But where exactly... Chen Ran really couldn't tell at a glance.
That did not stop Chen Ran from reaching his hand into the planetary model and grabbing Savior Kal'tsit in his palm.
Savior Kal'tsit did not struggle, allowing Chen Ran to lift her away from the surface.
Only after arriving at this playground of the gods did she hear Chen Ran ask, "So, Savior Cat, what did you want from me this time?"
Upon hearing that, Savior Kal'tsit naturally opened her mouth. "Meow."
Chen Ran: "Heh."
Kal'tsit: "..."
Chen Ran smiled because he understood.
This was the rule between him and this Savior Cat.
Whenever Savior Cat needed something from him, she would meow once. Just as before, when Savior Cat had meowed three times, Chen Ran had bestowed food, water, and houses upon that planet.
So this saved a lot of pointless words. It was a signal that got straight to the point, letting Chen Ran understand at once what this Savior Cat wanted.
But Kal'tsit did not understand.
In his other hand, Kal'tsit, who had been watching the Savior Cat the entire time, suddenly went blank.
No... me from another worldline, could you not even speak human language anymore?
Why were you meowing?
Had you really been tamed into a pet?
Kal'tsit held her forehead with one hand, not wanting to speak, and Chen Ran naturally had no intention of reminding her.
So Chen Ran merely nodded and said to the Savior Cat, "I see. Savior Cat, tell me about it."
"Lord God."
Savior Kal'tsit finally stopped meowing and said, "Thanks to your mercy, our progress in reclaiming this planet has been swift. We have just returned to Siracusa... no, to what was once Siracusa's land. There, we encountered Yelagund."
"Yelagund?"
"Yes."
Savior Kal'tsit raised a hand and pointed toward the planet. "Yelagund's current condition... seems rather poor, so—"
Savior Kal'tsit did not continue.
Because the moment Chen Ran heard that, he looked inside the planetary model.
Before long, Chen Ran found the Yelagund Savior Cat had mentioned.
After all, Yelagund was not currently in human form, but in her true form.
To the people of Terra, she was an enormous being thousands of meters tall and stretching hundreds of kilometers—an entire snow mountain.
But to Chen Ran, she was like a little hamster suddenly appearing amid a cluster of pixels. It would have been hard not to notice her.
Only, this little hamster... no, this Yelagund, was lying on the ground as though a mountain had collapsed, occasionally letting out faint cries of pain.
Those cries were indeed faint. The nearby lake had been stained red, and the once snow-white mountain had lost all its whiteness, leaving behind only the color of blood.
Chen Ran first set the Savior Cat in his hand on a nearby table, then reached into the planetary model and pulled Yelagund out.
It was rather strange.
Even inside the planetary model, the people of Terra and Yelagund's true form had been completely disproportionate in size. Yet after Chen Ran pulled her out, Yelagund was still only as large as one of Chen Ran's palms.
But Chen Ran had no mind to worry about such trivialities right now. After placing the little hamster... no, Yelagund, on the table, he turned to look for the medicine box.
There was no helping it. Leaving aside whether a private physician could even see them, treatment like this... no matter how he looked at it, was a veterinarian's job.
Heart of the Corrupted Skadi: I Found So Many Sea Creatures in Terra on This Normal Worldline
Savior Kal'tsit watched from the side the entire time.
On one hand, she was quite curious how Chen Ran had shrunk Yelagund, who was as large as an entire snow mountain, down to such a tiny size—
Or perhaps it was the other way around, and he had actually enlarged them to the size of snow mountains?
On the other hand, Savior Kal'tsit was also a doctor. She wanted to observe a god's medical methods.
Then Savior Kal'tsit realized she could not understand any of it.
In her eyes, that god merely placed Yelagund upon a balance scale, as though weighing Yelagund's soul and the weight of her good and evil.
Then, from his fingertip, he condensed a drop of incomparably pure liquid and sprinkled it over Yelagund's mangled, gravely wounded body.
Finally, the god asked, "Alive?"
And so Yelagund came back to life.
Savior Kal'tsit: "..."
What kind of magic was this?
Ah, no, what kind of divine power was this?
Unfortunately, Chen Ran had no idea what this Hakimi was thinking. He merely clapped his hands.
Then he looked at Yelagund, who was no longer crying out but still had her eyes shut as though she had fallen into a deep sleep.
If one leaned closer, one could even hear Yelagund murmuring incessantly, as though trapped in a nightmare. "Children... my children... sob..."
Hearing this, Chen Ran glanced at the Savior Cat.
Seeing that, Savior Kal'tsit naturally explained, "Lord God, you know this as well. Although our conclusion was that the Sea Creatures destroyed the world... the only ones the Sea Creatures actually wiped out were humans."
No, more precisely, the Sea Creatures only targeted humans.
Flowers and grass, birds and beasts, even those Great Beasts—the Sea Creatures spared them all. But humans, no, the people of Terra, were the one race the Sea Creatures truly intended to drive to extinction.
