Chapter 262 – The Demon God Solved
“A substitute? I?”
After standing there blankly for a while, I asked the demon god that.
God’s substitute, even thinking about it again, it was so grandiose that it didn’t make sense.
“It’s not just you. Unis, because she was also given a fair chance.”
“If it’s Unis… Are you talking about the demon king? No, you say you’re a god? But why do you need a replacement?”
“To put it simply, it can be seen as the limit of the Personal Godhead.”
The Demon God nodded at my question and began to explain the circumstances.
Although they introduced themselves as gods, they had their own personalities.
And the Demon God said that for that reason, their minds also wear out over time.
It was a story that I could not easily understand, but it seemed that the Demon God did not want a complete understanding.
He went back to the main topic and started explaining why I was chosen.
“In the first place, you and Unis are the chosen souls. I chose Unis, and the goddess chose you.”
For a moment, as if recalling the past, the demon stopped talking and smiled at me before speaking again.
“At first it was simple entertainment. Since our time is running out anyway, I needed a replacement, but I couldn’t pick just anyone, so I suggested it to the goddess.”
“Proposal?”
“Let’s compete with each other’s replacement souls in advance.”
“Competition?”
“Okay. Naturally, the goddess said it was meaningless, and I put forth conditions that would appeal to her.”
I looked at the demon with an expression asking what the proposal was, and he continued explaining, looking very happy to tell me this story.
“We decided to pass on all of our powers to the soul who won the competition.”
“Wait, the goddess accepted the offer?”
I cut off the demon with a puzzled expression.
If it was a goddess I knew, she would never have accepted the offer.”
“Of course she refused.”
“I guess so. If she values her balance her, of course she’d rather have everything in one person…”
Haha!!”
I frowned at the demon who suddenly burst into laughter at my words.
“What is so funny?”
“She values her balance? That’s one of the funniest jokes I’ve ever heard in my life.”
“Am I wrong?”
“The Goddess is a bitch who has no interest in balance. She hopes to somehow steer the world in the direction she wants. And the biggest stumbling block there is my existence. Of course, if she could get rid of me and take her soul as a replacement she wanted, then she had no reason to reject her.”
I tilted my head at the demon’s words, which flowed differently than I expected, and asked the question again.
“You obviously said she refused.”
“She did. According to that suggestion, she would not be a goddess, but the soul I chose could have been my replacement her.”
“…”
“So I conceded a lot to the goddess. Unlike her most willed her, who chose her sparkling soul her, I chose a mean, insignificant, selfish soul. In addition, I set her as a condition for a rate of causality that is incomparable to mine.”
“Causality?”
“Okay. Perhaps because of that, in your eyes, the goddess seemed to value balance.”
I asked Mashin about causality, and he explained it simply.
“It is not that God can intervene in the world at will. There is no need for causality. To put it simply, in order for God to perform miracles, it is only possible if there are many people who truly believe in them.”
“The goddess has such a causal law, but you don’t?”
“Okay. There are countless people who follow the goddess on the continent, but I completely erased my existence in the demon realm. The result was the difference in the causal rate. Thanks to her, she was able to intervene far more than I did , and I was allowed only one intervention.”
It was only then that I could roughly understand the goddess’ actions of her.
So, what she did to balance her was just her way of minimizing her causality her.
“The Goddess intervened a lot to make you a winner. But through a single intervention, I have always taken away the things you hold dearest.”
“Why?”
I asked, looking at the demon with a resentful expression.
I couldn’t even remember exactly what he had stolen, but it was because I had a strong instinctive antipathy.
“The answer to that is also simple. Because I had no intention of defeating the goddess from the beginning.”
“What do you mean by that?”
The devil smiled happily at my question and pointed his finger at my face his.
“It was my plan to dye you, that is, you in my color.”
“You’re dyeing me?”
“Okay. The stupid goddess bitch was only interested in making her chosen soul win, but I was different. Because it was impossible to win the game with the soul of the demon king I chose from the beginning. So I chose for her to make her chosen soul as close to me as possible. And that was really my plan.”
I gulped down my saliva as I watched the evil god smile with an evil expression on her face.
So, from the start, he suggested a game he couldn’t win and planned a trick.
“Therefore? Did I get close to you?”
To my question, the demon nodded without hesitation.
“It was fun. No matter how precious things were taken from you, you did not fall. Even when the saintess who promised you a future died, even when the dragon who helped you chose to die instead of you, and even when the demon who betrayed Baal for you died at his hands his, you wanted another chance.”
“…”
“But, my last life was different. You didn’t open your heart to anyone, and I wondered if I would kill the princess who had a relationship with you. However, since you have changed, I tried to take a slightly different approach. Instead of killing her, I separated her from you. And, ironically, the people who loved you so much also hated you.”
The devil smiled at me and continued talking.
“When no one was left by your side, what I had been working so hard for began to come true. Your soul, which always showed a firm will, was shaken for the first time, and you started to fall into frustration. Even though you did not give your side to the people around you, you began to resent them.”
“… Was it my fault?”
“Well? At least it seemed that way to me, who knows a lot more about you than you remember. And, to my surprise, in this lifetime, you have become a person I like.”
I couldn’t respond to the demon’s words.
Because it occurred to me that maybe everything he said was right.
“I am different from you.”
After a long thought, the words that came out were ugly, but that was all.
It was a word that she forcibly spat out to keep her distance from the demon, but she wasn’t confident in what she said.
“If you are talking about good and evil, it is meaningless. If a goddess values things like self-sacrifice, compassion, humility and patience, I just value other things.”
“Something else?”
“Okay. Values such as winning and challenging, as well as self-confidence and fairness, are considered more important.”
“That is… Why are they evil?”
I looked at the demon with an incomprehensible expression and asked, and the demon laughed as if satisfied with my response.
I know that the values that the goddess considers noble are good, but the things the demons say are not bad either.
“First of all, I am a demon, not an evil god. And unlike you, for most humans, values such as achievement, challenge, confidence, and fairness only make them miserable. That’s why the demons under my influence focus on themselves, and humans are more buried in groups than individuals. That’s why I need concessions and consideration from others rather than gaining something myself.”
“…”
“But you are different from them. In this lifetime, you considered yourself the most important thing, and you wanted a fair price for what you fought for. And I held the same standards to others as you did.”
The demon’s words naturally reminded me of what happened at the Butler estate.
Marian understood my actions of her, but she also did n’t understand at first that I was asking the people in the territory to fight the monsters on their own.
And I still don’t think my actions her at that time were wrong.
“Okay. Those eyes made me convinced that if it were you now, you would make a world that suits my taste a little more. So I was willing to use this opportunity to meet you.”
He was looking at me as if he were looking at the only friend who understood him, or a disciple who inherited everything from him, or a child who resembled him.
