episode_0072

“Yes, fine. If that’s what this kid wants.”

Well, okay.

This guy knew that.

The level of difficulty was incomparable to that of Pingchang.

Judging from the honey-filled eyes on the Pope sleeping next to me, it seems like this would have been difficult without the Pope.

“…By the way, is the Pope still sleeping?”

“Haha, why do you keep fainting when you see my face?”

But why is he suddenly like this again?

It’s an honorific that we didn’t say when we first met.

“There’s no need to be pretentious now.”

“Oh, is that so… Haha, I’ll take it easy. Sorry, sorry. I remembered too late that they were children of the underworld.”

I guess he doesn’t show this kind of friendly side to his original believers.

I think they had been cut off from interaction with believers for so long that they seemed to be too comfortable with us.

“But what do you plan to do? I’m the third? I think we need one more person at this rate.”

“Well, the God of Lightning decided to tell me.”

“···?”

I had nothing to say to Justice who questioned me.

Well, that guy said he would tell me later…

I picked up the guy who was lying on the floor with his jaw caved in and brought him in.

“Now, there are three of us. Can’t you tell us more?”

“Are you finished? ···It’s pretty quick. I thought it would be difficult because this guy is stubborn.”

“Who is a stickler, a stickler? A guy who only causes accidents.”

“Haha, it’s better to have an accident than to chase after other gods for hundreds of years!”

“···Have you finished speaking?”

If this continues, these guys will fight too.

They try to fight over trivial things like their own believers fighting.

Justice and love fight from the moment they first meet.

At least you guys were supposed to get along.

In the name of love and justice! There’s something similar.

…But it didn’t seem to work in the world of gods.

As Yuna said, I could see them fighting and fighting among themselves as if they were very strong people.

“Come on, stop fighting. I didn’t come all this way for you to fight.”

“···okay.”

“I’ll hold back this time…”

Argh, stop fighting…!

Jeong: This kid looked a little fine, but he didn’t seem to be.

If you think about it, he was the one who fought with your love when you first met.

Is he a guy who tends to get into fights with other people?

“You know, how do you think gods are born?”

“hmm?”

Suddenly, the God of Lightning asked me a strange question.

How is God born? ···Why are you asking that?

“Of course it’s not sexual intercourse? They say gods love each other and give birth?”

“Well, from the humans’ point of view, you might think so. But think about it, gods don’t die as easily as humans.”

Why don’t gods die?

As I was about to say that, I paused for a moment as a thought passed through my head.

“···There aren’t that many gods in the pantheon.”

“Yes. Most gods can’t have children. Should I say they are infertile? Hmm, maybe that’s why. Their daily lives are so similar that everyone is busy looking at the underworld.”

It’s a simple fact.

If gods could mate with each other and make children, the pantheon would have to be full of gods.

There are not just one or two gods in the pantheon.

The other day, I took out a book that was similar to the Bible and listened to it, and there were a lot of them.

There were so many that I could write them all down in a thick book.

But when I came to the pantheon, there were so many.

I don’t know where everyone has disappeared to, but there are only three gods I’ve met so far.

“Gods are not born like humans. There are three ways.”

“···Three ways?”

What.

The God of Lightning suddenly lowered his voice as if he were telling the secret of birth.

“First of all, I am giving birth among the gods.”

No, they just said I was infertile.

No matter how long it has been since you said it, you forget what you even said.

Is it a goldfish?

···Is it evident on his face that he thinks so?

The lightning god added hastily.

“Most, most! The fertility rate of the gods is lower than you can imagine… it’s almost one birth every thousand years! It’s no different from infertility.”

“Right.”

What if it takes a thousand years…

Even if it’s infertility, it can’t be helped.

There are not just one or two gods, but there is also a god of love, but once every thousand years…?

“In this case, it would be justice. I don’t know if it’s because he was born among the gods, but he’s so stubborn.”

“How stubborn. You guys are acting too arbitrarily.”

“Ah, nagging again. I understand.”

Is it because they complained right in front of me?

The God of Lightning just ignored it, as if he didn’t want to fight the God of Justice, who instantly refuted it.

“The second is for humans to ascend to the position of gods.”

“···Climb up on your own?”

