Jashin Average – 17 (1/2)
Chapter 17 – Girls’ Talk
I recently found out that ‘jashi+n(evil God)’ is translated by Google Translator (CN>EN) as ‘Cthulu’
Remember that ‘Sacred Goddess’ comes with the implication of ‘Holy Woman-esque Deity’
The kukuku here is probably stifled laughter, and not ‘My nai’-type kukuku
“Speaking of which, are you the daughter of the De, Leonora?”
“Mn? Yeah, that’s right The current De is my father”
I invited Leonora, who had signed the friendshi+p contract, down to the residential area and had tea with her… after having her take a bath She cleaned up that dirt and blood stained appearance of hers and weroom and drank the black tea that Tena brewed
She was stiff at first, but perhaps because she gradually got used to it, we progressed to being able to call each other by the name Only, she won’t meet my eyes It seems that the Evil God Aura has an im, but to de, the effect is equally weak On the other hand, the effect of the azes eza I wonder if I should countattention so that I don’t accidentally meet eyes with her
“I heard that the De revives once he dies, but is that true?”
“As if that’s possible!”
I got told off
Asking her in detail, I found out that the De doesn’t revive, but is apparently just passed on as a title The previous Deo that Tena et defeated, the next generation steps up to take their place, which is probably eird rust the humans
“If you’re the Dehter, then you’re the princess of the demon race… Why are you in a place like this?”
Although it’s near the Demon Race Territory, this is clearly in human territory It seems weird to me that she’s here
“The Ro Successor go on a journey by themselves in order to become an adult I wasn’t headed anywhere in particular, but I was thinking that I wanted to have a look once at the Human Race Territory, so I came here”
It’s a custom that I’ve heard of so a princess who marched into enemy territory by herself, she sure has fire
“I thought that the De Castle”
“No, that way of thinking isn’t wrong Because the De has a lot of influence, froo out anymore ‘That’s hile I’m still only a successor…’ is probably one of the reasons for the custom as well”
I see So this is also the last period where they can ignore responsibility, huh? It’s like going on a trip after graduating from uni… Hm, maybe that’s a little different
“How long is your journey?”
“It isn’t really fixed I don’t have any plans of coh”
“Achievement?”
“Like defeating the Hero that’s the ene over souess”
I suddenly understood Leonora’s circumstances, as she made an extremely displeased expression for some reason
“Did you coeon for that reason too?”
“”Gu-… That’s right I was thinking that I’d hand down punish on the circu”
I see I don’t knohat kind of position the Evil God holds ast the Demon Race, but at the very least, it’s soiven for selfishly i attacked due to a h I never called myself the Evil God, so I’d like her to do so
“Then can I ask you this instead, Anri?”
I nodded to her question
“You said that you were given that power by the Evil God, but…”
I wasn’t sure if she would believe that I came from another world etc so I’ve kept that part froiven this title and these skills by an evil God, I’ve already told Leonora
“Honestly speaking, the person hi based on the names of the title and skills”
“Hmm…”
Leonora sank into thought about so after I replied When I wordlessly proan speaking
“No, it’s not that I’ your words, but… the ‘Evil God’ shouldn’t really exist”
“? The people of Riemel and you used the term 『Evil God』 Don’t you call it that because he exists?”
“Certainly, there exists the word and concept of the Evil God But the deity known as the Evil God doesn’t exist”
Is this some kind of riddle? What she said “doesn’t really exist” doesn’t sound quite like she’s denying the existence of Gods It seems that Leonora said that with the belief that “Gods” exist, but the “Evil God” doesn’t
“The Evil God is an iinary God created by the human race”
“An iinary God?”
That evil God was iinary?
I actually h
“Yeah Anri, how much do you know about the Gods?”
“I heard that the God of Light that created the world──Sacred Goddess Sofia, battles against the Evil God that tries to destroy the world, and leads the people through divine protection and revelations”
“I heard about this fro”
She’s kind of looking at me really pitifully, but she won’t look h Only, I don’t have any information source about the myths of this world except for what I heard from Tena, so I’ll be troubled if Leonora looks at me like that
“Very well It’s a bit of a long story, but I’ll tell you the true myths passed down in the demon race”
It’ll apparently be a long story, so I called Tena and had her brew so it over anyway, I’ll have her listen to the story as well I won’t be able to compare it to the myths that the humans have by myself, after all
“The world was created by the one and only God, the Creator God
“The Creator God created various animals as the inhabitants of the world, and finally, with the Creator God’s own form as the basis, they created humans”
Up until here, Tena hasn’t objected and has been nodding along There were various myths in my old world, but creation myths were all relatively similar I think
“The human race received the favour of the Creator God, and prospered to the extreme, but that immediately reached the lirew to be too h food”
So the balance of the food chain collapsed? Without any natural predators, that seems certainly likely, but this is quite scientific for a myth
“The Creator God gave food to the human race who entreated for help, but at the same time, worried about the situation, the Creator God took countermeasures They created the natural ene the world to harmony… the demon race
“The de its duties, it opposed and attacked the hu their nuer than humans, yet less fertile than humans, as the natural enemy of the humans, peace was born”
“That can’t be…”
Tena was stunned at the story that was so different from the myths that she knew, but certainly, with a set the food chain back into balance, and makes more sense than the human myths that I heard form Tena
“However, the Creator God was tormented by their own actions There was no choice but to torment the beloved humans for the sake of their prosperity… The result of that self-contradiction was that the Creator God split themselves into three parts Most of their poas separated into preserving the world, while their re power and mind was split into two
“The two parts of the divided ht and God of Darkness, and they split the things that they governed into two────the sun and the ht, the human race and the demon race, or so it is”
Tena couldn’t even form words It’s probably already quite divorced from her common sense
“That’s the myth passed down in the deht and God of Darkness There is no God known as the Evil God”
Certainly, if you take the des born froood and evil, or right and wrong The God of Darkness sounds exactly evil, but it’d be like the Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto in japanese myths
“To begin with, the ‘Sacred Goddess’ was so that the huht afterwards, to strengthen the God’s authority And for that sake, they proposed a fictitious Evil God as the eneainst it”
“Couldn’t they have just had the God of Light fight the God of Darkness?”
“It’s just a guess, but I think that as you’d expect, they didn’t have the guts to go against the God of Darkness himself”
“Um, excuse me, I heard that the Evil God that the Sacred Goddess battled against governed darkness, but…”