V7C147 (1/2)

(147) The Seventh Goddess

Translator: Tseirp

After retrieving Roo‧Kanga’s remains, the boxing glove, into my item bag, the back room — the door that led to the Goddess statue room opened with a heavy sound. Stella said that it was impossible to receive the labyrinth clear bonus here but it looked like I could still have an audience with the Goddess-sama without any problems.

I thought to myself but when I entered the back room, I unconsciously frowned a little.

” …… ”

I hesitated to say a word.

The Goddess statue was there. Certainly, no matter how I looked at it, it was a Goddess statue.

However, I didn’t know how to start. The sculpted Goddess Statue was a depiction of an intellectual woman wearing glasses.

She held a book in her hand and it unexpectedly resembled the Ninomiya Kinjiro statue. (TL: Ninomiya Kinjiro’s statue shows a child holding a book to study while carrying firewood on his back and is commonly found in front of elementary schools.)

I digress a little but the Ninomiya Kinjiro statues originally erected in front of all elementary schools had been removed. Due to reasons like encouraging smartphone use while walking or praising child labor. Now that I think about it, among the light novels I read while I was in Japan, there were also reincarnation stories where using smartphone while walking was the cause of death so it looked like it was regarded as a dangerous act.

At that time, Miri said ‘Is Onii against the decision to remove the Ninomiya Kinjiro statues? If that’s the case, I could try my best to contrive a ploy to reinstall the Ninomiya Kinjiro statues in all of the schools in Japan?’ with her hands spread open in a tone that didn’t sound like she was joking. She was expressing her intention to do so with both her hands.

After that, when I heard that in a certain school there was a statue of Ninomiya Kinjiro sitting while reading, I recalled commenting to Miri that I felt the changing era from his appearance and the topic on Ninomiya Kinjiro ended for our family. I dismissed her words at that time as a joke but I occasionally pondered if Miri was actually serious. Even though there’s no way she could be serious.

Why did I digress?

That’s because I was waiting for someone to say something.

” … Who … is she?”

“Yeah, like Haru said, who is she? There are six Goddesses and I have seen all the Goddess statues but this Goddess wasn’t among them?”

Koshmar-sama and Torerul-sama who gave me my growth cheat ability. Libra-sama who appeared in my world. Setolance-sama who granted Suzuki his blessing. And Goddess Minerva-sama who I heard of from Libra-sama. I don’t know the name of the remaining Goddess.

“Like master said, the Goddesses are Setolance-sama, Koshmar-sama, Torerul-sama, Minerva-sama, Crile-sama, Libra-sama.”

Haru always answers my doubts. It looked like the last remaining Goddess was called Crile-sama.

“This revered person’s name is Metias-sama. The Goddess of Future and Knowledge nya. It is said that Metias-sama was the one who granted the Cat Siths our knowledge and Cat Siths believes in monotheism toward Metias-sama in the Goddess faith nya.”

“Wait a minute, Metias-sama? She’s also a Goddess?”

“Yes nya.”

“Then why isn’t it passed around?”

“I don’t know nya. But, Metias-sama certainly existed before seven hundred years ago nya. All academic Humes most likely also believed in her nya. Despite that, since seven hundred years ago, Humes and the other races forgot about Metias-sama nya.”

” … Did something happen seven hundred years ago that made the originally seven Goddess-sama become the six Goddess-sama now?”

“That’s wrong nya. Metias-sama was removed and Torerul-sama became the new Goddess nya. Almost all of Metias-sama’s labyrinths changed into Torerul-sama’s labyrinths nya.”

” … Then, why is Metias-sama’s Goddess statue in this labyrinth?”

“I don’t know nya. But, I do know that the Demon Lord was involved nya.”

“The Demon Lord?” “Demon Lord-sama?”

Haru and I spoke at the same time.

“That’s right nya.”

… The Demon Lord also influenced this place too huh?

Rather, Stella likely brought us here because it was related to the Demon Lord.