NOVEL WEB Chapter 203: Satisfactory end
"How am I going to solve the problem?" Hearing this question, I couldn't stop myself from shaking my head in disbelief. "It's not a problem I caused nor its a problem that's a result of my own actions. You set the scene yourself and now you wish for me to take the burden of playing your act too?"
What I was doing right now could easily be considered a sacrilege. Whether this arrogant man was a real god or just a being with so much power that on a practical level calling him a god would just befitting, it didn't matter. Because from the looks of things, he wasn't omnipotent.
"No, I'm not omnipotent. For example, I can't make something out of nothing. " Speaking up, this damned man proved that my thoughts were of no secret to him. "But all the magic that exists in this entire world, is mine to command. As such, your second guess is as close as you can get to the truth about me with your current level of knowledge and understanding."
Ignoring all the bottled-up emotions raging in my mind, this damned bastard only smiled in response to them.
"As for what you brought before… Well, why should I bother explaining it with words if I can just make you realize it in the more direct, more brutal way?" Gracing me with yet another of those charming, adorable, and overwhelming smiles of his. Just this simple expression almost made my knees cave in.
Then, this bastard god raised his hand, before snapping his fingers. And all at once, the white veil that covered everything around me, the room where I originally found the princess… They all disappeared, replaced by the familiar sight of the gazebo and plants around it.
"He did it… This crazy son of a bitch did it…" A silent mutter came from the side. Turning my head towards its source, I saw Teria's father staring at me with his eyes wide open. But there was something wrong with my arms. That man's look made me notice it. They were way too heavy.
Looking down, I quickly discovered the reason behind this strange occurrence. Instead of being empty like when I was daringly conversing with that bastard-god, my hands were actually fully occupied by the lifeless body of the very princess I saw in my vision!
"Just how did she…" Righ as my mouth involuntary opened and released a few notes, the girl in my arms suddenly opened her eyes. And what was even more surprising, was that her eyes didn't lose any bit of their beauty that I saw back in that dream-world of mine!
"I…" Even though the girl instantly put on a prideful and determined face, as soon as the details of her surroundings started to flood her vision, her words stuck in her throat. Raising her hands, she appeared as if she was trying to touch the air itself.
'Something that we all take for granted, she was deprived of for so long. It's no wonder that she is in a state of shock now.' The thought passed through my mind. Feeling how the strength was returning to her frail body, I gently helped her to stand on her own two legs. As little as I liked it, I even went for the degree of wrapping my arm around the princess's waist to keep her standing properly.
"MY QUEEN!" Disregarding all the persona he was trying to create earlier, Teria's father fell to his knees. Lowering his head in front of the girl, he managed to attract her attention… Even if I believed that it was just a benefit of having a huge body and moving it at high speed.
"Are you… No way…" At first, the princess's eyes were perfectly calm, as if the events unfolding before her very face didn't amount to much. But as she took a closer look at the man's face, her entire body started to tremble. "Uncle?"
Taking a weak step forward, the girl almost tripped on her own legs. Securing her in place at the very last moment possible, I ended up helping her to move all the way to Teria's father where he finally took over the duty of babysitting the girl from me.
"Dearie… I can't believe it…" Tears instantly appeared in the man's eyes. Still on his knees, he grabbed the princess' extended hands before gently placing his forehead atop her stomach in a sign of submission.
"Like mother cares for her children, so will the queen care for her subjects." From the side, Teria's voice appeared.
"Stop with that religious crap. Bringing this girl here doesn't seem like the end of our troubles." After a short moment of sharing the positive emotions of the unlikely reunion, I forced myself to turn focused again. Given everything that this bastard-god told me, rather than enjoying the moment we should be preparing for a huge ass whooping coming our way!
"What?" Hearing those words, the princess ignored the tear-jerking moment and moved her eyes back on me. "Didn't you… You know…" As soon as the girl placed her delicate hand on top of her abdomen, everyone with eyes could guess what she had on mind.
"No, we did not. I didn't do it on my own either." Sucking the air in only to slowly release it, I rested my back against the wall. "Even though I didn't expect this kind of outcome, I think it works just for the best."
Shrugging my arms, I looked at the gathering of people. Even though the reappearance of the princess was clearly an insanely huge deal for the winged tribe, I just couldn't share their excitement nor could I allow them to just waste the time enjoying the moment.
"From your reactions, I can tell that you guys are willing to follow this girl, am I right?" In order to understand what the warning that damned God gave me meant, I had to understand the greater picture of the situation.
That was one thing I was certain of. Maybe not the most important thing, but it was still a huge element in everything that this bastard said to me.
The fact that I didn't know the full scale of the events, desperately trying to achieve something despite not knowing the patterns, not the rules of the game nor even realizing that there was a game going on… Was true. Amongst everyone I met, I was easily the one most aware of this problem. But it didn't mean I had a simple solution for it.
'Either way, I assume you are watching, you kidnapping prick.' In the end, my plan to once again follow a similar route as the one I used before. Rather than trying to do everything on my own, I would just increase manpower to the point where all my struggles would be solved before I would even notice their presence.
And what would be a better candidate at setting things straight in this world than my very rival for the seat of the leader of the entire faction?
As much as it pained me, my current long-reaching plan was all about finding a way to bring Jeff to this world before putting him in charge of all the affairs that needed supervising. No matter what Jeff wanted, he would get it all by doing it. From power, through riches at knowledge and women ending, I only had to find the way….
To do something that required the intervention of the god to be possible.
'Maybe I should pray a bit?' This thought appeared in my mind just as quickly as it disappeared right after. 'Nah, he didn't appear as someone who would care for such things.' In the end, that bastard admitted it himself that rather than being a true god, he was just someone whose means were god-like to me.
"Yes, we are willing." The pause between me asking the question and Teria's father answering in a choir with his daughter was long in my mind but lasted only a few seconds in reality. In reality, where yet another phase of my plan just concluded.
"Good. Then tell me, why do I have a feeling that she would need to give birth to a child conceived with seed from another world? Why does that seem to be the requirement to allow her to unify the wingless tribe as well?" At this point, I could honestly come up with some teary story of God visiting me and revealing all those details to me… But doing so would push even greater responsibility into the illusory being of the God I had on mind.
And since I claimed that I was going to deal with this situation on my own - as much as I hated to do so - then I was going to take the actual responsibility both for my actions and for the plans I was putting forward.
"Huh? Otherworldly seed? Have you lost your mind?" Teria's father's reaction only proved just how ridiculous those ideas of mine sounded even when deprived of all that fakely mystic coating.
"Lost my mind? God did so when he has chosen me to do this deed. But now, since I refused to rape this poor girl since I refused to impregnate her just to get us out of the trap that damned god prepared for us…" Swallowing my saliva, I looked to the side, at Teria. Right now, her eyes were glued to me, without even a shred of hesitation or doubt in them. "Well, I won't lie, I don't know what's coming."
This simple admission of ignorance was one of the founding elements of my entire plan. I would be unable to push even its early phases forward if I were to pose as an all-knowing entity.
"What I know, though, is that I will do everything to bring this entire situation to a satisfactory end."