The Goddess Made A Mistake Again

"Woah! look at that, that's so beautiful."

"I want to see fireworks next time too, mommy."

"This time it's much grander than before."

"If only I had a girl with me."

There were many people who were enjoying the fireworks festivity and having fun with their friends, while there were some who were at the festivity, but weren't having as much fun.

But all of them had one thing in common.

They did not know what the fuck hit them.

"Boom!"

A large sound of some impact hit the surrounding, as everyone automatically bent down a bit before looking around in confusion.

Then came the real impact.

Not even a moment later after the sound, came a wave that shook all surroundings.

"What is this!"

"Was that an explosion?"

"Oh my god, that bui- buildings about to fall."

Shocking the ground quite intensely, many houses and other buildings were breaking down and falling apart. The screams of people multiplied as they tried to escape the place.

But most weren't so lucky.

After a few moments, when the impact went away. The people looked around the place, trying to search for their loved ones and friends. But with such a chaotic view of destroyed buildings and smashed bodies, they're hopes were dwindling.

At the center place of the fireworks…

I had covered Elisabeth from all impacts and still went on to protect her.

"He- Henry…" Her scared voice came out, "Is it over?"

I get up from the ground and look around, "I think so."

"Cough Cough!" Elisabeth coughed a bit, trying to get the dust out of her lungs. Her ears were ringing as she wiped off her dusty face.

Trying to look around, her eyes widened in fear and she closed off her mouth, "Oh… goddess."

Around us were soldiers and workers who were getting up while clutching their heads in pain. But beyond them were buildings that had broken down and were lying on the ground, destroying multiple things.

"Wh- What is this?" What happened here?" She asked.

"Elisabeth… no matter what you do, don't look back." Came Henry's voice.

But the words only made her turn around and if what she saw before was horror… this was hell.

Beyond broken buildings and houses were raging flames. Flames that ate away dreams, hopes and even worries for some. The fire went on and devoured a large space at the center-left side of the capital.

As her hearing slowly came back, she heard the screams.

The screams were loud and nerving her core as cries of pain and sorrow rang throughout the capital.

Tears dropped from Elisabeth's eyes as she couldn't understand what she was seeing.

"Wh- why is all of this happening?"

"It seems there was an explosion. Somebody bombed the place." Henry's words shook her even more.

"Bombed? But who would do such a nasty thing." Elisabeth said and before she could continue anymore, she vomited.

"Blergh!"

"Blergh!"

She vomited as the imagination ran wild. Broken bodies, cut and smashed ones went through her mind as she emptied her stomach.

As Elisabeth was vomiting, she felt Henry lift up her hair and patting her back. At such a gruesome time, that smallest gesture meant the world to her as she slowly got back up.

I pulled her up and wiped her mouth with a handkerchief, "Are you okay Elisabeth?"

"Ye- yeah… thanks for helping me, Henry."

I help her to a chair, "Sit down, let me find some water for you."

"No, it's fine. I don't want any-" She said only to almost vomit again. So I sat her down forcefully, "Sit! You still haven't recovered yet."

"…Alright"

I look around, trying to find a water source.

"Ohh… that was a hell of a festival." Jacob groaned as he got up.

"Jacob, you okay? Any injuries?"

"Nope… what about you?" He pointed to me, a bit shaky still.

"Still alive."

"What about the missy?"

"She's not so good, do you know where I can find some water?" I ask and he pointed to a tent, few steps away.

Going inside, I find a disgruntled soldier drinking bottles of water like nothing.

'This fucker! There is Elisabeth outside who needs help and this guy's having a water party here.'

"Bam!"

I struck his neck and he fell to the ground. Looking at the table, I sigh seeing some bottles left.

'Good, there's still some left.'

Finally finding myself alone, I sit down for a moment. I glance outside at the destruction while opening a bottle for myself.

'Damn… I knew that there was going to be an explosion, but not to this extent.'

'This is a new change too. There wasn't such a big destruction in the novel.'

'It seems I've meddled too much with the story. Even if most of the events are happening as said, they're scales are going up.'

'I can't get preoccupied with such thoughts right now, I need to get Elisabeth to a safe place.'

I take the remaining bottles and go to Elisabeth.

"Here, drink some water." I opened the bottle, helping her drink.

"Hah… thank you." She said and took the bottle herself, emptying it quickly.

"Jacob, you have one too." I fling one at him as he chugged it down as well.

"What do we do now?" Jacob asked.

"I'm going to take Elisabeth back to the academy. Go figure out what the hell's happening and see if our places got hit and to what extent."

Jacob accepted and left as I helped Elisabeth up.

"I- It's okay, Henry. I think I can walk now." She said and stood up for ourselves, "You should go with him too, I'll try to help people around here."

"No!" She shook at my stern warning, "You can't go around helping people now. I won't let go of you until I know you're in a safe space."

"Henry" Elisabeth felt something churning in her stomach. She didn't know if it was vomit or something else.

"Let's go!" I take her by the hand and get out the place. But not before hearing something about a dead soldier in the tent.

As we left for the academy, it was becoming incredibly difficult to move.

There were broken roads, fires and fallen buildings that we had to evade from. Sometimes there were even objects falling from above and hitting unsuspecting people.

I sometimes had to block away Elisabeth from some gruesome scenes.

But as we were getting closer to the academy, Elisabeth stopped me.

"Henry wait!"

"What?"

"There… it's a children's hospital."

I look and felt bad seeing the half broken state it was.

"Let's go there."

"What! No, we can't, I need to get you-"

"I can help them with my ring… please Henry." Elisabeth said which reminded me of her sigmat specialty. "The children need our help."

"Alright… but if it's too much, I'm gonna take you away."

Inside was a lot worse than we thought.

Children's lying on beds, some were on the floor clutching on to their cut space and crying for help.

It was horrifying.

"Here, let me help you." Elisabeth said, going to the closest child and using her power.

Her ring glowed yellow as an illusionary image of a flower appeared above the cut and healed it.

That was her power. It was Elisabeth's role as the support type of the group.

"Argh… please help me." I hear a groan which made me groan too as Elisabeth pleadingly looked at me.

'Fuck… now I have to impress her. But, she's cute so I suppose it's okay.'

"Wait a damn second, I'm coming to save your ass."