To rule out that order.
That’s why Zach ordered Ninia to become his lover. There was no other choice for Zach if he wanted Ninia to truly love him by heart, not as her duty.
”Ninia, I order you to become my lover,” he said again.
”…” Ninia had a dazed expression on her face as though those words had turned her switch off.
”Ninia?” Zach calmly called out to her, but he received no response.
”…”
”Hey, are you okay?”
”…”
Zach shook Ninia’s body, but she still didn’t reply. Her body also felt lifeless with no resistance. He shook her harder, and her body fell to the bed.
That’s when he finally saw her face, which looked expressionless. Her eyes had no light, and her breathing had stopped.
She seemed like a lifeless doll with flesh.
”Ninia! I order you to wake up!”
Ninia’s body suddenly began to jerk, and her eyes rolled. She lifted her body before dropping to the bed again and passing out.
”Ninia?”
A few seconds later, Ninia opened her eyes and stared at Zach with a curious look on her face.
”Who… are you…?” she asked.
”….!” Zach’s face turned pale in less than a second. Sweat rolled down his forehead as he slowly opened his mouth to say, “I am Zach.”
”Zach? Why does that name sound so familiar?” she asked.
”Are you… are you okay? Why are you acting like this? Do you not remember who I am?” he asked with a panicked look on his face.
”No. Have we met before? And…” she glanced around the room and asked, “Why am I… here? What is this place?”
’Did she lose her memory after what I did? Did she get reset or something? It all happened because of me.” He gulped down nervously and said:
”This is a chamber in the church. And you are the nun. This world is made by the gods to punish humans. It’s a game, and there are NPCs such as you and players like me.
I became your God and made you the prophet of my religion. We were discussing some things, and this topic came up. I… ordered you to become… become someone you didn’t want to be, and then you started acting strangely and eventually passed out.
And now… it seems that you don’t remember any of that.”
”No. I remember all that. I can’t remember you, but I… I feel like we have met before.”
’Could it be that she forgot everything about me?!’
”Do you remember Aria?”
”Aria, the goddess of death and destruction? Of course, everyone knows her and fears her. Why would you ask such a question? Even saying her name aloud can bring you destruction, you know?” she asked curiously.
”Do you know Victoria?”
”No. Who is that?”
”What about Misha?”
”I… don’t.”
”What about Aurora?”
”Aurora. Aurora… I feel like I have heard this name before.”
SIGH!
Zach sat on the bed beside Ninia and let out a weary sigh. He held her head in his hands and muttered, “You don’t remember anyone. But you somehow know Aria’s true identity, which no other NPCs do. Even you didn’t know that up until now. What have I done?”
”Are you okay? I can feel many sad emotions emitting from you,” she asked calmly.
”….”
”Not only sad. But you seem to be in pain too. Do you need my help?”
”…”
Ninia hugged Zach and pressed his face against her breasts.
”You must have suffered a lot.” She patted his head and continued speaking, “But it’s alright. Everything happens for good. You don’t have to endure everything. You are meant to let it go. Everything will be okay sooner or later.
You are in a long battle that will never end, a war that can never be won. But what matters is that you participated in it. You are not alone in this. Everyone has lost, and they have gained too.
You all must stay strong and fight together. Ultimately, everything shall be worth it, one way or another. And once everything has ended, you will look back at what you have lost and what you gained, and you will realize that what mattered was the journey and what you did on the way, not the destination itself.
So you must not lose faith in yourself. You have your followers believing in your and your words. Please, I beg you, do not break their trust. They have nowhere to go. For you are all worthy of their prayers.”
Her voice sounded so soothing to Zach’s ears that he felt like listening to her all day and night.
”You are still the kind Ninia I knew…” he muttered.
”Hmm? Who is Ninia?”
”You are.”
”No. My name is Selene, and I am the second princess of the Elf realm,” she stated with a puzzled look on her face.
”You are a— what?!” he exclaimed with a visibly shocked expression on his face.
’A princess from an Elf realm?! So my hunch was correct! The NPCs in this world belong to some other world, and god had abducted them somehow. They wiped their memories, brainwashed them, and gave them a fake role and identity!
Freaking motherfucking gods! They stole their existence! Are they truly qualified to be called a god? With the sins they have committed, they have no right to punish the humans!’
Zach’s anger and hatred towards the gods had gone over the roof. Now that Zach knew that the gods’ actions had no meaning and atonement behind them, he no longer felt the pity he felt for them before.
He wanted to end them and remove them from existence.
”Hmm? Did you not know that already? You seem to know me so well, and I also feel safe and… and…” She placed her hand on the chest and asked with a confused look on her face: “What is this warm yet anxious feeling?”
”…”
She caressed Zach’s face and asked, “Can I ask what type of relationship we had?”
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