Why can't you or Xylephious deal with them? I asked Garth frantically.

Unfortunately, we can't.

Chapter 9: Truth

Listen here Jeyn..

I was a summoned hero for the sole purpose of defeating the demon king with my friends. We met god and asked if we can go back. he told us there was no other way.

"God", couldn't leave the heavenly border that was created by the upper gods.

All we had to do to go home is fight. My friends had a kid and I was an orphan, with no love, no money, no life.

I thought, 'this is my great journey to greatness'.

For the first part, I enjoyed being a hero.

People all over the continent were praising me, they were singing songs, laughing with me, and most of all.. accepting me.

I liked playing hero.

I looked at my friends and saw their terrified faces.

While I was here enjoying life, they were despairing about their child.

I was ashamed of myself. I hated the fact that I get to have a good life while they, my most precious friends who helped me every time, is experiencing the opposite.

I manned up, I swore to myself to get stronger to go back to earth for my friends to be with their child.

Finally, we reached the demon king's castle, It was a rough path.

Many near-deaths

situations, but also many made memories.

We reached the Throne room and the demon king was sitting right there. It was like some kind of cliche manga.

After that, I couldn't remember anything but me limping because of the loss of mana. I only remembered this because of the pain it had caused me.

I stood up with all my strength.. there I saw my two precious friends, lying down on the floor.. dead.

I had already given up, suddenly, my vision was flashed with a bright light and I returned to the first place I met God.

God appeared and told me, 'Unfortunately, your friends didn't make it, I'm sorry.'

I only looked at him with pure anger and shouted, 'WHY? WHY HAVE DID YOU DO THIS TO THEM? THE- THEY ONLY WANTED A GOOD LIFE!'.

I said all of that with pure rage flowing through my veins.

I eventually calmed down, I just sat down and said, 'what? what is it this time?'

God told me, 'Since you have completed your mission, I will grant you a choice and three wishes.'

What are the choices? I asked while not caring at all.

God told me, to either stay here or go back to my world.

My body began shaking again, my mind also shook.

I didn't have a life back there, if I came back, I would be lonely, sad and depressed.

I didn't want to go back, but knowing that my late friend's child had to be alone, I needed to go back.

Then, I realized.

I still had three wishes.

From then on, I decided to give two of my wishes to my friends' baby.

Firstly, I wished for the baby to have extremely good luck and perseverance with the utmost strengths for self-defence.

Secondly, I wished for that baby to have a long life of greatness and victory.

And the third wish I wished for is.. Immortality.

God fulfilled all my desires and I was left with a decision, stay.. or leave.

God left and I was teleported back to my kingdom. After a few decades, I got married, started a family, and died.

Fake death. After all of that, I wandered the globe for a few millenniums and eventually reached a demigod state.

I created my own space where time is warped. The time inside is 200 times slower which means that if you spent a year in the real world, you'd spent 200 years here.

I just watched the earth as I get everything sorted and waited for godhood.

Until "they" came.

By "they", means the Seven Deadly sins.

That's my backstory.

After hearing all of that, I was still confused.

I asked Garth, Politely speaking, you still haven't explained why you cannot be able to deal with them?

He said, my soul is attached to this dimension, if I leave for too long, my life essence would be drained.

I was about to ask why Xylephious couldn't do anything when Garth cut me off and said, 'as for Xylephious, he was sealed by the 72 demon lords which had either soul states and physical states. But that's a story for later.'

Finally, the second thing he told me before sending me off was, 'Don't worry too much, you can still enjoy life as it is, for now. You still have 10 years before they awaken, in here, it will be 2000 years so if possible, I will reach godhood and come back just on time.

Lastly, he told me, 'Good luck.' before sending me off.

I appeared back into where my parents were and it seems that everything had calmed down.

My parents were sitting down at the corner and soldiers were asking them questions because slavery was illegal in that area.

I saw my parents' terrified faces until they saw me, my parents ran up to me and hugged me tightly.

They told me how terrified they were when you were taken away by a strange man.

They told me that I was gone for one minute, but I was sure that my conversation with Garth lasted for more than 40 minutes.

Time had indeed warped in the space Garth is in.

Everything had been solved except our house that had been burned down.

I said to my parents, 'What about our house?'.

My Dad scoffed and said earnestly, 'It's fine Jeyn, the good thing is that your mother is okay and we are together.'

We hugged each other tightly and father suddenly turned confused about something, I asked what was going on?

Then he said, wait for a second.. How did you know where I wa-

Garth's POV:

That child finally grew up huh..

He grew up well didn't he, Jez and Yeryn?

I hope you saw him today as his parents..

Even while i'm talking to your graves, I think you guys are still guiding him.

I hope I could've helped him much more.

Ha.. I miss you guys.