I'm a Goddess to Be Devoured by the Protagonist - Chapter 79

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Episode 79
I didn’t know what to do.
Unintentionally, I had summoned a meteor upon the living world, killing countless humans.
That fact constrained all of my actions afterward.
That was when I began to sleep.
I turned away from that terrible reality and embraced the world of dreams.
My vision shifted once more, and Seosa’s space enfolded me.
“Hey, Sowon.”
Seosa spoke carefully.
“If you go on like this, you’ll die.”
“I see.”
A deity afflicted by mental anguish might dissolve entirely. But Seosa spoke of my death as something that would happen through a different path.
“Why don’t you resist your fate? If you die, I’ll become so lonely I’ll dissolve too.”
That would be unfortunate, but I didn’t know how to prevent my own death.
“No, this won’t do. I have to use that.”
Seosa drew something from his breast and placed it on the table.
“You see, after you went back, I’ve been creating something. Want to see it?”
“Yes, I’d like to.”
When Seosa withdrew his hand, an opalescent candy remained on the table.
“This is called Life Experience Candy—it erases your memories from when you were a deity and lets you live as a complete human. Using this, you’ll find the will to live.”
I gazed quietly at the candy.
“Will you try it? I won’t force you.”
I had no particular reason to refuse.
“I’ll try it.”
“Thank goodness. I’m glad you still have the will to go on.”
Seosa smiled.
“Go back to your space, lie down on your bed, and eat this candy. Then you’ll be able to live as a human for a certain period. Oh, and turn on Cosmos before moving worlds. That way it’ll connect naturally.”
For reasons I didn’t understand, I decided to do as he said.
I returned to my space, opened the Cosmos window, lay down on my bed, and ate the candy.
[Transfer in progress.]
[Divine Realm→Earth]
After that, I had no memory of anything.
* * *
After a short nap, I woke and hurried toward Seosa’s space.
“Seosa, I—”
“Yes. You’re you. Sowon.”
By coincidence, my past name had also been Sowon.
So when Seosa first called me Sowon, I had been quite stirred internally.
“More than twenty years have passed since you ate the candy and fell asleep.”
At the same time, I had lived more than twenty years as Sowon. For some reason, I couldn’t recall the exact span.
“I missed you.”
I was the Listener, who had slept in a deep dream for more than twenty years.
How could I be such a sociopath?
No, looking at the memories, I seem to have a conscience, and I don’t appear to be as much of a sociopath as I thought—so how did I end up doing such things in the original work?
In any case, I decided to ask Seosa what I was curious about.
“What happened to me on Earth?”
“To ease the shock, it was removed from memory, but a few months ago my lifespan ran out and I died.”
I’d managed to cling to life rather stubbornly, but the ending was anticlimactic. My lifespan exhausted in my promising twenties.
But thanks to that, I had far more will to live than before eating the candy. It was exactly as Seosa had hoped.
“Then what is the novel called When This Journey Ends?”
“Ah. Do you remember the author’s name?”
“Of course I would… Wait, I can’t recall it?”
“I wrote it.”
What?
“It’s a story containing the future that vanishes as you read it.”
Seosa touched both cheeks with his hands, speaking as though embarrassed.
“By showing you the future, the changes became far too great, but it was unavoidable to protect you.”
Then it happened.
A deity approached our location with swift steps.
The Listener’s memory recognized him as Manwagyeong.
A god who can see an unchanging future while simultaneously sleeping for one thousand, one hundred and forty-three years—that’s who Seosa had been talking about.
“Come on, follow me. We need to talk.”
“Ugh. Sowon, help me out here.”
“You’re not coming. This is something just the two of us need to discuss.”
Manwagyeong said this to me.
I started to protest and block her, but my past memories reminded me that Manwagyeong always just scared people like this before having the real conversation between the two of them.
Instead of stopping her, I waved at Seosa.
“Thank you, Seosa.”
“Hehe. Sure. Go on back now. We’re probably going to be talking for a while.”
Just from that reaction, I could tell it wasn’t anything serious.
Seosa had immediately dropped the frightened act and smiled with satisfaction.
* * *
It had been shocking to learn that I was the same person as that sociopathic god, but my daily routine hadn’t changed.
