Re:START/If {Book 1.0}
Chapter 21: Einerseits Obst 3 of 4 (Part 02)
“Are you kicked out of heaven?”
The question was answered easily by Odo. However, this was very unexpected by the blonde woman. Putting on a surprised face at a glance, he smiled happily when he heard there was someone who easily dismantled his identity.
“Really ..., you are indeed very sinful. I do not think there is a human who can dismantle my identity with just a few words, even my lover does not know who I really am until home ..”.
Odo was surprised the woman did not refute her conjecture. Returning to observe him, Odo found no physical difference between the woman and human women in general, he did not look like a God or Goddess in his perception. Slightly squinting, the boy slightly looked up and raised his chin.
“Cover creatures yes .... In that case, are you also one of the Goddesses who knows that this world is a repetition of the world that has been destroyed in the future?”
“Kor less .... Before I was driven out of that Utopian-like place, such news spread across the sky after the Gods came to power in this world. But .. I don't care about that, maybe other gods do too. Although already knew the world would be destroyed, the fact that the decree could not change made them all resignedly look for changes recorded in the Ancient Records.”
“They all yes .... If you, where can a Witch like you know that there is a bias factor already included?” Odo lowered his head and looked straight at the woman before him, the look on the boy thinned and grew sharper.
“Sharp, be it the mind, the mouth, or the eyes, young man. You don't hold back when you talk. But .., I don't hate him. You're right, I know something that even those above don't know, which is why I brought you here, young man.”
“For what?”
“To change destiny and survive.”
That answer sounded very strange from a being who had lived for thousands of years and had already lost a precious person in his life. Odo could understand that the woman's word about survival was to save the world from predetermined destruction, but there are some things that cannot be digested looking at the pretext and background of the Witch figure.
Letting Odo look confused, the blond woman got up from the seat and walked to one of the tables in the corner of the room. Taking out a book that looked so thick on it, he turned around and returned to his seat. Taking a look at the book, the woman gave a flat look with a slightly thin smiling face.
“What book is it?” ask Odo directly.
“This is just a book about herbs, you do not need to be too interested like that. Hmm, then ..., let's talk a little longer.”
The woman opened the page of the book on her lap quickly until the last page and again closed it. Looking at Odo, the woman asked, “What is the most effective and efficient way to learn and understand this 576-page book? Of course ..., so that the time needed is minimal but the result of understanding as much as possible.”
Odo thought about the answer to that question carefully. Using the basics of how to learn, the boy replied, “I will read it every day for at least a hundred pages, then every day make a resume of each chapter in stages .... If you use that way .., I think less than four days I can understand the core content of the book. If longer, I can overall master it.”
The blond woman sitting before him fell silent at the answer. At a glance, he looked disappointed at something and sighed. Odo was slightly offended by such a reaction.
“Indeed you have a more appropriate way?” The boy looked at her sharply.
“More precise huh? I don't think so. But ..., I have a more effective and efficient way, and even more reflects human characteristics ..., more than you.”
That sounds like insinuation, but Odo doesn't care about it at all. Waiting for the other words of the woman, Odo only fell silent with a very calm facial expression and his eyes filled with curiosity.
“Huh ..., okay. Your eyes look strange, is it true that the nature you have is human nature?” The woman lifted the book on her lap, then moved it to the table.
Giving a casual look, the woman said, “The choice and use of appropriate methods can speed up the work. Humans are social creatures that cannot live alone, you know that, right? From clothes, food, shelter, even to footwear, everything is inseparable from the role of others, which is why humans are called social creatures .... So, why do you think you can study this book alone?” The woman placed her right palm over the book, then put on an insinuating look.
“Hah, you mean I should cooperate in doing something?”
The woman moved her hand back up onto her lap, then sighed and looked as if she was unhappy about something Odo was thinking that could be seen clearly from the look on her face.
“Ya ..., cooperation. For example .., if you have two colleagues, each can read 192 pages in a shorter time, and hold a study together to share the understanding that has been learned each. If you use that way, instead of more effective and efficient?”
