Chapter 82-84: The Goddess’ Past

I commited a sin.

The first sin that I -the Light Goddess, Inflation- committed; betraying the person that I love.

In the Genesis era, because of the birth of humans, the first friction between us Gods occurred.

The Dark God Entropy, who I love, adored the humans. On the other hand, the other Gods claimed that the humans should be ruled over like the other living beings.

At first, I didn’t really support any of the two opinions.

But, if it’s to make my beloved Entropy happy, I thought it wouldn’t be bad to raise the humans into living beings of higher-order along with him. That’s all I thought of this.

In this time, there was one God who threw mud into my heart.

β€œEntropy-sama seems to treasure the humans more than you. At this rate, all his love will be taken away by a lower lifeform, you know?”

For the first time as a God, these emotions called doubt and envy had surfaced.

He will choose the humans over me.

As if trying to fight against this doubt inside of me, I stood on the enemy side.

There was the need to subdue this friction between Gods. He will definitely avoid a fight against me. Knowing this, as long as we can reach a compromise with the other Gods…

I had such faint hopes.

But…he fought.

Even with a despairing situation like 5 vs 1, he still fought.

Why?

Does he really love humans more than me?

Even against 5, even when I stood there, he still decided to take the side of humans and fought alone.

The fight ended, and in the moment I had to seal him with my own hands, for the first time in my life, I felt like my chest was going to burst open.

He definitely won’t forgive me.

I have perpetrated a sin that I wouldn’t be able to atone for even in an eternity. That’s how I thought at that time.

But…this was just the beginning of my true sin.

After the Dark God Entropy had been sealed, the four base element Gods began to act selfishly.

The Fire God Nova exercised atrocities at times towards the surface world; The Water God Coacervate induced falsehoods to the humans, stirred up conflicts, and enjoyed watching it; the Wind God Quasar vanished into his own side; and only the Mother Earth Mantle respected my will and obeyed me.

Within all of this, just how was I going to have Entropy forgive me? I was only thinking of this.

For the sake of humans, he fought a fight that he would inevitably lose.

He loved the humans that much. If I were to do something for the sake of these humans, when he comes back, won’t I be able to soothe him a bit?

Thinking this way, I decided on realizing that dream he was trying to accomplish.

By showing the humans the path of progress, I thought about supporting them.

But for the sake of that, I would have to tread with care. Because the opposition of the four Base Element Gods would be inevitable.

Even if I am one of the poles, I don’t have as much advantage against the four Base Elements as Entropy. On top of that, the seal on Entropy at that time was incredibly firm and couldn’t be released without the cooperation of all five Gods.

In order to welcome Entropy into this world again, I couldn’t displease the four Base Elements.

And so, instead of acting as a God, I decided to guide the humans as a human myself.

With a human vessel, I will reincarnate as a human and raise the humans within their own society. And then, the human me was named Izanami, and became the leader of a certain group of people.

We created techniques and arranged rules. My group of people was becoming visibly bigger with time and got wealthier.

Those were enriching days that I didn’t Β have in the Genesis era.

I felt like I slightly understood the feelings of him wanting to get involved with the humans.

And so, in the process of raising this community of people, I tested doing a playful thing.

I knew that this would be a valid method to unite the hearts of the people.

In order to put this method to practical use, I decided on uniting the people under one symbol.

The symbol I prepared for this was…the Dark God Entropy.

The humans will worship the Dark God, respect him, and with that common point, they would recognize each other as comrades.

When the seal is undone and Entropy returns to this world seeing all this people loving him and respecting him, he will definitely be surprised and be happy. That’s what I thought.

At first, I was incredibly motivated in putting this plan in track.

A part of what I did for this was conferring the β€˜shadow’ power to humans.

As the Light Goddess, I can’t confer the dark power. But creating β€˜shadow’ with light by using the body of humans as intermediary was a relatively easy technique.

I utilized this β€˜shadow’ as a substitute for darkness and spread it to the humans as the blessing of the Dark God Entropy.

After learning to control the β€˜shadow’ as if they were their arms and legs, the humans developed even more, and the community grew bigger and bigger.

The land that I ruled over as the Queen Izanami was at some point in time called the Underworld Country, and by the time my body was all wrinkles, it had already grown into a big nation that was equal to no other in this world.

But, I overdid it.

There’s no way a community of humans that had become so big wouldn’t fall in the eyes of the four Base Elements.

The human civilization that had developed heavily had been seen as arrogant by the Gods. On top of that, the fact that the Underworld Country worshipped the Dark God Entropy had angered them. Because Entropy had been defeated, they were under the impression that they were superior to Entropy.

Their anger attacked the Underworld Country in the form of divine punishment.

Locusts, plague, acid rain; on top of that, invaders from outside that were influenced by their will had pushed the Underworld Country into the verge of destruction.

Even when it had reached that state, I couldn’t return to being the Light Goddess Inflation to stop the foolish four Base Elements.

