Chapter 1

You know it is rather weird to meet a beautiful woman when you are dead, but here we are.

"Hey!"

In front of me is a beautiful woman with a massive bosom. She has blue hair that is surprisingly good on her, especially when you combine it with her sapphire eyes. She is rather short, maybe around one point four meters tall or one point five meters at best, but I like short stacks myself.

"Hey! I'm not that short!"

Currently, we are standing in the middle of a massive void of white. I don't know why this woman decided to stay here. I would have gone mad if I had stayed there for more than three days if I had been generous.

"Hey! My home is not boring! How rude."

Hmmm, I wonder why I'm here. The last thing I know is that I'm dead from being murdered by that mentally unstable patient. Never let a mentally unstable person get access to your kitchen knife, folks. Zero out of ten, I would not recommend.

"I can answer that!"

Hmmm? Did she just say that she could answer my question?

"Yes!"

Wait for a second, did she just read my mind?

"I can hear them, actually."

Huh? Hear them? I don't think I can even talk. Hell! I don't even have a mouth! For some reason, I did not have a body in here and only had a form of a floating ball of light.

"Because you are dead and currently in your soul form."

Really? So this is my soul? I always thought that my soul would not be pure white like this. I always thought that my soul would be a polka dot.

"That's wrong! Your soul only taints when you do something really bad, like a murderer or a genocide. Even then, it was only if you enjoyed it for it to taint your soul."

What about the judgment day or something? How my soul will be judged for which place I should go, Hell or Heaven.

"Well, technically, Heaven does not exist. We always reincarnate people into the Earth once again until their souls disappear on their own. Before you ask, yes, if your soul disappears, that means you are truly dead."

I see. Heaven did not exist. How about hell?

"That exists. If your soul is tainted, we will send your soul to hell and go through purification. It was quite a painful experience, and sadly because they are tainted, we cannot erase their previous ego."

So they will experience the pain, huh?

"Yup~"

I see. So what will happen to me? Will I be a judge now? Or do you need something from me? I guess it was the first one, right? I don't think you need me for anything. From what I gather from our previous 'conversation,' I know that you are a God or, in this case, a Goddess judging by the way you look.

"Ah! I'm not a Goddess! No. I'm the personification of Earth, the planet."

Wait. Seriously?

"Yup~ I'm the one that has given life to many planets in my network."

Network? I thought that there was only one Earth?

"Wrong! There are many planets called Earth! Just not in this universe. Anyway, while here I'm called Earth, I was called with a different name in the other part of the universe. Planetos, Agrus, or Lakut! There are many names for me. Anyway, I'm not a single personification of a planet. I'm a personification of planets, plural."

I think I understand what you want to say. Basically, there are many planets that have your consciousness, and you call it your network.

"Yup!"

I see. When do we begin the judgment?

"Judgment? Oh! I'm taking you here not to judge you! It was the job of the Gods and goddesses. I'm taking you here because I want to make you my champion!"

Pardon me? Champion?

"Yup~ I need a champion to resurrect my other ego in the other place. While I'm very powerful on this planet, I'm not so powerful on the other planets. Usually, it was happening because of pollution or a magical mess."

Pollution? If what you said is correct, shouldn't this planet make you weaker? We cause a massive amount of pollution after all.

"Hmmm? Not really. As long as you guys do not go full-blown nuclear war, it will not do anything to me. Even then, your nuclear weapon is not strong enough to destroy this planet. Unless you guys have something that drills through Earth and places a massive bomb that can blow the planet up from the inside out, I don't really care."

I see. Anyway, what is this about being your champion?

"Oh yeah! Please become my champion! Many of my networks are starting to die out from a mana population, and I need your help to fix that."

Sure.

"Think of this as a second chance! We will not erase your previous ego and put you in another body somewhere on earth-Wait. You accept it?"

Sure. Yeah. I don't really have anything to do, and I like a second chance with this ego intact.

"Thank you! My previous champion is dead, and I really need another one."

Dead? Really? Did they die from old age, and their soul cannot be reincarnated to another body?

"Yes and no. He is old and asked me to retire. He already has his fill of adventure and decides to retire with his current family that he created in one of my networks."

Ah, I see. Can I ask for retirement as well after I do this job for a long time?

"Yes! However, please don't do that too soon, please? Getting a champion is very hard, you know?"

I can see her fidgeting, and I must say that it was very cute. Anyway, I promise you that I will not retire so soon.

"Thank you! Now, let's make you a new body!"

Wait, before we do that, can I ask your name?

"Well, I don't have an official name as I represent many kinds of planets in the universe. However, I like the name your people gave me in the past. Yeah, you can call me Gaea!"