Akuyaku Reijou no Naka no Hito - CH 6.2

「Is this alright? I heard that the nobles are queuing up for an audience with the princess-miko’s sister……」

「No problem! Psyche-onee-san is also accommodating to those who really need it, like Remilia. Hey, tell me about the time you dived into the dungeon next time!」

「Yes, with pleasure. But apart from my request to the princess-miko, I am happy to be friends with Sara. There are not many women who wield swords in my country, so this is the first time for me to have a friend of the same sex with whom I can talk.」

「I am as well!」

We look at each other and laugh with Sarastiri, the tomboyish princess of the Dwarven kingdom. Yesterday and today, our friendship had deepened to the point where I was comfortable enough to allow myself to call her by her nickname.

I was conscious of Emi and treated this tomboyish princess like her, so we became friends right away, but I am sure it would have been impossible with that woman, who is disliked by people of the same sex when they first meet her. She can’t even get that perfume now.

The princess-miko, who is able to communicate directly with the god of fire who protects this country, decided to meet with me as soon as she heard her sister’s story. The fact that the chief of the tribe who saved her, for example, is a man whom the princess-miko secretly has feelings for is probably a big factor. After this, she must also serve as a mediator between her and the tribal chief by building bridges as the story goes. The story described it as a delicious quest. Just by befriending someone, you could get a piece of equipment with a status-enhancing blessing.

In the temple hall where I was called by name, I was asked why I wanted the holy armor, and was choked by the god with the mouth of the princess-miko. I responded without the slightest hesitation.

「I have a revelation in me that I can only assume was given to me by God. I am here because a supernatural being, who does not seem to belong to this world, taught me that there is something that will bring about the destruction of this world and what I must do to prevent it.」

The holy armor struck by the god of fire is not just a divine creation, but has the power to repel divine judgment. Divine punishment will not work on a human wearing this armor, in other words, it will give him the power to avenge the gods.

That’s why the fire god was discerning. It was last told only as a mythical fairy tale, given to a young man who was once a brave warrior when he defeated a goddess who nearly destroyed his country out of jealousy over the loss of her husband, a male god, to a human. The young man is the ancestor of Williard, but, well, that story is irrelevant now.

The fire god asks me. Being that what do I intend to do with it. I told him the name of two gods. And the reason for that is everything I know from Emi’s memories.

The god of fire was convinced by this and promised to make holy armor for me. Before it was told, I gave all the materials him needed right then and there,「It seems that the oracle was genuine for you,」said by the fire god, looking with the most surprised face of his face that day.

I added a few more words.

「When I have accomplished the divine vengeance I have just announced, I will surely return the holy armor to the God of Fire.」

「……An item of value and power that can never again be had in the world of man, but why did you come to that conclusion that you would give it up?」

「It is an article that is too much for human beings. It will cause quarrels among men and against God in the future, not during my lifetime. It is only fitting that we return them to God. If there is anyone who needs it in the next generation, please let the God of Fire himself give it to them.」

「……Well said.」

I made a proposal that Emi would have said, which was not in the story, and the fire god liked it so much that he gave me the blessing of the fire god. This is unexpected, but this makes it easier to do. The sacred flame is something that has the power to purify.

The armor of the brave, handed down from the ancestors of the Williards, is kept in the treasury as a national treasure, but by the looks of it, Emi would probably think it would be better to return it to the Divine Realm. When I was done with my revenge, I’m going to make a proposal.

I am wearing the elegant holy armor made for me with a blue crest on a gold background, and I am going around the ruins without any danger. After collecting the keys that could be obtained there one at a time, I opened the gates of the heavenly world and headed for the chalk castle beyond. The youngest daughter of the god of creation is trapped as a lotus flower in a large pond in that garden. She is a pitiful goddess who was bewitched by the Lord of the Heavens and was transformed into the form of a lotus flower as punishment for rejecting him. He appears in the last chapter of the story and is asked by the protagonist to help prevent the destruction of the world.

The field here is so caustically obstructed by that Lord of the Heavens that it is impossible to proceed without the holy armor given by the God of Fire. It was necessary to prepare materials for the number of people in the story, and it took a reasonable amount of time to make them all. The fact that I was the only one who could do it, and that it was done in a short period of time, was probably an advantage of the small number of people involved.

To rescue her, it was necessary to bring down the Lord of this heavenly realm. In the story,「The Goddess of Purification does not respond to my wishes because she is saddened by the dirtiness of this world,」and he is trying to destroy the human civilization with the annoying idea of「picking only those whom he deemed with beautiful hearts before the world becomes dirty and wash away everything else with water and reset the world to nothing, she will surely be grateful to him for making the world clean again and will respond to his wishes.」Even in the story, the destruction didn’t affect the world in any way.

With me, who had increased her power with room to spare, the Lord of the Heavenly Realm was to have his existence erased against only one person. The selfish god who cried out his love for the goddess of purification to the end was destroyed by my hand. So when that god perishes, there are no bodies left. Existence disappears from this world and that’s the end of it.

I gently shook the goddess from her confinement in the fountain, and while she was trapped, I told the goddess of purification’s father, the goddess of creation, what had happened to her and what she now looked like, and asked for her cooperation. The goddess graciously promised to help me and gave me a catalyst to unload myself.

Now all that remains is the cleansing of the creator god. There’s more to do as「Remilia,」but tracing the journey taken by the Star Maiden in the story has come to an end.

The stagnation in the world that accumulates whenever the father, the god of creation, wields his power, and his youngest daughter, who had the role of dispelling it, has disappeared, causing the former god of creation to overflow with stagnation and fall into an evil god. She was probably turned into a lotus flower because in Emi’s world the lotus flower was a mystical flower that was closely associated with purification.

With the cooperation of「Renge,」who had regained her power as a goddess, I left the heavenly realm as if my business was now done. I can get equipment by stepping through the cave of trials behind the castle, but I’m not interested in that one, as it is an exclusive outfit for the Star Maiden. I had no intention of letting「Remilia」wear such a thing.

I don’t think I could fit into it because my body shape is too different from that woman’s. I don’t like the way her breasts are cramped.