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***[First Class Investigator]***
No matter how much God does, humans have human stubbornness.
I couldn’t lie on my stomach saying, “Yes, I understand, I can’t go home.”
The Chief Inspector did not give up and left town several times.
Of course, after a few days, I was in front of the village again, but I still don’t give up.
The inspector left the village after getting some food from the villagers and preparing for the trip.
The villagers laughed and saw him off.
“You’re pretty, too.”
“See you in a few days!”
“If you find any good herbs, bring them to me. It will pay off the cost of food.”
“My goat left the house a few days ago. If you see him, bring him back.”
Several people spoke to him as he left.
I don’t doubt that everyone will be back in a few days.
The investigator smiled bitterly and nodded.
“Okay. If I see what the town needs in the middle, I’ll take care of everything.”
The investigators thought so too.
I’ll probably come back to this town again this time.
‘But I don’t know if I can escape by accident at least once.’
The investigator kept his mouth shut.
God isn’t perfect either.
There were times when they fought each other, there were gods with whom they had a bad relationship, and there were even cases where they were banished like gods across the planet.
Like humans, gods are either good or evil, sometimes selfish.
There are things I like and dislike.
Even God is a being who makes mistakes the moment he feels sorry.
That’s rare, but it wasn’t nonexistent.
If you go out and wander like this constantly, you might get bored and miss him while looking elsewhere.
‘I must, absolutely, no matter what, I will definitely go home.’
I miss my wife.
Now that I’m all grown up, I’m disgusted, but I miss my children, and I want to somehow avoid being beaten by my father.
‘I really want to go home, Goddess.’
The investigator let out a small sigh and raised his head.
Walk straight past the numerous small stone pagodas built near the village.
towards home.
He walked faster, remembering his wife’s smiling face and nagging voice.
As I walked, I sometimes carved a mark on a tree.
It is to leave a trace that you have passed this road.
If you can see the marks you left earlier, make another small cut under it.
‘It’s normal up to this point.’
As the sun shone directly overhead, the first-level inspector fell silent.
From now on, it’s a win.
After coming out of the village for a while, the road splits behind it, but apparently it leads to the outside properly at first.
There were times when villages I had already been to appeared, and there were times when I met villages I had never seen before.
The problem is that after that, when you come to your senses, you are in Stone Tower Village.
I’ve been through it many times, but I don’t know when it will happen.
At some point, if you look around, you will find yourself in front of Stone Tower Village.
It seems as if the roads are connected like a maze from where the road splits to the moment you arrive at the stone tower village.
It feels like a rat put in a toy box is going round and round through a passage made in advance.
No matter which door I came out of, it seemed that I was going endlessly on the road with only one conclusion.
“…”
huh?
The inspector stopped and looked at the mark he had left.
‘The beginning and the end are always the same, but the middle is different every time.’
Something flickers like dust in my head, but I can’t catch it.
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Just a little more, just a little bit…
Thinking so, the investigator turned around.
Turn around and look at the path you have walked.
At first it was always the same way.
Same for the last one.
It begins and ends in front of a village with a stone tower.
But the middle is always different…
‘But we still had something in common.’
There were always two villages in the middle.
There were cases where we stopped by and there were cases where we just watched the village from a distance, but the number of villages we met was the same.
It’s two.
‘And I definitely saw a big tree.’
I could see the tree no matter which path I chose.
You will also come across a large, strangely shaped rock.
Every time I saw a dead mouse, it was different, but I stepped on something.
Whether it’s a bug, a fallen piece of wood, or rat poop, it’s sure to step on it.
Every time that happened, the investigator unknowingly lifted his foot and looked at the soles of his shoes.
‘The same thing is repeated.’
The moment I thought that, I felt my eyes light up.
It’s a little different from what I’ve seen so far.
‘Ah, it’s unlocked.’
I don’t know what was holding him up, but it’s gone.
Realizing this intuitively, the investigator started running towards the path he had walked so far.