Odo was speechless hearing that, his curious countenance changed quickly with a dissatisfied expression. “That's just an ideal way of looking, the reality will not be that easy when working with others,” thought Odo. Taking a light breath, the child put aside what was felt and immediately understood what the woman before him was trying to convey.
“Do you want to cooperate with me?”
“Ya, right. More precisely ..., connecting the cooperation I made with Doll in the Astral World was.”
“Doll? Why do you call me that?” Odo looked a little confused.
“He is the physical form of the world information storage system, despite having his own personality and will, Dryad is indeed a Doll of trees that grow to various dimensions..”.
Feeling that it would take time to argue the way Witch called Reyah, Odo slightly turned his eyes away with a sense of annoyance in the mind that is clearly visible on the face.
“Terexport .... So, what is it that you brought me to this place and wanted to invite me to cooperate? More ..., for what? What cooperation did you make with Reyah?” ask Odo in succession.
The woman's gaze turned sharp quickly, a wide smile that erased her flat expression was obvious. Leaning slightly forward and bringing the face closer, the woman asked, “You heard the story for a moment? About a Goddess who was overthrown and fell into the world miserably.”
“News about you?”
“Ya ..” The woman moved her face away and sat back up straight. Although she wanted to tell bad memories, she smiled with a happy expression, as if she was looking for someone to listen to her story.
“Ya ..., I don't think it's a problem.”
“How do we get started ....? Oh, I guess from the beginning. It was ... at the beginning of the dominion of the heavens over the world ..., a time where heaven was still not much different from this world ...”
After that, the woman recounted the past while she was still living in the heaven and how she was driven away, falling into the world so pitifully and so shamefully just because of a problem that when revisited is very trivial.
The woman told me that the world of the Gods at that time was almost like the world of mortal beings now, divided into several powers and having a hierarchy in its regulatory order.
Heaven is basically not much different from the Real World, having islands and land. But the island in that dimension is not a home surrounded by the sea, but an island that floats in the sky and is surrounded by clouds that can be stepped on the feet of its inhabitants.
The order of the place has its own level, the higher the residence of a God or Goddess, then it also reflects the level of power. It was similar to the noble system that was prevailing in the Real World now. It is not strange that mortal creatures are said to imitate the system of the gods at that time.
In a beautiful corner of Heaven like a Utopia, there lives a graceful Goddess on one of the islands that are in the middle level of the existing hierarchy. The goddess is the 87th of 100 children born from the relationship of the Wind Goddess Iratia and one of the Lightning Goddess named Baraq.
Although not as good or as good as other Gods or Goddesses, Goddesses born from a partner who is often called the Storm God in unity are very energetic when compared to her brothers and sisters. So innocent, carefree, charming, and also stupid.
The goddess in the afternoon always took a walk on the outskirts of the floating island where she lived, seeing how interesting the underworld was still primitive after the Great War of Gods and Demons. At a time when he was walking on the outskirts of the island floating in his power, a very charming eagle flashed in his sky area.
The bird was so beautiful and charming, more than anything the energetic Goddess had ever seen. Has a golden orange fur with a red pattern. With glee the Goddess who was walking around stepped on the clouds and chased after the bird. But, unfortunately the eagle did not let himself be caught and flew further and further.
Upset not being able to get the beautiful bird, the Goddess created a lightning bow and lightning arrow using her power, then shot down the eagle. It was a fatal mistake he did not expect.
When the Goddess was about to take the grounded bird, suddenly the sky opened and the clouds moved aside, a bright beam of light emanated from higher ground shone on her. Following the body of the eagle raised upwards, the cheerful Goddess stopped putting on a cheerful face when she saw one of the Supreme Gods staring with fury.
Up there stood the Sun God as well as the ruler of light, a figure who has high power to the level of Heaven. With the eagle held with both hands, the Sun God made thousands of fire spears in the air ready to rain on the Goddess to punish his actions.
The reason for the sun God's wrath is very simple, the eagle that was harvested by the Goddess is her favorite pet. Just for that reason was enough for the Sun God to kill that Goddess.
Shaking with fear at the sight of thousands of smoldering fire spears, the Goddess raced to her island of power. Just as the Goddess pointed at the eagle and shot it, the Sun God pointed at the Goddess and launched fire spears.
