I Became the Obsessed Madman Gong in a Mythological Fantasy 3

On a dim night when all life lay sleeping.

Beneath the night sky where the stars embroidered beautifully by the Goddess of Stars shone brilliantly, Seianes, the God of Earth, was admiring the night sky. His beauty, bathed in brilliant light, stood out exceptionally under the starlight.

“There are many stars tonight.”

He originally didn’t like dark things, but today the night sky looked unusually beautiful, so he was enjoying a rare night stroll.

However, that was only for a moment.

“Waaah—!”

The sound of a baby crying that suddenly rang out broke the silence and echoed in all directions. As if desperately wanting him to know it was there, the earnest crying came riding on the wind.

“Waaah—! Huu… Waaah!”

What on earth is happening at this hour?

There should be no houses nearby, so why could he hear a baby crying? With some concern, Seianes ran toward the direction of the sound, and before long, he discovered a baby abandoned and wrapped in swaddling clothes.

“Why… Why is there a baby alone in a place like this?”

Seianes, who picked up the crying baby without hesitation, muttered with a flustered face.

“Who on earth left you here?”

A newborn baby like this wouldn’t last even one night in the forest. Fortunately, it seemed he had discovered the child quickly, as there appeared to be nothing particularly wrong with the baby’s body.

“There, there. It’s okay.”

Comforting the crying baby, Seianes wiped the baby’s wet eyes. Perhaps feeling secure from the warm touch embracing it, the baby who had stopped crying at some point looked at Seianes.

And at that moment, Seianes’s heart sank.

A child of the underworld!

To be precise, a deity of the underworld. The glowing red eyes were a symbol possessed only by the deities of the underworld. Due to a curse called the promise between the God of Desire and Ircadeon, all the underworld deities had blood-red crimson eyes.

“How… Why is a child of the underworld here…”

Seianes was shocked by the fact that this baby he was holding was an underworld deity. After Ircadeon’s defeat in the war, the underworld deities were unable to enter the surface.

The baby couldn’t have crawled here on its own, so there must have been someone’s intervention, but who on earth could have left it here by what means?

If the gods of the surface, who essentially avoided the gods of the underworld, knew this fact, they wouldn’t leave the baby alone. He couldn’t understand why someone would abandon an innocent baby in the middle of enemy territory.

“What on earth should I do with you?”

He couldn’t just leave it here, but he couldn’t take it with him either. After agonizing for quite some time, Seianes finally decided to make a choice as the god who ruled the earth of the surface.

“I’m sorry…”

He felt sorry for the baby, but there was nothing he could do for it. As a god of the surface, an underworld child wasn’t an object of sympathy to him, but an enemy that should be eliminated.

“U… Hueeeng…”

However, the moment he put the baby back down on the ground, crying could be heard again. The sight of the baby reaching its hands toward Seianes as if telling him not to go was nothing short of pitiful.

He had to leave it here, but the baby who only knew how to cry caught his ankle with a sorrowful voice.

When he carefully picked up the crying baby again and soothed it, the baby immediately stopped crying. Perhaps recognizing him as a guardian, it smiled innocently at Seianes. That purity made Seianes’s heart even more complicated.

‘Ah… What on earth should I do?’

To prepare for any possibility, it was right to eliminate anything that could become a problem.

Seianes had more than enough power and ability to get rid of the baby. However, what crime had that young thing committed that he could dare do such a cruel thing?

“…Right, let’s take it for now. And then let’s think of a way to bring the baby back to the underworld.”

In the end, unable to do either, Seianes picked up the baby and headed to the temple. As the son of Henelion, a god of the surface, what he was doing was an absolutely unforgivable sin.

To dare not report the existence of the underworld, their sworn enemy, but try to protect it instead. He should immediately tell his father and siblings and discuss what to do with the child.

However, the small breathing sounds coming from his embrace shook his reason. His footsteps, which had become infinitely softhearted before the small, young life, did not stop.

* * *

Seianes, the God of Earth, was one of the many children born to Henelion.

Though it was embarrassing to say with his own mouth, Seianes, who ruled the earth that was the foundation for life on the surface, was confident he was the most outstanding among his siblings.

If he didn’t care for the earth, not only humans but countless plants and animals would lose their lives.

He was an object of worship and an object of fear, and even his father and the other gods couldn’t treat Seianes, who wielded strong influence over the surface, carelessly.

However, who could have dared to predict?

That the god who received everyone’s worship would be so troubled by one small existence.

“Waaah!”

A booming voice echoed through the greenhouse garden—when had it woken from sleep? The beautiful brow of Seianes, who had barely put the baby to sleep and was catching his breath, wrinkled sadly.

“Ah… Aah! I just got you to sleep and you’re crying again?”

From the moment he brought the baby to his dwelling, Seianes hadn’t been able to rest properly even for a moment. The peaceful garden also became hectic.

“Waaah!”

“Yes, yes, good baby. Shall we stop crying now?”

The sight of him holding the crying baby and pleading was utterly pitiful even to himself. He had always maintained a lofty appearance, but after starting to care for the baby, he had transformed into a haggard mess.

“How can there be such a fussy child?”

It cried when he tried to put it down even for a moment from his arms, and it cried if the milk wasn’t warmed properly. What could the young thing have to complain about so much? It cried dozens of times a day, making every day feel like war.

