"[Ooh, oooooh~ The sound came back! Great! Shuu-chan, I finally got through to you! Good God-sama will be so happy when He hears this!]"
Hearing Akuto's reply, the Holy Mother Goddess's voice on the other side sounded extremely cheerful.
"Shuu-chan? Why are you calling me Shuu-chan?" Akuto asked, clearly bothered by it.
[Why? Because you're Shuu-chan, of course?] The Holy Mother Goddess answered as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
"..."
Akuto fell silent.
Even though her nickname was "Breast Goddess," the girlish vibe around her was much stronger than her motherly one.
Lately, aside from Leilahflei, the only one who called him with such a shame-inducing nickname like "Shuu-chan" was this Holy Mother Goddess.
"Holy Mother Goddess-san, can I ask you a question?"
[Mm, what is it?]
"Since you're able to contact this place by some means… does that mean the evil gods of the exe World can also contact this side?"
[For now, they probably can't. At the moment, Good God-sama is using various means to block them, so they can't focus their attention on the DxD World for the time being.]
[Oh, right—by the way, the DxD World refers to the world you're in, Shuu-chan~]
[...…]
After a brief pause, the Holy Mother Goddess finally realized something was off.
[Eh? You know about the exe World?]
[You know about the evil gods?]
[Well, of course. You inherited Little Saint's knowledge, right? There should be information related to the exe World in Little Saint's memories.]
[Mm, as long as you know about the exe World, that's good.]
[Anyway, the situation in the DxD World isn't looking too good right now. Even though Good God-sama is doing everything He can to obstruct the evil gods, He may not be able to hold out for very long either.]
[We absolutely… absolutely need to… as soon as possible, use the exe Wor—… to deploy… World Cores… otherwise…]
[The evil gods… cross-world…]
As she spoke, the Holy Mother Goddess's voice grew more and more choppy.
"Hm?"
"Holy Mother Goddess-san, your voice is getting weaker on my end. If there's something important, could you please say it a little faster?"
"If I haven't misunderstood, what you're trying to say is: you want me to start by purging the World Cores that the exe World has planted in the DxD World, right?"
[Y-yes… yes… that's right… As expected of Good God-sama's…]
[Anyway… anyway, Good God-sama is trying to stop…]
[You must… absolutely must… purge…]
[And besides that, you must be wary of… the evil gods… outside… the timeline…]
[You absolutely… absolutely have to preserve the timeline… of the world Shuu-chan is in… in its entirety…]
[Otherwise… even Good God-sama… won't be able… to…]
Her voice grew fainter and fainter, quickly becoming so weak that it was almost inaudible.
[This is bad… time's…]
[Anyway… Shuu-chan… we're counting on you… we'll give it our all… please, you too, definitely…]
[Goodbye then… guddo-bai… sayo-la…]
Even though it was just broken fragments, Akuto could tell the Holy Mother Goddess was switching between various countries' languages to say goodbye.
Listening to her slightly strange pronunciation, the corner of Akuto's eye twitched nonstop.
He had to admit, this Holy Mother Goddess was just as lively as she'd been in the original story. Truly worthy of being the deity who liked the "Breast Dragon Song."
"..."
"Good thing what came through were key words. If they were all particles and filler words, even trying to piece things together through deduction would have been way harder."
A few seconds later, Akuto deduced the likely meaning of all the missing parts.
"In short, besides the most basic issue—the World Cores that are currently eroding the DxD World—what Good God-sama's side is most worried about… should be how the exe World's multiple layers of interference with the DxD World will affect it."
"If the DxD World's timeline and world-line are damaged, things might spiral into a completely irreparable situation."
…
Fortunately, the Holy Mother Goddess "Kine Kichoumi" wasn't Akuto's only source of information.
So, after roughly piecing together the gist from her fragmented speech, Akuto opened his system interface.
"System, does what the Holy Mother Goddess just talked about have anything to do with you? If it does, tell me everything that's related to you."
At this point, Akuto was already very used to handling the system.
As long as the question he asked was connected to the system, the system would respond within its authority.
So now, whenever he ran into a problem, he would first ask whether or not it was related to the system.
[Ding~]
[There is a certain degree of correlation.]
[In order to fully conquer the DxD World, the host must maintain the integrity of the DxD World's timeline.]
[If the exe World's erosion grows too deep, it will be extremely difficult for the host to subjugate the DxD World into becoming a world belonging to himself.]
[Considering that the evil gods from the exe World have previously attacked the timeline where the God of the Bible resided, they indeed possess the ability to continue affecting the timeline and plunge the DxD World into chaos.]
[The timeline after the host's birth cannot be easily interfered with, due to the existence of the system as a "singularity."]
[However, in the eras before the host was born, each age had its own protagonist. If those key figures are killed and cause massive fluctuations in the world-line, it may give evil gods an opening to break in.]
"So I need to protect the timelines of the past?"
"But… how exactly am I supposed to protect them? Clear the main story of the DxD World first, then go back into past timelines to fish people out?"
