I am the Goddess Destined to be Devoured by the Protagonist - Chapter 01
========== PROLOGUE ==========
I succeeded in moving to the bed in my space along with Sirius.
However, because Sirius had passed out while holding me, I was helplessly trapped in his embrace.
How am I supposed to get out of this?
Perhaps because I was squirming, Sirius slowly opened his eyes.
And after looking at me…….
He closed his eyes again, adjusted his hold on me, and leaned his head against me.
I felt like my human rights, no, my ‘divine rights’ were being ignored.
“Sirius.”
When I called him, he opened his eyes quickly, unlike before.
“Please let go.”
However, my words were ignored.
In the end, I decided to escape on my own.
As I wiggled near his waist, Sirius flinched. Perhaps because of that, the strength in the arms wrapped around my body loosened a little.
Taking that opportunity, I pushed his arms away, sat up from where I was lying, and perched on the edge of the bed.
While I was doing that, Sirius quickly got off the bed and knelt before me.
He paid no heed to my gestures to stop him.
“It is an honor to see you again, Listener-nim.”
He greeted me politely.
“Please stand up for now.”
Only when I said it did he stand up.
I took the lead and sat at the tea table. Sirius followed and sat down.
I never thought the day would come when I would face him in person.
Why did this happen?
I began to recall the day everything changed.
========== 1화 ==========
I possessed a body.
How did I know that, you ask…….
[Welcome back to Komos. ‘Listener of Wishes Drawing Lines’-nim.]
Wouldn’t anyone know if a window that looked like something you’d only see in a game was floating in front of their eyes like a hologram?
On top of that, the name I saw in a novel was written there, emphasized with quotation marks? This is 100% possession.
Not a strange ceiling, but a strange system window.
Thanks to the title ‘Listener of Wishes Drawing Lines’ written on the system window—a title that couldn’t be confused with any other novel—I realized which novel I had possessed.
Listener of Wishes Drawing… no, that’s too long, anyway, the Listener was the epithet of the god who contracted with the protagonist in the dark fantasy novel , or for short.
It’s that ‘God,’ the one that’s ‘GOD’ in English. The great being described as having omnipotent powers.
It wasn’t hard to explain this god. You could just say he was a crazy bastard who worked the protagonist to the bone under the guise of saving the world, and that would be the end of it.
But the system window is calling me by that crazy bastard’s name.
What am I supposed to do here? It’s a hurdle right from the start.
I rolled my eyes and my gaze landed on the system window still floating in front of me.
However, the content of the window had changed.
[Please select the channel you wish to enter.]
Below that sentence, various symbols and words with unknown meanings were written.
What is this? And what the hell is a channel?
I didn’t know anything, but since it looked like I could scroll the screen, I put my finger on the system window and swiped up.
Then, a word I had seen before caught my eye.
Could this be…….
I brought my finger to that word and touched it.
[You have entered channel ‘Quartz’.]
Then, on a screen that looked quite empty, a single image was floating in the top left corner.
I examined the image.
Only a faint light was illuminating the interior of a dark space. Judging by the fact that there was no furniture in that light, only miscellaneous items scattered here and there, it looked like a storage room.
In the center of the image was a man wearing a hood pulled down low. His face wasn’t clearly visible, but I felt like I knew who he was.
I lowered my gaze below the image.
[Sirius]
The name of the protagonist of this broadcast was written there.
Now I get it. How the Listener contacted the protagonist.
was a novel based on the constellation genre. It had a setting where gods could watch humans, send messages, and provide sponsorships, just like people watching personal internet broadcasts.
And the inside of the system window I was looking at right now was set up like a personal internet broadcasting site.
There, in the top left corner, was a logo that said ‘Komos’ in a language I had never seen before, but could read, perhaps thanks to the possession.
It seemed the name of this broadcasting platform was Komos.
I thought it was just a setting, but I didn’t know I would be watching from a place that was so blatantly set up like a broadcasting site.
The reason I pressed the word ‘Quartz’ when asked to select a channel was because unfolded on a fictional world called Quartz.
If I press the image, the broadcast thumbnail, and enter the broadcast, I should be able to help the protagonist.
But now that the path to help the protagonist was right in front of me, I hesitated to press it.
It was because I didn’t know if I would end up seeing what was shocking just by reading it in text, in 1080p video quality.
[Notification]
[Komos broadcasts are being transmitted in 4K quality.]
Yeah. Thanks a lot for letting me know. Thanks to you, I’m even more scared.
In the novel, there was no hero other than Sirius to save the world. And that hero was created by the Listener.
Then, if I, who became the Listener, say, ‘Protagonist? Why should I care? I’ll just not watch the broadcast,’ then the world called Quartz will be destroyed, and Sirius, who lived there, will die.
Once my thoughts reached that point, I slowly raised my hand.
I didn’t want Sirius to die.
