Chapter 184 – Salvation -2-
A space where Mary Joy lived alone for a very long time.
Unlike usual, it was crowded today.
“So, as the world goes back to the past… Ed? Are you saying that the person named became an evil spirit?”
“You got it right.”
Two people who appeared out of nowhere and brought up an unknown story.
Mary Joy had no idea what the situation was.
“In order for such an evil spirit to save this world, Lete, you… This Ed-“
“Correction. I am Ashte, not Ed.”
“No… Is it so. Are you saying that this world is a world that was derived from your world, and that the evil god named Ed prevented the destruction of this world by sending you Lethe?”
At that, Ashte crossed his arms pretending to be dignified and nodded to him.
“Okay. It’s a little different, but in the end it’s the same story.”
“Then you were the cause of destruction from the beginning!”
Ashte flinched for a moment at the voice of the agent who shouted loudly and penetrated the essence.
After a moment, Lethe pinched his side, and an apple reluctantly popped out of his mouth.
“I will apologize for that.”
“Why did you do that!? If it weren’t for the evil god named Ed, it would have been repeated after the destruction!”
“As expected, you have a very similar atmosphere to him… No. If it had led to destruction this time, that would have been the end. Because too many rounds were repeated, errors gradually increased out of control.”
When the total amount of the world created for Letteman from the beginning became too much to handle, it was manifested as an error.
Had Ashte ate his heart, he could have taken Lethe back to his world.
What he didn’t do is
“I was afraid. Lethe, who has fallen into oblivion, must have forgotten all about her bond and memories with me.”
In the end, he too was another Kim Chang-mook and Ed.
“Falling into despair facing Lethe again… I decided to wish you happiness, but it wasn’t that easy. When I came to my senses, I was dutifully repeating meaningless things as always.”
Ashte, who was scared and evaded.
In the end, I came to know the answer through another self that was created through the accumulation of those times.
What was wrong was that he was himself from the start.
If I had a little courage, there would not have been a tragedy that would have been repeated for this eternity.
“As you can see, Lethe has her memories back. Well, let’s skip the lengthy process.”
“… What have I been doing for such a long time? Uh… Why did you tell me that story? Do you think you need my help as the manager?”
“About half. As I said before, this world is an unstable world derived from the original world. That’s why the dimension itself can be seen as inferior.”
Ashte continued the story calmly.
Lethe looked at him like that, smiled, and continued the story herself.
“Do you know what is the most important thing to make this place a completely independent world?”
Ashte looked at Mary Joy, who was being asked a question by Lethe.
There was no anticipation on his face.
When he heard the answer, he had the attitude to immediately refute it, but unexpectedly, the answer came out immediately.
“It must be God.”
That’s also correct.
“… Accurate.”
“But unfortunately, there are no gods in this world. Goddess Illya Maybe he’s dead.”
“You’re right. It’s a little different from death because it’s a god, but in the end it’s in the same vein.”
At that, Mary Joy sighed and narrowed her eyes.
Seeing me asking what to do, Lethe raised the corner of her mouth.
From the manager’s point of view, that smile was like looking at a longing fox.
“As I said, the most important thing is whether or not there is a God. It’s you who need help, not us. We are here to help you make this world stand on its own.”
“…”
Mary Joy shut her mouth for a moment and she fell into deep thought.
Certainly, there were signs of a premonition of destruction in this world.
There have been many cases where people suddenly disappeared or strange phenomena for which the cause could not be identified occurred.
Sending Lete to Ashte solved the problem for the two of them, and she clearly understood her intention to help this world in return.
If so, why is he helping now, long after the evil god Ed disappeared?
It wasn’t this world or myself that had to be repaid.
Gradually, her emotions intensified.
“Is it to lighten your heart?”
“Yes?”
“If what you said is true, the object to repay the favor has already disappeared. What use are those things after death?”
It wasn’t just because I felt sympathy for him.
Of course, even after a long time passed, I could still see him reaching out to me and disappearing from time to time, but it wasn’t the kind of emotion that came from that type.
‘They said the world was repeated countless times.’
Mary Joy felt the déjà vu she felt from the man who was crawling towards her on one side of her arm… I didn’t want to admit it, but I pondered over my love.
She must have had a close relationship with that man.
Maybe they were lovers.
Even if all memories were lost and repeated from the beginning, it did not disappear, and sticking to the soul like dregs meant that they were intertwined with each other to that extent.
