If the day ever came when he met the goddess, he would have so many things he wanted to ask her.

    Why did he show himself the vision of that day and why did he not allow him to do anything?

    He had so many things he wanted to ask the goddess.

    Today was the day he had been waiting for so long.

    “Why did you call me here?”

    He spoke to the goddess standing before him in a sharp voice.

    He had something he wanted to say to her rising to the tip of his tongue, but he desperately suppressed his anger and asked.

    At Aion’s question, the Goddess of Sorrow looked at Aion for a moment and then opened her mouth.

    “You. Looking closely, your soul is not from here..”

    “Yeah. You must have seen it through my welcome too, right?”

    The goddess looked at him and said:

    The body of the person named Aion was that of a person who had existed in this world, but inside of him was the soul of another person named Jae-young.

    In short, it was an irregular being whose body belonged to this world, but whose soul came from another world. It was like an Irregular.

    A being that should not exist and cannot exist.

    That was the one called Aion, and the goddess stared blankly at Aion’s appearance before opening her mouth again.

    “The reason I called you here is because I have something to tell you.”

    The goddess looked down at him and spoke, and Aion felt momentarily annoyed at her words.

    “I’m the one who wants to talk the most right now. I have a ton of questions to ask you..”

    Aion opened his eyes and spoke as the scene the goddess had shown him came to mind.

    The goddess, seeing Aion in such a state, carefully closed her eyes and said.

    “I’m sorry. I showed you that kind of past when you were in pain… But this was a trial that I had to go through in order to hand over my power. Each goddess has different trials, and the trials I gave you are the ones that show the most painfully weak parts of the person taking the trial, and you have to endure until the end without giving up. That’s because that’s the trial that the goddess of sorrow gives you. ”

    The goddess said these words to Aion.

    Aion closed his mouth at the goddess’s words.

    As Aion had expected, the trials given by the Goddess of Sorrow were based on the memories remaining in the minds of those who took the trials.

    Hearing the goddess’ words, Aion clenched his fists and trembled, but after a moment, he released them and asked.

    “I understand why you put me through such a trial. But I have a question. Can you tell me?”

    “Yes, if there’s anything I can tell you, please do.”

    “I originally intended to take the ordeal given by the Goddess of Joy. However, someone else took the Goddess’s ordeal first, so I was forced to take your ordeal. If this isn’t some kind of mistake, then someone else has already taken the ordeal and passed, right?”

    “Yes.. I can lend my power to only one of our goddesses. If the person who is going to take the test gives up in the middle, another person can take the test, but if someone passes the test, it is impossible to take the test until the person who took the test dies.”

    “As expected..”

    Aion listened to the goddess’s words and stroked his chin.

    As he expected, someone had already accepted the Goddess’s Trial and gained power, and upon confirming this, Aion asked back.

    “Then the remaining goddesses. Is there anyone who has accepted the test of the goddess of wrath?”

    “No. No one has yet responded to the trials of the Goddess of Wrath.”

    “It’s nice to hear that.”

    Aion, who confirmed this, said with a little relief.

    Should we call it a blessing in disguise? Fortunately, the Goddess of Wrath, who gives strength to the protagonist, has yet to be tested.

    Aion felt a little relieved when he heard this, but then a thought crossed his mind.

    “Huh..?”

    He paused as a thought crossed his mind.

    Originally, she lost her family to an attack by demons, and later gained strength through trials given to her by the Goddess of Wrath.

    That’s why both of her parents were destined to die by the monsters, but something went wrong because of his intervention.

    He ran into an unexpected problem.

    Although no one had responded to the trials sent down by the Goddess of Wrath, the problem was that she now had no one to be angry about.

    As Aion was thinking about these facts, the goddess who was watching him said.

    “Actually, that’s why I called you here.”

    The goddess looked at him lost in thought and said.

    At the goddess’s words, Aion raised his head and looked at her.

    “I can’t talk for long, so I’ll make it quick. What you’re doing right now is a very dangerous thing. Interfering with the past to change the future. Not letting something happen that should happen happen. That’s forcibly changing the fate of this world.”

    “People face various crossroads in their lives. Even trivial concerns like what to eat today and what clothes to wear tomorrow are ultimately a path to creating your future self. However, if you rebel against the fate set by the world and change the past, you never know what will happen. And… the actions you’ve taken so far could become a problem and lead to big risks later on.”

    “…….”

    Aion’s face darkened slightly at the goddess’s words.

    To be honest, he judged that there might be some risk from the moment he did that.

    He is an irregular who should not exist in this world and has distorted history that was supposed to happen several times.

    He could not ignore the goddess’ words because this caused things that should not have happened to happen.

    “We goddesses cannot intervene in human lives, so we can only watch and grieve over the foolish choices you make. However, what you are doing now is something that even we have never attempted. That is why we have been watching you for a long time.”

    “Long time?”

    “Yes.. You may not know, but I have been watching your actions for a long time before you accepted my test. And the moment I saw you, I knew. You were not meant to be here.”

    “You are a being possessed by another person’s body. That’s why I observed you. I observed every action and choice you made. ”

    “At first, I thought you would die soon. This place is not as safe as the old world you used to live in. However, you spent every day hunting monsters as if you had a clear purpose, and I changed my mind when I saw you like that. And three years later, when I saw you saving those who had been sold to the slave market, I thought to myself. You are special.”

    “Again, we goddesses cannot emphasize human life or choices, we can only watch from the sidelines.. I also felt sorry for those people’s choices. I was in despair because I could not give them any helping hand, and then I met you.”

    “You are special, and at the same time so reckless.”

    “I already know that no matter what I say, I can’t change your mind. But… I wanted to tell you this much.”

    “Thank you for changing the future.”

    The Goddess of Sorrow smiled faintly after saying those words.

    Aion, who saw the goddess in such a state, simply looked at her in silence.

    The two people who looked at each other like that were able to realize each other’s true feelings.

    After that, as time passed, the image of the goddess before my eyes began to disappear like smoke.

    Before the goddess’s appearance completely disappeared, she said goodbye to Aion.

    “It was an honor to meet you today and talk with you. Although our meeting was short, I hope we can talk occasionally when you regain your strength.”

    And so the goddess disappeared after saying her final greetings.

    As the goddess disappeared, he too returned to his room.

    “………..”

    As soon as Aion returned to his room, he looked at the ring in his hand.

    The relic of the goddess in his hand was twinkling with a small light, as if offering a final greeting.

    He stared blankly at the ring and then chuckled.

    “In the end, I didn’t know anything.”

    He said this while looking at his ring.

    He had a mountain of questions he wanted to ask the goddess, but he ended up returning without having his curiosity resolved.

    He chuckled at this fact, but it was not a laughter born of mockery or lament.

    He was laughing at the fact that he might have gained a new comrade through his conversation with the goddess.

    So he laughed and giggled alone in the room lit by the moonlight and stars, then returned to bed and fell asleep.

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