144 – Void (10)
“…debugging mode.”
At first, I thought this space was just a space to confine myself. It’s like the sealing magic that that unpleasant mechanical sound is applying to me.
But no.
This space seems to be literally a debugging mode, a place where you can do anything in the name of debugging anything as long as you have the right commands and developer tools.
In this way, just seeing everyone’s lifespan is enough to explain the hypothesis.
‘No matter where I look, I can’t find Gaia. Irene, a member of Gaia’s family, can’t see her remaining lifespan.’
In this doomed future where everyone dies the same day and at the same time, it is obviously strange and hopeful that Irene is the only one who escapes that future.
Of course, simply because Irene is a special being, a detailed investigation may not yield much results.
Still, the only hope left for me right now is Irene… For now, I have no choice but to stake everything on that hope.
Above all, even if Irene herself doesn’t know anything, Gaia behind Irene must know something.
Isn’t it none other than the god of life?
Paaa!
“…that’s all right.”
While observing the situation in the underworld through the screen, he continued to manipulate mana with both hands, finally creating a portal.
Compared to the portals I have used so far, it is very crude and of a lower level, but it perfectly fits the dictionary definition of a portal that moves space.
I’ll go now, wait Lucia.
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“…pathetic things.”
A low, shrill voice disturbed my ears.
It’s an excellent voice to break the gloomy atmosphere that has been immersed in sadness until now, but it’s quite unreasonable to convince even those who created that atmosphere.
“Who… Irene?”
“What the hell are you guys doing right now? Are you kids who can’t do anything without Faust? Faust really did a bad job with his education.”
“…what?”
Lucia, who was just expressing endless sadness, heard Irene’s words and turned her head in an instant and opened her eyes.
Others are tolerable. I couldn’t even catch my dad disappearing right in front of my eyes, and as much as I’ve been relying on my dad all along, it’s perfectly true that I can’t do anything without my dad.
But talking about education is an entirely different matter.
It’s because he’s not cursing himself, but Faust, his father, who has done everything for him.
“What did you just… say?”
go oh oh
“Wait, Lucia. Calm down.”
“Lucia.”
“Irene, what the hell are you talking about?!”
Lucia, who spent her time in tears every day while just being immersed in sadness, is showing subtle anger with demonic energy wrapped around her body as if she had never done that.
The space filled with sadness is covered in an instant and disappears due to Lucia’s madness and anger.
If Irene says something even weirder here, that madness and anger will explode as it is, causing a huge stir, so Iris, Celestine, and Lena ignore Irene who suddenly intrudes and desperately try to stop Lucia.
“Now it’s a little lively.”
“vitality?”
“Yes, it doesn’t make sense that new born things are no more lively than me who is thousands of years old, isn’t it?”
At that moment, Lucia’s anger fades in an instant.
Lucia’s heart is still full of dissatisfaction. If it wasn’t for Irene, with whom I once fought back to back, I wouldn’t have been able to break the bone to dare to talk about my father like that.
But Lucia calmed her anger.
Because Irene’s words and expression were truly worried about her.
Only then does Lucia realize that Irene’s goal was to provoke her into forgetting the sadness of her father’s disappearance.
“…You’re stupid. So why are you here?”
“Why are you coming? Are you saying such a thing when the upheaval is happening in the sky?”
Irene didn’t answer Lucia’s question properly, but that’s enough.
There is no one here who has not heard the voice resounding from the sky like thunder. No, it would not be an exaggeration to say that not only in this place, but also in this world.
Like the voice of Flora that I heard in the islands, the voice to serve Faust instead of Serafia is resonating all over the world.
If you don’t serve, soldiers suddenly appear from the sky and even make it a mess, so Faust’s name spread all over the world in just three days.
Faust’s name is known to everyone, except for those who lead a natural life alone in the mountains.
“I came to ask Faust what the hell he was doing… Unfortunately, Faust is nowhere to be found, just you guys hanging limp like dried spinach. Where is Faust? Is he in Kael?”
“…That’s right.”
“Looking at the reaction, it must have been a few days since I went to Kael. Hmm, can’t I come back from Kael…”
Going from the underworld to Kael is unreasonable, and coming from Kael to the underworld is unreasonable, so it’s quite strange that you can’t return from Kael, but now there are more than one or two strange things, so there’s no reason to bother with just one.
“It’s been four days already, but there’s no news from Dad. I can’t feel any energy in the sentences that are a precious link… What should I do–“
“Well, why don’t you just live a normal life and greet Faust when he comes?”
“…yes?”
“For me, rather, your reaction is more strange. Where is that guy going to die?”
However, Irene is not impatient even if there is something strange about it.
Well, isn’t that Faust?
Wasn’t Irene, who had lived a long life, recognized as an out-of-standard monster more than anyone else?
To be honest, it’s very difficult for Irene to understand that everyone is having such a hard time just because they lost contact with such an existence for just a few days.
“If you truly care about Faust, you should show a very stable appearance when Faust returns.”
“…stable.”
“Okay, when Faust returns, would it be all right if I showed him the same scene I saw in his eyes?
As Irene said, if Faust saw everyone drooping and sad like this, it would be a very big disrespect to his father, aside from embarrassing things.
Just as Faust never tried to worry Lucia by pretending to be strong, Lucia was of the same mind.
As much as she can’t bear to think that her father is sad because of her, Lucia hastily wipes the path of tears from the corners of her eyes.
“But… I guess it’s already too late.”
“What’s the point of being late…”
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Keying!
Before Lucia can fully answer her question, something unexpected happens.
Because the portal suddenly opened next to Irene.
Although it is a very low-level and poorly constructed portal, there is no one here who looks at the portal and does not know what is about to happen.
“Whoa… you’re finally back.”
“Ah… uh…”
When she sees the face she longs for and hears her voice beyond the portal, Lucia, who had managed to erase the path of tears, creates the path again.
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[…life.]
In the void where there is only darkness where no light shines through, a brook gurgles and a voice resounds like the chirping of a grasshopper.
It’s a voice full of remorse, but strangely, it doesn’t contain any emotions other than that.
Even though words are incapable of expressing only one emotion.
[Is the time… here?]
Gaia, who was unable to find Faust even in the debugging mode, stretches forward deeply with her palms open to grab something, but nothing is caught there.
Gaia, who does not feel any vitality befitting her title as the God of Life, just tries to write the end of the story with her face fixed.
Gaia doesn’t want to do this either.
This is because the divine deity of life loves all forms and types of life befitting its name, and Gaia also loves all life as a being chosen by such a deity.
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Killing life for life’s sake, what nonsense is that?
[…it can’t be helped.]
However, Gaia realizes very painfully that there is no other way.
Gaia, who has been secluded for a very long time and desperately looking for a method, knows that this method is the best, so no matter how much she hates it, Gaia has no choice but to do it.
Even if you have to reset life by wiping out all life in space with a flood, once a couple remains in the ark, that’s enough.
Even if it doesn’t exist as a life form, if only the blueprint of life remains, extinct life forms will be able to thrive again at any time.
Just like Gaia always did.
[Noah.]
Gaia calls out her friend’s name and makes up her mind.