Chapter 6 - Heavenly Taste

"Haha… I kinda made a mistake."

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"Really?... that's a little late now, don't you think."

"I know. This was quite a problematic thing to have happened." She said as she lookeqd me up and down. It was a surprise to her too when she saw my appearance.

Contrary to what I thought, she didn't look at me in disgust but rather mild curiosity and guilt.

"To think that your reincarnation would have such a problem like this."

"I don't generally make such mistake like this." She said with a straight face as I believed her.

If only I knew before.

But at the moment, investigating was the least of my concern. I needed to know how quickly she could fix me.

"So what are you going to do?"

She looked at me in confusion as she said.

"What?"

"I mean, how are you going to fix me… or take me back to my true body, the one I was supposed to go through."

"… You see… there is a problem in there too." She said as pointed at me with her index.

"You have already merged with this body so unless you want to die and get a chance at another reincarnation chance then I can't help you. Let me be blunt, there is small chance now that if you were to die than you probably would go to a worse place than to me."

"What! Why?"

"It's the things the previous user of the body did." She said while pointing at me again. "Even though the real user of that body is already in a bad place, you even though have not done anything, would automatically get his sins too."

"What will happen to the body I originally wanted to become?"

"He's life will go on as it had already gone by. You already knew what happens to him as you read his life story."

Yes, that's right. I wanted to reincarnate into the body of The King's Path novel's protagonist and live out a massively adventurous and romantic life.

Why wouldn't I? The protagonist was already quite strong from the beginning and after that, women after women seem to fall into his lap. One even literally.

So why wouldn't anyone want to become such a cheat character.

But hearing the harsh words out of the goddess made me feel as if the last stretch of hope was pulled away from her. I wanted to lash at her, speak insults and even throw rocks and anything that I could find on her.

Knowing what I was already thinking, the goddess lowered her head in acceptance and guilt. In full acceptance of my anger she didn't protest, It was originally her fault that I am in not only another body but one that has a bad ending.

As the anger took hold of me so did something else.

I remembered the words of my mother from this life.

"Don't take everything for granted and use to your advantage which you have. No matter how bad it might be, anything can be more than useful if used with the right method."

I didn't know how or couldn't even remember the face of this body's mother… but those words had etched itself to this body's core and so did mine too.

I feel the anger seep away from me slowly as I give a sad smile to the goddess.

"Thank you goddess."

She looked up in confusion when she saw me give her that smile.

"Thank you for granting me another life." I said as I turned away from her.

"I know that it's not the ideal one I wanted but," I look at the far away distance and saw farms, houses and normal people. Farmers working in their farms without a care in the world. Even as the sweat poured away from their foreheads they kept on working with a small smile seeing the fruit of their work slowly brimming.

"I could have been in a much worse situation than this."

"In my previous life, I wasn't a nice guy. I cheated in studies, did unsavory childish things and even sometimes took advantage of people if I needed to."

"Still… to be granted a new life and that too in my favorite novel is already more than anything that I could ask for."

I smiled as hope begin to burn inside me.

"So what if I am in the body of a villain that is written only to be used by the protagonist as stepping rock?... I will try to alter that fate."

"Even more, I have future knowledge of the plot, that is more than enough for me to do something about my future and if I am careful with it, then I can even prosper more than anyone."

"Who knows I might just become stronger than even the damn protagonist."

"NO! I WILL BECOME THE STRONGEST!" I said as loudly as possible. I felt that if I said loud enough than I might… just might have a chance of accomplishing that.

"Haa"

Turning behind I see the goddess giving a big smile. She closed her eyes and nodded a few times as if she finally decided upon it.

"I have done many reincarnation work. Not going to lie, I even have done more mistake than I can remember… but not one..."

"Not one of them were as enthusiastic about their prospect as you are and all of them were given much more than what you were mistakenly given."

"So I have decided that I will give you my support and hope that you would use it to live your life to your fullest."

I was about to ask her what she meant, but was shocked by her next action.

She came in front of me in the next step, touched my face and kissed me.

I was shocked to my core but my eyes closed automatically as the sweet taste of her heavenly lips took hold of me.

So I did what any man in my position would do.

I grabbed her by the waist and kissed her back.