episode_0068

“Uh, this place…?”

I grabbed my head hard from the throbbing pain in my head.

Obviously, I was headed to the Pantheon of Heroes.

As I looked around, a familiar place caught my eye.

···It’s my room.

Although there is no special decoration, it is a place that makes you feel cozy.

There was some talk that the Pope’s garage was frugal, but they rejected it because it would be inconvenient if there were too many decorations.

By the way, I thought I went to the pantheon.

“Was it a dream…?”

I felt a little depressed.

As a believer, it is said that seeing God in person and visiting the pantheon is something that one dreams of.

It was shocking to think that it was really a dream.

“Is it because I’m tired? I can’t believe I’m having a dream filled with such desire.”

I wish I hadn’t woken up from the dream at all.

I felt like I woke up from a dream right before I ate the delicious snack.

I was very happy, but now that I found out it was a dream, I felt depressed and annoyed.

Well, it was a little strange.

The hero brings the World Tree along with a huge amount of branches and heads to the pantheon with the warrior and his party?

Even the God I met there by chance was my God?

It can’t make sense.

It was a brief but happy dream.

“It’s really unfortunate. It was a dream I wanted to keep having.”

I looked at the clock as a habit.

However, the clock hands were not moving.

“That’s strange. I’m sure you had it repaired last time…?”

Is it broken again?

I’ll have to leave the repairs to a disciple of the Machine God later.

I can’t help it. It would be better to leave early than to be late for work.

Knowing that I didn’t know the current time, I opened the closet in a bit of a hurry.

Since I may have overslept, I thought I should get to the office quickly even if I had to wait a bit.

“···?”

But the inside of the closet was also strange.

Did I have that many clothes…?

The clothes I had were hanging in the closet.

From the clothes I wore sparingly as a child to the clothes I wore when I was an apprentice priest. Even the clothes worn by the Pope.

In an instant, my face hardened and I began to think.

···There is someone who knows me this much?

That can’t be possible.

Even if there was one, there was no way he could infiltrate where the Pope was without anyone noticing…

“Oh, are you awake?”

While I was thinking about it.

Suddenly, the door was opened and a combat stance was taken.

“···? I’m not comfortable. You can rest in bed. There are a lot of things I want to ask you.”

Uh, wait.

After checking my face, I immediately fell into confusion.

It’s him. A man who appeared in my dream and called himself my god.

“You don’t have to be so guarded. I won’t harm you.”

…Wasn’t it a dream?

I quickly moved my gaze out the window.

If the man were an enemy, I would be so weak that I wouldn’t be able to react even if he attacked me right away. Something you should never do.

But I couldn’t bear it. I wanted to check if it was true.

Fortunately, the man did not take any action even as I ignored him and looked at the window, and a pure white landscape came into my field of vision.

Not the artificial white color of a sacred place, but the pure white color of clouds that you would see when looking at the sky.

···No, it’s not a color. It was a cloud.

I urgently looked at the man’s face.

“···? What’s going on?”

A smiling face. A memory that I thought was a dream flashed by.

“···Si, are you God?”

A single word was barely uttered in a trembling voice.

If not, I will have to live with shame for the rest of my life.

But I couldn’t think of such things. I just wanted to confirm the facts.

“Yes, my child.”

It was the word of God.

Those light words filled me with joy and left my body.

“···?! Are you fainting again?!”

“Oh my god, my heart stopped! Kid, wake up! Kid!”

“···! Snow…! If you don’t sleep…!”

Ah, I’m happy.

Now I have no time to die even if I die.

***

“···Did you say we could go this way?”

“Okay. I’ve already asked you more than ten times, so please calm down.”

“B-but how do you calm down! At least I can’t!”

Yes, I guess so…

I know this because I saw the Pope fainting after meeting God.

For believers to meet God is a bigger deal than I thought.

No, I don’t know much about religion.

Just looking at the believers in the sacred place, it looks like there are a lot of gods, so I didn’t expect it to be that bad.

“I’m sure his explanation wasn’t wrong. Calm down a little.”

“Right, right…? Poetry, God’s word… Because it’s God’s word…!”

It doesn’t work at all.

I guess I should have just asked to meet other gods.

He asked Namshin, who found out that the person who fell was his saint.

Where should I go to meet the god of lightning, the god that Jupiter believes in?

