Chapter 959 – The Sloppy and Beautiful World (4)
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─Suddenly.
The spirits flew up, pouring water into the dented teapot and boiling it.
“It’s been a while since I made a car. It is a gift from you, so I will return it to you.”
Elisabeth said after drying the wet tea leaves and brewing tea.
“Are you ready to hear the story?”
“Yeah. It has been there from the beginning.”
“You have a strong mind. It was like that nine years ago.”
Elizabeth nodded and said. Her spirits parked a car in front of her too. However, it is true that she lost her sense of taste, and she did not touch the teacup.
“Do you remember? Nine years ago, the day I ascended the throne, the day I called you. The kidnapping of the president of the society that happened that day.”
“Yes.”
“The trigger may have been that day. According to the flow and laws of fate, which I learned years later, I heard that small variables and individual will greatly change the future.”
“Changing the future… Are you saying that the reason the world is like this is because of the events of that day? Because the president of the school passed away?”
That Asherard’s death was such a big deal?
I’m sorry for her, but it was something that was hard for her to accept honestly. Elizabeth also readily denied it.
“What happened after that was a big deal. After her death, Hittite artifacts were discovered one after another and some archaeologists were interested in other dimensions.”
“… I think I might have stopped it.”
“Yes. You did really well with amazing skill. Looking back now, I think the catastrophe would have been a few years earlier without you.”
“Erge. That’s… “
Lalilura hesitates to speak. Elizabeth’s icy, crystallized eyeballs moved round and round.
“We have to tell him the truth.”
“… At least let me talk.”
“Since I lost my country, not once have I asked for permission from you. It is only your will that has remained here.”
I was a little concerned about how their relationship had developed over the past nine years, but Elisabeth did not interrupt my explanation with questions. Then I will have to do the same
“Let’s just say it. It’s going to be a long story about what skills you displayed, so I’ll skip it. In fact, in three years, you revealed that the study of dimension movement was dangerous and even came up with a way to reinforce the dimension membrane itself.”
“Did you have any problems after that?”
“No. You were a prophet who never failed. If the future you foresaw or anticipated is disastrous, you will succeed even by changing the future… He was that kind of person.”
The current Elisabeth seemed to know all of our family secrets. I decided to listen in silence.
“You guys did a good job and everything went smoothly.”
“… The senpai kept looking out for and being wary of Sigurd who didn’t show up, but there was no great harvest. In the words of your senior, the prophets have no choice but to be like that.”
Lalilura, who hadn’t even sat down, said.
Know. Even the fight they faced face-to-face was a series of battles twisting their fate like that, but if they ran away, how would they catch them?
‘The reason Sigurd didn’t try to kill me was probably not because he wanted something from me.’
The bastard thought I was a prophet, so he wouldn’t have even thought to find me in the first place. Maybe in the future I wouldn’t have stepped out on my own.
Because he must have known that biting his tail was useless.
“Nefertiti sister is getting softer too, and after a few years like that… Suddenly we thought. I wonder if it would be foolish to avoid happiness because of an invisible threat.”
“Happiness?”
“I mean the child.”
It was Lari Lura who smiled slightly, but it seemed clear that she wasn’t laughing out of joy or good feelings.
“There was also the issue of the succession of Count Wolfhedin, and our leader and Dana’s mother were also very interested. Even when the head of Cornelius collapsed, he said he wanted to see Tyrsi’s grandson before he died… “
She shut her mouth, Lari Lou, who was talking about her old days.
“… I didn’t mean to talk about this. That’s it.”
“I sent her brother home one day and told me that after the death of Cornelius von Armaals, you guys started making plans for children.”
Elisabeth took Lari Lura’s baton for choosing her words.
“… Did the future me see the child?”
I asked involuntarily.
Even though I kept in mind that this world itself was a future that should not be realized and that I had to block.
“I heard there were issues that needed to be addressed earlier. First of all, I could see the child between you and ordinary humans, but it was impossible between you and the gods.”
