a thousand-year promise
The woman at the lake blinks with a puzzled expression on my request.
“Do you want me to take you downstairs?”
“yes.”
“why? No, how did humans know of the existence below in the first place?”
“Didn’t you say that you have a lot of work to do under yourself?”
“ah···.”
You’re more stupid than you think
Or is it that you’re so confused that your head doesn’t turn properly?
She moaned alone for a long time, pondering, and finally shook her head.
“That’s not allowed. It is impossible for ordinary people to begin with.”
“Are you supposed to be blessed?”
“···right. I don’t know how you know that.”
If you ask me how I know, I have nothing to say.
That’s because I’ve seen it all in the original.
Wait a minute. Come to think of it, can’t we just get a blessing from the Goddess?
When I looked down at the staff, the goddess immediately answered.
[Can not be done. I haven’t recovered enough strength to give you a blessing yet.]
“Well. Then there is nothing I can do.”
To be honest, I didn’t expect much, and it was just a suggestion that I slipped through.
I don’t really need to go downstairs to achieve my true purpose.
Before talking about the full-fledged request, he first took the trumpet out of his arms and showed it to her.
“Hey!”
“what. Do you know what this is?”
“You can’t know! Why is it here!?”
It feels like the first image is broken the more we talk about it.
Well, it might be better now because it’s more human.
Anyway, my request was very easy and simple.
“Could you please take care of this?”
“no way!!”
[Vivian. We haven’t even finished talking yet, aren’t we being too harsh?]
“Oh, I’m sorry about that…. However, this is not real! Even the Goddess honestly admits…?”
[Hmm.]
Even the Goddess, who is easy-going in everything, will not hesitate to deny it and save her words.
In fact, it was not strange to see such a reaction given the scale of the event that this trumpet would bring later.
Put simply, it is the key to the famous prophecy of the Apocalypse of John.
Even if you are not religious, you may have heard the word Armageddon a lot.
A scale that is almost at the level of destruction of the world.
No matter how much the spirits of the lake, they must not want to be involved with such an ominous thing.
The goddess, who had been resting for a while, immediately answered in a light tone.
[After all, we’re only keeping one trumpet, so it shouldn’t be a problem, is it? There is no way it will be tied to another key.]
“I also thought that there was no way I could have anything to do with the angel’s trumpet until before…”
[Think positive. Armageddon won’t happen while you hold the trumpet. Who dares to enter the paradise of healing without your permission?]
Healing paradise. A place that gives off an unusual feeling just by hearing its name.
It was a secret space where Vivian and the spirits stayed under the lake.
As the goddess said, no one can enter the paradise of healing. In the first place, it is impossible to even find the entrance without permission from the woman of the lake, the owner of the land.
It was the perfect place to hide something.
Even if it’s a drakan, you can never find it. Rather, it would be even more impossible because it was a drakan. What god can bless those crazy bastards?
However, Vivian was not at all relieved.
“It doesn’t matter! If it explodes, it’s all my responsibility…!”
In fact, her reaction was so normal and natural.
Even if you had a small nuclear bomb that would never explode, how many people would casually bring it into your home?
The important thing is that when that nuclear bomb explodes, everything around it disappears.
“Where did you get that trumpet in the first place!?”
[Oh, I forgot to tell you. There are guys who want to use this to raise Armageddon.]
“yes?!”
Now, Vivian was almost on the verge of collapse in shock.
I’m a little sorry that something seems to be taking someone who has been standing still and tormenting them.
But what if this is true?
We don’t do this because we like it, but we do it all to protect the world.
“It’s an organization called Drakan.”
“Drakan…? It’s the first I’ve heard of it.”
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Maybe it is. It’s because they’ve been hiding in the shade and quietly until they started their activities in earnest.
“So you’re saying you’re trying to hide the Drakhan from using the trumpet?”
“Exactly.”
“Once you know In fact, it doesn’t really matter as long as you keep it.”
She looked at me with her arms crossed. It was clear that he was a transcendent being or that he was just looking at it, but the pressure in his gaze was no joke.
“You can’t keep it forever. Do you understand what I mean?”
“yes. sure.”
