Chapter 792 – 90 Days – The Old God Remembers Something He Had Forgotten a Long Time Ago.
“Hey princess… Didn’t you definitely tell us that you were going to see a dead old god?”
“I suddenly had the strange experience of seeing a woman calling the princess ‘Sister-in-law’, and now she is holding in her arms a child whom I have never seen since birth.”
“Do you think I’m doing this on purpose?! Can’t you see that I’m completely soaked in seawater!”
The princess screamed and patted her trembling child, whom she held with both hands.
She couldn’t tell how old the child was as he wasn’t saying anything? If I had to guess, she looked like she was about five or six years old.
The princess’s mistake was that she had no choice but to hold her child because of the flowing seawater. The child, who clung to her princess’s body like a tree-climbing animal, buried her face in her voluptuous breasts and did nothing, holding on to her pitiful dress so tightly that it would not fall away.
“I tried my best to resolve this situation, but none of the methods worked, so I came back here.”
“That machine spirit called Friday or something can’t help you at all.”
“Haa… Friday!”
『Did you call me, Chairman?』
Without needing a long explanation, the princess planned to show right away how meaningless this action was.
“Tell me about this creature clinging to my body.”
『… I’m sorry, Chairman. The command cannot be performed.』
“Is it because there is no living thing in my arms?”
『Yes, that’s right. Chairman, you are not holding any life with both hands right now.』
“Look, Friday doesn’t even know that this young being is alive.”
Leonie looked a little surprised and looked at her child for a while before carefully extending her hand.
“Then, aren’t they undead or something like that, princess? It’s not an impossible story.”
“Ugh… The old gods became undead? I think it’s too scary to even imagine.”
Unlike Hedone, who was scared, Leonie very carefully reached out and touched the child’s neck.
“Huh…?”
“Do you understand?”
“What, it’s alive… Is that right? Wait a minute, but it doesn’t look like an undead or a ghoul…”
Leonie, looking startled, grabbed her small, fragile-looking wrist and tried several times to feel its pulse.
But even when he put his hand to his chest as a last resort, he couldn’t feel his heart pounding.
“No matter how much I think about it, I don’t think it’s alive. But…”
“As the human child said, even though the being appears to be alive, we cannot say that it is alive.”
At the words of Frigg, who was watching the situation, the princess let out a long breath. In the end, one way or another, the only being who could explain this situation in the simplest way was Frigg.
“Frigg, if you know anything, please tell me.”
The princess patted the toddling child’s back with both hands.
“That existence is the childhood of my lovely sister Udr.”
“Do you mean this child is the childhood of the old god?”
“The childhood of the Old Gods is a slightly different concept than you might think.”
Frigg, who spoke to her in a benevolent voice, stroked the head of the Udr that was clinging to the princess’s body.
“For us, childhood means being weak and unable to do anything. We have lost all our powers and exist in an immature state, unable to live or die.”
“Could it be that you have no concept of death?”
“How can there be a concept of death in the rolling waves? Would the moment of death ever approach a harmonious family?”
At Frigg’s words, the princess looked at Udr, who was still pressing her face into her chest, with a sigh.
“Then… What did Abamama do?”
“Oh my?”
“I experienced this while traveling through time, but Abamama took these very small children… You, who were children, to an ancient demon facility and did terrible things to them.”
Frigg thought for a moment and smiled bitterly.
“A long time ago… We, the old gods, fell asleep deep in the ground. There is a being who found us and brought us back to life.”
“Are you talking about what happened when Eve Terra saved you guys? Wait…”
The princess looks at her Frigg in wonder.
“Eve told me that she had found the ‘remains’ of the old gods.”
“How can we say that we found ourselves in our childhood, buried inside our old shells? Human eyes always see only the facts that have been tailored accordingly.”
“Then does that mean that the ancient demon device… The giant stone slab-like object is something that can bring back old gods?”
“The word ‘revival’ is not appropriate. It means ending childhood arbitrarily.”
The princess swallowed her saliva and looked at her child. At that point, the princess’s heart started pounding a little.
“Perhaps… If they force you to graduate from childhood like that and then the royal family eats you…”
“What you think happens.”
“Did Abama eat a flower that had just bloomed in such a hurry?”
Even with such a subject, Jupiter Holympia was able to use tremendous authority and power.
“Hey princess…”
Leonie called the princess out of curiosity, and Hedone showed an expression of trust.
“You don’t plan on eating the princess, do you? You don’t even know where the stone tablet that can end her childhood is in the first place.”
“At least it doesn’t seem to be here.”
