Chapter 155 – Chapter 155 ― Thank You (3)
Episode 155 ― Thank You (3)
Seeing Roan’s gaze, Helen smiled bitterly as if she knew what he was talking about.
“It’s a different atmosphere from the temple.”
“Right.”
The shabby walls are pitiful compared to the decent temple walls.
Turn ‘Detect’ once.
Unlike the crowded plaza, the area around the temple and residential area is quiet.
There are one or two people who move from time to time in a location presumed to be inside the temple, but there is no sign of coming this far.
Roan walked down the alley.
A low fence a little over 1 meter high.
It is a little taller than a man’s chest.
Roan didn’t even put his arm on the wall and jumped with his leg strength. The moment his one leg lifted himself into the air, the other foot stepped on the wall and made a close-up.
Helen saw only the hem of her coat falling over her wall in an instant.
“Wow…”
Helen, who exclaimed silently in admiration, jumped up with her hand on her wall.
It’s not at the level of a non-human like Roan, but
She is also a skilled knight.
The fence of her orphanage was something she had jumped over countless times as a child.
“… It hasn’t even been a year since I left here… It’s so strange. It was a place like this…”
His angry eyebrows, which always produced a sharp expression, drooped sadly.
Roan could understand Helen’s feeling.
A room from my childhood, a house I’ve become accustomed to.
A place like the world to someone.
However, after realizing that the world is bigger and returning, it seems infinitely small and shabby.
For Helen, who now loves and protects only the people who are important to her without needing to notice anyone else,
Like the twisted shadow of an elegant and majestic temple, this building felt so shady and cold.
They walked through the courtyard leading to the orphanage without further conversation.
A dark place without a single light.
Roan stopped near the attached warehouse where the orphanage’s firewood was stored.
“… ?”
Helen looked at Roan’s expression as she suddenly stopped her feet. To find out if something is wrong.
But Roan said.
“Everything has arrived.”
There was a deep doubt in Helen’s expression, but
Her master ordered in a low voice.
“Helen. You never know how long I will be here.”
“… ?”
The confusion in her eyes deepened, but she didn’t question.
Helen nodded her head.
“If someone comes, wake me up. If I can’t get up, lead me and hide yourself.”
“All right.”
There were a lot of questions she wanted to ask, but Helen was counting on Roan to explain.
But waiting with faith alone,
Roan’s next move was truly incomprehensible.
Roan took out wine, fruit, and a bouquet of flowers from the magic bag he had hidden flat under his coat.
Place fruit and flowers on the stone and open the bottle.
Helen also used it as a place to stand on her feet since childhood, and when it was difficult, she used it for resting by attaching her buttocks.
On a flat, fairly large stone.
A stone she could not move no matter how many times she tried to move it because she was uncomfortable when she was carrying it.
And the moment the emperor pours the wine from the bottle onto the stone.
A thinly compressed, enormous amount of divine power pierced her master like lightning.
Helen’s eyes widened.
She whispered in a trembling voice.
“… Master…”
But with both eyes closed,
Her owner didn’t answer.
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“… ?”
The bright light was not dazzling.
Roan opened his eyes narrowly and lowered his hand covering her eyes.
The warm light, even though they faced each other strangely, did not make her eyes suffer,
He stared at the light incessantly.
And it was after fixing my gaze on the light for a few seconds that I noticed that there was a silhouette of a woman in the light.
‘You are a goddess… !’
The moment Roan realizes
A benevolent voice was heard.
Not ears,
It was like a warm breeze on a spring day that permeated my entire body.
“It’s been a while since I’ve had wine in the east. It is a delicious drink.”
The holy voice jokingly thanked Roan.
Even though the weight of the words was not heavy, Roan fell to his knees involuntarily at the feeling of holiness.
The soft white floor didn’t hurt.
Roan then noticed what he was wearing.
And he is not the ‘Demon King’,
He came to know that he came here as ‘Kim Yong-cheol’.
The clothes he is wearing now are a white T-shirt and jeans that he changed on the way home from work after a service job.
It’s been a long time since I felt the roughness of denim.
Yongcheol soon put on a frustrated expression.
Because the questionnaire to the goddess that she had put in her coat pocket had disappeared.
“Come on, Goddess.”
So Yongcheol’s first words were,
It was clumsy and trembling and uneasy.
However, a pleasant shimmering echo was transmitted.
I couldn’t hear it, but
Yongchul could see that the goddess was smiling.
“You are a well-prepared child. You are looking for this.”
And a small note appeared in front of Yongcheol.
A list of questions that I had neatly folded and tucked away in my overcoat.
Yongcheol smiled shyly and picked it up.
I felt relieved just holding it in my hand.
The faint silhouette beyond the light feels the gaze gently looking down on him,
Yongchul cleared his throat.
“Hmm. Hmm. Are you Goddess Laurecia?”
“Okay. I am Laurecia. It’s a fresh question indeed.”
Laughter came again like a pleasant wave.
Yongchul laughed along with me without even realizing it.
Soon the smile on his face disappeared as he recalled the first question.
“Why did I come here? Why me?”
The goddess was silent for a moment.
