I'll kill you after I finish this game!

Narakuga was stronger than him, but Reiji had already set his sights on the Abyss of Myriad Colors. After realizing his heart's desire, Reiji still relentlessly pursued progress.

Even if the snake has returned to the past, its process and pursuit remain unchanged, just like the greedy ouroboros described by the celebrity.

Even though he had started, he never managed to reach his own finish line, so Reiji couldn't stop.

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18th century, Brittany, France.

"Gululu..."

As the wheels turned on the bumpy road, a couple sat in a carriage, the husband driving the horses with his pregnant wife, preparing to head to the city.

The husband was an honest harbor worker, and the wife was a very beautiful woman; they lived a happy life.

My wife is nearing her due date and could give birth at any moment. If she continues to stay at home, something bad might happen.

But these are all other reasons. During this period, the storm of revolutionary thought spread, and the women's husbands were not spared either.

During this period, the so-called people's thinking has undergone a complete transformation from the ignorance of their initial oppression.

Nobles, monks, and priests were targeted and disliked.

The woman's husband disliked nobles, and given the lack of entertainment in the era, his only interest was witnessing beheadings on the guillotine.

The woman's husband never missed a day of execution. Even though he had been influenced by the ideas of the nobility in the past, now that his thoughts had been affected, he hated those people as much as he had cared before.

The couple never questioned those ideas, and the husband seemed to have forgotten that he had received help from monks and friars when he was a child.

The husband is a simple-minded and naive man, while the wife is a rather fanatical figure with revolutionary ideas.

On my way to see the doctor, I will also visit an execution site.

"That guy was a priest, and when it comes to priests, they're all wicked people, no matter who they are. So..."

The couple chatted along the way. The husband's hatred for the nobles and monks remained unchanged, and the wife was used to it.

Today, there is a former priest of the Church of Saviour in the city. Everyone in this area knows this old priest.

Everyone wants to see what expression the priest will have on the execution platform.

The guillotine is now located in the center of the square, directly opposite the Inquisition.

The crowd surged around the execution platform, their eyes fixed on the person on it with a variety of expressions.

Even though it was already close to dusk and the execution time had long passed, the priest on the execution platform had not yet been beheaded.

The crowd below was buzzing with discussion; they pretty much knew what was going on. After all, the person to be executed was a priest.

"They say the executioner escaped?"

"He must have been scared because he heard they were going to kill the priest."

"Then what should we do? Should we stop the execution?"

"How could that be? They'll definitely find someone else to take his place."

"Then you do it."

"Damn it, why me?!"

The two supervisors on the execution platform were talking, while the crowd below continued to discuss amongst themselves.

Many people had received the priest's kindness and help, and there were also many people in the audience who sympathized with the priest. Because it was taboo to execute the priest or to show sympathy, no one was willing to behead the old priest in place of the executioner.

The loving couple were watching from their old spot when, just as dusk was falling, the husband's wife was struck by a merciless labor pain.

But his wife gripped her thighs and touched her stomach with suppressed force, biting her lip and trying not to cry out.

She seemed to be waiting anxiously for something, but the executioner still didn't appear. Finally, she couldn't bear it any longer.

"Ugh... what's going on!" the wife groaned weakly.

“The executioner escaped.” The husband’s expression was also complicated as he replied, “There’s no way he could bring himself to harm the priest who was taking care of him.”

The priest is the benefactor of all the unfortunate, and the last vestiges of compassion in people's hearts are restored on the day of his execution.

"Are there any citizens willing to act as executioners?" an official asked the crowd.

"......"

The area below the execution platform remained dominated by an atmosphere of deathly silence.

“Darling…please…” The wife’s slightly pained voice made her husband turn his head. He looked at his wife, who was giving him a forced smile, with confusion. She said, “Please go and carry out the execution in place of the executioner.”

Such a strange request was nothing unusual to the upright and single-minded husband; the woman's plea was indeed like a supreme command.

"I come!"

The simple-minded husband readily agreed to his wife's request. He rushed out and, amidst the astonished gazes of the crowd, stepped onto the execution platform.

In a slightly dark alley below the stage, a petite figure with dazzling silver hair, wearing armor and a violet dress, watched the scene with a pair of exquisite, jewel-like blue eyes.

To avoid being discovered while playing hide-and-seek with his friends, Razer, whose appearance has been transformed into that of his beloved wife Euclid Wood, watches the moment of the goddess's birth in this familiar pose.

Seeing her husband's courageous posture on stage, the wife cheered with joy. But at this moment, the cheer turned into a painful groan. She endured the pain and bent over in a sullen voice.

She successfully suppressed her sobs and then began to sing her favorite tune in a bright voice.

"[Blood, blood, blood, I want to drink blood. (Jeveuxlesang,sang,sang,etsang.)]"

"[Pouring sweet dew onto the guillotine stand. (Donnonslesangdeguillotine.)]"

"[To satisfy the thirst for the guillotine. (Pourguerirlasecheressedelaguillotine.)]"

