Conclusion
After subjugating the Mosquee Queen, the Mosqueers under her control began to run rampant at once.
Mosqueers are quite intelligent demons.
Considering that there are many demons who do not live in the Demon Realm, it is a huge advantage that they are equipped with excellent physical abilities and high intelligence by collecting a lot of genetic information.
But that was the story until the Mosqueer Queen was still alive.
In the battle with Leon, they chose self-sacrifice based on logical judgment and were altruistic and clever enough to provide a starting point for a counterattack to their comrades.
No, is that all?
They killed all the creatures they saw around them without any distinction between enemies and started sucking their blood by inserting their tentacles into them.
fraternal cup.
It was a scene of hell where they bit each other and tear each other apart.
Leon was no longer able to cope with the mosquee’s runaway because he had consumed all the mental power he had recovered from the seeds of divinity.
However, Cindy Phalanx, who took a step back from the battle and watched Leon, still had some energy left.
She took the lead and opened the way for Leon herself.
He had guided Leon through an open road by killing the Mosquee Queen.
At Cindy’s action to support Leon, Veronica shouted out in a rage.
“Master, I will take care of you!”
“Aren’t you in a state where you can’t even properly take care of your own body? Do not overdo it.”
“I still have enough strength to support my master. I am the master’s maid, a sword. It is my job to serve you!”
“It’s the same with me.”
At Cindy’s words, Leon looked up at her face.
“My thoughts are organized. I am determined to serve Leon for the rest of my life.”
“Come now?! Even so, I was the one who served the master first!”
Saying so, Veronica came to the other side of Cindy and started supporting Leon.
Normally, Veronica would not have expressed her assertion so strongly.
However, the battle with the Mosquee Queen exhausted her mind and body, and she had lost the time to control her mind.
But Cindy wasn’t speechless either.
“I am not serving my master. I am serving my God.”
Because it is a relationship of faith rather than a simple master-slave relationship, it meant that he had a deeper thought for Leon, regardless of whether he started serving first or later.
Veronica opened her mouth at those words.
Cindy was the one who looked at Leon with a sad expression until just a moment ago, so how can she change her mind as lightly as flipping the palm of her hand in that moment?
Above all, what Veronica cannot forgive is that Cindy has a bigger heart for Leon than her own heart for Leon.
That was never acceptable.
“Yeah, it’s just one-sided. When did your master accept your devotion?”
“Then you can ask Leon directly. Cindy Phalanx, the holy sword of the holy empire Saint Lane and the blessed saint of heaven, I will dedicate this body as your apostle. Please accept my dedication.”
At that, Leon took a deep breath.
“For now, I think the first thing to do is to avoid this place.”
Cindy and Veronica raised their swords at the same time as Mosqueer rushed towards Leon.
The blow ignores the power of corrosion and sets the mosqueers on fire with a handful of ashes.
The martial arts of Cindy Phalanx, who used to be one of the greatest paladins of the Holy Empire at the level of 10 castles, have just developed into the status of 11 castles.
Although she was chosen as a temporary saint to give a divine revelation, the blessings of God bestowed upon her were not fully digested and overflowed.
By capturing that divine power, he succeeded in growing one step further.
The reason it was possible was probably because her attitude had changed.
Don’t live the given destiny, make your own destiny.
That one word changed her outlook on life, which she had lived her whole life for God.
And it was the same with Veronica who grew up in martial arts.
Her martial arts, which had grown to 9 stars in the decisive battle with the Mosquee Queen, now surpassed 10 stars.
She was also gradually changing to express the emotions she had kept in her heart until now.
“I will guarantee Leon-sama’s safety. Please allow it.”
“It is my job to protect the master!”
“…for now, Veronica. Cindy prepared the seeds of divinity for me. If it wasn’t for her, neither you nor I would have been able to get out of the corrosive nest so safely. So, stop being hostile to her.”
“master······.”
Veronica had a shocked expression on her face, but because it was Leon’s instructions, she couldn’t vomit any more.
And then Leon looked at Cindy and said.
“I am just grateful to you. But it’s still hard for me to make a decision. There are still a lot of things that the gods in the heavens don’t know yet why they gave you a revelation to accept me as a god, and what my position would be if I accepted you as a believer. So can you wait for an answer until my thoughts are sorted out?”
At that, Cindy quietly shook her head.
First of all, it was a gesture of obedience to Leon’s instructions.
“But I want you to know one thing. It was because of God’s revelation that I watched Leon, but it was not because of God’s revelation that I decided to serve Leon-sama as my god.”
To serve God to Cindy was to obey fate.
deterministic fate.