Actually, it was okay to meet other gods, but out of consideration for Jupiter, I was going to meet that god.

The result is this.

Unable to control his excitement, he runs around and is more excited than a child on a picnic.

“And you faint as soon as you see his face like the Pope?”

“···! Ji, I’ll calm down!”

This was my first time seeing Jupiter like that.

He didn’t look as pious or faithful as an ordinary priest, but he had never been broken like that.

“…Honestly, it’s a little scary.”

“What do you mean?”

Yuna muttered softly while looking at Jupiter.

Are you scared? ···Jupiter?

“Well, Euphie-nee is really looking forward to it. I thought there might be a bit of a problem if things aren’t as expected…”

“Huh? Since his name is God, wouldn’t it be okay?”

“I’d like to think so, but we only saw two gods. One was fine, but…”

“···Uh, I see. Uh, what should I do?”

I think of the two gods I met.

The goddess of love who suddenly confessed to me that she wanted to have a child, and the god of justice whom the Pope believes in.

Clearly, justice was intact. But love…?

I looked at Jupiter.

He didn’t look as excited as before, but he was clearly looking forward to it.

They were humming a song and dancing lightly as if their steps were light.

“S-what should I really do…?”

“Won’t we have no choice but to pray that God is okay…?”

“This is the pantheon, where do you pray?”

“···.”

Yuna fell silent at Lisbeth’s words.

I guess I have nothing to say.

By the way, I started to feel anxious too.

Because Yuna has great intuition.

If you think you’re anxious, you’re usually right.

If you think, ‘It will work,’ it usually happens.

At the casino, I just passed it off as if I was lucky, but wasn’t that because I thought it might work?

“Please, he has to be a normal god.”

“Really…”

I saw Jupiter beckoning from afar.

It probably means come quickly.

“Shall we go…? I think I’m waiting.”

“Yes, Lisbeth.”

Until we got to the place where we could meet the god of lightning, we exchanged many thoughts, but they didn’t help much.

In the end, Yuna’s sense is astray and she is slowly dragged away by Jupiter.

Err, I don’t know.

it will work out somehow···?

“Hehehe… I’ll open it!”

When we arrived at the place that justice showed us, Jupiter took out the key.

The key that justice has given us.

Did you say that if you open the door to the place you taught me with this, you will find the God of Lightning?

Jupiter inserted the key without delay.

You said it was scary when you opened the entrance earlier…?

Was it because he saw the Pope disappear along with his God?

It seemed like the anticipation was much greater than the fear.

“···It’s dark.”

“Really? It looks like there’s a light in the distance.”

“It looks like he’s over there. Come on, let’s follow him. Jupiter is already on the move.”

Inside a strangely dark room.

Inside, a faint light was clearly visible even in the dark room.

Jupiter had already walked inside. You never know what might happen if you fall.

“Apart from the darkness, what does this smell like?”

“Well, it smells like grass. What is this smell?”

The smell of grass?

As the two people spoke, I tried to concentrate on smelling the scent.

Just as they said, the scent was coming out.

“Hmm, do you like flowers…?”

“God of lightning? I’ve never heard of such a myth.”

“···I don’t know. I think I’ve been in charge of it somewhere before.”

Have you ever taken charge of it?

Yuna’s words made me search my memory.

Oh, now that I think about it, I think I’ve been in charge of it too.

“This is the smell of that place.”

“···There?”

“You know, the smell coming from Kimia’s workshop.”

“ah.”

Jupiter and Yuna’s faces turned bright red.

Okay, this is it. Chestnut flower scent.

I’ve heard that women find the smell more fragrant than men, but I never thought it was true.

I thought it was just the scent of a flower I had smelled somewhere, but it smelled like chestnut flowers.

I didn’t want to find out that I had become a woman in a place like this…

“Hey, then maybe it’s inside…?”

“Oh my. I have to go quickly.”

The distance between me and Jupiter grew too much because I was smelling something.

No matter how much I think about it, I don’t think he’s a proper god if he smells like this in the room, but I wonder how Jupiter will react…

When we hastily closed the distance to Jupiter and began to appear in our field of vision.

“You blasphemous man!”

“Aaaah?!”

Jupiter was hitting the head of a person believed to be the god of lightning with his fist.

“···Damn, it’s late.”