All of them were the key to unsealing Entropy.

If I were to injure any of the four Base Elements, the return of Entropy would be pushed to a length of time that’s almost like an eternity.

Rather than the humans I raised and guided, I ended up choosing Entropy.

 

That is my second sin. A sin that’s helplessly heavy.

But what made it even more unsalvageable was the fact that my sin didn’t end with just that.

 

…There was a young one named Doraha.

A person that was born in the Underworld Country, in the age when it had been officially established as a nation.

Since the time that person had grown aware, that person was filled with faith towards Entropy, and on top of being used to controlling the β€˜shadow’, it was a level higher than the others.

By the time Doraha had grown into a healthy young one, there was no other person as good in utilizing the shadows in the Underworld Country, and I -the Queen Izanami- conferred this child the highest title of the guardians… I conferred her the title of hero.

And then, in the time the Underworld Country was heading towards destruction, the one who fought back the most, choked and cried the most…was Doraha.

She ran about in order to drive away the locusts, she embraced her family that was desecrated by the plague and cried, and even utilized her own body as a roof to protect the people from the acid rain.

She confronted the invaders that were send by the four Base Elements, refuted the insults hurled at the Dark God, and was enraged at this irrationality.

Even when I witnessed the figure of Doraha fighting bathed in blood and shedding her own, I didn’t lend her my help.

In time, Doraha’s hatred towards the Gods had increased so much that she was consumed by the β€˜shadow’ and had become β€˜shadow’ itself.

In that form, Doraha had become a dangerous existence.

The special trait of the β€˜shadow’; absorbing light and making it its own power. Now that Doraha had become β€˜shadow’ itself, this trait had lost all limiters. She began eating all light beginning with the sunlight itself, and had become a monster that would not stop growing bigger even if it were to cover the whole world.

At this rate, the world would be engulfed by Doraha.

At that time, I finally took off the body of the queen Izanami and returned to being the Light Goddess Inflation, utilized all my divine power, and sealed that child -to the very depths of the underground together with the Dark Underworld Country.

If it’s underground where light doesn’t reach, Doraha would not be able to get the light energy to increase her size.

In this way, I had send that child to an underground life of solitude, wandering around for several centuries.

This is…an unforgivable sin of mine.

  • 83: Regret of the Goddess

β€œI am…the Dark God…Entropy.”

The fight between the shadow and I -Kuromiya Haine- was reaching its climax.

At first, I was agitated by its strangeness, but after dealing with it in a calm manner, those aren’t movements that I can’t keep up with.

In order to avoid Karen-san and Yorishiro from being attacked, I enclosed the both of us in a wall of dark matter, on top of that, I slowly reduced its scope to strangle its specialty which is its speed.

By nature, the light element should have an absolute advantage against the dark element, but because of the transformation of light into β€˜shadow’, it looks like this advantage has been lost.

Every time it grazes the dark matter, it loses volume, and has already returned to the size we first met it with.

β€œI am…the Dark God…Entropy.”

I can mostly guess what this guy actually was.

It was a human. Moreover, a person that loved the Underworld Country deeply and fought fiercely to protect it.

A warrior.

Its homeland, that wrath towards this irrationality; I could understand it to the point of hurting when reading the writings of that monument.

The anger…and sorrow it felt to the point of changing itself into this. There’s not many humans who possess such intense emotions.

β€œThat’s right. This child is actually…a child that possessed quite the rich emotions.”

β€œ?!”

By the time I noticed, Yorishiro was already standing right by my side.

She entered the dark matter sphere?!

β€œThis shouldn’t be a surprise right, Haine-san? You already made it clear a while ago that darkness can’t win against light.” (Yorishiro)

Yorishiro makes a mysterious smile.

Looking at the hole in the dark matter that connects to the outside, I could see that Karen-san had fallen completely unconscious.

β€œDon’t worry. I just had Karen-san sleep. She has become my friend, so she will definitely go against what I am about to do.” (Yorishiro)

β€œWhat are you planning on doing?” (Haine)

I immediately ask.

β€œI have understood most of everything. This person called the Queen Izanami that was said to have raised up the Underworld Country, that was you, right? A reincarnation that spanned before this current body of yours as Yorishiro. The one who spread the Entropy religion was also you; you are also the one who taught them the technique to change light divine power into β€˜shadow’. Were you intending on creating an Utopia with me as the centre?” (Haine)

β€œAs expected of Haine-san……No, my beloved Dark God Entropy. It looks like you have seen through everything-desu wa ne.” (Yorishiro)

Since she has brought that name, it must mean she intends to have a talk as Gods.

β€œIs this the sin you were speaking of?” (Haine)

β€œThat’s right. In order to distract myself from the loneliness of losing you, I tried to guide the humans on your behalf. It was in the time when the history of humans was literally at its first steps.” (Yorishiro)

And the four Base Elements destroyed this.