“Then give me certain conditions. Give me a guarantee that you will come to retrieve it.”
At least, I felt a firm will that I could never give up this much.
In fact, the Goddess, who used the difference in price to keep pressure on her, was now quietly observing the situation.
I nodded and answered.
“If you defeat Drakan, I will come back to find you.”
“Really?”
“yes. I swear on the honor of the goddess.”
[···Well? Wait a moment.]
Without a space for the goddess to say anything, Vivian nodded her head and signed the contract.
“great. If it’s that much of a guarantee, it’s believable. Then I will take care of the angel’s trumpet until you defeat the organization called Drakhan.”
“thank you.”
[Don’t ignore my words! Cro? Who is risking my honor at will!?]
“Goddess. Thank you always.”
[Ugh…]
Vivian, who was quietly listening to our conversation, muttered with admiration.
“That Goddess did that to a human kid…”
hey. Anyway, what is a kid?
It’s true that this body isn’t an adult yet, but that doesn’t mean you can’t call it a kid.
“Hmmm!”
Vivian, who coughed and evoked the chaotic atmosphere, spoke again in a serious tone.
“Still, I may not be able to keep my promise. For example, you are weaker than Drakhan and you are defeated.”
“.
“So, I have to put a time limit on it.”
ugh This is a bit of a pain in the ass.
In fact, Drakhan was determined to endure until then, as the original work was carried out anyway and it would naturally collapse to the main characters.
The problem is that it’s around the very end of the original story. If the time limit runs out, I may have to defeat Drakhan myself.
“Well. Maybe 1,000 years or so?”
“···yes?”
“Is it too short? Then 2,000 years?”
[I think 1,000 years would be enough.]
“I know. Then you’ll be in charge of it for only 1,000 years! Before that, let me defeat Drakhan or something. Do you understand?”
It was then that I realized that the concept of time of transcendent beings was quite far from mere human beings.
If you think about it, the story of thousands of years ago that Excalibur was given by the lakeside in the legend of King Arthur.
For her, who lives only 100 years and lives several dozen times or hundreds of times longer than humans who die, 1,000 years is just a bit of a long time.
Realizing that, he smiled broadly and handed the trumpet.
If the original is twisted and Drakhan does not collapse, there will be no problem.
After all, by the time the trumpet comes out of the lake again, I will be a skeleton.
Then who will figure it out?
Let’s trust our proud descendants.
A deal that was dramatically compromised under the wonderful mediation of the Goddess.
The trumpet will be kept by the spirits under the lake until the evil organization Drakhan disappears or 1,000 years pass.
It was a very satisfactory result.
Eventually, the plan crossed the halfway point and reached the end.
It took a long time and a lot of hard work, but now the end is really in sight.
Thanks to that, I was able to get a good night’s sleep without any worries when I returned home.
And the next day.
As expected, the plan went well.
“ha···.”
“Why do you keep sighing?”
“Miss Nam. It doesn’t matter if I sigh or not.”
Rachel pours out words without even giving her a glance.
But for some reason, it was a much softer tone than usual.
Looking back, it was like that when we parted yesterday.
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More precisely, it was from when Henry’s crying escaped the hint.
Normally, the conversation would have been cut off at this point, but today I intentionally actively talked and continued the conversation.
“What. Let me know if you have any concerns. I will listen.”
“you···? huh. You are funny.”
see Again, the reaction is much more mellow than the original.
Even the name of Jintara, which he used every day, never appeared.
It must mean that there is a change of heart.
And that’s probably…
It’s clear that Drakhan interrupted the plan.
It was a sudden cut from part-time job, so it was a big shock. In addition, there will be influences outside the hints.
Then I heard a conversation coming from the other side.
Julia, who was approaching this way, was caught by another girl and was chatting.
He’s still very popular. Even in the fortress, it seems like they’re just hanging out with us, but when you look at them, they’re all friendly.
Let me stare at Julia without thinking for a while.
Suddenly, Rachel spoke up next to her.
“hey.”
“yes?”
“Look here, not there.”
When he turned his head to see what this meant, he avoided his gaze with a sullen expression.
“…and listen to your concerns.”
Oh….?????