Chapter 12: The Three-Hit Combo
“Please, don’t say that line again, not even in Japanese. I’ve heard enough today.
I’ve already suffered enough blows today, and now you’re adding insult to injury, Xiao An.”
“Hmph, you’re already struck by just being called ‘disgusting’ a few times by your little sister?”
“You heard that?”
“Of course, we’re not that far apart. It would be weird if I *didn’t* hear it.
“Then what do you think I should do?
I honestly don’t have any solutions, which is why I wanted to ask for your opinion on this matter, Xiao An.
But all I got was an eye-roll and a dismissive remark.
“How should I know! If I knew how to handle human relationships, I wouldn’t have been betrayed and sealed away…
Wow, that’s quite a tragic story.
It suddenly occurred to me that Xiao An was sealed inside the Yata no Kagami because she was betrayed by her own people.
Otherwise, as Amaterasu, how could she have fallen to such a state today?
“Back then, I just didn’t wanted to be alone anymore, so I stepped in to protect those people, and thus I was treated as a god. But I made a mistake. That wasn’t what I wanted. Even while being worshipped as a god, I remained lonely.
“Mmm, after all, everyone around you was so reverent, and there wasn’t a single person on your level.”
“Yes, thinking about it now, that’s exactly how it was.”
As she said this, Xiao An waved her hand at me, signaling me to turn around.
I initially thought she had something important to say, but when I turned, Xiao An had climbed onto the swivel chair and sat on my lap.
She leaned against me, striking a pose of utter relaxation.
So, she was just tired of standing!
How incredibly lazy can this child be!
“I find it hard to believe that a lazy god like you would commit such morally corrupt acts to be betrayed—Xiao An, were you a tyrant before? Or rather, a tyrannical god?”
“I wasn’t. From beginning to end, I never issued any ‘ divine pronouncements.’ It was all arranged by the divine envoys. I was merely an executor.”
“Huh?”
Xiao An drew a circle in the air with her index finger, thought for a moment, and said,
“It’s like that thing you have now, called a nuclear bomb. I was similar to that…”
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Suddenly, it felt very real.
The gods back then were like nuclear bombs… existing as a deterrent, right?
“It was bestowed with divinity, worshipped, and then disasters were brought down according to their will. Faith grew in terror – that was my duty.”
“…”
It sounded completely unreasonable, but that was the reality.
The gods accumulated faith in this process, while the divine envoys, by leveraging divine power, consolidated their own benefits and status.
In the end, gods were simply these kinds of beings.
Some gods would do anything for faith and territory. It’s like that poverty god occupying Yinhua’s family. It deliberately chose the home of a rich person as its domain, making the rich person poor, and the resentment that arose from this was the ‘faith’ that poverty god desired.
“However, thanks to this experience, I now understand why Father Emperor was so lazy back then.”
At this moment, she suddenly bit her tongue, mispronouncing a word, and the serious atmosphere evaporated.
“You must have had it tough.”
“Yes, I couldn’t understand it at all, and I didn’t want to. So, I have no regrets about ending up in that situation.”
“…But, just once, when I was about to bring down a disaster, someone ignored my divine status, dared to face me directly, and their eyes were burning with intensity even as they died.”
Xiao An looked up at my face, swinging her little legs, indicating she was in a good mood.
I knew she was talking about me, or rather, my past life.
I gently patted Xiao An’s head and chuckled.
“So, this is how you show your guilt towards me?”
“I am a god! You have a god sitting on you right now. For a human to receive such honor, it would have been absolutely impossible before. Humph!”
“Yes…”
Xiao An finally abandoned her divine status and began to inhabit me, a human. Although she lost most of her faith, this was what she wanted now.
Because she was no longer alone.
And now, I am also no longer alone.
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In that regard, my daughter Xiao An and I are quite similar. It’s just that I didn’t feel lonely being alone before…
…It’s probably because I still had family, and my younger sister would talk to me.
However, my relationships with my sisters are currently quite terrible.
In any case, the issues with my sisters won’t be resolved overnight. I need to be prepared for a long battle.
Before that, however, I need to deal with my own problems.
Recovering my previous memories, and re-establishing the connection with the other Fated Witches. The current Xiao An is one of the targets.
After thinking for a moment, I decided to test it out on Xiao An first.
No, licking a loli, and a daughter at that? From a legal perspective, it seems even more dangerous?
Well, Xiao An isn’t human anyway, so human laws probably don’t apply to her.
