episode_0287

“Damn… Where are you!?”

As soon as I reached outer space, I turned my head like crazy. Everything is good here, but this is the problem. There are no fixed coordinates when moving, so when you are chasing it like you are now, you suddenly feel like you are in the middle of a vast ocean.

It’s so wide that it’s hard to know where to start looking. The good news is that Akasha is in the same situation as me.

Prinia will hand over her faith to me, and Stella will take advantage of her descent to the underworld to steal all the remaining faiths of the other gods, but it will also be like looking for a needle in the desert.

“…Wait, isn’t it?”

Considering Akasha’s personality, she would never do anything recklessly. I think there might be some kind of method.

Are you trying to track something by mixing magic and faith?

My thoughts were so crazy that I couldn’t stay still and started flying like crazy wherever I wanted to go.

“This is crazy, then why were you grabbing at those two instead of going back and forth earlier!?”

From the beginning, Akasha had the ability to escape Stella and Prinia’s clutches and attack all other gods. At best, I had to focus on finding Akasha, burning away the faith I had received from Prinia.

***

Akasha, who had once again ascended to space, was finding and attacking the gods who had been running away from her one by one, as Eugene had expected. By the standards of Akasha, who fought Stella and Prinia, other gods were merely easy prey.

In the first place, those two are special, and if you exclude faith, God is an insignificant being compared to a dragon.

Even if people had faith, the fact that they just hoarded it and no one actively used it also played a role. For Akasha, it is literally like a well-prepared buffet.

“They are such pathetic people. I have this kind of power, but I don’t use it and it’s just rotting away… Well, thanks to you, I feel comfortable and happy.”

It was Akasha who had already robbed other gods of their faith. Of course, I was much more skilled than when I first tried it, and with real-time tracking using magic mixed with faith, it was a breeze.

It was also a huge advantage that Stella and Prinia could not interfere in any way religiously. Their faith was stronger than anyone else’s, so even the noise that inevitably occurred when tracking their faith has now disappeared.

Of course, Eugene, who inherited Prinia’s faith, followed Akasha, but that was easily manageable.

Akasha’s game of tag began again, stealing the faith of as many gods as possible until she faced Eugene.

As a result, Eugene was unable to find Akasha right away. Akasha was able to have enough time to indiscriminately steal the faith of other gods, and the meeting between the two did not take place until there was no one other than Eugene whose faith was detected by Akasha’s magic.

“…….”

“Okay, that’s enough. At this level, I can make all faiths mine.”

“Did you become convinced only after taking away everyone’s faith?”

“Okay. You must have wondered. Why did I struggle so hard for those two years instead of gathering my faith so easily earlier? There were two reasons, one was because I needed time.”

“Time?”

“Okay. We needed time to let the demons turn the earth into a mess. The more confused the world becomes, the more uncivilized things will hope for the salvation of the gods they believe in, which will soon lead to an increase in my faith.”

“With that smart brain, didn’t you think that Stella and Prinia could also become stronger?”

“Of course I had that in mind. If you do something like that in the first place, it will be in those two years that you will become stronger the most rapidly. So, I came up with my own plan for each of them, and it worked out well, so I’m still alive like this, right?”

“You never know. Because the ground is not as messed up as you expected.”

“That is also correct. Now that I have assessed the amount of faith I have, I admit that it was not necessary at all.”

“…You said ‘one is’, so is there another reason?”

“Kkeuk… I pursue something certain in front of me rather than uncertain convenience.”

“The person who appears in front of me now must be confident that he will eat me?”

“Of course. If you want to blame me, blame yourself for not finding me in the end.”

“…Yes, that’s right. really. Halfway through, I was thinking about just closing my eyes and doing this with you?”

Eugene said this out of regret, saying that if it had been a strange phenomenon that could determine the location of the person with whom one’s body was mixed, he would have been able to find out Akasha’s location as well, but Akasha took it differently.

“If it’s that unfortunate, you should have said it a long time ago. good night. After I take away your faith as a gift to the afterlife, I will sleep with you once.”

“…There’s one more reason why I can never lose, damn it.”

Eugene composed himself. Unlike in the underworld, in outer space there are no bodies that interfere with the exercise of faith, so Akasha can exert even stronger power.

But the same goes for Eugene. In other words, since he received uncontrollable faith from Prinia, it should be said that he has become stronger now that he has nothing to worry about.

