episode_0163

“Sob…sob..”

“Okay, it’s okay.. it’s okay, baby.”

My heart hurts.

I was overwhelmed with sadness at the tragic reality.

It was a story I never wanted to imagine. But the fact that it was all a tragedy they had experienced in the past tormented me even more.

“These are things that will never happen again. So it’s okay.”

The goddess who warmly embraces me with her wings and pats my back as I sit on the ground pouring out my sorrow.

“Everyone…everyone is dead..”

“That’s right. At that time, I couldn’t bear the terrible feeling and cried day and night.”

As if memories of the past had come to mind, a deep sadness filled the goddess’s eyes.

“In some ways, you could say that peace had returned…but I couldn’t accept it. I couldn’t let the children I cared for die like that.”

“..then..”

“I prayed to the Heavenly God every day. Please give me just one chance to turn this tragedy around. Thanks to you, I was able to meet you, my readers.”

The goddess wiped away her sad eyes and started stroking my head with a shallow smile. I looked up at her with tears in my eyes.

“..Thank you, Goddess..For turning back time..For saving everyone..”

The goddess opened her eyes wide at my words, and immediately smiled beautifully and kindly.

“No, I didn’t do anything. You are the ones who protected them all. Thank you, reader.”

“..I’m the one who didn’t do much..”

I felt ticklish because of the goddess’s excessive praise.

In reality, all the plans I had made were ruined. Why should I be grateful to the goddess?

All of Robin’s actions to help him were ruined when Lily became a warrior.

The plan to preserve the peace of the Academy was shattered the moment the Demon King invaded.

“You didn’t do anything?”

When I looked down, the goddess made a puzzled face, then immediately spoke with a light in her eyes.

“No, you have already prevented several tragedies.”

“Me..Me?”

“Of course! I was surprised that you thought of seducing Athena from the beginning. I thought that the person sent by the heavenly god was different.”

“…..Huh?”

“That was a method I never thought of. You’re really amazing, reader.”

…..?

Who is seducing whom?

Although I somehow developed feelings for Athena and our relationship developed into a lover’s relationship… I can say with certainty that I never once thought of seducing Athena.

But the goddess was speaking as if I had deliberately seduced Athena from the beginning.

“I’ve never really been tempted?”

“You don’t have to be humble, reader. I know everything.”

“Ah..no really..there was never anything like that..”

The goddess tilted her head as if she couldn’t understand what I was saying.

“Didn’t you tempt Athena with your body every day?”

“Yes..Yes?!”

Mom…what are you doing with your body?

I..?

“Didn’t you always speak in a hoarse voice, and captivate her with your lecherous eyes, and wag your tail in front of her?”

“Ah..no, what..what is that..!”

My face burst open at the direct words I never imagined would come out of the mouth of a goddess.

The gloomy feeling that had just settled in disappeared completely, and I was filled with shame.

‘What is this goddess saying now?!’

Hey.. that weird voice?

You’re saying it’s wagging its tail?

When on earth did he ever do something like that? At least, as far as I know, never.

The goddess looked at me with a blushing face, then spoke quietly with a puzzled expression.

“….Surely..you didn’t mean to??”

“Ah..I told you it never happened in the first place?!”

I screamed in shame, but the goddess just ignored my words and muttered blankly.

“…..Could it be that he seduced Lily by acting innocent and behaving in a way that suited her common sense?”

“Ah..no, I really don’t know that..!”

“Is it possible that you were licking the inside of the succubus queen’s ear lewdly and becoming possessed by pleasure..?”

“That,,,,I mistook that for Athena..!”

“Wasn’t it intentional to instill sexual interest in a dragon who had no sexual desire by showing him intense sexual intercourse every night?”

“That…that..that..stop!”

W…How much do you know?

Feeling ashamed as if all my dark history was being stripped away, I ended up running towards the goddess and covering her mouth.

But I ran too fast and lost my balance.

Just like that, I ended up falling down with the goddess. Although it was unintentional, I ended up on top of the goddess and blocking her mouth.

The goddess looked up at me with trembling eyes.

He muttered with a slightly red face.

“Seo.. Are you trying to seduce me right now..? No. I am the goddess of life. I can’t share my love with only one person..”

“Please…stop it!!”

Shame took over my whole body, and I sobbed and prayed to the goddess.

Fortunately, only then did the goddess look at me without saying anything.

