Chapter 143
At first, I didn’t even understand what I had heard.
"Memories from… when I was a god……?"
When I slowly sounded the words aloud, I felt a shock as though I had been struck over the head.
In a way, it was only natural. And yet it was something I had never considered.
No—it was something I had thought and thought about until I was sick of it, only to give up on it long ago.
Why did I have this kind of power?
If I had once been a god…… then it all made sense.
"You’re saying I was a god?"
"That’s right."
"Why would someone like me……."
If this was divine power, then.
How many sins had I accumulated in a human body?
It must have been power meant to be used for some proper purpose. But I…….
"Don’t worry. Lord Dekal was just as fond of women back when he was a god."
"Cough……."
……Now I understood.
Sia had known me from the time when I was a god.
Come to think of it, finding out who Ilesia was might not have been a problem at all.
Student Council President Sia was perfectly beautiful, like a goddess,
used a name derived from that of a goddess,
and stood at the center of Melbrit.
If she had been my enemy, it would have been more advantageous to make things harder to figure out. There would have been no need to drop hints that something was going on and lead me toward the answer.
But there was still one question I couldn’t resolve.
"Why did I lose my memories?"
"You’ll know everything once you recover the memories you lost."
"Ah……. I see."
I reached out my hand.
But Sia closed her hand as though shielding the soul stone from me.
"Hm?"
"I never said I was going to give it to you yet."
"……You said you’d tell me everything!"
"Yes. I’ll tell you everything.
But the time to hand over this soul stone isn’t now. There’s a condition."
"A condition?"
"Before I tell you that, I’ll ask you a question first.
As you’ve confirmed, hypnosis doesn’t work on me.
Do you know why?"
I pondered.
Judging from what she had just said, Sia knew me well, but she didn’t know everything I had been through.
She certainly couldn’t read my mind.
But I couldn’t think of her as an enemy, either.
Once it became clear that hypnosis didn’t work on her, Sia could have done whatever she wanted with me.
And yet the fact that she respected my will and wanted to talk meant there were two possibilities to consider.
The first was that she had been my ally since the time I was a god.
In that case, she might know how to counter hypnosis because she had already been subjected to hypnosis training even more severely than Bella.
In other words, this situation that appeared at first glance to be the result of Sia’s will might, after going around in circles, actually be my own plan.
The second was that Sia was reassessing my value as a tool for her own purposes.
Judging from Bella’s reaction and everything I had experienced so far, hypnosis was a rare ability even among gods.
No—based on what had just been revealed, it was highly likely that it was my unique divine power.
Either way, I had no choice available to me right now.
My life was being threatened by some god whose identity had yet to be revealed.
I needed Sia’s power to overcome that threat, and if she intended to use me, I could demand my safety in exchange.
I had finished thinking.
All those thoughts had flowed through my mind as quickly as water.
That was because I could finally see the clues to the puzzle that had never fit together until now.
"I know. I found out thanks to the goddess who made me her agent.
A goddess can divide her existence into three, including her original body, and hypnosis doesn’t work on her in that state.
I don’t know the exact reason, though……."
"Yes. As you know, I have divided my existence into three.
The reason hypnosis doesn’t work is that my consciousness isn’t concentrated because my existence has been divided."
"Do the incarnations each think differently? Do they move around like completely different people?"
"The connection between them becomes faint, but they can still move in similar ways.
However, if I were to leave the other incarnations standing around while I moved like this, they would become passive, like mannequins."
The connection becomes faint…….
That seemed to be the reason Bella had mentioned for why "the incarnations and the original body can’t be together."
Even if a goddess divided her existence so we could enjoy a fun 4P session, the other two besides the original body would have only the faintest connection and show nothing but minimal reactions.
It would be no different from having sex with two top-grade pussy dolls that didn’t exist in reality.
……Wait a minute. That’s pretty exciting too.
Bella said she couldn’t be together with her incarnations, but looking at it this way, there was no reason they couldn’t be added as options during sex.
If the original body was included, wouldn’t the chances of getting her pregnant triple as well?
I was thinking about the "conditions for impregnating a goddess" that I had heard from Bella.
She had said that a goddess couldn’t become pregnant while in a complete state, but could become pregnant after being divided and rendered incomplete.
And after becoming pregnant like that, even if she became one again, she couldn’t make the conception as though it had never happened…….
Huh? How did I end up thinking about pregnancy?
Thinking things like this with a goddess right in front of me… I really was hopeless.
