The Dragon God's Eternal Vow
The god who saved me continued to visit me even after that day.
For a long time, the wounds I’d suffered while brainwashed by that man, Inoue Yuuki, had kept my heart locked away. Even to you—my god, my Aki—I saw you as nothing more than a stranger.
That’s why, back then, I kept pushing you away.
But no matter how coldly I treated you, you came to see me every single day.
“……”
“……”
“I said no! You’re annoying, so just go away. I don’t want to hear it. And my name isn’t Rebecca!”
You looked genuinely surprised.
At the time, I must have thought you were just a nuisance. Looking back now, I was so foolish and childish.
Even though I was incredibly rude, you kept coming to see me, as if you pitied me.
You probably visited me for nearly a hundred years.
“Hello… I told you, my name isn’t Rebecca…”
“…The last game you brought was completely boring, you know?”
“…Hmph. Just one round, okay?”
Because you kept coming to see me and caring for me, I was finally able to leave the lair I had shut myself inside for so long.
“Yes… it is.”
Thanks to you, I was able to open my heart, find meaning in life, and gain the will to keep living.
“Aki… why do you take such good care of me?”
When I heard those words, my face burned hot in an instant.
Even now, ten thousand years later, I can still hear your voice from that day with perfect clarity.
You like me… Does that mean you like me as a woman? Hehe.
“U-um… Aki, then does that mean you like me as a wom—”
—That’s enough, Aki.
—I can’t watch this any longer, Aki.
—You have crossed the line!
That was when the other gods appeared.
Of all moments, it had to be then!
“Why have you all suddenly shown up here?”
—Aki. We agreed when you said you would spare that wicked dragon.
—We even covered up her atrocities.
—And yet instead of punishing her, you help her?
—Have you fallen in love with a mere mortal?
—This cannot continue. We will execute that wicked dragon right now.
“No! Stop it. I told you this child is a victim. What are you doing? We are gods who must guide mortals onto the right path! You would punish a child who suffered because of our own negligence?”
—Aki. Why are you so obsessed with that wicked dragon?
—Our negligence? We did our best. It was that dragon who sinned. That is all.
“……If you wish to harm this child, you will have to kill me first.”
—Aki! Is that wicked dragon more precious to you than your own divinity?
—What about Hecate, who loves you?
—Enough. Aki has fallen. He has become an evil god. He too must be purged.
“Haa… So this is how it ends.”
“A-Aki… Please, just abandon me and save yourself…”
!!!!!
“Aki…”
And so you waged war against the other gods.
The battle lasted for a very long time.
So many gods drove spears and blades into your body, yet you refused to fall.
At the very end of that great war, the only god still standing was you.
Though whether that could truly be called “standing,” I’m not sure.
Your Divine Heart had already shattered.
Divinity was pouring out from every part of your body.
“A-Aki… Sob… It’s all because of me…”
“…What?”
Normally, when gods die or can no longer maintain their forms, they choose annihilation. The only other option is to fall to mortality and re-enter the cycle of reincarnation—but for gods, that fate is unbearably cruel.
Yet you chose to return to the wheel of reincarnation. You willingly fell from the highest place in existence to the lowest.
“Yes… Sob… I will definitely find you again, Aki—no, Master!”
“Yes. You are my Master, Aki. I will devote my entire life to serving you.”
“Yes… Master. I will definitely…”
You gathered the divinity of the gods who had fought you and gave it all to me.
"Rebecca. Consume these divinities. You must hide in a place so deep that the gods cannot find you. If it’s you, you’ll be able to digest them and make them your own. And after I die, my own divinity as well…"
You even gave me your own divinity.
“Yes, Master. I will definitely be happy… and when we meet again, I will return it all to you.”
“Yes! Master! Please tell me. I’m listening!”
That was as far as you got. Your life came to a stop. Your soul entered the cycle of reincarnation.
I clenched my fists so tightly my nails dug into my palms.
“……I swear. No matter what happens, I will find you and hear your answer. No matter how long it takes.”
With that vow in my heart, I hid in a place beyond the gaze of the other gods and absorbed the evil gods’ divinity you had left me.
Countless years passed, but in the end I made every last fragment of that divinity my own.
And then I attained godhood.
The moment I became a god, I immediately set out to find you.
I wandered the world searching for your presence, and at last I located your soul.
But when I found the body that held your soul… you were burning at the stake.
“Hahaha! At last, the devil of the oracle has been executed!”
“According to the oracle, this devil’s soul will resurrect. We must now find the newborn child it has possessed.”
The surviving gods had no intention of letting you go.
They had used oracles to manipulate the beings of the mortal realm, intending to subject you to eternal torment.
You had chosen reincarnation even knowing you would suffer forever!
Crack.
“Damn those gods. How dare they do this to my Master!”
Only then did I understand why you had told me to consume the divinity. It was so that while the gods toyed with you, I would not become their target!
Even in the moment of your death, you sacrificed yourself to save me!
Even while enduring eternal suffering…
I stormed the divine realm right then and there.
And I killed every last god.
—It’s the wicked dragon!
—The wicked dragon has attained godhood!
—Even so, there is only one of her.
—If we all fight together, she is nothing!
—Wait… what is that?
—The Dragon God! The wicked dragon has awakened the power of the Dragon God!
I slaughtered every single god, but one remained.
Hecate.
She was trembling in the corner.
She was the one you had always spoken of to me.
Though none of the other gods would listen to you, she alone had always done so.
She alone had been kind to you.
“You. You’re Hecate, aren’t you?”
“Yes, that’s right. You must be Rebecca. I heard so much about you from Aki. He talked about you constantly.”
So you had always been thinking of me?
“……What did you feel for Aki?”
“…I loved him. Even though he cherished you more than me…”
Loved him, she said.
A god who has offered up their Divine Heart cannot lie. Doing so would collapse their godhood.
I spared her. After all, someone still needed to manage the mortal realm.
Then I went to find the newly reborn you.
“Huh? Who are you, miss? Master?”
You didn’t remember me.
Even so, I served you as your maid.
You died again, and were reborn once more.
“A maid? Who are you? Am I the master?”
Even if you returned to the earth, were reborn again, and still could not remember me…
You had promised you would remember me one day.
You had promised you would give me an answer one day.