Since they called it the end of the world, the nation of Siracusa was naturally gone as well.
But as Siracusa's god, Yelagund had always regarded the people of Siracusa as her children. Naturally, she could not bear to see her children suffer such slaughter.
So Yelagund resisted—
But unfortunately, Yelagund truly could not defeat the Sea Creatures.
In the end, all of Siracusa was wiped out, and Yelagund fell to the ground grievously wounded.
From the Sea Creatures' perspective, they had not intended to attack Yelagund in the first place. Yelagund had slapped them first, and only then did the Sea Creatures retaliate.
Then, while they fought, oh dear, Yelagund fell down and would not get back up. She must have been tired from playing, right? Being young was nice—she had fallen asleep the moment her head hit the ground.
So the Sea Creatures had no intention of finishing her off either. Once they confirmed that Yelagund was no longer fighting them, they turned around and left.
It was not until the Sea Creatures successfully ascended and the survivors reclaimed Siracusa's territory that they discovered the barely living Yelagund.
"I see."
Chen Ran nodded in understanding.
But after glancing at Yelagund, who was still sleeping deeply with no sign of waking up,
Chen Ran gently picked her up and went to the side, where he had specially prepared a small bed for her, then placed her on it.
And during that time—
The moment Chen Ran left while holding Yelagund, Savior Kal'tsit let out a sigh of relief.
"Please explain the Sea Creatures destroying the world in detail."
A voice with the exact same tone as hers came from behind her. Savior Kal'tsit froze for a moment, then immediately turned around.
There, she saw another Kal'tsit who looked exactly like her, staring at her with a grave expression.
"You—no... I see."
Though Savior Kal'tsit was somewhat surprised, Demon King Rabbit had already set a precedent. She quickly realized that the person before her should be herself from another worldline.
"The time you are from?" Savior Kal'tsit asked in return.
"December 23, 1096, in the Terra calendar," Kal'tsit replied.
"The day you rescued the Doctor?" Savior Kal'tsit asked.
"Yes." Kal'tsit nodded, taking the initiative. "On your side, when did the Sea Creatures begin destroying the world?"
"At the end of 1098 in the Terra calendar, roughly between December 27 and December 30," Savior Kal'tsit answered in detail.
"So there are still two years?" Kal'tsit summarized.
"Yes." Savior Kal'tsit nodded. "The key lies with Skadi."
After exchanging information in the simplest and fastest way possible—
The two cats had nothing more to say.
Until Kal'tsit looked up and glanced in Chen Ran's direction, making sure that Lord God had no intention of returning yet—
"Why did you..." Kal'tsit chose her words carefully. "Take on that sort of manner?"
Kal'tsit had thought that her other-worldline self had become a Divine Messenger, but the first thing she did was meow?
"...We... no, I accepted that god's Gift of the Deity." Savior Kal'tsit took all the responsibility upon herself.
Fortunately, they were the same person, so no misunderstanding arose.
Kal'tsit quickly understood. "So your worldline... is now considered that god's property?"
"Yes."
Savior Kal'tsit nodded.
One wrong step had led to another. There was nothing she could do; now, she could only accept it.
Savior Kal'tsit knew very well that from the moment they accepted the Gift of the Deity, everyone, including herself, and the entire planet had become Lord God's possessions.
That was why, when she discovered the dying Yelagund, she had immediately swung the 'Holy Sword' in her hand to summon Chen Ran.
Yelagund was also one of that planet's native inhabitants. Naturally, Yelagund was Chen Ran's property as well.
Only Chen Ran had the right to decide whether Yelagund stayed or left, lived or died. Savior Kal'tsit had no right to make that decision.
Kal'tsit: "..."
Honestly, after hearing Savior Cat's account,
Kal'tsit did not mock her or fall speechless. Instead, she felt a chill of lingering fear.
Yet after that fear... came helplessness.
Because according to Kal'tsit's plan, after she used "believing in Lord God" to temporarily protect Terra from Demon King Rabbit, she could use that point to negotiate.
But Savior Cat had told her otherwise. There was no room for negotiation at all.
Once you believed, you would directly become that god's property, just like Savior Cat now.
But if you did not believe, Demon King Rabbit would act immediately.
This road would not work.
And the helplessness that followed was... even if Kal'tsit knew now, what could she do about it?
This road would not work? As though there were any other road available to her.
And besides—
"Lord God."
A red ornamental fish would sometimes press herself against the outside of the planet to peer inside, then drift back to Chen Ran's side and reach out to tug at his little finger.
After this went on for a while, Chen Ran could not help turning to look at her, wanting to see what this ornamental fish was trying to do—
"Family." Heart of the Corrupted Skadi pointed toward Terra on the normal worldline. "I saw Sea Creatures inside that planet too. I want to bring them out."
Kal'tsit: "..."
Wait! Don't!
Eh...? No, taking the Sea Creatures away seemed like it might work...
No, no... could it?
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