Reincarnated Young Lady Aims to Be an Adventurer - Volume 8 Chapter 139

Translator: NovelMultiverse | Editor: NovelMultiverse

When I came to, I was walking towards a gentle, lemon-tinted light. I looked down at my feet and saw I was barefooted. When I thought back, I remembered having been in camo-grey battle clothing and coughing up blood on them, so I should have been covered in blood, but I was in a white jumpsuit with my knees showing.

Could it be… that I had been reborn again? Oh, give me a break, already, I thought.

As I plodded along with small steps, an impossibly large mass of magical energy drifted forth in front of me. It was actually several types of strong, vast, bottomless wells of magical energy. But why? Strangely, I was not afraid. I wondered if I was already dead.

How long had it been since my last memory? Was it in the distant past? I felt like I was going crazy with pain and grief, but when I tried to think back, I was only met with hazy, misty emotions.

Wait, I thought. There was one type of magic here that I recognized! I could feel that familiar, gentle magic that I loved, spread out before me like a lake of tranquility.

“Kirama-sama!!!” I cried. I jumped lightly onto the base of his neck covered in pure white scales and latched on like a cicada.

Kirama brought his long tail around to in front of him and held up my small body from behind. He really was a kind soul.

“Sera… You are just as cute of a child as you’ve always been,” said Kirama, tilting his head to the side, lowering his eyelids, and nuzzling my head. His whiskers tickled me.

“So this young lady is… Luda’s beloved child…” a voice said in my mind – a youthful yet composed voice, vibrating with echoes. As I raised my head slowly, I saw before me a pure white tiger, as large as the elephants of my past life, peeking in at me. Its gray eyes were warm, and looking through me as if remembering something from its past. 

Ah, I see, I thought

“Magan-sama?” I asked.

“Mm, yes. You are correct,” said the tiger.

It was Lu’s father! I leaped over from Kirama, overjoyed, and enjoyed burying my face into Magan’s thick coat of fur. It was even fluffier than Lu’s. Ah, he had the same scent as Lu. It was the refreshing scent of a wind blowing down from a snowy mountain.

Magan was perplexed on how to respond at first, but he soon gave in, placed me on his back, and lumbered forth. His line of sight was, by far, higher up than Lu’s. It really was fun being atop him. I was being not only moved physically but emotionally, too, to a state of child-like joy. I wanted to fawn over Magan so badly, but, ah well. He was forgiving me, after all.

Kirama and now Magan… Did this mean this was “the world of the afterlife”?

“Not quite,” said Magan, “We are gods. Our mortal shells were destroyed, but we did not die.”

Ah, he was reading my thoughts. Well, it did make communicating easier.

“Why’d I become so small?” I asked.

“It must be for efficiency,” said Magan.

Efficiency… Lu had mentioned the same thing long ago. I wondered if holy beasts regarded efficiency as especially important.

We eventually came to a tree letting off a flood of light. 

There, at the base of a massive tree overgrown with round leaves and fruits like golden apples at the ends of its branches, was enshrined a god.

Once my eyes adjusted to this shimmering light, I could see… something like a deer, or a horse. A glimmering body shimmering in iridescent green as if it was the very source of life itself. A golden mane covered its shoulders, and its horns were covered in something like fine, white velvet. Its golden eyes seemed as if they saw through both the past and future.

Ah, I thought, this is a kirin. 

Magan gently lowered me to the ground, and I settled down on the right side of the kirin. Kirama took the left side. The kirin did not look as large from the ground beside its legs. However, how large the kirin looked to my eyes was meaningless. The power it exuded was something else altogether.

I kneeled, taking a moment to bow with the deepest honor I could manage as a knight. Aw, I thought, this is difficult to do while so small!

“Sera, this world is this goddess’s garden. She is the progenitor of us four holy beasts, and she is the goddess of the moon. The goddess requested your presence, Sera,” said Kirama, quietly informing me.

I understood, then… Since they said she was a goddess, I had imagined a human form. This kirin had given birth to Lu, and was one of the holiest gods of all, acting as a pillar of this world. 

“Raise your head,” said the kirin.

Every word it spoke paralyzed me with an irreverent, but a magnificent voice like I had never heard before. 

“Come hither,” said the kirin.

My body moved unconsciously straight towards where the goddess stood.

The goddess’s feet were shrouded in mist, and I could not see her hooves. When I was close enough to realize this, my feet stopped. I knelt before her once again. 

“Serafiona… Again… I’ve caused you suffering…”

The goddess nudged my head with her nose. Something like a spirit flowed through me and paralyzed my entire body.

…Again? I thought.

As I gently raised my head, I saw I was before the goddess’s golden eyes. In those eyes, as if on a screen, was my past life of “Yaba Kimi” streaming by. Covered in blood, stabbed in the back, condemned, and drenched in sweat, I was headed to my death. 

The goddess, I realized, knew everything. Is it ok, then? I wondered. Can I ask? Is this the right place?[Read this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at the “Novel Multiverse dot com” website @ novelmultiverse.com]

“Do you want me to teach you?” the kirin asked.

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Ring… Ring…

An unadorned ringing of a bell reached me from somewhere unknown, with just enough volume as to not be bothersome.

“…I was asked… by a faraway god, from another world. They wanted me to take a life, which had met much misfortune in its world, and take its soul up as my responsibility, and fix it up with a new life in this world. I was very sympathetic to this soul that was presented to me, and so, I took it in,” said the kirin.

