「Your lordship, we’re going out to hunt!」
「Ah, go ahead!」
Koa’s voice made me get up from the chair I was sitting on.
It’s another beautiful day.
-0-
It’s already been a month since I told all my companions about myself.
How I came to this planet, how my power changed, and how it has gone out of control.
I told them about Rope, about their memories being tampered with, and many other things.
When I talked to everyone, it turned out that their memories were different. Perhaps it was because of the forced tampering of their memories.
Or rather, the tampering was quite rough.
Incidentally, it seems that the cause of memory tampering was a malfunction that occurred because this planet is unstable.
I had a headache after hearing that.
Give me back the time I spent worrying!
「What are you targeting today?」
「Fried chicken.」
「Koa, calling them fried chicken is kind of pitiful. At least call them by their names. By the way, which is it?」
As we talked, I found out that most of my companions like fried chicken.
As for why, it goes well with sake.
There are two kinds of monsters that are suitable for frying.
One is the evil serpent, a giant snake that looks creepy.
When I first saw it, I needed to come up with the courage to cook it.
The other one is killer rag.
This one is a giant rabbit.
However, it’s not the cute rabbits like what I can see in Japan.
It has terrifying fangs in addition to its scary eyes.
By the way, in terms of juiciness, the evil serpent resembles chicken more.
Killer rag tastes a bit bland.
-0-
At some point, these two monsters were hunted in large numbers.
At that time, since we can’t speak with each other yet, I assumed that the large number of them meant there was an abundance of them in the wild. However, it looks like they are only hunting them to indirectly request fried chicken.
Unintentionally, their request had succeeded in some way as fried chicken was frequently included on the menu.
「No, your lordship. They were born to be deep-fried so they should be called fried chicken. By the way, I’m from the evil faction and we’re going to hunt a lot today!」
Born to be deep-fried, what a pitiful species.
By the way, there are two fried chicken factions: evil and rag.
Koa is part of the evil faction.
I think I’m with the evil faction too.
「Don’t hunt too much, okay? If they perish, you won’t be able to eat them anymore.」
Well, I don’t know why but there’s no sign of their numbers decreasing whether we hunt them or not.
No one knows why it is like that.
I’ll ask Goddess Aion next time she visits.
-0-
Speaking of which, have things calmed down a bit?
After Rope and his friends gave gods lifespans, a dozen minutes later, Goddess Aion’s men arrived in a hurry.
According to what they said, there was a quite big mess going on.
Hearing that, God Deme yelled at Rope again but after thinking for a moment, Goddess Aion punched God Deme to shut him up and dragged him back home.
Flying Lizard and Light Blue were surprised to see that.
-0-
A few days later, Goddess Aion came again.
For some reason, she seemed to be in a very bad mood. That made me feel a bit defensive.
When I asked her about it, it seemed that the gods who were against life span were hiding various things from the gods who were in favor of it.
Surprisingly, a lot of gods were in favor. In addition, it looks like there have been small conflicts that had happened that made the planets the gods should have been protecting destroyed.
There’s conflict after all.
I’m a little impressed with how they were able to hide it.
「You look like you’re not interested.」
When Goddess Aion said that, an irritated Light Blue hits her head with his tail.
I immediately asked her “Are you alright?” but Goddess Aion only smiled wryly.
Afterwards, she apologized to Light Blue.
Light Blue and the other dragons were victims of god’s leisure time.
I can understand why he’s angry.
Even so, it’s great that the goddess doesn’t mind even if she was smacked by a dragon.
That’s so scary no matter what you think.
That day, she said a lot of things that were kept hidden until now and left.
-0-
A few days later.
Are you that free? I thought she would be busy.
She came again unexpectedly and this time, she started laughing hysterically.
And for some reason, Rope laughed with her.
…..it was kind of eerie hearing something invisible laughing like that.
-0-
After calming down, I asked her why she was like that and she told me that the opposition was being pushed into a very tight corner.
