I Will Become The Final Villain - Episode 132

Episode 132

I suddenly opened my eyes. Could this be a dream again? When I looked around, I was still in my old home, where I was lonely all the time. What, how can I get out?!

First, I stood up. I’m sure it was a dream as I see the gaping wounds in my chest everywhere. I touched my hair to see if it would be possible. Unlike before, the silver hair that curved down to just below the shoulders belonged to ‘Shuian’. No, what kind of situation is this?

“It’s been a while.”

“Ahh-!”

I turned around, startled by the voice I suddenly heard. It was a man with his red hair down to his waist who called me.

“I’m sorry. I never thought I would be this surprised… .”

The man who seemed more embarrassed than me was clearly someone I had never seen before. But still, I felt like I knew who it was. I muttered as if possessed.

“Ignis?”

“This troublemaker is now calling his godfather by his name.”

godfather? Godfather? The godfather I know? I knew he was not my enemy, but even so, the whole situation was so unfamiliar that I froze. Ignis smiled slightly as he looked at me and pointed to the living room sofa.

“I think the conversation will be long, so shall we sit down first? And this is an image world, so no matter how long you stay, time outside doesn’t pass, so don’t worry.”

I nodded absentmindedly and sat down on the sofa. Then, it turned into the drawing room of the second prince’s palace, which people around him often saw. Ignis calmly sat down across from me as if it was no big deal. The sight of him picking up the teacup that had risen up from the table and taking a sip was so natural that for a moment I thought I was really in the emperor’s palace.

“Originally, it would have been impossible to make contact outside of the divine world, but now, because of the chaos, the gods can intervene to some extent, so it is possible. In other words, the restrictions have been relaxed a bit.”

“okay… .”

By the way, Ignis is Dux’s godfather? If it were Ignis, he would be Artes’ father. Ignis, who seemed to be thinking about various things in his mind, closed his eyes for a moment and organized his thoughts, then slowly opened his eyes.

“You might be embarrassed, so let me talk slowly from the beginning. “Please understand that I am not good at talking.”

“yes.”

“You probably know this story to some extent, but when the world was first filled with chaos, the gods decided to join forces to drive chaos to the end of the world and set up a barrier to prevent it from coming over again.”

No, you’re telling me that from the beginning? She felt puzzled, but could not stop her, so she remained silent and waited for her to continue.

“We called it the ‘Divine Boundary’ and kept it. After that, the remaining scraps were hunted by several gods, including Artes. “It was around that time that you and Artes met.”

The remaining remnants were probably monsters. The meeting between Artes and Dux did not seem to be much different from what has been handed down in mythology. On the one hand, I wondered why Ignis said that ‘I’ and Artes met, but I decided to bury my curiosity for a while.

“After meeting you, with your help, Artes became more passionate about hunting. It was a very good match. But that wasn’t the end. “I thought the chaos had calmed down, but in reality, I couldn’t overcome the union of gods, so I just chose to hunker down for a while.”

Indeed, it was a likely story. There was no way the chaos could have calmed down all at once.

“Chaos, who had been calmly hiding within the barrier, broke through the barrier again the moment the gods’ watch lessened and their eyes turned to their children. It was very chaotic. The gods who had safely dispersed quickly gathered together, but the gods guarding the barrier had already disappeared and the barrier had been shattered.”

After hearing Ignis’ story, it was only then that I realized how reckless Theo and I had been. We are trying to push the chaos that even the gods could only seal by working together into a barrier with our own strength. It was no different from a suicide attempt.

“Similarly, the power was insufficient to destroy the chaos, and the only way was to seal it away. Although we had already consumed a lot of power just by setting up the barrier, we decided to seal the chaos once more. In the process, many gods were extinguished, and many more lost their power. One of them was Artes. Artes’s power was second to none among the gods, and it was he who made the greatest contribution to sealing chaos and eliminating the children of chaos. I can’t help but think that chaos is the worst thing. So it persistently targeted Artes, and eventually the child lost his strength.”

“Losing your power… .”

“The godhead has been torn into pieces. In the process, even eternal life was broken. Only a tiny fragment of eternal life remained for Artes. “With that, we had no choice but to repeat the cycle of reincarnation, like humans, where we die and are reborn at the end of our lifespan.”

I slowly pondered Ignis’ words. Not long ago, the emperor talked about the royal grandson who was occasionally born with black hair and red eyes, as recorded in his personal records. Everyone there simply thought that they had inherited strong Artes blood. There is no way that the god Artes will repeat his reincarnation, so it has to be that way.

But repeating the cycle of reincarnation.

“That’s why you especially hate chaos and monsters. It’s like being quiet and suddenly having your lover taken away from you. Moreover, the reason Artes hates humans compared to other divine beasts is because he had a hard time among humans.”

While I was confused, Ignis added an explanation.

“Well, the damage from the gods became so great that Mother, the creator god, stepped in and sealed the chaos, and because of that, she consumed too much power and is still sleeping. So we are keeping her mother’s power from disappearing until she wakes up.”

“No, wait a minute. That means Theo is Artes… .”

“Ah, my name in this life was Theodore.”

Are there any secrets to this birth? I, who was shocked, laughed out loud. So, in the end, Theo did not inherit the most of Artes’ blood, but was Artes himself, who lost his godhood and eternal life was broken, causing him to repeat his reincarnation.

“You always waited for Artes. He stayed by his side as long as the child lived, and when he died, he spent his time either staying in the divine world or traveling here and there, waiting to be reincarnated again.”