Not towards the house, but towards the stone tower village.
I think I figured out what the goddess wanted to tell him.
However, it wasn’t just herself that the goddess had tied to the village.
The village chief was also imprisoned.
I have to ask the village chief something.
I don’t know what it is, but it’s probably something important.
However, while running, the pace slowed down little by little.
I ran so much that I was out of breath.
‘I should have thought about my age.’
I was so excited that I found out the will of the goddess.
It was the first time I had hair to connect directly with God, and for some reason I didn’t think that my body was getting old because I thought I had figured out something great.
The inspector bent over and gasped, and heard a goat bleat.
dear dear.
It seems to be a goat requested by an old man in the village.
“…”
Of course, the will of the goddess is also important.
But in reality, paying back food borrowed from the inhabited world is also important.
If you don’t pay it back, it becomes a debt, and you have to pay it back with labor.
I lent the food because I thought everyone would definitely come back, and I promised to work for a few days when I go back like usual.
However, if you bring the lost goat, the owner, the old man, will forgive the other person’s debt.
‘If you do that, the labor will be reduced to about one-tenth.’
The investigator hurried to the source of the goat’s cry before it ran away.
“Eh?”
After breaking through some trees, a large goat stood there.
But there are about a dozen small goats next to it.
Apparently, the old man’s male goat was dating outside.
“This… will you follow me?”
Aren’t you attacking because you don’t want to break up with the female?
The inspector is a bit intimidated, but the debt is at stake.
When he plucked up the courage to take a step closer to the goat, the male slowly walked towards him.
“…”
The body hardens.
Come to think of it, I was once bitten by a wild goat when I was young.
‘He was like this even then.’
Somehow it seems to look the same.
Resentment from the past rose up, and at the same time, fear welled up.
My father has the personality to fight a goat barefoot when he meets him, but he is completely different.
Run away if you can.
But what if you can’t escape?
The inspector stood still, unable to move, and called out to the goddess in his heart.
‘Only when I’m alive can I do something according to the will of the Goddess. Please help me.’
While trembling and muttering so, the goat came near and stood quietly.
The rope that seemed to have been tied by the owner was still hanging around his neck.
“…”
It doesn’t seem like they’re trying to attack.
Please take me, well, that’s how I felt.
I carefully hold the line, but the goat doesn’t seem particularly dissatisfied.
When the investigator moved, he quietly walked by the rope.
And for some reason, other goats that appeared to be female followed one after another.
‘That grandfather, will he become rich?’
After walking with the goats for a while, the inspector suddenly thought that this might be a gift from the goddess.
‘Even the goddess is second to none.’
If you’re going to give it, it’d be nice if you gave it something like a gold nugget.
While grumbling at that thought, he arrived at the Stone Tower Village.
“You’re fast this time. You left a few hours ago and already.”
The village chief looks at him and smiles.
“Besides, you’ve caught a lot of goats.”
The inspector let go of the goat line and grabbed his hand.
“Chief.”
“yes?”
“It’s recurring. That’s what’s important. Where else can you find something like that?”
“…”
“A box where something repeats itself, no, that’s weird. Anyway, something, yes, a document about it, at least a legend. Something keeps repeating, please tell me about it.”
The village chief looked at him as if he was troubled and shook his head.
“I’m sorry, but nothing like that.”
It was the moment when the village chief answered like that.
With a loud noise, all the stone towers at the entrance to the village collapsed.
Stone towers that had been piled up beautifully scattered all at once and rolled on the ground.
The villagers were startled and ran out, someone crying out.
“Hey, what is this?”
“A stone tower honoring the goddess!”
“It’s a heavenly punishment. Something was wrong with us.”
The village chief looked blankly at the collapsed stone tower and suddenly muttered.
“Replayable…”
After muttering that several times, the village chief grabbed the inspector’s arm with a snap.
And then he started running.
