Chapter 124
Chapter 124 - Let's Talk With God
◎ Resurrect City, Middle Arena, VIP Box Seating
「Greetings . I was invited, so I came . 」
With a mood like she was a student that was in trouble and was being summoned to the student counselor, Kazane entered the audience room with the best view in the arena . It was a room that only the VIPs among VIPs could enter, and was mainly used by the royal aristocracy .
However, there was only one child there . That one person was sitting on a sofa by himself, waiting for Kazane .
「Welcome, nice to see you, Kazane-san . 」
Saying that, the child beckoned Kazane to sit on the opposite side of the sofa .
「Yes yes, excuse me for disturbing you . 」
Kazane didn't have any particular reason to refuse, so she sat in the indicated seat and looked at the person who seemed to be a god .
「Are you a god?」
「Yes, I am called Norman . I am the god in charge of the Hyvern area . 」
Although he had the aura of someone wise as he spoke, he looked like an ordinary boy .
(Nn, he feels like an ordinary child . Or rather, is he actually the real deal? Well, I doubt I would have been shamelessly invited if he wasn't . )
It was after Kazane won the semifinals . An Adventurers Guild receptionist she had met previously came up to Kazane and said that god had come to the Grand Tournament and had invited her . Honestly she thought that it was shady, but it was hard to believe a person inviting through the Adventurers Guild was a swindler .
Because of that she agreed . And since she was told she could come at a time convenient for her, she came right after Yumika's match .
「You're making quite the suspicious expression . Players certainly aren't used to god being in such a form, so that reaction happens every time I meet one . 」
Norman said to Kazane with an emotionless expression .
「So you know about us . 」
「Because I'm a god . 」
「Mu」
「Also, I have met your younger brother . He is a good boy . 」
Shady . It was honestly shady . Anyone who would call Naoki a good boy was shady . But unknown to Kazane, Naoki was usually a good boy . He was only strange in front of his sister . But because Kazane was that sister, she didn't know that fact . When Yumika was highly praising Naoki while they were going out she shuddered and thought it was the blindness of a maiden in love, and after Yumika idly complained about him after the breakup she responded「Isn't he?」and reconfirmed the validity of her own knowledge . Well, he acted like a detestable idiot whenever he was around Kazane, so making allowances for a cute little brother was difficult .
「Now now . I understand what you're thinking . 」
Kazane was somewhat indignant after that remark . Because she thought he said those things even though he understood her younger brother's stupidity . Although Norman only meant that he understood that he seemed shady, so naturally her indignation was irrational . Then, knowingly or unknowingly, he disregarded Kazane's feelings and advanced the conversation .
「I only decided to meet with you this time because I thought I would save you the effort . 」
「What do you mean by the effort?」
Kazane considered the meaning of his words and asked him cautiously . Speaking about your own kindness at the start of a conversation with another person was also shady .
「It seems you were thinking about coming into contact with us soon . 」
「Mu, that's right . 」
She felt like she was seen through just now, but it was meaningless to resist if she was truly being seen through . Kazane was certainly planning on meeting someone called a god .
「I will disappear from this place tomorrow . If you miss the opportunity to talk with me today, you probably won't meet any other gods for a while and will have to wait a very long time to ask any questions . So I was thinking it would be best to ask today if you had anything you wanted to ask . 」
(He will disappear tomorrow? Well, the tournament will be over, so he's going home immediately?)
Kazane thought . There were a number of things she wanted to ask, but there was one thing she had to ask before that .
「Umm, how many questions can I ask?」
「As many as this body can answer . 」
Apparently the questions themselves were unlimited in number . She wondered what she would have done if she were told she was finished with that question just now, but she didn't have to worry about that .
「Well then, hmm . I know . 」
Kazane thought about what she wanted to know first and spoke .
「First of all, did the gods bring us to this world?」
In response to Kazane's question, Norman said「That is the first thing everyone asks . 」
「Would it be fine to answer with my own questions first?」
The question was answered with a question .
「That's fine, but what?」
「Before you came here, did you pick up an abandoned cat and set a spider free outside without killing it?」
「No, I didn't do that . 」
She didn't see an abandoned cat or let a spider run away . Or more precisely, spiders were scary, so she would be the one to run away under her bedding and overlook it .
「Then do you remember a seedy middle-aged man, or did you save a panicked Onee-san?」
「No, no . 」
Even if a stranger spoke to her she wouldn't accompany them . Of course not . Brick? Who was that?
「Did you experience clicking on an advertisement banner on a suicide site, or were you hit by a relative with a mallet?」
「Of course not . 」
She had no reason to visit a suicide site, and she didn't have any violent relatives . At most, her brother was stealing her underwear .
「Then were you run over by a truck, or plowed by a tractor?'
「I don't understand the significance . 」
Not in the least . Were there even people who had the tragic experience of being plowed? Wasn't that solidly a horror movie situation? It was a frightening conversation .
「That is to say that you didn't encounter a reincarnation service that was reincarnating you in a different world because the Earth was a difficult place to reincarnate at, since it was a popular spot . 」
「Yeah . 」
In the first place her only memory just before coming here was of playing the game .
「Well then, doesn't that mean you weren't summoned by a god?」
「How does it mean that!」
Kazane reflexively retorted . The questions were irrelevant to anything concerning gods .
「Everything that was said means that, not to mention that we fundamentally aren't that type of thing . Although I can't deny the possibility that another god exists, so that's the most I can confirm . 」
「Tell me it's wrong at the beginning . 」
「It's a joke . 」
Norman replied to Kazane's words without changing his expression at all .
「Well, I can only say that I can't answer beyond that . 」
「Even though you're a god?」
Norman shook his head to Kazane's question .
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