298 – Creating a Miracle
At first, Sharon and Juliet were confused by the flood of unfamiliar memories.
But soon, as she accepted that even those memories were a part of her, she felt refreshed, as if she had regained something important that she had lost.
Of course, it was difficult to accept it right away because the amount of memories I recovered was comparable to the memories I had accumulated over my life.
“···Cro is the father?”
Sharon, who remembered her friend named Crow, was shocked by the truth about her revealed.
Her father, whom she had been searching so desperately for, was right next to her the whole time.
Of course, Juliet also showed a similar reaction.
“Is this how you met her father?”
She is from another world, a distant future that even she herself does not fully understand.
In her original destiny, Juliet is not convinced by the story told by her imitator, and she comes to resent him. In a way, it was a natural result since she had not been able to receive her memories like they are now.
At first, she was determined to get her revenge, but when she soon realized that the copycat was in such a precarious situation that he could die at any moment, she began to help him. Even though she tried to rationalize it by saying it was for complete revenge, she felt internally confused by her clearly contradictory behavior.
In this way, Juliet’s feelings toward her father were tinged with her complex and deep love and hate that could not be expressed in a precise way.
Finally, the original story begins and the imitator suddenly disappears after making contact with Crow a few times.
Feeling deep despair, Juliet approaches Cro, whom she only knew was key to his plan, to find her father, who disappeared like smoke without any warning.
In other words, the fact that Cro was an imitator was not known until the last moment when he entered the dimensional gap.
The two sisters looked at the man sitting across from them with empty eyes.
As if opening Pandora’s box, once her memory was recalled, it could no longer be taken back. It was impossible to get rid of her memories now that she had regained them.
“···Why did you create us?”
What I was most curious about was this. What role did they play in his plan, so much so that they overused their abilities and created a body that was damaged? Even so, they are ultimately nothing more than an imitation of the goddess.
“If we go back to the beginning, it was a camouflage body used to hide the goddesses’ true identity when they awakened until they fought against the gods of the sky.”
The imitator continued speaking in a calm yet detached voice.
“···Of course it’s different now. “From the moment I started making memories with you, those reasons were nothing more than excuses, and I created them because I couldn’t simply erase your existence.”
She knew he meant it, but that didn’t stop her from being happy.
In the end, the reason for their original birth was that they were nothing more than substitutes for the goddesses.
“Then is the plan still valid?”
“No.”
The imitator shook his head firmly and spoke clearly.
“I realized I was wrong. There was no point in creating a future by sacrificing the present. So I won’t sacrifice you. “I will create a present where everyone can be happy from now on.”
Juliet asked back with a complex expression on her face at that declaration.
“It’s a good decision… “Is that really possible?”
The present is more important than the future.
Who can deny that?
The important thing is that the current and future situations change from moment to moment.
Time is not a distinct concept. It is a continuous flow that continues continuously.
What is impossible today may become possible in the future.
When you have an important exam coming up, everyone knows that it is better to pass the exam tomorrow than to fail it once and retake it for a year to pass it.
However, assuming you study hard every day, your test score a year from now is likely to be better than your test score tomorrow morning.
The same applies not only to exams but also to all choices we make in life.
It is true that the present is more important than the future, which may never come.
However, given the current situation, it is not possible, so we work hard and prepare ourselves to make the best choice in the future.
Juliet understood that fact better than anyone else.
When my father disappeared in my memory, I ran around and struggled to create the best future.
She joined the Resistance to obtain information about God, was forced to cooperate with Drakan, kidnapped her younger brother, and betrayed someone dear to her.
Do not rationalize that it is a justifiable thing to do. I just wanted to have a slightly better future that way.
Sometimes you have to silently endure and hold on to the miserable present.
There are times when you have no choice but to do something even though you know it is wrong.
“Of course I know. The path I am about to walk is an unknown path where no one has left any footprints. “Maybe this choice was wrong.”
It’s not that he didn’t have the same concerns as Juliet.
If you just hold on for 5 years, the original story will begin. If you follow a thoroughly planned path, you will have a much more stable and optimal future.
“But miracles don’t happen like that. Even if she kneels down and prays for her life because there is a mass of fire in front of her, the situation does not change. When you rush to jump over a pit of fire, the minimum conditions for a miracle to occur are met. “Nothing will change if you don’t try.”
In the end, his words were only superficial and had no special meaning.
A story that anyone can embellish and tell in a plausible way.
But that voice contained desperate resolve.
He really intended to jump into the fire, not just with words.
To create our own world without compromising with the reality of fate.
“There is a way. But I can’t do it alone. “Everyone needs to work together.”
Sharon and Juliet nodded at the same time at his request.
***
What should you do first?
Of course, the goal was to liberate the goddesses and reunite them again.
I have the power of uncertainty, but it is by no means an omnipotent power.
Rather, it was close to being useless and of no particular use without the help of a special being.
If the Goddess of Night had not chosen me as her apostle.
If Eterna hadn’t lent her time manipulation abilities through her white counterpart.
Uncertainty would have been crushed to death by the wheel of fate before it could eventually create possibilities.
If you can safely liberate the two goddesses, it won’t be too difficult from then on.
Originally, from the beginning of the original work, it should have been carried out as carefully and secretly as possible, taking care not to be discovered by the gods.
But now it’s okay. Anyway, the moment we completely destroy fate, not even the gods of heaven will be able to touch us.
It was an all-out war and a war of speed. The heavenly gods will somehow desperately try to prevent me from contacting the two goddesses. If we overcome that, it is our victory.
There is no need to be afraid just because God is your opponent. In the end, even they are beings bound by the laws of this world. God can never be directly involved in Middle Earth. The only means of hindering us would be to use apostles or religious denominations to put pressure on us.
Of course, it is not an easy task. Moreover, from the moment the goddesses are liberated, they can descend directly to earth in the name of dragging sinners back to heaven. Like when the gods came down to the hut to capture Eterna.
But by then, everything will already be over. So for now, it’s enough to worry about how to liberate the goddesses.
First, in the case of the goddess, you can go to the temple in Ireland. And in order to fully regain the power of the goddess, it is necessary to collect jewels scattered throughout the world, just like in the past.
The problem was in the case of Eterna. Through a deal with Hayang a while ago, the divinity of Eterna currently resides within my body. It was also thanks to her that she said that the Goddess of Time, whom she had met in the past when she was Cro, was always watching over me.
However, unlike the consciousness that can move freely, the body is still confined in the deepest part of the sky, in a pure white temple.
For him, the power of God. In other words, we need to wake up the goddess first.
The general direction seems to have been decided.
First, wake up the goddess, find the gem, and regain your strength. And save Eterna in the sky and break her fate.
This is enough. There is no need to think further.
Even if you make a detailed plan, the future will not go as you want. Rather, the more I narrow down the direction of my path, the more I am bound to fate.
It probably wouldn’t have been possible on my own. But if Sharon and Juliet help, the story will be different.
Observation and distortion.
This ability, derived from the divinity of time and falsehood, respectively, has potential that is incomparable to ordinary magic. Moreover, the ability that emerges when the two abilities combine as one will play an essential role in this final fight.
The end is not far away now.
“···It’s been a long time. “I feel like this.”
I returned to Phantom Thief Raven, put on my hat, and looked at the sea.
It is time to go meet the goddess.