flstandardbreds Chapter 479: Go Home
Chapter 479: Go Home
Suddenly, a round archway that gathered colorful light appeared in front of me. A white light flashed in it, reflecting a human figure. Her silhouette-like outline and long hair showed that she was a woman.
"Is that you?" I asked.
"You said you wanted to see me, so I came."
A distant female voice that seemed to come from the horizon rang out within the prison gate that was like a pool of stagnant water.
"This shouldn't be the first time we've met." I took out the letter from my pocket and gently placed it on the coffee table. "But I don't have any impression of it."
“It doesn’t matter,” He said, “I’ll just remember it.”
"What is it that you said you wanted to say to me?"
"During the last conversation with Ryoumen Sukuna, his attitude was very strange." I pulled up the black hair that fell in front of my shoulders, stood up, looked directly at his figure hidden in the light, and then slowly said, "He said that what I wanted to protect was destined to be destroyed from the beginning."
"You also said that the Dream-making in my hand is a defective product."
I raised my wrist, looked at the energy bar that had not yet reached full capacity, and put my hand down: "To be honest, I have always been rather dull."
"I spent a long time thinking about these things," I said. "I kept thinking about what he meant."
"Is it a simple curse to confuse people, or is it really telling the truth under the influence of dream fulfillment?"
At this point, I suddenly looked up at Him and asked word by word, "Do you think what He said is true?"
"........"
God remained silent.
I guessed that He would have such a reaction, so I smiled and continued, "I think he must have told the truth."
"But the truth can be interpreted in many different ways." I took a deep breath. "If I'm wrong, please interrupt me."
"I guess you didn't think about merging the worlds when you made the agreement with me. Of course, the other world is full of annoying cursed spirits and twisted emotions. It seems to be human nature not to want to accept such things into your territory."
"So, before delivering the dream, you probably took out the last bit of energy that could work and hid it somewhere in the world," I said. "In this way, even if someone can complete 99 steps, they will still be stuck at the last step."
"However, if someone can really make it this far, it means that the gods here have become so weak that it is difficult for them to fight back. At that time - no, it should be said that at this time, your real plan to completely destroy this world can be put into action, right?"
God remained silent.
"But where would it be hidden?" I continued to analyze in front of Him, "It's impossible to just stuff it in casually, because it's something very important."
"It's impossible to carry it directly on your body. You need a container."
I lowered my eyes and looked quietly at the jewel ring on my finger that I had worn since I started cosplaying as the gender-swapped Yuji Itadori.
"I should have thought of it earlier." I said, "It can protect the soul, change color according to the user's eye color, and even repel the attack of the special cursed spirit when I was restrained by the prison gate."
"Is this it?" I asked. "You hid the last bit of energy in it, right?"
"No," He said, "You guessed wrong."
"I guessed it right. We'll know after we verify it." I took out the soul-calling pennant that I had brought back from Shen'er, looked at the spikes on it for a moment, and said with a smile, "Such a solid thing can probably only be destroyed by a treasure that is also made by God."
As I said that, I took off my ring, raised the spirit-calling flag, and stabbed it hard at the dark brown hexagonal gem.
"Wait a moment!"
The white light that emerged from the god's fingertips fell on the sharp top, abruptly changing its original trajectory. The soul-calling flag stabbed fiercely into the table top of the coffee table, splitting the board in half.
Because of this eagerness, He took two steps forward, and His outline with a halo appeared clearly before me.
"you--"
"That's right." He nodded quickly and said, "Your guesses are all correct."
"I don't want the worlds to merge. I don't want to see that guy. I want this place to be completely destroyed."
"But we made a contract."
“I know!” He took another step forward and stood completely in front of me, “But I changed my mind.”
"why?"
He reached out his hand and pressed his finger on the eye that was always imprinted on my wrist: "Do you know what will happen once you make this wish?"
"The fusion of the worlds takes place through your soul. Once the two worlds are completely integrated, your soul, which exists as a medium between them, will be reduced to dust like a piece of glass that is repeatedly crushed under a hydraulic press."
"Just like the room you saw at the beginning."
"...Our deal didn't include any guarantee of what would happen to my soul in the end," I said. "My soul is not something you are responsible for."
“I know.” He took a deep breath, “But, compared to all that, I hope you can be alive more.”
"......What?"
“Perhaps you don’t know,” He said, “that sometimes God appears on earth in the form of a bird.”
"So, when you were born, I was already watching you from the side."
"Your mother named you Lily because there was a pure white lily blooming on the windowsill when you were born." He spoke slowly as if recalling a memory, "When you were five years old, you liked to sleep with your head buried in the quilt. You would only come out of the quilt when you were almost out of breath."
"I told you many times, but you didn't listen. Because at that time, you thought the goblin living in the mirror would drag you in while you were sleeping, and you wouldn't be able to find your way home."
"You were obsessed with chess for a while, and often asked your father to teach you. But in fact, he was just like his master, a lousy chess player. Apart from memorizing some chess manuals, he had no level at all. So you were only at the level of a beginner, and yet you were able to defeat him."
"There is a row of small ornaments in your room, all of which you collected carefully. You thought they all had souls, so you would go and talk to them before going to bed at night, hoping that one day you would be invited to the dolls' pajama party..."
"And you know all this?"
"Yes, because I often turn into a bird and go to see you. And your mother."
"I love you very much," He said. "When you were born, I also loved lilies."
"I promise that even if this world is destroyed, it will not affect you in the slightest. All your family, relatives and friends are waiting for you in the original world."
"So...be a little selfish, okay? Lily." He held out a hand and said to me urgently, "Put down the pennant and the ring, and go home."
"Leave everything here to me, okay?"