I'll kill you after I finish this game!

Mary then turned her innocent gaze to Reiji, blinking her emerald green eyes and conveying her curiosity to him.

“Razor, this is my name. It’s nice to meet you, Mary.”

With that said, Lei Zhe also presented a gift to the goddess, giving her a bouquet of flowers he had cultivated himself.

Mary carefully took the golden flower, and the previously closed flower suddenly radiated a warm and gentle glow like the sun.

Inhaling the enchanting yet gentle fragrance of the flowers, Mary clutched the blossoms in her hand, a childlike, joyful, and pure smile unconsciously spreading across her face.

The mercury serpent beside him was stunned, and its breathing became even more rapid.

Damn, I should have offered a flower to the goddess too!

“Kari...Ostro, Rei, I am...Mary.”

Overjoyed at making her first friend and feeling the warmth of someone getting close to her for the first time, Mary expressed and poured out her feelings in her childish voice, introducing herself to the two of them.

Her voice was soft, like a drifting cloud in the sky, seemingly right in front of you, but actually in the sky.

"I'm so glad I ran into you..."

With Mercury Serpent's heart pounding, Mary placed her fair and delicate hand on Mercury Serpent's effeminate face, and then touched Reiji.

Those emerald green gemstone eyes were fixed on the faces of the two people in front of them, as if trying to etch their features into their minds.

"So happy..."

As she expressed her feelings, a captivating smile bloomed on the girl's pure face, and her eyes shone with a brilliance comparable to the universe.

No matter how beautiful the flowers are, they cannot compare to it.

Reizer gave Mary normal human perception and emotions, interacting with her from different perspectives and through different senses, giving Mary a feeling she had never experienced before.

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In the fourth singularity, Reiji and Mercury sat facing each other, alone in the deep center of the universe.

The pedestal of the Staff of the Serpent, depicting two serpents fighting each other, stands opposite the pedestal of two serpents entwined and devouring each other, representing the manifestation of the underlying principles.

A floating table floated in front of them, its surface reflecting Mary as she hummed a new song her friend had taught her on the twilight beach that Rezé had altered.

Mercury Serpent and Reiji's sense of touch were preparing a meal for Mary not far away. Although gods don't get hungry, they can still satisfy their appetites.

"In the end, it will be just as you, my dear friend, predicted."

Looking at everything in the scene, Mercury Serpent rested her right arm on the handle of the throne, supporting her delicate profile. Her eyes were filled with tenderness and helplessness, and her words were filled with inexplicable sighs.

The opposing topic: This girl who was born with a superior rank and sought the Dao, upon first seeing her, Mercury Serpent didn't know whether to lament the cruel twist of fate or not. At his advanced age, he had indeed experienced feelings of love.

When he first met his best friend, he felt a sense of youth; and when he first met Mary, he also felt the emotions that only come with youth.

However, Mercury Serpent became somewhat confused about Mary if she hadn't met Reiji and been informed of the problem with the throne.

He would certainly regard this most dazzling unknown as a goddess and want her to be his successor.

But now, Mercury Serpent really doesn't want this girl to bear the burden of the hot seat.

"Ah......"

Lei Zhe chuckled softly, glanced at the reflection of the Mercury Serpent in the water's surface—a picture of first love—and said with amusement:

"If I hadn't come here, she would have been your salvation. In a world without any unknowns, you would probably..."

"...He committed suicide and even wanted to die in Mary's arms, so that she would become the ruler of the throne."

The Mercury Serpent's expression suddenly turned somewhat unpleasant, and he glanced down at the throne with a calm and indifferent gaze.

A scheme and conspiracy that permeated the entire era of the God Throne made this behind-the-scenes scheming old fox feel deeply uneasy.

"So, what do you plan to do with Mary?" Rezer asked, looking into the other's deep eyes. "It seems you have no intention of giving her your seat."

"I want to create a world where she can be happy, but first I need to address the hidden dangers of the seat."

Mercury Serpent stroked his smooth chin. He genuinely wanted Mary, the goddess who had captured his heart, to know what happiness was.

