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“I’d like to ask you first. Ceres, who are you?”

It was clear that he had divine powers. He was the same person as the Ceres I knew, but I could sense that something was different.

“I thought you would have noticed… If I say ‘Goddess of Revenge’, will they understand?”

It was not a few times that I had personally heard the name of that god.

The day Ceres dragged her to volunteer at the orphanage, and the day she met William.

But I was feeling it. I felt her power trying to control me when I ran amok in the palace and when I tried to fight afterwards.

“But, Celia must have noticed. How did you…”

The guidance of the god who guides me is the same, but if she really was a different god, there was no way Celia wouldn’t notice.

“Well, that’s very simple. Simple.”

Ceres’ face changed in an instant.

With the face of that kind and benevolent goddess whom I had never seen before falling into this world.

“Please help this world, hero.”

“…”

Her body was that of a goddess of vengeance clad in red armor, but her face was that of a merciful and kind goddess, Selenis.

“Um, how are you?”

“From the beginning…were they one?”

“If I had to explain it in human language… Yes, it’s like a dual personality. One divinity, two divinities.”

I wanted to say that it is nonsense. However, the goddess face she just showed me didn’t seem to be just a trick.

“When one sleeps, the other wakes up. It is possible to give divine power even while sleeping, but you cannot have a proper conversation or manifest.”

Ceres approached me cautiously, as if nothing had happened.

“But I can see.”

I feel her soft arms and body, which I didn’t feel when I was a maid.

I didn’t know it from the murals and sculptures, but that red armor was quite revealing.

“What happened to the goddess before?”

“Don’t worry. I was in too much shock for a while, and I just fell asleep. It’s not that dangerous, I think I’m going to have a good rest.”

If so, it was safe. I had only seen her once, but she was a person who genuinely cared about this world.

“Then… I’m glad I did.”

“Do you know why she’s asleep?”

“yes?”

Ceres’ face instantly darkened.

“You… no, it’s because of the guys down there.”

“Why!”

“If it’s a god, he can see what’s happening near the Demon Castle. There’s just no way to contact believers.”

I’d heard Celia say that God’s response was cut off when she started coming near the Demon Castle.

“It’s because of what you’ve been through, Enerel. That anger, that contempt. Those terrible things happened at the warriors’ party. How much betrayal must they have felt? Eleanor and Celia were both gaining Selenis’ trust.”

“That’s so big…”

“It was such a shock! You were a hero appointed by Selenis himself! Even if that mean princess acted as the hero’s power, if I had a conscience, I wouldn’t have treated you like that!”

I agree with Ceres’ words. I couldn’t help but nod my head.

“I thought that as we traveled together, I would see your wrath again. Your vengeance, a great hatred worthy of that grudge.”

“Did you follow me around because you wanted that?”

“Absolutely.”

However, I let him down.

The party of warriors did not go against me anymore, and I no longer sought revenge.

“I’ve been waiting for your choice, but I’m tired now. Kill me. That’s enough.”

“To go back…”

“What was the reason you wanted to go back?”

Gritting my teeth, I remembered what I was thinking.

I didn’t want to live in a world like a warrior’s party. I don’t have to be a hero, I don’t have to be an avenger, I don’t have to be a helpless victim. I wanted to go back to my previous life, which I lived regardless of the world.

“Show your anger. Make those despicable hypocrites pay for what they did to you.”

The holy sword in my hand was tamed with red light.

“This, only with the power of the goddess…”

“To some extent, I can act as a ‘goddess’ too. Not all of them, but I’m half-goddess.”

If different personalities share a body, they can easily pass the fingerprint recognition process created by the other personalities.

That’s probably why she was able to pretend to be the goddess, Selenis.

“do it.”

You can kill it now. Just by driving a sword through the necks of fallen women, you can finish them off.

“If it was like this, long ago…”

“That’s right. It’s too late. That’s why we have to do it now.”

“What if you won’t?”

“Is it because of your sense of justice?

Ceres, no, Erins, the goddess of vengeance, reached out.

A huge demonic storm flows into her.

“I managed to manifest somehow, but I was weak. For a god to wield power in the underworld, he must have appropriate prayers and aspirations.”

However, now she could not be called weak even in empty words.

