My Illusion Is Survival - Chapter 78

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Chapter 78

When I first opened my eyes, I thought I had died and come to heaven.

…Where is this place?

I had opened my eyes alone in a pure white space where I couldn’t even distinguish the floor from the ceiling, so naturally I could only think that.

“What on earth happened…”

When I sat up abruptly, my body felt lighter than expected.

However, perhaps because we had parted so suddenly, tears began falling as soon as I raised my body.

“…Azel…”

Is Azel okay? As I unconsciously murmured Azel’s name for a moment, someone spoke to me.

“You’re looking for that man first thing after waking up?”

When I turned around, there was a woman I’d never seen before. The woman looking at me had a noticeably displeased expression.

“…Who are you?”

Since I met her in such a space, she couldn’t be an ordinary person. When I cautiously spoke, the woman readily told me her name.

“My name is Sili.”

“…Sili?”

It was a name I’d never heard before.

“Do you happen to know where this is?”

“This is Akrasia’s Refuge. It’s also called the Origin. By the way, I’m the one who brought you here.”

“You brought me here?”

“Akrasia wanted to see you.”

“The deity wants to see me?”

Wait, now even a deity appears? Since there was no event like meeting the main deity even in the game, I’m honestly flustered.

At that moment, a familiar voice interrupted.

“Was it perhaps your voice that told me to turn back time earlier-“

[That was me. Nice to meet you, Elpis.]

“…!”

The main deity, Akrasia.

She was behind me. Just as I was startled and about to turn around, words of restraint came back.

[Don’t look. Divine radiance is dangerous for humans.]

I remained frozen in place as the conversation between the woman and Akrasia continued.

“Why did you come? I told you to stay put since I would bring her.”

[But I wanted to meet her quickly. Don’t be angry, Sili.]

“Sigh, then hurry up. We can’t keep a human here for long.”

[Just wait a little. This much should probably be fine.]

“It’s not fine at all.”

[Thank you.]

“You just have no intention of listening, do you?”

Akrasia’s attitude toward the woman was quite innocent.

[You must be very surprised, Elpis. However, we don’t have much time, so I’ll hurry.]

Then she suddenly asked this.

[How did you come to this world?]

“Pardon?”

[It was by chance that we first learned of your existence.]

“By chance?”

The woman called Sili added an explanation to my obvious confusion.

“I was listening to Yulia’s prayers as usual when that girl said something strange. She said a Holy Maiden we never appointed had appeared, which doesn’t make sense. That’s how we learned of your existence.”

“…I see.”

“We were even more shocked when we learned you had received Gaspata’s blessing.”

Sili paused for a moment, looking like she couldn’t understand it at all.

“What exactly are you? How did you come here?”

[Did someone help you?]

It was a gentle question, but cold sweat ran down my back. I was the one who wanted to know that.

“I don’t know either. I just opened my eyes and found myself here.”

[How curious.]

“It’s not simply a matter of being curious. Because of that human, the fate of a world that should have already been destroyed has been twisted, and now you’re expressing admiration?”

Suddenly, words I couldn’t ignore passed by my ears. Instead of explaining to my surprise, Sili frowned.

“The fate has been twisted?”

“Everything got messed up after you appeared.”

Her tone seemed to resent me somehow.

[As Sili said, this world was originally destined to be destroyed by a human chosen by Voltiers. But your appearance twisted that fate.]

I was flustered. Of course, it wasn’t because of the words that fate had been twisted due to me.

‘A human chosen by Voltiers?’

I was just shocked by the words that Voltiers had chosen Azel.

Akrasia continued her explanation to my shocked state.

[Azel’s regression was something Voltiers orchestrated from the beginning.]

Eventually, I was able to learn the full story of all the events.

The false god that Alendor Mayer believed in, Voltiers.

Akrasia explained that Voltiers had made Azel regress for the world’s destruction and had been manipulating Azel to dream of annihilation.

At this time, to provoke Azel, he had interfered with several people including Ragnear, and the bell sound Ragnear heard and the voice that tormented Azel were all Voltiers’ doing.

The most shocking thing was the story about Yulia.

“Yulia suddenly becoming a Heresy Inquisitor wasn’t my fault?”

[Voltiers imitated my voice to shake her faith. She still believes in god, but my voice no longer reaches her.]

Akrasia’s voice explaining this was lonely.

“Was it also Voltiers who borrowed the Mage Tower Master’s body to attack me and Azel?”

“That’s right. He must have been impatient since a world that should have already been destroyed was continuing.”

“Why didn’t Gaspata know that fact? He didn’t even know that Voltiers was the culprit who stole the Regression Stone.”

“Even a time spirit can’t know everything. In the end, he’s a being that belongs to this world. We cherish that child, but we couldn’t carelessly tell a child who belongs to the world the truth about the world.”

I was still confused. Setting aside my complicated thoughts, I asked one last question.

“Then, does the twisted fate mean we prevented the world’s destruction?”

For some reason, there was no answer to this.

“Sili?”

“No, that’s not it. As I said, the fate was simply twisted.”

Only then did I realize why Sili’s expression when looking at me had been so displeased.

“We couldn’t stop Voltiers from trying to destroy the world. Unfortunately, we had no choice but to accept the fate of destruction. Instead, we planned to create a new world after everything ended.”

“What did you say?”

“But because fate was twisted due to you, we can no longer know what will happen to this world. We don’t know whether it will be destroyed as scheduled or meet a different fate.”

Akrasia spoke to me as I was left speechless.

[That’s why we need your help, Elpis.]

“…Help?”

[You showed us how to change the world’s fate. That’s probably because you’re not originally a being that belongs to this world.]

Somehow I felt I knew what words would come next.

“Don’t tell me…”

[Voltiers will never give up. But you could stand against him and change fate. So, Elpis. Please save this world.]

Those words finally came out.

[I know it must be bewildering. But you should be able to do it.]

Akrasia’s voice was even filled with certainty that I would naturally accept this request.

‘You want me to save the world?’

But my thoughts were different.

“Are you joking right now?”

This wasn’t simply a bewildering matter.

It was clearly something to be angry about.

[What…?]

“You couldn’t prevent the world’s destruction, so you just tried to create a new world instead? How can you say something so irresponsible!”

[Elpis?]

“Azel went through all that suffering, and you knew everything but did nothing all this time. And now you come to me asking for help? Is that really what you should be saying?”

[Eh, Elpis?]

“‘It’s for the world, it’s for Azel’ – did you think I’d just happily agree if you said that? Do you think I’m a pushover?”

I’m not crazy, so there’s no way I’d meekly comply.

“W-wait! What kind of way is that to talk!”

The woman who had been frozen in shock finally came to her senses and raised her voice, but it couldn’t overcome my anger.

“If you didn’t want to hear this from a mere human, you should have done things properly from the start! And you’re ridiculous too! I’m the one who got dragged into this unfairly, so why are you glaring at me like it’s my fault!”

“Wh- what?”

“If you really want to prevent destruction, don’t think about shifting responsibility to a powerless human and take proper responsibility yourself first!”

Right at that moment,

Thud!

“Lord Akrasia!”

There was a sound of someone collapsing behind me.

“What-“

It was Akrasia, naturally.

[As expected, someone like me is no help to this world at all!]

“Wait-“

[I should have just disappeared completely since I’m useless anyway!]

The main god suddenly started having a breakdown.

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