However, after biting and sucking each other and enjoying themselves leisurely, the topic that came to me as if I had thought of it now, did you say that you were ‘coming to help’?
There is no lifelike color like this.
Realizing Mary Joy’s feelings for her were running high, Lette put on an apologetic look.
“First of all, come as soon as possible. Maybe the coordinates are wrong, because I drifted between dimensions.”
“That is your case. I do not intend to refuse help, but if it is because you want to unload your burden, I will refuse.”
“What nonsense—”
“Hmm… Ashte, wait a minute.”
Lete stopped Ashte from stepping out as if she was dumbfounded.
It was the words that came out of her mouth, but Mary Joy was a little awkward in her own manner.
I was confused whether this anger and reprimand were her own emotions, or whether these were remnants of her past that were also repeated.
But one thing’s for sure, she wasn’t wrong.
There was silence in the space for a while, and after a while Lethe’s mouth opened.
“You are right. If the person to repay the favor is already dead, even if the world welcomes salvation, it will not be known.”
“Lethe. Anyway we are here…”
Ashte once again stepped up to him, but
“Sup.”
“Ah, I see.”
After she was neatly stopped by Lethe, she clamped her mouth shut.
“I’m sorry to you too. We’ve just arrived here, so we haven’t thought about how to tell the story. And it makes sense, this side would be right to lighten the burden on the mind.”
Of course, I’m a little different.
When the manager in front of him listened to his story without any particular reaction, Lethe finished his words.
“There is only one god in this world, Goddess Illya. We came to her place to bring her back. And, in the process, Ed will also come back to life.”
“That is… What?”
Because she was an administrator who looked at the records of the world and corrected errors, she knew that it was impossible to revive a life that had already died unless time was turned back.
Besides, she’s not even an ordinary human, she revived an evil spirit?
It was nonsense.
“Originally, it would sound absurd, but… This way, Ashte and Ed’s souls are the same. It will take a lot of time, but… You can literally bring it back to life, rather than artificially creating it.”
“…”
Believe it or not, Mary Joy couldn’t understand at first that Ed was needed to bring Illya back to life.
Do you mean to use the power of evil spirits?
“That’s all we can do to help. Thankfully, the law of causality allows—”
“Oh really!”
“Mi, I’m sorry.”
Mary Joy, who was not impressed by the contest taking place right in front of her.
She opened her mouth to ask more questions than that.
“Then how do you actually revive the goddess?”
“…”
At that question, Ashte frowned, and Lethe made her wishful expression again.
She was at a loss as to why she was making that face and what it meant, but she quickly learned the answer.
“I didn’t want to tell you, but… You will give birth to Goddess Illya.”
“I beg your pardon?”
Asked Mary, startled and looking as if she had been hit over the head with her bat.
Is she having a child herself?
It also gives birth to a goddess.
Perhaps, aren’t these two a mad couple who luckily broke into this space?
She even heard that.
But when I thought about it, it didn’t seem that bad.
Isn’t it better than living alone here alone?
It was too late for her, but she wondered how she would feel when she had done her duty as a woman, pregnancy and childbirth.
“Then… Who is your father, who is your husband?”
She will never conceive alone without her husband.
Then, who is the man who will engrave herself on her?
“There is something I heard a long time ago. They say that if you love each other, you will resemble each other. You are very similar to him.”
“Um… So will we be alike? Anyway, who will be your husband… Don’t you already know?”
At those words, the bridge of her nose and between her eyebrows slightly frowned at Mary.
In a subtle way, she felt that way.
‘Wait.’
It was said that those who came here to revive her goddess did not resurrect her, but her Ed.
Now the back and forth are right.
“If it’s her man who was an evil god and a woman who acts as a manager, then it would be perfect for a parent of a goddess.”
“What… Yo. This?”
This meant that in order to bring her goddess back to life, Mary Joy would have to intermingle with her Ed, who would bring them back to life.
“I will erase all the past that has been preserved until now. He must have lost all his memories, but he will come back to you someday. You, him, and the girls will also be connected like fate.”
Ashte said confidently.
She personally hated Ed, but in the end she was just like herself.
That’s why I knew
Even if he doesn’t even remember anything, I will recreate the same causation as the fate I built myself.
As far as his blazing tenacity, he was the only part that he was better than himself.
