than the first time, but the sense of distance still exists. Now, the hostile feelings had completely disappeared, but apart from that, the goddess in front of her felt uncomfortable.
“I said white. “When I first saw you, my younger brother was borrowing your image.”
“···I vaguely remember it too. “As I was wandering through the forest, I found a fox that looked exactly like me, but her scent was completely different.”
This is trivial chatter with no real meaning.
But such a light conversation rather rapidly broke down the wall between the two.
After that, most of the trivial chatter continued with the topic of Eterna, the common denominator.
I, Eater, as her cute younger sister, and Eater, as the goddess I admire and serve, clearly had a very different image. Finding small similarities among the obvious differences was more enjoyable than expected.
Then sometimes, I naturally fell into a different direction of the story.
An episode that a girl experienced in the forest when she was a fox, and a splendid saga built up by the goddess of lies.
Longing for a boy. Natural beauty. The future ahead.
The two did not need to eat and drink like ordinary humans, and if they wandered around the world during the day, they could have been discovered by the sun god, so they always stayed in a cozy cave during the day and talked.
And at night, she went out and looked around her, looked up at the night sky, and missed Eterna.
Like that, day after day. Time passes and a month passes. Half a year. And one year.
One day, as her goddess had predicted, the gods of her sky came down to capture her.
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She did not bother to seal her divinity, but as soon as she noticed the presence of the gods, she opened the black door, allowing Hayang and the boy to escape.
“···Can we meet again someday?”
The uncomfortable distance she felt when they first met disappeared, and the girl looked up at her goddess, Bathory, with worried eyes. She smiled and stroked her white cat’s head, just like when she first saw him.
“I will definitely meet you. Certainly.”
After Eterna, even Bathory left.
Hayang looked after the boy who was sleeping inside the old clock tower.
How much time has passed? Finally, the moment that the goddess had predicted came.
“Nice to meet you.”
He introduced his name as Franken.