137 – Void (3)
“I’ll ask you one more thing.’
[About the life of the family?]
Gaia knows right away what I’m about to say, as if she’s read my thoughts.
A babbling stream flows, and the voices of insects and birds chirping in my ears.
“…Yes, you are quick-witted.”
[It’s written all over your face. Well, I wouldn’t have lost my life. The family of the god of light… no, isn’t it an apostle?]
The shimmering face made of green light, as if it were created by gathering the spirits of nature, smiled at me and then said so.
…You wouldn’t have lost your life.
It’s like demons telling the truth less so they don’t lie.
“Sounds like your mind won’t be sane.”
[You are good at grasping the truth in words. Well, since it’s a devil, there’s no way to do that.]
Contrary to what Gaia thinks, I’m a devil on the outside and a human on the inside, but there’s no need to point that out now.
that’s not what’s important
As the top priority is figuring out how to save the remaining members of Kael, you have to dig into it first.
“Gaia, can you tell me how to get to Cael?”
[no.]
But Gaia’s answer was so knife-like, as if I knew how to ask it.
The refusal carries no weight whatsoever, but it is so fast that Gaia’s will can be confirmed very well.
“…you are impossible too.”
[Yes, maybe if it was Kael in the days when Serapia was intact, but in today’s Kael, where the owner of the Goddess of Light doesn’t exist, space coordinates have turned into an aggregation of all sorts of random numbers, so even fragments of the coordinates can’t be known. Even the coordinates are constantly changing, so it is almost impossible to match them.]
“…Kuk.”
Gaia’s words are so desperate.
Not only me, but also the other children who listened to Gaia by my side, realizing that Flora, Nero, and many other people in Kael had to be left behind, shuddered.
“I can’t… I can’t…”
In particular, Lucia’s reaction is so dramatic.
Lucia, who had been comforted by Nero and escorted by Flora since childhood, almost burst into tears at the thought that the two were suffering.
Lucia’s crying face makes others who see it desperately feel what situation we are in right now.
[There are many tears. Since I didn’t die anyway, it would have been okay, so what are you so worried about?]
“what…?”
[If you don’t die, that’s it. We’ll be able to meet again someday, but it’s really stupid to show tears.]
And Gaia looks at Lucia like that and speaks a little bit fiercely, and Lucia doubts her ears, but soon realizes that she didn’t hear it wrong.
If it didn’t die, then it came to pass, that’s a word choice that a being with the divine power of life would say.
Not only the two of them now, but everyone else in Kael would have been soaked in divine power and would not be able to think properly, but Gaia continued with her attitude as if that was nothing.
“What are you talking about…?”
[Did I say something wrong?]
“Yes! What will happen to everyone who will suffer in the meantime?! Even if you don’t lose your life, if your mind and ego are different… That’s the same as being dead!”
Gaia is not the cause of the current situation, but Lucia, having heard Gaia’s thoughtless answer, began to turn all her resentment and anger toward Gaia.
Gaia looks at Lucia with a bewildered face, and Lucia distorts her face as if she is getting more angry with Gaia, and her eyes soon become red.
“Flower–no, Flora… Nero… now how… how…”
“Lucia, calm down. It’s all my fault.”
“Heh… heh…”
In the end, it is only after he picks up Lucia in his arms and lifts her up, that Lucia’s emotional expression fades.
Normally, when I was like this, Iris and Celestine would have made a fuss, but now, as the atmosphere is the atmosphere, neither of them are like that.
…Now what do we really do?
……….
Gaia suddenly appeared and tried to thank me for clearing my doubts, but Gaia didn’t understand why I wanted to thank her.
Because Gaia also ran to me to express her gratitude.
Expressing gratitude for expressing gratitude is impossible with the mindset of the god Gaia, so Gaia just stared blankly at me expressing gratitude with dumbfounded eyes.
“…Cerafia’s treatment?”
[Yes, I express my gratitude to you for defeating Seraphia and freeing my foolish followers who were possessed by Seraphia.]
