48-48. I knew the truth of the universe I didn't want to know



 I hesitated a lot, but I decided to talk to Sakahagi-san about Nauron.

'Oh? d*mn God, you haven't messed with me in a while, what's it been, 569 years?

 I was at least prepared for Mr. Sacagawea to start destroying anything in the area at random.
 So I confided in him on an unpopular back street, and the response was surprisingly dry.
 What does this mean?

'I mean, Ituna, it's a good thing you didn't mess with me. The fact that he called himself Nauron Noie means he's a substitute alter ego of a f*cking god. It's easy enough to kill him because he's so weak, but if you do, he causes a degenerative phenomenon and self-destructs, taking the world with him. That's why they'll provoke you to do this and that.

 What an annoying existence.
 After all, d*mn God was a ridiculously bad person.

''Well, I can kill the entire degeneracy phenomenon now, and I can neutralize it the moment I see his face.

 And Mr. Sacagawea is still bullshit.
 I'm not sure what the shrinkage phenomenon is, but I felt like it was better not to know, so I kept quiet.

'Maybe it's because I've gotten out of control, but he's completely stopped showing his face.

 Muttering about such things, Sakahagi-san looks like a child who can no longer be bothered.
 I see, that's why he was so tepid in his response.
 It's a bleak relationship between the two of them, but when you have a vestigial relationship for thousands of years, it may not be something you can just resent.

 That's what I was thinking.

''Ah.''
Oh.

 Mr. Nauron, whom I had just left, came out of the corner and bumped into Mr. Sacagawea.

 What happened after that is not clear to me either.
 He did something amazing, which did not seem to be any kind of hypnotic magic or super-speed, and knocked Nawron down to the ground.

'Yo, godd*mn it. I've missed you....
'Ow, ow, ow! Stop it! I can break, I can break it!
Don't break it, just snap it.

 Something has started torturing me and I've decided to cover my eyes.
 So I'd like to send you what happened after this in audio only.

'Oh no! I mean, what's the point of having pain? And for some reason I can't die instantly! You've learned some weird magic and cheat abilities again! Again without me looking!
Painkilling magic and life extension cheats. I'm glad it worked on you too...

 I hear a bobbing, raw sound.

'Aaaaah! You can't make me, a god, suffer this kind of humiliation....d*mn it, kill me!
It's weird when you do it!

 Nauron's anguish was accompanied by the sound of something being stomped on.

''Ah! Oh, my God you broke both arms! But I love the pain! It's a fulfillment I haven't had in a long time!
You dominant b*tc*. It's about time you died!

 I heard the sound of something being crushed with a swoosh, followed by a vacuum sound that I hadn't heard in a while.
 As I cowered, feeling like something very scary was happening, the sound slowly died down.

'Oh Itsuna, that's enough.'

 When I opened my eyes, I saw a radiant-faced Sakahagi-san there.

''Hmph. No, this should be able to transmit the pain to the main body, and it's been a while since I've done that!

 He wiped the sweat off his face, looking as good as a neighbor's uncle who assembled a doghouse with a Sunday carpenter.
 There is no sign of Mr. Nawron, but there are still small craters with a spiral pattern on the ground where he should have been.
 Is it the remnants of something called contraction something?

''Come on, let's go, Itsuna. I've already gathered most of the information on the Demon King!
Uh-huh.

 This is how Nauron-san was killed so casually.
 Of course the main body of the god of shit is not dead, but Sakahagi-san looks very happy.

 This is just my own imagination.
 I think Nauron-san came to see him after all.
 He said his work in this world is finished, and now he is wandering around here. It's hard to believe it's a coincidence.
 I don't understand why he came out when he should have known he was going to be tortured and then killed.
 But it felt like it.



 Then I went to another world, and at the dinner table we got into a conversation about Mr. f*cking God.
 Mr. Sakahagi was drunk and spoke eloquently.

He's the supreme god of the multidimensional universe we're going around in. You'd think a guy like that, right? But even your Earth and I come from his origins. He won a bet with all the gods in the universe, and he took it all. And now he rents out the entire multidimensional universe to the gods. Providing a place... or something like that.

 Sakahagi-san guzzled his guzzling ale mug for an unknown number of drinks, and when he finished the contents, he let out a puff of air.

'The spirit retrieval system in Gaff's room, the cheat ability, the physical laws of this world and all that stuff, he's the one who gave permission for it to go around. But he doesn't control most of them himself. He's giving away everything, so he can use cheat abilities and magic on himself, and if he's killed, his soul is recovered by the gaff. By building himself into the system, he's making the laws that govern the universe absolute.

 That's why I can kill him, he says.
 'One day I will reach the f*cking god and kill him,' declares Sakahagi, emphatically.

'The only role that he plays as an administrative god is purging. 'Ituna, you said you saw those guys erased by that guy? Those guys happened because the gods that tried to get power through the f*cking god system were purged. If God gets faith in this multidimensional universe, he'll get a soul in the gaff room. That's the energy God needs to create his world, no amount of energy is going to be enough. So there will be gods who misrepresent the number of faiths they have. Those people that the f*cking gods erased, those are God's pawns to disguise their faith. It's only after the gods are erased that they seem so empty. I guess they were just puppets with no soul or anything else.

 It certainly seemed to be a rare presence for a living person.
 And rather than being dead, it seemed natural that he wasn't there to begin with.

'The true name of the main body of the f*cking god is 'Naron'. His authority is 'The Unknown and the Way'. His lore name is 'The Unknown and the Way'. When he appears in front of you, the path he was walking on will cease to exist.

 Just like me, Sakahagi continued with a self-mocking smile.
 'There's no way (no way) I'm sure I said something like that.

'But I don't care about the path he closed. I'll make my own way. And I will definitely get to his bottom.

 Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm talking about, Mr. Sacagawea.

 After that, we continued to talk about Mr. d*mn God, but the more I listened to him, the more ridiculous he was.
 Not just omniscient and omnipotent, but ignorant and incompetent. The least worst as well as the weakest.
 He's willing to destroy the world and the universe to make himself feel good about himself, and sometimes even exposes his own existence to the dirt, without a care in the world.
 He's like a rival to Mr. Sakahagi's fate.

 He will continue to be an obstacle to us without changing his form or showing himself.
 But I don't wonder if Mr. Sakahagi will lose to her.
 Regardless of his strength or weakness, he will surely hand over the reins to the god of shit one day.
 I somehow felt like that, but I also drank the juice.