Lucas, who had been swallowed by the light and moved sowhere, looked around with a dazed expression.
"Where am I?"
He had been moved sowhere by an artifact many tis, but this was the first ti he had felt so dazed.
And the pure white space with nothing in it made him feel as if he were floating in the air, and he kept checking to see if his feet were on the ground.
[What are you doing?]
But when a voice suddenly ca from right next to his ear, Lucas, who was startled, jumped up.
"Ugh!"
[Hahaha!]
He turned his head to find the owner of the voice, but there was no one there.
[Still, you ca in ti. I knew I did well to leave it to Ellaim.]
"Who are you?"
[It's Kratos. Shall I say I'm the god you all call the main god?]
The main god in the main god's mirror. It seed fine, but it felt out of place.
"...The situation is not good, so why aren't you coming back?"
He had already heard about the disappeared main god.
[Hahaha! I want to go back too. It was sothing Taras did while I was briefly in another dinsion. I don't know when it started, but he had prepared it very thoroughly.]
The main god hadn't disappeared on his own and not co back?
"Damn it."
[Right. I also think it's a damn thing.]
Lucas, who had finally escaped from his dazed state, pulled himself together.
'This isn't it.'
There were one or two things he had to ask.
"Why were my mories intact when I entered the path of reincarnation, and why is Taras trying to get on his side? No matter how much of a dragon I was, what am I, a re human, that he's doing this..."
[One at a ti. One at a ti.]
As he poured out the questions he had been curious about, Kratos smirked and cald Lucas down.
"Then please answer from when I entered the path of reincarnation."
[I did that. It will take a while to tell that story.]
-Saaa. Click. Clatter.
A tea table set appeared on the white space, and soon, even steaming tea was served.
[Sit.]
As Lucas pulled out a chair and sat down, the chair in front of him also moved smoothly.
-Clatter. Click.
The teapot floated up in the air and poured the tea.
[Drink while you listen. It's a tea I brought from another world, what was it called again...]
"I understand, so please just finish your answer."
[Ah, right. The answer.]
The teacup that had been floating in the air rose to the vicinity of where his mouth would be, and then ca down again and was placed on the table.
[Hmm... this is your third life.]
"What, what? Third?"
[Right. Third. Your first life was a dragon. And then I commanded you to beco a god, but you said you wanted to live on the surface one more ti. So I specially opened the path of reincarnation for you.]
"Hah."
Lucas, who had lost all his strength, leaned back in his chair and sighed.
[And then you wanted to live as a dragon again. That was Lanos of your past life.]
"...Hah."
[And this ti, you refused to beco a god again. You even threatened , saying you would rather die forever than live forever.]
The teacup floated up, and soon, the sound of drinking tea was heard.
[Mmm- the scent is good.]
"..."
[But this ti, I couldn't erase your mories. Because I had hidden sothing in you. It was sothing I had hidden from the mont Taras was born. I had predicted that sothing like this would happen. Hmm... it would be more correct to say I saw it.]
Sothing hidden?
"If you saw it in advance, why didn't you stop it?"
[Because if I had stopped this, sothing bigger would have happened.]
"What on earth did you hide in ?"
[Actually, Taras's position was originally yours. Taras was originally the god of evil. But he said it was too much to manage both evil and hell.]
He was a god who was not there now.
[So what. Shall I say I did a personnel change? If you had taken Taras's position as it was, this wouldn't have happened. But.]
"...?"
[The divine world and even other worlds would have been destroyed.]
So what on earth had he hidden in him! Lucas, who was getting frustrated, picked up his teacup and downed the tea in one gulp.
[Ah, the thing I hid in you. Shall I say it's a part of my power? You can think of it as a key to stop Taras. You'll find out about that later.]
"What happens if I side with Taras?"
[Taras is lying. He knows what I hid in you. And since it can only be activated by your own will, he has co forward to persuade you.]
The scattered puzzles began to fit together one by one. From the reason Taras had tried to persuade him to the unsettling feeling when he had entered the path of reincarnation.
[And the key for to return to this place is also with you.]
"Then please tell now. I'll go and open the door or the dinsion right away."
[You'll open it when the ti cos. Because I will lead you there.]
The teacup floated up again.
"Then do I have no choice but to live as a god in the end?"
[I'm sorry... but I guess so. You'll have to return to the place where you originally belong.]
"Damn it."
[But there will be special treatnt. Even if you go out for fun in the middle...]
"It's fine. What special treatnt."
He just wished he could die forever.
[If you're so miserable, I can erase your mories so that you can live as if it's your first ti...]
He hated that even more. Rather than living as a god with all of this forgotten, it was better not to forget if he had to do it anyway.
"It's fine."
[Whatever.]
"It's frustrating."
[I'll let you out.]
He had ant that his heart was frustrated, but a door had appeared next to him.
"Hoo."
Lucas, who had let out a small sigh, got up from his seat. He had nothing more to ask, and even if he did, the answer that would co back seed to be set.
He would probably just say that he would find out when the ti cos.
[Farewell.]
"Can I et you again if I co here?"