Wait a minute, what does this mean?

“Then, when you happened to cross over to another dimension, did you know how much that stubborn bastard from Startara tried to manipulate me? Crossing a dimension is difficult even for the gods, so I was worried that you might not come back. “I was the one who found a way to bring you instead of him, who couldn’t leave easily because of his heavy obligations.”

“That means… .”

“It’s not common for the soul to travel that far, but it doesn’t seem to have been that difficult for you, who can go anywhere.”

He burst out laughing heartily. He seemed genuinely happy.

“You were a tomboy from the beginning. I was so curious that even if I was going well, I would quickly take a different route, so I knew this would happen someday. “It hurts so many people.”

Wow, the secret of birth is revealed again. So, I wasn’t possessed, but it was the real Dux who just passed over to this dimension out of curiosity? Where are these large-scale lost children? As I was just licking my lips, Ignis burst into laughter again.

On the one hand, life at that time was heartbreaking. Is that why you were so lonely? After losing my family, I couldn’t settle down anywhere and just went by. Was it actually because I left something precious here? There was no meaning to the rest of my life there. Is that why it was so vain?

I asked after looking back on the past.

“Then what about the story I saw? That novel. “I thought I was possessed because of that.”

“It could have been so. But that was the only way. The reason you didn’t come back was because you lost your memory as a side effect of crossing the dimension. So, I sent you a story to make you come back. However, I felt very sad that you suffered in the process. “Of course it wasn’t an accident I planned, but it still felt like it was my fault.”

Are you really talking about the hit-and-run accident that happened right before I died? If I hadn’t seen the story Ignis made before the accident, would I have been reincarnated there? In any case, if it was an accident that killed my family and not me, even if it was intentional, I had no intention of holding a grudge.

“I wouldn’t have resented you even if you did it on purpose, so don’t worry about it. Anyway, I guess losing your sacred power and losing your memory was a side effect of crossing the dimension?”

“Yes, it’s natural because I’ve overcome difficult challenges twice. It was fortunate that it stopped at that level. “Aren’t they both going to come back eventually someday?”

Even in the midst of losing my memory, I could clearly remember the story that I believed to be the original novel. Maybe it was because it was a memory so precious that I wanted to keep it even if I forgot everything.

As I looked through the original work one by one, one thing suddenly caught my eye. It was the ending part. In the original story, Theodore eventually burned the empire. If you think about it, isn’t it no different from Artes personally burning the country he founded? Moreover, there was no mention of whether other countries were fine after that.

“But clearly in that story Theo burned down the empire.”

However, contrary to my concerns, Ignis responded indifferently.

“You see, the gods are more like capable managers than omnipotent and benevolent absolutes. We help those born with the power of the Great Mother, but we only lend our strength and do not intervene directly. It was a promise between the gods in the first place. The more we intervene, the more our mother’s power may be twisted in unexpected directions. That’s why I used the method of religion.”

Ultimately, this meant that the only time they directly intervened was when it had to do with chaos.

“The mother’s power is creation, rebirth, and circulation, but chaos and demonic energy harm the mother’s power, leading to the true end of the world. But think about it. Even if countless lives, including humans, die and nature is destroyed due to natural disasters, wars, or serious infectious diseases, the world will eventually continue in some form over time. Because that fundamental flow has not been cut off. So even though it seems like the end, it is ultimately a new beginning. “The same goes for Artes burning the empire.”

Even if the empire and, by extension, the entire world were burned down by human power, life eventually continues in a different form. Just because the Artes Empire disappeared or the world in its current form disappeared, it didn’t mean everything was over.

Nothing can survive anymore due to chaos, and the gods do not take action for anything unless it is destruction that prevents birth. In my view, the gods were close to bystanders. But that wasn’t what mattered to me.

“Is this a future that would have happened without me? “That’s what the story is about.”

“The future cannot be defined by one story, and there are numerous branches in each quarter. Of all these, the highest possibility is the ‘future’ you mentioned. right.”

So in the end, it meant that because of my absence, Theo couldn’t endure such a painful life and ended up burning everything. My solar plexus became numb with guilt.

“Then it’s because of me that Theo…” .”

“That is wrong.”

“yes?”

“The future has changed because of you. Even if Startera gave you, who she loved, there is no reason why you should be of special significance to Artes or why you should stay by his side. Star Terra’s intention was simply to lend a hand to Artes occasionally when she needed help. “Even she probably didn’t expect that she would be gone for this long.”

Ignis laughed out loud again. He was my godfather, so it seemed like he had a good relationship with his father, but seeing him genuinely happy made me a little suspicious.

“And I said. You were a tomboy. Wouldn’t it be difficult to force yourself to stay with someone when you don’t want to? You always stayed by that child’s side out of your own will, and that child loved you for that. Artes, during his many lives, there were times when he remembered you and times when he did not. But even so, he always loves you. It’s strange. “Even in a life where I can’t remember anything, I still recognize you, my lover.”

I opened my mouth slightly. Yes, even though I had many names, there was only one lover for me. From the beginning, until now.

“Even if relationships change over the course of countless lives, remember one thing. “It was all your choice, and there was no compulsion on anything.”

Ignis added, smiling sweetly.

“It is said that the Goddess of Fate leaves nothing in mind. “That’s her job.”

You love me, and I love you. It was just our story.

Not fate or duty.

Always, it was love.