I Will Stay by Your Side Until the End [Third Update! 4.5K!]

The final judgment thunderbolt was about to descend.

However, at the moment the countdown to the final judgment began, a radiance that pierced the heavens came from beyond the sky.

It charged straight toward Zeus.

This divine artillery blast was like a falling star. No one had expected this unforeseen strike.

You, too, were shocked by the arrival of this shot.

Even Zeus, the Machine God, had not anticipated this artillery blast. His chassis turned sideways and took the hit head-on.

You turned to look in the direction the bombardment had come from.

It was—Artemis.

She had seen you slay a god.

Likewise, she had heard of this so-called destiny.

Compared to such things—

Artemis understood the consequences of what you had done, and she also knew that only one choice remained for her.

Surely, you would be destroyed by the thunderbolt.

For a human to slay a god was an unforgivable sin, one the Machine Gods regarded as beyond pardon.

Once they sensed a so-called threat—

The Machine Gods would use all their power to eliminate it.

Not to mention that they had heard that destiny: the Machine Gods would carry out the command to rebuild their home planet on Earth.

But to Artemis—

Neither rebuilding their home planet nor loving all humanity was as important as one thing.

She wanted you to live.

"I love you, so I don't want you to die."

"If possible, I want to find happiness with you, laughing and playing together forever, just like before..."

"Dear, I will never let go again... I will not repeat my past regret, even if... it means defying our destiny!"

Artemis clenched her hand.

She thought of every moment she had shared with you over the past several decades. They were precious data she had protected with the highest level of authority.

Using that highest authority as an opening, she altered the destiny program.

Perhaps she truly was abnormal.

She had done the unthinkable for nothing more than this love.

Defying the original purpose set by her creator, solely to protect the man she deeply loved on this alien world.

When these emotions reached the Machine God central core—

Even she herself could not understand them.

Looking at Medea, Atalanta, and the other women who accompanied you, all kinds of complicated emotions arose within her. Yet in the end, they all converged into one feeling—envy.

This feeling was love. I have fallen in love with this man.

I also want to stay by his side until the end.

Ah, this was a fact that should even be scorned—the fall of a god.

It was something that must not happen.

But, yet—ah—ah—

I want you to find happiness so badly.

That blazing sincerity, hot as fire, was transmitted to the information core.

Artemis offered up her wish.

Before the Underlying Program for rebuilding their home planet could take effect, she modified and overwrote that command at an even faster speed.

Artemis changed it to—

—By any means necessary, allow the human intellectual individual named Moran to cross into tomorrow and attain happiness.

The moment the command overwrote her thought core—

Artemis understood.

Why she had come to cherish and love you so much.

The way you gritted your teeth and stepped forward despite every hardship, refusing to yield even when facing gods—that was precisely why she had fallen in love with you at first sight. Artemis loved that side of you.

Artemis knew that if you found out, you would surely get angry and curse her as a foolish woman, then stop her from doing this at once.

But she still chose to do it.

Your life was everything she loved. She would never allow that dazzling radiance to end here.

Knowing love, carrying love in her heart—

Since she had already fallen—

Then there was nothing to be done.

Within the heavens shrouded in darkness—

A massive, magnificent vessel floated there, like a divine bow already drawn.

"Hostile reaction detected—request acknowledged, affirmative response issued. Ether fluctuations confirmed from the ground. Preparing bombardment of the target location."

"Interstellar orbital cannon fully charged."

"Three seconds until bombardment... three, two..."

A cold, programmatic voice came from the chassis.

Yet it seemed to carry a trace of warmth that should not have been there.

Shoot down, pierce through, pry open.

Over the past thousand years, she had done such things countless times.

She had fired upon all those disloyal to the gods.

There was no pleasure, no joy.

Only the cold composure of data.

But this time, she felt an unprecedented surge of emotion.

Her gaze remained fixed upon that sea.

She could already see the face of the one she loved, and a warm current continuously flooded her chest.

Protect him, protect him, protect him—

Eliminate all who stood in the way of his happiness.

Even if the Great God personally called it a sin.

Even if he condemned them, saying they did not deserve happiness and must be punished.

She still believed in the beauty she pursued.

It was absolutely not a cycle of despair and defeat.

"My love shall become an arrow that pierces the stars! Even my father, the Great God Zeus, cannot stop it!"

Heat energy gathered beneath Artemis's chassis.

Her entire body shone with radiance.

Everything she wished for her beloved gathered at one point as she aimed the arrow at the rampaging Great God Zeus.

"You are the Golden Arrow that Pierces Stars—"

The overflowing, concentrated beam shot down from the heavens.

It struck Zeus's chassis squarely in the side.

He had never expected a threat that would injure himself.

Zeus had not deployed a defensive field, and the attack struck him completely. The might of ether poured over his body.

A thunderous roar resounded across all of Greece.

Like the scream of a giant dragon, it left everyone dumbfounded.

It could no longer be called an arrow.

It was a weapon capable of piercing planets and shooting down things soaring through the cosmos.

The ultimate Anti-Star Noble Phantasm.

Something that destroyed planets and shot down planets.

This artillery blast, which should have locked onto a planet, was now fired at the rampaging Great God Zeus.

There was only one reason for this anomaly.

The cold Machine God had fallen in love with a human hero.

PS: This chapter was the equivalent of two chapters—a huge chapter! Over four thousand words! The author said there would be thirty thousand words of bonus updates, and there really would be thirty thousand words!

All I ask is for a wave of first-day subscription support—! Please!.

Until the End, I Will Remain by Your Side: Third Bonus Chapter! 4.5k!

No one had realized the battle would turn out like this.

Before the final thunderbolt descended, Artemis, the Moon Goddess, rebelled against Zeus, the supreme chief god.

A shot that pierced the stars was fired.

Dense fog caused by the ether explosion filled the entire battlefield, while that towering, massive figure still stood in the sky.

Compared to Zeus being suddenly attacked—

You were clearly more concerned about Artemis acting, unable to understand why she would do this.

The smoke dispersed, revealing the chief god's true form.

Although Artemis's main cannon could pierce the stars, it still had not harmed Zeus effectively.

An extremely faint crack appeared on his divine visage, but it lasted only a few seconds before the Great God's Authority repaired the damage. It posed no threat to Zeus's life.

"Artemis! You... why did you attack!?"

Moran struggled to rise from the ground.

He gritted his teeth and reached out with a hand that was nearly shattered.

He knew the consequences of what she had done.

Precisely because of that, Moran knew there could be only one ending for her.

Moran was not the only one asking this question.

Zeus, having taken the blast, also turned his gaze toward Artemis. His eyes were even colder than before.

"Why? Interstellar Sniper Vessel Artemis, my beloved daughter, why did you attack me?"

"I cannot stand by and watch."

Artemis's voice echoed across the sea.

She descended here in her true mechanical form.

She took a protective stance before Zeus, aiming the cannon meant to subjugate enemies at him.

"Foolish! Even as my beloved daughter, you cannot defy my will. Even if you can reach out and touch the sky, a single Machine God like you cannot possibly stop me."

"Even so, I will save him.

I am the god who descended divine light upon the world from among the stars, teaching humanity what reverence was, a god who could never be understood... Now, I have found my light. No matter what, I will protect this radiance!"