Chapter 144 - This World Is…Me

I was poked by the tip of Koa’s nose.

My trembling body stopped.

Even though it was only a little, Koa managed to calm me down.

Why did I suddenly speak out and then worry?

Is it because I can hear god’s voice?

『I’m sorry, earthling. However, I’d like to examine this world first before talking with you again.』

「All right, I’ll go home for now.」

『Home?』

「Yes, I’m living in the forest with my companions.」

『Is that so? I apologize for that.』

『Ano…』

One of the apprentices interrupted my conversation with god. Is this okay?…can’t you read the atmosphere?

「Yes?」

『I-idiot!』

…okay, I’ll pretend I didn’t hear that.

I actually want to ask why but I feel like I’ll just be irritated with the answer.

Ah, there’s something I should ask.

「God-sama, I would like to ask a question.」

『What is it?』

「I wonder why I can hear your voices.」

『Fumu, did you touch anything they made?』

「Touch?」

I look at the thing in my hand.

I’m clenching at the piece of broken wall tightly.

『Did you?』

「Yes. I have a fragment of the wall that has trapped the divine beast.」

Now that I know the reason behind the thing bothering me the most, let’s go home.

Koa, let’s go home.

I feel very tired.

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—Scene Change—

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Koa’s back is soothing.

The wind feels good since she’s running slowly.

Being at her back makes it easier to go back home.

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It took us two days to get back to our house.

I was relieved when I saw our residence.

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Ah, the farming corps is planting seeds.

Is it that time of the year already?

…ah, no. The snow at Marshmallow’s place!

I wonder if I can still make it now….

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I’ll have to get off Koa and make snow real fast!

….eh?

I can see something flying from a distance.

Those are dragons, aren’t they?

Yeah, those are definitely dragons.

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They have become gigantic, why?

Ah, come to think of it, the divine beasts were trapped and their power was being used…

Does this mean that the power of the divine beasts is back?

Is that why they grew?

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….they are around 10 meters tall now.

Seeing it carefully worrying about the field as it comes down is kind of….amusing.

Marshmallow.

There’s no snow around but…you seem fine.

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Flying Lizard….don’t rub against me like before or you’ll splat me!

You guys have grown up!

Learn to adjust!

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Farming corps, chibi ants, antlings, chibi spiders, and spiderlings.

Thanks for planting seeds.

And field amoebas.

I’m back. Sorry for worrying you.

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The kids came running out of the house.

They’ve grown quite attached to me.

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Now then, let’s have a barbeque.

….the dragons can freely transform?

If you can get smaller after hearing the word “barbeque”, at least transform to your smaller form when you’re at home. Karen, if you don’t put out your fire when you are at your perch, the perch will burn again!

One eye-san, start working!

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—Scene Change—

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「Sorry to have kept you waiting.」

「Who are you?」

A hermit showed up.

Given his looks and atmosphere, he’s an ideal hermit.

I don’t know him.

Ah, he’s speaking in Japanese.

「…I’m a god.」

「…I’m sorry.」

I asked him to sit on the chair in front of me.

A one eye brought us fruit water and a plate of fruit.

I don’t know what happened but he seemed very tired.

「I’ve been able to confirm your situation.」

「I see.」

「I apologize. About the hero summoning and trapping you in this world.」

It seems like I have been intentionally trapped.

….I’m starting to get scared of the things I don’t know.

「The apprentices dropped you in this forest….hoping that you wouldn’t be able to adapt…」

「I see.」

In other words, I was dropped into this forest with the intention of killing me.

Perhaps it is their way of getting rid of witnesses….they are god’s apprentices, right?

It seems like he’s the one looking out at them.

God gave a long sigh…thanks for your hard work.

「This world is something that they created on their own.」

「Can a world be created easily?」

「If you use the fruit of the world fruit created by the creator, yes. They stole it.」

You can create a world using the world fruit?

Is it that easy to steal?

That’s scary.

「It is at a place where only god candidates can enter. No one would think that someone will steal it.」

God candidates stealing.

It’s those three.

「This world they made was good too.」

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It’s a long story.

What are the main points?

The world building turned out great but beasts were enshrined as gods so it pissed the three off.

At that time, a king of a certain country enshrined the apprentices as gods.

It seems like they felt good about it and gave him something called “magic stone” that is filled with power.

…they are true idiots.

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They should have looked at the situation closely.

However, they thought that summoning heroes will speed up their promotion as gods so they were absorbed in their summoning technique research.

While doing that, they have left this world unattended for hundreds of years.

They failed to summon a hero and it made various gods angry. They were punished by having their divine power sealed for several years.

When they were thinking of a comeback, they finally remembered this world.

That’s only after I’ve done a lot of things.

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I’ve done a lot of things?