Logically, if such a device existed, there is no way the ancient demons would not have revived Udr.
“You’re putting me into temptation again.”
The princess touched her child’s cheek, looking more distressed than if she had just drank bitter coffee.
“Don’t worry, old god. I have no intention of forcibly raising you and eating you as a child.”
“… Sir.”
Frigg opened his mouth very cautiously.
“Udr is the goddess of the sea. If she has that child’s power, she will be able to sail safely anywhere.”
“Haha, how can something like that be called the sea? The coast can be submerged in a fierce sea, and aren’t there fish that can fill a boat?”
With her warm smile on her face, the princess gently comforted Udr and took it from her body and handed it to Frigg.
“Isn’t she your sister?”
“West…”
“Rather than carrying her around, you should hold her in your arms and keep her until childhood is over. Haha! It will take quite a while for her to become a lovely beauty, so wouldn’t this be the best way?”
Frigg looks at the princess in surprise as she once again gives him a simple way to obtain her power.
“… If you act like this, you will not be able to defeat the being who took the power of our sisters and brothers.”
“What difference does it make if you act like that and beat Abamama?”
The princess laughed lightly.
“I want to prove that Abama is wrong. Don’t you have to stain this world with blood to be able to do what you want?”
Frigg gave a very small, wry smile. Then he embraced his sister with both hands and bowed his head.
“Ah, Udr… My sister… You think so too…”
Nodding her head as if hearing something, Frigg raises her head again and looks at the princess.
“There must be an old story that has been passed down to humans for a long time… I really didn’t want to tell you this story, but seeing you trying to walk that frustratingly straight path, I couldn’t help but tell you.”
Frigg, with a serious expression, was deciding something.
“If it were a story about a human being blessed by the old gods, it would be passed down through countless songs and plays.”
“Aren’t there a lot of famous stories like that? A wizard who was blessed by the god of wisdom and created incredible inventions, or a wizard who was blessed by a demon god and realized impossible magic.”
“Yes, it really happened. We old gods, brothers and sisters, can gift their power to a human child in the vain name of blessing.”
After saying his words, Frigg kissed his sister, who cupped his cheek.
“However, that was a story from a long time ago. Even after Mother Earth was once purified, humans continued their foolish fight. The usurpers who crawled up from the ground were busy killing us.”
“So you’re saying you stopped giving blessings?”
“… I even forgot how to give a blessing.”
Frigg, who has a bitter expression on his face, approaches the princess and kneels before her.
“We have now forgotten how to love humans.”
“Frigg.”
“We have been so disappointed in humans that we have even forgotten how to create the best gift that God could give to humans.”
The princess spoke her words as if spouting out her sins and gently held out her child in her arms to the princess.
The child moved her cute little hand and surprisingly kissed the princess on the forehead.
“So… I’m sorry. We who look down on humans have no choice but to bestow our power on you in this vicious way.”
Frigg, feeling guilty, stepped back.
“You said you were sergeant…? Nothing happened?”
The princess smiled slightly and stretched out her left arm in a random direction.
“I don’t mean to criticize you if you say you have lost the method of giving blessings—”
Before the princess could finish her words.
A strange sound was heard from far away. A sound like violently scraping the floor was heard, and the princess knew what it was.
“Now, now, wait!”
“Hey! Princess! Door! Close the door quickly! That seawater or something that the princess mentioned earlier is moving at an incredible speed… Ugh!”
At the moment Leonie was making a fuss, seawater was rushing at incredible speeds in the long hallway, and Frigg’s ‘milk’ scattered in this huge room began to bloom like flowers on the overflowing ground and swirl.
“Frigg!!!”
“I’m sorry, Master… The blessings we bestow are like this…”
“Can you call this a blessing?!”
The princess, who had a frightened look on her face, hurriedly called Friday and blocked the door. By waving her hands up and down and left and right, she was barely able to send the ‘milk’ rising in the room down to the ground. 〉
“Huh… Huh, huh… Uh, huh… There. Uh, so much… Ugh, p-aren’t you tired…”
The princess, who was sweating profusely from the divine power she used at will, eventually lost all of her strength and collapsed to the ground.
“I’m sorry, princess… The power that can be used without eating our old gods is ultimately…”
“W-what are you talking about…”
Even in a situation where she was extremely weak, the princess snorted.
“Do you think that from the beginning, humans simply rode on wild horses? You don’t seem to know how valuable this knowledge is to know that horses that can run fast exist!”
The princess, who shouted while sweating profusely, was laughing heartily.
