“Handover…? What are you…?”
“Heh.”
The trick here is not to hastily ask for the field.
What you truly want should be kept hidden.
“The thing most precious to you. Isn’t it a waste to let all the time you’ve spent on it end with your death?”
“You… Wait, what are you saying…?”
“You should understand. There’s no one but me who can take over. You, more than anyone, know my strength, don’t you?”
“N-No way… You… Was that your goal from the start? The thing most important to me…”
It seems like it’s about the field.
“Heh.”
“…Five years ago, you disrupted our ritual for this, didn’t you? Hehehe, even the plan to sacrifice the reincarnated hero was all guided by you from the start. I see… indeed, this right can be transferred.”
Sacrificing the reincarnated hero…?
Whoa, this old hag is serious?
Even if it’s for the field, she was going to use a human as fertilizer?
I only use monster hides and bones as fertilizer…
But this is good.
It seems the rights to the field can be transferred.
“I know. I know how passionate you were about this. There were some problems with your methods, but you protected it over a long time, didn’t you?”
“…Of course. This is our long-held wish, the desire of those abandoned and betrayed by the gods. It was everything to me.”
“But if you die, it all becomes meaningless. It will fall into the hands of fools—be it the village or the country, none of them will understand its value.”
“The country…? You even know that much, huh? But the one who will rejoice the most will be the Maris Church. They’ll blow it up again with their nonsense about divine punishment.”
“The Maris Church… I see, they too…”
Ah, so the church wants the field too.
I get it… I mean, fields are a great thing.
“…Do you really understand? The significance of inheriting this, the weight of it? You’ll be hunted by the country, you know?”
“…”
“The Church of Worms will likely be wiped out soon by a church that’s taking things seriously. What I have here will also be absorbed by them. The tyranny of the gods will continue… false peace, the contentment of livestock… and the chance to overturn the game board of the Seven Great Gods and the Supreme God will vanish.”
“Hmm?”
“Huh?”
Oh crap.
I got startled because she started talking like White and the others.
Did she really place that much hope in the field?
Wait a minute.
I once heard that even a single grain of rice has a god within it.
If I think of fields and rice paddies as similar… heh, so that’s it.
I guess I’ll play along with her.
