Chapter 170 – Illya -1-
“Nice to meet you.”
A beautiful voice spread through the space and reached me.
Nice voice to hear.
I’m sure… I clicked on the biography of Sunae that appeared on the monitor.
Then, when I came to my senses, I moved to this space.
Something, something strange
Something clogged up makes my chest feel stuffy, and the feeling that I’ve forgotten something important creeps up.
The existence that greeted me just now,
“I’m Erie. That’s a name.”
Was a goddess
A goddess that Mary Joy denied the existence of.
I resented it a lot, but in the end, that hatred was blunted by precious relationships.
I struggle to open my eyes and face the goddess I no longer hate.
“Why….”
Wings not allowed to humans.
It was torn as if it had been hacked to pieces, and the liquid flowing to the floor created a puddle of gore.
No, it wasn’t just the wings.
The smooth legs that make a goddess have emotions that shouldn’t be had are dark like charcoal, and the upper body that catches the eye when riding on top of them is also not normal.
Countless holes spitting out blood.
The goddess was dying now.
“It’s such a shame to say hello.”
Only then do I raise my head to face the goddess.
Beautiful.
It was clear that her flawless appearance would lead her to become immersed in it to the extent that she would not even recognize the flow of time if she was not careful.
So it was dangerous.
Just by meeting her once, the will to dedicate my all to that goddess began to boil.
“Whoa….”
Close your eyes and exhale.
Repeat it to regain composure.
Then, all of a sudden, I felt a strange sense of alienation.
I… Were you too calm?
When that thought came to mind, the goddess opened her mouth again.
“It may sound complicated, but I didn’t have much time. Would you like to hear the story?”
As the urge to reflexively open my eyes and look at the figure of the goddess soars, I, while grinding my teeth, put my hand on my top.
– Boo-wook!
Then he tore off her clothes and tied them around her head to cover her eyes her.
Thanks to that, there will be no more impulsive gazes on the goddess.
Even if that happens, at least you’ll be able to stop during the unwinding process.
I had to keep unnecessary emotions out of the conversation that I will be sharing from now on.
“If you want to look at it, you can. You want-.”
“I heard you don’t have much time.”
No need for private conversation.
I will listen to the goddess and ask questions.
But my voice… No, that’s not what’s important now.
“… That’s right. Where should I start talking?”
“From start to finish.”
I had to hear everything I could hear.
Only then can I… I….
“Then Lethe’s story must come first. As you know, the world you have been through is her exile.”
The evil god Ashte had said so.
Fortunately, he didn’t lie.
“And, this place, Lete’s place of exile, has been repeated countless times. Because the same timeline was repeated countless times, the world was slowly falling apart.”
“Okay. Ashte of her original world would have repeated toppling this side of the world to maintain her demonic place in her own world.”
“…….”
To be precise, I asked the hero Ed for my guess.
He wasn’t sure, but he didn’t deny it, so he must be right.
By the way,
“I will make it clear. Ashte, he always grieved that he was a demon.”
You were sad?
Then, he couldn’t convey to the goddess why he destroyed the world that exiled Lethe.
“The evil god who loved her and her hero forgot him, but the hero who loved her and her evil god could not forget her. This world is a place of exile to plunge Lethe into her oblivion her… No, haven.”
It was a bit difficult to follow Ilya’s story.
“Lethe, who fell into oblivion, forgot her champion her. However, since oblivion was not permitted to Ashte, who had risen to the rank of god, he endured the distant years alone.”
Having said that, Illya paused for a moment.
Then, after hearing a small sound of clothes rubbing in my ears,
“Look ahead. Don’t worry, you won’t see me.”
Take off the eyepatch covering your eyes?
At Illya’s words of his, he immediately reached for his eyepatch, but he stopped his actions with his teeth clenched.
If you take off this blindfold… You might end up being possessed by that goddess.
However,
“I….”
More than that, I couldn’t erase the sense of incongruity.
It’s something I’ve been feeling ever since I was invited to this space.
“I… Who is it?”
I am Kim Chang-mook.
That is the undoubted truth.
