“A-Are you sure you’re not confusing me with someone else?” I looked at the knight for some backup but he kept his head low as he continued to kneel.

It’s normal to be in disbelief, right? It’s normal to be confused when some guy with a friggin’ halo shows up and invites you to perform divine duties in the Heavens because you are supposedly a deity, right?

“How would a normal human like me turn out to be a Supreme Being?” I couldn’t help but blurt out. In the past three days that I’ve spend in this ‘dreamworld’, I have noticed how the people in the country of Yorden pray solely to one deity. They even built a huge golden temple in their capital.

“H-Hey, raise your head.” It’s awkward looking at that halo of yours. Seriously.

“As Thou wish.” The Holy Saint did as asked and I felt redness fill my cheeks as his deep jet black eyes looked at mine.

Damn, he’s beautiful. When did I get so lucky, having two gorgeous guys kneeling at my presence.

Although to be honest, I’d rather them do it because they want to express romantic interest towards me, not because I was a Goddess in their eyes.

Wait, the knight never really acknowledged me as a deity, right? The Holy Saint or whatever looks so mysterious and exudes an otherworldly aura, so it makes sense if he believes that black-robed guy!

Okay. Why did I just sound like I am actually on my way to accepting this ridiculous claim?

“Can you both stand? This is honestly making me feel quite uneasy.”

“Please, forgive us!” The knight hurriedly said. “Despite being a Holy Knight and a Holy Saint, we cannot dare to sully Your presence! We must stay like this, in reverence of Your Holiness.”

I sighed deeply, “But I am as human as you are, Ser Michael.”

“I-I am honoured! I am truly Blessed that the Almighty uttered my birth name!” The knight with broken armor clumsily shouted. “But I cannot even fathom the thought of being the same as the Almighty!”

I could not help but internally face-palm. Great, I have now realised that I have two idiots using formal speech on me. We’re not even going anywhere with this discussion.

Wait. That’s right, despite having travelled together, he insisted to only be called as Ser Knight. How on earth did I know his name?

I felt sick on my stomach. 

“Forgive my intrusion. Albeit being in Thy human form, Thy existence art beyond any being’s. But to answer Thy question earlier, it was because of Thy grace. Thine unending love reaches far and wide and Thy devoted servant will not waste a second to be by Thy side.”

“What do you mean?”

“The divine essence overflowed in the southern forest of Yorden whence Thee slew the winged beast. Ordinary humans can only dream of doing such feats. Even anointed ones need years of training and experience to slay such beasts when It was marvelously slain with a single strike by Thee.”

The room to argue was getting smaller, and they were slowly succeeding in making me believe their words. My heart beat faster and I felt butterflies fly hard in my stomach, to the point that it might not just be figurative this time.

“My Lady Most High, only the knight anointed by the High Priest can pick up the holy sword dropped into the earth. You picked it up with ease and used it to its fullest potential. I couldn’t even scratch the beast with it. You have even healed me back to full health!” Michael looked forlorn and embarrassed at the same time with his eyes looking down and with his face flushed. “I humbly beg for Your forgiveness for not realising who You were, despite having travelled with You for days!”

“No... it’s okay-“

I wasn’t sure if it was because of the unbelievable turn of events or if it was just plain fatigue, but I felt my knees give up on me after hearing what these two were yapping about.

It wasn’t soon after, that my heart pummeled and my vision blackened. I then felt something forcefully pull me out of that space and slam me with great force into another place.

There was darkness for a while, until hints of light slithered past my eyelids.

When I came to, the stench of blood invaded my nostrils and I felt like I was lying on a puddle of more thicker water.

There were a lot of people around me.

Panic, chaos, fear.

I can smell them in the sweat crawling down their skin, and even in their saliva that shot out as they spoke. And damn, it reeks so bad when mixed with the smell of my own blood.

I couldn’t move at all, that’s probably why I’m being hypersensitive. So instead, it was my eyeballs that wandered around.

It soon found its way to a familiar set of orbs and stayed affixed to those hateful green eyes.

They were eyes that always looked or squinted at me with disdain, disgust, and sometimes pity.

But now, those eyes are as round as balls as it showed shock, regret, and even fear.

A single tear slithered down the cheek.

I see. So that person finally realised what happened in the split second that had passed.

I guess life isn’t as unfair as I thought.

Despite the rejection, the pain, and the suffering that I experienced all those years, I never hated you. And see, I even preferred dying for you because you have so much potential in this world.

You are a colorful soul trapped in a world full of fear and uncertainties, which may have slowly twisted you and forced you away from the truth.

This is the least that the helpless me can do for this world, and for you.

Humans are all the same in the end, despite the differences they bear in their thoughts, feelings, and experience.

They are such beautiful creatures.

For now, I probably should be going back to sleep. I believe I was having a really interesting dream.

Or was that really a dream?