NOVEL NEXT chapter 57
57 – The Inner World(完)
“You are romantic.”
“What nonsense?”
As soon as I came to my senses, I heard the goddess talking nonsense.
“He appears like a hero and rescues a girl in crisis! If this is not romance, what is it?”
“I just saved you.”
“That’s what romance is.”
I let out a sigh.
“Think what you like.”
“I’m saying it’s cool, but why are you so mean?”
A goddess puffing out her cheeks and placing her hand on her waist.
Her head was pounding.
“Ha… …. Stop talking nonsense and grow the world. Because I want to move on to the next memory right away.”
“I will do it without being pushed.”
The goddess moved.
Koo-gu-gu-gu-gu-goo!
The world grew at the touch of the goddess.
My emotions are mixed.
She never got used to it, even though she had experienced it several times.
As if tired, the goddess trudged toward me.
“Whew… …. It’s kind of hard to keep doing this. Can I send it right away?”
“Okay, let’s go right away.”
The palm of the goddess was placed on my chest.
“Then have a good trip.”
That’s how I lost my consciousness.
I went through several pasts.
The reason Lucia needed 20 gold.
It was to save Finn and Grania.
I bought a pin and grania from a slave trader with all my money.
I met Illya.
Illya was very interested in Lucia.
She’s the only one her age in town so I guess she was.
Ilya often visited.
She wanted to be accepted as her disciple.
I took her as her disciple.
I ran out of money and worked as a mercenary.
Pin was badly injured while working as a mercenary.
He comforted Grania, who was crying at him, and healed Finn.
My disciple. No, there was a family birthday.
Everyone congratulated the birthday person.
When there were happy things, there were also sad things.
If there were things to be angry about, there were also things to be happy about.
Many emotions came to me.
The world, which had been so pure white, was painted with my world before I knew it.
The goddess approached me as I was looking at my growing world.
“How are you? Do you think it’s okay?”
A goddess who asks if you’re okay.
On the contrary, I wanted to ask.
“So, are you okay?”
“Yes? What does that mean…….”
When I first came to the inner world, the goddess said.
I can’t wake up because her own inner world drives out my inner world.
So, as a solution, I was painting her inner world in my colors.
I painted her world into my world.
Then what will become of her?
Before it was my inner world, it was also her inner world.
Is there really no problem?
“Don’t pretend you don’t know. ‘Cause I’m not stupid Is there really nothing wrong with you if I paint your world with mine like this?”
The goddess bowed her head and said nothing.
As I looked at the goddess, I discovered something.
The flowers in the goddess’ hair are withering away.
It was drying up.
It was disappearing.
That was the current state of the goddess.
“As expected, was there a problem?”
The goddess raised her head.
“Right. I have a problem. But don’t worry, it’s nothing for the apostle to worry about.”
“Why is it nothing to worry about?”
“Because there is no harm to the apostle.”
A goddess whose voice rises as if her emotions have intensified.
She came up to me and put her hand on my chest.
“Get home soon!”
It was to send me to the past.
I couldn’t let it go like that.
You grabbed the hand of the goddess.
As it were, I pulled the goddess’s arm and brought it in front of me.
The goddess and I who got close enough to face her face.
I stared straight into the eyes of such a goddess.
“I am not irresponsible like you. If there is a problem, you should try to solve it. Why do you think and try to solve it by yourself?”
The goddess shouted.
“What can I do?”
“What?”
“What are you saying you can do when you can’t do anything here without my help?”
That was right.
I couldn’t do anything in this world without her help.
That said, I didn’t like to act as she said without doing anything.
“Yes, as you said, there is nothing I can do here.”
“Then do as I say. Then the apostle will be able to wake up without any problems.”
The goddess shook my hand.
Looking at her like that reminded me of what she said.
“I think you were right.”
“Yes?”
“You said there was romance.”
“What do you mean?”
“I am saying that I will save you.”
The face of the goddess hardens.
The stiff face gradually distorted.
“Ha, what are you talking about? You keep saying that you can do anything!”