The disasters that were written in that monument were truly the way those guys would mess up the world. Adding to that, the humans that attacked the Underworld Country must have become the foundation for the fire, earth, wind, and water churches.

β€œThat shadow was originally a human living in the Underworld Country. A person that could be called virtuous. An orphan that was raised by my hands and got along quite well with her siblings that were in the same circumstances. After growing up, this child showed rare talent, and became strong enough to be bestowed the title of hero.” (Yorishiro)

β€œIn other words, this shadow was the first hero in this world.” (Haine)

β€œBut that way too strong β€˜shadow’ power ended up harming that child. Engulfed by the β€˜shadow’, this child became β€˜shadow’ itself with the only thing in its mind being to eat light divine power. Fire, water, earth, and water won’t work either. The only way to defeat that child would be…Haine-san, the dark divine power of yours.” (Yorishiro)

β€œAre you telling me to kill it?” (Haine)

β€œYou are the only one who can. At this rate, that child will escape from this place. If she manages to get under the sunlight, she will absorb the light and grow infinitely bigger. The world will be covered completely by this child. Not even a God would be able to stop that.” (Yorishiro)

Right.

This guy abandoned its humanity because of its desire to kill the evil Gods. If that power were not enough to match a God, it would be too saddening.

β€œSo this was your objective from the very beginning?” (Haine)

β€œThat’s right. Since the time I undid your seal, I wished for you to do this. If I were to spread the name of the Dark God Entropy, one day you or Karen-san would investigate it, and will eventually reach the Underworld Country, and then, you would meet this child. That’s what I hoped would happen.” (Yorishiro)

I see.

Since the time we found out the existence of the Underworld Country, the flow of events to reach here were way too smooth, which felt really out of place.

Now that I think about it, until we encountered the shadow, it felt too mechanical. The pieces were falling perfectly.

There’s no doubt that Yorishiro wanted to bring me to the Underworld Country as soon as possible.

But in that case…

β€œWhy did you do it in such a roundabout way?” (Haine)

Wouldn’t it have been okay to request it the moment I was unsealed?

β€œI wanted you to kill this child the time you understood how this world works. Before you killed this child, I wanted you to know about the foolishness nesting in this world, its ridiculousness, and that this child is not a calamity but a victim. Without those, it would be way too pitiful.” (Yorishiro)

The gaze of Yorishiro was poured at that shadow.

Her profile was beautiful, but just like before, I felt the shadow of an old woman tired of living.

If it’s now, I can tell the identity of this feeling.

At that time, she wasn’t the Light Goddess Inflation or the Light Founder Yorishiro, but the queen of the Underworld Country, Izanami.

β€œI am…the Dark God…Entropy.”

It probably has already lost its ability to think and reason.

It simply moves with its hatred towards the Gods and the world; a flimsy shadow.

β€œI am sorry…for taking so long.” (Izanami)

Yorishiro…the Light Goddess Inflation… the queen of the Underworld Country, Izanami, spoke to this shadow.

β€œBeing in such a gloomy place all alone must have been pretty lonely. But today will be the end of this. The Dark God Entropy you respected so much has finally come for you… in order to drop the curtains of your pain.” (Izanami)

β€œI am…the Dark God…Entropy.”

I don’t think the shadow understands her words.

These words were probably words of repentance.

β€œBut rest assured. At least at your death, I will not let you feel lonely. I will accompany you.” (Izanami)

β€œHey?!” (Haine)

β€œThis is the least I can do to atone. Sadly, I can’t die as a God. That’s why, at the very least, I will offer this body of Yorishiro to accompany this child. Haine-san, please, crush this child and I together with your dark matter.”

  • Β Β 84: Extinguish and rebirth

*Slap*

A sound echoes in the pitch black underground city.

It was the sound of me slapping Yorishiro’s cheek real hard.

β€œH-Haine-san?” (Yorishiro)

That must have been quite shocking for Yorishiro, she looks back at me dumbfounded while holding her slapped cheek.

β€œI will forgive you with this much!” (Haine)

I say this with a strained voice.

β€œYou love me right? It must been been quite painful to have your loved one slapping you. That should serve as punishment. You have…already suffered plenty enough.” (Haine)

β€œHaine-san…” (Yorishiro)

Also, the one who should really be punished is me.

There were people who worshipped the Dark God Entropy, and yet, as a God, I wasn’t by their side in their time of peril and was in deep sleep; I let them all die without helping them at all.

At this occasion, the problem is not that I didn’t know.

I probably…neglected my duty as a God.

β€œI am…the Dark God…Entropy.”

And in the time we were arguing, the shadow didn’t show any new movements and stayed nailed on the ground.

It has been exhausted to an extreme with all the fighting it has gone through. Having its shadow body shaved off by the dark matter, its size is already less than that of the first time we encountered it.

β€œ…I am sorry.”

I face that shadow and say this.

β€œI am…the Dark God…Entropy.”

