258. Possibility
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Just because you didn’t need to wash, didn’t mean there wasn’t a place to wash. Huge places like showers and baths are of course greedy, but after following the goddess out of the castle, a gray river was flowing.
“What else is this? Why are you so dirty?”
“What is dirty? Is the river in the underworld cleaner than any water on the continent?”
From the outside, the muddy color looked like waste water, but when I scooped a handful of it with my hand, it didn’t seem wrong to say that it was transparent.
“Ugh.”
“It’s just that the color of the scenery in the underworld is what it looks like.”
After saying that, I turn my head and look around. The black forest surrounding the huge castle we just came out of and the gray sky without a single cloud.
From the outside, it felt similar to the forest of the Demon Realm, but there was no sticky air and heavy mana that were unique there.
“Ehh, don’t you believe me?”
After all, the goddess of death who enters the river first. The temperature itself was just right, so there was no hesitation.
When the goddess of death enters the river, she scoops water with a strange expression. The reaction was strange, so I wondered if there was a problem with the water, but it didn’t seem like it.
As I entered the river carefully, the cool water tingled my whole body. The hot sweat was washed away and the heat subsided calmly.
“Wow, the water is nice.”
I want to swim, so I wet my head with water, and go deeper into the river with a splash. Near the center of the river was deeper than expected, but thanks to that, it was delicious to swim.
“Huh.”
I heard a strange groan from the side, and when I peeked, I saw the goddess of death submerged up to her shoulders in the river, her eyes closed and savoring it.
“Huh.”
“……”
“Huh.”
“……”
“Whoa.”
I just ignored it and tried to continue swimming, but I got annoyed by the strange voice I heard and looked around.
Now he is half lying down, with only his face and chest floating. The sight of you closing your eyes and savoring it is something that catches your eye.
“What is the reaction?”
“Kuhm.”
The Goddess of Death, who has now come to her senses at my words, wakes up cautiously. Then, with a red face, he started making excuses for nothing.
“Hey, I didn’t know it felt so good to be immersed in the river.”
“Eh?”
I thought it wasn’t just a newborn baby, and I thought it was making strange noises, but the Goddess of Death squeaked and said.
“I can handle the darkness, so why do I have to move? That’s why it’s my first time doing exercise like this and washing myself in the river.”
“……”
“It feels better than I thought.”
I knew that having absolute power meant that I had a lot to lose.
For example Kulika.
He saved the beasts and became the hero of the founding of the country and sat in the position of the first emperor, but because of his overwhelming power, he deliberately distanced himself from the beasts.
I wondered if the Goddess of Death would feel the same way.
Her mighty yet versatile ability, which did not require a single lift of a hand, took away the most natural and ordinary things from the goddess.
As I was ashamed, I looked at the back of the goddess who had twisted her body, and many thoughts came to mind. Among them, the one that pierced my mind the most was a kind of possibility.
‘If you continue to spend time with the goddess like this, will you know why she wanted to destroy the world?’
The goddess of time simply said that the world was so corrupted that she would destroy it. I know that’s not entirely wrong, though.
Could it not have been that the gods could not see the world properly because they had perfect power?
Couldn’t it have been a very cynical, violent and radical method of salvation to prevent the corruption of the continent because they did not know such trivial happiness?
“Wow.”
A goddess who pours water out of her hand by spreading her fingers. It’s nice to see them smiling, saying it’s fun even with such a simple act.
I couldn’t help but have some thoughts.
*
After finishing the final check to the very end, Sen heads to the door with his backpack. He doesn’t forget to greet the Great Witch who is sitting on the sofa and reading a book.
“Please take care of me.”
“Don’t worry. When I come, I come with the owner of the house.”
“Yes, I will.”
Sen went out with her own support from the great witch. Outside, there were Adrina and the goddess of time who came out first.
The goddess of time had long hair, so she looked neat thanks to Adrina’s braids.
“Ugh, it’s so cold.”
