The Devil Who Grants Wishes

138 – Void (4)

[Your body isn’t working properly, so you’re so tired. Now, it seems that everything is over, so I will go back.]

Right after Gaia passed away, Lena was dumbfounded because she couldn’t believe what she had seen and heard.

As the elves’ long-held wish was to talk directly to Gaia, Lena had that wish as well, but Irene acted as if she had known Gaia for a long time.

No, I’m not acting like I knew it.

He acted as if he were a member of Gaia’s family, as if he were an individual subject to Gaia.

Of course, it was true that elves like Lena herself were also strictly speaking Gaia’s family, but Lena and other elves had never felt Gaia’s energy, such as Gaia’s oracle. They only served Gaia with oral legends and beliefs.

But not Irene.

Both Irene and Gaia were showing off their master-servant relationship everywhere.

“Hey… are you okay?”

“…”

Lena approaches Irene, who has lost her energy, and carefully asks her how she is, but Irene doesn’t even open her mouth, just glances at Lena and nods her head modestly.

Lena is perplexed.

Even though she met Gaia-sama, who is the main god, Irene is acting as if her heart is empty instead of being happy.

While Lena smelled Gaia and felt the energy, she rather had the will to live, but Irene, on the contrary, is acting as if she has completely lost the will to live.

“That… how old are you?”

“…you.”

In the end, Lena has no choice but to bring out words that have been completely taboo until now.

Lena asks Irene how old she is, and Irene, who has been acting like her heart has died until now, turns her head around and glares at Lena in response.

Normally, Lena would have been frightened by Irene’s reaction, but now Lena is not like that. Seeing Irene acting lively, Lena is deeply relieved inside.

“Since I’m still, it’s very simple-“

“Ah, nothing special… According to elven legends, Gaia-sama is in a deep sleep, exhausted from long fights and tasks. But Irene-sama and Gaia-sama… it’s as if Gaia-sama already knew each other before she fell asleep. Act like you were…”

“…that’s.”

Irene, who was about to throw away the concept of a young elf so far and shoot at Lena in a high-handed attitude, shuts her mouth shut after hearing Lena’s perfectly pointed remarks.

There is nothing wrong with Lena’s remarks. As it is the absolute truth, Irene cannot find any objection to Lena’s remarks.

Of course, if she keeps her mouth shut like this, it would be like admitting that it is true that she has aged so much, so Irene will have to somehow come up with something to say and spread sophistry… But Irene now can’t do that.

Because Irene sincerely looks up to and serves Gaia from the bottom of her heart.

If she did that, it would be like denying the relationship between God and herself, so Irene just shuts up and listens to Lena, and Lena sees Irene’s attitude and is convinced that her guess is correct.

“As expected, my prediction was correct. It would be impossible for even an elf to live that long… but Irene-sama is living so long because she is a direct descendant of Gaia-sama, the god of life, or because she received the blessing of life. It must have been possible, but… to say so raises doubts.”

“…what else is wrong with you.”

“No matter how close they are, Gaia-sama and Irene-nim were very similar. And the reaction of Gaia-nim and Kael’s angels to Irene-nim bothers me.”

Rena recalls how all the angels were astonished at seeing Irene, and when Gaia said that she no longer had any coercive power or that she was bitter because she didn’t seem to know her own value, she was immersed in agony.

I can’t imagine the reaction he would show when he sees an ordinary elf or his family.

Lena glares at Belial, who seems to know something, and asks for help, but Belial ignores Lena’s gaze, showing displeasure on Lena’s face, and just hugs Faust.

“Well, you don’t seem to know each other about this. So, what are you going to do now?”

“What are you doing?”

“Gaia-sama said it was okay to go back to the Great Forest, but it seems that the Great Forest has nothing to do with it. It’s not a will.”

After hearing Lena’s suggestion, Irene looked around and saw that Iris, Celestine, and Lucia’s eyes were on her, and she held her breath.

For Irene, who has lived for a long time, it is not the first time that she has received such an offer, and Irene has received a lot of such offers.

“…No, thank you for the offer, but I’m sorry. I’ll live separately.”

“…Is that so?”

However, Irene has rejected all such offers, and she also rejects the offer she has now received.

Because, to Irene, all other beings will just disappear someday.

Irene, who had been living since the first buds bloomed in the world that was a red wasteland, felt a lot of deprivation and emptiness caused by the disappearance of the beings she had a crush on, so she distanced herself from everyone because she did not want to feel such feelings anymore.

“Well, come anytime if you change your mind.”

Lena is also not as good as Irene, but since she is an elf who lives long, she has a vague idea of what Irene is thinking, and because of that, she doesn’t hold on to Irene.

She just waved her hand to let go of Irene, and Irene, whose goal she had lived so far disappeared in the blink of an eye, waved back to Lena while desperately hiding her empty heart.

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“Haaa…”

In the end, the day passed without finding a way to go to Kael. At first, Lucia, who wept because she was worried about Flora and Nero, is now exhausted and just limp, losing her vitality.

The sadness that Lucia has has not gone at all, and it is getting worse as time passes.

Unlike before, when she was able to send her sadness out through tears, now Lucia is unable to send her sadness out as tears, so she just keeps piling them up in her heart.

“…Don’t worry, I can feel that Flora and Nero are alive and well through the link between the family.”

“Yes…”

Upon hearing my consolation, Lucia’s feelings do not improve.

Since the true meaning contained in the words that everyone is alive is no different from saying that only people are alive, Lucia, who instantly understood that, only responds to my consolation in a gloomy state.

‘What should I do now?’

While holding Lucia in his arms, he falls into deep trouble.

The situation I am in right now is absolutely hopeless.

I have to rescue Flora, Nero, and demons from the underworld, who are trapped in Kael, and at the same time, I have to refuse the divine position of light that has arbitrarily recognized me as the owner.

The problem is, I can’t seem to find a way to do either.

The people trapped in Kael must have already been soaked in the divine power filled with Kael, and I can’t think that if we meet again, they will act amicably towards me unlike before. In the worst case, there is a possibility that even if you fight and subdue it by force, you will not be able to restore the mind that has already been distorted by divine power.

In addition, unlike the god of the demons that was just created, the deity of light has tremendous power, so it is impossible to make it into a crystal and seal it like it was done to the deity of the demons.

Since you can’t possess both at the same time, I could swallow the demon’s deity and reject the deity of light… but if that happens, putting aside the fact that I can no longer be by Lucia’s side, the problem is that I don’t know where the deity of light will fly. .

‘Limit of life, what kind of bullshit…!’

Because in this world, the unheard of and unseen concept of the limit of life naturally exists.

According to Serapia, Gaia, and Belial, the position of the Godhead of Light must manage the limits of its life.

In other words, you have to deliberately kill living things.

What if the spirit of light bounced off Lucia? Just imagining it is so terrifying.

Shouldn’t Lucia forever kill the creatures of the underworld to keep the world going?

I can’t wait to see Lucia accepting such a fate. As there is a possibility that this could happen even a little bit, I couldn’t choose the option of absorbing the demon’s deity and rejecting the light’s deity.

“…It’s a headache.”

I don’t see a way to fix either of them properly.

It feels like everything I’ve been working on so far has gone in vain. I feel so empty that I can’t even feel the deprivation properly.

…Shit.