The Absolute Deity walked unsteadily towards the mother’s coffin, sat down abruptly, and plopped down on her buttocks.

And, as if using kind words, she said.

“Alright. I’ll turn you back into a god. Just part with Vercheria. Well, you can love each other after becoming gods. However, I’ll erase all the memories you had when you were human.”

Laclahan looked at the Absolute Deity with an indifferent face.

“Is this some kind of joke?”

“No.”

Their eyes met fiercely.

Laclahan showed no sign of yielding even before the Absolute Deity.

He continued to gaze at her with the same cold eyes.

“You seem uninteresting as a human.”
The Absolute Deity frowned as if annoyed.

Laclahan had always been like this.

Naive and stubborn, once he believed he was right, there was no changing his mind.

“So, did you make me drink for this reason?”

The Absolute Deity smirked, pulling her lips.

“What nonsense is this?”

“I’m asking why you made me drink using Wyatt.”

The Absolute Deity looked at Laclahan silently, then furrowed her brow as if she was about to say something.

“Hmm.”

She deliberately proceeded with the plan, which could have been completed in one go, two or three times.

Using Dickfer and Vellopfy, she made Vercheria feel the need for partying throughout the party, whispering into Rione’s ears.

“Feeling frustrated? Hurry up and take off that wig. You can’t endure it for a single moment, right? Isn’t that true?”

Taking advantage of Dickfer and Vellopfy who came to the palace, she made Laclahan, not Vercheria, drink.

Because the one the Absolute Deity wanted to meet wasn’t Vercheria.

But she hoped that no one would notice that fact.

Of course, not only Laclahan but even those who moved and spoke properly.

“What crazy talk is this? Why would I intentionally make you drink? What significance does that have? It was thought up by Lauren and Vellopfy, not me, trying to help.”

“Is that so?”

Laclahan turned away from the Absolute Deity.

Long legs and pitch-black hair moved, and deep eyes were silently fixed on the Absolute Deity.

He lowered his gaze, as if he knew exactly what the Absolute Deity was thinking.

“Do you wish for me to start a war with Emperor Gerard? So that Ferriat can be filled with the blood of death again?”

Laclahan’s attitude now made it impossible to imagine that he was looking at the Absolute Deity.

A being who created humans and dominated the world they lived in.

Laclahan was looking down at the great Absolute Deity as if she were nothing.

“Absolute Deity. May I ask you one thing as an old friend?”

The Absolute Deity’s face changed suddenly at the changed tone.

“What. Ask.”

“Perhaps no one has seen you longer than I have.”

In Laclahan’s gaze, looking at the Absolute Deity, various emotions were mixed – disdain, hatred, sympathy, and resentment.

“You’ve been with me since before you began creating humans and started calling yourself the Absolute Deity.”

The Absolute Deity breathed out slowly.

“Yeah. …There was such a time.”

Her gray eyebrows trembled slightly.

“There was a time when you and I were the only ones in this universe.”

As if trying to recall the distant time, she closed her eyes, then slowly opened them, and spoke again.

“But what does that mean? Now, as the Absolute Deity, I am respected by all humans living in the world. Meanwhile, you are just one of the humans who can die and rot.”

Laclahan smiled faintly, walking towards the Absolute Deity.

As the coffin creaked with a groaning sound, the Absolute Deity made a strange noise.
“Is this not your mother’s corpse?”

“Should I attach meaning to a corpse in the illusion you created?”

“…The more I look, the more disappointing he becomes.”

Laclahan smiled a bit more than just now.

“When I first decided to become human, honestly, I was looking forward to it.”

“Looking forward?”

“Yeah. I hoped you wouldn’t let me be born again. So that I wouldn’t have to endure this intense pain anymore.”

The Absolute Deity approached Laclahan with a reflective expression.

“You! You didn’t want to meet Vercheria?”

“On the contrary. Not being able to meet her seemed too painful.”

The Absolute Deity squinted her eyes nervously.

Laclahan silently looked at the agitated Absolute Deity and spoke.

“But contrary to my expectations, you kept making me be born. Moreover, always here in Ferriat, where Vercheria is.”

Time passed painfully.

A happy life was impossible for Laclahan, who was born with fundamental deficiencies.

Always losing something, he couldn’t grasp the thread of his empty heart without even knowing what he desired.

“After finding my memories, I pondered every time there was free time. Why did the Absolute Deity keep making me be born into the world? Knowing that I shouldn’t meet Vercheria, why did you wake me up like this?”

Laclahan looked slowly at the Absolute Deity.

“Even after thinking about it continuously, it still doesn’t make sense. Even now, it’s still hard to understand.”

If Laclahan were not born, there would be nothing difficult.

Even if Vercheria and Laclahan were connected by the strong bonds of destiny, it would be meaningless if they did not exist in the world.

Nevertheless, the Absolute Deity continued to push the two into the cycle of rebirth.

“These repeating times must be very tiring for you too. Why bother with such trouble?”

Laclahan stretched his legs and looked at the ceiling adorned with a beautiful pattern.

“Why does it have to be me?”

Laclahan, an excellent negotiator, often used this method.

When the conclusion is not clear, and the other person’s mind cannot be understood.

“Ah, now I get it.”

In such cases, it was known that directly probing the person’s mind, depending on their expression, could be the most effective.

“Why should it be me?”

Deft.

The Absolute Deity suddenly stood up, covering her mouth with her hand and shouting.

“What crazy talk is this!”