Chapter 42 – 042. Apostle Candidate (1)
“Are you, by any chance, an ‘Earthling’?”
Eunhyun did not answer YuRia’s question and looked at her blankly.
It was a very unexpected question.
I never thought that the word ‘Earth’ would come out of the mouth of the continent of Arcena.
Why does Yuria know about the existence of ‘Earth’?
With various thoughts running through her head, Eun-hyeon decided to answer her question.
“You’re right.”
“Also…”
“The princess is not from Earth. But, nevertheless, the meaning of naturally putting the word earth in my mouth at this moment…”
Eunhyeon thought of two possibilities.
“Either I met someone in the kingdom who introduced me as an ancient person from Earth, or the princess herself is an Earth person on the inside.”
As if she had been stabbed in the middle, Yuria’s shoulders lifted once and stiffened.
While she held the status of a country’s princess, seeing Yuria’s absurd and irresponsible behavior and irresponsible attitude, she came up with several possibilities.
It reminded me of Helena Hubie’s words that she hates arranged marriages and acts like she’s not yet immature.
She is a woman who suddenly ran away from home as if she did not want to be entangled in the restrictions of her status and pursued a free life.
Incomprehensible, heterogeneous and arbitrary actions.
Two of the most probable of them were put into her mouth.
In fact, she thought the first was almost certain, and the second was ridiculous, but she thought it was the most likely after the first among many possibilities.
What was surprising to her was that she reacted in surprise when Yuria mentioned her second possibility instead of the first.
‘No way? Really?’
Eun-hyeon, who had been dubious until then, saw Yuria’s seriously agitated face and her guess gradually turned to certainty.
“Princess. Did you reincarnate on ‘Earth’ and come over here?”
“Oh… !”
Yuria’s small moaning reaction tells us that the answer is correct.
“Uh, how…”
She looked shocked that Eun-hyeon had revealed a secret she had never told anyone so easily.
‘This is the first time this has happened…’
The reason why Eunhyeon was able to immediately think of these possibilities was because of the words of Belldandi, who explained in advance in ‘The Throne of the Goddess’.
[And they say that other gods have plans to follow your example and welcome humans with potential as apostles.]
God endowing humans with their powers and welcoming humans as apostles.
A new plan of the gods that came about because the three goddesses of fate who first tried it made a successful case called ‘Eunhyeon’.
Because of this, Eun-hyeon expected that someday she would meet an apostle of the same god as herself.
‘Goddess.’
Eunhyeon quietly called her goddess.
[Um, I don’t know. I don’t feel the power. What is certain is that the child is not an apostle.]
She asked her goddess to confirm it just in case, but Eun-hyeon was troubled when she heard the answer that it was not.
Is it a coincidence that that woman appeared in line with her own resurrection at this time?
The memories and souls of Earthlings are in Yuria’s body.
Eun-hyeon had heard from Belldandi that if a human soul dies, she will go to the underworld to clear up all the karma she accumulated during her lifetime and be reborn with a new life.
A person who is reborn through reincarnation, or reincarnation, does not remember his or her memories of his previous life.
But what about Princess Yuria now? She was reincarnated with the memories of her previous life intact.
‘Was there a mistake in the process of reincarnation? Or did the gods forcibly settle that woman’s soul into the body of the princess?’
[No, it is not that the soul has been settled in a living human body. The reincarnation was successful, and the soul of the child himself is true in name and reality. Then… It would be correct to say that he suddenly recalled a memory from his previous life. It seems that a god forcibly reawakened the memory of the previous life that was engraved in that child’s soul.]
‘Why did she do that?’
[That…]
Belldandi, who was floating on Eunhyun’s left shoulder, frowned and hesitated to speak.
However, he soon opened his mouth as if he had no choice but to look at Eun-hyeon’s face, who sent a questioning glance.
[This is a rather complicated story.]
Guessing that it was not a story that could be explained simply, Eun-hyeon nodded her head and used her authority.
[Eunhyeon’s Unique Ability]
[Accident acceleration]
As if the world around Eun-hyeon stopped, her activities stopped.
Now that she can manipulate the flow of time with her own body, the time in reality is less than a second, but Eun-hyeon accelerated the flow of thought to the limit, and the time felt by Eun-hyun increased to several minutes.
As long as they are free from the flow of time without being disturbed by anyone, a time has been created where a human and a goddess can have a conversation.
Belldandy slowly opened his mouth.
[Before reviving the child, the gods gathered and had several meetings. With the child’s efforts, it was possible to prevent the predetermined fate of ‘the destruction of the underworld’, but because the destruction was predetermined, the future that did not exist at all turned into a future that did not perish, and all destinies began to twist and change. And again, a new future called ‘The Fall of the Underworld’ was born.]
It was a story that Eunhyeon had already heard, but she quietly listened to Belldandi.
[We had several discussions on how to prevent the reborn ‘Death of the Underworld’, and in the process, a god named a child as a being who saved the Underworld by twisting fate greatly.]
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[You already have a track record of success. Why don’t you accept humans as apostles, grow them, and give them the mission to prevent the destruction of the underworld?]
[But I only tried and succeeded only once. There is no guarantee that it will succeed this time too.]
[Besides, there is no lumber that can be used as an apostle in the underworld right now. And now, except for the seven goddesses, including Vesta, who worked hard to restore the world, they don’t have much recognition, so they can’t interfere.]
[How about calling in humans from another timeline?]
[A different time zone?]
