episode_0282

“Stella! Prinia!”

Sensing something ominous, I returned to outer space and went to look for them, but I couldn’t help but be embarrassed to find that Akasha had disappeared from nowhere.

“Eugene? The timing is amazing.”

Prinia had a calm voice that did not suit the situation. Am I the only one in a hurry?

“Where did Akasha go?”

“Summer.”

“If it’s the summer… that guy is rare!?”

“More than that, Eugene. We guessed it. The demons didn’t break my barrier and came out, but the area around Akasha’s lair eroded into a demon-like environment and the demons came out.”

“As expected… I couldn’t see any signs near the barrier. I came here to confirm, but my doubts turned into confidence. Anyway, so that means there are Akasha and demons in the underworld now, right?”

Stella and Prinia nodded to my question. Obviously, if you think about it a little, it was a very big deal, but both of them were extremely calm.

“No… Why are you so calm? Am I the only one serious right now?”

“I’m not saying the situation isn’t serious, but there’s no reason to be more hasty than necessary. Once he went down to the underworld, we had enough time to think.”

“Ah….”

Now that I think about it, it was like that. The flow of time here and in the summer is quite different. No matter how long we chatted here, the time in the summer was no different from a fleeting moment.

“So, since you are here, let’s think about it calmly together. How to overcome this adversity and hardship.”

At Prinia’s words, I ended up sitting down like them.

“So? Is there any good move?”

Stella and Prinia simultaneously shook their heads at my question.

“The reason you can be so relaxed is also because there is nothing you can do.”

“Since there is no choice in the first place, you are not in a position to choose what to do.”

“Why? I thought the two of us would be enough to kill Akasha.”

These two were the first gods I met and also the most powerful gods. I know that they were the ones who stopped Akasha from doing all her foolish things in the first place.

This time too, I thought that if the two of them stepped forward, the problem would be resolved without any problems, but the response I got was overly skeptical.

“That guy ate more other gods than I thought. Although he complained that it was not enough to achieve his desired goal.”

Stella spoke first. Prinia then tilted her head.

“Now that I think about it, what on earth is that purpose? Why did you end up doing something like this while struggling to become a god?”

This is an unexpected question. I thought it would be natural for Prinia, who leads the World Tree and can understand all the information about the underworld, to know.

“Huh? Didn’t you know?”

“I know the general idea… but isn’t it to satisfy self-interest? I met Akasha once when she first came up here with her body, but Stella had already dealt with it so I don’t know much about it.”

“Mmm. Now that I think about it, I realized I didn’t say anything. It’s a trivial reason. To bring back a dead ex-lover.”

“Oh my. Still, it’s a romantic reason.”

I added a word to Prinia’s response.

“That’s right. Although it is a minor peculiarity that love does not transcend gender.”

“What is special about not transcending… huh? Gender?”

I corrected many pieces of distorted information.

“What Akasha is trying to revive is not her lover, but the object of her unrequited love. He’s a dragon named Hyers… He’s Arzen’s father.”

“…Huh?”

Stella didn’t even know this, so she looked at me in bewilderment. He seemed to want to check if what I was saying was true, so I responded by nodding my head.

“No, wait… Eugene, how do you know that?”

“Akasha showed her memories through her abilities. Well… my memories were read too.”

If you think about it, there is no loss like this. Akasha must have read my memories and figured out the existence of this world, its knowledge, and even the secrets of the gods, but all I know is that Akasha is homosexual.

“But this is a story that has been overlooked, is it possible to save the dead by gathering faith? Didn’t he die a very long time ago?”

Prinia shook her head at my question.

“Of course it’s impossible. Similar things are possible, but.”

“Similar thing?”

“Probably what he’s after is the soul. No matter how long ago the person you loved died, their soul would have either wandered around the nine heavens or been reincarnated.”

“Soul….”

Even after coming to this world, I denied its existence for a while, but that was not the case even now that I became a god. Indeed, Akasha was planning to achieve her love that way. Here the next question arises.

“Does it take so much faith to find a specific soul?”