“Yes. In fact, most gods are born like this. They achieve great achievements or something that people talk about. The easiest way is to become a hero.”

“So, most of the gods were actually humans?”

“It’s a bit unfair to say that there are only humans. There are elves and machines, but there are the most humans.”

I turned my head slightly and looked at Justice.

I could see Jeong nodding his head as if it were a natural thing to say.

“This is a good example of a love god. He dated a thousand people when he was human.”

“Che, a thousand…?!”

“During that time, he was even more of a hot topic because he never took someone else’s lover… You don’t know how absurd the gods were at that time. There were not only men but also a lot of women.”

“Well, did you become a god through that?”

“Yes. It became so famous that he gained faith and became a god. Thanks to that, he came to be called the god of love.”

If that is not the God of Love, then what is the God of Love?

It’s not even a lamb’s leg, it has a thousand legs.

Are you the king of chairs?

“What’s even more surprising is that the lovers clung to him even after they knew he had a lover…”

“W-what…!”

“He said he didn’t want to take someone else’s lover, always asked if he had a lover, and said it wasn’t fair for only him to know, and that he had a lot of lovers, and then they started dating.”

I admit it.

Even with such a penalty, if a human body can have a thousand lovers, wouldn’t that be enough to be called a god…?

I understood it in an instant. This is the second case.

It seems like a setting I’ve heard a lot about somewhere.

A person who achieves achievements becomes a god because of those achievements.

If so, is it a common story?

“I understand the second. . . . What’s the third?”

Actually, this is probably the main thing.

Because I haven’t been able to find anything about the fourth god in the stories I’ve told so far.

What on earth is taking so long?

“···The third one is easy yet difficult.”

“Easy yet difficult…?”

“The main body’s strength must be strong enough to rival that of a god. That’s all.”

“···?”

Uh, so…?

“If you are strong, you will become a god, is that right?”

“Yes. You can think of it that way.”

···What is it.

What’s so difficult about that? Don’t you just have to be strong?

“···What’s so difficult about that?”

“Because you have to be stronger than you can imagine. Do you think it’s that easy to rival a god with a human body? . . . And that’s not all. There’s one more condition.”

What else?

What kind of condition is there that’s why you’re taking such a long time?

I’m just curious for no reason…

“You must meet the gods here, in the pantheon. That is the condition.”

“···Meeting the gods?”

“Yes. Because God cannot live without faith. You know that? God spreads faith little by little without even realizing it.”

“is it.”

“Yes. Now, think about it. Why do you think a being who is already strong enough to become a god cannot become a god?”

Uh, well…

My head was spinning from the sudden question.

Why can’t I become God?

“···Because there is no one you trust?”

“That’s right. To be precise, it’s because I don’t have the faith to exist as a god.”

“What do you mean?”

“Gods cannot live without faith. So faith is a necessary thing for gods. But, think about it. A being who could become a god could not become a god because he did not have faith. But the faith that the gods shed “What will happen if it touches me?”

“···Become a god?”

“That’s right! Your body is gradually changing into the body of God!”

Hmm.

I see It was a fun story.

It was an interesting story, like a historical story you hear in history class.

“···however?”

“Huh? What?”

“What does that have to do with the Fourth God?”

He suddenly started explaining, what is this?

In the end, there is no story about the fourth god.

I did something because he suddenly started telling me the story of the birth of God.

It was a story that was of no help.

“Huh? ···You really don’t know?”

“I don’t know, I don’t know what it has to do with the fourth god.”

“Uh, wait a minute. You really don’t know.”

What.

Why are you talking about something that only you know?

During my school days, I remembered not being able to join in when my friends were talking even if I wanted to.

Damn, I’m curious, but I can’t ask…

“You know, you were okay in the middle of the place where the gods were fighting, right? I heard you even tried to stop them.”

“Is that so?”

“So you’re saying it’s strong enough to rival the gods?”

“···uh?”

Now, wait a minute.

What are you talking about…

“And you, who are so strong, have already met three gods and continued to take charge of the faith they spread?”

“Now, wait a minute.”

“Don’t you think you’ve heard this before?”

···Uh, what?

Suddenly, the smiling god of lightning looked at me.

“You can give me the fourth protection!”