"【My only desire is blood, blood, blood. (Jeveuxlesang,sang,sang,etsang.)】"

Hearing the familiar song, Lei Zhe narrowed his eyes, and the dazzling, loving light of reincarnation within his infinite color began to resonate and vibrate.

A pleasant smile curved his lips, and under the lead of a certain goddess mother, Rei Zhe became the second singer to hum a beautiful tune.

Under this familiar melody, the crowd's sympathy vanished as if by magic. Joyful sounds spread like wildfire, gradually growing in number.

A blood-soaked chorus gradually began on the execution ground, and in no time, the square was filled with the bloody melody.

In this very life, the husband who ascended the execution platform, despite having no prior experience with executions, found boundless courage in the songs of the crowd.

He picked up the axe and aimed it at the rope from which the guillotine blade was suspended.

Knowing he was about to die, the priest suddenly smiled compassionately and offered his blessing to the man who was about to execute him.

"Bam—"

As the axe struck, the head fell from the neck amidst the blood. Amidst the cheers and blessings of the crowd, the husband successfully completed his execution, and the wife proved her patriotic loyalty.

Under Rezhe's intrigued gaze, a figure wearing a tattered cloak that resembled a shadow mingled at the back of the crowd.

Shifting the focus back to the husband, his wife had just given birth to a lovely baby girl who was crying.

"This child was born under the execution platform, and God has an obligation to give her happiness."

Yes, the deity who brings happiness and love descended here, under the watchful eyes of the two gods.

"Such a lovely child, surely someone will become her dream man."

Yes, no one has forgotten Marguerite—the jewel of Saint-Malo.

An infant blessed or cursed by the guillotine; a girl born beneath the guillotine.

"The goddess of twilight, the decapitated... goddess... Margaret..."

The Mercury Serpent gazed with a sigh at the scene prophesied by a former friend: a goddess born in opposition to its own divine rule.

As a naturally born being of the Outflow rank, the other party's soul shone brightly like the sun, causing my heart to race.

Could it be true, as his best friend said, that he would fall in love with this girl?

The Mercury Serpent seemed troubled yet deeply moved. Touching his chest, he felt a resonance with the radiance of the goddess's birth, a sacred and warm radiance that seemed to redeem him.

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Chapter Thirty-Five: A Goddess's Life as a Human, Mercury-like Pure Love

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Suddenly, the hairs on the Mercury Serpent's body stood on end as he sensed a profound aura of death, as if it were a condensed universe, moving within him.

Following his gaze, he saw a dazzling, snow-silver light shimmering in the crowd, walking against the flow of people with its back to him.

It was a girl whose dazzling silver hair, like moonlight cascading down, was enough to attract many people's attention. However, everyone except Mercury Serpent subconsciously ignored the glittering figure in the crowd.

"A witch? Or... a born deity?"

The Mercury Serpent murmured to himself with amusement, because it was an unknown, and he was interested in all unknowns. He had first encountered the goddess prophesied by his best friend, and now he had encountered another unknown.

Lei Zhe was not worried at all that the Mercury Serpent could find him directly. Although those under the God Throne were omniscient within their domain, that only applied to those in lower positions.

Even the Mercury Serpent cannot be perfect in every aspect. The Eternal Return to Peace is like a sophisticated computer, while Razer is like someone who has infiltrated the code of a file and has prepared methods to conceal his true nature.

Although interested in the unknown before her, Mercury Serpent was now more interested in the future Twilight Goddess Mary. After thinking for a moment, she quietly concealed herself and followed the couple in the direction they had left.

Yin Juan vanished silently from the crowd, reverting to her original appearance, still dressed in a white cloak of wandering. She glanced back in the direction the Mercury Serpent had stealthily disappeared in, and chuckled softly as she said:

"Honestly, if you're smitten, why don't you dare approach the goddess? Twilight's childhood wasn't exactly pleasant, and this is only her first reincarnation, Karl..."

Mercury Serpent worships Twilight as a goddess and secretly acts for her. Reiji is quite speechless at Mercury's unexpectedly pure-heartedness towards the person he likes.

With him here, he clearly looks younger. Even after looking younger, does Mercury still lack the courage to approach Twilight and awkwardly create a clone to get close to the goddess?

Twilight is an existence born from the opposition of the Mercury Serpent's divine principles. Even now, as a young god seeking the Way, without letting the external environment color his spiritual desires, he is still a beacon of salvation for the Mercury Serpent.

Meanwhile, the couple who had been secretly watching from the Mercury Serpent were happily returning home with their adorable daughter in their arms.

"Mary~ Mary~"

Softly calling the name of their sleeping baby girl, the husband and wife looked at their daughter in her swaddling clothes with great joy, lovingly gazing at this gift from heaven.

The baby girl was very cute, but on her slender, delicate neck, there was a red mark, like a coral ornament or a crown of thorns, encircling her neck.

"What is this?" the baby girl's mother asked, frowning.

"......"

The husband saw the marks on his daughter's neck but remained silent, though his face turned ashen.

He whispered in disbelief, "It's a guillotine mark..."