However, I couldn’t erase the feeling that the personality and emotions that make up me were a little twisted.
“Look ahead and face yourself. The answer will be that instead.”
Does Ilya have a crush on me?
Or are you acting like that?
– Seruk.
Does not matter.
The important thing is that Ilya was dying right now.
The only way to know the answer is to lower the blindfold.
The cloth covering the view falls down.
Right after that, I lifted my closed eyelids and looked straight ahead to see Ed.
A guy I haven’t seen in a long time.
As if one of his arms had been regenerated, both arms were intact, and they looked more lively than last time.
That kind of guy would follow me when I bent my head, and the same goes for his arms and legs.
It sounds obvious, but he wasn’t following me.
“I… Do you mean Ed?”
I vaguely guessed.
He denied it when I asked him before, but that couldn’t have been the truth.
“Looking back, it didn’t make sense. From reviving that gigantic world tree in time, to vampirism’s revenge. All of these things were possible because it was me.”
As if familiar, they cross their arms and close their eyes gently.
What I have to do next
That’s probably… It must be helping another me, Kim Chang-mook.
“I figured out what I had to do. Then, what will become of the world I have been through?”
If my world was destroyed
What should I do?
“Uh… Well….”
Illya’s face was nowhere to be seen.
However, the soft voice that came from beyond this mirror-like thing informed me that the goddess was there.
Then she thought about something of her own, and then she spoke again.
“When I thought, you were a little… The lighter one looks better. So… Yaap!”
As the goddess spat out an incomprehensible sound and cheered up, I had the illusion that something intangible was penetrating me.
I was a little taken aback, but I tilted my head as nothing had changed.
“Yes?”
The face in the mirror is Ed’s, not mine.
It was a little, ugly to see him tilt his head with his face.
“Wow, chew.”
A natural reaction came out of his mouth as he frowned at the scene as if the man was acting cute.
It was only then that I realized that the discomfort was gone.
“Sup, what is it? Something… Goddess. What have you done to me?”
“Yes that’s right. I lowered my intelligence a little bit and brought my frivolity back to normal.”
“What? Frivolity? This….”
I wanted to swear at him for a moment, but I can’t deny it.
Just a moment ago, my mind was clear as if I had become a sage, but now… Because I felt like I had ADHD.
I felt that way right away, so it was only natural that I couldn’t deny it.
“So, what is it? You mean I’m Ed and Ed is me?”
“You’re right. You, who achieved the oblivion you so longed for by finishing everything, returned to this world again.”
“…….”
Illya said.
She Turned my frivolity back on me and lowered my intelligence a bit.
No matter how low his intelligence was, he could fully understand the goddess ‘words now.
“So… Ash Te, who became an evil spirit, loved Lete even after that, and in the end, she destroyed the world that was exiled for a long time to forget him?”
“It’s a little bit wrong, but it’s right.”
“Anyway, Ashte did her part her and she was rewarded with oblivion.”
“It is.”
Her head her rolled tight.
If it had been this much before, it would have been leisurely, but perhaps because of the lack of intelligence, the head her started to heat up.
“So in the end… The forgotten Ashte is me, Kim Chang-mook?”
“Exactly.”
Without the slightest denial, an immediate answer came out.
I don’t understand exactly… It was said that I was not an outsider from the beginning.
“No, what kind of reward would make a person an orphan in another world?”
“It is a misunderstanding. It was not meant that you were an orphan, nor was it that you were sent to another world.”
I’m glad.
If the goddess had acknowledged it, I wouldn’t have held back my anger.
“Coming back, this world has been ruined by Lethe’s replaying the world for oblivion. That is why we must turn the world clock back.”
“You mean if I do that, the world will be saved?”
“Of course.”
If so, I will surely fulfill the goddess’ wish.
If each other’s purpose is the same, they will be no different from colleagues.
However, Ilya was deftly changing his words now.
“By the way.”
My world.
A world where I disappeared, where precious girls exist.
“How is my world?”
The goddess was avoiding mentioning the world where the girls who had bonded with me, whose name was Kim Chang-mook, existed.
