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I love Marie so much.

After meeting Damien once again, I was able to fully understand.

I met him in a dream, and while he criticized me, he praised me for bringing out a more perfect ending than him.

“It certainly felt like you were going to kill Marie, but you were much better than me. Yes, as the children’s god, you handled it better than anyone else.”

“Thank goodness.”

“There is no need to use that kind of tone with me. I am just a remnant of thoughts and resentment, and you are no longer a perfect god. You are better than me now.”

“…Is it okay if I ask why it was me?”

When I was told that it was okay to speak informally, I spoke informally as if nothing had happened.

He looked at me once and said with a grin.

“You are my past. It is a very distant past, a past that no one remembers and that not even I dare to know. In short, you are also me, and I am your future, but we are so different from each other.”

Have you ever been this partial to favoritism in the past?

What kind of ugliness did we encounter that led to this?

Because you are pickled by the world, you cannot even properly trust those who believe in you, so have you become a being who views everyone as equal?

Somehow, a mixed feeling arose.

“I don’t think I have anything more to say to you. Then, take care of the rest. Oh, by the way, Marie’s abilities don’t work on you at all. I don’t know if it’s something simple, but I can’t bind you with the power of stories.”

So, does that mean that what I felt for Marie was really love?

Only after that incident did I fully realize my feelings for Marie.

Love, I realized that the emotions that I could not fully understand were love.

“that’s interesting.”

I can’t believe I have feelings of love for Marie.

To Marie, to Marie and no one else.

No, did I develop feelings for Marie because she was the one who loved me the most?

It was quite simple and easy for a crush to develop into love.

“Yes, Marie. Nice to meet you.”

“Nice to meet you, evil spirit.”

Although I still couldn’t read Marie’s emotions, I at least realized for sure that she was truly happy.

Yes, if you are happy, that is enough, what more could you want?

“Let’s see Marie’s reaction…Father, have you accepted her confession?”

“…It just so happened to be like that.”

“First of all, I’ll keep it a secret just in case. It would be surprising if her persistent courtship ended up being successful.”

I think so too.

I can’t believe I have feelings of love for Marie.

The world is full of unknown things.

“Still, it’s a good thing. At least she wouldn’t do anything that would harm her father, even if it meant risking her life. She always placed her father in a higher position than herself… Oh, my. She had an eye for it. Marie was prejudiced. “He might get jealous even though he’s already a skeleton without any flesh, so I guess I’ll just leave.”

Oh, anyway, she is also a high elf who is the center of the elves and manages the world tree.

It can’t possibly be that way… Now that I think about it, it’s really plausible, right?

The mere sight of skeletons or anything else around me is enough to make me feel alarmed.

“…lovers.”

That’s pretty much the extent of our current relationship.

Anyway, there are eyes.

When I think about it, it was Marie who knew my whereabouts perfectly from the beginning.

It’s strange, but even now that her gaze has perfected its power, I can’t feel it at all.

It was pretty gruesome.

Perhaps the power of stories has existed since ancient times? If you think about it that way… it doesn’t really seem like that.

The most likely time would be from when he was said to have gained the power of the World Tree.

Considering that he was originally in the process of maintaining the World Tree for a specific purpose, he suddenly inherited the World Tree’s power.

“…Yes, that’s right. I’m sure she could have gotten it faster than that. And Damien also declared that her power is beyond me.”

She said that because she sacrificed herself to not be restricted by the power of the story, the power related to that would not work, but her original power might work.

If you think about it… hey, even though he’s an elf who lives with nature, would he have the ability to forcibly control other emotions?

no way.

“Father, it’s dinner time.”

“Yeah, I see.”

After returning to the Evil God Church, there wasn’t much more to do than this. In fact, I can’t say that there aren’t some unclear parts about the story, but it has been resolved to some extent to perfection.

Actually, I wondered what it would have been like if I had done a little better, but this was the best I could do.

Wouldn’t it have been better if the Archbishop and Queen had been spared as well? That thought also constantly lingered in my head.

“Orphes, that child is the only one left.”

According to Damien, this is the child who suffered the most.

There was nothing to do until I met him in person, whom I described as the wisest human being and a persistent hunter.

