Journey to Godhood Begins in Frieren Chapter 746 746: The Final Boss

Even though Shichen was strong in this world, the power he had gained here was fundantally no match for the resentnt from the outer world.

This was a dinsional gap—an outright "downward-dinsional strike."

Even if his soul ca from beyond this world, it still wasn't enough.

But there was still a way.

If his otherworldly soul could fuse with the will of this dinsion, then he would be able to oppose the outer-world resentnt.

The world's will had to stop that invasion. If it didn't, its dinsion would collapse and beco nothingness. And if its dinsion collapsed, it couldn't survive either.

Fusing with Shichen was the only hope.

But it required ti.

So they ca to help—without hesitation.

Not only for their own world, but also to be with Shichen.

Yet the power of the outer world wasn't sothing they could handle. Takamiya Mio sacrificed herself because of it.

She was the strongest among them, but still not a match for the outer-world resentnt.

Later, Shichen successfully fused with the world's will and beca the god of the dinsion—using his three-dinsional soul.

But the outer-world resentnt was too strong; it wasn't sothing he could defeat imdiately after fusing.

And because Mio's sacrifice enraged him beyond reason, Shichen threw everything away. He exhausted his own primal source power, sealing the outer-world resentnt and assimilating with it—trying to perish together with it.

The world's will saved him, preserving a single thread of his soul.

But his primal source power shattered into countless fragnts scattered across the world, leaving behind only one shard to protect Shichen's soul.

Shichen could not die. The outer-world resentnt was immortal, and it needed him to keep guarding this dinsion.

Since Shichen lost to it because he hadn't fully fused with the world's will, then the answer was to start over—give him enough ti.

The world would reboot. The outer-world resentnt would revive too. But that was fine: this ti, Shichen—the outsider—would have enough ti.

However, the world's will could no longer do much. It needed soone to guide Shichen.

Kato gumi volunteered to take that role.

But becoming that kind of existence ant losing her mories and emotions—she would need the primal source fragnts to restore herself.

Even so, she accepted it without hesitation.

Jeanne was a step late. She found a shard of primal source power, kept her mories, and waited for Shichen to find her and help him.

And so the world rebooted.

gumi existed deep inside Shichen's soul, becoming an existence indifferent to everything—yet she knew what she had to do. It was a mission carved into her soul.

She didn't rush to bring Shichen back to their dinsion. Instead, she let him experience more, mature more.

When the ti was right, she brought him back—in the way he was most familiar with.

Step by step, starting over—but the experiences were different, and the outco was better.

As more primal source fragnts were recovered, gumi's mories returned bit by bit, and her emotions grew richer—

until she fully recovered.

But she couldn't tell Shichen everything that had happened before. When he tried to die with the outer-world resentnt, he assimilated with it—if she told him, it would trigger those mories and wake the outer-world resentnt early.

It wasn't ti yet.

When the ti ca, Shichen would naturally rember everything.

…

In the morning, Shichen woke up and opened his eyes, looking a little dazed.

After a while, he ca back to himself—fully awake.

He rembered last night's dream clearly, and he understood: it wasn't a dream at all, but his previous loop.

So he hadn't guessed wrong.

He'd read plenty of stories like this—of course he could figure it out quickly.

But…

Shichen lowered his head and looked at Kato gumi, curled up in his arms, facing him. Her sleeping face was peaceful.

Affection and tenderness rose in his expression.

For his sake, gumi had gone that far and lost herself—an incredible thing.

Her love for him ran that deep.

Shichen didn't know if he could do the sa for her—but she already had.

There was a reason he'd once loved her so much.

She deserved it.

Shichen couldn't help tightening his embrace around gumi, though his strength was gentle.

"Mmm…" gumi woke from his movent.

When she opened her eyes, she saw the love in Shichen's gaze.

"Hm?"

She blinked, puzzled.

"What's wrong with you this early in the morning?"