“Ah, right, Xiao An, do you know where the mark on your body is?”
“The mark? What are you talking about?”
“You don’t know? It’s the mark that proves the connection between the Master of Destiny and the Fated Witch.”
“Hmm? Are you talking about the Destiny Mark?”
“Yes, yes, that’s it.”
“I am your Calamity Witch, so of course I have the mark. But I don’t know where it is.”
“Huh? You don’t know either, Xiao An?”
“Since you’ve already established a karmic connection with that Witch of Calamity named Li Nai, you probably don’t need to connect with me right now. Besides, you can already use Destiny Power, and you suddenly have so much of it.”
“Actually, it’s like this…”
I selectively explained to Xiao An what Shirley had told me and what had happened in the previous world.
Even so, by the time I finished, it was almost ten o’clock at night.
I was so thirsty from talking, constantly swallowing.
“No wonder you were so strange this morning, and this unfathomable amount of Destiny Power. So that’s why. I see, I see!”
Xiao An crossed her arms and nodded repeatedly, as if suddenly enlightened, showing her understanding.
Phew, thankfully it was cleared up in one go. I thought Xiao An would have a lot of questions, but it was great that she understood everything so smoothly.
“However, that person named Zihua…
She really went to great lengths, didn’t she? Replacing the entire world? She’s the Water Calamity Witch, isn’t she? The Destiny Power of just one calamity shouldn’t be enough to do something like that. It seems she concentrated the Destiny Power of the other Fated Witches onto herself.”
To change the future, she sacrificed her entire life…
“Now I know why the Yata no Kagami broke, and why I was able to escape from it.”
“From what you’re saying, the Water Calamity Witch probably used the Yata no Kagami to replace the world within the mirror with the real world.”
“Yes, a magnificent lie that deceived the world. It was quite powerful.”
“Indeed, very powerful. Even gods can’t do something like that. Therefore, although the Yata no Kagami is a divine artifact, it was too fragile to be used as a medium for replacing worlds. It breaking was inevitable. And because it broke in the original world, it was bound to break in this world as well. It’s the same for me. I was able to break my Heavenly Dao chain early because the Water Calamity Witch destroyed it.”
“Huh? You mean…?”
“It means that although the process changed, the outcome remained the same!”
“Yes, because causality is correcting the world.”
How could this be! This means… changing the future is utterly meaningless! The outcome won’t change!
I felt like I had been told that direct intervention was futile.
“No, you’re probably thinking, ‘If the outcome doesn’t change, then going back to change the future is pointless.'”
Xiao An looked at me with disdain, shaking her small index finger and said,
“Quite the opposite. The future has now become unpredictable. The fact that ‘causality is correcting the world’ itself shows that the future has changed. But with such a massive change, can causality truly correct it? Furthermore, with a Master of Destiny like you who is not affected by causality, it’s impossible to fully correct the world. It’s like trying to calculate an infinitely recurring decimal – it will never have an end.”
“Oh, so you mean some small parts can still be influenced, but the overall trend, the major changes, are irreversible. Is that right?”
“Exactly. You’re quite smart after all.”
“Thanks…”
“I see. I’m also a bit interested in what happened in the previous world. Let’s establish the karmic connection. Where is your mark?”
“Uh…”
“What did you say?!”
Xiao An’s big eyes widened in disbelief as she exclaimed.
Just as I thought…
“I can’t believe it. Why is it on your tongue?! Are you a natural pervert? Your perversion is so profound it’s reflected in your Destiny Mark!”
“It’s not like I wanted it to appear on my tongue! I wanted a cooler mark too! Like on the back of my hand, or on my forehead! Having it on my tongue, even I find it a bit disgusting!”
I was about to lose my mind.
Is it because my ability is “crow’s mouth”? “Calamity from the mouth”?
So the mark is on the tongue?
Must it be so meticulous in such a place? It’s exasperating!
“…It seems you’ve already been dealt a heavy blow.”
“Ah… please! Xiao An!”
“Even if you say so…”
“I promise I won’t have any impure thoughts!”
Xiao An still looked very reluctant, but she finally agreed, albeit grudgingly.
However, the moment I stuck out my tongue and moved it towards her face, Xiao An’s
face contorted into a grimace, and she delivered a swift uppercut to my chin while shouting.
“No! It’s disgusting! Get away, pervert!”
My HP bar was completely depleted by this three-hit combo.
As a loli, you shouldn’t so easily utter the three curses of “scram,” “disgusting,” and “pervert”!
