I'm the Only One With a Different Genre - Chapter 66

Chapter 66 – Between Life and Death

{ Ah, to die like this is truly pathetic. }

I sighed as I watched the pixelated words float before my eyes.

‘I must be really dead.’

I looked around me. The space was vast, seemingly endless, and entirely white. The ground felt as soft as clouds.

I knew this place well.
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‘It’s like the afterlife.’

“The afterlife? More like heaven!”

The being that had heard my thoughts and reacted with a meow was, well, something like a… god?

“You’re being too harsh, meow!”

I looked up from where I lay to see the meowing deity. She was a woman with long black hair, dressed in a short maid’s outfit, complete with oversized cat paw gloves. Cat ears the same color as her hair perked up on her head. A harness adorned her thigh, with items like a dagger or a gun—probably BB guns or rubber knives—attached to the outside.

“So—I’m dead again?”

“You could say that, or maybe not, meow!”

“What does that mean?”

“Simply put, I’m going to resurrect you, meow!”

“Can you please stop saying ‘meow’?”

“No can do! Meow!”

I felt the urge to punch as she winked and flailed her huge cat paw in the air. Why did this deity make me feel so violent every time I saw her?

“Hehe, have you fallen for me, meow? Sorry, but forming a bond with a deity is quite difficult, meow! A hidden heroine, perhaps?”

Her tone, attire, and actions made it clear. The deity before me was the real deal.

‘If that’s a god, it’s the end of days, the end of days indeed.’

I sighed, remembering the first time I encountered this person.

“Hmm, it seems you have many questions!”

“I didn’t ask anything?”

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“You must be curious how you suddenly became the villain in ‘Possessed by a Dreadful Villain’!”

“You could’ve said that without a meow!”
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“Oops, meow!”

She blinked, surprised, then twisted her body and winked, which made me want to punch her again. I didn’t because this deity seemed like the type who might enjoy it too much.

“Look into the abyss, and the abyss also looks into you.”

I didn’t want to confront a deity like the abyss.

“Just say what you want to say.”

Since she’d likely ignore anything I said and just do as she pleased, I gestured for her to continue, and the ‘deity’ chuckled while digging into the pocket of her maid apron.

Despite the pocket’s small size, her large cat paw glove slipped right in.

Pop.

It sounded like uncorking a bottle as she pulled a round object, the size of a grown man’s head, from the pocket. It looked squishy, like slime, and I tilted my head in curiosity.

“Tada—This is… no, this little one is the deity of the world you possessed! Meow!”

“Ah..?”

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A cry like that of a child resonated from the white blob, and clear liquid dripped from it—presumably, tears.

“Meow! That’s disgusting, meow!”

“Ugh!”

The deity tossed the round thing onto the floor as if it were a ball. The other… deity from a different world? slumped onto the ground, sobbing.

“Waaah, waaah…”

“This little one kidnapped you because it wanted to save its world, meow!”

“Abducted..?”

As I responded with a blank face, the blob that had been flattened on the floor quivered and then slowly raised itself up, or rather, rolled up.

“Sniff… hello?”

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Eyes like chocolate drops were affixed to the white blob, with a tiny bird’s beak attached. A creature resembling a giant baby bird cautiously greeted me.

“Uh… hi…”
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When I reluctantly returned the greeting, the baby bird creature stood upright. Its legs were as thin and short as chopsticks but it was definitely standing.

Tip, tip, tip.

The baby bird approached me and peered around. Ignoring the stuffed creature, I addressed the deity who was now busy playing a game on her phone.

“So what does this mean for me being abducted?”

“The little one’s world was collapsing and being invaded by external forces, meow. It was losing the battle and sought help everywhere, meow. But no one would help, so it forcibly kidnapped a being from another dimension! And that being is you, meow!”

The deity showed me her game screen which displayed “VICTORY.” She was obviously bragging.

