The Baby Who Raised the Devil

Meeting the Gods (2)

Time passes quickly.

I floated in the air as if I had become a soul that had escaped from my body.

After being swept away by the river, the girl slept as if she was dead. The boy remained by his sister's side throughout the ordeal.

[Leblaine, get out of bed. Your favorite violets are in full bloom in the fields. Let's make some bread, grab some fresh milk and go on a picnic. I will not break my promise this time.].

Hearing her pitiful voice made my heart ache, as if I was this girl.

However, no matter how much time passed, the girl did not open her eyes. Even spring and summer have passed.

It rained every day for weeks. The sun is covered by thick clouds, and the difference between day and night becomes blurred.

The boy ran out of the house.

[Please save Leblaine.]

In the presence of the God, the drenched boy trembled, and shouted with his blue lips.

[Serga, please save my sister..!].

[I don't have the power to change his fate.]

The god reached out his hand to reach the boy's pale cheeks.

The slap!

However, the boy slapped the hands of the Gods and glared. The person next to the God shouted [Neliard!], but the boy just gritted his teeth.

[Then, why do gods exist?]

[To guide the people.]

[Driving! Drive!! It always leads.....!!].

The boy grew up to be evil. His eyes were filled with fury as red as the eyes of a demon, as if he was possessed by the demon itself.

[Man calls you father. Thats cute. What kind of father leaves a suffering child?]

[Neliard-!!]

Neliard just grunted.

[Our guide? Don't silly. In the end, the place where I walked and arrived was hell. The war did not stop and the lives of children were taken! You are an incompetent person who cannot save a single child!!]

[…….]

[Leblaine acted in your favor from start to finish, and no other child was more innocent than that idiot! The girl lost her parents at birth, and had to cross the desert to live when she was only five years old. My poor little brother often starved for days, yet he willingly gave me everything he got and smiled foolishly!]

[…….]

[He believed and waited for me...he kept waiting.!].

He screamed and fell to the floor. He crawled across the floor and bowed his head to the Gods.

[Save him.].

[…….]

[Save him, please ..].

The boy clung to the God in grief and sobbed like a child. All of this for his sister. He begged repeatedly.

The boy's eyes were wet as he looked towards the Gods. The god slowly opened his mouth.

[Countable precious souls have withered. I appreciate you and your sister, but I can't help you alone. If the remnants of your sister's life still exist, she'll survive. If not, he will return to my arms.]

[Why do you make humans limited.?]

[Because the limited is beautiful.]

The boy stared blankly into the eyes of the God and said,

[Cursed you.]

In an instant, thunder rumbled in the sky. Upon hearing the sound echoing throughout the temple, the God closed his eyes and lowered his head.

The boy was taken to prison by someone else.

He gazed into the void, which was only illuminated by a glimmer of light in the darkness.

One day, two days, three days, four days... Time passed without a hitch.

One autumn day, the boy is released from prison at the mercy of the Gods.

The boy staggered out of the temple with a weak body. And he met…

[Sister...!].

He ran towards her with a bright smile.

The boy's pupils trembled violently. He jumped into his arms.

[Sister, you're an idiot. Do you know that I'm very worried?]

[You, Leblaine ...... How ....].

[I just woke up. But you're gone!]

A small laugh could be heard next to him as he shouted in frustration. That was Boone.

[The boy has appealed to Serga on your behalf. He fought so hard that all the pioneers helped him. From now on, don't say blasphemous words again.]

[…….]

The boy breathed hard. She smiled brightly while hugging her waist, not realizing that her eyes were different from before.

The boy's strength materialized on that day.

The boy was guarding Serga like before. Once he matured, he did not take on the role of taking care of jurisdiction like other pioneers, but traveled around the human world and bestowed the favor of the Gods.

He waited nonstop for the boy who was away from home for months, years.

During that time, he grew up. His fluttering hair behind his back grew longer to his waist, his round face became slimmer, and he looked like an adult.

One day, the Lord asked him,

[Don't you hate me?]

[No.]

[I was a weak old man who did not save my son who was suffering from pain, but only gave them hope.]

