Chapter 916 – Day 102 – The Princess Hears an Unbearable Story.
“I don’t understand anything about the story, so I need to organize it!”
The princess, naked and wearing nothing, shouted with her arms crossed.
“First, how can I be the last? No! I don’t even know it’s the last in the first place.”
The princess points to Yufi with her hand.
“Up until now, Yuffie! I thought the task you were talking about was simply an ‘opportunity’ to create the ultimate successor to protect the empire on which the sun never sets!”
“Lord Venus doesn’t seem to have the eyes to see the distant future.”
“If you have such great eyes, don’t be treasonous against me and protect the future on your own!”
Yuffie smiled very faintly.
“Lord Venus, do you know why the old gods are called old gods?”
“Isn’t that because Eve Terra called it that?”
“The reason is more intuitive and easier to understand than that.”
As expected, Yuffie did not give her correct answer right away, but the warm rice was already in the princess’s mouth.
“Could it be true that you are calling it the old god, the old god, the god of long ago?”
“That’s right! The reason the old gods are called old gods is because they are literally old gods, not new gods.”
Frigg and Udr nodded quietly.
“We were born and died before the time when humans no longer needed our blessings.”
“Our spirit still remains here, and our body does not easily decay and disappear, but it means that we are already dead.”
“But the demons… Even Asmo called me ‘the god of a new age’?”
In response to the princess’s question, Yuffie smiled with her eyes that saw through everything.
“Because that’s why we were created.”
“Are we…? That’s why the royal family was created?”
“That’s right, Lord Venus. Do you know why our royal family was created by Eve Terra?”
The princess thought about it and then shook her head.
“I remember there was a project. Yes, make humans stronger. Evolve humans… Humans, not humans, but something of a higher species… That’s what it felt like.”
“In the end, that dream came true in a way she did not wish for. And, the cage that she created with her blood and sweat… Unfortunately, Eve Terra was not able to bloom when she most wanted it.”
The princess exhaled for a moment. She needed to get organized.
“The moment when Eve Terra needed our power the most… In other words, it was a great mistake. Are you referring to the incident in which the old god that was being studied was released, and the old world was destroyed?”
“That’s right, Master. Eve Terra tried to use the royal family with the power of the usurper to get rid of us who were released on the earth, but she couldn’t do it.”
“… Wait, isn’t that strange?”
The princess clenched her fist and slapped her palm.
“I certainly defeated Frigg when I traveled through time. However, that was my own history that I experienced… Wasn’t it my own time travel?”
“What happened at that time is definitely affecting me as well, but what you said is not wrong.”
“… Then how did the old gods disappear from the earth? How on earth did the countless remains of the old gods come into existence?”
In the first place, even the princess risked everything she had to fight against Frigg, scraping together her knowledge and wisdom to violate her with her ridiculous gambles and win her heart.
“It’s simple.”
“If it’s a simple story, there’s no way I can’t deduce it.”
“Eve Terra created the demon god.”
“… Eve Terra created the demon god?”
The princess felt dizzy.
“Well, Eve never said that to me!”
“Think again considering the unique personality of that demon girl. Lord Venus, have you ever asked whether Eve Terra created the demon god, the demon god?”
“Ugh… If I had asked her that clearly, Eve would have been reluctant to tell me the truth… Oh, no!”
Eve was a woman with extremely strong pride.
She wasn’t the type to say anything in advance about the mistakes she made.
‘When I get out of this strange pantheon, I’ll have to say something to Eve right away! At the very least, I should urge them to provide correct information about the Demon God!!!’
The princess clenched her fists. If Eve Terra had been in front of her at this moment, she could have punched her in the stomach.
“Anyway… So, did that demon ultimately kill all the old gods on earth?”
“You can think of it as a good thing, sir.”
“But does this mean that the person who consumed the drink can somehow continue to be resurrected?”
Yuffie and Frigg nodded.
“Unlike the old gods, the demon god is endlessly resurrected and continues to wish for the destruction of this world.”
“The Yuffie here was preparing the last and best means to prevent the resurrection of such a demon god.”
The princess had a strange expression and crossed her legs.
“Then in the end… The story goes like this.”
The princess’s heart darkened.
“The old gods who were able to bestow blessings on this land lost their power over time and died naturally. Eve Terra forcibly brought them back to life with the power of the old demons.”
Frigg thinks for a moment and nods his head.
“Those of you who survived like that… Were burned to the ground for various reasons, and Eve Terra created a demon god and befriended you?”
“I guess I understood correctly.”
“Unfortunately, all the old gods have died and are no longer able to come back to life, but the demons continue to be resurrected for unknown reasons?”
As Euphie nodded her head, the princess bit her lip.
“… Then why am I the last one? I understand the flow of the story, but I don’t know that part.”
“Eve Terra may not have intended it, but our royal family can inherit their power by eating the remains of the old gods or the childhood of the old gods.”
