Vali was one of the top goddesses maintaining the vast world of Hamurva.
She had lived so long that almost nothing could surprise her anymore.
However, at the moment, she could confidently say that she indeed feels surprised—more precisely, stunned!
"What are you doing?" She asked, staring at the man before her, who was currently dancing wildly as if there was no tomorrow.
Considering that the man is already dead, it might be true that he would never see another day. And that was the very reason this man chose to dance.
Because he is happy with this supposed predicament of his!
'Finally, I am free! No more work, no more stupid society, no more weak Human body, annnnnddddd no more work! Yay! Yay! Yay!'
This man's name is... Well, he forgot it, so let's not talk about it. On earth, his life was only about work, responsibility, and more work, then even more responsibility. Under the heavy stream of monotonous life, his name had become the least important thing in his life.
Right after he graduated, he felt that his life suddenly became a blur of uneventful scenes, none of which seemed important.
On his bed, he always asked himself; Why is my life so monotonous? Am I making the wrong decision?
That's why he rejoiced after he found himself inside this blank white space with Vali, a literal goddess, who told him that he was dead.
Vali needed another ten minutes before she was finally able to shake off her shock.
Clearing her throat, Vali decided to just ignore the man's dancing figure and focus more on her job.
"O' poor soul, you have now been forced to abandon your mortal flesh by the unexpected occurrence that befell on your home world."
Vali first repeated the words she had prepared for this man and other Earthlings who lost their lives under the same cause as the man to set momentum and return her mentality before the man shocked her with his absurd actions.
Smiling as she felt better, Vali continued.
"We are also partially guilty of these circumstances, so first I'll offer you my condolences. Now I'll start explaining about what happened to your world."
Vali opened her lips and was about to begin the explanation, but the man suddenly stopped dancing and raised his hand, interrupting her.
"Oh, Goddess, no need, I don't want to know," He firmly stated, which surprised Vali again.
"... However, as a Goddess, I can't let a victim like you remain ignoran—"
"Please, Goddess! I've had enough of Humans and their complex things! Could we just skip the intro and start from the next step, like, straight up reincarnation or transmigration or whatever!"
The two of them locked their gaze onto each other in silence. The man looked so serious and adamant, while the Goddess, agape, didn't know what to do.
Then... She pouted.
And started flailing her hands, clearly upset.
"You... Y-you brusque mortal! H-how dare you disturb my speech!"
Please note. Vali sees this meeting session with mortals from Earth as a rare amusement for her, so now that the man cut her day's worth of effort prepared speech, it's normal for her to react like that.
But the man's remains firm and scant.
He readjusted his glasses, "I don't care."
The goddess could only agape in protest, teardrops began falling down her spotless cheeks.
"Brusque Mortal! Crude! Bully! That's why you didn't have any friends!"
"Don't say it like I felt lonely or anything. You may be a Goddess, but it's not necessarily meant that you know everything, right? I am not being left, I just chose not to stand on the stage I don't feel comfortable in, understand? And stop flailing like a kid, you're a Goddess, aren't you?"
"Uwaaaaaaaahhh!! Brusque Mortal! Inhumane Human! I don't like you! Bully! Uwaaahh!"
"As I said—"
"Uwaaaaaaaahhh!!!"
"Come on—"
"Uuuuwwwwwaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!"
...
In the end, the man could only sigh and relent.
"I am sorry."
The Goddess's flailing figure suddenly blurred. The man blinked at the sight, only to find that the Goddess had returned to her calm state once more, like nothing had happened.
"So you know when you admit your wrongdoing. A point for you, brusque Mortal," said the Goddess.
The fact that the Goddess still used the same way to address him is not lost on him, but the man chose to just ignore it.
He scratched his head, feeling awkward after he made her cry.
"So... Err, what would happen to me now?" He asked the Goddess.
The Goddess snapped her fingers in response, summoning a board to her behind. The board is filled with pictures, with the biggest picture placed in the center depicting the image of Earth and a bigger planet that man doesn't know. If the picture was using the correct disparities in scale between the two planets, the bigger planet was at least 20 times bigger than Earth.
"Now listen to me first, shall you?" Asked the Goddess to him, to which the man responded with a nod.
She pointed at the picture of the two planets.
"This here is the picture of your home planet, Earth, and the planet under me and my divine companions, Hamurva. Currently, the two worlds are experiencing a very rare phenomenon that is known as Double bubble amongst us divine beings."
The man remained shut as he listened to the Goddess's explanation.
"Double Bubble was a phenomenon when two planets separated in the Universe or Dimension somehow managed to produce the same World Frequency, resulting in the two worlds overlapping. Which, in turn, causes the appearance of space and time rifts connecting the two worlds."
"World Frequency?" The man asked back.
"Yes," The Goddess answered.
Vali began to explain it to him.
"World Frequency was a combination of the speed at which a Celestial body moved inside the Sea of Time and the height of the same Celestial body inside the Space Crease. Your Earth had, for some unknown reason, mimicked our world's World Frequency, so the two planets are currently experiencing Double Bubble."
'Why did I think about radio frequency after I heard her explanation?' The man cringed at his own thought.
Vali then paused before asking the man, "I suppose you at least get the point of the topic now?"
The man nodded in response.
"You're a Brusque Mortal, but at least you are not a brainless being," The Goddess nodded to herself approvingly.
She then pointed at the board again.
"Now let's move on to the reason why you lost your life."
She pointed at a big word that was written in bold at the right corner of the board.
"Mana. A natural energy on Hamurva, but an alien energy for your Celestial home. Now that rifts began opening randomly on both of our worlds, connecting them, Mana from Hamurva began spilling out to your world. The stronger ones of your world's residents would survive and become stronger, while the weak die. Mana was, after all, a lesser version of Divinity, which was highly unsuitable for mortals."
"So I am one of the weak..." The man could only laugh bitterly at that.
"You never work out and only live before a computer and behind your desk, so of course you would gradually weaken your own body state," Vali reprimanded him.
She gave him side-eye and huffed.
"A small amount of Mana was enough to end your life without you even realizing it. As expected of a Brusque Mortal like you."
"S-sorry..."
Vali pointed at the board again, rapping its surface rhythmically as she continued.
"There's still so much I would like to explain, but a mortal like you is incapable of even imagining the domain of even more detailed causes of why this incident occurred."
She then looked straight at him.
"That's why, let's just start your reincarnation plan. We gods of Hamurva believed that this incident was partially also our fault, so we'll accommodate you, dead Earthlings, with utmost care."
The moment Vali stated it, a transparent panel appeared before the man.