Chapter 16. Facing the Goddess (2)
In the low silence, Ludwig gently met Hypresia’s eyes.
Where should I ask The answer to that has already been decided.
It may have been the root of everything, and for him, the truth he had to dig the most.
“I remember what you said with your mouth before. To put it like a puzzle, it brought me here because I was an abandoned piece.”
“Yes, it was.”
“That ‘one piece’ part comes to mind. What is my reason for being in this world?”
Each of the hundred-piece puzzle is of equal value.
The unique value required to complete the puzzle, regardless of its size or shape.
Then, when this world is compared to a puzzle, what is ‘completion’?
It was there that Ludwig did not understand the most.
About what role you play in this world and what value you have as a puzzle piece.
“That is a fundamental question. But that’s why it’s also a question I like.”
Hypresia was satisfied with what, and for the first time since meeting her today, she approached the lamp hanging on the wall with a calm smile.
Are they even aware of the existence of the goddess?
The lamp seemed to greet her with a stronger light, just like when she had just materialized.
Hypresia smiled faintly at him, picked up the lamp, and slowly approached Ludwig.
Somehow, in his eyes, she looked like a teacher bringing textbooks before class.
“What do you think the world is?”
“… It’s a very difficult question.”
I wonder if there are fewer people who have thought of that in the first place.
Above all, the meaning of the word ‘world’ felt quite comprehensive.
Some people simply refer to this country they live in as ‘the world’, while others may even include the concept of the universe or dimension beyond it.
When Ludwig frowned, unable to answer her question properly, Hypresia nodded calmly and shrugged her shoulders as if it could be so.
“Hmm. Well, it must have been a rather difficult question to ask you, who are not even observers. Then let me explain a little bit.”
Hypresia continued her speech while gently twisting her platinum-colored hair with her fingers.
Ludwig, who was watching Emilia’s body doing things that she didn’t usually take, felt strange.
It felt like talking to Emilia, whose personality had changed.
“There is a big difference between the world you humans refer to and the world we gods, so-called ‘watchers’ refer to.”
Following Hypresia’s touch, a golden line was drawn in the air.
As if scribbling on a wall with chalk, she freely draws something with those lines.
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Just like that, a few pictures that looked like unidentified lumps appeared in the air.
“For example, let’s assume that this world is the one you lived in. And this world is where you are now.”
The world where Ludwig lived was round, and the present world was square.
Hypresia drew something like a long stick in the center of each picture and continued her explanation.
“These worlds are both worlds that I control. Gods are given the world to contemplate according to each person’s ability and authority.”
“How many are there?”
“Hey, stupid boy. Even if you count all the sand on the sandy beach, it will be less than this.”
Hypresia snorted and passed his question lightly.
That would mean there are so many that it’s pointless to count them.
If so, what kind of power do the creators of the gods have to take care of so many worlds one by one?
A fundamental question popped into Ludwig’s mind.
“Anyway, the role of our observers is to rule over this endowed world and help bring it to its end.”
“You mean you weren’t the creator of this world?”
“yes. We are only in the role of governing the created world. A manager, but not a creator.”
an unexpected fact.
Because I thought that the existence of God that Ludwig imagined was those who conceived a specific world and molded it like clay.
Besides, the word ‘end’ was also quite a concern.
That there is an end to the world, it sounded as if all the worlds were one story, as if there was an end to a story.
“Looks like you noticed a little bit. Yes, as you think, all worlds belong to a story, and we have a role in bringing it to the end.”
“Does that mean that any world is bound to perish?”
“No, it is different from destruction. The end we speak of is literally the end of the story. It is not the concept that a meteorite fell, the universe exploded and the world was destroyed.”
I couldn’t know any more.
If so, what does the ending of the story refer to?
If the story given to each world is different, are the gods the ones who make it possible to reach it completely while looking into the future?
As Ludwig’s question deepened, Hypresia, who was looking at it with interest, made a small book in the air.
“Suppose you have a book. The story ends with the prince saving the princess and living peacefully. Now, do you think this world will end here?”