Earth’s new human race and the [Middle branch] Human race.
Although very different, they were once created by the gods.
It seemed that it was possible to see the child itself because it was not a completely different biological lineage. In fact, if other earthlings had come here, they would have seen the child.
At least they were closer than Orcs and Humans.
And——It must have been farther than gods and humans.
“With Veronica… Have you not seen the child?”
Was it because her origins and body were too different between her god-kind and the new human race created by avoiding the hand of her god as much as possible?
Elizabeth nodded her head.
She said, “Since you guessed it was impossible, I heard that Mrs. Veronica was convinced of the conclusion.”
“You mean Veronica has given up on seeing her child?”
“Even if you can’t give birth to yourself, you’ll be able to take care of the child we gave birth to as if it were your own blood… You said so.”
Lalilura lowered her head and said.
“Obviously he was sincere. But… After all, I can’t give birth to a child for my senior… As her older sister, it may have been on her mind.”
May walk
Guess. Guessing speech.
In other words, it was an answer she had not heard from herself.
“What happened? Maybe Veronica… “
“No! Not so! It wasn’t her sister’s fault!”
She cried out loud enough to surprise me when I asked her, and she lowered her face and cried as if her throat was choking.
“It’s just my opinion… Her older sister knew that her senior valued her family. She is so sad just by not being able to give birth to a child, but what about the parents of your senior who broke up with the child she gave birth to and raised… She must have thought so.”
“… …”
She got the hang of it
She must have wanted me to meet her parents.
‘Instead of not being able to give birth to my child, so that I can reunite with her parents.’
Not as a new family member, but as a present for a lost family member.
“So, the older sister consulted with the senior. If it is possible to fix her dimension membrane, wouldn’t it be okay to connect Earth and the World Tree? Since we succeeded in making it thicker, can we go further?”
Renews the dimension membrane.
The idea was to head to Earth, meet her parents, and repair the torn dimensional membrane. I couldn’t bear to say that it was an arrogant or misguided idea.
Because I would have thought it might be possible.
If it hadn’t been for hearing the story and seeing the gray earth and the moss field.
If he had succeeded in reinforcing the dimensional barrier after Ashelad’s death, he would have thought more so.
“But why? I don’t think I would have made such a risky attempt just because there was a possibility.”
“… Every time she received a letter from her senior, her senior’s mother cried and said she wanted to see her senior. I couldn’t tell you the contents of the letter anywhere.”
“… Whoa.”
I listened to Ralilura’s answer and closed my eyes.
Even if you look at the duty of a child, the ‘lord of the deep sea’, who had enough power to influence me, could harm my parents.
It was also the reason we rushed to research dimensional magic after seeing the past through Naunet’s mud.
“… Ok, I get it However, if the dimensions were connected and then restored, there would be no need for the ‘lord of the deep sea’ to sit still? If it’s in a weakened state, you can take it down.”
“If the experiment succeeds… I thought so.”
When I asked, Lari Lula nodded her head with difficulty.
Perhaps it was a decision made after consulting with the family.
Elisabeth knew about it, and she agreed.
“I heard that even the gods were pleased. The reason they left the ‘Lord of the Deep’ unattended was because there was no way to fix the dimensional barrier even if he was defeated, right?”
“Did you know?”
“It was said that Britannia might perish at some point, and of course I agreed. Part of the research funding came from me.”
Repair the dimensional barrier.
Actually, this in itself was a very good idea.
Destroying the last remaining ruler of the past does not solve everything.
Wasn’t the coincidence that Odin and the ‘Lord of the Deep’ found each other, or the event of fate, the starting point of that old Ragnarok?
When the gods are almost dead and even the dimensional membrane that protects the dimension is gone, what if descendants of stars or other ‘unknown beings’ appear from somewhere in the universe?
‘The disappearance of the dimension membrane is the same as the loss of the immune system from the entire World Tree.’
So the gods tried to fix Loki, stabilize the World Tree from Niflheim, and restore the dimensional barrier. Only then will we go to put an end to the old fight.
