The Depths of the Realm of ‘Chaos’
The Sanctum of the Three Evil Gods
Hmm…
As the dimensional gate opened, the God of Madness, Atzoatl, appeared.
Saros, who was focused on his followers, opened his eyes.
– Have you come, Atzoatl?
– Is it just you, Saros? I haven’t seen Lilith around lately.
– Lilith is currently descended onto the continent in her spiritual form. Her divine body is asleep deep within the sanctum. Seeing that nothing is happening with her physical form, it seems things are flowing smoothly.
– Heh… she’s working hard.
– Atzoatl. What have you been up to?
– I’m also working to smoothly conquer the continent. Ah, speaking of which, Saros, you mentioned you’ve been pulling strings with the Nova Empire for a while now?
– That’s right. The Emperor of the Nova Empire. Just a puppet I made as insurance, but recently I’ve been raising a substitute to replace Saula after losing her.
– Ah, the Emperor, huh.
– I didn’t think you’d bring that up, considering you showed no interest in my affairs. Have you been doing something regarding the Nova Empire too?
– Well, it’s not exactly the Nova Empire, but there’s the wasteland called Valenos. Know it?
– Valenos. I’ve heard the name. Is there something there?
– Hehehe. I thought it was a useless piece of land too. But while searching for my substitute, I discovered something interesting.
– Interesting, huh? I wonder what could possibly be uninteresting to the God of Madness.
A lot of my plans have changed, but…
All of this is because of the workings prepared by ‘Chaos’.
No worries.
Saros closed his eyes again and began to concentrate.
—
– Th, that can’t be! B-but this is… It shouldn’t be like this!
Once out in the world, Lilith stumbled and babbled as if broken.
– Lilith is gone…? Why do I smell Lilith on you?
I manipulated one of Lilith’s memories—her memories of Lily.
Her manner of speaking, the scent of her soul, the atmosphere—I changed them to be like mine.
So that I could be perceived as Lily’s reincarnation.
It was the best I could do with the amount of memory I could manipulate.
And judging by Lilith’s reaction, it seems to have worked quite well.
“Lily?”
– No…! F-forget it. I must have been mistaken.
Lilith shook her head and turned away.
Glancing back…
But while doing so, she peered at me.
She must be confused, seeing the very embodiment of Lily—her life’s purpose—overlaid with me.
In her mind, she might be trying to figure out if I really am Lily’s reincarnation.
An enemy she thought of, one she tried to kill. And now that same being is said to be the reincarnation of her love that tried so hard to bring her back—what could she possibly feel?
The memory swap seems to have worked…
But it’ll take more time before I can utilize her as a full-fledged force.
That said, there’s no need to rush.
After all, I’m dealing with the God of Evil ‘Chaos’.
Making that powerful force mine.
If I rush and fail, I’ll lose the chance to win her over forever.
Let’s take it slow.
Slowly.
—
Thus, I left the main building of the Academy, where the principal’s office was, and headed toward the dormitory where Dia would be waiting.
– Luke Pulsreino.
As I left the building, Lilith suddenly spoke to me while passing a flowerbed.
– Do you like flowers?
“…What? Flowers?”
Out of the blue?
Is this to check if I’m really Lily’s reincarnation?
Lilith loved flowers a lot in the childhood memories I saw within her.
What she wanted to know was probably related to that: whether I like flowers or not.
If I’m truly the reincarnation of Lily.
“What’s your intention? Asking me suddenly about liking flowers.”
– …I have no particular intention. …I’m just curious about your identity.
“Do you think I would respond to you?”
Since I’ve been hostile towards her, answering her question directly would feel unnatural, so I pushed back a bit.
– Ha. If you don’t want to share, don’t answer.
“……I’m not really fond of flowers.”
– Is that so? …What?
But I won’t say I like flowers, pretending to be Lily’s reincarnation—that’s amateurish.
I’ve got a better response.
– So… is it not? Just a misunderstanding.
“However, there’s one flower I do like.”
– Huh?
“There’s a flower that has stuck in my mind from some point onward. For some reason, every time I see it, I feel a nostalgia I can’t explain.”
