Chapter 54 – Episode 54 ― The Goddess Comes to Me and Delivers Words of Wisdom (5)
Episode 54 ― The Goddess Comes to Me and Delivers Words of Wisdom (5)
Helen was dumbfounded by the ghastly words of treason, and she laughed along.
She said, “If there were rebel forces, you would be what they needed most.”
“Yes. It’s a pity for the rebels.”
The two girls giggled and laughed for a moment.
At that sign, Lauca, who was sleeping on the sofa, turned over. Grünent muffled his voice again with an ‘Ah’ look on his face.
“Seriously, it might be the greatest result for the entire continent of Moira that Evirzio quickly consolidated his system and captured the capital Spros with a stronger army.”
“Our conversations are getting bigger and bigger.”
“And I will be queen.”
At the provocative words, Helen raised her eyes.
What the rescue team was originally aiming for.
What Grunent dreamed of.
But in the end, I had no choice but to give up.
Grünent laughed mischievously.
“Besides, I think that Your Majesty might do something ridiculous like that.”
“That…”
Helen was speechless.
That was the problem.
Not the king of the cults or men,
The demon king might make the world peaceful.
But can that peace truly be called peace for humans?
Helen wasn’t sure.
After chatting for a while, Grunent fell asleep before he knew it. Even that was just like her old days, so Helen smiled and covered her with the blanket.
The only difference is that this is a guest room where she is locked up.
Helen looked at the bird close-up for a moment, then knelt on the edge of her bed.
It was an act she had never missed since her earliest memories.
“Merciful Goddess.”
Helen, lowering her voice to keep Grunent and Lauca from waking, put her hands together.
Have I been put to the test?
Which one is for the Goddess?
Which path should I, the Goddess’ instrument, walk?
It may be selfish, but
What is the way to make Grünent truly happy?
Goddess.
Please tell me which way I should go.
And suddenly Helen realized that the appearance around her had changed.
“… ?”
Did you fall asleep while praying?
The vast space was covered in pure white.
The floor was covered with something soft and unknown.
Is it like this feeling above the clouds?
A warm, gentle wind gently blew, and I felt good.
“Helen.”
When someone calls her name
Helen looked back.
It was a sweet, nostalgic voice.
And as soon as she saw the owner of her voice, Helen fell flat in an unknown fear.
“… Ah.”
Her feelings were not completely uttered.
Fear and emotion burst into tears.
The gentle voice of the protagonist said.
“You found me.”
“… Goddess.”
I couldn’t see the woman’s face in the light, but I could feel her smiling.
In awe, Helen held her breath.
Only then did Helen understand what the situation was.
Goddess Laurecia appeared in her dreams in answer to her own prayers.
Helen said, swallowing her cries.
It was the question that bothered her the most.
“Goddess, what should I do?”
Should I betray the Order, the Order of Knights, and the leader, and stand on the side of the Demon King to support Grünent?
Or should I abandon my friends and decide for the Order? Whether it’s taking your own life or helping the leader try to kill your friend.
However, the goddess answered as if to caress Helen’s agony.
“Helen. Humans and demons are inherently one.”
“… ?”
At the incomprehensible words, Helen raised her head involuntarily. However, the presence of the goddess beyond the light simply smiled gently.
“Humans and demons are all my children. Whoever you help, it is my will.”
“Ah…”
“It makes me sad to see children quarreling with each other, but they will grow up with it. So it’s okay. Because they are all precious children to me.”
Helen wept at her own stupidity.
Isn’t it written on the front page of the scriptures?
She is the Goddess who created everything.
It seems that she and her church couldn’t even properly accept its meaning.
Helen wept for a long time in front of the goddess.
The goddess stayed there silently for not a short time until the cries subsided.
Helen, who barely managed to control herself, asked.
“Goddess. Why am I the Goddess’ tool?”
Helen expressed her pain.
It was a question that had been cherished for a long time since childhood.
“I am a dirty being. Why did a person like me who is different from the outside receive this much power as the representative of the Goddess? Goddess. I am too stupid to understand the will of the Goddess.”
However, the goddess answered with a voice that seemed to caress Helen’s back.
“Even though life is painful, you accept it, try to understand it, and live it.”
Helen could not take her eyes off Goddess Laurecia. The light was warm and intense, but not blinding, so Helen just stared at it.
“The fact that you find joy in your pain is proof that you, too, have been eager to accept your life. I don’t judge the joy you feel. Because that is also how you accept your life.”
Tears that had stopped flowing down Helen’s cheeks again.
“Your strength is what your earnestness created.
People say it’s the power I bestowed on you, but it’s the power you created.
Seeds are hidden from everyone.”
Helen understood the goddess’ words.
What she meant was communicated directly in Helen’s mind with her language.
It meant that the only thing called holy power was not the power of the goddess.
Whether it’s magical power, physical strength, or clever brains.
Any form of any ability.
It is said that the seed is hidden in the human body.
Holding my breath waiting for the moment to germinate,
Precious seeds.
It is said to exist in both humans and demons.
The moment and conditions of flowering are all different,
That possibility is available to everyone.
And each accepts and overcomes painful moments, and flowers bloom.
