Jelanos had bet correctly.
The human girl in front of him was not some kind of planetary guardian. Otherwise, he would have been killed the moment she locked onto his location.
“Please forgive my earlier offense, Regulator.”
“My name is Jelanos.”
“I did not come here to challenge your authority. I only stumbled into this planet while fleeing from pursuers. It was somewhat unavoidable.”
The alien creature, still pinned to the ground by gravity, spoke to her in an extremely wretched manner. Compared to before, it had clearly come to terms with the situation.
“That attitude is more like it.”
Tsukimi Ryuune had never actually intended to kill him. Her earlier words had mostly been intimidation.
She felt no obligation to protect humans. However, if anyone dared to challenge her authority as a god on her own turf, she wouldn’t mind erasing them.
Jelanos let out a sigh of relief. The moment the gravitational restraint was lifted, its crushed limbs began slowly regenerating and rejoining.
“You said you entered my world while being hunted.”
“Where’s your proof?”
Tsukimi Ryuune toyed with a strand of her hair as she questioned it with amusement.
“Proof? You’ll see it for yourself soon enough.”
“What do you mean?”
“The one chasing me won’t give up so easily. In order to pursue me, that person will definitely enter this world as well.”
“…”
She immediately expanded her perception, but found no sign of any abnormal lifeform entering the planet’s range.
“So, in order to avoid causing trouble for you, Regulator, it would be best if you let me leave this planet. Of course, I will also compensate for the mistakes I made upon arriving here.”
“Do you people think this is some place you can come and go from as you please?”
She frowned, a trace of displeasure appearing on her beautiful face.
“Not at all. It’s just that the one pursuing me is extremely powerful. I’m afraid your world might get caught up in the conflict because of me.”
“Heh. Do you even realize how ridiculous you sound?”
The electronic voice coming from Jelanos’s helmet carried no emotion, making it feel like a robot.
At the same time, the ever-arrogant god failed to notice that this was a form of provocation. Step by step, she walked right into the trap the other had set.
“Threaten me, a god, inside my own world? Fine. Let him come.”
“I’d like to see just how capable this person you speak of really is.”
Seeing the growing interest in her eyes at the prospect of a challenge, Jelanos knew its plan had succeeded.
“However, Regulator, are you really sure you want to do this?”
“You have the option to avoid conflict, yet you’re choosing to bring the flames of war onto this planet?”
The mechanical voice echoed in her ears.
“What, do you think I’ll lose?”
“No, it’s just…”
“Then shut up.”
“Yes.”
Watching the alien visitor who had been tamed by her in less than half a day, Tsukimi Ryuune’s interest in it dropped significantly.
To her, Jelanos was now no different from the humans living on Earth.
Both were nothing more than NPCs she could control and manipulate at will. Just like training a dog, the most interesting part was when the other party still resisted. Once it gave up too quickly, she found it rather boring. So when she heard that an even stronger opponent was coming to challenge her, her attention naturally shifted.
“You’d better be telling the truth.”
“What?”
“The one chasing you. I’ll be waiting.”
“Oh, I can guarantee that.”
“So, Regulator, does this mean you’ve decided to offer me protection?”
“Protection?”
Only then did Tsukimi Ryuune faintly sense some of its intentions. However, the alien was still just an ant-like NPC in her eyes. Although being toyed with like this annoyed her, she temporarily allowed it in order to add some excitement to her boring life.
She glanced at Jelanos’s expressionless mask, then turned and stepped into the void.
“We’re simply using each other. On this planet, everything will only go the way I want it to.”
“By the way, put away those clever little schemes of yours. First, think about what value you have that would stop me from getting rid of you, alien.”
Jelanos watched her disappear in silence, standing atop a ground littered with corpses.
“Value, huh…”
“Earth humans are truly fortunate to have someone like this as their god.”
The killings that had made it so terrified were completely ignored by her. Either it had misunderstood her identity, or it truly couldn’t see through a god’s heart.
—
Tsukimi Ryuune was also thinking about this.
When she first obtained divine authority, she had assumed she would be forced to shoulder certain responsibilities. But in reality, the goddess had only taken away her gender and made no other special demands.
“I can sense the dissatisfaction you felt toward the world during your life, as well as the powerful obsession you carried as a dead person. In that case, I shall grant you the authority of a god and let the world become whatever you desire.”
She still remembered those words clearly.
Afterward, she was reborn in Japan as Tsukimi Ryuune. For a long time after that, she did whatever she wanted using her divine powers.
Wealth, status, and the idealized relationships where she was adored by everyone—she obtained all of it through her godhood.
Beyond that, she could make anyone she disliked disappear. Or, more cruelly, she could directly alter their life trajectories so they would suffer for the rest of their lives.
All of this had been driven by personal emotion. At first, she felt her life was incredibly satisfying. She even subconsciously ignored the fact that she had become female. The price she paid seemed trivial compared to what she had gained.
Until one day, she gradually began to feel the lack of certain emotions in her heart…
She didn’t know what love was.
All the love she possessed now had been obtained through divine power—parents who doted on her endlessly, friends who were completely devoted to her. Everything had been set up by her.
These emotions came too easily. So easily that she didn’t find them precious at all, nor did she want to cherish them…
It wasn’t that she hadn’t tried to obtain them through her own efforts. She just didn’t dare. She could perfectly imagine how useless she would become without relying on her divine powers…
Yet the unwillingness in her heart kept pushing her to prove something—that even without relying on external power, she could still obtain the happy life she desired.
Under this ideal, she dismantled the world that had once revolved around her and stopped intervening in or controlling it. This time, she wanted to experience life as an ordinary person as much as possible.
The price was that this world, including the fate of humanity, no longer had anything to do with her.
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