1 – Promise of Happiness and Possession

‘Ah… comfortable…’

A warm feeling that wraps around the body.

Warm air entering the lungs with each exhalation.

The body is drained of energy, and the mind is languid.

It feels like swimming in the warm sea.

‘This is death…’

My last memory is of throwing myself off the roof of a building.

Falling from the height of the 15th floor of an apartment building, he must have died.

‘relaxing…’

Is this the embrace of death…?

After holding the sword, to feel the comfort that I have never felt in the last 10 years, only after death…

Hehe… It’s kind of bittersweet and funny.

‘It was really hard…’

It won’t matter now…

because he died

Death is a sleep that never ends.

eternal rest.

Even the hellish days that happened every day,

Father’s cold gaze

Even the malicious comments that are placed next to the bed every morning.

there is no more

because he died

You don’t have to do anything now.

now without thinking.

A comfortable rest…

‘Well…?’

what…?

A sudden feeling of discomfort.

‘I’m dead… isn’t it? By the way…’

How am I ‘thinking’?

At the same time as I thought about it, my hazy mind became more and more clear.

become clear?

dead…?

“You’re awake.”

a sudden voice.

He was startled and opened his closed eyes.

“Ah! Uh… Ah…?”

When I opened my eyes, I couldn’t help but groan.

Because the scene unfolding before my eyes was so unreal.

blue sky.

the warm sunlight.

A floor made of marble.

The majestically rising pillars and the roof resting on them.

Statues exuding holiness and flowers in full bloom.

Even the faint music that seemed to be heard from far away.

I muttered blankly as I looked at them.

“Temple…?”

“That’s the correct answer.”

voice once again.

Slightly startled by the sound, he raised his head and looked around.

As if I was having fun, the voice smiled softly.

“Whoops. Here it is. Here.”

I focused my eyes and looked at the place where the voice came from.

Where I looked, there was a large chair that looked like a throne.

Two women with wings were standing on either side of the chair, and a woman presumed to be the owner of the voice was sitting on the chair.

She was a woman so beautiful that it was impossible to compare to the women I had ever seen in my life.

She made eye contact with me, then smiled benevolently.

“hi?”

soft voice.

I was stunned for a moment by her voice that seemed to embrace everything.

“Hmm? Did you not hear?”

The woman made a face asking why this was my reaction.

Only then did I flinch and lower my head.

“Oh, hello…!”

“Oh, you don’t have to be so. Take it easy, take it easy.”

“Oh no…! How dare I…”

“You seem to have a rough idea of who I am?”

“yes…”

Even if my knowledge is short because I have spent a life exhausted from training, I am not completely ignorant.

Temples, winged women, beautiful women sitting on ornate chairs.

Perhaps this is the afterlife or heaven.

Honestly, it’s a long story, but when I see that this is the first place I woke up after I jumped from the rooftop.

After I died, if you say you came here, it roughly fits.

If so, the two winged women in front of me are angels.

And the woman sitting in the chair…

“Goddess…sama…?”

“This time, it is the correct answer.”

She smiled warmly once again.

On the other hand, my face was hardening.

‘The afterlife…God…I didn’t know it really existed…’

I shuddered slightly at the thought.

A little bit of fear in my heart.

The reason for that fear was in my sign.

My cause of death was suicide.

Usually in religions that believe in the afterlife or heaven, suicide is often said to be a sin.

Having committed suicide, I have committed that sin, so shouldn’t I be punished?

Wouldn’t it be like going to hell for committing suicide?

I spent my days like hell even when I was alive, but do I really fall into hell after death…?

As I thought about it, my body trembled like crazy.

no…

It was a death I chose because I wanted to escape from hell, but the end was another hell.

I was breathing hard.

no…

I don’t want to suffer anymore…

I don’t want to be unhappy…

Why does this keep happening to me-

“Shh…”

It was none other than the Goddess who brought me back from having seizures.

When she put her index finger to her mouth as if to calm down, mysteriously, the things that were wriggling inside me began to be pushed out again.

At the same time, a sense of security and comfort began to linger in my body.

what is this

Is it the power of God?

After I kept my mouth shut for a moment, she got up from her chair and came over to me.

Seeing her approaching, I almost stepped back without realizing it.

“It’s okay, kid…”

Soon, a soft hand touched my hair.

She was standing right in front of me and stroking my hair.

“There will be no such thing as you think. How can you drop a child who lived miserably in hell until he dies…”

I flinched when I heard my true feelings.

“Uh, how…”

“Hehe. I can see everything.”

Can God even see the human heart…?

No, more than that, you say you won’t go to hell…?

‘thank god…’

With that thought, I lowered my head.

An overwhelming sense of relief.

As if the goddess understood me, she stroked my hair a few more times.

Let it be like that for a few minutes.