"I rembered," Shichen answered as he looked at her.

"Rembered…? Don't tell …" gumi's face brightened.

"Yes. Everything from before. Everything—with you, and with all of them." Shichen nodded.

"Just as I thought. I knew you'd rember around now." gumi nodded, not surprised at all.

"You worked so hard." Shichen leaned in and kissed her forehead.

"It wasn't hard. It was all worth it." gumi smiled softly.

"But I'm so fickle…"

"I've known that forever."

"And that still counts as 'worth it'?" Shichen asked.

"Of course. Being with you makes happy. That's enough."

"Happiness…" Shichen murmured.

Everyone defines happiness differently. So cherish what they have; so chase what they don't. So are easily satisfied; so are endlessly greedy.

Whether you're happy depends entirely on how you think.

gumi said she was happy, and Shichen didn't believe she was lying.

Maybe she'd already adapted to his fickleness, adapted to life with others.

And after all the hardship they'd lived through, now that they were reunited, so things really were too small to matter.

"Then, are you not happy?" gumi asked.

"I'm happy," Shichen answered without hesitation.

"Ten tis, a hundred tis happy."

He truly was.

Being with any one of them would have made him happy—let alone being able to be with everyone he'd t.

It was a little wrong, maybe—but it was the truth.

"Then isn't that enough? If you're happy, why worry about anything else?" gumi asked with a smile.

"No," Shichen shook his head. "That's too selfish."

A lot of people's happiness is built on soone else's pain. The heartless can ignore that, but Shichen wasn't that kind of person.

For example: could everyone really accept his fickleness?

This family looked harmonious and warm, but who knew if soone was suppressing their true feelings?

What they chose, what they sacrificed.

He liked them—he loved them—so of course he cared about them.

"And what if it's selfish?" gumi asked calmly.

"Huh?" Shichen stared at her.

"Shichen—so long as you're happy, nothing else matters." gumi cupped his face, her tone serious.

"You're really…"

"That's how I feel. Your matters co first. Always."

"…I don't even know if I should be happy or not." Shichen gave a bitter laugh.

gumi's private devotion to him seed beyond saving.

Even so—he was happy.

"I care about you this much. Don't you like it?"

"I do, I do… but…"

"Then that's enough. Don't get tangled up in extra emotions—just focus on what makes you happy."

"But…"

"With here, nothing's a problem. People or things—I'll handle them all for you." gumi said it with fierce confidence.

"So you really want living off you?"

"What's wrong with that? You gave so much before. Now it's my turn."

Back when she'd lost Shichen, gumi felt like the sky had fallen. Nothing mattered anymore.

Now that she finally had another chance, there was no way she'd let that happen again.

She only needed Shichen to be safe. She only needed him to be happy.

"But the outer-world resentnt… only I can deal with it, right?"

"That's true. But I can help you now too." gumi grinned.

"How?"

"Don't forget—I've been with you the whole ti. My soul isn't just from this dinsion anymore."

"So that's how it is…"

"So this ti, we can fight the outer-world resentnt together—before it fully takes shape, we deal with it first."

"When?"

"Right now."

"Now?"

"Your mories have returned, so it's about to wake up too. We have to act fast—kill it while it hasn't ford yet."

"But my primal source power…"

"Half is enough. You're not alone this ti—you have ."

"You've gotten so reliable, gumi." Shichen laughed.

"I had to. I don't want to go through that again. I want our future—peaceful and safe." gumi clenched her small fist.

"Got it. Then… husband and wife as one?"

"Then we can cut through tal!"

They looked at each other and laughed.

The mont Shichen regained his mories, the two of them were in perfect sync.

"By the way—there's no need to rush this very second, right?" Shichen suddenly asked.

"It's not that urgent, you—mmph!"

gumi didn't even finish her sentence before Shichen kissed her.

~~~

Patreon(.)com/Bleam

— This Fanfic is Completed in Patreon!