“Then Minos… Minos… Ugh.”
The princess immediately thought of feeding Minos her own corpse or forcing him to rape her, so she covered her mouth with her hand.
It was not something she could do to her child in her right mind.
“As expected, West…”
“I’m hesitant for quite human reasons.”
“Isn’t it obvious! Minos is quite a self-indulgent child! He is a child with a more delicate and beautiful heart than anyone else!”
“Don’t worry. The royal family cannot take the power of God from the royal family.”
“… Why is this?”
In response to the princess’s question, Frigg shrugs her shoulders.
“I can only explain it as a law of nature, but if I were to add a little logic, wouldn’t the imperial family simply usurp power from the remains and body of the ‘old god’?”
“Hmm… Definitely… If you think about it that way, just because the royal family eats the meat of pigs or cows doesn’t mean they gain their powers.”
With an expression of strange understanding, the princess nods her head and then looks at her Euphy.
“That’s not true! The story doesn’t end at all, does it? Yes! I understand! Isn’t this actually a good story? There’s no reason for me to be the last!”
The princess got angry for no reason and pinched her Yufi’s chest.
“Ugh, ugh. Lord Venus… There are no more remains of the old gods in this world.”
“What nonsense are you talking about? I have enough to fill the pantheon in Britannia?”
Frigg and Udr looked at each other’s faces for a moment.
“Mr. West. It is harmful.”
“Didn’t you say earlier that you can absorb power from remains?”
“The remains we’re talking about… Are living organs like the heart or uterus.”
“… All the remains I’ve seen were bones…?”
Euphy looks at the princess with anxious eyes, blinking.
“It was the last chance left in the empire where the sun never sets.”
“… Does this mean that there are no intact remains of the old gods that can serve as a trigger for using the power of the gods?”
“That’s right. And the one remaining of the old god was the god of love.”
“I… Saw a fully alive image of God, let alone a heart?”
Yuffie shakes her head in response to the princess’s question.
“To God, the body is like a child’s drawing on a sheet of white paper. The form is not important. Even if only one heart remains, it can make a person appear whole to mortals.”
“… Then I will take that last chance…”
The princess chewed her lips and ended up seeing blood.
“Ha, haha… This is so… Then this is… What happened?”
“Mr. West.”
“Are you saying I did something wrong? Euphy was the right answer! I don’t know anything! Are you saying that a baby chick born without an eggshell tore up the warm nest its mother had made?”
Frigg and Udr do not respond to the princess’s words.
No, in God’s eyes, the princess’s words were correct.
“That is why this body called Lord Venus foolish.”
“What happens if I fail?”
“The demon will be fully resurrected, and there will be no godly power left anywhere in the world to fight against it, so the world will be destroyed.”
“I have an Arcana! The gods in the pantheon… Here! Blessed by the gods…!”
Frigg shakes her head at the princess’s words.
“The power of God and the blessings given by God are fundamentally different.”
“Oh, no, no, no! Don’t say that!”
The princess stood up from her seat.
“In the first place! Minos was able to use the power of a god! Either he ate me or violated me! After doing something terrible, he was able to use the power of a god!”
“That was the method I wanted to accomplish. And Lord Venus destroyed it.”
“Ugh…!!!”
The princess’s face turned pale, and her entire body lost strength.
Stopping wild beasts with a newborn baby who has just been able to walk.
Even if this beast is not stopped, the world will be destroyed…
“Even trials… Have degrees…!”
The princess felt like she was going to faint from the pressure she felt on her shoulders.
“You guys!”
“Ha… Ha…”
A familiar voice was heard in the princess’s ears as she let out a heavy breath.
“Isn’t there a certain level of teasing a newborn chick? How funny is it when her face turns pale, and she tries to vomit up everything she ate!”
“Ah, Amil… Amilias… Aunt…?”
The woman who appeared as if of course with a very familiar voice was a beauty with flowing pink hair.
“Uh, how…?”
Instead of looking like the small dwarf that the princess knew, she looked like a tall and beautiful woman whose height was similar to that of the princess. She was smoking a pipe in her mouth, just like when she was on earth.
“Venus, you bastard. What are you so afraid of?”
“If I… Fail, won’t everything… End…”
“You bastard! Then all you have to do is succeed from the beginning. What are these so-called gods gathered in this pantheon doing? Did they ask you to come here to harass you?”
Amilias puffed out her smoke and made a grin on the princess’s face.
“Aunt…?”
“The gods who live here are not so vicious as to subject you, a newly born god, to trials.”
Clinking her pipe, Amilias bent down slightly to look the princess in the eyes.
“Venus Holympia, you bastard. You’ve done a great job so far, so I’ll be of great help to you, so smile brightly! What do you do when the god of the new era is so upset? Huh?”
It’s a paradoxical story.
If you fail once, everything is over, but if you succeed in the first place, there is no reason to be afraid.