Just like the power of the holy goddess that Helen acquired herself.
“Where is the filthy tooth? Like everyone else, you are my precious child.”
Helen wept bitterly.
It was the first time in my life I had heard it.
Helen was comforted by that warmth.
She always blamed herself and hated herself.
The self who feels pleasure along with pain.
An abnormal and embarrassing body no matter who sees it.
The leader always said that such holy power was unsuitable for a sow like you.
But the Goddess says it’s okay.
“If you feel that way, let it be.”
The goddess waited for Helen’s crying to stop again, then she said. The next word of the goddess was a bit of a laugh.
“If there is just one regret.”
Feeling the regret of her goddess, Helen apologized and did not know what to do with her body.
But her goddess didn’t seem to want to reprimand her.
“The children who attend me do not reproduce.”
“Yes… ?”
At her unexpected words, Helen opened her mouth in her daze.
It was a word that would make you laugh if you knew it in the church.
“The joy of having and raising children is precious, but it is regrettable that children who will do my will and take my place instead do not have a family and do not make offspring.”
“Even if you get married or have children… , Are you saying it’s okay?”
If she relays this to the church, Helen may be excommunicated or tried for blasphemy.
“Even if I have children and become parents, my strength will never leave my children. Those who become parents become stronger.”
The goddess said mercifully.
“Anything is your choice. Okay.”
Gradually, the voice of the goddess faded.
The light also dimmed.
To her indescribable pity, Helen stretched out her hand. Even so, she holds onto the goddess.
“Don’t worry, walk the right path in your opinion. I’m always by your side…”
Her voice gradually faded away.
When Helen opened her eyes, her tears flowed.
“Ah.”
“Helen?”
“Are you out of your mind?”
Lauca and Grunent were looking at him. Helen then realized that she had awakened as she found herself sitting on her floor, her hands clasped at the edge of her bed.
She was in the posture of praying.
“I was surprised by the sudden burst of energy.”
Lau Kana Grunent, who uses her magical powers, can also feel holy power, the power flowing through her body.
Suddenly, a tremendous energy, like a fire, startled Lauca out of her slumber.
“But I don’t think I should touch it…”
Grünent muffled her words.
Opening her eyes to her sense of alienation, she found Helen praying as she radiated her immense power.
She couldn’t use her holy power, but even in her own eyes and Lauca’s eyes, she was a noble and unapproachable aura.
Feeling too sacred to be defiled, Lauca and Grunent waited for Helen to open her eyes without even calling her name.
Finally, her strength faded, and Helen opened her eyes.
“Thank you. Grunent. Thank you Lauca.”
Helen looked out of her window.
It must have been a while since dawn, and the day was bright before I knew it.
However, her body and mind were refreshed.
More than this she was in a mood that couldn’t be better.
“Grünent. I want to see Your Majesty.”
“Huh?”
“I have something to tell you.”
If Roan saw that moment, she would have seen the number of likes soaring to an all-time high.
“Did you see such a crazy bitch!!!”
And at Helen’s words, of course, Captain Martius went on a rampage.
“To betray the Order and the Knights! After all, you were possessed by the Demon King!”
The Demon King actually talked about wanting to stop the war for the sake of the demon people, the fact that she had seen the goddess in her dream, and the fact that the goddess did not hate the demon people, but the reaction was as expected.
Regardless of whether the demon king was by his side or not, the captain recklessly kicked Helen in anger.
Her shins and her knees were soon bruised from the chafing in her boots, but Helen maintained her immobility as if nothing had happened.
That attitude made the captain flinch.
‘No way, did I really receive the goddess’s oracle?’
That thought fueled the captain’s wrath even more.
Why, why to that bitch and not me as the leader?!
The reason that he, who is not lacking even in the light of successive knight commanders, has not been given the title of headmaster until now, is because there is that woman who is the target of comparison.
Because he believed so, Helen was always a thorn in Mathias’ side.
Even her Helen’s skills have improved.
If his years of service in the Order hadn’t been counted on, he might not have made it to the Grand Master.
Roan felt the anxiety, sadness, fear, rage, and jealousy of Martyus.
I don’t know the details, but I have a vague guess. After all, Helen is the main character.
If the extra’s sadness isn’t managed properly, it could explode like that.
‘It’s unfortunate, but it’s ugly.’
Roan’s heart became complicated when he saw the angry Kyo Knight Commander.
If he was possessed by a powerless extra instead of the demon king, if he met a hero or other target characters in that state.
Was he really able to acknowledge their abilities?
The commander of the Kyo Knights was a bad guy, but sympathy goes.
And even more so, Roan was relieved.
‘If it were you who called me here. In many ways, Goddess. Thank you.’
He did not put his hands together, but his heart was sincere.
Helen, who had been silently listening to Marty Earth’s curses with her alert posture, looked sideways at Roan at the feeling of her strength again. This time, in the end, Martius didn’t seem to feel this power.
It’s faint like a star, but that warm power is sure,
Traces of the Goddess.
Helen, who came back after meeting the goddess all night, was able to assert more clearly than anyone else.
The demon lord has the power left by the goddess.