I murmured that as I approached a single white flower blooming in the flowerbed.
– …No way. It can’t be.
And gently touching that flower, I uttered its name.
“The Pure Flower of White Crystal. Teardrop.”
-!!!!
Lilith’s face showed shock, a reaction I couldn’t even imagine from the wicked God of Evil.
The thread that connects Lily and the childhood version of Lilith—Erika.
A symbol of their friendship and love.
It was also the form of divinity that Lilith took when she awakened.
For Lilith, there couldn’t be a clearer means than this.
“This flower. I don’t know why. I just feel drawn to it.”
– Why…?
“This flower is said to have the flower language of ‘Unattainable Pure Love’.”
I don’t really know if there is such a flower language.
The flower language likely differs from dimension to dimension, so what does Lilith know about it?
Besides, she’s wandered through countless dimensions and probably hasn’t bothered looking up flower languages.
Even if she finds out that it isn’t true, I can just say I read it in a book.
Since flower languages can vary by region anyway.
“Perhaps I had an unattainable love in my past life.”
– You… weren’t a deity?
“Deity? Well, how do you see me? An avatar of the God descended to the ground? Or a lucky human who gained divinity? Hehe.”
Her confusion deepened.
Indeed, before Lily perished, she had wielded divinity with the help of other remnants devoured by Alburzoa, so this would add to her confusion.
At this point, I’m blatantly pretending to be Lily, but Lilith won’t suspect anything.
I’ve erased the very fact that I entered her mental realm, after all.
She’s been living as a deity for eons. She wouldn’t even think her memories could be tampered with.
All divine beings in [Deus Ex Machina] are fundamentally arrogant towards mortals.
Just like Alburzoa, who underestimated Lilith’s memories, boasting about divine superiority.
Recalling my past experiences with divinity, it’s easy to understand.
The energy that allows everything to achieve what it desires.
To them, mortals are likely lesser beings than the bugs we see.
But that is why the tricks I’ve been using on Lilith will work even better.
Of course, I don’t expect her to fall for me right away.
Even so, if I keep planting these suggestions like this, she will eventually yield…
– Do you… by any chance know the name ‘Erika’?
… I didn’t expect that my manipulation would work this well already.
—
No.
It can’t be.
It doesn’t make sense.
Lily has perished.
I confirmed it.
Her soul didn’t enter the ‘Cycle of Reincarnation’.
No one exists who reincarnated without going through the ‘Cycle of Reincarnation’.
The chance of her having reincarnated is infinitely close to zero.
That’s why I chose the path of ‘Chaos’.
To engulf every universe in ‘Chaos’ and reset the entire cosmos in one go.
To resurrect Lily.
But…
Did Lily reincarnate?
As someone trying to stop me?
What kind of cruel joke is fate playing on me?
—
The initial reason I became interested in the being known as Luke Pulsreino was due to a sense of familiarity.
However, when I actually saw him through Cronia, I didn’t feel any of that at all.
Why do I suddenly feel this way?
—
No. It can’t be.
You can’t be Lily.
The smell of his soul, his manner of speaking, the atmosphere—everything reminded me of Lily.
However, that alone doesn’t guarantee he is Lily’s reincarnation.
So I asked him to confirm.
About flowers.
Because if he were Lily, he would like flowers.
“…I don’t really like flowers.”
Is that so?
Is it just an illusion?
…Did I wish for Lily to have reincarnated so much that I’m hoping for this impossible situation?
“However, there’s one flower I do like.”
Huh?
“There’s a flower that has stuck in my mind from some point onward. For some reason, every time I see it, I feel a nostalgia I can’t explain.”
The one who said that approached a flower in the flowerbed.
No way. It can’t be.
“The Pure Flower of White Crystal. Teardrop.”
Teardrop! This can’t be! Really?
“This flower. I don’t know why. I just feel drawn to it.”
Why…?
“This flower is said to have the flower language of ‘Unattainable Pure Love’.”
Unattainable…
Pure love.
Truly.
This man…
Is he Lily’s reincarnation?
Not just my hope.
—
Is it truly that Lily has returned?
Can I… atone to her, no, to him and live on?
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