Chapter 85: Various Routes and Possibilities

“…Nmu?” “Seems you’ve woken up.”

Getting up—mukuri, I see a beautiful garden I feel like I’ve seen somewhere. A beautiful scenery with fragrant flowers blooming in profusion, and a piercing blue sky… Wait, where is this!? Turning around with a start, three women were sitting inside a luxurious gazebo (azumaya). I recognize two of them. They are Linzeveil-sama and Sakuracleria-sama of the Nine Goddesses of Genesis. I don’t know the other one. A girl with near-white silver hair in twintails drinking tea elegantly. Semi-transparent wing-like things are visible on her back, but I think she’s undoubtedly one of the Nine Goddesses.

“Correct. My name is Leen. In that world, it’s Leenvelte. Nice to meet you.” “Please don’t read my mind…” “Oh, pardon me. Just a habit.”

Leenvelte-sama chuckled—kusuri—and sipped her tea again. Goddess of Knowledge governing all magic, Leenvelte-sama, huh. Since she’s called the Goddess of Knowledge, does she know everything?

“Not everything. There are things I don’t know, and things I can’t teach.” “So please don’t read my mind…” “Oh, pardon me.”

Just when I thought ‘Is this Goddess just teasing me…’, Leenvelte-sama chuckled again. She IS teasing me!?

“Leen is a troublesome Goddess who likes to mock and tease people. Has a bad personality.” “Oh my, that sounds bad. Not just anyone. I only tease humans I’m interested in.” “Even worse.”

Sakuracleria-sama and Leenvelte-sama are talking like that, but in the end, why was I called here…

“Ah, the reason we called Sakura-chan here is to say thank you.” “Thank you… is it?”

Linzeveil-sama speaks with a wry smile. Or rather, mind read again…

“Look, you healed the Spirit Tree, right? Spirits are like kin to Gods, beings who help make the world better.” “If you put it simply, like boss and subordinates. It would look bad if the boss ignored it when a subordinate was helped. So, a token of gratitude.”

Following Linzeveil-sama, Leenvelte-sama explains the reason. Apparently, spirits are beings who served as hands and feet when the Goddesses created the world. And unlike the Goddesses who returned to the heavens, they remained on earth to help manage the world. Boss and subordinates, huh. Spirits worked under Gods. Well, I helped with the ulterior motive of getting Spirit Tree leaves though. Not 100% goodwill.

“Or rather, that was healed by Estelle‘s healing magic, so my power…” “But exterminating the Golden Bugs was your achievement, right? You shouldn’t humble yourself too much. Just silently accept the gratitude.”

No, even if told to accept gratitude. Leenvelte-sama says reckless things.

“Being thanked by a God is rare, you know? Well, meeting one itself is almost non-existent in the first place. Because you are special in various ways.” “Is that because I’m a reincarnator?” “That’s part of it. See, we’ve seen various routes of yours, in game terms. Watching nervously so it doesn’t become Game Over, you know? Naturally, we’d feel empathetic.”

Those routes are all routes where I get ruined, right… Because happy routes don’t exist for the game’s Sakuraile…

“Actually, when I first saw you with Yumina‘s future sight, I thought what a nasty woman… But seeing you ruined over and over again, it gradually turned into sympathy.” “Is that so…”

Yumina must refer to the Goddess of Judgment, Yuminaria-sama, who sees the future? How many ruin routes do I have to be sympathized with by a God…

“The you seen in future sight and the current you are completely different people, so I thought maybe you could go without ruin, but as expected, the turn of fate isn’t changed so easily. I want you to do your best somehow.” “Of course, I don’t want to be ruined either, so I intend to do my best but… Linzeveil-sama, called the Goddess of Fate, can’t you do something about that?”

When I turned my gaze to Linzeveil-sama, she wore a troubled smile.

“Sorry. Can’t do that by the rules of Gods. Instead, that world has special gifts from Gods called ‘Gifts’, right? Besides, fate is something to carve open with your own power.”

Can I carve open…? Pretty tough, my fate…

“In the first place, what are ‘Gifts’?” “That world is the first world we made, so other Gods helped in various ways… thankfully.” “Helping, or rather, That Person was completely amused. Thanks to that, managing it is hard. Managing somehow because there are nine of us though.”