“Oh, of course. That was enough to kill those little humans. If they were caught off guard and ambush, it would have been possible to assassinate them separately. However, that wasn’t enough. It wasn’t enough to give you enough strength or to draw out a compelling reason.”

“How did you become so strong?”

“The resentment of the abandoned land, the prayer without an owner fills this place. At this level, it should give you enough strength.”

It is a prayer flowing towards the place where God left. The prayers of those who lived ordinary lives could not be heard.

The prayers of the castaways and the castaways after entering the abandoned ruins could not have been positive.

“Ceres… No, Erinis. Do you think I want power?”

“What if you want to? Get your revenge, then get my strength. After that, be the hero you want to be.”

“yes?”

“Do more. Enforce your justice on more people with more overwhelming force.”

At the suggestion I had never thought of before, I fell silent for a moment.

“You saved people, but fundamentally nothing was solved. The demon king will reappear when the time comes, and humans will kill and fight each other. Aldgild’s Weather? I will die and kill again. If not, Aldgild will try to kill Weather. William is strong, but how many years can he last…”

“…it’s none of my business.”

“Are you thinking of turning a blind eye? With this power, you can do it. Your world must have been much kinder and more beautiful than this one, so your ethics must be much more advanced. How about destroying kings and emperors? Just like your world. “

Democracies, the systems that were in my world. It wasn’t what Ceres said.

It was Farseer that intrigued me in the least. The subject of my world was also something I had brought up while talking with her.

“Really… did you see everything?”

“Yes. I was watching them all. You know what? If you just keep looking at someone, you will unconsciously empathize with them.”

I was really watching. The way was rough, but she was genuinely acknowledging my sorrow.

“Kill it. It doesn’t matter if you think of it as simple revenge, and it doesn’t matter if you think of it as making a small sacrifice to gain the power to protect everyone.”

But after hearing her suggestion, I realized.

I feel disgusted. Hatred rises. A sense of vengeance against the person who said ‘such a thing’, or rather, against the existence, rises.

There is a need to re-prioritize.

“Do you think killing this is revenge?”

Of course, anger rises. want to harm I want to trample on everything in the warrior party. However, this death could not be avenged.

“If not, what is revenge? If that petty conscience keeps you from fulfilling your revenge, think of justice. Think of what you can do when you kill them and gain your own power.”

I shook my head. Sadly, though the goddess of vengeance sympathized with my sorrow, she did not understand my thoughts.

“It wouldn’t be the first time I’ve used your power.”

Power goes into the holy sword. The red light that symbolizes revenge is wriggling on the sword.

“You mean when you were in the imperial palace?”

The strength of the hero, that blue sword, spreads out around the sword, creating a line on the other side.

“No. When I cut the Oak Road.”

Blue light from the desire to protect, and red light from the desire for revenge. The magenta light from the mixture of the two was shining brightly.

“Surely, but… just because you were so good, to avenge the humanity that the Orc Lord killed…”

“no.”

Of course, the contempt of the warrior party was disgusting. I didn’t like it. I wanted to destroy it somehow.

But what I hated more than the outward contempt was the heart that I truly hated.

It is natural for you to sacrifice this much for the sake of the empire. For the sake of the noble Elves, it is right for you, the filthy, to suffer discomfort.

For the sake of magic, for the great advancement of immortality for all people, you must sacrifice. God’s will must be done no matter what, and others must follow suit.

So many thoughts, it was something that made me really angry.

“It’s not that I didn’t like it because the other person was me, because it was me who was despised…”

Eleanor, judging that I was more important as a warrior, did not hesitate to sacrifice herself and her citizens, who were worthless to the Empire, to save me.

The elders of the elves said that it was natural for elves to sacrifice for the fate of the world, and they put a bridle on Nerwen from the time he was born.

The vengeance for that belief has not yet been quenched.

“You’ll be able to do anything from then on when you gain great power, so you’re telling me to kill the people here and get your power. I’m more important and a just person, so I can kill them without hesitation.”

“Did I say something wrong?”

“Maybe that’s right. Maybe it can’t be helped. But you…”

I aimed the sword with both hands at Ceres.

“It looks like a Farseer.”

“then!!!”

Her face filled with anger. Without saying who came first, we lunged at each other.