READ NOVEL ONLINE Chapter 86 - God of Light and Order☆ (2)
A plump, giant chick was crying out in the middle of the schoolyard.
Its feathers were a luscious, fluffy yellow.
Except for the small beak slightly curved downward…
No matter how you looked at it, it appeared to be nothing but a giant chick.
[Nameless Hawk] looked up at the sky and cried out mournfully.
“Peep peep—! It’s too too cold here! Peep peep—!”
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“Peep peep—! To think I would awaken in such a remote place instead of the promised land—! Peep peep—!”
We looked at each other and exchanged glances.
And we attempted an eye-message conversation that had evolved further than before.
Alvit turned to me and sent an eye message:
-What should we do, Senior? It looks weak, should we try talking to it?
-Ahaha—☆
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I silently looked at the giant chick, lost in emotion.
‘Bringing that thing’s egg and nest was harder than any mission…’
The pathetic chick’s name, [Nameless Hawk].
Ironically, it was a contradictory being whose name was ‘having no name’.
When the main story properly flowed into the conflict structure with
…And it was a helper-type bird that played an active role in the final boss battle.
『Hey guys—☆ Look at this~☆ I picked up something that hatched from an egg in an empty dungeon—!』
『Peep peep—! Hero, take me to the promised land—! Peep peep—!』
『Senior!! What on earth did you bring—?!』
But there was no hint at all for the appearance of such an important character.
It was pathetically weak until the boss battle, and unfortunately the place where its egg and nest were abandoned was a dungeon… so if any incomplete chaos insect appeared, it would die ridiculously.
‘When I decided to act according to the original work, this was the most troublesome part… Even if I matched everything else, I had to ‘somehow’ discover it to match Peepeep’s appearance timing.’
So for that part, I gave up following the original work exactly… and searched for places estimated to have Peepeep’s egg.
There were two pieces of information I could estimate:
The range of dungeons the weakest ‘Clara’ could coincidentally discover.
Dungeons in unexpected locations where Peepeep’s egg and nest could be abandoned.
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Relying on those two clues, I spent a year searching empty dungeons. Considering the possibility of unexpected locations, I even went into underground areas and caves.
‘There was ridiculously little information available, and even that was at the level of treasure hunting or ‘it exists anyway’.’
The original
So all I could do was ride Red Hare around, and thoroughly search every empty dungeon that caught my eye.
It was an ascetic practice of having to search every area of ‘Clara’s’ insane range of action.
‘I probably couldn’t have done it if I hadn’t thought of Senior Frida and the future of the academy city…’
After a year like that… I finally succeeded in finding its nest and egg.
And I strictly sealed it next to the underground storage of
‘Since I buried it underground, it kept peeping from inside the egg… and finally woke up now.’
A tale of hardship that can’t be heard without tears.
In this world, only Hilde knew this truth.
‘Rather than talk of games or original works, she seemed to understand it as a kind of prophecy and revelation.’
Even Hilde, who had waited for me for a year, nodded and comforted me after hearing that story.
-Sob sob…☆ So I ate bread because I was depressed that day—☆
-I see. ‘Lara eats bread when sad’…
-Hm? Why are you writing that down?
-It’s a personal habit. But… um… Lara. Why do you eat bread when depressed…? I can’t really understand the causal relationship, don’t you think it would be more efficient to solve the problem?
Anyway, recalling the year-long tale of hardship after a long time, a resentment welled up from deep inside my heart.
So I felt like playing a cute little prank
On that thing that had finally awakened, I grinned and sent an eye message to Alvit who was looking this way:
-I wonder if it’s delicious bird meat—☆ How about we just eat it?
-Huh…? That bird is openly talking now, no matter how I think about it, eating a sentient being is a bit…
Then Rota, who had caught my message, twitched her orange cat ears and her eyes sparkled. And she sent a message while moving her mouth:
-It doesn’t seem to be a chaos insect or
-By the way, it has such beautiful yellow feathers, how about we pluck them and make a blanket?
-Ugh, it would probably smell bad.
-That’s Comrade Rota’s prejudice. I’ll make comfortable bedding with the secret technique passed down from my foster father.
-Rather than that, let’s call Senior Freya too and send it to
Research material and interior decor material.
It was the moment Peepeep’s fate was about to be decided.
-W-Well… how about we at least listen to what it has to say…
-Ahaha—☆ This kind of thing is about intimidation, so how about we threaten to eat it right away if it misbehaves~ Then it might confess its identity on its own?
The juniors caught my message and exchanged glances with each other.
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Nod—!
Instead of talking to [Nameless Hawk], we decided to calmly start preparing dinner.
Bringing a large pot, drawing water from the ether water facility… And starting to boil it on a large bonfire that had somehow been prepared.
