Chapter 20: Don’t come here again!

The fool died.

He hated fighting, but if there was something to protect, he would jump in without hesitation,

He would give away his things generously for a stranger he met for the first time,

And in the end, he would throw away his own life for the sake of everyone………

Such a preposterous fool died.

Finally, the gate closed.

The calamity that had tormented everyone completely disappeared.

People cheered, and they sincerely welcomed the hard-won peace.

It was 20 years.

The time after losing his power and falling into this world, and vowing revenge.

The time it took to destroy the gate, the source of those who made him this way.

And…….

The time spent with the fool.

Lia, who had been sharpening the blade of revenge at the fool’s side,

Without hesitation, she plunged that blade into her own heart when he died.

Purgatory.

Niflheim. Valhalla.

Asphodel.

Elysium.

Lia, searching the afterlife thoroughly, finally stopped her steps.

There, was the fool she was looking for.

The sanctuary of the Goddess who governs Elysium.

The Goddess, who was watching Elysium, was shaken to see someone she didn’t expect.

“Oh, why are you here…”

“Where is Senior?”

The Goddess tilted her head and got up from her seat.

“If you mean Senior….”

“You know.”

The Goddess quietly looked at her.

After a short silence, the Goddess slightly frowned.

“It’s unexpected. I thought you would head straight to Hell.”

“Where is Senior?”

The Goddess sighed slightly at her persistent attitude.

If she didn’t tell her, she would surely turn the sanctuary upside down.

But….

‘Oh, what to do….’

The Goddess remembered how she had changed him and broke out in a cold sweat.

“It is true that he is in the empty lot I prepared. …Um, well, whether or not you will recognize him, I don’t know….”

“What?”

Lia’s voice grew cold.

Lia, approaching the Goddess, grabbed the Goddess’s hair tightly.

“Aah!”

“What did you do to Senior?”

“It’s a misunderstanding! I just granted his wish, that’s all!”

“Wish?”

Lia’s eyes narrowed sharply.

She put a little more strength into her hand, gripping her hair.

“It hurts! It hurts!”

“What did Senior wish for?”

“Th, that is….”

The Goddess, having read his memories,

knew that he had kept the secret that he liked cute things.

………………Am I going to sell someone’s secret just so I can live…?

When the Goddess hesitated, the last remaining mercy evaporated from Lia’s grasp.

“Kyaa! My hair is being pulled out!”

“Speak.”

Lia’s voice became even lower, taking on a murderous intent.

The Goddess, not knowing what to do, bit her lip.

And at last, the Goddess, who was desperately contemplating, offered a compromise.

“Ask him directly! I’ll send you over there!”

“Good.”

Lia let go of the Goddess’s hair.

The Goddess, touching her aching head, cautiously replied.

“Um. I’ll send you there…. Um, um… Senior’s appearance is a little….”

“What about his appearance?”

“…Um, well. He has changed a little. …No, maybe a lot.”

The Goddess’s words became more and more blurred.

When Lia’s eyes changed menacingly,

The Goddess hurriedly covered her own head and shouted.

“I didn’t want to do it! He wanted it!”

“…Senior?”

“Yes! Really!”

The Goddess continued, sobbing.

“So, please, couldn’t you just go? I’ll send you there right away….”

“Good. …Ah, before that.”

“Yes, yes?”

The Goddess gulped.

What other thing will that brutal woman say?

All kinds of worst-case scenarios flashed through her mind.

“…Right?”

Elysium is a paradise for good people, so there must be a reward for that.”

“…To, to you?”

“Me too, since I contributed to saving the world, shouldn’t I get something in return?”

The Goddess, unable to hide her surprised expression, asked unintentionally.

Then Lia ground her teeth.

The Goddess, having succumbed to that, bowed her head 90 degrees and shouted.

“I, I’ll give it to you!”

“Good.”

“Th, then what do you want…?”

Lia, for the first time, opened her mouth with a bright smile.

“Make it so that no one will ever love Senior as a lover or try to possess him.”

“……Yes?”

“Humans are all like that, aren’t they? Because they love, they try to possess, to monopolize.

They can’t stand someone else being near them.”

Lia’s smile turned cold, and her eyes turned cold at once.

“How dare humans. Make it so that they will never take Senior away from me. Only Senior’s own heart can separate me from Senior.”

“Um, um. Elysium is a paradise of love and peace. That is a little….”

“……You can’t do it?”

The killing intent that Lia was emitting was focused entirely on the Goddess.

The Goddess, intimidated by that, shrank her shoulders and struggled to speak.

“Th, that’s. Well. …I don’t think anyone would covet him, even if you didn’t do that.”

“……Are you saying. You’re dissing our Senior, saying that he’s only big and strong with no brain and a natural-born loner?”

“I never thought that far!”

The Goddess said hurriedly, sweating.

“Above all, I think the person’s own will is the most important! If he loves someone else or anything…!”

“Senior can’t love.”

“…Yes?”

“You can see it by looking at his memories, right? The deal I made with Senior.

Lia smiled regally.

Her smile contained her own conviction, but there was a hint of bitterness.

