Dark Fantasy: Super Coward Mode

Gaia Appears.

The moment she showed up and saved my life, I felt a fleeting sense of gratitude, but once I calmed down, she only seemed like a strange and eccentric being who had matured in a bizarre way.

That peculiar impression came with a lingering question.@@novelbin@@

Demeter had stayed by the dead emperor’s side, so it made sense she hadn’t shown up. But what the hell had Gaia been doing this whole time?

If scholars classified her as one of the Greater Divines connected to the conceptual plane, even the slightest movement should’ve left a trace in the records.

Noticing the puzzled expression on my face, Gaia scratched her head with one finger and spoke.

“Well, if the Second Princess had been left to move freely, humanity would’ve been in danger, so I was sort of... keeping her tied down here, I guess?”

Hmm.

So, after hearing me out, she supposedly had a revelation and decided to start containing the Second Princess’s power—at least, that’s the impression she gave.

Still, ten years or so wasn’t much time for a Greater Divine, but even so, she’d done nothing all this time, just sitting through tedious days until I showed up.

Hmm.

“That’s what you get.”

“Ugh.”

Oh, damn.

I’d meant to keep that thought in my head, but it slipped out.

Well, I wasn’t wrong, was I?

Considering the kind of mess she’d caused, I was being pretty mild about it.

Even so, her expression didn’t show any signs of being offended, just a bit of awkwardness, as if she was trying to trust my words.

“Tanthan!”