When I was born as a god-Chapter 36: What do you want from me?

"Hey! I’m telling you, Hinata didn’t do anything that deserves this kind of treatment from you!"

"Shut up. Keep your head down."

A soldier forced my head down to the ground. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

"Don’t create trouble for our mission. You’re lucky we’re not doing anything worse to you."

The captain looked at Hinata coldly.

"But if you tell us how you helped them with the valuable item... your punishment will be lighter."

The moment he said that, he cast a spell on Hinata.

"I already told you! I didn’t steal any valuable item! Why won’t any of you believe me?!"

I looked at Hinata and saw drops of blood falling from her body onto the ground.

"Tell me again... how did you help them?"

"I didn’t help anyone!"

"Hmph... It seems you won’t speak so easily."

As he said that, he cast another spell.

But strangely, the magic healed Hinata instead.

"I told you already... I didn’t do anything."

From below, I could see tears slowly falling from Hinata’s eyes.

I clenched my fists.

I want to help her... I really want to help her.

But how?

I couldn’t even draw my sword.

"Captain!"

A voice suddenly interrupted.

"You can’t treat them like this without any proof!"

When I turned my head, I saw Aira.

Her voice was filled with anger as she spoke while healing Hinata.

"How can you treat them like this?!"

The captain glared at her.

"So now you’re trying to interfere?"

Aira’s eyes turned terrifying as she looked back at him.

"And you’re creating trouble."

Then the captain smirked.

"Didn’t your father tell you to do this?"

Hearing those words shocked me.

What...?

"Professor Sun God told us to do this."

I froze.

Professor Sun God... ordered this?

That couldn’t be true.

He was supposed to be a kind god.

But if this was truly his plan...

Then everything happening here started to make sense.

I was still on the ground, held down by two soldiers gripping my arms and head.

There was nothing I could do to help.

But hearing Professor Sun God’s name completely shocked me.

Could he really do something like this to us...?

When I looked at Aira again, my eyes widened.

She wasn’t acting like before.

Her sword was trembling.

Her body... her hands... even her legs were shaking.

I had seen this once before.

The same thing happened when I first summoned the sword duo.

But now it happened again when she heard her father’s name.

Which meant...

I was right.

Professor Sun God might really be behind this plan.

Slowly, I closed my eyes.

What should I do to help them...?

Then suddenly—

"Master... do you need any help?"

I froze.

That voice...

"Master... do you need any help?"

I slowly opened my eyes.

And what I saw shocked me.

Everyone around me had completely stopped.

They were all frozen in place as if time itself had stopped.

I realized something strange was happening here.

But they were all still inside this place.

"Master, do you need help?"

Hearing the voice again, I finally asked,

"Where have you been all this time?"

"Master... I fell asleep for a while."

"But when I realized you were in trouble, I came to help you."

It was Milia.

Hearing her words, I couldn’t stop myself from asking,

"What happened here? Everyone is just standing still."

She gave a small smile.

"Master... did you forget what I told you before?"

"You will receive many special abilities."

"What you’re seeing right now... is one of them."

I was completely stunned.

I stared at her in disbelief.

Noticing my gaze, she quickly turned her face away.

"Master... when you look at me like that... it makes me very shy."

Hearing that made my head hurt.

I’m thinking about how to escape this situation...

And she’s joking with me.

"Milia, listen carefully."

"I need your help."

"What kind of help do you need, Master?"

"Tell me how we can escape from this place."

I was still lying on the ground while the soldiers held my arms.

Yet no one was moving anymore.

"Milia... can you use some kind of magic to send me somewhere else?"

She looked at me calmly.

"Yes, Master. I can do that."

"But in exchange... you must give me something."

I stared at her in shock.

"You said you would give me many advantages... and now you want something from me?"

She smiled softly.

"Master... it’s true that I will give you many advantages."

"But if you want to use them... you must give me something in return."

I was stunned.

"So if I want something from you... I must give you something?"

"Yes. That’s correct."

"Then tell me... what do you want from me?"

She kept smiling.

"I will take whatever you can give."

"What does that mean?"

"It means... whatever you have, you can give it to me."

I still didn’t understand.

"What exactly are you asking for?"

She looked directly into my eyes and said calmly,

"You can give me your blood."

"You don’t have anything else right now... so give me one foot of your blood."

I stared at her in shock.

"My blood...?"

"Yes, Master."

"Your blood will do."

As soon as that was said, she suddenly appeared right in front of me. She was extremely close—so close that it caught me off guard.

"Ahhh—"

Before I could react, she bit into my neck.

I felt her fangs pierce my skin as she began to drink my blood.

She drank desperately, as if she had never tasted blood before. Watching the way she fed, it felt almost unreal.

Then someone spoke beside her.

"Master, the exit is ready. You can use it now."

As those words were spoken, she cast a spell.

With her magic, a massive teleportation circle appeared. Seeing it, I felt a bit relieved.

Behind me, in the room, Aira and Hinata were still standing together, just like before.

But a problem came to my mind.

How was I supposed to take both of them with me?

So I asked Milia.

"How am I supposed to bring the two of them?"

After hearing my question, she simply gave a small smile.

"You’ll have to do the same thing you did before."

Hearing that, I looked at her in surprise.

"You mean... I have to do that with them too?"

Milia smiled again.

"Yes."