"Why can gods divide their existence into three in the first place? If they can’t take on different roles and improve their efficiency, isn’t it a useless function that serves no purpose?"
This was the question that had occurred to me when I first heard about it from Bella.
Back then, Bella had only said that the first-rank gods had made it that way.
Would Ilesia give me a different explanation?
……'If I’m going to move forward, I need to know the details of this matter.'
Ilesia looked as though she was thinking something like that.
"As you said, it’s a useless function, but that is precisely why it has meaning."
"It’s useless, but meaningful?"
"In the beginning, there were only two gods in the Harmony Realm. The two who are now called first-rank gods: Lady Premia and Lady Nimuel."
"Mm-hm."
Judging by their names, they were both goddesses.
It truly was a beautiful world.
I wondered whether divine punishment would strike me for imagining what a first-rank god’s pussy felt like.
"Each of them used her own divine power. Lady Premia created monsters, while Lady Nimuel created humans."
"So monsters and humans have different creators. I didn’t know that."
It was a fact that didn’t really matter.
No…… did it actually matter?
"Don’t tell me, my hypnosis……."
"Yes. Lord Dekal’s power doesn’t work on those touched by Lady Premia’s blessing.
That applies to monsters, beings commonly found in every world. Lady Nimuel, on the other hand, wanted humans to be highly intelligent beings equal to themselves. Thus, humans were born."
"I’ve met quite a few goddesses by now, but compared to the gods you’re talking about, they feel like they’re on an entirely different level."
"That’s correct. They are beings of a different rank.
Those below the second-rank gods are merely quasi-gods elevated from humans by the first-rank gods for them to command.
That is why they are incomplete. So rather than asking why they can divide their existence into three, it is more accurate to ask why they cannot always keep their existence as one…… Only two gods in the Harmony Realm exist as a single, perfect being."
"Then……
Are you saying that lower-ranked gods can become perfect gods, even if only briefly, by making their existence one?"
Ilesia nodded.
"That is called a goddess’s descent, or incarnation (現身)."
"Interesting."
In other words, the reason a goddess couldn’t become pregnant while in a complete state was.
Not that she was incapable of it, but that there was no need.
Since she was already perfect as a single individual, her human body was merely a remnant of the time when she had been human, and there was no longer any reason to preserve the species.
The paradox was that my hypnosis.
It couldn’t affect a goddess while she was incomplete, but could affect her when she was perfect.
"Now you understand correctly, right?
Why hypnosis doesn’t work on me."
"I understand. So, when you’re incomplete, I can impregnate you, and when you’re complete, I can hypnotize you……."
"Yes? Impregnate?"
Ilesia’s eyes widened.
……Oops. I had naturally connected it to pregnancy in my thoughts, and then let it slip.
"……."
"……."
An awkward silence settled over us.
This was not exactly the sort of conversation one should have while meeting with the Goddess of Light in a dazzlingly white space filled with streaming light.
But Ilesia had only been surprised. She looked at me with gentle eyes.
"Yes. That’s right.
Right now, Lord Dekal, you can impregnate me."
"……."
Gulp.
Hearing her say that to my face sent blood rushing to my cock.
"Are you satisfied?"
"Yes."
"The condition is that you hypnotize me.
Until then, I cannot hand over the soul stone of my own free will."
"It sounds like you want to give it to me, but can’t."
"That’s right."
Was she telling me to hypnotize her and take it?
But how?
"You understand why hypnosis doesn’t work on me now. Then conversely, how do you think you can hypnotize me?"
Her gentle tone made it seem as though she wanted me to figure it out myself.
Speaking softly, like a teacher instructing a child, Ilesia said,
"Make an incomplete goddess incarnate."
"Yes. Exactly."
"……."
Ilesia approached me and took my hand.
Endlessly sacred green eyes. I felt as though I were being drawn into her beautiful skin.
Strangely enough…… I didn’t have any lewd thoughts.
"Court me, and hypnotize me."
"……What?"
It was what I had feared.
Her earnest request for me to hypnotize her.
"And once you take the soul stone from me, the preparations will be complete."
"What is all this for, exactly? You can at least tell me that much, can't you?"
"Hmm……. To put it simply, this is practice for the real thing……. So, I've already given you all the minimum hints."
"It's all right even if you fail. I won't hurt you, Lord Dekal."
"So you're saying I should try to conquer you freely?"
"Yes."
If this was practice for something.
Did that mean there would eventually come a time when we would do it for real?
In any case, for now, it seemed I had no choice but to follow Ilesia's words.