But the world he ruled was a world dominated by fatalism.

According to the principle of eternal recurrence, after death a person returns to the mother's womb and repeats their unique life forever. This is certainly fulfilling for those who are happy, but for those who are unhappy, it is nothing short of an endless hell.

Although he was a man of happiness and fulfillment, he didn't know if the goddess would be happy in his world, after all, Mary was an existence born out of opposition to him.

Every domineering god harbors anger and dissatisfaction towards the world ruled by the previous ruler. If the domineering gods of all generations, including his Mercury Serpent, are like this, how could he possibly think that Mary would not one day be angry?

What should he do then? Revert to Eternity and destroy this timeline so Mary can start over? That's not what Mercury wants to see.

"My dearest friend, have you found out the truth about the matter you sought to verify by traveling from the past to the future?"

The Mercury Serpent, having died, could only seek answers and answers to the unknown in its closest friend who transcended its own laws.

"Got it, it's going to be a pretty good horror drama set in a god's throne~~"

With an intrigued expression, Reiji began to tell the curious and unknown Mercury Serpent about the origin and secrets of the throne.

Deeper within the God Throne Singularity, there were a series of secrets, including the observers who had driven the destruction of the God Throne throughout the ages, and the domineering gods who were still alive and had been sacrificed as human pillars. Reiji had no reason to hide anything from the Mercury Serpent and told them directly.

The Mercury Serpent, with its boundless curiosity about the unknown, felt that the information it was hearing this time was even more soul-stirring than the unknowns it had encountered in the tens of thousands of years since.

Satisfied and angry, she eventually calmed down, and at this point, Mercury Serpent completely gave up the idea of ​​letting Mary take the seat.

"Hmph, the entire history and secrets of the God Throne, Narakuga, is truly the unknown that terrifies and angers us the most."

After hearing this information, Mercury Serpent couldn't help but let out a gloomy sneer. If Razer hadn't arrived, he would definitely have continued to act out the script.

The Mercury Serpent, born into despair, possesses the strongest desire for self-destruction in history. When it encounters Mary in this state, they will inevitably enter a script of conflicting themes and cycles.

Mercury now has a different kind of pursuit, filled with anger and murderous intent, and a fierce battle to protect the goddess he loves.

Even at the cost of his own life, he wanted to prove to the guy behind the scenes that he was not someone who could be toyed with at will.

"However, even you, my dear friend, couldn't defeat that Narakuga in your battle? And the monochrome Overlord God is just prey to Narakuga." Mercury Serpent said with great interest, after all, even an enemy of an existence beyond the unknown makes him very happy.

"I may not be able to win, but that doesn't mean I won't be able to win in the future. My desire to expand has never stopped. As the third-generation God Throne Star said, I am a very greedy and perfectionist ouroboros."

Reiji has already seen and reached a higher level through Narakuga, and he still has time to improve again.

Having room for improvement is not perfect, but stagnation also means imperfection. Reiji will never stop until he reaches the end of the road or perishes along the way.

Mercury Serpent understood Razer's desire; the serpent's divinity, constantly shedding its skin, did indeed possess the potential for that level of power. However, he was still somewhat uncertain about the current plans for dealing with the hidden enemy.

"It seems we are weaker in terms of strength, and Narakuga's influence in the shadows extends into the mortal realm. How can we launch a counterattack?"

If Mercury doesn't want to change seats, it's a nearly unsolvable problem.

Even someone as powerful as Mara of the Sixth Heaven would be unable to even raise his head before being utterly defeated by the ability to reload the save file for eternal return!

Mercury, who was seated there, possessed such domineering priority, and Reiji also knew that Narakuka in the shadows would not allow a god to remain on the throne forever; even if there were no flaws, they would create them for you.

A cunning old fox who's lurking in the shadows and impossible to touch is really hard to deal with.

"Let's play hard to get. We're already at a disadvantage because they're trying to catch us while we're not," Lei Zhe suggested after a moment's thought.

Even if everything changes, it will only cause everything to spiral out of control and head towards an uncontrollable unknown, which is where they will suffer.

