There's No Love In the Deathzone (BL) novel Chapter 584

Chapter 584: Chapter 578. Celestial Interview

Zein had thought about it before, but while the other shards felt like children growing up, the core felt the most ’Setnath’ out of them.

The others had no concrete shape, just an amalgamation of memory. The core, however, showed him ’Setnath’, giving him the same feeling he got when he conversed with the fragment in the Temple of Frejya.

But at the same time, it was giving him a different kind of Setnath. The one in the Temple of Frejya was part of Setnath before he achieved godhood, the one that was still a human called ’Lucre’ and looked like a warrior. This Setnath he met in the core, however, felt more refined with the long hair and fluttering robe.

A proper deity, he would say.

But also...still retained the worldly feeling. Zein wondered if all of Setnath’s fragments had this longing for becoming human again.

How intriguing. Many humans wished to be a God, but the one who actually did regret it so much. Zein didn’t really care though; he just wanted Setnath to uphold his promise.

"You haven’t talked to me for years," the long-haired Setnath said. "Then it must be something crucial."

Well, there was no reason to waste time with glib. "I believe we almost reached the end."

The fragment’s eyes flickered for a split second before he turned back--or rather returned to the direction he was looking before. "I see..." he nodded and started walking. "So we either prevail or perish."

Zein, who finally had a corporeal body in the core’s world, followed the fragment silently. He was curious about what the fragment was thinking about all of this. Unlike the other shards, who seemed to be developing their own desire and personalities, the core was static; like a neutral color whose role was to balance the system.

"It’s been...such a long time," the fragment, as if reading Zein’s mind, spoke again. "Being alone for such a long time, I understand now why I wanted to end the eternal life."

Ah...was that what Setnath was thinking after he achieved godhood? Loneliness?

Zein was quite familiar with loneliness. He was also familiar with the fear of feeling it again after having someone by his side.

It was uncomfortable, but he felt like he could sympathize with Setnath a little bit.

"Honestly, I don’t really care how it will end as long as it ends," the fragment continued, and Zein regretted his wasted sympathy. The fragment glanced back and smiled at Zein’s cold gaze. "But of course, you want to succeed."

"Naturally."

The dry response did not seem to bother the fragment. His long hair swayed in the wind as he nodded. "The others want that too."

Zein raised his brow. "You mean the shards?"

"Mm," a soft hum came out of the smiling lips. "It’s the better option of the two."

"But can we do it?" Zein finally voiced what he had meant to ask from the start. "When it’s all over and I bring them all to you, will you all..."

"We’ll become a complete fragment, yes," the fragment replied indifferently. "But that’s the end of my role."

"...what?"

Zein stopped in his tracks, and the fragments turned around to face him. It was the expressionless, bored Celestial Being’s face that Zein disliked.

"Luzein, we are a fragment, not Setnath himself," the fragment said calmly. "We are a catalyst, not the fuel. The power of a single fragment is not enough to protect a whole region. You know it, don’t you? We will need another Celestial Being’s power to make it work."

Zein clenched his fist; not out of anger, but frustration. Because he knew it--yes, he knew it. He knew it already, so he couldn’t get pissed at the fragment of delivering the fact. In the first place, Bassena’s mission was only to get rid of the Fallen Star, not the Deathzone itself.

"Shouldn’t there be a Celestial Being originally meant to fuel you?"

"After five hundred years?" the fragment tilted his head. The bored look on his face made it easy for Zein to picture other Celestial Beings’ expressions. "The Celestial Being might have eternal life, but they won’t care about an insignificant thing they promised half a millennia ago."

A frown came by itself on Zein’s forehead. "Insignificant..."

"Aren’t you?" although Zein sounded clearly hurt, the fragment replied nonchalantly. "Would you remember about the well-being of an ant nest in your acquaintance’s garden they told you about five years ago?"

Looking at the fragment’s expression, the proper deity, Zein was suddenly reminded of the Goddess Mago, who was rarely active in Her territory. Perhaps because the one he had been in touch with was Frejya, he forgot how indifferent the deities were actually to them. He recalled that the Celestial Being oversaw many worlds, and initially had no interest in Zein’s. In the first place, the reason why their world became one of the Fallen Star’s group’s targets was because no one had ’claimed’ it.

They were only helping Setnath, who had a significant role in the war. Of course, there were varying degrees of enthusiasm among those who agreed; there were friends like Frejya, there were those who were merely intrigued about a new place like Ophiucus, and there were those who did it simply to repay their debt like Scatach. From what he knew about Setnath, Zein was sure some had to act due to Setnath’s blackmail.

The fragment smiled when he saw the bitter realization in Zein’s face. "You’ve seen a small bit of the Celestial Garden," he reached out and tapped the space between Zein’s brows. "Your world isn’t even one of those specks of light. This place is just one of the tiny dots that formed the little speck of light."

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