The Whale and the Shrimp (6)
Frondier had left.
Elodie was a little worried, but there was no time to waste. She had to make sure that Athena had really taken over Carla's body, and if so, where she had gone. She had to make sure that Pielott and Basileo were safe.
Meanwhile, Elodie just sat still.
Baal and Andro were in front of her, but she didn't care. She knew her own power was strong, and Frondier was keeping it in check.
Elodie had something more important to worry about.
‘Possession…!’
Grit.
Elodie gritted her teeth.
A God possessing a human. She had known about that possibility for a long time.
She had heard about how her senior, Edwin, had been indirectly controlled by Hephaestus in the past, and how the Second Imperial Princess, Sale, had been controlled by Odin.
But she never thought it would happen to her.
Elodie's five Gods were her friends. Vishnu was no exception. They were all fickle, but they had never truly opposed Elodie.
But this situation…
Vishnu, who had unilaterally broken the trust that Elodie had built up.
Elodie looked at her watch.
‘…It’s been about five minutes.’
It took five minutes from the moment she was possessed and her body was taken away to the moment she got it back.
Elodie rose from her seat.
“…I’ll be on my way. Thanks for the information. That’s what Frondier would have said.”
Elodie turned and walked out without listening to Baal’s reply.
Right now, Elodie’s desire to go somewhere else was greater than her desire to chase after Frondier.
She didn’t want to show her face to anyone right now.
‘Five minutes…’
With Elodie’s magic power and magic, she could turn a town like this into a wasteland in five minutes.
Only Osprey or Frondier could handle that. No, if they were prepared to kill Elodie, would Aster be the fastest?
Thump.
Elodie stopped walking. She covered her eyes with her hand.
Frondier’s words came to mind.
─If, by any chance, I make the wrong choice. Stop me.
The only one who could stop Frondier’s power was Elodie.
And Elodie, more than anyone else, would be able to make the right judgment.
Frondier believed that.
But.
“…Ugh…!”
Her hands were shaking. The trembling soon spread throughout her body.
She bit her lower lip.
“What am I…”
What was she doing?
Before she could even worry about whether or not she could stop Frondier.
She couldn’t even control her own body.
What right did she have to worry about such a thing?
“…Rudra.”
She called out to the closest of her five Gods.
There was no response.
“Rudra, if you don’t come out this time, I’m never calling you again. I won’t accept your help either.”
Elodie said so, and after a while.
[That hurts my feelings, Elodie.]
Rudra’s voice was heard.
Wheeik!
Elodie flew up into the sky as soon as she heard the voice. Rudra was invisible to others, so she would look strange talking to herself.
“Rudra. I have a question. Answer me honestly.”
[Why do I feel like I’m the one getting scolded? If you ask Vishnu—]
“Rudra!!”
Kaboom!
Elodie’s Mana surged once. The air danced around her.
[…Alright, alright. I’m sorry about that. There’s no way that guy would come out if you called him.]
Rudra said in a somewhat subdued voice.
Elodie immediately got to the point.
“All five of you, can you all do this?”
[…]
She didn’t ask what ‘this’ was.
Possession, taking over her body without her consent. Was it possible for all five Gods to do this?
[If it’s the same as now, only Vishnu can do it. He’s a chief god.]
“He can do it because he's a chief god?”
[Yes. It’s a foul that only a God of that level can commit. Odin controlled Sale too, didn’t he? It’s similar to that.]
Chief Gods. Like Zeus or Odin, the god who plays the leading role in mythology.
“Then, out of the Vedas, only Vishnu can do it?”
Vedas was a term from Hindu mythology that referred to all the Gods.
[No, there are three. Vishnu, Shiva, and Brahma.]
Three. One was more than enough, but three?
Elodie’s face crumpled, and Rudra said.
[Elodie. The other two can’t possess you. Even Vishnu, who gives you divine power, could only possess you for about five minutes.]
“…Odin possessed Sale even though she didn’t have his divine power.”
[Elodie. You’re thinking about it the wrong way. It’s not that difficult for a divine to possess a human. It’s just that they don’t do it often because their faith would plummet afterward. You’re a special case because you can resist it.]
Even if he said so, it didn’t make her feel any better.
“Even so, why are three of them able to do it? In Asgard, only Odin could do it.”
[No, there are three there too. Odin, Thor, and Loki. For your information, there are three in Olympus too. Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades.]
“Do Gods like the number three that much?”
[If you broaden the scope of ‘like’ a little, they like it to an extent humans can’t even imagine.]
Elodie let out a sigh. Her eyes lowered.
“Do something about it.”
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