Chapter 3: Golden Goddess

Anastasia tried to reach for the blanket to hide from the sun, but she couldn't get it when she reached for the blanket.

'Where's my blanket? and where is my bed! ' Anastasia was getting a little curious when she couldn't find a bed and blanket near her.

Anastasia slowly opened her eyes to really understand what had happened to her. The very bright light immediately dazzled her eyes, she needed her palms' help to cover her eyes from the bright light.

Anastasia was speechless when she saw that she was standing alone in the middle of a vast white space. Her weak legs were able to withstand the weight of her body without any problems.

"H-how come? Am I hallucinating? N-no, if I'm hallucinating, how could I feel my feet."

She was unsure what was going on with her now, she was sure that she was still trapped in her dream and trying to wake up from her strange dream.

"Is it because I was holding back sleep after the treatment, and the effect was making me strange dream?" Being too confused by what happened to her, She began to challenge himself to wake up from his dream.

"The only way to prove that this is just a dream is to wake up immediately." Anastasia began to kneel and put her palms on the ground.

'3 ... 2 ... 1 ... start ....' Anastasia lifted her butt and immediately ran.

Anastasia then began running challenges. Even though she didn't know which direction to run, she was going. She kept running until she was quite satisfied.

"Whoah, this dream is fascinating. So this is what it feels like to be a marathon runner, they can run wherever they want without feeling tired."

After running for a long time, she didn't feel the slightest bit tired. It made her feel very happy because this was the first time she felt she could run as much as her.

After getting bored with running, she continued jumping around in all directions cheerfully, even though she knew that her feet were not using a pad. Still, she didn't feel any pain in her feet. Anastasia was increasingly convinced that she was trapped in her dream.

Anastasia stopped her activities when she heard a woman's soft laughter and turned towards the voice. She saw a woman in a white gold robe in this empty room.

"Haha. Hi, cheerful girl." The woman who looked beautiful greeted her gently.

"Hello, do you want to join me in playing?" Anastasia innocently invited someone she didn't know to play.

"Cute girl. Come here, I'll reward you." The beautiful woman invites Anastasia to approach her. But before Anastasia accepted the woman's invitation, she felt that her body was getting closer to that beautiful woman.

Anastasia's body was immediately hugged by the beautiful woman and gently stroked her purple hair. "I have seldom seen a room so white and so wide. You are indeed a nice and innocent girl."

"How do you know if I am a kind and innocent girl? Even though I just met you. Or because you are in my dream, make you know everything about me?" Anastasia was a little confused and spoke to her while looking down because the beautiful woman's caress in her hair was very comfortable.

"Just looking at this vast white room, the color of your pure white dress and the expression on your face that is so happy I can already judge the character of a person." Her hand was still gently stroking Anastasia's head.

"Wow, you are just like a mage. Can guess someone's character only by looking at the situation at hand. "

Her soft stroked made Anastasia melt even more because stroking like that was one of her favorite things.

But there is one thing that can't even be taken for granted. The woman stopped stroking Anastasia head and started holding Anastasia's cheeks with her white golden hands.

"It seems I can clearly see in your eyes that there is a hidden sadness, and you always cover it with a smile and joy."

"Sadness about your family who is always there to try to make you happy, to keep you company. But you know that they are sad. Sadly, they have no way of curing your illness. "

The woman continued to look Anastasia's eyes. That gaze made her eyes start to fill with tears, and her lips began to curl and tremble at the thought of her sadness.

"I do not know who you are, but how can the feelings that I have buried for a long time and I have forgotten, you can find out. Actually, I keep trying to look happy like this so that my family doesn't get carried away with sadness all the time, I'm already very troublesome for them! I'm trying to make them feel happy when they see me."

Slowly Anastasia's eyes began to water, and she burst into tears when she remembered the sadness that her family had experienced because of her. Tears slowly rolled down the cheeks and hands of a beautiful woman who was holding her cheeks.

"It might be hard on you, but I need to explain it to you if this isn't a dream. This is the Realm after death, the Realm where the soul of the dead will come here to determine whether the soul is sufficient to enter heaven. The soul needs to be reincarnated, or the soul must be thrown into Hell because of bad judgment."

The beautiful woman straightened Anastasia's mind who might still not accept that this was real and not in her dreams. Anastasia just cried when the Beautiful Woman explained to her.

"Maybe you don't believe it, but I'm a goddess here. Introduce me as the Golden Goddess, and I've been doing this job for 1298 years." The goddess, whose job is to judge the good and the badness of the human soul.

"Realm after death? Does that mean I'm dead? Then what happens to my family when they find out that I have died. Are they okay!" Anastasia was shocked to hear that Beautiful Woman's statement. She made her cry even more because her heart was very hurt.

"I'm sorry, even though I'm a goddess, but I don't have the power or authority to show the condition of your family." The Golden Goddess had to take her hand away from Anastasia's face when her crying grew louder and tried to calm her down by hugging her tighter.

"I hope that my parents and older brother are fine and can find happiness. And hopefully they won't be sad when they see me die."

Anastasia's cried began to recede after the Golden Goddess hugged her tightly for a long time. She then pushed her body from the Golden Goddess's embrace and began to join her palms in front of her chest and pray for her family's welfare in front of the Golden Goddess.

"You are indeed a kind girl. Do you want to reincarnate Anna?" The Golden Goddess's asked gently to her to make her choice.

"Am I including the assessment of needing to reincarnate?" Anastasia rubbed her eyes to wipe away the tears that remained in her eyes after hearing the Golden Goddess offers.

"Yes. Regarding your assessment, you do need to be reincarnated again. "

"I want to ask a little, is the next life my life better than my life on earth? If my next life still has to trouble my family later, I would rather refuse to be reincarnated, My Goddess."

Anastasia didn't want to feel her family's sadness for the second time because of her.

"I actually don't know what kind of life is waiting for you in the next world, because it all depends on your attitude. But after seeing your nature and this room, I can be sure that your next life will be much better and happier than life on earth. Because you are Chosen Child by fate." The golden goddess encouraged Anastasia to think better of her offer.

"Chosen Child by fate? Is that what I call it?" Anastasia was confused by the title that the Golden Goddess's just mentioned while tilting her head.

"That's right, the title Chosen Child is a privilege given to a soul who has the least amount of hatred, sadness, anger, and disappointment." The Golden Goddess's tells Anastasia why she can be called the Chosen Child.

"If I get a privilege, will I get a gift?" Anastasia remembered when someone got a gift or a new position when someone got a privilege in a game or on earth.

"Of course, every soul who gets the title Chosen Child they have the right to choose will reincarnate into who? Who will definitely remain human, huh." Golden Goddess's explained that after reading Anastasia's thoughts, she thought of becoming an alien.

"Hehe ...." Anastasia chuckled after the Golden Goddess read her thoughts.

"My Goddess, you said earlier that if I 'have the right to choose who will reincarnate into do I have the right to choose myself?" Anastasia was a little curious about what the Golden Goddess had said earlier and tried to confirm it straight away.

"Yes, you have the right to choose your next life. Like being a newborn son of the Lord of a Great Country, Being a newborn child of the Strongest Knight." The Golden Goddess mentioned what kind of life Anastasia could chose.