β€œYou are not; you are a human. A human that can burn with anger for the sake of humans. That anger has changed you this much. The responsibility of this also lies in me. I am sorry.” (Haine)

At the very least…I should put an end to this as an atonement.

Dark matter overflows from my hands.

β€œI am…the Dark God…Entropy.”

β€œNo, I am the Dark God Entropy.”

The dark matter released from my hands covered the shadow entirely.

Now that it has gotten as small as this, it can’t resist and escape anymore.

Being engulfed by the dark divine power that erases all divine power, the tragedy that was born from the dream of the Light Goddess…has now disappeared from this world.

* * *

β€œIt is over now.” (Haine)

β€œYes…thank you very much. I am truly sorry!!” (Yorishiro)

Yorishiro was repeating over and over her thanks and apology while crying.

The dark matter is still forming a lump and eating away the shadow until it leaves nothing behind.

β€œDark Underworld Country. The metropolis that you created for me huh.” (Haine)

I once again look around the ruins of it.

In the past when this city was still at the surface, in the era where it was still shone by the sunlight, just how many people were smiling and working here?

It is saddening that the only thing I can do now is imagine it.

β€œWere you the one who sunk this city deep underground?” (Haine)

β€œYes, I had to seal this child in a place where there’s not a single ray of light after all. This child that can absorb the light divine power, and the fire, water, earth, and wind element doesn’t work on, this was the only method I could take. That woman…Mantle helped me with it.” (Yorishiro)

β€œMantle did?” (Haine)

One of the four Base Element Gods. the Mother Earth Mantle huh.

β€œShe was the only one who wasn’t proactive in destroying the Underworld Country. But because she was pressed by the other Base Elements, she had no choice. She has always been weak to pressure after all.” (Yorishiro)

It is true that when she took the side of Nova and Coacervate in the Genesis battle, it gave out that feeling.

How to call it, a woman that can’t say no.

β€œShe reluctantly brought disaster upon the Underworld Country. That took the form of the desertification hex. The desertification was serious, but it proceeded in a slow manner, and honestly, in the Underworld Country that was already on its path towards destruction, this was not that big of a problem.” (Yorishiro)

And this actually turned into something beneficial in an unexpected way.

Because of the desertification, the ground softened and it was possible to sink the whole city underground to seal the shadow.

β€œ…At first, I did it with light feelings.” (Yorishiro)

Yorishiro says with a trembling voice.

β€œI wanted to atone for sealing you. The day when the seal was undone and you see that your loved humans have developed and are now worshipping you, I thought you would be quite happy…” (Yorishiro)

β€˜But, that was the beginning of my mistake…’, is what Yorishiro says.

β€œI myself became a human and understood something from interacting with them directly -the meaning of what you said. Humans are wonderful. Earnest, cheerful, and possess affection and hatred that surpasses that of Gods. I was able to learn that in the Underworld Country. And at the same time, I learned to love the humans like you.” (Yorishiro)

β€œThat’s plenty enough.” (Haine)

Even if it took 1,600 years, I can now share this feeling with her.

The life in this land and the affection of the humans has opened the heart of a Goddess.

This is certainly a great achievement. Humans managed to move the heart of a God after all.

β€œBut the other ones are beyond salvation.” (Haine)

The four Base Element Gods.

Learning about the past in this occasion, I understood it once again.

As I thought, Gods are existences that don’t bring anything good for humans.

With a reason that was practically a whim, they destroyed a whole nation, and not only that, even after several centuries, they still misunderstand themselves as some sort of higher existence, and try to make the humans their slaves…their toys.

β€œThere’s the need of a plan to cut off the Gods from humans. And fast.” (Haine)

Right at that moment, the dark matter that was covering the entirety of the shadow was clearing up.

It must have eaten all the β€˜shadow’ divine power.

After that, nothing will be left…

β€œHm?!”

It looks like something is left.

…A human? Moreover, a girl.

A small girl of around 14-15 years old was lying completely naked. There’s no doubt that she is the one that was covered completely in the shadow.

In other words…

β€œDoraha…”

Yorishiro says with a strained voice.

β€œThis is a lie, right? There’s no way… You are…!” (Yorishiro)

The girl opened her eyes before long, and when she raises her body, the first person that came into view must have been Yorishiro. Looking at her direction, she says this,

β€œIza…nami…-sama?”

β€œYes!”

Yorishiro jumps and hugs her, and then, began to cry a river.

That means, this girl is…the real identity of that shadow.

The shadow hero that was living in the Underworld Country several centuries ago?

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0 thoughts on “Chapter 82-84: The Goddess’ Past”

  10. Thanks for the chapter. Instead of Doraha heading toward the dark side she turn towards the shadow side with all the chaos(almost like a Star Wars moment). I thought there might be a dark heroine, but instead it was a shadow heroine. I wonder if Haine is going to start treating her as his daughter or something? Since Yorishiro created her to be similar to Haine. Haine will most likely start training her.