“Fighting the underworld gods 100 years ago was more comfortable. That wasn’t even a war…”

Caring for the baby that cried every day, his appearance that had surpassed even the Goddess of Beauty became more haggard day by day.

‘I definitely didn’t plan to go this far at first… How did I end up like this?’

Who would have known he would care for the child he thoughtlessly brought like his own offspring? When he first brought the child, he planned to care for it briefly and send it to the underworld when the time came.

However, without the mental capacity for Seianes to find a way to go to the underworld, the baby cried dozens of times a day.

Whether the sleeping place wasn’t to its liking, whether the food wasn’t to its liking, or whether it disliked being taken out of his arms—he couldn’t even ask the baby who couldn’t speak for the reason, and raising the child gave him headaches every day.

Exhausted like that, he decided to postpone visiting the underworld for the time being.

‘Right, let’s go tomorrow. Let’s go tomorrow and secretly bring this child back.’

But the next day too, the baby cried loudly again saying it was hungry, and while soothing the crying baby this time as well, a full day had passed. The same days continued every day as time passed.

“Hueeeng… Mmh…”

“You eat well. Good baby?”

Though his body was tired, Seianes had now become quite skilled at caring for the child well. He stared blankly at the baby quietly receiving and drinking the milk he gave.

The child’s red eyes, which had stopped crying after eating, turned toward Seianes.

The sparkling red eyes that used to bother him were now a thing of the past. Now, even looking at those eyes didn’t give him any bad feelings at all.

“Uee… Hic…!”

After patting its back a few times, the child who burped smiled brightly while looking at him.

“Heehee… Hihi.”

“Oh my, you like that?”

How lovely it was to see those cute eyes curve beautifully as it smiled. He wanted to bite it hard.

“Baah—!”

The small, chubby hand grabbed his finger. The day he first met the child. The feeling from when the child reached its hands toward him came back to mind.

Unlike back then when he only felt pity, now when he looked at the child, a corner of his heart felt all warm and fuzzy.

“You’re in a good mood today and being quiet, so I should send you back to your home.”

Seianes whispered to the baby who had stopped crying immediately. Today, when the child was quiet, was the perfect day to send the child back to where it originally belonged.

But…

“Before sending you back, I’m too tired.”

The first rest that came after the difficult childcare so far. He just wanted to lie down and rest comfortably without thinking about anything. He stroked the baby’s bulging belly from drinking milk and closed his eyes beside it.

It was so peaceful that he didn’t want to move right now.

Right, today isn’t the day.

Today is especially warm and peaceful, so Seianes made an indefinite resolution to send the baby back to the cold and dark underworld next time, some other time.

Time passed quickly.

The child grew incredibly fast day by day. From only being able to cry, it started babbling, and now it began to roll over. Even until then, Seianes’s thought that he should send the child back to the underworld remained unchanged.

“Sei…?”

But one day when the child, who had just started walking one step at a time, approached calling his name, Seianes’s resolution was helplessly shaken.

“Sei… Seianeshu?”

Though the pronunciation was garbled and hard to understand properly, the child approaching while mumbling his name with that small mouth was more lovely than anything else in the world. Just looking at it made his lips tingle and laughter leaked out.

“Hahaha!”

Unable to hide his overflowing heart, Seianes laughed loudly, throwing away even his lofty dignity. He spread both arms and hugged the approaching child tightly, then kissed the child’s chubby cheeks.

“Kyaaah!”

At Seianes’s intense expression of affection, the child burst into giggles. The soft cheek flesh rippled, drawing an arc at the corners of its mouth. Even though drool flowed disgracefully from its mouth, far from being dirty, even that appearance was so cute.

“Who could dare not love you?”

Had he ever loved someone this much in his life?

As the god who ruled the earth, the source of life, love came for the first time to Seianes, who had been an impartial ruler over all life. The child seeped into his tedious, unchanging, boring daily life like sweet rain and became the center of his world.

“Abrisius.”

Seianes, who had only called it ‘child,’ saying he wouldn’t give it affection, personally gave the child a name.

“Yes, Abrisius. My love. My child who receives the love of the earth.”

Seianes, who embraced the child preciously like a treasure, whispered to the child with all his heart.

“What does it matter if you have red eyes, what does it matter if you’re a child of the underworld? You’re this lovely in my arms.”

My love. My Abrisius. The moment he gave that name, the child gained the meaning of receiving the earth’s love, and Seianes knew he would never be able to let this child go from his embrace for the rest of his life.

But it didn’t matter now. It had been long since he abandoned his resolve to send the child away. Now unable to even imagine daily life without the child, he planned to hide the child completely and raise it.

Now this child would live as the child of Seianes, the God of Earth, as his kindred. If he somehow hid the aura of an underworld deity and confined it within his embrace, none of the surface gods would know.

Seianes, pressing his cheek against the child’s cheek as it smiled brightly at him, smiled gently. As the child’s warm warmth was transmitted to him, Seianes whispered quietly.

“I love you.”

Even if someone gave all the gold and silver treasures in the world, there would be no treasure as valuable as you.

Even if such a thing existed, the most precious treasure in Seianes’s arms was his child, Abrisius.