From the occasional respectful speech, to all the appearances of them trembling like small animals. I didn’t like Sen to the point that every single thing was annoying.
Unknowingly, Adrina stood between the two of them and intervened as she nearly stepped forward with her fists clenched.
“Let’s be patient for now. It’s for Daniel.”
“For my brother.”
With clenched fists, he suppresses living. The goddess of time sneaked behind Adrina and went to a place where Sen could not see her.
“That…”
Sen, who didn’t even like that, eventually clenched his fists and strode away. Originally, an ugly guy looks ugly no matter what he does.
From the beginning, the chase between Sen and the Goddess of Time began, but Adriana managed to stop them and was able to protect the Goddess of Time safely.
I went out of town warmed by a little sweat.
The destination is the Phrygian royal family.
As soon as they moved away from the village, Adrina took out her staff from her back and started drawing a magic circle while clearing the snow on the floor.
“Warp magic! You are definitely a witch who is a witch!”
“Clean your mouth, before you tear it to pieces.”
“Yep.”
The goddess of time, who immediately squirmed because of the growling Sen. Adrina smiles awkwardly, but looks at the goddess of time to see if she remembers something.
“Hey there, Goddess. But why did you torment our ancestors so much?”
“yes?”
I thought so.
The reason the witches lived in hiding in the forest of the demon realm was to escape from the eyes of the gods. The gods did not forgive witches for having the power of prophecy.
In a way, I wondered if there was an existence like the iron cell enemies of the witches right in front of me.
The goddess of time tilted her head.
“I never did.”
“……”
“Oh, no. It’s real! The one who persecuted the witches was the god of life, someone other than me!”
“……”
“At that time, the god of life was making known his will through prophecies, but when witches with the same power appeared, his eyes went round!”
Watching him waving his hands around and making excuses, even if he wants to argue with something, his heart goes out of his head.
In addition to that, for a long time, the witches did not hesitate to commit inhumane acts with the excuse that it was to survive.
‘I should think of it as karma.’
In fact, it was because of the witches that dog fighting was created, and human experimentation was more, if not less, than dog fighting.
Adrina thought that the only reason she survived might be because she ran out of the forest and entered the academy.
Adrina, who drew all the magic circles, started to operate while raising her mana, and the goddess and Sen naturally stood next to Adrina.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve been there, but be careful because it’s connected to the warehouse of the Elysee’s annex, so you might step on something strange.”
Adrina started guiding me like a tour guide.
“There will be a lot of dust in the warehouse, so don’t panic and move violently and cover yourself with dust.”
“Fall sideways, before I cut off your finger.”
“Then we have to get out of the magic circle.”
Adrina realized that they couldn’t hear properly because they were arguing with each other even if they explained it, so she hit the floor with a wand without hesitation with a slightly fat expression on her face.
The three of them felt as if their bodies were being sucked into them, and they felt the warmth of warmth spread over them rather than the chilly cold wind outside.
“Even if it’s been a while since I last…”
Adrina grinned and tried to confidently declare that she had succeeded, but the words were not followed.
A warp marker that was designated as a warehouse in the annex of the 3rd Princess Elysee.
I thought that the place I arrived at was also a pleasant warehouse.
“uh……”
A place lit only by softly bright candles. It wasn’t the dusty or warehouse I had expected, but there were no words to describe this place in one word.
Quite a number of human-sized dolls were hung on the wall, and on the floor was a complex magic circle other than that drawn by Adrina.
On one bookshelf are books with somewhat eerie titles, such as ‘Advanced Body Alchemy’, ‘Lion Resuscitation’, and ‘Secret of Immortality’.
“It’s kind of a creepy place.”
“Is it like a laboratory?”
Sen and the goddess of time speak at the same time. Adrina patted her chin and started checking the magic circle.
Bump.
“Oh?”
The door opened and Princess Elise entered.
She was surprised for a moment, then looked at the three of them with a vague smile.
“Did you see something you shouldn’t have seen?”