There is not an inch of lies in Gaia’s words.
Really just ran to me to thank me and cleared my doubts.
Of course, since Gaia came running, only the alter ego made of mana came, not Gaia’s main body… Well, if Gaia’s condition is the same as the original, it can’t be helped.
[Do you have anything more to ask? There’s a bitch I didn’t want to see here, so I’m a bit reluctant to stay here for a long time.]
“…you.”
[Oops, I didn’t mean to listen, but it was my mistake. sorry.]
When Belial shoots Gaia with a boiling voice, Gaia pretends to be surprised and expresses an apology to Belial.
Of course, that pretentious apology only aggravates Belial’s anger, but since that’s what Gaia was aiming for, instead of being in trouble, Gaia likes it even more.
…Why are you both like that?
“I don’t know what happened to the two of you in the past, but I want you to stop here.”
“…Yes, Mr. West.”
[i get it. Anyway, West? You who said you wouldn’t go to a man who couldn’t defeat you? No way… puhu.]
“He wants you to stop here, you stupid bitch who can’t understand a word.”
[…You’re stupid, who’s looking at who right now–]
“Stop, stop.”
When I hurriedly get in between them to stop them, Belial and Gaia still have dissatisfaction on their faces, but they don’t show it.
If Noah and the story are the same, I think it’s obvious why the two of them are so bad… but now is not the time to be like that.
If you’re going to fight, fight later.
[What… Then, I’ll leave. See you later when it’s a year.]
“Wait!!”
In the end, Gaia, who was about to quit the fight with Belial at my persuasion, heard Irene’s voice urgently stopping her at that moment.
Irene had been just listening to our conversation in silence until now, but now that our conversation is over, she doesn’t do that anymore.
Gaia turns her head and looks at Irene, and Irene looks at Gaia with a slightly flushed face and hesitates.
[Why is that?]
“Go, Gaia-sama… I… that’s…”
[Did you hold on to me when you had nothing to say?]
“That’s…! No. So… I just wanted to… say I’m sorry.”
Irene bows her head to Gaia and expresses an endless apology, and Gaia looks at Irene expressing her apology with a dry expression and does not even move her head.
…What is this?
Did Irene and Gaia know each other?
[I wondered what he was saying… is that all? well, that’s it now You may return to the Great Forest.]
“…!”
[Of course, the scenery must have changed a lot from when you were banished… Well, the punishment I gave you is no longer enforceable. To be honest, I’m happy that I still had that punishment in my heart, but on the other hand, it’s very bitter because I don’t seem to know my own value.]
I don’t know what happened between the two, but Gaia’s words are sincere.
Gaia praises Irene without any pretense, and Irene just blinks her eyes at Gaia, not knowing what is going on.
Irene and Gaia had a relationship… After all, this is just a world similar to Noah’s, it’s not exactly the same world.
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A warm light blooms everywhere.
The space that had just been filled with eye-stimulating crimson colors had taken on the appearance of a cozy garden as if it had never been there.
On that hill, countless flowers bloom, countless trees grow, and countless birds sing.
It really seems to embody the word heaven.
“Ahh…”
And in the middle of the garden, a huge star flower boasting a beautiful harmony of pure red and purple sighs.
The sigh contains two emotions: admiration and pity.
Admiration indicates that you are in such a beautiful space, and pity indicates that he is not in such a beautiful space.
If this beautiful garden should belong to her master, Faust, the fact that the garden had no owner was enough to make Flora express endless regret.
Slowly
Starlight made of pure red and purple begins to allegorize in the form of a beautiful woman. The woman with purple eyes and red hair was not wearing a single thread, but it didn’t matter.
Because the only person she truly serves and loves is the only one she can be ashamed of.
Flora makes up her mind to bring her master, her god, the proprietor of the Goddess of Light, to this beautiful garden, to this beautiful honeymoon.
Red haired waifu….
Tf more waifus