“I devoured all of Senior’s romantic feelings. I used that as nutrients to recover my power.”

“…You devoured romantic feelings?”

“Yes. Senior loves no one. He can’t. So Senior won’t have a hard time because of that.”

The Goddess was speechless with shock, and looked at Lia.

“…What, exactly, did he want in return to give you that?”

Really, it was something trivial. Just that I eat three meals well and live with a smile.”

“……What did you say?”

“That’s all. A truly foolish human, isn’t he?”

Yes.

He was the most foolish human she had ever met in the long years she had lived.

It would have been enough to ignore the girl covered in blood and thrown into the ruins.

But he reached out to help her,

Sacrificed his own feelings for a child he didn’t even know and saved her.

And in the end, he laughed, saying ‘I hope you live well for my share’……

He was more pure than anyone, and more foolish than anyone.

“Senior probably wants that too. There have been people who have expressed their affection to Senior from time to time, but Senior was sorry that he couldn’t understand those feelings.”

“…Velia. You have changed quite a bit.”

“Well, I lived 20 years pretending to be human at the side of the fool.”

She had seen her for a long time, but she was a different look from what the Goddess knew.

The Goddess smiled softly and clasped her hands together.

“I understand, Velia. As the main god of Elysium, I will grant your wish.”

“Really?”

“Yes. So please, go to him quickly. I’ll open the way.”

Sacred light appeared around Lia.

That light gently embraced her and opened a path leading deep into Elysium.

Lia, who had closed her eyes quietly, suddenly opened her eyes with a flash.

“Ah, if you do anything foolish to Senior, I’ll―”

“Go quickly! And don’t come again!”

The Goddess, looking at the spot where Lia disappeared, heaved a sigh of relief.

‘…Come to think of it, she was serious even in the first place.’

The Goddess shook her head, remembering when Lia had followed Senior.

And she wasn’t just showing such obsession in one way.

He was also such a pitiful man… no, now, a girl.

When the Goddess frowned, Lia emitted killing intent.

“…What?”

“Um, isn’t it time for Senior to wake up soon?”

“You’re saying get out fast?”

“You know that well… It’s not that, it’s about fulfilling each other’s roles.”

Although your role is not to be stuck in Elysium.

The Goddess, who suppressed the words that had risen to the tip of her chin, forced a smile.

“Go back quickly, I’ll take care of the requests you asked me to do.”

“…Can I trust a moron like you?”

“I’m just like the one who got stabbed in the back by her colleague and got kicked out♡”

Lia’s eyes narrowed coldly.

At that moment, the temperature inside the sanctuary seemed to have dropped several degrees.

“I’m sorry.”

“You’re still the same. Why do you buy the things you get hit for?”

“Gosh, you too.”

“…Ah, right.”

Suddenly, Lia’s eyes changed.

Anyone could tell at a glance. Who she was thinking of.

Lia smiled brightly at the Goddess.

“I see, Senior asked me to do something!”

“……Yes? A request?”

“Yeah. He told me to hit you just once.”

An ominous feeling throughout her body.

The Goddess concentrated her power in one hand and swallowed her saliva.

“…What?”

“You.”

The Goddess hastily cast a return magic.

No matter how powerful Lia was, she couldn’t defy the authority of the main god.

Lia clicked her tongue.

“Release it.”

“No! I will put up a double and triple expulsion barrier!”

“…You’re taking a long time to say you want to die, huh?”

“Hiiiiiiik! Yes, yes! I also had something to say!”

Lia, glaring fiercely at the Goddess, withdrew her magic.

“Um, that… about the wish you made at first.”

“What about it?”

“I tried my best to fulfill it, but….”

Lia’s body was mostly enveloped in a sacred light.

The Goddess, who had been biding her time, smiled brightly and spoke.

“I’m sorry, Velia. I failed in only one case.”

“…What?”

“I couldn’t help it. The other person is also a god-class being. Of course, you know that person well, don’t you?”

“Hey!”

“But don’t worry. I didn’t let Senior know that you had come….”

Lia’s eyes flashed.

From her body, which was on the verge of returning, enveloped in a sacred light,

Dark red magic exploded in an instant.

KWA-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH!

Powerful energy, enough to shake the entire sanctuary, spread out.

At that moment.

The light completely enveloped Lia,

And forcibly returned her to where Senior was.

All that remained in the sanctuary was the Goddess, trembling with anxiety, standing in her place.

‘…If I had made a mistake in my calculations, I would have almost died.’

The Goddess, wiping the cold sweat, looked around the messy sanctuary.

…As expected, she was always a brutal woman.

The First Satan.

Ranked 3rd in Hell.

The ruler of the Northern Hell.

The one with all those terrifying titles was―.

The Black Flame Demon, Velia.

“……It’s strange to see such a person obsessed with a mere mortal. Oh, there’s another eccentric person like that. Right.”

The Goddess looked at the cracked wall and sighed.

The wall scattered, making a creaking sound as if it would collapse soon.

“Well, aren’t we comrades in a way? Nothing will happen, Velia, right?”

The Goddess smiled wickedly and cast a double and triple ‘Velia prohibited entry barrier’.