The door to the room swung open, and Pauline-san and my mother stepped inside.
Seeing Lu awake, both of them widened their eyes. They immediately noticed something different about my sister. Pauline-san, also the captain of the Raven Warrior Corps, furrowed her brow and spoke.
“Welcome back from your journey, Rion. And… Luisia—something happened, didn’t it?”
I nodded firmly.
“I… I used my Alarm skill on the goddess who was inside my little sister…”
Lu—or perhaps it was truly Goddess Freyja now—smiled gently at my mother and Pauline-san standing at the doorway. Her sky-blue eyes had shifted to green.
Mia-san, Felix-san, and even the Safi were in the room, all quietly watching Lu.
I stood as well, looking at my sister, and spoke.
“Y-you are… Freyja-sama, right…?”
“Yes. I’m afraid it will take a little longer for Luisia to fully wake up. For now, I’d like to explain.”
It clicked immediately.
Freyja is indeed borrowing Lu’s body… the goddess was residing within her.
Pauline-san’s eyes widened in disbelief.
“Freyja… Yes, we received word earlier. You mean the one you awakened in Flocia, correct? The very being who now resides within Luisia?”
Nodding several times, Pauline-san’s tall hat sway with each of her movement. In an instant, she understood—truly impressive for a princess.
The coin in my pocket trembled, then leaping into the air on their own, the gods came out.
““““FREYJA!””””
My eyes flickered and my ears rang.
Thor, the Thunder God; Loki, the God of Mischief; Uru, the God of Hunting and Sigris, the Medicine Goddess—they had all appeared at once, shouting at the top of their lungs.
Of course, the room that had only held sleeping Lu suddenly felt tiny. I saw Sigris’s waist armor push Felix-san almost out the door.
Solana, the only one who seemed unaffected, floated lightly. She hovered parallel to the floor, pressed close to the ceiling, looking down on the chaotic gathering below.
Her golden hair rippled as the goddess let out a sigh.
“…Again, huh.”
Yeah… that sounded about right.
Freyja, residing in Lu, deepened her smile and waved gently.
“My, my, everyone. It’s been a while.”
Uh-, is it really okay to sum up a thousand years as “it’s been a while”?
“Alright, everyone, line up!”
For the time being, I asked the gods to move away from my sister’s bed. Thankfully, Pauline-san had prepared a slightly larger room. Even though the gods hadn’t shrunk to doll size, we could all fit in somehow.
Around the bed against the wall, we lined up: me, Mia-san, Felix-san, Pauline-san, and Safi. The gods huddled in the corners and by the doorway.
It might be irreverent, but somehow, I felt I was getting used to organizing the gods.
Mia-san narrowed her eyes and muttered softly.
“You’ve grown strong, Rion.”
“…Don’t say that.”
Thor cleared his throat loudly.
“…So, then.”
His wide eyes fixed on Lu—or rather, Goddess Freyja—without blinking.
“There’s a mountain of things I want to hear, but first, I need to know: is the owner of that body, Luisia, safe?”
I had been wondering the same. Freyja-sama, the one using my sister’s body now, could only be the one to answer that.
Is Lu truly alright?
She lowered her chin and spoke calmly.
“She is fine.”
“Good, that makes things simple. That girl is Rion’s precious sister, you see. Can you… like us, step outside of her body?”
“That is…”
For the first time, Freyja’s expression darkened.
“That… cannot be done. This girl’s skill binds me tightly to her body.”
From the ceiling, Solana descended toward me. The goddess pressed a hand to her mouth, her face serious.
“It’s because of Luisia’s skill, Miko, isn’t it?”
I found myself asking, my voice tense.
“So… you can’t leave Lu’s body?”
“Luisia’s skill does more than merely host a god. It also ‘captures’ the deity within her.”
“Let me give an example. Freyja is a god of immense power. Imagine that power as a massive hammer. Luisia, through her skill, grips the handle tightly. The hammer cannot leave her hand by its own will. Through her own training, she might one day loosen her grip—allowing Freyja to manifest outside her body like we do—but in her current unconscious state, that is almost certainly impossible.”
I think not only I, but everyone listening must have been taken aback. It wasn’t just that Lu was hosting Freya—she almost seemed to be controlling her.
Solana’s eyes swept over all of us lined up in the room.
“Most likely, your suspicions are correct. Luisia’s skill <Miko> doesn’t merely host a god—it grants her the ability to govern the deity’s power as well.”
…Incredible.
Truly, she is a miko. A human child, yet she can wield power on par with a god.
Freyja finally spoke.
“While she slept, I was able to glean some understanding from this girl’s memories. I know that even in this era, you all face threats from monsters. But everything is—”
The goddess’s gaze, now through Lu’s eyes, swept across us.
“It is also part of Odin’s—whom you call Odis—strategy.”
Pauline-san spoke up without hesitation.
“A strategy? What do you mean?”
Freyja’s voice was calm, yet heavy with authority.“It is a reset. If Ymir’s goal concerns the end times, then Odin’s goal is a ‘redo of creation.’ He seeks to remake the world—another world entirely. To discard failed creations and begin anew.”
This is translated by Yume Neiji. Kindly read at yumeineijiworks.wordpress.com.
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