Before the ‘Lord of the Deep’ resurrects and expands his powers.
‘… Yes. Not a bad idea.’
I can reunite with my family.
It is possible to fight the decisive battle that even the gods longed for.
In this way, the reason and the odds were prepared. It seemed that the country would not continue to reject it either. Rather, I would have taken the lead in practice.
But what was the result?
The scenery outside the window told me that.
“… Did you try so recklessly and fail?”
“It wasn’t random!”
He shouted as if that was the reason he hesitated to say Ralilu.
“Senpai gathered the cooperation of the gods and thoroughly prepared a way to prevent and solve all kinds of problems! I did… I did!”
“The ‘Lord of the Deep’, who was once defeated by Odin, had been contemplating how to deal with the Prophet for a long time.”
Elizabeth cut it off and said.
“God cannot defy fate. We just couldn’t realize that the Veronica Eclipsis you loved was also a god.”
An experiment using the knowledge Veronica gained through authority.
However, I was already aware of the failure of the future-seeing goddess after seeking additional knowledge. She believes in herself and the history that brought her doomed fate.
Her head was pounding. I let out a long breath.
“Did I never foresee such a failure?”
“Because none of the people you love have died.”
“How?”
“She——the ‘Lord of the Deep’ helped.”
I lifted my head, which was going down with a headache.
“Even though the experiment failed like a twist of fate, and the entire island of Aikiven turned into dimensional severing chaos, the ‘Lord of the Deep’ managed to protect Mrs. Veronica.”
No words came out this time.
I just wasn’t surprised. It was because my head was running through all sorts of thoughts in an instant, trying to figure out why it was the way it was.
Elizabeth’s words pierced slowly into my accelerated head.
“In order to protect Mrs. Francesca, who was caught up in the destruction of space, Mrs. Veronica ran to the center of the dimension shifter’s explosion, and before you could reach it——”
“That octopus head bitch must have saved Veronica. Why? Because it has to be.”
I wiped my eyes with my hand.
Elisabeth swallowed her breath at the twinkling eyes shining between her fingers. She was a little sorry. It must be brutal because of Odin’s Eye, which is still active.
“The plan must fail, but it must never harm me. Because I know very well that I regard their death as a greater ruin than my own.
That way no one dies, and only when that failure becomes the level of misfortune passing by my future, ‘only you’ can see that future and sleep however you want.”
I threw my head back and gritted my teeth.
“The experiment was a failure for me, but objectively it wouldn’t have been a failure at all. It must have been a completely different dimension. Is that correct?”
“… In mythology, it is said that the evil god seduces people’s desires with gold and silver treasures, driving them to ruin. The other world created by the ‘Lord of the Deep’ was like that.”
Elisabeth let out her breath as if the tension had been relieved.
“A place that grants people’s wishes. The dead come back to life, gold and silver treasures, powerful weapons, and even lovers. It was a space that listened to everything that person wanted.”
“… There would be nothing it couldn’t do if it squeezed the power of the creation and the corpse of the old ruler it recovered. The created man would not have been real.”
“Yeah. It was a Yi tribe. In an instant, people flocked to Aikiven Island, which was known to society, and the old ruler’s retinue, who had turned into humans, hid in society.”
“Why couldn’t we stop it?”
“Because all of that happened in the month after you got out of the other world on Ikiven Island. Thankfully, the other world had a way for Mrs. Veronica to give birth ‘without any problems’.”
How Veronica will give birth to her child. It must have been prepared by the ‘Lord of the Deep’.
Killing the Prophet is luck, not misfortune.
Just as it was not the army of heroes that burned Troy where Cassandra was, but the wooden horse brought into the castle.
The ‘lord of the deep sea’ carefully presented me and Veronica—the good luck the prophets wished for, without any lies, as if they were really kind gods.
“… By the time we got out, it was already too late.”
After that, it brought destruction to humans.
He gave them the power to satisfy their desires, and like the devil, they took the price.