The thousands of fire spears destroyed everything, despite hiding in the temple realm or inside the cave, the Goddess could not escape the impact of the destruction that the spear brought. Continuously rained down for fifty more days, the island where the Goddess lived began to fall into the lower dimensions and continuously fell all the way to the Real World, and it broke into pieces on the ground and became a mountain.
Conscious of the dark and regretful look on her face, the foolish Goddess sat down lamenting what she had done, looking up at the sky where she had lived. Amid the rubble of the devastated island and the ravaged forest, the Goddess wept for months more and whined for help while naming the two figures who gave birth to her.
His voice was not conveyed to the sky, just hovering in the air and disappearing worthless. In the ninth month of her falling into the world, the Goddess stopped crying and began to set foot down where she fell.
It was another mistake of the Goddess, He tried to learn about the World of mortal beings, which is why he began to understand why the Gods and Goddesses chose to live in Heaven. It was because of this that he began to fall in love with the world.
The world he had always seen from above was not as beautiful as he thought, it was full of misery and suffering, even the hunger he never felt began to torment the Goddess.
It was at this time that the Goddess began to learn about kindness that she had never known. Gradually living with the logger and his family, the Goddess began to be considered by them as a family. Although without telling his identity, the Goddess also began to enjoy living with the bamboo feller's family despite various shortcomings.
He learned to weave yarn, knit cloth, make clothes, cook, wash, and other things that are usually done by the servant creatures who were created on the island of his former power while still in Heaven.
The goddess really learned many things from the family that she never even got from the two figures who gave birth to her, to a sense of satisfaction after getting something through hard work.
However, what the Goddess learned was not entirely pleasant and good, there were some that made her suffer. When the lumberjack's life limit runs out because of her age, the Goddess learns how painful it is to lose, when she sees the son of the woodcutter marrying another woman, the Goddess learns how painful jealousy is, and when everyone who treated her well was gone, the Goddess learned what loneliness was.
Going from an area that has been inhabited for hundreds of years more, the Goddess roams the world and witnesses the changes of the existing world. The creation of a new landmass, the loss of a continent, a world-scale natural disaster, and even a mass extermination by the climate he had seen. War, discrimination, spite, strife, betrayal, and various other things that make the heart of the Goddess more broken. His love for the world is not lost.
Once upon a time, the Goddess completely discarded her name and decided to help the people she met throughout her exploration, of course it was for the sake of himself who felt hurt to see the beings around him in misery.
The goddess teaches medical knowledge to heal the sick, tells how to grow plants to avoid food shortages, and provides knowledge of some regulatory systems to avoid disputes.
But of all that, the most famous of them is magic, a knowledge that can bring magic. Without realizing it, the figure of the Goddess is known as the Witch, which then in the end the story about her that is still spread today is a tragic love story of the Witch.
“That's the story,” said the woman after telling her about her dark past, but with a face full of joy as if she enjoyed telling stories like that.
Hearing the story carefully, Odo was not surprised and just fell silent. He showed no expression of touch or empathy at all, his mind focused instead on analyzing how the world of the gods told of the woman sitting before him.
Taking a light breath, Odo turned his mind and tried to think of something else, trying to focus on the main unanswered question.
Taking a deep breath, Odo asked the question candidly, “So what cooperation did you make with Reyah? Just so you know, that Drayd didn't tell me about you at all.”
“You were completely untouched after hearing such a story yes .... Cruel, what is your little heart made of?” ask the blonde woman. The look on his face that had been cheerful had turned grim again, and his gaze had become flat.
“Of course touched .... I can't explain it, but it hurts so much to keep living like that. But ..., you're not sorry at all, are you?”
The woman was surprised to get such a question back. Smiling back and completely drawn to Odo, the blonde-haired woman replied, “Of course not! What am I sorry for? Although many things are painful and this self loses many things, but .... a lot is stored in the heart and makes life more meaningful.”
“You ... are more human than the human itself yes,” Odo said.
“If you don't even look like a human.”