At some point, Magan had come around and sprawled himself out behind me, and placed his tail upon my belly. I submerged myself in Magan’s fluff. I wondered if it was proper for me to listen to the goddess speak in such a comfortable position. Magan began to groom my hair. It appeared to be acceptable. 

“Unfortunately, that soul didn’t blend into our world well, at all. I wouldn’t say that our world was ever peaceful, but our fairly stable world was disrupted to fit the standards of this soul’s original world, and our system was disturbed, and broken down in the process,” said the kirin.

The original world she spoke of must have been Earth. Which meant…

“Was the soul that you took in Maribelle’s?” I asked.

The goddess blinked and answered, “Perhaps because this soul’s character was warped by injuries of the heart from its previous world, she behaved with arrogance and insolence. Without any regard for the history of this world, she became queen of one of our nations, obstructed its survival, destroyed it, and lead our entire world towards ruin. The divine protection from the god in her previous world was unexpectedly strong, and our people could not oppose her.”

I realized that with the Earth’s god as back up, Maribelle had gone on autopilot and used her charm as her irresistible strength.

“We could not build up a defense. Once a promise is exchanged between two gods, it cannot be broken. However, by bringing this foreign soul into our midst, the world that my companions and I so loved had been thrown into disarray… Moments before its full destruction, I put a ‘time-reversal’ into effect with sorrow,” said the kirin.

“Time reversal?” I asked. I wondered if she had reversed the flow of time to redo what had happened.

“Time reversal,”  said Kirama and Magan together, in a daze. It appears they weren’t aware of it.

“…I reversed time, but since there was an agreement between gods, I couldn’t escape taking in that soul. And so, I decided I would bring another soul from her world that could understand her inner workings, and deal with her accordingly. I brought a separate soul over – you, Serafiona. You, whose life had just been snuffed out, whose soul would agree with the wavelength of our world, and you who would love our people,” said the kirin, “Your life was warped most of all by Maribelle, Serafiona. If Maribelle had never appeared, it would never have been your destiny to bring peace to our world as a queen. You were to remember your past life and its disappointments. I put you in a perfect vessel of royal lineage with an already exceptional soul within it. Your two souls did not clash, but melded together, and to purposefully give you a guideline of how to live, we left both of your memories intact. I believe that in this way, I could preserve our world.”

I was…I was… edited software…

I wasn’t especially angry. I couldn’t be, at this point. No matter how I came to the place I was at, I was who I was. I was the person I knew who had fought hard to get where I was. If anything, I was relieved that so many of my doubts and questions were answered.

“And yet… once again, it seems things have not worked out. The god of your world has an influence stronger than ever thought before. Whether it has strong faith in its believers, or if it’s a question of population, I do not know… Serafiona, even in your second life, it seems your hard work could not be repaid…” said the kirin.

Ah, I thought, So there was a past life and a past world. A past world of Japan, and of my life. Neither was a dream. And if that were true, there were questions to be answered!

“How do you explain how a short story from Earth called ‘Yaba Kimi’ is so similar to this world?” I said, “Since this world is so similar, it’s no surprise to me that Maribelle acted according to the scenario in such an arrogant way.”

The goddess shook her head slowly.

“I do not know. That may be something known to humans, but to gods, there are many worlds existing in a row. Coincidentally, your ‘Yaba Kimi’ was similar to our world, and for some reason, it may have connected your world to ours… Your ‘Yaba Kimi’ may be a prophetic text to our world, or perhaps someone from your world was aware of ours. I have heard that the main source of the troubles occurring in our world now are due to Maribelle thinking that this world is the world portrayed in your ‘Yaba Kimi’,” said the kirin.

Indeed, if it was possible for me to come into this world with my memories of my world intact, it wasn’t impossible for someone to go from this world to my world with memories, either.

It must be that Earth’s god pushed his people to become close to and familiarize themselves with “Yaba Kimi”. For he wanted his dear Maribelle to know if it. If Maribelle hadn’t fully known about and grown an interest in the scenario in this story, she may not have taken an autopilot role as a character in it… perhaps. There was so much damage caused by this, however.

“But… Maribelle brought about her own ruin. She was bullied by no one in this world, and she was in a protected state where she could live as she wanted. She reversed the curse upon her, but could not move beyond that,” said the kirin, “Yes, because she acted out on her own, from here on out, the god from her land will not interfere or protect her. We in this world have already fulfilled our obligations. If her god is still not satisfied, all that can be expected is for him to take her back.”

“So, Judor was harmed, but Gil became king. Trundle, too, will probably be rebuilt once Grandmother wakes up. Your world, goddess, was not destroyed this time around. Wouldn’t you say your ‘time-reversal’ was a success?” I asked.

It may take time, but surely, with our many strengths combined, this world will bounce back, and peace will be restored. After all, Gilan will stand up for Gil and Grandmother. 

Of course, I won’t be there to see it… I thought.

“Even though you were h… even though you were this hurt?” Kirama said, frowning. There was sorrow in his voice.

“…All alone from a young age, and now fettered with the responsibility of our world and fighting against Maribelle. I couldn’t ever consider a world where I sacrificed you for success,” said the kirin.

“Are you saying…” Magan said, gazing at the goddess.

“I will apply the ‘time-reversal’ one more time. This time has been a useful test sample. This next time, I will make it so that Maribelle realizes quicker before our world is harmed, that this world is not the one in ‘Yaba Kimi’, and I will lead her to destroy herself, instead. You, what will you do? Do you think that Judor is not your land or responsibility, and wish to return to a safe, and closed-off place? Or… shall I thrust you back into the cycle of life, and rebirth?”[Read this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at the “Novel Multiverse dot com” website @ novelmultiverse.com]