But the light shone brightly again.
“Because you deserve it.”
“Qualification… What?”
“Okay. He deserved a chance.”
The goddess answered slowly.
“It is not easy to put the will into action. It is self-evident that it is painful and hard work no matter how great the power and honor is. But you did it.”
However, Yongchul said shyly.
“Goddess. But… The world is much better than me… There were a lot of people. I am… I was the one who lived without knowing only one body.”
However, I felt a gentle smile from the goddess.
“Even now, this kind of sex… Do you know Goddess? What is a game? Is this world I live in a game? This knowledge I know is dirty… These are things I know while playing games like that. If you had any intentions, you must have been looking for someone more proper.”
Although that was not the intention,
Yong-cheol’s questions, which were followed by the flow of his thoughts, eventually became like bruising the goddess.
When Yongcheol scratched the back of his head,
The goddess answered with a smile as if to calm a questioning child.
“You live and breathe here. Whether you call a game or a book. Does it matter what It is where you, your women, and countless children live.”
Yongchul just listened to her goddess with her mouth open.
“There are various worlds, and they are connected invisibly. By chance, someone from the world you lived in came to know the story of the world I lived in. And I also found out about it by accident. They used each other… Did you express you guys.”
And like a shrug,
There was a hint of playfulness.
“Wouldn’t it be nice to feel pleasure in the process?”
Yongchul closed her mouth tightly and dyed her face red. I feel like someone has revealed my secret memories.
But the goddess didn’t talk about the game anymore.
“There was someone who wanted to call someone into this world, and there was a body that could accept it. There were also souls to wander. You were at the point where each other’s needs met. So you came here Weren’t you hoping for a chance?”
Before Yongcheol came here without a word,
She staggered, half-drunk, recalling the vague thoughts she had had as she walked down the cramped alley.
‘I wouldn’t live like that.’
“I needed you too. Just like you need a chance. That’s why I gave it a chance, and you’re giving me what I need. In a way, you can see this as my request to you.”
“Does the goddess need anything? What is it?”
But she said no goddess.
“I will tell you when the time comes when your level can accept everything. But fortunately, you are overcoming the hardships given to you.”
Yongchul was so sure.
The one who gives the quest is the Goddess.
Curiosity about the quest,
Complaints about an unfriendly system,
A question of a veiled purpose.
All sorts of thoughts rushed through him, but still nothing out of the scope he had expected.
Yongchul suddenly regained his composure.
She won’t have as much time for herself as Helen.
“How long can I stay here?”
So his question was extremely cold. In an instant, a feeling of satisfaction emanated from the goddess.
“That’s your question. Don’t worry. I can answer three or four questions properly. Because the time here is different from reality.”
“Then.”
Yongchul unfolded the well-folded note.
The question written on the top line.
The most important thing in Roan’s life lately.
“This is the most curious and difficult part of my recent stay here. It seems that all life is hostile to the demons.”
“… It is true.”
For the first time, the voice of the goddess gave off a perplexed look.
Whoops, I picked the wrong question. Yongchul felt that he had done something very wrong without even realizing it, so he shrugged at her.
“But Helen… The so-called human saint said…”
“A cute child with azure hair.”
“Ah yes. You know. Helen said that we are also the children of the Goddess…”
“You already accept demons as your own people.”
At the goddess’ laughter, Roan shut his mouth.
His eyes widened.
His attire was different.
Clothes made of softly woven fabric and luxurious coats were worn in the Imperial Castle just before hiding in Spross.
He is,
It became Roan.
“The demons must be looking for a way not to be hostile to other creatures, right?”
“… Yes.”
The light of the goddess darkened.
Roan was startled.
Suddenly I sensed her sad face,
Roan didn’t know what to do.
As he tried to find words to comfort her, the goddess spoke in a pitiful voice.
“We’ve been apart for too long.”
“…”
Roan bit his lip.
She thought it would not be easy, but after receiving the answer from the goddess, she felt even more hopeless.
“I know you are trying to reverse it.”
“Yes.”
Roan involuntarily lowered his head.
“Proof… Or something Is there any way to make other races accept the word of the Goddess?”
But she sensed a smile from the goddess.
It wasn’t the warm smile from before, it was a bitter smile.
“You already have the power connected to me. But even if you show it, I don’t think anyone will readily believe you. Why?”
“Ah…”
A deep wrinkle formed between Roan’s forehead.
“Okay. Many people already judge by looking at the outside rather than the inside. It is such a world. Since there is no way to look inside, they must have chosen to make decisions quickly by looking at the outside rather than the slow way to see each other’s heart.
One i’m sad Was this the world I was trying to save…”
Suddenly, a feeling of sadness surged through her chest.
A very long time ago.
Although the world was saved by giving everything,
After all, she too knows all too well that her world is not her own way.
It was a deep fragment of human resignation and despair felt there.
Everyone should do it at least once in their life
Lamentation for a world that has become a tragedy.
However, Roan’s fist was tightly clenched.
‘Will’ whispered.
You’re here to hear the answer.
Somehow, Goddess must find a way.
Hanging. Snatch up don’t despair here
Roan opened her mouth.