No—wasn't this actually a good opportunity?
I could conquer the Goddess of Light without any risk.
And if I succeeded, I could have sex with her as much as I wanted.
I could make those pretty lips let out breathless moans.
It felt as though I was so erect my cock was about to burst through my pants.
Perhaps realizing that I was excited, Ilesia spoke with a smile in her eyes.
"If you succeed, you may even have pregnancy sex with me. If that happens, I won't have the right to refuse you."
"Can't I take you right now?"
"No. Please do it after you've properly hypnotized me."
"……Tch."
I didn't want to back down like this.
Should I try asking?
"Give me just a taste."
"A taste……?"
"At least to encourage my motivation. What do you think? If I give up because it's too difficult, you'd be in trouble too, wouldn't you?"
"……."
Ilesia looked troubled.
She probably hadn't expected me to negotiate with her like this.
At last, I had backed Ilesia into a corner. It was an utterly shameless way of doing it, but still.
"Specifically, what did you have in mind……?"
I embraced Ilesia.
I held Ilesia, who had revealed her divinity, as though she were my woman, reaching forward to knead her buttocks with my hand.
Then I kissed her. Far more earnestly than before, I slipped my tongue inside.
I freely poured my saliva into her mouth.
"……Mmph."
Ilesia opened her mouth and allowed me a taste.
She intertwined her tongue with mine and let me touch her buttocks.
The fact that she allowed it excited me so much that I rubbed my cock against her as I kissed her.
I was like an animal with nothing but desire in its mind.
With those animalistic movements, I disheveled Ilesia's neat, beautiful appearance, smeared my saliva over her as I kissed her, and groped her buttocks.
Stimulating her body like that was the height of depravity, enough to numb my mind.
I couldn't endure it with this much.
I wanted to put my cock inside her and have sex right then and there.
What kind of relationship had this woman and I shared? Had I already had sex with her so many times that her body and mind had fallen into depraved slavery, to the point where I could have sex with her whenever I pleased?
If I had hypnotized her before, I felt as though I would have had sex with Ilesia every day.
That was how much charm this woman possessed—the kind that stirred a male's desires.
"Mwah……. Smooch……."
She gazed at me with sacred green eyes that seemed capable of making even sinners repent and fall to their knees.
Even when I entangled myself with her shamelessly, Ilesia did not dislike it.
I sensed that instinctively.
I didn't know what kind of hypnosis I had used, but there was no doubt that Ilesia had been thoroughly conditioned by me.
Even though I was imposing my desires on her so selfishly, she showed no sign of hating it at all.
When bodies were pressed this closely together, it wasn't easy to hide disgust. It revealed itself in one's expression or the slightest movement.
But Ilesia, from the moment I first pulled her tightly into my arms,
had shown none of the physiological reactions that came with her body stiffening from aversion.
It felt as though every part of Ilesia's body accepted me—as though it cherished me.
"……Ilesia. We've had sex quite a lot, haven't we?"
"……."
I pulled my lips away and whispered.
Ilesia said nothing.
I kissed Ilesia again, sucking shamelessly on her tongue as I spoke.
"Just wait a little.
I'll make sure to hypnotize you, then have sex with you day and night until I get you pregnant. All right?"
"……It's late today."
"Huh?"
I had certainly been pressed tightly against Ilesia.
Yet we naturally separated, as though affected by the interference of an invisible force.
What a shame……. It seemed that was all I would get of the goddess for today.
If an additional expansion pack had been available for purchase, I would have bought it immediately.
It seemed that unlocking the goddess's cunt required hypnosis, not a card.
The light filling the surroundings gradually faded.
The pure-white space where I had felt as though I were walking through a dream disappeared, and I returned to reality.
This was the library on the second floor of Melbriet's main building.
In truth, my position had not changed from the very beginning.
"I will be waiting for you here every day at midnight."
……Should I ask her now?
What kind of god I had been when I was alive.
"……."
No…….
"All right, I'll see you again."
Ilesia had told me that I had been fond of women even when I was a god.
Knowing just that was enough.
I would learn everything once I recovered all my memories anyway.
I left the library.
Who could have known I would feel this way when I left this place?
The beautiful Goddess of Light, drawing me in with her peculiar attitude.
Whatever the truth of this world might be, it had nothing to do with me.
I would hypnotize Ilesia.
That alone was my highest priority at this point.
Even before returning to the dormitory, my thoughts were already turning toward the Castle of the Eight-Colored Shell.
To seek out the two goddesses who would help me, I moved to the castle.