“For the search itself, what Akasha has collected now will be enough. Doing harm to it is a different story. That would require a tremendous amount of faith.”

“To what extent?”

“Hmm… Finding a soul, forcing it to give it a body… You said it was unrequited love, right? Then, we would have to modify it to change it into love, so maybe all the faith that I and Stella have right now?”

If you really listen to it, it is something that no person of any faith would dare to do. Since it goes directly against the wishes of those who originally put their faith in God, and is not something that God would do, fuel efficiency would also be the worst.

“In other words, it would mean that the moment Akasha takes away Nana Stella’s faith, there will be nothing that can stop him.”

“No… Why are you saying that in an anxious way?”

“If demons appear, Stella must return all her faith to the exercise of divine power by humans. I can’t deal with Akasha.”

Somehow, Akasha survived the two’s attacks and went down to the underworld, so there was a story behind it.

“Prinia, what about you?”

“I can’t go down to the lower world. Unlike Stella, who can borrow her body from someone with the faith of a saint, I cannot set foot in the underworld.”

“There is a world tree, right?”

“That’s the most expedient thing I can do. In the past, we had an accident of enormous scale.”

“Accident?”

“The end of the world. It gave me a great deal of faith, but it ultimately left me unable to exert influence in the underworld.”

“Ah… Is this the feeling that you got away with it because of an accident?”

“No. Instead of being proud of myself, the underworld kicked me out. Why, they say that with great power comes great responsibility? I think it is a law that encompasses this world, like faith.”

From what I heard, it didn’t mean that we had to be considerate, but it seemed like actual intervention itself was blocked.

“It must be a kind of braking device that arises as the power of faith is powerful. If done well, it is a power that can blow up the entire underworld. First of all, we call it causality…”

“Umm… then what should I do.”

“But this is also an opportunity. Even Akasha, who took away the faith of the gods, cannot be free from the law of causality. If you try to achieve your goal in the lower world, there will definitely be some sanctions imposed.”

“What did Akasha go down for?”

It was Stella who remained silent who answered this question.

“I went to kill Wayne. The demons that popped out are having a hard time with Wayne, who just happened to arrive at Akasha’s Lair. Then the restrictions on my faith will be lifted, and it is different from his thoughts.”

“…What? You went to kill Wayne!?”

How can you say something like that so calmly? Didn’t Stella clearly care about Wayne too?

Stella seemed to have sensed my doubts and continued speaking calmly.

“It’s not something to brag about, but I receive the most faith in the underworld.”

That’s something even a three-year-old child knows. In fact, even that three-year-old would trust Stella.

“So, naturally, I am the signboard of a group that believes in me… So, the status of a warrior is also enormous.”

“…So?”

“It means that the cause and effect is significant. If he tries to use his faith to harm Wayne, it will inevitably lead to bad causality on his part.”

“I don’t know why I’m so sure, but I’m going to go see Wayne.”

Even now, I know very well that I am no match for Akasha. But I can’t let Wayne die.

Even if it actually goes as Stella said, if causality or something happens after Wayne dies, it’s just meaningless nonsense to me.

“Wait, Eugene. If we continue like this, we will just be helpless.”

Prinia hastily grabbed me, but my thoughts remain unchanged.

“But there is no sharp answer. I have to somehow hold out until Arjen comes.”

Even if Arjen came, there was no guarantee that he would be able to win, but there was really no other way.

“Still, let’s think about it a little more. Since time flows differently anyway, there is plenty of time to think.”

“Thinking about it doesn’t mean you can do anything… haha… It would have been better if I had been able to receive my faith from other gods like Akasha.”

“Huh?”

“Huh?”

“What, why are they both reacting like that all of a sudden…?”

Stella and Prinia react sensitively to words thrown at them without any action or thought. I looked nervous for no reason, wondering if I had done something wrong.

Soon, Prinia said with a grin.

“Is it a good idea? Let’s do it right now.”

Let’s try it? What did a genius like Akasha succeed in after nearly a lifetime of experimentation?