[I heard that the human called Eunhyeon, whom the three Norn sisters adopted as an apostle, was also a human brought by the lower world when the civilization called ‘Earth’ existed? Rather, why don’t we bring humans from the past when that civilization existed?]
[It is forbidden to interfere with the timeline.]
[There are many ways besides bringing it yourself. For example, forcibly awakening the memory of a previous life lived in the ‘Earth’ civilization engraved in the soul of a human who has already died and reincarnated.]
[Hmm…]
At first, the other gods showed skeptical reactions to the proposal of one goddess, but then gradually agreed to the proposal of the goddess.
[Then, do you make a person who awakens the memory of your previous life like that your apostle?]
[No way. You should watch that as well. It’s just a test with a person from a similar background as that person named ‘Eunhyeon’. Wouldn’t it be foolish to blindly make an apostle and cut down on divine power?]
[Not a bad suggestion.]
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‘… In other words, since there were no human beings on the Archena continent in the past or present who could be made apostles, they created reincarnations who awakened the memories of humans who lived on Earth, and are testing whether or not there will be humans suitable for being apostles of God. Is it?’
[It is.]
‘The reason I came up with the plan to create a reincarnation with Earth’s memories is because I, a ‘success case’, was a human with Earth’s memories.’
[Yes.]
‘… There is no nuisance.’
Eun-hyeon was clearly confused about the fact that she had contributed, at least indirectly, to the cause of this situation.
[You have no face… It’s become like we’re entrusting our work to humans…]
‘No. It’s not about blaming the goddess. I’m OK. As long as danger is approaching in the world where humans live, it is not a story that is irrelevant to humans. At least, I think I owe a lot of grace to the Goddess who gave me strength like this. But…’
I felt some sympathy for the humans who suddenly recalled memories of their previous lives in this world without knowing why and faced a confusing situation.
Isn’t it like a lab rat that is literally used for ‘God’s experiment’ by the circumstances of the gods?
Here, if they are not evaluated as the lumber of apostles, the ‘reincarnated’ created by the circumstances of the gods may be discarded like rags again.
Just as if the experiment fails, the specimens are discarded.
‘In other words, Princess Yuria, that woman is also a victim of being used in experiments by the gods by forcibly recalling memories of her previous life…’
Eunhyun let out a sigh and nodded her head.
‘Huh, for now, I understand the circumstances of the gods. Thank you for telling me. Goddess.’
Eun-hyeon came to think that it was fortunate that she had become an apostle of the three goddesses of destiny, including Belldandy, rather than gods who treated her like a lab rat.
At the time of their first meeting, she still remembers the face of Belldandi, who gave her a worried look, asking her to choose again and again, asking if she would really be okay.
[Th-forget the memory of that time.]
After reading Eunhyun’s thoughts, Belldandi shook her hand as if embarrassed and spoke.
Eun-hyeon just smiled at her, seeing her as her own goddess.
After finishing her story, Eunhyun solved the ‘accident acceleration’.
“Did you die on Earth and be reincarnated into this world?”
“Huh… ?”
Eunhyeon didn’t answer right away because she didn’t understand what the moment meant, but soon she realized that Yuria was making a big mistake.
Eun-hyeon, who had no intention of correcting her misunderstanding, nodded her head broadly, and she affirmed her words.
“Yes. It seems to be the same case as the princess.”
“Haaa… Thank god. Still, I wasn’t the only one who fell into this world…”
She must have been quite frustrated because she hadn’t been able to confide her secret to anyone, so she let out a big breath as Yuria looked relieved.
Apparently, Yuria didn’t notice at all that this was the world that was formed after the destruction of the former ‘Earth’.
Yuria, who somehow felt a sense of sympathy with the fact that there were people in the same situation as her, and was enjoying the feeling of letting go of the lump in her heart, looked really happy.
Eunhyun thought it was a story that could easily be misunderstood.
[Are you not telling the truth?]
‘If I tell you the whole story of the gods or the plan here, I might get a negative reaction. I wonder if they’ll believe the story in the first place.’
It’s good that you don’t get treated like a psychopath.
People need a lot of effort and time to properly accept stories that go beyond their understanding.
The existence of the gods, the pre-determined ‘end of the world’, and the ‘tentative apostle candidates’ selected to test whether they can be entrusted with a role that must change the predetermined future.
I wonder if YuRia could understand right now, ‘Ah, that’s right,’ just because I explained a story on such a large scale.
In anticipation of ‘100% denying reality and laughing at Eunhyun’, she was able to bet the meat of the bull bore that she had in her hands this time.
[No, I don’t think I’ll have it even if I give it to you…]
‘Anyway, I don’t think it’s a very good choice to tell the story of the Goddess in this situation.’
Eunhyeon asked about him, looking at Yuria, who had let go of her guard.
“But I don’t understand why you knew the information about the Archis Great Labyrinth.”
“Huh? Haven’t you read ‘Merhen Carving Destiny’?”
“What Marchen?”
“No, you are Korean, right? It’s a novel that’s quite famous in Korea, isn’t it?”
“I do not know.”
“Huh? Then, how did you know about the Archis Great Labyrinth?”
“Is the novel related to the Archis Great Labyrinth?”
“… What are you talking about?”
Rather, after seeing Eunhyun’s reaction of not knowing at all, YuRia was even more flustered and was sending a strange look.
“So this is the world. It’s a world in a novel.”
“Yes?”
“No, so! This world is the world in the novel ‘Merhen Pioneering Destiny’!”
“What… Yo. This?”
Eunhyeon asked back with a blank expression, saying that she had heard the most absurd story while living a rare life.