Without any major incidents, the routine remained the same.
In the mornings after meals I’d play tug-of-war with Seungrijja, in the afternoons I’d play with Sapphire, and at nights I’d sleep alongside Sirius. (He still didn’t seem accustomed enough to the Divine Realm to stop sleeping yet.)
And whenever I had a spare moment, I’d check the Cosmos.
I was happily playing with Sapphire when I turned on Antares’s broadcast.
Antares had apparently been offering prayers at the Temple for some time.
‘May everyone in the world be happy.’
Antares was making a wish worthy of himself.
He opened his mouth without changing his prayer posture.
-Divine One, I heard that you’ve sent bread and water to some temples.
Word had already spread to Antares, it seemed.
-Would it be possible for this temple to receive your divine blessing as well? The people of this village are suffering from hunger.
I decided to answer by sending Mission Sponsorship to the temple.
Before that, I decided to gather some more Drinking Water since supplies were running low.
The Drinking Water had been upgraded just like the Baking Set.
Though the method of drawing water hadn’t changed, of course.
But my memory had returned. Which meant that my memory of handling Divine Power skillfully had also come back.
I grasped the well’s handle and channeled an appropriate amount of Divine Power into my hands, then turned the rope to pull it up.
The bucket filled with water rose easily.
I secured the handle and began making Leaf Balls.
“Would it be all right if I helped?”
“I’d be grateful for the help.”
Sirius helped me make Leaf Balls, and he made them well—probably because he’d received Drinking Water as Mission Sponsorship before and had seen them made.
Doing what I normally did alone together meant the water accumulated quickly.
This should be enough.
I prepared to send Mission Sponsorship to the temple, selecting the bread and water I’d give.
Unlike the water, I had plenty of bread left over from practicing to make better bread before. So I didn’t need to make more now.
“Hehe. Bread.”
Sapphire rolled onto a fallen loaf and poked at it playfully.
I watched for a moment, then asked Ham.
“Ham, it’s okay if Sapphire eats some bread, right?”
“Of course!”
“Would you like to try some bread, Sapphire?”
“Nope. Toy toy.”
It sounded like she just wanted to play with it, not eat it. So my bread really wasn’t very good.
I offered Sirius’s bread instead. There wasn’t much of that left either.
“Hehe! Toy toy, two.”
Now they were just two toys. The young dragon enjoyed poking at the fluffy bread. She didn’t seem to know what kind of bread Sirius had made.
In the meantime, I finished preparing the Mission Sponsorship. I sent it while looking at the temple’s altar.
[Sponsored Items: Bread ×50]
[Sponsored Items: Drinking Water ×30]
If this still wasn’t enough, Antares would let me know.
When Antares saw the bread and water appear on the altar, his eyes went wide.
-This is incredible.
Then he stopped praying and jumped to his feet.
-Everyone! Good news!
And he rushed out of the temple, shouting. A few of the villagers nearby turned their attention toward him.
The villagers were in poor condition. It was clear that his words about having nothing to eat were far from an exaggeration.
“The Divine has blessed our village with grace! Come, let us enter the Temple and see!”
The villagers filed into the Temple with expressions of cautious wonder.
When they beheld what lay within, their eyes widened in astonishment.
“Ah, truly a blessing from the Divine.”
“We are grateful, so grateful.”
“We need not starve anymore.”
[Your Renown has spread far and wide!]
[Congratulations! Your Intervention Level has increased!]
[Your Intervention Level: 8]
Ham, who had been fluttering near me, watched the broadcast screen with eyes grown wide and let off a tiny burst of fireworks with her small hands.
“Congratulations, Divine One! Now that you’ve reached Intervention Level 8, the number of Mission Sponsorships you can provide per week to non-contractors has doubled, as well as your general sponsorship capacity!”
This meant I could now perform two Mission Sponsorships per week and twenty general sponsorships.
[‘The Listener Who Draws Lines of Wishes’ rejoices in the people’s acclaim.]
“It seems the Divine is pleased as well.”
“Is that truly so?”
“This new Divine One has a remarkably fine disposition.”
“Indeed, what a gracious being.”
Satisfied, I exited Antares’s broadcast.
Too much acclaim could feel burdensome. Best to leave while the applause still rings.

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