My Second Life Is An Absurdist Power Fantasy 41 41. Gone Part 2

"ELLIE!" Jack called out, his eyes darting around for any sign of his missing friend, or the gnoll shaman, but as if they had simply vanished into thin air, there was no sign of either of them anywhere. "ELLIIIIEE!"

Jack looked high and low, running back and forth across the area where he'd just seen the two of them, begging for a sight of one of them, or some clue, anything. But after a minute or two of desperate searching, he found himself in the same place he'd just been. Ellie was gone, probably taken by the gnoll.

Jack cursed and swore, shouting obscenities helplessly into the air for several seconds until he began to regain some semblance of mental composure. He'd taken too long. And he should have never let Ellie take on the shaman alone. He'd let it happen, and now she'd probably been taken, a.s.suming she wasn't already dead before she disappeared.

He felt tears rus.h.i.+ng to his eyes, his face flush with anger and defeat. Not knowing what to do, he dropped to the ground, sitting helplessly on the dirty cobblestone.

He'd wanted to be a hero. To be strong and powerful, and to defeat the bad guys and get the girls. And yet, here he was, sitting on his behind like a blubbering idiot, having just failed spectacularly in his first attempt at being heroic by losing the first girl who'd ever shown him any affection to a giant hyenman with magical powers. He was pathetic. He didn't deserve to be here.

["You seem down, kid."] Frumpkin's voice spoke in his head, sounding calmer and more serious than Jack was used to.

"Ellie's been taken! And it's all my fault..." Jack said. "I don't know what to do...."

["It sounds to me like you need to go and rescue her, then."] Frumpkin said. To Jack's surprise, there was no irony or sarcasm in his tone.

"But I have no idea where she is! Or how to find her! And that's a.s.suming she wasn't already dead by the time I got to her!" Jack said, mentally shouting at the voice in his head.

Then, suddenly, without warning, an idea appeared inside Jack's head, and it filled him with a sudden, tiny burst of hope.

"Wait! I just did something heroic! I get a reward, right? Then I choose her! I want her teleported back here! That's what I wish for! That's all I want! You can do that, right?" Jack said, his voice becoming more and more pleading as he continued.

Frumpkin's voice sighed. He sounded almost a little sad. ["Look kid, I can't help you in that way, even if I wanted to. That's not really how this works."]

"But why!? You're G.o.d! You can do anything you want!" Jack said, feeling his anger and guilt bubble over.

["Well, yes, I am. But I have my own rules I have to adhere to. For example, while I can give someone anything, I cannot take what they want from someone else. Which is why I cannot give you what you want. She is his, currently. And I cannot take her from him."] Frumpkin explained.

"But that makes no sense! You're G.o.d! Can't you just change the rules?" Jack asked.
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["Fraid not, kid. I'm only G.o.d of this particular world and a couple others, and I only have my position because the G.o.d of G.o.ds made me and gave me the job. Part of the job is adhering to certain rules, and not taking anything from the world's occupants is one of those rules. If I break the rules, I have to explain to the Bigger Guy upstairs why he shouldn't wipe me out of existence and replace me with someone who doesn't have an issue doing as he's told. Make sense?"] Frumpkin said.