    1. Oooo! You bring an interesting concept to my attention.

      As we know, the churches judge their members based on their (relative) elemental affinities. So if Doraha doesn’t have any Darkness aptitude, that would be pretty sad.

      But could it be possible that gods can directly control how much a human is able to wield their respective elements?

      1. You make a good point. Chances are maybe the Wind or Earth Gods might have done this. The Fire God maybe doing it seems impossible because of his pride. But the Water is possible as long it can get him the results and that person dies at the end leaving the Water Heroine the glory.

        1. I was more thinking the vein of bolstering the Heroes’ natural affinity even further. It’s impossible to get the Fire and Water’s cooperation, but building a single human up into some kind of superhuman sounds like it could be fun.

          Then again, Entropy might not be on board with interfering that much. This is more for the SCIENCE of it.

          1. You are right. It has been mention in the early chapters characters like Frost is a good example
            [Earth: 105] [Water: 130] [Light: 128] [Fire: 214] [Wind: 309].
            He would be a good example for something like that this to happen. Even minor characters need to shine ever once in a while.

          2. That might make for an interesting scene.

            “…Okay, there’s no helping it. It’s time for our Ace-in-the-hole.”
            “Y-You have one?”
            “You go fight it.”
            “Wai-ME? What are you saying?!”

          3. If something like what you mention might (hoping) happen. It will be at the turning point of the series where the threat is to big or to many minions that the Element Heroines and Haine will need be a able to stop them alone. This drastic change might lead into problems with characters like the of Gods Fire and Water or other church officials and they will do whatever they can to stop it.

          4. Rather than a big threat, I’m thinking more in terms of availability.

            For example, Haine isn’t around and an enemy that requires Darkness appears. So Yorishiro springs a trump card with Frost, who Haine secretly buffed for just an emergency.

          5. That would sound interesting. I was refer like a change in power, teaching and etc. Since there will be people out there will try to stop this new path and try to stay with the old ways. Sort similar why the Light Church still refuses to use the new machines to travel in order to fight the monsters. Me makes me wonder if Frost starts playing more of a role that the the Heroine of Shadow might hook up with Frost. Something that will surprise the readers.

    2. I’d like that to happen too (Haine training her) but her element affinity is Light. Shadow is a variation of Light’s skill. πŸ™

      Also, Gods doesn’t seem to have the ability to control human’s affinity towards any one element.

      *stare at the bazookas*

      Okay, maybe thay can do that but only to their human vessel.

      1. Yeah, when shadow was brought up as an extension of light I was hoping we’d see Karen get a power up. She’s already in a relationship with light and darkness, and a huge point was made about how her high light affinity put a burden on her body. How cool would it have been if a balance of light and shadow helped reduce that burden? If Karen had to literally overshadow the monster to end it? The author had an existing character perfectly poised for growth and then lol nope inflation knocks her out and MC solves everything by being super god. Here, have a new harem member. Zzzz

      2. Well, maybe not in the way training for combat but in like train to control the and harness the skill. It looked like the Light Goddess had difficult in doing this.

  13. Oh cool, tragic shadow monster?
    Uh oh, the light goddess is reminiscing about them.
    Please don’t turn into a loli
    It should be fine, they’re insane and probably hundreds of years dead inside that mass of shadow.
    Please don’t turn into a loli
    Please don’t turn into a loli
    *Sigh / face-palm*

  14. I’d like to go through a bit of a retrospective to put Inflation’s suffering into perspective a little.

    Let’s see…she didn’t plan on sealing Entropy at all and it was just an attempt to get him to concede to the majority and dispel her fears of being second to humans. Instead, it was confirmed and she sealed him away for real(I feel like she could’ve just backed out of it and switched sides though). Since then, she was anxious about how to face him when she brings him back-which is was desperate to do from the start.

    When she did this whole Underworld Country thing, she was able to empathize with and understand Entropy’s feelings much more and grew attached to humans too. But when it came down to it, she effectively abandoned them for Entropy because she didn’t want to risk offending the gods and losing their cooperation in undoing the seal. And when she raised her own church up, she ends up seeing them becoming just like the barbarians that ruined her first country.

    And the kicker is what happens when we go back to the prologue.
    Firstly, she undid the seal alone, which means that her trying to stay on the others’ good side and letting her humans die was essentially for nothing and she had to wait the full 1,600 years.
    Secondly, the first thing Entropy does is ask her about the humans. The second thing is accuse her and the other gods of not caring about humans. The last thing is leaving for the human world without paying her any mind at all. It pretty much played out exactly how she was afraid it would in every way-except him forgiving her just now.

    In retrospect, things might have gone a bit smoother if Entropy listened and acted against the other gods with her before incarnating, wouldn’t it? They’re due some payback for this country if nothing else.

  17. Oh, I see. So we have Nova the arrogant, Coacervate the sociopath, Quazar the indifferent and Mantle the Yeswoman. If i do remember well, Quazar was the True Neutral one, right? I wonder what Coacervate did to make him move.