In that case, what ultimately determines the superiority of the two is the superiority of faith. Akasha’s calculation was that she thought she had the upper hand, so she showed up proudly even though she suffered so much in the lower world.

“Your faith has increased, but like other gods, you have no special abilities other than faith. If so, the story will inevitably become easier.”

It was a reasonable opinion, but there was one fact that Akasha overlooked. That’s why Eugene’s ability to utilize his faith is so outstanding.

Unlike other gods in outer space whose faith Akasha easily extorted, he was active in the underworld with a body and actively used his faith to gain combat experience, so it was never easy.

From the moment Akasha’s hand, which had been planning to pierce the center of the ship and pull out Faith, was easily suppressed by Eugene, Akasha began to feel doubt.

“Hmm?”

“Why? Did you think you could defeat me without even using that famous religious magic?”

Akasha remained silent at Eugene’s sarcasm. In fact, it has already been used. His hand was wrapped in a destructive spell with the hope of penetrating anything, but Eugene was able to block it more easily than expected.

Akasha’s faith magic once again made up her mind. Lightning, which was different from normal magic, appeared from thin air and rushed towards Eugene.

But this time, the result was even more absurd: Eugene bobbed his head, turned to the side, and dodged Akasha’s lightning.

“Damage? You avoided it?”

“Why do you look like you don’t believe me? It must be difficult to welcome him when he shows his religious movements so openly before using magic.”

“Can you see it? Just because you see it doesn’t mean you can avoid it as easily as you say!”

“What does this mean?”

Eugene lightly gives the first ticket. Akasha, who had never expected that he would just ignorantly extend his fist, was stabbed straight into the chin.

“Keuuk!”

But it wasn’t an ordinary fist. Not only was the original a dragon, but it also took away the faith of many gods, causing quite a shock to Akasha, who was supposed to have no rival. I had relatively less faith than I do now, and the pain was not much different from when I was beaten helplessly in the underworld.

“How… is it still so painful?”

“It’s the same as being surprised when you see something avoided… It’s also like being hit and it hurts… Isn’t it basic common sense to strengthen your physical abilities through faith?”

“What…?”

Eugene speaks as if it were obvious, and Akasha is surprised as if she heard something unexpected.

“What, you really weren’t doing it? Oh my… I told you something pointless.”

Eugene had a shy expression on his face, but in fact, other gods would have reacted similarly to Akasha when they heard Eugene’s words. This is because there is no god who operates faith in that way.

Of course, defending against external threats using faith is a basic protection technique. Just as Akasha used it to withstand Stella’s nuclear fusion, and conversely, Stella used it to defend against Akasha’s faith magic.

But what about body strengthening? In the first place, gods do not have proper bodies. How can you strengthen something that doesn’t exist?

Among those who became gods in a standard way, Eugene was the only one who had a physical body. Therefore, from the beginning, he used the main means of his faith to strengthen his body, and in fact, that was the most effective way for him to use his faith.

Because Eugene had acquired that sense for a long time, he was able to easily strengthen his body’s senses and abilities needed for battle through faith, even in outer space without a body. Ironically, this use of pure faith without any tricks was the most fatal for Akasha. .

Of course, if Akasha attempts to defend with faith, she can withstand Eugene’s attack without much trouble, just like when she blocked Stella’s attack.

The problem is that Akasha, who tries to defend, has her faith clearly diminished, no matter how big or small, but the faith that Eugene, who tries to attack, uses to strengthen his body is virtually non-existent.

Akasha could not help but be taken aback by this overwhelming difference in efficiency.

“Oh my… Dammit!”

“Oh, that’s right. And I heard it. The reason you’re so upset is because you want to connect with your unrequited love?”

“Are you going to laugh at me now?”

“No. I like that kind of pure love. Because name and color are the gods of conception. I wanted to help you out.”

“What?”

“Your wish, I will grant it.”

Akasha also noticed that Eugene was trying something. It was entirely possible for Akasha to operate with faith.

However, the simplicity of the flow was different from before. The enormous amount of faith in Eugene’s body moved so smoothly that words could not express it, as if it was being used for something that was supposed to be done.

“……Huh?”

Before Akasha could finish admiring the flow of faith, she felt a sense of discomfort rising in her body.

…Why is my heart heavy?