Chapter 158 - Dina Used Secret Power![1]
Raw link: (2017/02/11)
Translator: twomorefreethoughts / TpstT (2020/04/09)
Editor 1: Hand of Vecna (2020/04/18)
Editor 2: Keii (2020/05/01)
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By the time Dina reached her hometown, it was already on the verge of destruction.
Her human mother had already long reached the end of her lifespan and passed away, and her father looked like nothing but the skin on top of his bones.
No, it was not just her father. At this point, Dina's hometown had turned into nothing but a prison full of people who were just moments before their deaths.
"………"
Her heart wouldn't be moved… or so should have been the case.
She had thought that she would not feel anything even if she saw what was happening. She was the Goddess's avatar who just so happened to be born in this village. Thus, she should not have had any sentimental feelings towards these people.
But why? Why was it that she was feeling this agitated?
Why could she feel a chill running down her spine? Why did her feet tremble as if there were ice cubes sliding down her back?
Up until this moment, she had observed scenes like this many times. Although she did not directly play her hand in them due to her overwhelmingly powerful existence, she had ordered the Moon Ouroboros to create a scene like this over and over again. There were times when the population of the world had gotten way too large and she had reduced their numbers. There were even times when she had pletely erased an entire species.
- Really?
Were those things really done by her?
Those were the things the Goddess did, and… isn't it that I've never really personally seen a scene like this ever before?
"… Ohh, Dina… thanks for ing back again."
She must have instinctively gotten close to the bed that her father was sleeping in before she became aware of how close she was.
Notwithstanding that it had been about hundred years since she had left the village, her father noticed the appearance of his daughter in a flash and reached out one of his worn-out and almost skeletal hands towards her direction.
Before she even noticed, she had grabbed his hand then became mute and dumbfounded from realising how weak it was.
A person would eventually die. They would die and leave this world. Even the long-lived elves were not an exception to this rule.
She was aware of this from the very start. Yet, within Dina, there were feelings of dread and dismay as if she had found out this rule for the first time ever.
Why was it that her heart was feeling so painful despite her mother being nothing more than a passageway to bring herself, the avatar, into this world? Why was it that her heart was feeling so painful despite her father being someone whose existence she did not even recognise until she saw him in such a weak condition?
Why was it that the memories of when the two of them showered her with loving smiles were overflowing into her this late in time?
She should have been the personification of the Goddess. As such, the deaths of one or two living individuals should not have been able to move her heart this much.
Until this moment, she had never questioned the equation, "the Goddess = myself".
But now, for the first time, that equation fell apart. She could not help but feel that there was an insurmountable wall standing between herself and the Goddess.
It was because… she just could not believe in any shape or form that her real body, the Goddess, would be feeling the same pain that she was currently feeling.
In all likelihood, the Goddess would not even remember her father's face nor his name… She would not even feel like remembering it, and… even if her father was left to die, she would have nothing more than a passing thought along the lines of "Oh, the avatar's elven father died."
"Fa, father…"
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