    1. When you put it that way, it feels like they could have easily convinced Quasar and Mantle to stay out of it and taken down the two main opposition with their elements that are generally superior.

    1. What? You binge read them?
      If that is your choice then I’ve got nothing to say except that binge reading is not good for your health.
      I used to do it and now I’m wearing thick glasses.

      Better to read once per release and wait for the next one, next week. That gives me a reason to live for another day.

      …..
      But there’s an exception. When you find a translator that translates at lightspeed like Reigokai, it also means that you’re not going to live long.

      1. I agreed with Tru…ahem with F Orca that binge reading can be unhealthy and I can tell since my previous binge reading got me alot of head aches and sore eye after reading every new chapter of more than 5 mangas and novels as well added list reading from the start to it’s latest ones
        It was tiring to remember it so much I want to try it all over again lol
        But I got work in other world (IRL) so I will stick to my schedules

      2. …Sorry, but what does that mean? When a woman says that the sun rises in the west, does the Earth literally start spinning in the other direction?

        Or does the word “east” become swapped with the “west”?

    2. the so called pussy pass. It is true that there is a sentencing gap and sympathy gap. For the same crime women tend to have a lighter sentence and there is this social experiment where a person beat another of the opposite sex.

    3. Are you sure about that? I think my sentiments would be much the same if the parties were genderswapped.

      Inflation had it rough, made some real mistakes, and the real burden of guilt is on the other gods. I don’t see why sex was brought into this particular instance. Violence from Regine and Mirack have a better case for it than this.

      2. Relax guys. Don’t be too serious.
        I admit, it is partly my fault for bringing the sex issue in this conversation. I didn’t mean to incite any quarrel regarding different gender treatment.

        What I mean to bring here is the fact that when men and woman clash in argument, most of the time the female party wins. It matters little whether you’re in the right or wrong, they win.

        Guys, have you ever truly won an argument with them ??

  23. Thanks for the double post chapters.

    One of best scene in the novel. It’s lack of battle narrative, but it’s still good twist. XD
    I love the author explained to us about the past history of the Light Goddess. Furthermore the way the author introducing the new Hero, Shadow Hero is quite good.
    Anyway, she will be the additional “missing” Hero for the six elemental heroes.

    Next Arc is… Oh, I can’t wait for the Earth Goddess’s plot twist!!

        1. I will, but Orca ate seals, not souls. So I can’t send them to isekai.

          Wait, you should be held responsible. You’re not supposed to let them go through the gate in the first place.
          You should hold Raizu outside the wall.

  26. The first Hero would be a Dark Hero and Light Hero at the same time. But what would she be on the surface ? They would just probably Hide her by making her be together with either Yorishiro or Haine
    Thanks for the chap ~

  28. Shadow Hero, huh a Light hero variant.. wait she’s a human so she could have latent Darkness talent too if she’s taught…

    I wonder if bringing home a child after an escapade with the Hero and Founder would add fuel to the rumors regarding Haine XD

    1. Rather…isn’t it possible that a lot of the heroes and other people Haine knows have the potential?

      The only reason no one knows how to use Darkness is for two reasons. 1, nobody knows the element exists. 2, none of the gods had the ability to bestow proficiency or knowledge of techniques on people before Entropy.

      1. yep, I’m kinda waiting for the consequences of having the Darkness attribute spread… since it’s basically destructive to the other four. And we haven’t seen anyone capable of dual or multiple-wielding elements. Well, we just have to wait.

        (but more importantly, Mirack’s reaction to Haine’s growing harem XD)

  29. The moment the shadow was defeated has weak impact.
    I read it again to searxh which part Haine beated it.

    And it is in one sentence only…

    But I love the story.
    This author has no great desciption in fighting, but he/she has great story concept.

    If somehow the author is reading this…
    I hope you can slip in some clue here and there for future plot progress.
    With this kind of story, it will be very linear

      1. Ah, but you see, even if it does hit an iceberg, there’s no cause for alarm.

        [Exclusivity] was the dump stat to get this done, but I took care to spec the watercraft for collisions.

        Firstly, the ship is sturdy and strong. Iceberg would need a [Gigantic Breaker III] skill or above to bypass the immunity alone. Secondly, there are plenty of lifeboats this time, so even if the ship does sink, it will only spread out as a fleet of tinier ships.

  34. Ahh…Inflation’s love is almost painful to read. Fighting Entropy out of jealousy(and presumably Coacervate’s manipulation). Regretting sealing Entropy even as she was doing it. Trying to help the humans to earn Entropy’s forgiveness. Abandoning helping these same humans out of fear of not seeing Entropy.
    As far as writing goes, I like it. One-sided love is often a problem with side characters, but Inflation’s feelings also have some good depth to them.

    Huzzah for Entropy’s forgiveness! The ship shall sail for eternity. Here’s hoping Doraha isn’t part of the harem for a number of reasons, but primarily because I want her to be a psuedo-daughter of gods.