[Hmm... I can't give you a definite answer, but I'll try to make it so that you can co.]
"Do you know anything more about what's happening now?"
[Because I'm in this state.]
The teacup floating in the air shrugged once. As if it had shrugged its shoulders while holding the tea.
"I understand."
Lucas opened the door without any lingering feelings and went out.
***
As he ca out after breathing the clean air that seed to have nothing in it, the damp air of the cave and various slls hit him.
"You're out."
"Ugh..."
He felt nauseous, as if he were slling all those slls for the first ti.
"Tsk."
As Ellaim held out his hand, his churning stomach settled down at once.
"Thank you."
"Were you beaten up or sothing?"
Although he had been briefly misunderstood, he just shook his head as an answer.
"When did the main god entrust this to you?"
At that, Ellaim looked up slightly and began to count.
"Hmm... it seems to be over five thousand years."
"Hah."
It seed that it was not wrong to say that he had predicted everything.
"But I didn't go around looking for you for five thousand years."
"I guess so."
"It wasn't easy to go around looking for you, thinking about what the main god had said to on the day he entrusted this to ."
What on earth had he said?
"A human male living his second life with black eyes and hair. I've seen a man with black eyes and hair from ti to ti, but it's not easy to et a human living his second life."
Lucas nodded his head.
"But the human girl living in your house. Should I say she's your younger sister?"
Lucas's eyes turned sharp at the ntion of Nella.
"Right. I was going to ask you about that anyway. You made a contract with Nella."
"Right. She's a very likable human. Her energy is clear and pure. I had my eye on her since she was young."
A human that a spirit king liked. It was not an easy thing.
"Right. She's a child with many scars."
"The spirits will soothe those scars."
Ellaim was right. Even when Nella had been suffering from a sickness of the heart for a long ti, the Naiads had stayed by her side.
"Let's go back."
"Right."
***
Lucas, who had co out of the cave and returned ho, first looked for the children.
'I did check on the island, but...'
He felt that he would only be satisfied if he checked with his own eyes that they were okay once more.
"Lucas."
He turned his head at Skir's voice.
"Right. Is everyone okay?"
Nella and Pola were also there.
"We're fine. Really."
"What about Caitlin?"
"Unni is also fine."
Lucas nodded his head and let out a sigh of relief.
"I didn't know sothing like that would suddenly happen there. I should have gone with you."
He regretted sending the children first, saying he had other things to do. If it weren't for Nella, the children would have been helpless and would have beco food for the monsters there.
"Young master~?"
Just then, Ally's voice was heard from a distance.
"Ah. Guild master."
Lucas quickly hid his startled expression and smiled faintly at Ally.
"You have sothing to say to ~?"
Ally said, clenching her teeth. She must have known that her beloved island had been turned into a ss.
"Haha. Yes. H-here..."
Lucas, who was filled with a sense of guilt along with a feeling of apology, smiled awkwardly and gestured towards a quiet place.
"Goodbye..."
The other children also bowed their heads awkwardly. Although it wasn't their fault that the monsters had poured out there, they couldn't help but feel a sense of guilt.
Ally, who had co to the place Lucas was leading, was breathing heavily through her nose.
"Aellas. I'm sorry. I didn't want to make your island like that."
"No, but still, isn't that a bit much? The whole place is all blackened!"
From Ally's point of view, it seed she couldn't understand how the island had gotten into that state just because a few monsters had co out.
"It's because I wasn't there. It beca like that because the children tried to block all of that."
Lucas subtly shifted all the responsibility to himself.
"The sand and the trees are all scorched, so I can't even use the island again!"
It must have been the work of the lightning magic Pola had poured out and the fire spirits.
"And my beloved staff all died! The best bartender and chef our island boasted of are all dead!"
"Ahem... wasn't that the work of the monsters?"
"Aigoo!"
Ally grabbed the back of her head and pretended to collapse.
"No! I also have a lot to say."
"...?"
As Lucas suddenly shouted, Ally's eyes widened.
"Where were you and what were you doing while sothing like that was happening on the island? You must have set up an alarm magic or sothing. The children went on a tour and almost went straight to a tour of the celestial world!"
"T-that is..."
"If you had co earlier, the island wouldn't have beco such a ss, would it! I sent the children, trusting you, but why did you only co here now?"
"Ah, I thought the alarm magic was wrong..."
"You little rascal?!"
As Lucas shouted, Ally flinched and cowered.
'Good. If I just keep going like this, it'll be fine.'
Lucas put his arm on his waist and put on a solemn expression.
"If sothing like this happens again, you'll be in big trouble!"
"The island is..."
"You have a lot of money, so just buy sothing next to it and build a new one."
Ally looked at Lucas with a wronged expression. In fact, she would be wronged. Since Ally also knew that the monsters had co for the children.
"Ahem! Then I'm going!"
Lucas turned his body sharply and left the place.
'Ugh... guilt...'
A sense of guilt washed over him as he rembered Ally's wronged gaze.
'But it's not like I said anything wrong. Well.'
He straightened his shoulders again and walked.
[End of Chapter]
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