[It's like a parent teaching a child to walk. Instead of raising me when I fall, you taught me how to get up.]

[I made human life limited and made eternal farewells.]

[Creatures without end do not know the value of life. But because we are limited, a flower blooming in the fields, the warmth of hand-in-hand is precious to us. That's why humans are beautiful.]

God kissed his head.

Time passes like a flowing river. From that day on, major and minor incidents took place in the world.

The rift started from a country far from the Gods.

Those who lost the war were bought and sold as commodities.

When the human world was divided into more than ten countries, the pioneers realized that those who had been God-given wisdom, had been swallowed up by sin.

He's my brother, Neliard.

He grabbed Neliard and shouted.

[How can it? Why do you do that, why!]

[We can't save everyone, so why is this such a big deal?]

[God gave you wisdom to save the hungry!]

[Even Gods could not save them properly. But when there was a king and a nobleman, it was different. If they go under their orders, they will be fed. There will be no hunger.]

[Sister!]

[God!]

Neliard yelled at me.

[Don't think that God is your savior! All the problems of this land come from the hands of the Gods. Due to limited time and limited wealth, they steal and fight.]

[... What do you want to say?]

[Leblaine, have you ever thought that way? It takes a stronger God to save a human being. If I make all humans born in the right place for me and make them obey a stronger power, the desire will be lost on this earth. War too.]

[It takes away human opportunity. You don't give them a chance to be happy. If God decided all fate, it was no different from beasts.]

[Look, animals and humans. There are also species differences. But, isn't it strange that there shouldn't be any difference between humans?]

He looked at her with an expression of disbelief.

[... You are crazy.].

[Everything for the poor.]

He whispered while kissing my forehead.

[Leblaine, I want to give you a world without desire.]

[…….]

[The world where we don't cry anymore. A world where I don't have to shudder for fear of losing you.]

[Sister, if you don't give up on your wishes, I'll leave you.]

[One day you will understand me too.]

Only then did he finally realize. He desperately made his plan come true.

The number of humans following Neliard has increased. There are more temples in honor of Neliard than there are Serga temples on the ground.

The land was constantly turning into hell. As time went on, the pioneers began to sympathize with Neliard's wishes.

He asked the gods.

[Why didn't you stop my brother?]

[Because it's also destiny.]

[Do Gods have a destiny?]

[I mixed some parts of myself into my creations. How can I be different from them?]

[Is that so.].

[Why don't you blame the gods?]

[Because I know that God loves us]

[…….]

[I know you hide and cry even when a nameless life dies. That is how I know to the Gods, every day is a trial and a pain.]

Serga caressed my cheek.

[How are you so valuable?]

[…….]

[You made me never give up on my creation.]

The god remains as sweet as ever, but the world is getting darker and darker.

After spending a few days at his house, he took my robe.

[Where are you going? If Neliard finds out.. Leblaine!]

[I have to clean up my brother's shit.]

[What vulgar words.!].

He travels alone. He devoted his time and energy to helping those in need.

Most of the time, he works to heal the sick. It had been several months since he had healed the sick using the mysterious herb he had learned from the Gods.

People call her the goddess of healing.

[Then so.]

[Can you tell me your name? Uncle Edelhof said he was going to build a statue of the goddess in the village, but he said he was upset because he didn't even know your name.]

[Sculptors?]

[The goddess took care of all Uncle Edelhof's children, right? Please tell me your name. Aren't you leaving the village soon?]

This village is an abandoned place that was swept by the followers of Neliard. If it were revealed that he was Leblaine, Neliard's younger brother, everyone would be confused between grudge and gratitude.

He looked around and saw a signboard with fuzzy letters in the distance. Meriandureas. The other text is blurred…

[Meria, my name is Meria.]

When I heard it, I was very surprised.

Whahuh?

You mean Meria is me?

[How dare you pretend to be a Goddess!]

[You.].

[Oh, hello. I'm the pioneer who replaced Hyunga, who went to sleep ... I'm Lard Stor.]

'Oh my God.'

You mean I'm the Meria that the idiot loves?

'Did I betray him? It's bullshit!'

I'm not even interested in him!