Book of God – 19 (1/2)
I know that writing ‘a kin’ sounds really weird, but please bear with est headache ever, since it has connotations of ‘kin’, ‘retainer’, ‘subordinate God’ or ‘ vampire’ in terms of a vampire… it’s just hard, you know?
Chapter 19 – The Evil God’s Temptation
When I cale source of light
Being a place that I had oodness, I’ them
The sound of clapping reached my ears, and when I turned that way, there stood the person I expected
A boy with long black hair… The Evil God that sent me into this world
“Yo, ‘s been a while”
With his usualsmile, the Evil God spoke to me
“What do you want?”
“So cold Even though it’s our touching reunion”
This isn’t a joke At the very least, I’ about it, all of the hardshi+ps I went through this year were mostly because of the Evil God in front of me Truly a God of misfortune
Being called into this place with this kind of ti about this
“Well whatever The reason I called you here today was just as ratitude and reward for your achievements so far”
“Gratitude and reward?”
Hearing these unexpected words, I accidentally asked hiain And what does he mean by achievements so far?
“First is s It was just a whilad I sent you into this world”
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I had faintly noticed it, but it seems that I really am a toy to this Evil God
“To begin with, why did you even send me there?”
“If you’re asking why I sent a servant in, then it was tofaith to create a kin As for why it was you, well, you see”
“In other words, the fact that I joined the Divine Race was all predetermined?”
“Nah, you’re wrong It’s true that I made it easier for you, but even I didn’t know if you would become one or not I was actually pretty surprised you know? To think that you’d become a divine that quickly Even I didn’t expect it”
Hearing his reply, I felt a little relieved If allon the pal, it would have been a major shock
“And, ould you have done if I hadn’t become a divine?”
“Nothing really? If that tiunna think about it then If you becaht, but it’s not like I absolutely needed you to become one”
I got treated pretty casually, but I’ry
“Is there so kin?”
I have Tena and Imperial Death as kin, but they’re useful because they’re my allies To the Evil God in front ofhi for him either
Just what kind ofa kin like me?
“The number of your kin and their quality is like a status symbol, you know It’s better to have more than less, better to have divines than apostles, and better to have chief Gods than stray Gods There’s iven that you have the hegemony in this world, you’re pretty valuable”
“Have the hegemony?”
Was he talking about the h
“Well, there were soained a lot of 『Authorities』, so it’s fine to say you have the hegemony in this world What’s important is the result, not the process, so I don’t care who you guys decided won and lost”
It’s true that because I lost the match and had a lot of work pushed onto me, I had the most 『Authorities』 of us three Gods
“And so, since I saw you working so hard, I thought that I’d give you a little reward”
“Like I said, reward?”
“Yep So anyway, about the reward in question… if you want, I can turn you back into a human, and teleport you to Earth”
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Hearing these coht my breath
I can turn back into a huinal world?
“Not a bad offer, right? Either way, it’d normally be an impossible reward If you don’t take it now, there won’t be a second time, okay?”
The Evil God spoke as though pressing me for an answer, but my mind was in so much chaos that I couldn’t really comprehend his words I tried desperately to calm myself down, and voiced my doubt
“Even though your objective was to create a kin, is it okay for you to turn me back into a human?”
Froh quality kin, and I achieved that by turning into a divine But noas saying that he would turn me back into a hu the cart before the horse
“I say turning you back into a hu your 『Divine Self』 and your 『Hu the 『Divine You』 is plenty as my kin”
I have no idea how he’d even do so at how casually he said it, he probably really can
I’ll be able to return to being a human…?
“If the 『Divine You』 stays in this world as my kin, I don’t really need the 『Human You』 Like I said earlier, if you want, I’ll teleport you to Earth”
Not only returning to being a human, but I’ll even be able to return to my old world…
Up until now, I tried not to really think about it, but the ht up the memories of my fas of nostalgia and longing──
“However, it’ll be a one-way transfer of course After I teleport you to Earth, I won’t accept you wanting to come back here”
It felt like cold water had been poured over me
Wait, that’s…
“Of course, I can’t teleport anybody other than you to Earth If you choose Earth, then you’ll be saying goodbye to the people here”
If I return to my old world, then I won’t ever be able to see Tena, Leonora or Lili again If I cross over to another world, you could call that much obvious, but that reality stabbed deeply into my heart
My friends and family in my old world, or the people that I met in this world? If I chose one, I had to abandon the other
I closed hed the two on a scale
It was painful to choose either one, and I couldn’t come to a decision
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…That’s how it should have been
But despite that, the scales in my heart tipped with unnatural ease in one direction
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It really is strange
So
Right I can’t just eat up this Evil God’s words That was the mistake I made last time too
This tiestion, but there was plenty of risk that he ht
Now that I was calht back on the conversation thus far, and checked to see if there was anything weird
“Now then, which world will you pick? Earth, or thi──”
“Why?”
“Eh?”
Discovering rong, I cut off his words
“Why did you not say──
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──『return you to your old world』, and say 『teleport you to Earth』 instead?”
The constantsmile from the Evil God’s face disappeared, and he turned expressionless
Thinking about it, fro me from somewhere else
I had naturally thought that I had been taken right after the last memories of 『my old world』, so I hadn’t particularly noticed
Also, I was supposed to have been suddenly taken away from my friends and family, and then sent to another world, so normally you’d expect that I’d want to return, but for so, and even when I heard that I would be able to
And there was one h last tiine that the Evil God in front of o out of his way to strip s up the question of why I was naked the first time
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“Tellwell?”
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“…………………Huhu, AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”