My Illusion Is Survival - Chapter 79

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Chapter 79

“Disappear?”

What kind of situation is this now? Just as I was getting flustered without realizing it, Akrasia’s crying voice hit my ears.

[If I could, I would want to step forward myself! But what can I do when I have no power!]

“Aren’t you a main deity?”

[That’s right! I am! But people these days have weak faith in gods, so I’m not like I used to be!]

Huuuung-! The childlike crying sound was utterly pitiful.

But for me, it was hard to understand.

“This is supposedly the Holy Empire, and you’re the main deity of the world, yet people’s faith is weak?”

[It’s Voltiers’ doing. He cleverly made humans lose faith in me. Not just Yulia, but the Temple is also corrupt, so there aren’t many who truly believe in me.]

Voltiers was the problem again.

[Humans have forgotten my authority as the primordial deity. A god who has lost faith is merely weak.]

Huuk, huuuuk! The sorrowful crying continued again.

‘Is this for real?’

I never thought I’d live to see the day I’d make a god cry, so I was flustered when the woman watching this quietly spoke up.

“…We really had no choice either.”

The woman was also somewhat deflated.

“Even if you’re a god, you can’t easily interfere with the world’s fate. That’s why Voltiers tried to use humans too.”

“And in the meantime, the main deity who lost power due to Voltiers’ schemes couldn’t even do that much.”

“…That’s right.”

I feel sorry for her, but I can’t help being angry.

“This is maddening.”

As I covered my face with my palm to cool my anger, light suddenly began seeping through the gaps between my fingers.

‘What’s this?’

When I removed my hand, I saw something strange before my eyes. A suspicious light source scattering brilliant light was now in front of me.

“What is this?”

When I asked with an ominous feeling, the woman suddenly started avoiding my gaze.

“As I said before, humans can’t stay here for long.”

My anxiety deepened.

“…So?”

“It’s time to go.”

“Where to?”

Instead of Sili, who turned her head away as if refusing to answer, Akrasia, who had been sniffling behind me, continued speaking.

[I’m sorry, but we already finished all the preparations, not knowing that you would refuse, Elpis.]

“…!”

I almost flinched and turned around in surprise. From the presence I felt, Akrasia, who had been sitting on the floor, was now right behind me.

More than that-

‘…Preparations?’

I tried to quickly escape with an ominous feeling, but Akrasia was one step faster.

[We can’t stop Voltiers in the current timeline. So please go back and save the world.]

“…!”

Suddenly, with a thud sound, Akrasia pushed my back.

[I’m sorry.]

“Huh?”

Without any chance to stop it, my body helplessly collapsed forward. It was truly a betrayal.

“You bad-!”

Just as I was about to fall into the light source,

Grab!

I quickly grabbed onto something within reach. It was Sili’s collar, who had been blatantly avoiding my eyes.

“…Huh?”

[…Huh?]

I heard two flustered voices, but the more I heard them, the tighter I gripped the piece of cloth in my hand.

“Did you think I’d go down alone?!”

“L-let go! You crazy human!”

Sili tried to shake me off after discovering my completely crazed eyes, but it was already too late. The light source was pulling both of us in together!

[S-Sili-!]

Leaving behind Akrasia’s pitiful cry, we fell into the light source together.

“I said let go!”

I absolutely refused to let go of the collar I had grabbed.

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When I finally came to my senses, the first thing that greeted me was an unfamiliar ceiling.

“…Damn crazy. What is this place now?”

Having opened my eyes in yet another strange place, I was filled with resentment. In the meantime, I could see my fist tightly clenched in the air, but Sili was nowhere to be found.

‘Don’t tell me I let go?’

With an ominous feeling, I hurriedly got up, and soft fabric wrapped around my palm.

“…She’s gone.”

I barely suppressed my boiling insides and calmly checked my face first, befitting my experience as a second-time possessor.

‘My face is the same.’

