NOVEL SIMPLE Chapter 95: God’s Plight.
(God’s POV)
Is this fate, or the Will going against me? Never in my life would I think that I could hurt like this… Seeing their reactions, I knew that I had let them down greatly.
It is a major shame to myself that I care about them so much. Do… do I want to be their family? Truly, it’s hard for me to say for sure. What I do know, is that this information is far more painful for them… than it is for me to see their reactions to it.
God: “Everyone… I swear that I am fully devoting myself to finding Celia.” I swore with a serious tone.
Ria: “God… please explain to us why it will take so long to find her. None of us can look into Celia’s or Sava’s futures…” She pleaded.
God: “Unfortunately, finding Sava requires magic that doesn’t exist. Ria, you can help with me, and I was struggling with getting the courage to ask you about it. As it would require me to inform you of the current situation.” I reply.
Yona: “What kind of magic?” She asked.
God: “Basically, my wife and I found out that Sava doesn’t even exist right now. And neither does Celia.” I answer.
Everyone: “…”
Yeah… that would earn me such reactions. Who wants to be told that their wife, mother, and or daughter didn’t actually exist? Such a sentence was a painful one to hear, I understand.
Amelie: “What does that mean exactly?” She replied with a confused tone.
God: “It is hard to explain… Going back to the spot where Sava and Celia vanished, I learned that Sava had switched universes.” I reply.
Ria: “That shouldn’t be possible…” She said with a confident tone.
God: “It shouldn’t be, but that is our strongest theory. Instead of a random universe, we think that Sava has created her own, completely private one. If it wasn’t private, then the Will would have surely brought Celia back already.” I explain.
Ria: “…”
The silence isn’t too surprising. For one that can make an entire universe of their own, surely isn’t someone that you can just mess with and get away with it. Rather, finding them is an extreme impossibility that we just don’t want to admit to.
Yona: “Is there even a method of finding them at all, then? Going to a different universe… it isn’t the same as going to a different timeline.” She said with a thinking pose.
God: “And that is the key problem. We have absolutely no idea how to do such a thing.” I reply.
Amelie: “But… Sava figured it out, right? If she did it, surely there is a way…” She said with an unsure tone.
Devil: “That’s why we say that it will take a few hundred years to find and save Celia from Sava.” She added.
Amelie: “…”
At the very least, there is some hope that we will find Celia. The problem is the time. Sure. They have all mostly waited years for Celia to come back. But that was because she was working.
There was no real deadline to her mission of finding the rest of her family. Now there is a somewhat known amount of time for her to get back. Even worse… is if you add that we have no idea what Sava even wants with Celia in the first place…
Ria: “Before she left, I remember Sava calling Celia “Perfect.” and “Just like herself.”, or something along those lines. What does that mean?” She said with a thinking pose.
God: “Again, we have no idea about that. If I was allowed to make a joke in this situation, I would say that Sava fell in love with Celia.” I reply with a slightly joking tone.
Nia: “It pisses me off at how much of not a joke that could end up being…” She said with a sigh.
Lia: “Truly. In our separation from her, she ended up getting two more wives…” She agreed with a sigh of her own.
It was nice to know that they didn’t all just go crazy. If it was them from before this arc in their lives, they would have surely lost their minds. Ria is remorseful about what she did, but since she did separate them all, they were able to grow into far better people.
People that aren’t fully reliant upon Celia for their existence. Which was a problem that all of them were more than aware of. Perhaps only the woman herself, Celia, didn’t realize this aspect of her family members.
Mena: “God, if I am being honest, the most painful thing is that we cannot help in finding her…” She said with a sad tone.
God: “Perhaps if I wasn’t so quick to remove Ria’s God powers that she stole from me in a different timeline, she could have been more of a help with the search. But now only I have the right to even attempt to go to a different dimension.” I reply with a sigh.
Tia: “Wait… shouldn’t Ria have killed me, not you in her timeline?” She said with one of her fingers on her chin.
Ria: “Only God’s blood is on my hands, Tia. From what I remember, God had taken back her right alongside the Devil. Which means that she probably ended up killing you.” She denied.
Tia: “Ah, so I should direct my anger at God, and not you, huh? Noted.” She replied with a laugh.
Devil: “What… did we end up together, even without Celia meddling?” She asked.
Ria: “Before leaving that timeline, I did hear that you two got married after God reclaimed her right. Keep in mind, that was many, many years in the future. Do not discredit Celia’s efforts at bringing you together so quickly.” She explained.
Devil: “I wasn’t doing such a thing, don’t worry.” She said with a smile.
We ended up together in the end, regardless? That’s good to know… It makes me feel like we really were meant to be together. Though, it kinda pisses me off that Ria killed me once before…
Yona: “Not to be a downer, but without a solution, won’t this conversation just turn into a pity party?” She said with a kinda sad tone.
Amelie: “All of us are more than used to Celia being gone by now, Yona. We’re sad, sure. But this separation is something that we can indeed handle.” She replied with a confident tone.
Ria: “Really, you should all get used to being alone.” She said with a serious tone.
God: “Why say that, Ria?” I ask with a curious tone.
Ria: “I’ve kept it hidden, but a while from now, a war will start. In said war, multiple universes end up together. Higher beings, which I am now sure are just the Will’s of those universes, pitted everyone against each other in a game.” She explained.
Silence struck the room once more, and Ria continued to speak more about this future war that we will all have to face. Luckily, as the Will is clearly vying Celia as its champion, the war won’t start until Celia gets back. In this war, or rather, “game”, is where most of Celia’s family originally died. With Ria’s explanation of it, we now fully understood why she chose such methods of saving Celia…