“Isn’t it? If the fixed story ends there… … .”
“Why do you think so? How will the princess live after giving birth to the prince’s child, how many children will there be, and when the two will die. Have you ever imagined something like that?”
Ludwig couldn’t say anything at the woman’s question as he cut off his words.
Of course there is. No, it would be normal for anyone who has read the book to do so.
Ludwig was no exception.
Soon after, without saying a word, he gave a small nod, and Hypresia, smiling contentedly, gestured lightly at the book and cleared her throat.
“In other words, the ‘end of the world’ we speak of is of the same type. Our mission is to make the prince completely reach the point of saving the princess. The story that follows is solely the role of the inhabitants of that world.”
After shedding her rhyme once, Hypresia spoke without hesitation in a dignified tone unique to a goddess.
“And you are the person necessary for this world to come to an end.”
“Can you tell me what that role is?”
“Well, to put it simply, it would be an axis. It’s a role similar to the stick I drew here.”
A long stick placed in the center of Hypresia’s painting in the air.
Ludwig had been curious about the identity of the car all along, so I would have thought it was his role.
“In order for the world to roll, this ‘axis of the world’ is necessary. It’s like the world can’t come to an end because there’s no such thing, but it’s easy to creak.”
“You mean I was the axis.”
“yes. Occasionally this happens because of the creator’s mistake. Since I am the observer who rules that world and this world at the same time, I knew right away that you were a necessary axis for this world.”
Does that mean that he brought them to this world by force?
Only then did Ludwig understand a little of why he had come here.
However, there was one tricky part.
“Then, when I came to this world, why did I come with the body of a person I should have been taken from instead of being born anew?”
If it turns out that this world didn’t run properly because he wasn’t there, shouldn’t I have noticed from the time this world was created.
If so, when Ludwig came to this world, it would have to be a child just conceived in the womb, not a four-year-old child.
But for some reason, he was born with the body of a character named Ludwig Eifretz stolen. Even a four-year-old.
“It must be difficult even for me to know about that part.”
“Is there something that even God doesn’t know?”
“God does not mean that he knows everyone in heaven and earth. Besides, you weren’t originally the ‘axis of the world’. However, for some reason, it just changed that way. This was the first time even for me.”
What kind of trigger, what the hell?
When Ludwig was in the other world, there was no memory of experiencing such a miraculous event at all.
He was just an ordinary human being, living a life like everyone else… … .
“ah.”
At that moment, something flashed through Ludwig’s mind.
After all, there was only one.
It was an act that was nothing special in the other world, but from the point of view of the residents of this world, it was an absurd experience.
“‘I swear to Yuluhua’…”
yes, that book
It is a novel that is the source of this world, and it gave him knowledge about this world, and it was the cultural artifact he encountered the most right before entering this world.
Maybe the moment I saw it, this fate was decided.
The puzzles were being put together one by one in Ludwig’s head, and the smile on Hypresia’s lips as she watched them grew wider.
I never thought I could infer something that even God couldn’t fathom.
It was quite brainy for an immature human being.
“Yeah, it seems you’ve roughly understood it.”
“… Yes, a little bit.”
The reason why I came to this world with this is to some extent correct.
However, a few more questions remained.
If so, ‘I swear to Yulu Flower’, the story that will be the origin of this world.
Why did Christian Wistenbach, the main character who led the flow of all the stories in the novel, die?
What is the curse entangled in the eyes of a girl named Emilia Bayemurn?
Although he was not sure, Ludwig somehow had a hunch that the reason he had come here and all those events were closely related.
That’s why I asked the goddess again.
“Are you like the main character in the story ‘Axis of the World’?”
If the two were identified, it was possible to assume that Christian died because of his existence.
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Just as two suns do not exist under the sky, the existence of the axis of the world and the main character of this world met and one side disappeared. Maybe it’s a story with some potential.
Of course, even so, I didn’t mean to feel guilty now or shed tears for someone I hadn’t met.
I was just curious.
As someone who loved this world more than anyone else, the deeper truth of this world.