While the villagers were confused about the stone tower, the two ran away from the village.
far from town
My breath went up to my chin, and I felt my legs give way.
The mayor is too fast.
Why is this person so uptight when he says he’s older than me?
It couldn’t be done, so the inspector gasped and shouted.
“Cheer, go slowly. I’m going to die like this.”
But the village chief didn’t even listen and dragged him into the nearby woods.
The place where the village chief took him was like a small grave.
A small stone tower was built in front of the slightly raised ground.
“Here it is. Our ancestors, who built stone pagodas as they traveled, are asleep here. The couple’s last words were repeated.”
The village chief knelt in front of the stone tower as if it were collapsing.
“… Ask.”
After muttering that, the village chief bowed down in front of the stone tower.
“I’ve been hearing that saying ever since I was little. Ask… ask… I don’t even know what to ask for. Just ask.”
The village chief muttered and shed tears.
“I prayed and asked the Goddess, but no answer came back. But… now I know. Those were the words of this stone.”
No, stones don’t talk, Chief.
After saying that to himself, the investigator went closer to the stone tower.
On the surface, it is just ordinary.
Of course, no sound came from the stone.
Maybe it’s only heard by special people like priests or village chiefs.
‘Anyway, what the goddess wants to tell me seems to be in this stone tower.’
But I don’t know what.
At first glance, it is just an ordinary stone tower.
The investigator tilted his head and put his hand on the stone.
“Please be careful. This stone tower is probably a sacred object that contains the words of the Goddess. If you destroy it, it will be difficult…”
The village chief hurriedly reached out and grabbed the inspector’s wrist.
That was the moment.
The moment the inspector touched the stone and the village chief grabbed the arm again, something flashed in his field of vision.
The village chief must have felt the light as well.
In the intense light, the investigator’s eyes widened.
There is a person beyond that light.
Beautiful and pretty, but not a goddess.
not a woman
That person.
“Duke?”
The moment I shouted that, the Duke turned his head this way.
Eyes meet.
And suddenly the light went out.
***[Heroine Oscar]***
In life, sometimes reality is more like a movie than a movie.
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Just looking at the fact that I, who used to live on Earth, was born into a world in a novel.
Who would believe that this actually happened?
I thought there would be no more novel-like situations like this.
However, reality always betrays expectations.
‘oh my god.’
Light emanated from the amulet he wore.
The light was so intense that I couldn’t see things around me, but it didn’t hurt my eyes.
Rather, being in the light, it is calm and gentle.
It was as if someone invisible was enveloping me in light.
People can be seen through the light.
The head priest fell to the ground in surprise, and Benno, who was standing at the entrance, was running toward me.
Beyond that, he saw the look of a startled man.
Looking at the face, it was someone I had met before.
That man is probably a first-level investigator, the son of the person in charge.
When the inspector saw me, he called out to me as the Duke, but soon the light filled his vision and he disappeared.
everything is shrouded in light
And what appeared instead were movie-like scenes.
The contents of the novel I knew passed before my eyes like reality.
When a person dies, they look back on their life like a kaleidoscope, but maybe that’s the case now.
The scene where Oscar meets René, wants to have her, commits an evil act, and is executed is repeated several times.
There were also scenes of René marrying Robert or marrying another knight or a man from another family.
It’s all about the content of the novel.
I saw Katrin fall into painful situations or even die.
Over and over again, Oscar and Katrin met an unfortunate end.
At that time, the priest was crying as he took care of my corpse.
With my death, the gods from across the planet who were banished to Earth can return to this world.
Disaster strikes this world.
As if slowly drying up, this world is perishing.
The light was whispering to me like that.
[You are a piece of God, the love of the goddess who gave birth to this world is piled up one by one.
If it dies unhappily at the hands of a human and curses the world, it becomes the passage through which the god returns.]
no way….
I murmured in the light.
‘Is this world going back to the past before it happened and repeating itself over and over again?’
The moment I thought so, the light that surrounded me slowly began to fade.