The goddess was angry.
As she said, there was nothing I could do.
But concessions could be made.
“You take half of me.”
“Yes?”
“It is literally. It means that you have half of my world.”
“Do you know what that means?”
“Yes.”
I give away half of my inner world.
That is what causes great confusion in human emotions and memories.
If you do something wrong, you can become a person without emotion or lose your memory.
Knowing that, I gave her half of mine.
“Why do you do that to me? I am the one who called you. It is because of my mistake that you suffered. It’s all my fault and I’ve never been nice to you, so why are you doing that?”
That’s right.
She is the one who ruined my life.
So I bullied her and called her a damn goddess.
The demons were about to descend and the need to protect the world were all out of my mind.
But after coming here and looking back at my past, my thoughts have changed.
Still, I didn’t really care if I died.
But my family remained.
She said only I could stop the demon.
I made up my mind to stand up to the demon to protect my family.
If you’re going to fight the demon anyway, how about saving a damn goddess in the process?
The goddess who ruined my life, but also the goddess who made me meet my family.
“It is romantic.”
“Yes?”
“Don’t ask any more questions because it’s embarrassing. So what are you going to do? I am thinking of giving in. It depends on your choice.”
The goddess seemed to be troubled.
I was worried for a long time.
As if she had given an answer, she approached me with a serious expression.
“You can lose your memory.”
“You just have to remember it instead.”
“You may lose your feelings.”
“You just have to feel the emotions again.”
“You might regret it.”
“The age for that has passed.”
Tears flow from the eyes of the goddess.
“Apostle.”
“What is it?”
“You are romantic.”
A goddess who speaks embarrassing words without hesitation.
I wasn’t particularly scolding.
He just smiled.
●●●
A year has passed since the Empire declared war on the world.
At first, the world said that the emperor of the empire was crazy and that the empire would collapse soon.
However, contrary to what the world thinks, the empire has gradually expanded its territory without a single defeat since the start of the war.
Only then did the world realize that something was wrong and began to fear the Empire.
The country that initially rejected the empire immediately raised a white flag after seeing that the country next to it was reduced to ashes by the empire, leaving nothing behind.
The Empire did not mind the surrendering country.
However, he did not leave a shred of mercy toward the resisting nation.
No one survived just because they were from that country.
Let the empire’s actions gradually get worse.
The Holy Kingdom, unable to see this, began to move.
The allied forces against the empire were largely formed with the castle as the main axis.
Nevertheless, the empire’s progress could not be stopped.
The ongoing war was enough to drive people crazy.
The Empire’s soldiers, who repeated victory after victory, began to go mad.
The soldiers of the Empire killed and trampled everything in front of them.
It did not discriminate between adults and children.
Some of the nobles of the empire, fed up with its appearance, even turned their backs on the empire.
The world was seething with blood, screams and despair because of the Empire.
Who could like a world like this?
In such a world, there was a man who was enjoying wine with a smile on his face.
Demon King Baal.
He was in a great mood.
“I really don’t have much time left.”
“We will reduce it.”
“Congratulations.”
“It is an honor to be with you.”
At his words, the demons kneeling in the room shouted.
“By the way, what happened to Seongguk? Haven’t you captured it yet?”
“Two dukes are out. It is said that it is not easily captured due to the resistance of the Witch of Arsene, the Duke of Decaron, and the Archduke of Nyx.”
“Is that so?”
It was the Dekaron family who betrayed the first, as they were trembling at the empire’s progress.
The family motto of the Decaron family is to protect the people of the empire.
Jade Dekaron asked the emperor to stop the war, but the emperor refused.
The Duke of Decaron took the people of the Empire and surrendered to the Holy Kingdom.
After that, the Grand Duchess of Nyx moved.
Even the Witch of Arsene acknowledged the Empire as an enemy and began to fight against it.
“There are a lot of pesky guys out there.”
“Sorry. We will capture the enemies as soon as possible.”
“It is done.”
Demon King Baal rose from his seat.
“I’ll let you go myself.”