Also, since he was not someone I could meet if I wanted to, I had no choice but to wait endlessly for him to come visit me again in person.

‘I now know what he has been doing in the first place.’

I thought that perhaps he, who had lived for such a long time, had achieved his final goal and had chosen to end his life.

It was all with his help that we went through such hardships and adversity, and that he arranged for us to reach this point and made appropriate predictions.

Even if he didn’t come, I wouldn’t be disappointed at all.

Since he helped me so much, what’s wrong with him also finding true freedom and flying away to his heart’s content?

“Oh my, evil spirit. Are you here?”

“…Yes, yes. Nice to meet you, Marie.”

I stuttered without realizing it.

In fact, I had already expected that we would meet at dinner, but meeting her in person gave me a very different feeling than usual.

Only then did I realize once again that all of this was a perfect reality.

These days, every time I see Marie, she always seems like she’s become such a foolish child.

“Are you here? Descartes was just finishing his drink and saying that today is a good day. Suddenly, everyone said that you had amazing news to tell, so wouldn’t you be calling everyone from far away, from Beatrice to Rebecca of the Holy Kingdom? So, today “Ugh…it’s the perfect day to get drunk!”

Ryu was drunk and was just spouting out words that came to mind.

Seeing people who are usually hard to see drunk was more difficult than expected.

“…Marie, you haven’t been drinking.”

“I want to remember the evil spirit just a little bit more, right? Is there any need to drink alcohol?”

“….I see.”

“Sir, what on earth is such important news? Did you create a successor? Since you are a god, the successor is…”

“It’s similar.”

Suddenly silence struck.

In the cool and quiet atmosphere, I swallowed my saliva without realizing it.

For some reason, I should say that I feel like I am a death row inmate awaiting judgment after committing a huge crime.

“Well, the evil god must have been a man too, puh, he could have left behind so many beauties and captured your heart…”

“It’s Marilanda.”

“…Therasia, I guess I took the wrong medicine today, but it’s a name I shouldn’t hear right now…”

“Marie is right.”

The cooler atmosphere became colder.

Descartes was holding his face and sighing, and the eyes of the others looking at me intently made me feel like I had really committed a crime.

And among them, the only one who was still intact was Marie, who was showing a shy gesture.

…It doesn’t seem to be all that well.

“Are you out of your mind? Of course, we also knew how big and deep Marie’s feelings for you were, but you couldn’t possibly accept her long-standing courtship… Then why did it take you so long… I’m sorry. “Say what you want to say.”

As Ryu took a step back, a barrage of questions poured in.

“Sir, I have a genuine curiosity about whether a child can be born between a god and another living being. I will spare no effort in supporting that, so please show me just this once.”

There was also something Terrasia said that I don’t know if it was just a pure scholar’s curiosity, or if she had developed a mania due to being confined for so long.

“But since when did you two become in such a relationship…?”

Veronica is purely curious about a love story.

“…At least the descendants of the Evil God Church will not be cut off.”

Abel just looks strange.

“…Well, if the evil spirit likes it, wouldn’t it be enough? Let’s have a drink.”

Caesar is just like that.

“…That’s too bad.”

“At that time, it would have been enough if it had been a little thicker… I guess I’ll have to prepare again next time.”

There was also Cecilia, who somehow seemed to know what was being regretted, and Beatrice, who muttered that she needed to prepare something.

…These two guys just feel a bit uneasy about something.

“So I also have a nephew now?”

“Evil God, Mari, finally?”

“If that’s your will, it’s okay.”

There was Adele who was just pure as usual, Lilin who looked pitifully as if they were finally connected, and Petrania who said it was okay if it was just my will.

If you think about it, a lot of things happened.

We fought on battlefields together, conquered countries, and explored ancient ruins.

You guys were always there.

“Well, we just became lovers, but it definitely happened somehow.”

“Is it okay if I bless you in God’s name?”

“Thank you.”

I thought about it again with Rebecca’s blessing.

I am now able to realize once again how blessed this life is, and I am thankful for being given this opportunity.

“Let’s drink to our heart’s content today!”

I smiled and raised my drink high.