Just then, the thumbnail changed, and some rough-looking men were shown. I was about to press the thumbnail with determination, but I was startled and pulled my hand back.
No way, how can people who look so blatantly like criminals exist? If they just walked around, a passing police officer would pick them up.
Such people were in a standoff with Sirius.
Something dangerous might have happened to Sirius. As if I had never hesitated, I hurriedly pressed the thumbnail.
Then the broadcast screen appeared, and I quickly assessed the situation.
On one side, there were three rough-looking individuals, and on the other side, Sirius, who was hiding a child behind him, and a nice-looking middle-aged man standing next to him.
-Hey, you hear me?
One of the rough-looking men I saw in the thumbnail spoke, pretending to be playful. But he didn’t hide the annoyance underlying it.
It wasn’t hard to tell that the current situation was from the early part of the novel.
It was when Sirius was staying at an inn after returning from a dungeon.
Thump, thump.
The sound of something’s footsteps rang out loudly.
At someone’s shout, the innkeeper evacuated the people inside the inn and even the people passing by in front of the inn to the basement storage.
A while later, as if the monster had left, no more sounds were heard, and people felt relieved and tried to go outside.
But they couldn’t. The door, buried under the rubble of the collapsed building, wouldn’t open.
Like that, people were trapped in the dark basement, and quite a bit of time passed.
Fortunately, there was food in the basement storage, but it was a very small amount. Even that, the innkeeper divided equally among everyone, so the amount each person could eat was very small.
They had to save food. Their stomachs, starved from not eating, were aching, and they couldn’t wet their parched throats from not drinking.
Then one day, three men showed suspicious movements.
When Sirius, sensing something strange, asked about their intentions, one of them answered in a nonchalant tone.
Saying that, he pointed to the only child in the basement storage.
Stealing food from a child, who is the weak one—anyone would have condemned them.
If it weren’t for the situation they were in, that is.
The people trapped in the storage were exhausted in both body and mind.
A place where they couldn’t get help from the outside. Men with vicious expressions. A lack of morality that couldn’t be found in them. A blade that would clearly be painful if stabbed.
The only people who stepped up to stop the men were Sirius and the kind-hearted innkeeper.
Thus, as seen on the screen now, a composition was formed: Sirius and the innkeeper trying to protect the young child, the three men standing in opposition, and ten people sitting sparsely in the distance, just watching the situation.
-Ha, this is troublesome…….
I looked at the men’s side. No matter how you looked at them, they were neighborhood thug extras who operated as a trio.
The man standing in the center among them was holding a fruit knife found in the storage.
This time, I turned my gaze toward Sirius.
The innkeeper and the child looked like they had never even been in a physical fight in their lives. The only one who could stand up against the men’s attack was Sirius.
A 3:1 situation.
However, it wasn’t dangerous. The men showed no signs of rushing in.
It was because they knew they had no chance of winning even if the three of them attacked.
They had seen Sirius rip the basement storage door off as if it were nothing.
It was something an ordinary human couldn’t do.
The thugs only knew how to scare the weak; they had never won against an extraordinary opponent.
That’s why they would back down on their own if they just waited.
But they shouldn’t just leave them alone. Because the problem happens after that.
One of the thugs knew how to use magic. Although it was a crappy skill.
Of course, Sirius, not knowing if the thugs would do something foolish after the confrontation surrounding the child, minimized his sleep as much as possible.
Even so, there was no way to completely avoid the demon of sleep.
After some time passed, when Sirius’s eyes were closing, the thugs realized the time they had been waiting for had come.
That is how Sirius gets put under a spell and falls asleep.
When Sirius opened his eyes again, his body was tied up with thick ropes. A fishy smell filled his nasal cavity, and dark red liquid blurred his vision.
The thugs had eventually killed the child who resisted fiercely and taken the food.
Sirius was engulfed in rage and at the same time gritted his teeth in self-loathing for failing to protect the child.
But at that moment, a system window appeared. The Listener had offered a contract to Sirius.
Sirius was surprised by the appearance of an unexpected being, but he accepted the contract without hesitation.
His god placed an old sword in his hand as a contract gift.
It wasn’t hard to understand the god’s will. Sirius cut the ropes binding his body and swung the sword.
At the three men who killed the child.
But Sirius’s actions didn’t end there. There were ten people who hadn’t taken any action until he was tied up.
Bystanders.
In the eyes of Sirius, who was consumed by negative emotions, that’s just how they looked.
Thus, Sirius commits his first crime and at the same time ends up killing thirteen people, excluding the innkeeper.
It was a horrific story from the start. To think that most of the people trapped in the basement storage died.
Thinking about it now, I should have just stopped watching here and ran away, but human curiosity is truly amazing. To think I even considered watching more from there.
I looked back at the broadcast screen. The standoff was still unfolding.
It was a relief that the timing of the possession wasn’t too late.
Because no one had died yet.
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