Chapter 3: Wake up your father

The angel sent by Deus said to Leopar, “Look, Luke, the only son of Lord Deus, has been appointed as the lord of the heavenly kingdom, which Deus, the lord of this world, will establish. His father did not know this, but knew that Luke had been chosen as an apostle of Deus. Then the father said to Luke, ‘If you wish to convey this message, find a way to do so.’ When Luke found this, his father was very surprised.

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My only precious son, Luke.
Luke had been weak and sick often since he was a child.
When he… The priests of the temple… Finally, some divine being took pity on him and blessed him specially, and at some point, he was completely healed and was able to live a normal life.
Although he did not have the strength to be worthy of our Pulsereino family like his…

It’s like a story about a child chosen by a god in a myth.
There are many such stories in myths.
A child chosen by a god.
Could it be that he is his only…
How can he make him walk the difficult path of being an apostle of the god?
But what kind of being is a god?
An absolute being that mortals like humans…
If a god… If he disobeys a god…

I prayed that such a thing would never happen.

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When Luke was seven years old, he brought me a book one day.
The first book he brought was some kind of novel.
It seemed to be a novel he had created.
A novel written by a child.
For something like that, it was quite well-crafted, but as expected of a child’s work, it felt somewhat alien compared to conventional novels.

Luke seemed to want to sell this novel to earn money.
Haha, trying to earn pocket money by selling a book—such a clever boy.
A novel like this wouldn’t sell, but the fact that a child had such an idea was truly admirable.
So I praised him and sent him back to his room, thinking that despite being born with a frail body unfit for our Pulsereino family, he might one day achieve great things in the cultural field, perhaps becoming a master.

A few months later, Luke brought that book.
A book that Luke could never have created on his own.

The handwriting was undoubtedly Luke’s.
But the contents of the book were something Luke could never have conceived by himself.

The book contained secrets of the continent that even Luke couldn’t possibly know.
And records of a god forgotten in ancient times.

Secrets known only to the Emperor and me within this Empire.
There’s no way Luke could have discovered them.
Unless some divine being helped him create this book.

Luke brought this book to me and said he wanted to sell it to earn money.

Sell this book?
And for money?

Our estate isn’t the wealthiest, but it’s prosperous enough.
Especially for Luke, my precious son who suffered so much in his childhood, I’ve tried to ensure he never felt any lack.
And yet, a seven-year-old child wants to earn money?

Something is off.
Surely, the god who chose Luke instructed him to spread this book.
And the fact that he’s not telling me the truth means that god wants this to remain hidden.

For now, I sent Luke back to his room and read the entire book.
The book’s title was [Something Everyone Living on the Continent Must Read] – Old Testament Volume 1.

An incredibly audacious title.
At a glance, it could seem like a book a child might have written.
But reading through its contents, it spoke of dangers that would befall the continent in the future—about the Forces of Chaos.

The Forces of Chaos.
The evil forces appearing beyond the northern mountains I guard.
They seem to generate out of thin air, likely coming from another dimension.
At present, their numbers are small, and their power is weak, posing no threat to the Empire. But their very existence—hostile beings crossing over from another dimension—could cause chaos, so this information is restricted from the general public of the Empire.

This book prophesies that this force will rapidly grow and engulf the continent within decades.
And to stop it, it says we must follow a god named “Deus.”

I see.
The god who chose Luke is this “Deus,” then.
A god I’ve never heard of even once.
I even visited the Imperial Library to inquire about the name “Deus,” but it was nowhere to be found.

The book claims that “Deus” is a god who saved the continent in the mythical era and was forgotten. If that’s true, it makes sense that no one knows the name.

A god who sacrificed their own existence to save the continent and was forgotten…
If Luke wrote this book under the guidance of “Deus,” then Deus must be a benevolent god.
Gods cannot lie, after all.

If that’s the case, does this mean our Luke is the savior chosen by Deus to save this continent?
My son, a savior of the continent.

For him, who was always saddened by his weak body compared to his sisters, this might truly be a blessing.

My mind was already made up.
There’s no way Luke could have written such a book alone.
A god must have helped him.

But just in case there was even the slightest chance, I decided to test Luke.
I told him to secure a distribution channel that would never reveal his identity.

For a mere seven-year-old Luke, this would be impossible alone.
But if the god “Deus” truly exists and is helping Luke, it might be possible.

With that thought, I set the condition for Luke…

“I greet the High Sword of the Empire, the Grand Duke. I am Scala Arachne, the guildmaster of the Arachne Information Guild.”

Luke effortlessly secured the Empire’s top information guild.

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I got my father’s permission to sell the book, but at the same time, he gave me one condition.
The fact that I wrote this book must never be discovered.
I had to find a distribution channel that would never reveal my identity.

Considering I was seven years old when I brought the book to my father, this was essentially telling me not to do it.
No matter how high-ranking a noble, how could a seven-year-old kid secure a distribution channel? Especially one that “would never be traced to anyone”?

Perhaps my father set this condition hoping I wouldn’t do it lightly, or out of concern for potential dangers.
He probably meant for me not to do it until I had the ability to meet such a condition.

But I’m not an ordinary seven-year-old child.
I’m a reincarnator who knows a great deal about this continent.

Though the main story starts ten years from now, so not all my information is perfect, I have ways to secure a distribution channel.

One day, when I went to the Empire’s capital, Kalandra, for an imperial event, I asked my father for a few knights to escort me and some money.
Even though a seven-year-old boy wanted to go out with only a knight, his father readily agreed.

…Do you have faith in me? Still, a child who wants to go somewhere can’t be stopped.
I had prepared many words to persuade my father.

So, I stopped by an herbal medicine shop with the strong knights of the North as my escort. I bought several commonly available herbs, rented the shop’s facilities, and mixed them appropriately to make the medicine I needed.

To get the best information guild in the Empire on my side, which I…
There are many information guilds within the Empire.
Among them, a woman of fallen status.
Starting from the bottom, she…
From there, her younger sister, the driving force that made her…
At the beginning of the main story of [Deus Ex Machina], her sister…

However, as a veteran of the game, I now know how to make the cure for the incurable disease.
It’s a medicine I’ve made countless times in [Deus Ex Machina].