    So this chapter described Quasar with the pronoun “he”, but can I assume that it’s actually gender neutral and there’s a possibility of them being female? That would put the gender ratio at an even 3 to 3.
    And then there’s Mantle. A goddess that’s weak to pressure, huh? Firstly, that’s a pretty ironic concept considering her name, and secondly, she sounds interesting enough for me to be excited to see her. At the very least, she doesn’t seem malicious compared to the others, so that’s nice.

      2. I assume mantle would be a gigantic tree in a the middle of a country size forest which can also rooted to any part of the world to watched upon as well can communicate with spirits(if possible)
        Well thats my theory since the Goddess herself is a pacifist?

        1. Ooo…it would be interesting if Mantle took the form of a World Tree.

          A vessel of elemental power, but not a monster. Also very passive despite a reasonable amount of power.

  36. Weeeellll, I already expected this. If that shadow/hero is a girl, then she will somehow survived… I bet if that is hero is male, author won’t bother to revive him…. 😐

    1. Not gonna lie, I’m kind of hoping for her to die soon after from the sheer age setting in with this as little more than a chance for some meaningful final words to put some demons to rest.

    2. The important point here is that, 1, she’s an Entropy worshipper, and 2, she’s probably going to have to know that Inflation is…well, Inflation.

      What a terrible wake-up call after 600 years. Your adopted mother was one of the gods you hated, it’s been several centuries since your home’s been destroyed and lost to time, and your precious Entropy is this stupid harem protagonists that has girls with huge chests clinging to him-including mom.

        1. How do you know that? Izanami brought everyone to worship Entropy, so her own name would be allocated to “outside god”.

          Even if she didn’t attack the country herself, I don’t think it’s that strange to lump her together with the others in an overwhelming situation like that.

      3. “Does that mean I’m the champion of the minor goddess Common Sense-chan, responsible for going around upholding the natural order of worlds?”

        — good luck protecting her from isekai heroes.

  40. Mother Earth ~ she was a ‘Victim’ too…
    and that fuvking Water God really need to killed Quickly….
    that muthafucka is the Mastermind of all this…

      1. Don’t worry. We all are. Here is a place for all of us nerds.

        I hate that term.
        …
        It’s otaku. Wait, it’s not right either.
        Hm…

        Maniacs ?

        *continues to laugh maniacally*

          1. I’d like to retort.
            Being passionate about one thing doesn’t mean we will be more knowledgeable about it. Or wise in that matter.
            We will feel like a 5 years old, for everything we learn it will bring more questions. Really.

        1. As someone who has, I don’t recommending trying to empathize with that. Stick to a conceptual understanding.

          Love is the most psychopathic emotion of all, but I’m sure you yandere-savvy folks already knew that. I’ve wondered how effective it would be if a country doused their soldiers with love pheromones to fuel their hostility to the enemy.

          1. I’ll let you into a secret. I think that every country / authority in the world has already done that (fuel our hostility to the enemy). ‘Something’ that has similar effect to love but to a certain extent only. Not by pheromones of course but through a bit of reverse psychology. It is called ….
            *whisper* patriotism *whisper*

            Just joking. Of course you know that already.

            While our patriotism is an excellent motivation and is a much needed element to defend our country, I’ve seen it being abused and misdirected for personal gain. Hence, the unending war today.

            Using pheromones is an interesting idea but it only works for a short time and the result is unreliable. It is more stable and effective if you make the soldiers believe that they themselves really hate the enemy (brainwashing) and that they’re in the right. Instilling hatred this way is irreversible (and the authority will occasionally blame racism, ideology or religion when things go wrong or extreme).

            I’m not putting this blame on any ‘one’ authority.
            I’m saying this in general because it seems like every country/government has done that, whether in the past or present.

            …..

            And that is what the 4 Gods did.

            (Hopefully this statement won’t get me to jail)

  42. Thanks for the chapters Reigokai! (●ω<)

    It was nice to get the background story of inflation-chan. And I guess this is officially a Harem now? Unless Doraha-chan decides to go the yuri route and aim for Yorishiro-chan…?

    2. Now, now. Inflation mentioned that she adopted as an orphan and Izanami was withered and old by the time the disaster happened.

      If anything, it’s a mother/grandmother sort of attachment. I kinda…don’t want her to like Haine that way, personally.

      1. Well, reigokai said that he had read up to chapter +100 and that there was 2 love interests. You probably have no reasons to worry about she falling in love… probably

        1. Now that you mention it, this development of Entropy and Inflation’s relationship makes Reigokai’s earlier commentary on their relationship somewhat interesting.

          I feel like he’s only thought of her as a childhood friend up until recently, but she and Karen are wearing him down due to physical vulnerabilities(desires). Not to mention Inflation actually changing quite a bit in his eyes, mostly for the better.

