299 – Reunion with the Goddess
I boarded the ship heading to Ireland and stared blankly at the horizon.
In this deep sea, there was a mermaid princess who helped me.
This is the past before we started a relationship, so you may not know anything about me.
Anyway, from now on, the future will not proceed as usual.
This is because there is no reason for a being called Crow to appear.
My personality, residing within a boy named Cro Morris, lives in a dream on modern Earth. If he doesn’t wake up from that dream, Cro will not inherit his modern memories and will live a peaceful life as an extra who only appeared briefly in the original work.
Yes. Everything will be different. In a better direction.
I thought that one day, after everything was over, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to stop by again and become friends with the Little Mermaid once again.
As I was lost in deep thought, the sun was setting and the sea was beginning to seep into the sunset.
It wasn’t a bad idea to see the sea turning orange and flowing calmly.
The day gradually became darker and a cool breeze blew gently on the deck.
“······.”
My body sensitively accepted even the slightest change and let out a scream.
Yes. My body was still in such a miserable state that it was almost like a dead body.
He came out of the basement with great momentum and crossed the Irish Sea, but it would not be strange if he collapsed at any time.
Of course, the minimum measures were taken. I poured out all the medicinal herbs and remedies that were said to be good for the body, including the evening primrose that I had been steadily collecting for a long time, to try to improve my physical condition even a little.
Even this was only a short time buy, and my body was getting worse by the minute.
If this drug-doped state ends, I may never be able to move again.
In the end, there is no choice but to go to a battle of speed. In any case, this seemingly unanswerable situation becomes nothing more than a minor problem that there is no need to worry about, as long as the goddesses can awaken and use their divinity freely.
But in order for the goddesses to freely use their divinity on earth, they must be free from the laws of this world. In other words, we must completely escape from the wheel of fate.
Island is slowly visible. The time to reunite with the goddess is not far away.
I will definitely survive. Still the words of the witch of prophecy. The fate of suffering a miserable and terrible end remained vivid in my mind. The entire journey so far may have been a history of struggling to deny that one word.
I will definitely survive. With everyone.
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“Haa…”
As soon as I arrived in Ireland, I headed to the ruined temple to reminisce.
I got tired quickly even after walking a little, so my moving speed was slow, but even so, I tried my best to keep moving without stopping.
As I was walking like this, I vaguely remembered old memories that had now become so faded.
At that time, I had just woken up from a dream and thought I had been possessed by an extra character from the world of the novel.
Of course, that was just my imagination, and in reality, I was a native born and raised in this world from the beginning.
At the time, I did not know the truth at all, and I was shocked and reeling from the fact that I had suddenly landed in a different world than the Earth I lived on.
In the end, unable to adapt to the rapidly changing environment, I came to the extreme delusion that if I just died, I would return to the original world.
···I wanted to give up everything and just be comfortable.
It was not that I had the courage to commit suicide, but that I had lost the will to live.
One day with a light layer of snow.
I thought it was okay now and began to trudge along without a destination.
I didn’t know where I was going and I didn’t know where I needed to go.
If I just keep walking like this, won’t I reach the end someday? Wouldn’t it be easier then?
I was just filled with those thoughts and just kept walking and walking.
At some point, a thick fog formed around me and soon I couldn’t tell where I was.
The place I was in before must have been a night street in London, but before I knew it, the surroundings had turned into an unreal space where I didn’t even feel like I was alive.
What stood in my way was a withered tree and a tombstone that I didn’t know who it belonged to.
The blue eyes of the crow sitting on the tombstone stared at me and then immediately flew across the sky.
It was an eerie and naughty atmosphere. So I think I thought it was a pretty suitable stage to die on.
But there was no way to die. I was walking like I was going to die, but I had not prepared any way to die, let alone a rope.
In the end, I realized that I didn’t even have the courage to accept death, so I sat down against a tree and spent my time idly mocking myself. ‘If I keep going like this, I’ll freeze to death someday.’ I vaguely hoped.
Then I heard her voice.
[Are you really satisfied with that?]
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When I think of it now, I miss it so much and it is a precious voice.
[You poor child who has come to a strange land and wishes for death. Are you really satisfied with it as is?]
A woman’s voice heard from a cane stuck in a graveyard.
I looked at the cane blankly and asked.
“You… “Who is it?”
[My name is······.]
As I was reminiscing about old memories, I suddenly began to see her destination in the distance.
Even in the already completely dark night sky, the soft moonlight and twinkling starlight were lightly falling on the field and illuminating the temple.
Beyond the cliffs surrounding the temple, the calm night sea stretches endlessly to the horizon.
It was a beautiful sight. So much so that I could understand why the goddess chose to sleep here.
From the time she first came down to earth, she loved admiring beautiful natural scenery.
He must have been waiting for me to return from here for a very long time, always with the same view in his eyes that I am seeing now.
I think it was a good idea to come alone.
Sharon and Juliet are probably busy elsewhere by now, but even if it wasn’t for that reason, I wanted to come here by myself.
I’m not sure which incident should be the beginning of the story.
Meeting Eterna in the forest.
I woke up and started moving as Cro.
Or it could have been the moment when he followed Juliet into the cave and read the whole story through the dimensional gap.
In the first place, this is not a story about a one-way street moving in one direction.
It is a puzzle-like story in which all events affect the past and future and are connected and interlocked.
Nevertheless, if I had to choose one incident as the starting point, I would without hesitation choose the moment I first met the Goddess.
Yes. This was the true beginning.
It was an opportunity for me to regain hope in life and begin to create a whole story with the goddess as the phantom thief Raven.
I slowly approached the temple.
A temple that was falling apart due to the ravages of time as if no one had visited it for thousands of years.
I’ve always wanted to run to this place right now.
Nevertheless, how long did I endure it, repeating to myself that I should not ruin the plan?
Originally, five years from now, when Croin I lost my will to live, the goddess responded to that feeling of despair and called me here. In other words, the Goddess will not be able to arise directly yet.
But it’s okay. Because I know how to awaken her goddess.
As I touched the monument lying in the middle of the temple, I called out for the first time the name I had repeated to myself countless times.
“Eldina.”
Then, the bright moonlight gathered into one point and illuminated the tombstone.
[···I see. Is this the choice you made?]
The voice of the goddess that I missed so much and wanted to hear so much rang out quietly.
[Raven. I watched you all the time you were sleeping. Even if it’s vague like a dream, every time you look for me, every time someone earnestly calls my true name that no one knows. Always. I could always feel you.]
This is such a strange thing. I must have lived for a long time, far beyond that of an ordinary human being, but for some reason, as soon as I stood in front of her, I felt like I had returned to being a pure and immature boy.
“···I’m sorry. I forced the goddess to make her sacrifice, but I couldn’t even do it properly. Moreover, the future in which the Goddess must meet Crow is also distorted…”
[What a foolish thing to say. To me, the goddess of lies, names are not important at all. Whether you are Crow, Lupine, or Raven, you are just you. You will always be the most precious and lovely child to me.]
As I shed tears without realizing it, at some point the most beautiful woman in my memory appeared and kindly wiped away her tears.
“Goddess…”
“So don’t cry. “I hope you smile brightly.”
I laughed as he said.
The goddess also smiled.