The goddess who was stroking my hair opened her mouth.

“Unhappy… You’ve lived a very unhappy life…”

“……”

I couldn’t answer

I thought that the moment I opened my mouth, an unsightly sound would come out.

Seeing me like that, the Goddess shook her head.

“It’s not good to hold back tears, child.”

As she said that, she wiped the corner of my eye once with her thumb.

OK-

“Huh?! Black…”

The tears I had been holding back began to flow.

Looking at me like that, the goddess gave me a few more times.

“Yes… yes… clean it all up…”

“Huh… Huh…”

“Shouldn’t you be able to live the next life only if you clear it all up?”

“Huh… yes…?”

I raised my head, wondering if I had heard it wrong for a moment.

“The next… life…?”

At my question, she smiled brightly.

“Yes, the next life. This life is over, so let’s move on to the next…”

“Wait, wait…!”

“……Why…?”

“Everything, the next life…! What nonsense…!!”

As if surprised by my reaction, she gave me a puzzled expression.

“Why all of a sudden…”

“To live this life… again…? In the next life, in the next life after that…? I came here to run away from life, but in the next life…?”

“Hey… Calm down for a moment…”

“I can’t… I can’t even die…”

“Hey…”

“I can’t, I’d rather…!!”

“Shh….”

The goddess’s index finger touched my lips.

The paradoxical touch, which was both cool and warm, brought the raging head back to its senses.

At the same time, the torrent of emotions that had been fluctuating quickly began to calm down.

“……I’m sorry…”

At my apology, the goddess smiled.

“It’s okay. If you’ve calmed down, could you listen to me?”

I nodded quietly.

At that, the goddess opened her mouth with a satisfied expression.

“There is a next life, but it won’t be as painful and difficult as you think. The next life is a kind of ‘compensation’ concept.”

“Reward… is it…?”

“Yes, reward.”

“What is that…?”

When I put on an expression that I didn’t know why, she continued to elaborate.

“The next life is a reward for children like you who have had a very unfortunate life. If you had a hard life in the previous life, you are given a next life where you can live happily.”

“……”

hate.

I still hate living the next life.

The expression that had been relaxed for a moment at the word ‘compensation’ began to harden again.

But the goddess didn’t notice me, and continued talking.

“It’s okay to go to another world if you want. What do you want? Possession? Reincarnation? Transfer?”

“just…”

“Ah, yes! There was a novel that you enjoyed reading when you were 20! Was it [The Hero Loved by Everyone]? Why don’t you try possessing it?”

“Just… I…”

“Yeah, that would be nice. I restructured the world a bit…”

“just!!!”

Tired of her continuing words, I broke off with a loud cry.

She was looking at me with a blank expression.

“It’s just… can’t I just not live in the next life…? I… I’m afraid of life now… All I’ve gotten from living is terrible misfortune…”

“Hey…”

“Please… please…”

I said that and got down on my knees.

Goddess looked at me like that and said.

“Your mind is messed up… what made you like that…”

After that, she was silent for a while, then gently held my hand on her lap and said,

“Ah… can you think of it one more time…”

“Please… I don’t want to live…”

“Your sincerity, isn’t it?”

I shut my mouth to her words.

she spoke quietly.

“I looked into your heart… Are you afraid…? Aren’t you afraid of being unhappy again…”

“……”

“But child… deep down in your heart, you too… no, don’t you yearn for happiness more than anyone else…”

A little strength went into the hand of the goddess holding my hand.

“If you live such an unhappy life and disappear without even experiencing happiness… wouldn’t it be unfair…”

“……”

“Even a little bit is fine. So… why don’t you experience what it’s called a happy life…”

Happiness.

It wasn’t that I didn’t want that.

No, in fact, I longed for it more than anyone else.

However, to me it felt like it was too far away.

I tried to turn my head because it felt like I couldn’t have it.

“I promise you you’ll be happy in my next life.”

As she said that, she raised her little finger to me as if it were a promise.

Despite my efforts to turn my head away, the promise the Goddess gave me seemed so sweet.

me too…

I want to be loved, not hated.

I want to be respected, not jealous,

I want to get happiness, not unhappiness.

Could it really be?

In my previous life, everything was a mess…?

Even though I was so worried, there was me putting my finger on her finger.

I hope that I, who was unhappy, will be happy even a little bit.

-Titling!

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[The novel, ‘The Hero Beloved by Everyone’ begins!]

[Designate the person to be possessed with the authority of the absolute as ‘Alan Reinhardt’, the main character of the novel.]

[Possession in progress…]

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[Due to a sudden error, the possessed target is changed.]

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[The target of possession has been changed from the main character, ‘Eren Reinhardt,’ to ‘Leiden Lissit,’ the eldest son of the Duke of Lissit!]