It didn’t seem like I had possessed a new body.

At least that’s fortunate.

“Akrasia, that damn…”

I was about to calmly curse when someone opened the door and came in.

“Miss?”

When our eyes met, the other person clearly began to panic.

“A-are you already awake?”

The woman who entered through the door was clearly a maid by anyone’s standards.

…Of course, it wasn’t Mary.

“D-did I perhaps come late?”

Without even having time to think, I instinctively approached the maid in front of me.

“Excuse me, where is this-“

Immediately, a sharp shattering sound pierced my eardrums.

“S-sorry!”

It was because the maid, upon seeing me approach, had dropped the water glass she was holding. More than the carpet that became a mess in an instant, her expression stained with despair made me more flustered.

“Um, are you alri-“

“S-sorry! I-I’ll clean it up right away! I’m sorry, Miss!”

The maid was trembling as if someone was about to devour her.

“Excuse me?”

“P-please spare me. For being late, no! For causing a commotion, I’m sorry!”

No, what did I even do?

When I couldn’t understand, suddenly one unfamiliar name brushed past my ear.

“P-please show mercy. Miss Riana.”

“Who?”

“S-sorry!”

“No, that’s not it. Who did you say I was?”

Before I could hear an answer, a sharp shout struck my eardrums once again.

“What exactly are you doing, Miss!”

Looking toward the door, I saw yet another maid. She appeared quite elderly and roughly set down the silver tray in her hands before glaring at me with fierce eyes.

“How long has it been since you were scolded by the Marquis, and you’re intimidating young maids again!”

“…Intimidating?”

Without even a chance to feel wronged, the next lecture continued.

“Haven’t I told you repeatedly that you mustn’t do such things!”

“No, I didn’t do anything-“

“Miss!”

At that moment, the elderly maid said something shocking.

“Have you truly forgotten the teachings of the Winsor family that one must always maintain dignity wherever they are!”

“Winsor?”

This was a name I absolutely could not ignore.

“Miss!”

“No, wait a moment. Did you say Winsor?”

Marquis, and Winsor.

When I combined the words I had just heard, this conclusion emerged.

“Is this place the Winsor Marquis Estate?”

“What kind of obvious thing are you saying? Are you perhaps still not fully awake?”

The lecture continued about whether I had stayed up late again yesterday, but I wasn’t in the right mind to listen to such things.

“Is the owner of this house by any chance Edward Winsor?”

“Good heavens! Even if you are his daughter, how can you carelessly speak the Marquis’s name-!”

“…Daughter?”

Me? I’m his daughter? When I asked again with a shocked expression, the maid in front of me finally seemed to sense something was wrong and fell quiet.

“Miss?”

“What’s my name?”

“Why are you suddenly acting like this-“

“My name! What is my name!”

When I asked in an urgent tone, the maid answered with a strange look on her face.

“Well, you are Lady Riana Winsor.”

“Riana Winsor?”

…Me?

Pink hair, blue eyes.

The daughter of Marquis Edward Winsor, ‘Riana Winsor’.

Immediately, an intense realization crashed down on me.

“What the hell?”

“M-Miss?!”

“Eek-!”

The two people in front of me were shocked by the curse that slipped out unconsciously, but unfortunately I had no time to worry about such things.

[You cannot stop Voltiers in the current timeline.]

Now I could finally understand the meaning of those words Akrasia had said.

Riana Winsor. This was the name of an extra character who briefly appeared in the early part of the game. She even died early on, so in the original work, only her name was mentioned at most.

And the fact that such a Riana was clearly alive meant I had returned to a time much further in the past than I thought.

“Son of a-!”

As I filled my lungs with air again, the maid screamed in horror.

“M-Miss! What are you trying to say again!”

“You damn bastaaaaard-!”

“Kyaaaaaaah!”

The scream that finally burst out echoed throughout the spacious room, but nothing changed.

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