Is it wrong to try to meet someone in a dungeon?

Cold sweat trickled down my cheeks.

A tone of extreme anxiety.

Endless anxiety.

Hermes skipped the explanation and roared as if he had just finished explaining "the necessary things":

"Right now, in Orario, only you, Hestia, as the goddess of virginity, can resist me!!"

The male god roared loudly.

Hestia stared wide-eyed in horror.

What would happen next? This terrifying "hypothesis" flashed through my mind in an instant.

"Hermes... Could it be... Freya—!?"

Hestia asked her crush a question in her trembling voice, but she couldn't finish her sentence.

Suddenly, I heard the sound of a pointer moving.

That was the sound of the clock's long and short hands overlapping, pointing straight up as if gazing at the sky.

This also set the stage for this "invasion".

"Next, I'm going to tell you something boring."

Hestia shuddered.

Hermes gasped.

The two gods suddenly looked in one direction.

It was in the city center that this "beautiful voice" came from.

*

There once stood a god of fertility here.

At the central square—

In the city center, where four "Towers of Abundance" have been built, Freya suddenly begins to speak.

"Goddess Freya...?"

"I remember the closing speech at the Goddess Festival was after sunset, right?"

"Has something happened?"

As Lloydman and his puppets spread the word, people gradually arrived at the central square.

A person stood on the Tower of Abundance to the due north, without any attendants or guards accompanying her.

The goddess, dressed in a long robe and wearing a hood, stood on the "altar" that resembled a grandstand, gazing absentmindedly at the crowd below.

"Ishtar, who, like me, is a goddess of beauty, was the one I sent back to heaven."

Freya remained perfectly calm.

His calm tone conveyed a sense of solemnity and sanctity.

Everyone succumbed to her tranquil aura, their eyes drawn to her, unable to utter a single word.

"Because she was seduced by a meaningless fighting spirit and degenerated into a beast devoid of any character, so ugly that it was unbearable to look at her, I eliminated her."

On the altar was a large magic stone megaphone, placed at Freya's feet at an angle out of sight of the public, which amplified her beautiful voice throughout every corner of Orario.

No one in the city was an exception; everyone, regardless of who they were, heard this sound.

Apart from the goddess's voice, all other sounds disappeared from the city.

The vast central square was packed with people, who, like children of the earth listening to a divine oracle, looked up at the goddess and listened intently to the content of her speech.

And now, I am about to become just as ugly as her.

Sarcastic remarks.

Self-deprecating content.

The inhabitants of the lower realm were quite shaken after witnessing the "Goddess of Beauty" berate them in this way.

The gods, who were also located in the city, found it unbelievable.

"I don't care how much people despise me, I'll accept any insults willingly. But I won't apologize, because I've made up my mind."

The goddess gazes up at the Babel (the divine tower).

As if speaking to a distant celestial world, he continued in a loud voice.

"Because I have already known what I desire."

"Because I have found something irreplaceable."

"This is all I want."

It sounds like singing loudly, it sounds like trembling slightly, it sounds like being overjoyed, it sounds like being filled with sorrow.

The people and gods who listened to the declaration in silence finally realized something was wrong through the eerie atmosphere at the scene.

But it was too late.

Along with the shadows covering her face, the goddess reached out and took off her hood.

"Perhaps I finally have the opportunity to understand things beyond 'love'."

The girl's appearance was then revealed to everyone.

Light gray hair and light gray eyes.

It's a forgotten goddess's voice, a voice that belongs exclusively to young girls.

A drop of water slid down the corner of her eye.

As she flashed her stunning smile, a tear streaked down her cheek.

That was the dregs left behind by the "girl" who should have been buried by the "goddess".

It is also the embodiment of "her" inner self.

The entire city seemed to have stopped in time.

Words disappeared from people's minds.

Then a crack appeared in the sky.

As if offering a blessing, or perhaps casting a curse, a ray of light shone down on her through a gap in the clouds.

"So, I want to understand."

South side of the city

Every member of the goddess's kin, situated on the battlefield, performed the rites of a sovereign and subject in order to demonstrate their loyalty.

"Therefore, I will not let go again."

West side of the city

The first-level adventurers laid the unconscious boy and others on the ground and gazed up at the colossal tower that lay deep in their field of vision.

"Therefore, I will invade this world (all of you)."

The dark elf narrowed his eyes.

The quadruplets fell silent.

The cat-man turned his gaze aside as if wiping away his own emotions.

The boar-man closed his eyes.

The white elf watched silently.

They were all willing to obey God's decision.

"Could it be that infatuated girl...!?"

Loki was terrified because it was a "taboo sign".

"Ais, over there!"

"...!?"

Ais and the others, who were searching for the boy, noticed something amiss and stopped in their tracks.

"Hestia!!"

“────!?”

As Hermes loudly reminded her, Hestia immediately raised her divine power to its strongest level.

Whether it's the general public or not.

Adventurers.

And the gods.

There was nothing we could do.

We can only helplessly face this moment.

So──

"Kneel down, all of you."

The heart of all things trembled violently.

The heartbeat of every living being was shaken.

Her pale gray eyes emitted a "silver glow," and the girl's voice transformed into "silver chains," causing everything in the world to fall into depravity.

"What—!?"

High in the sky, far from Orario.

Asphie, who was holding Ryu, saw it.

She saw the "Silver Divine Might," which should have been invisible, transform into a giant dome-shaped light shield that covered the entire Orario in an instant.

She alone captured the moment when the ultimate "charm" was activated.

Whether a person is conscious or unconscious, their "soul" is ravaged.

Invaded, distorted, unified.

--Request to alter (obey me).

Did it come from a goddess? Or from a girl?

A quiet sound, seemingly coming from nowhere, came from the scene.

From that day on, Orario completely "changed its tune".

Volume 17, Chapter 2: The Loneliness of a Closed World

A faint sound could be heard.

A silver-colored string was torn.

It sounded like a voice being forced out of a hoarse throat.

That clear yet mournful sound shook everything in the world.

It was also like the low rumble of a tsunami that swallows everything.

It even evokes the image of an army transformed into a giant creature, the sound of military boots stomping in perfect unison.

That was the sound of conquest.

That was the voice of domination.

That was the sound of absolutely beautiful light.

It was both terrible and sad.

The die that rolled slowly to my feet after being thrown was probably already shattered.

Then──

It looks like something is burning.