Chapter 261

“You mentioned that your soul has probably been transferred to this world, and it has been bound to this world by some story from your world. Strange… How did that story tell you exactly about the existence of another world?”

“I have no idea why either…”

Rather, please tell me.

“Then, I would like to ask you something else. Your soul might be different from those of this world because of the memories that have been carried over from your previous world.”

He continued.

“Since you’ve already died once, crossed the river of oblivion, and were born again, then you should have probably forgotten your memory at one point. When did the memory come back to you?”

So, until the memory of previous life was revived, a soul that was transferred from another world would not be distinguishable from the others…?

“The memories of my previous life suddenly came back to me just a few months ago. When I first visited the Magic Academy of the Imperial Capital, which I mentioned earlier, I suddenly remembered my previous life, as if it had suddenly erupted.”

Ekaterina said, and the God of Death nodded.

“Earlier, you said that you have a friend in that Magic Academy who possessed the magical power of the Holy One. Perhaps the Creator God was involved.”

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“Creator God, you say?”

In the mythology of this world, the Creator God was said to take the form of a man wearing a cloak and a hood covering over his eyes, with a staff in his hand.

The face behind the hood was said to be either masked or faceless, and the staff in his hand was said to have two bells, “Fate” and “Chance”, tied to it.

–When the Creator God waved his staff, either bell, fate or chance, rang, and light arose from nothingness.

The creation myth that Ekaterina read started like that. She remembered being a little surprised to see that the Creator’s staff, depicted in the illustration, was shaped like a scepter.

The Creator God waved his staff, a bell rang, and the world was created. Whether the ringing of the bell was by fate or by chance was never mentioned.

The Creator God never seemed to utter a word and he did not engage with humans. He just selfishly tossed them around, either by fate or by chance. Other deities also avoided relations with the Creator God. There were even several popular stories about them restraining or condemning human beings who wished for something from the Creator.

For this reason, they said, there were no Temples that were dedicated to the Creator God.

“Yes. What you call holy magic power is connected to the power of the creator god.”

The God of Death said.

What did he mean by that?

Flora-chan, you were indeed a heroine.

“Perhaps the Creator God waved his staff and by chance interfered with the world in which you lived your previous life. The compiler of the tale you read glimpsed and depicted the destiny of the one with the holy magic of this world, without knowing it. This gave birth to your soul and this world’s history, and your soul was transferred… Perhaps that was the case. That was certainly something he could do.”

Oh… so that means that… When Authors or musicians sometimes say, “It happened to pop up in my head” or “It was like it was already there from the beginning.”, it was caused by a reckless act of a god from another world.

“…I have told you something that should not be told to humans. Never speak of it to another, lest the Creator God appeared to thee and brought you here either by fate or by chance.”