“Humanity is the darling of chaos. A race that even controls the destiny that controls the gods. However, the primeval old ruler had the wicked wisdom to lure and manipulate such humans like toys.”
“… You speak like a fairy tale or ghost story.”
“I wish it were all nightmares, I still think about it every night. It’s a body that can’t sleep anymore.”
Elizabeth closed her eyes.
The Cosmic Horror-class octopus head has the wisdom to lightly manipulate people, and I used that to play with humans other than myself.
Those words choked me, but up to this point——I dare say, honestly, it’s not that big of a problem.
The future changes. This is not a parallel world. It’s a high-level simulation.
What will happen if we give the transcendent evil god of the goddamn octopus head myth a chance to exercise its wisdom? It’s just one assumption that shows it.
‘If I change the past, this future will not come.’
Being afraid of this future would be the same as trembling after hearing a ghost story, as I just said.
A hopeless future that could happen once in a while?
It’s nothing more or less than a ghost story.
Even in the midst of not a small shock, I strengthened my heart.
If the future changes, even Elisabeth and Laliluru won’t have to look like they’re waiting for the day they’ll die in a place like this.
“So, has the ‘Lord of the Deep’ been revived?”
I asked not to strain my eyes.
“Satis, the hunter, said. The ‘Lord of the Deep’ does not seek to revive the old rulers, but to resurrect them and rule them as his faithful slaves.”
From her point of view, the elements that pose a threat are the best moments when they are completely excluded.
It is an appropriate time to overcome death and return.
The resurrection was said to be after hundreds of years, but isn’t that also a prophecy?
‘When human will intervenes, fate changes.’
As if Magidora, the prophet of bicorns and unicorns, prophesied the appearance of Wolfheddin, but it did not actually come true.
It was one possibility that Henir was wary of.
If you look at the landscape of this world, even if you couldn’t revive all your people, you would have filled up enough numbers to rule and revived yourself.
“I will ask. Where am I in this day and age?”
In order for the ‘fake’ that Ralilura said to run rampant like the real thing, the real thing has to be silent.
“Four years ago from now. On that day, five years later, the sky collapsed and the old evil spirits descended on you. While devouring the corpses of the gods.”
Elizabeth said as if she was tired.
The gods preparing for war would have allowed a surprise attack at the moment when they were most vulnerable,
They would have defeated some of the old rulers enough, but they would never have been victorious. If there is a destiny for them to win, even the ‘Lord of the Deep’ will not fight.
The Power of Wisdom is the most powerful force in this world.
If it’s not the same prophet, it won’t be an opponent.
Without the Prophet——the Prophet cannot be killed.
“It was a surprise to both the gods and us. All of humanity has risen against him. The kings, myself included, retreated, rallied, and faced the coming catastrophe, even at the cost of hundreds of millions of casualties.”
“Did you win?”
“I won. You returned and defeated the ‘Lord of the Deep’. Even in the midst of hopeless despair, he could not overcome his desire and called disaster and gave mankind victory and hope.”
Elisabeth, who answered, winked at Lalilura.
She hesitated and invoked her powers. We moved to a shabby yard. It was full of rusty junk, as if it had been damaged by the wind and rain.
But the clutter wasn’t just rolling around.
It was because it was placed in front of the tombstone, like a keepsake.
“… You won, but humanity lost.”
Elizabeth said, and I noticed.
Ever since I met her, her every move was like a dark soldier who wanted to assemble the scaffold she was going to hang on to with her own hands.
“Therefore, this… It is a yoke that mankind has imposed upon you.”
One tombstone stood out. I went in front of him and knelt down on his knees.
The tombstone was very clumsy. With my hand, I swept the tombstone, which seemed to have been made by Ralilura or someone else, while not even having enough firewood.
The tombstones of my wife and I.
“… I’m sorry, old man.”
Behind me, Lalilura cried and said.
“I couldn’t protect anyone… “
This is 9 years later. The future in ‘Right Destiny’.
In this world, there is no me and them.