[Ding~]
[Under normal circumstances, no active protection is required. However, if the evil gods make another move on past world-lines, the system can send the host to the corresponding era.]
"Alright, I get it. So for now, I don't have to take any immediate action. I'll just respond flexibly when the exe World side makes a move, right?"
[More or less.]
...
Meanwhile, on Griselda's side—
With the Holy Mother Goddess's connection cut off, the golden glow in Griselda's eyes gradually faded.
"Holy Son-sama, that was…?"
Griselda looked at Akuto with full-on shock.
Just now it felt like some deity from another world had used her as a medium to speak with him.
"That was the Holy Mother Goddess from the exe World, more or less the opposition leader to the evil god faction over there."
"It's precisely because the leader of her faction—Good God-sama—is obstructing the evil gods that they still haven't moved against the DxD World."
"So that's how it is…"
Griselda smiled gently and gently pulled Akuto's head against her chest.
Just now, while she hadn't been able to speak, she had still clearly heard the conversation between Akuto and the Holy Mother Goddess "Kine."
Just as she had suspected, Holy Son-sama truly was the savior of the DxD World.
Who else, after all, could directly establish contact with such a powerful existence from the exe World?
But aside from relief and warmth, Griselda's heart was filled with even deeper ache.
So she slowly leaned forward, trying to press as much of Akuto's body against her own as possible.
"Holy Son-sama, I will continue to follow you forever."
"Though I may not be able to offer you much help, if this body can bring you even the slightest bit of comfort… that would be my greatest honor."
Behind Griselda, Asia gave a helpless smile as she lay down beside Akuto as well, hugging his arm into her chest.
The resolve Griselda had just reached now—Asia had already come to terms with long ago.
...
Elsewhere.
In the exe World—
Good God-sama had just rushed back when the Holy Mother Goddess's connection was forcibly cut.
Dragging her gorgeous golden dress that floated in the void, Good God-sama returned to her throne.
"Kichoumi, about this communication with the DxD World—give me a full report of everything: cause, process, and result."
"Yes, Good God-sama."
Before Good God-sama, even the usually over-the-top Holy Mother Goddess was uncharacteristically restrained.
In terms of raw combat power, the Holy Mother Goddess Kichoumi was far inferior to Good God Letoruas. But when it came to contacting other worlds and running away, no one could surpass her.
Good God Letoruas had only managed to make contact with the DxD World in the first place because the Holy Mother Goddess Kichoumi accidentally opened a channel to it, which in turn drew out the God of the Bible and allowed the two deities to establish a connection.
That was why otherworld communication had always been the Holy Mother Goddess's exclusive job.
...
Very quickly, by reading the data and light of the heart sent over by the Holy Mother Goddess, Good God-sama understood the entire situation.
"So that's how it is? That child… really was chosen by the God of the Bible?"
Good God-sama let out a soft sigh and crossed her smooth, milk-white long legs, the gilded high-heeled shoe on her foot tracing an elegant arc through the empty air.
"Vmm~"
In the next instant, with that arc of her heel, the world-line and timeline of the entire DxD World were gradually revealed before Good God-sama's eyes.
There was no doubt—Good God-sama also possessed the ability to interfere with world-lines.
It was precisely because of her interference that all the invaded worlds had not yet become complete playthings of the exe World's evil gods.
Otherwise, given how the exe World's evil gods meddled with other worlds, even before a formal invasion began, they could have already turned those worlds' world-lines into a complete mess.
Good God Letoruas possessed the ability to descend upon bodies in the past timeline and thereby influence that era.
Using this extremely special ability, Good God-sama could both conceal her identity and strike at the tentacles those evil gods extended into the past.
But more than ten years ago, she suffered a setback in the DxD World—more precisely, at Sai Akuto's point on the timeline.
...
The God of the Bible had not simply sat around waiting to die.
Before His death, He used His already-crippled body as a sacrifice to perform a summoning toward a higher, unknown dimension He had discovered.
Then, His wish was answered.
An unknown being descended into the timeline where Hyoudou Issei was born, completely replacing the original protagonist's existence with its own power. After that happened, the DxD World's timeline was altered on a massive scale.
You could say that whether it was certain events happening earlier or later than they should have, or Gremory's single-heir issue, or even a large number of female-line characters who were originally supposed to marry and have children with men becoming mysteriously pregnant—these all came from the influence of the entity summoned by the God of the Bible.
That wave of changes also dragged Good God-sama, who had been observing the DxD World-line all along, into the mess.
Originally, the God of the Bible had been the most promising ally she had found among many invaded worlds. She had fully intended to cultivate Him into a partner who would fight the exe World's evil gods alongside her.
But she fell for the evil gods' "lure the tiger away from the mountain" stratagem and was trapped within the past world-lines of other invaded worlds.
By the time she snapped back to awareness, the God of the Bible had already been slain, and His destined death had been fixed.
Regretful, Good God-sama then sensed the dramatic changes occurring in the DxD World-line.
And soon after, she spotted the moment when Sai Akuto first descended onto that timeline.
(End of Chapter)
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