She said it had something to do with the activation of the magic that Rope had imposed.
Rope and his friends, out of spite for what they have done to them until now, have imposed a magic that shortens lifespan of gods if they damage their planets or the children.
It was intended for the future but when it included the past.
As a result, the lifespan of the leading figures of the opposition was shortened by hundreds of years.
「What in the world did they do have their lifespan shortened that much?」
Rope was the one who answered my question.
They were gods who proselytize believers through the use of demon kings.
How many children were harmed to make those believers worship them? It’s too many to ascertain.
Also, the gods, who were bored, started competing with each other to see who can make a stronger demon king.
As a result, it became impossible for a hero to defeat him and multiple heroes were summoned at the same time.
When I accidentally got involved, there were four.
To successfully defeat that demon king, the hero must bear too many gifts making it almost impossible for a hero to bear them.
The surviving heroes weren’t even well that there was a need to retrieve them.
However, those gods didn’t pick those heroes back.
So they died as they were.
The number of children who were extinguished is also unknown because there were too many.
I stopped Rope from telling more.
I think I heard enough.
「In other words, there were gods who love themselves too much and gods that have too much time in their hands.」
「….you can say that.」
Goddess Aion smiles bitterly.
By the way, Goddess Aion’s lifespan has not been shortened.
Even if her lifespan was shortened, I think it’s okay.
That only means there are consequences for her actions.
-0-
—Scene Change—
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「We have caught a lot, your lordship!」
「….Chai, you should learn to hold back. If you keep hunting this much, the evil serpent will be extinct.」
I look at the large pile of evil serpents in front of me.
I don’t mind you hunting them from time to time.
However, there are too many.
「Don’t worry, your lordship. There are a large number of these monsters out there.」
When I looked at where Chai’s paw was pointing, I saw a large number of monsters a short distance from us.
All of them look like evil serpents.
That large number of giant snakes stand up and wiggle wiggle wiggle.
I pretended to not see them.
「Seeing a lot of them this close is kind of scary.」
Some of them even have their eyes open as if they’re ready to curse you.
「Really? I’m cool with it.」
…..you probably didn’t look at them that much.
Or maybe there’s something wrong with Chai’s eyes.
Look at their friends in the forest, they are hissing their tongues out.
Scary.
-0-
My companions returned one after another while bringing evil serpents by magically levitating them in the air.
A huge procession of dead giant snakes.
They are moving silently through the forest.
To be honest, this is something you’ll only see in a horror movie.
「Ah, you’re back. Welcome back. That’s an eerie scene to see.」
When I returned home, I found Goddess Aion.
Strange, she just came here around 5 days ago.
Are you that bored?
Did I mishear it when you said you were busy?
「Didn’t you say you were busy? Is it alright for you to be here? Won’t your men come crying to you again like last time?」
Last time, she seemed to have slipped out of work and her subordinates could only cry.
I drove her back as fast as I could.
「This time, it’s okay. After all, those idiots….the opposing gods were wiped out.」
Wiped?
Let’s see, there’s one more word….wiped out?
「Eh? Wiped out? Why? By whom?」
No no no, what is this rapid development?
Last time, I heard that the opposing gods were only driven to a corner.
「The god of creation. He made the final decision.」
「…….I see. Wouldn’t things have been better if the god of creation managed everyone better?」
「I know, you’re right. However, please forgive him. He used all his power to annihilate the gods who caused problems, restore the distorted planets, and stabilize everyone’s soul.」
All his power?
「Won’t it be a problem if the god of creation loses his power?」
「He died immediately after. The next god of creation is someone in favor of lifespan.」
Died?
So, you’re saying, to wipe them out, he used his life.
「That’s why I need you to do me a favor.」
「I refuse!」
「I haven’t said anything yet.」
「I refuse!」
I have a bad feeling about it.
I can’t get involved in this more than I already have!
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