“If it had been someone else, they wouldn’t have been kidnapped… but you, having already crossed dimensions once, were snatched away just like that, meow!”

“But… I don’t see how me going there would stop the apocalypse? Why me..?”

“I have seen it. A being from another dimension that saves countless worlds!”

The baby bird spoke with grave solemnity, but it sounded comical with its childish voice.

“Jumping dimensions, reincarnation, possession… It’s all because it read those kinds of novels, meow.”

The deity went back to her phone, fingers flying—probably playing a rhythm game. The baby bird glistened its eyes at me expectantly.

“Moreover, you have experience with dimension travel and reincarnation! You will definitely be able to stop the world’s destruction and eradicate the external forces!”

The baby bird fluttered its wings, which were laughably small compared to its body.

“I’m counting on you for the future… Glurk!”

Before the baby bird could finish, the deity had stomped it underfoot.

“You kidnap someone else’s child and that’s what you say, meow?”

“Please, save -…”

I was surprised by the spectacle.

‘She does show anger, after all?’

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Just as my approval rating for the deity was about to rise…

“If you don’t pay for what you’ve taken, that’s theft, meow! And instead of pleading for life, the rule here is to say ‘Thank you for the reward!’ meow!”

And the approval rating plummeted back to negative.

“So what happens to me now?”

My question was answered by the deity.

“You can choose whatever you want, meow. If you want to go back now, you can, or you can stay there as long as you like, meow. If you cross over to that world, you can live until a natural death, meow. If you die there, you’ll return to this world and I’ll put you back in your original body, meow! Ah, you can return to your original world right now, but then the ‘Lian’ over there will remain dead, meow!”

“…”

“What will you do, meow?”

“Please, please save our world -… Glurk!”

“Be quiet, meow!”

I ignored the utterly unserious deities and sank into thought.

‘Going back… is the right choice.’

Why had I been kind to Iris and the kids? It was all for survival.

I had wanted to find a way back to my original world if possible.

Saying I wanted to return would mean escaping the threat and going home, but…

‘Noah, Jess, Iris -…’

The image of the children smiling in a cruel world held me back.

‘The destruction was said to be in progress, clearly.’

It was likely that events wouldn’t follow the story I knew. In other words, the children could die at any moment.

“Um… can’t you bring the kids from that world here?”

“That’s impossible, meow!”

Her decisive reply left me feeling awkward. After a moment’s thought, I asked another question.

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“So what if I die over there like I did this time?”

“You’ll probably come back here, meow? And then you’ll be resurrected again, meow!”

“Hmm… Does that mean I’ll never die?”

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“Unless something special happens, you probably won’t die, meow. It was only because you were pierced through the heart by a peculiar one, meow!”

“Peculiar? You mean Iris?”

“That’s right, meow. A power that opposes gods? She has something like that, meow. That’s what broke through my power, meow!”

Power?

As I was puzzled, the deity quickly explained.

“This one caused a glitch in the world by kidnapping you on a whim, meow. To fix it, a part of my power was needed, and since it coincided with a surplus of causality -…ah, no, I lent it because I was worried about you being kidnapped, meow!”
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“What kind of power are you talking about?”

Power! The word suggested some great ability, and my eyes lit up. Then the deity rolled her eyes and said.

“The ability to apply the laws of this place, meow!”

“Laws?”

“If you put it in your terms, ‘gag filter’? That’s the power, meow!”

“That is…?”

“With that power, you can survive any stabbing and revive, and escape any danger, meow! If something threatening approaches you, the power activates to remove the danger, meow! Where else could you find such a cheat-like power?”

It sounded like a pretty good power upon hearing it. As I nodded, the deity let out a snort and then exclaimed “Oops!”

“Now it’s time for ‘Love is a Cat’s Meow at the Family Burger Joint -Am I the cat of a family burger place? Impossible! Or is it?-’, meow!”

After rattling off a dizzying title, the deity dashed off and summoned something. A large TV appeared.