They were silent for a moment after exchanging such insinuations. Sighing and turning their faces at each other, they instantly realized a significant difference in their respective mindsets and traits.
“So you want to know what agreement I made with Doll, don't you? The agreement was not me who asked her, she forced me to make the agreement,” said the blonde woman.
He reached out his right hand towards Odo, then said, “The world will be destroyed, help me this or this world you love will completely disappear in the next few years, he said, that's what the Doll said when I was traveling in the Astral World. Koyol once, isn't it?”
“What agreement did you make exactly?”
“Of course on how to save the world. You know .., even though he has a lot of information, but he's very bad at analyzing and thinking. Huh! Why Doll seemed to be born from a Tree full of that information ..”.
“Ah ..”.
Odo put on a face agreeing with the blond woman's words. Reyah does basically have a simple mindset, although knowledgeable and many have skills that can only be done by him.
“What plan do you suggest to him?” ask Odo.
“Eng ..., actually I was embarrassed because the plan made failed and messed up.”
The woman turned her eyes away, her face looked sad mixed with annoyance at something. Looking back at Odo, the woman asked, “Do you know about the Great War that only ended a few decades ago before you were born?”
“A ..., don't tell me you mean failed it ...”
“Yes, I failed to prevent the war .... All I could do .. was save one city that was destined to be destroyed. No more than that ..”
“One city ....?” Odo has an estimate on that. The city, related to the magic that characterizes the woman before him. “What city do you mean it ... Miquator?” ask Odo.
“Ya, the city that hosted the Fourth Conference of Countries to achieve peace. Well, even though the war ended, but the casualties that existed during the war were greatly exceeded. The city can be saved also .. because it is indeed the fate of the city to survive, of course not because of myself completely.”
The woman put on a sad face, as if the war that happened was her fault. Knowing that something bad will happen but failing to prevent it is almost the same as guilt when doing the bad thing, that is how the blonde woman felt.
“If you try so hard ..., why didn't Reyah tell me about you at all? He also wants to prevent destruction, loh ...” Odo looked on with suspicion.
“Ah ..., that's because of our agreement.”
“Agreement?”
“In exchange for information about what will happen, he will not tell about the bias factor that will change the world's provisions. Well, even though I was looking brightly for that stupid creature and could tell that the person with the black element was you.”
Odo's brows twitched hearing that, the woman before him really thought Reiah was very stupid. “Sorry, Reyah .... I can't beat this guy in your place. Honestly I don't know why I want to beat him up now,” Odo thought.
“So despite working together, you never really did cooperate with him huh?” ask Odo.
The woman was piqued, her face lifted and her lips slightly muzzle forward as the annoyance strengthened. “Of course ever ..., when guiding the Heroes, he really helped,” he said.
“Eh? Guiding?” Odo surprised.
“Ya ..., guiding. Using Drayd's powers, I searched for people who could potentially become heroes and guided him, advised him, and imparted knowledge of magic and Battle Art ..... One of them .. is Luke's family where you were born, young man.”
Odo was really surprised to hear that. “What ..., wait! My common sense is starting to get messed up again .... You ... make Luke's family?” ask Odo.
“I didn't make that Noble Family, just give it strength .... Mana manipulation for sword martial arts and some other martial arts, it was my gift. Step God, one of the most powerful techniques I have given ..., you are no stranger to that technique, are you not?”
“Serius ..., ah ... This feels like it's starting to make no sense anymore ...” Odo lowered his head and began to think hard, the feeling that was in his mind now began to be chaotic as when Reyah told him about the facts of the world.
“Why doesn't it make sense? Isn't it even more reasonable?” ask the woman.
“Aaaah, come on, whatever .... I don't care anymore, the important thing is that my goal is achieved.”
“Destination? What is it?”
Raising his head, the black-haired boy stared as he said, “Same as you, saving the world from the destiny of absolute destruction. What else is it? For that reason I came back to life.”
“Eh? Life back!? You are a reincarnated soul!?” asked the woman in surprise.
“Ya ..., more or less.”
“From what time? The Early End? Great War?”
“Mistake all.”
“Keep from what time?”
“Distant before the possibility factor that can result in parallel worlds is lost.”