‘What the…what on earth is this goddess!’

Do you know anyone who is desperate to seduce someone?!

Well… of course it’s true that I did it all myself…

It was just a coincidence that it happened that way. It was definitely not intentional…!

It won’t work. I think I’ll have to explain it slowly.

I slowly tried to open my mouth and admit that it was all a misunderstanding, thinking that I shouldn’t look like an animal to the goddess.

“….I thought I had a great plan..but it was just my nature….”

I was left speechless by the goddess’ decisive blow.

* * *

How much time has passed like that?

I explained everything to the goddess for a long time, talking nonsense.

“Ah..you understand? I really didn’t do it on purpose..!”

“Yes, dear reader. I realized that I did it all unconsciously. ”

‘This isn’t it?’

The actions I took were embarrassing to hear about. I hastily tried to explain that it was absolutely not intentional.

It seemed that the goddess had taken that meaning strangely.

When I felt frustrated with the goddess who nodded as if she understood my personality, she spoke again and changed the subject.

“Reader. Anyway, the important thing is that you prevented many tragedies.”

The goddess looks at me with serious eyes.

Her mood must have changed. My heart also became calm.

The goddess continued speaking before even hearing my answer.

“He reformed Athena, the worst hero. He tamed the dragon, a disaster, into a cheerful child. He even influenced the Succubus Queen.”

“That’s right.”

I didn’t think I had prevented the tragedy, but the goddess’s words weren’t wrong.

From the beginning, Athena knew that he was the mastermind, so she tried to change him into a good person.

Marie was also raised as a loving daughter.

Sephir was actually caught by accident…

“You’ve worked really hard. How many lives have you saved..”

The goddess wrapped me in her fluffy wings

When I was embraced by her warm wings, I felt like a chick in its mother’s arms.

“…Did I really do a good job?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

A goddess who answers right away without a moment’s hesitation.

At her words, I looked at the ground quietly.

‘….thank god.’

A great sense of relief swept through my heart and I felt a pang of emotion.

All this time I thought it was all my fault.

The Indomitable Hero is a novel that ends with a happy ending.

I thought that all the tragedies that happened to him were all my fault.

I was always anxious. I was worried that my intervention would lead to another bad turn of events. I was worried that someone would get seriously hurt.

Just like the last time the Academy was attacked, people were injured and cried so much. Now, the guilt was weighing on my body to an unbearable degree.

But it wasn’t.

The Indomitable Hero is literally a novel.

The celestial god changed the history of the past to make it more pleasant to see. It was not literally true, but was just a dramatized story.

That doesn’t mean I have any intention of liking the tragedies that happened in the past, but… I guess I can let go of the guilt that people got hurt because of me.

I felt my shoulders lighten slightly as a sense of peace came to my heart for the first time in a long while.

I looked at her, gently holding onto the wings of the goddess that warmly embraced me.

“..But still, it was the goddess who asked me to turn back time. Thank you.”

The goddess’s eyes widened at my words. She continued to look at me for a moment, then blushed and muttered.

“..Then I have a favor to ask, would you please grant me one?”

Although I felt puzzled by the goddess’s words, I nodded immediately and answered her.

“Yes, I will listen to you.”

He was the one who saved everyone I loved from a tragic past. How could he not grant a favor?

‘Could it be a request like, ‘Please catch the Demon King?’

Usually, the requests that goddesses make are like that.

“Well… I’m the goddess of life, right? In fact, I’m the mother of all life on the continent.”

“Right?”

Well, it’s not like it actually gave birth to life. But it’s not wrong, since the goddess’s blessing made all life bloom.

But why is that?

As I looked at her curiously, the goddess slightly avoided my gaze and continued speaking.

“But you’re saying that you don’t have any children..”

The goddess muttered, looking at the ground with a slightly bitter look.

“That’s…what…”

The goddess herself has never given birth to a child or anything like that…

Of course, there would be no children born from one’s own blood.

“I always thought it would be nice to have a daughter like you.”

“…..Huh?”

I felt embarrassed by her words.

Is it just me? It sounds a little weird…

I looked at the goddess with a puzzled look. Her gaze, which had been looking at the ground, was now intensely directed at me.

A beautiful face that matches her slightly flushed cheeks. The goddess spoke to me with her mysterious, shining eyes.

“Can you please call me mom from now on?”