- 327: Denying a God
“God! God of the earth!!”
A different voice enters the discussion of the God and heroes.
The serious voice of the Demon Lord Michael that sounded as if he was shouldering the world.
“Are you saying the Gods don’t forgive the existence of Demon Lords? Are you saying monsters are living beings that shouldn’t hold hearts?” (Michael)
“No. Monsters are not even living beings. They are tools.” (Mantle)
The so clear response of Mantle made Michael gulp his breath audibly.
“Tools created by the Gods for the sake of the Gods. The Gods that were flustered by how the humans stopped praying after civilization developed created monsters so that they would pray again. If monsters threaten the humans, they would look for help by praying.” (Mantle)
“Oi, wasn’t an unbelievable reality revealed just now?” (Mirack)
“Meaning that they were pumps the Gods set up? The Gods are unexpectedly sly.” (Celestis)
The humans were showing agitation at one of the world’s secrets that was revealed by Mantle as if it were a passing thought.
“You are the tools used in order for humans to pray, so there’s no need for tools to have hearts. That’s why we created monsters out of pure divine power and didn’t place a soul in them. It isn’t possible for things like that to have a heart.” (Mantle)
“…Kugh!” (Michael)
Michael silently tightened his fists.
“You monsters have deviated from the duty that us Gods have set for you. That’s why you must be destroyed. Monsters were created for the sake of humans, and yet, if those monsters were to destroy those humans, it would go against their purpose.” (Mantle)
Everything about Mantle is simple and straight, and that made it hard to refute.
And yet, this feeling of wanting to refute it with all they had…everyone in this place felt that way.
An argument that has no place where to hit -this might be what you would call the weight of a God’s words.
“I also ask! Earth God!” (Uriel)
Uriel speaks now.
He was utterly in fear due to the blade hell of Sasae-chan but, right now, his body was overflowing with strength.
His cut off leg had already been regenerated, even if it was a hasty job.
“I…was born from the earth mother that you had created.” (Uriel)
Earth Mother Monster, Grandma Wood.
“Those memories may be hazy, but I have inherited them. You say that monsters were originally made to do evil to the humans that had forgotten their prayers, but I think that only us earth monsters are different.” (Uriel)
It is exactly right.
The only type of monster that Grandma Wood gave birth to were Golems. Different from the other monsters, they obeyed the orders of humans and lived together with humans.
That’s why the people of Ishtar Blaze that worship Mantle had grown fond of the Golems and respected Grandma Wood as they called it ‘Great Pillar-sama’.
Until the great fall that Mantle created, that is.
“I was against the other Gods. Even if humans didn’t pray to me, I wanted to be of use to them. That’s why I created monsters that would help humans rather than ones that attacked them.” (Mantle)
“The birth of Golems had that kind of reason behind it…” (Karen)
“But Earth Demon Lord-san, I didn’t think that an existence like you would be born under this feeling of ‘wanting to help humans’ that I placed when creating Golems. Same as the other Demon Lord-sans, to try and destroy the human-sans… It is completely contrary to the wishes of your creator. Truly bad kids.” (Mantle)
Mantle announces.
“I will be destroying you for the sake of the human-sans.” (Mantle)
“Don’t joke around!” (Uriel)
Uriel’s voice was filled with anger.
What was overflowing from his body was resentment.
“We were born for the sake of humans…for the sake of Gods? Where is our own reason for living?! Are you saying that it is wrong to live for our own sake?!” (Uriel)
“It is exactly as Uriel-san says!” (Karen)
Karen-san agrees to the words of the demon.
“No matter the living being, even if it doesn’t have a soul, it should still have the right to live for their own sake! No one can deny that!!” (Karen)
“No matter if you are a God, there’s no way it is okay for you to arbitrarily decide the fate of the ones living on the surface world! Humans might end up getting that treatment as well, so I can’t say that this is someone else’s problem!” (Celestis)
“As I thought, we will be completely in opposition to this! Also, return Sasae’s body! Her body is not something that a God can do whatever they want with it!” (Mirack)