  46. Doraha’s relationship
    β€’ Darkness element hero by Izanami (Light Goddess, inflation)
    β€’ Unofficial Light element hero in that world.
    β€’ The first hero in that world.
    β€’ The first combined element hero, Shadow element Hero.
    β€’ Both Karen’s and Haine’s senpai, human hero (Since they are under Yorishiro, Light church founder (also Light Goddess, Inflation)
    β€’ The first monster in that world, as Shadow element monster.

  47. Chappy o arigatai!

    I wonder how will they cut off the gods from the humans… as the gods there really need humans pray to power up there. Maybe some side effects of the over power up? Yorishiro seems to know something about it.

  56. We’re finally going to get some of Inflation-sama’s background! Sweet!

    I predict her waifu score rising drastically with this.

    …Also, I’m going to be more surprised if Coacervate didn’thave a hand in her siding against him.

  57. Thanks for the chapters!

    Ah, this was kind of obvious, but hey, it’s a new character! Harem +1, amirite? I mean … follower +1?

    1. Agreed that came to my mind as well thinking a shadow element born between light and darkness
      Bless by light and worshipped the darkness lol

      1. My bad wrong reply
        Suppose to be replied to Reaper Phoenix
        Dang course this cellular phone or mobile phone for whatever it called

        My reply to you was ” every badass need a loli”?

    1. So, we have Karen, who is light; we have Yorishiro, who is… also light; and now Doraha-chan, who is dark… no, shadow, which is actually light. Yup, evidence suggests that Doraha-chan is going to like Haine. 🀣

      3. Or, to bring more chaos into Haine’s life, get Doraha-chan to call Haine “Papa” and Yorishiro “Mama” in front of people. Sure the age won’t line up, but since when did that stop people from reacting ridiculously in fiction?

        1. Oh! I’d almost forgotten.

          Light Church Rumor #14: Kuromiya Haine and Found Yorishiro-sama were already in that sort of relationship for the longest time. They’ve recently brought their lovechild home.

          Light Church Rumor #15: Kuromiya Haine and Founder Yorishiro-sama are older than they seem. They both act inexplicably mature and knowledgeable at times.

          Light Church Rumor #16: All this time we thought that Yorishiro-sama’s wisdom was the blessing of Inflation-sama, but the truth is that she’s a secret daughter of our last Founder who’s older than she seems. She only recently returned to replace her younger sister after raising her and Kuromiya Haine’s child in secret.

          I am determined to ruin Haine’s headcanoned reputation for everyone. πŸ˜€

  60. “And then, the human me was named Izanami, and became the leader of a certain group of people.”

    My, what a shocking revelation. [Monotone]

    Thanks for all your hard work! πŸ˜„

  63. .
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    （ ´・ω・`)γ€€ (β—‹) Thanks….
    ,( γƒ½βˆ©βˆ©γƒŽ),、ヽ|〃,,, Nepu……..
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      1. Gentlemen! There’s something you’re missing.

        Advancing A.I. = Better automated translation programs = More and faster WN translations of all languages = Possibly the end of the world

        So, you know. Let’s weigh our options first.

      2. The end of the world?
        I can live with that.

        *chooses automatic translation over humanity*

        Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to prepare for the apocalypse.

        *I’ll need a huge truck, lots of leather pants, choker with spikes, flamethrower and… hire a guitar player*

        πŸ™‚

        1. I’m the sort of guy who would respond to learning that the Matrix is a thing by trying to build a Matrix of my own within the Matrix so people could plug into that perfect world we gave up for being too fake.

          I mean…really. Is there any reason not to choose the easier life in which you can effectively play god in hyper-realistic VR?

          1. So you choose a fake world?
            I respect your decision if that is what makes you happy, friend. πŸ™‚

            I’ll also happily use you as the power source for my HD t.v and charge my smartphone while you live in V.R or the Matrix.

          2. Pssh. I’m pretty sure that humans are awful batteries. If you had the technology to draw enough power from one to get a surplus after accounting for storage costs, then you’d have the technology to get plenty of power without needing humans.

            And while you’re worried about all that, I’m busy jumping through realities from dating sims to cooking worlds to being an OP MC on an adventure.

          3. I believe that a biological vessel is a good storage for clean energy.
            …
            Yeah, yeah, you do that. Plug into the matrix and be whatever you wish to be.
            I support you going after your dreams, friend.

            Now where should I plug this electric cable? Maybe the b***hole? The n*setrils?
            Ah, he won’t realize anyway.

          4. ….I don’t have a problem with the fact that you’re trying to battery me. I have a problem that you’re trying to do that when you don’t even know how.

            Obviously, you need to surgically install a port in the back of the neck, head, or abdomen where the nervous system, where all bioelectric charges run through. Don’t touch me if you’re an amateur. Pssh. As if nostrils would provide any good source of power…

          5. Hey! Are you saying I’m stupid?
            Ports, yeah. I know how that work !
            But my phone is booger-powered !
            I need to scoop some.
            Why don’t you just lay down quietly. It won’t hurt.

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