Lei Zhe shared his still-developing plans and ideas with Mercury Serpent, which was to get everything back on track.

However, this time, it's not a love story to get Mary to take the seat, but a fake horror show held to eliminate Narakuka.

“Eternal reincarnation? But if that’s the case… Mary.”

Mercury Serpent looked at its own supreme brilliance in the singularity with a complicated expression. Mary, laughing, was grilling fish with Reiji and Mercury. Mary herself was like a little animal, holding the Rainbow Fruit and eating it with relish.

The Mercury Serpent has fallen deeply in love with Mary and desperately doesn't want to hurt her. If the Eternal Return is activated, it would be equivalent to killing Mary and forcing her into reincarnation.

What? You're saying that if we start over, Mary will be born again?

They will indeed meet again, but it will not be the Mary who first met Razer and Mercury, because she was destroyed along with the Eternal Return.

The goddess of this new cycle can be said to be the reincarnation of Mary, even though Mary's essence inside and out has not changed.

Restarting time can allow everything to begin anew, which sounds both powerful and wonderful.

However, it was incredibly painful for the Mercury Serpent. In a world overflowing with known poison, if Razer and Mary weren't there, he would go mad and want to kill himself.

Even in his madness and despair, Mercury Serpent is a very responsible and domineering god. Even if he wants to die, he will find a qualified successor. This is how he was in the original work.

"......"

Rezhe remained silent. He didn't want to hurt Mary either, but thinking of the end of the IF route of the Wrath of God, he raised his hand and touched the forehead of the Mercury Serpent in her astonished gaze.

In an instant, the Mercury Serpent saw a scene that almost made him go berserk and trigger Eternal Return.

From his perspective, he saw his own end, being instantly killed by a god, and his beloved Margaret being trampled to death and reduced to dust by a dark-skinned, three-eyed bastard, followed by the final scene of that bastard taking the throne.

"That bastard at that time?!?!"

The madness of the source of killing intent overflowed the myriad phenomena of the multiverse. The mercury serpent that coiled around the entire world roared, its eyes bloodshot as it growled at Razer before it.

Mercury Serpent was well aware that her best friend possessed the ability to read the future, and after meeting Mary, she firmly believed it.

The scene depicts Mary taking her seat and being attacked by a new god, which is intolerable to the Mercury Serpent.

He's going to find that bastard right now and erase the reason he was born! He'll make him get out of here forever!

“Killing him only solves the surface problem. Even if you kill him, a second and a third will appear. You and I both know how hot this thing is to the butt. As long as Narakuga is not eliminated, even if your eternal return to the seated state is almost unsolvable, you will still be trapped in a blocked cycle.”

Mara is the ultimate evil born from Mary's loving-kindness, or rather, her indiscriminate indulgence. Even if one Mara is killed, Rezer has a premonition that something even worse will appear.

Rei Zhe doesn't dislike Mary's compassionate principles, but he can't accept a bunch of ungrateful wretches acting like spoiled brats in the goddess's arms.

Furthermore, we cannot tolerate Mary spreading such indulgent affection; her future education must make her understand this.

The thought that characters like Muzan from Demon Slayer or Danzo from Naruto, and other trash like them, can be given a chance for redemption after death is disgusting and intolerable to Raize.

A person who commits numerous evils throughout their life and shows no gratitude or repentance should be violently expelled and eliminated.

P.S.: Please vote and recommend! I believe that people with sound moral values ​​wouldn't tolerate scum like Muzan and Danzo being embraced by the goddess of mercy, right?

Chapter Thirty-Seven: A Diverse Worldview of Divine Wrath, Actors in Horror Dramas

The Mercury Serpent, enraged to the point of near madness, understood upon hearing Lei Zhe's words that she should focus on the root of the problem.

Killing Mara is pointless if it doesn't solve the main problem.

"Phew... Let's proceed according to plan then!"

Taking a deep breath, suppressing the anger and murderous intent surging in her chest, as well as the guilt and heartache for Mary, Mercury Serpent finally agreed to the plan.