To my question, Linzeveil-sama looks distant, and Sakuracleria-sama knits her brows. Don’t understand well, but the Gods’ world seems tough too.

“‘Gifts’ are blessings from Gods. A world blessed this much is rare, you know? Well, in our case, there’s also the husband’s connection…” “Leenvelte-sama’s husband, is it?” “Not just Leen’s. Husband of us nine. Everyone’s husband.”

Eh!? The Nine Goddesses of Genesis are all wives of one God!? What’s that, Harem God or Popular God or something!?

“Pu. He’s not a Harem God or Popular God, you know? He’d be offended if he heard, so let’s end this talk here.”

Mind read by Leenvelte-sama again! Or rather, would it be disrespectful if the Husband God knew? I’ll keep silent… However, if I teach this fact to the church, it would be a huge uproar… That there’s a God who is the husband of all Nine Goddesses of Genesis. Well, if I teach it, I’d be treated as a saint for meeting the Goddesses, so I have no intention of teaching.

“I was watching all along, but never expected the curse disease to happen this early. As expected, Sakura-chan’s existence influences various things, changing the future. For better or worse.” “If the timing was wrong by a step, many lives would have been lost to the curse disease. Originally, you would undoubtedly have died too, but awakening Saint Estelle early worked in a good direction.” “Survived somehow this time. Worried if you can survive next time too.”

Sakuracleria-sama makes a disturbing statement. No, next time!? There’s a next time soon!?

“I think the ‘Leon Route’ in game terms is crushed. With this, three ruin flags including ‘Elliott Route’ and ‘Jean Route’ are crushed. How many left?” “Umm, ‘Starlight Symphony’ has quite a number of releases including spin-offs…”

Leenvelte-sama says lightly, but does she mean crush all routes!? That’s quite tough! Main story alone goes up to ‘5’… And I only played up to ‘4’. Spin-offs only a few…

“I don’t think you have to crush all of them. Actually, at this point, there are routes that no longer hold. Besides, there are routes where Villainess Sakuraile doesn’t appear, right?” “Well, that’s true but…”

As Linzeveil-sama says, there are some stories where Villainess Sakuraile doesn’t appear. Certain spin-offs released on mobile games shouldn’t have her at all. However, even if it’s unrelated to me, there are routes involving Estelle… Estelle is the protagonist of ‘1’, ‘2’, and several spin-offs. Naturally, all routes have bad endings, and some are quite tragic. Certainly, there are bad endings where Sakuraile isn’t involved at all, but I can’t just watch silently as Estelle becomes unhappy. Before getting to know her, I might have ignored it, but she’s already a precious friend. Bianca and Ritsu seem okay now though. What concerns me a little is Luca and Tifa maybe… Luca, princess of Prelude Kingdom, is the Villainess of her brother the Prince’s route. If Happy End, the Prince and Estelle get together, Luca reforms and ends, but if Bad End, the Prince dies… Luca, losing her brother, lives in grief blaming herself for cornering Estelle… is the development. Protagonist Estelle losing her loved one is tragic, but Luca is also quite tragic. I’m unrelated, and if Estelle doesn’t get together with the Prince it’s unrelated, but for Luca‘s sake, I want to crush this route somehow. Then Tifa. Tifa, princess of Minuet Queendom, is the Villainess of the route of a boy who eventually becomes an attendant. That Happy End is the boy becoming free and getting together with Estelle, but Bad End is the Queendom suffering a great disaster and receiving devastating damage. Tifa doesn’t die, but this isn’t something I can overlook either… Not just my ruin routes, I want to avoid these somehow too but… Fate is tough after all…

“Well, do your best. We are cheering from the heavens. Oh right, that ‘Protection’, I’ll give one too. Use it well.”

Eh? ‘Protection’, like that [Entry Ban] or [In-store BGM]? I can get one from Leenvelte-sama too? Even if told to use it well, [Entry Ban] aside, [In-store BGM] is practically useless. No, convenient is convenient, listening to music when I want. Not being able to pinpoint select songs is inconvenient though. But that can’t be used to avoid ruin flags. If possible, a usable protection would be nice, just as I thought that, my vision went dark, and I drifted into dozing slumber again.

“Our protections are strictly service level, so that can’t be helped. Ultimately, your actions are everything. Be careful not to trip over boring things.”

Heei… So don’t read my mind…