Clatter—
Clatter—
Bubble bubble…
Then [Nameless Hawk] started screaming in a voice like a male student who would sit in the very back of the class. It was covering its bird chest with two large but flimsy wings.
“Peep peep—! S-Stop that! Don’t look at me with those eyes! Peep peep—!”
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“Peep—! Why are you cooking outdoors and glancing at me! After looking around here, I confirmed there’s a separate place for preparing food! Peep peep—!”
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“Peep peep—! Y-You’re planning to eat me! Like barbarians! Putting me in that evil and dirty cauldron! You’re planning to boil me with diced pumpkin, turnip broth, fragrant spices until a salty taste seeps out—! Peep—!”
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“Please say something—! Peep—! I, the ‘God of Order’, have a mission to fight against the ‘Dragon of Chaos’ and continue the age of order…! I can’t pathetically lose my resurrected body by becoming a stir-fry stew…!”
[Nameless Hawk] seemed to recall something and hurriedly started hopping towards us. Perhaps because of its large size, the ground shook lightly each time it bounced up.
“Th-That’s right…! Peep! You girls over there! I sense a very great and noble… ‘fate of heroes’ from you! Peep peep—! Please help me defeat the ‘dragon’… and help restore this world to an age of order—!”
Alvit gaped at those grand words and responded:
“H-Heroes? Us?”
“That’s right!”
“…Why?”
“Because it’s that kind of [Fate]!”
“Huh…”
Then Kara spat out in a particularly cynical tone:
“Isn’t this a common scam technique? I heard flattering the other party is the first step of fraud. My foster father got burned by believing others like that too.”
“Ah… I see. My mistake.”
“Peep peep—! How could I, a god, possibly deceive you—!”
Peepeep’s world view spoilers and persuasion continued after that.
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But it was gradually losing persuasiveness due to increasingly metaphysical and theological discourse.
“Huu.”
“Haah.”
Alvit, who was in the middle of peeling onions, turned her head indifferently, and Kara, who was chopping firewood with an axe beside her, shrugged her shoulders.
Then [Nameless Hawk] pounded its chest seeing the two who didn’t believe its words.
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Rota, who was stirring the large pot with a ladle, twitched her orange cat ears once, then made an expression of deep thought.
“Hmm—☆”
I was in the middle of washing vegetables at the water tap, and looked at [Nameless Hawk] still rambling beside me.
‘Well, I’ve teased it enough by now… I should move the story along.’
I approached [Nameless Hawk] casually.
Then all three juniors looked at me and tilted their heads.
“Senior?”
“Senior comrade?”
“…Senior?”
“Peep—! Finally someone to listen! Thank you, young lady!”
[Nameless Hawk] looking at me with eyes full of hope.
‘But how did this guy convince others it was a god in the original work?’
It seems like it did something, but I can’t remember well.
It’s been over 2 years now, so I don’t recall clearly.
Ironically, I remember the tactics and strategies I used every day, but I can’t recall the details related to the story well.
‘Well… if Alvit believed it, it must have been a somewhat sensible method.’
Believing in Peepeep’s common sense like that, I smiled confidently in front.
“Hmm—☆ Do you think this is our first time seeing a beast god?”
“What…? Of course it is! Peep! The two gods are dead, and the only beast gods left in this land are the dragon and hawk—!”
“Hmm…☆”
This guy.
It doesn’t know what the prophet did after that.
“Ahaha that’s so funny—♪ Then how about proving to me, the most Senior student of
“Oh, as expected of the [Saintess]’s fate! You understand! To want to see the center of this world before anyone else! Peep peep—!”
Huh?
What did you say?
But before I could ask back…
The creature opened its huge beak wide and brought it towards me.
“Behold the center of the World Tree… the empty seat of god, the Spring of Fate—!”
“…What?”
Chomp—!
‘W-Wait…!’
Along with a moist and warm sensation, the surprised voices of my juniors echoed faintly from far away.
“Senior?!”
“You bastard!!”
“Senior—!!”
While being swallowed exactly up to my waist.
I was bewildered when a vast darkness, not the creature’s throat, engulfed me before my eyes.
A strange dark space where even stars twinkling like the universe could be seen.
“…M-My goodness.’
The scenery before my eyes, swallowed up to the waist like the heroine of an erotic manga…
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…was the universe.
There were three familiar chairs there.
A pink-haired girl lying on the three chairs connected like a bench was startled when she saw me.
“Oh my…?”
“…Long time no see, Urd.”
“Oh, l-long time no see—☆”
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“S-So why did you come—☆ Ah?! Don’t tell me you’ve had another brush with death already~♪ You really are such a tomboy—☆”
“Th-That’s not it. Um, how should I put this…”
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Urd tilted her head and asked me:
“Why are you sticking out halfway through a hole that appeared in midair…?”
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Yeah…
Why am I like this?
I’d like to know too.