The power of the sky god Styrow, who was given to her, and Shin-an, who foresaw fate, could see the future, but it was not the ability to change the future.
The fact that she was favored by God and received blessings, and that she acquired a new vision of foreseen fate, was determined from the beginning by deterministic fatalism.
It is fate to look into the future with those eyes,
Determining the best choice for the future that I looked forward to was all already decided fate.
Cindy lived her destiny like a marionette according to the will of the gods, but there was no free will of Cindy anywhere.
But Leon said.
Don’t live the fate that was given to you.
And Leon proved it with his own body.
Destiny you create for yourself.
Seeing that, Cindy felt hope.
If you follow Leon, you might be able to live only with your own free will, freed from the fate of living as a doll that hangs on a rope and moves only for the sake of the gods.
So,
“This is the destiny I will make.”
Leon could find a ray of hope that was clearly shining in Cindy’s eyes.
* * *
Leon was able to finish the Demon Conquest safely.
The conquest army escaped the mosquee’s runaway nest of corrosion and moved to the escape coordinates in the shortest distance. .
And Leon, who came out of the demon realm, collapsed and fell asleep.
limits beyond limits.
It was necessary to recuperate thanks to the fact that he exerted too much mental power to the point where he thought that the brain was exploding.
“Then explain it now. What the hell is going on?”
And Leon, who had been sleeping for four days, immediately woke up and asked Cindy, who was taking care of him.
“For what the hell did the gods in heaven command you to serve me as a god?”
“Lion-sama, don’t you feel it yourself?”
“What the hell?”
“Leon-sama’s existence is unique in this world. All things in this world flow according to the divine order. Causality, fate, and names for them vary, but speaking of the result, the world exists in a state in which the past, present, and future have already been determined. Only the celestial gods can engage in the laws of the world beyond the dimension.”
But there was an exception.
“Leon-sama is involved in that fate and greatly twists the result of causality. If only the gods can change the fate of the world, then Leon-sama can be defined as one of those gods.”
Leon thought quietly.
He had already guessed why Leon had such a power.
Because Leon was reincarnated in the modern Earth and returned to this world by returning from there.
Until now, Leon has completely ignored the reason for such a thing.
It was partly because he had already realized how meaningless it was to live as a heterogeneous person for 45 years in the modern world and to ponder the cause, and partly because Leon did not have enough time to doubt the opportunity given to him.
However, if the heavenly gods recognized Leon and began to react to it, Leon could no longer be consistent in ignoring what had happened to him.
How could Leon go back in time and return to the past?
‘No, should I start thinking about how I was reincarnated as a binary type before that?’
Leon thought that the gods in the heavens had given him a new opportunity to live as a binary type because Leon’s life was so miserable.
However, that said, the gods were not aware of Leon’s existence until now.
When Leon’s abilities were fully developed and his influence began to extend to the Holy Empire, he recognized the existence of Leon and began to respond urgently to it.
‘So at least it wasn’t the heavenly gods that brought me back.’
If so, did the gods of the underworld have done this to Leon?
Except for the gods of the heavens, only the gods of the demon world can do this.
However, that also makes no sense, considering how much damage Leon has suffered in the Demon Realm as a result of his return, there is no reason for them to do such a thing.
“No matter how much I think about it, I can’t come to a conclusion.”
But if there’s one thing for sure,
“No matter what the gods in the heavens think of me, I have no intention of moving them according to their intentions. I only make my own destiny for myself.”
At those words, Cindy shook her head with a blush on her face.
“Yes. That’s it. That’s the divine attitude of free will.”
“A god of free will?”
“If fate is a pre-determined result determined by the gods, then the only thing that can change it is free will. Leon-sama can change the future by twisting the law of causality, so I just wondered if it was the God who governs free will.”
Leon looked at Cindy with a new expression on his face.
And the figure of Veronica who pretends not to care and is conscious of this while cleaning the room.
Leon does not know what kind of life the paladin Cindy Phalanx would have lived in the original history.
But at least she knew that Leon’s intervention had changed her fate.
She, who had not originally planned to become a saint, became a saint, and by following Leon, she derailed from the originally planned rail of fate and led a free life.
The same goes for Veronica.
Veronica, the witch of condemnation, who was destined to gain notoriety by slaughtering wizards all over the continent with only feelings of anger and disgust.
Who would have known that she would live a life of dressing up as a maid, cleaning the room, and eavesdropping on her master’s conversations.
eating.
Leon laughed.
“It’s all good, but what do you call it? Because the god of free will doesn’t really like the way it sounds.”
Leon got out of bed and got up.
“Then shall we go to the Pope’s office from now on?”
It was time to go get the promised reward.