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The next day the halls of Valhalla were in complete disarray in an even worse state than after the combat that took place the day before.

Many of the Norse gods were lying unconscious on the vast tables or on the cold floor.

The hall reeked of booze and blood, probably one of the reasons everyone was out. Several bottles of mead were strewn across the floor with bloodstains scattered in a circular area.

Anastasia left her room and headed to the hall witnessing such a scene and the first thing she did was take one of the intact bottles of mead to drink it.

She stepped over some of the unconscious ones, and began analyzing the hall's structural problems, fixing them with her magic.

"A memorable night. Don't you agree?" Odin appeared behind her commenting.

"I doubt they'll remember what they did yesterday. But the result is really surprising." She steps over one of the bodies on the way to reach a broken wall and restore it with magic.

"Where have you been all this time? Everyone who knew you believed you were dead."

"I was wandering around this time, I visited the kingdom of that famous human king as his name was... I think Arthur Pendragon.

"You met the king of knights? Impressive, I didn't have the opportunity he died before I had time to go there. Even in this days, that family is proud of its ancestors and, unless I'm mistaken, the current generation of Pendragons is called Arthur, I believe in honor of the ancestor."

"In fact, I arrived there at the time of his grandfather, I trained the magician that you may know as Merlin, that half devil kid got into many troubles with Uther and Arthur, in addition to having created a magic system for humans."

"Merlin Ambrosius, the creator of one of the system of magic used by humans." Odin scratches his beard. "Indeed he is a very famous being, but his whereabouts were unknown after the fall of Camelot and the creation of the system of magic was his last creation in that world."

"He's probably hitting on some woman, regardless of race, or maybe some man, he always likes to have a good time."

"So he's a womanizer, the boy seems interesting I'd love to meet him one day." Odin gets a perverted look.

"You should be careful, I may have threatened you with erasing your genitals, but my dear student would probably create a male organ in every woman you were spying on or maybe turn them into men using magic." Anastasia shrugs seeing Odin's depressed look.

"Ah, what else did you do in the meantime?" Odin quickly changed the subject.

"I tried to find a way to resurrect Yahweh."

"What was the result?"

"Fairy magic was useless, the time I visited the underworld was also not productive for my purpose."

"So it was for nothing, I'm not surprised he died a long time ago."

"In fact I already have an idea of how to bring him back. I collected his soul at the moment of his death, and I recall that by creating the sacred gears this project resulted in 13 weapons capable of killing gods."

"The 13 longinus, yes they are amazing weapons. However, I don't see where you're going with them."

"The strongest of the 13 Longinus, known as True Longinus, guards the dying will of the god of the bible. And the Sephiroth Grail sacred gear causes the wearer to be subjected to a long and constant lesson on life and death recorded by Yahweh."

"I understand why you need the spear, but why do you need the grail?"

"I have the soul, the spear has the will, and the grail has part of the memories. What part is missing?"

"The body. But it was destroyed during the war of the three factions of the bible. How would you manage to restore it?"

"I thought to do a certain atrocity, Lucifer created several devils along with Lilith using the Book of Lucifer and Lilith gave birth to them by asexual reproduction. I considered creating his new body that way but he wouldn't be the same if he was altered by a devil's DNA and therefore I considered giving birth to him myself but that would fall into the same situation affecting him with faerie DNA mixed with my divine nature. Even if I made a deal with the infinity and the dream dragons, the new body would have the characteristics of a dragon. Now you see the nature of the problem."

"But I still don't understand how you're going to solve this."

"One of the most ignored uses of the Sephiroth Grail is to sense life and death, I intend to use it to locate the exact spot where Yahweh sealed the beast of the apocalypse after all that idiot hid the entrance to the parallel plane he created even from me."

"Are you crazy! That thing killed one of the beings in the Top 10, if it releases again it will be a catastrophe. Only the Dragon God of Dreams should have the strength to go head-to-head, and maybe the Dragon God of Infinity. I'm not even sure if Shiva is capable of killing that thing and he's the strongest god in the strongest pantheon."

"Don't worry, I have a plan. And even if I don't go after that thing, it's likely to be released sooner or later."

"What you mean? Did the seal used fail?" The leader of the Norse gods begins to panic, already planning to contact the Hindus and Greeks to discuss how to resolve this.

"No, it's just that last I checked the Grail is in the possession of a vampire from Romania and Lucifer's son has contacted them. Probably he must have a similar plan to release the creature, after all according to him a time of peace is boring."

"That's why everyone hates that damned Rizevim, regardless of the pantheon." Odin sighs. "But why do you need the beast."

"Trihexa is one of the beings with the greatest regenerative capacity I've ever seen, in addition he is able to create biological beings from his own flesh and replicate things he has already absorbed. Considering his fight with Yahweh, he possibly absorbed some of that idiot's energy while being sealed away, so I can forcefully create a new body by uniting all the elements." Anastasia has a confident expression when saying her idea.

"You are crazy!" Odin comment immediately.

"Thanks for the compliment."

"I don't want to hear any doomsday plans. I'll see if Thor and Vali woke up to start their training." Odin withdraws and thinks. 'Maybe it's a good idea to include Vidar in this training, he can help both of them.'

"Bye bye, see you later one-eyed perv." Anastasia goes back to fixing more wrecked areas.

After a few hours Anastasia finished repairing the halls and went after Vali. The scene she found made her give a brief smile.

Thor and Vali were locked in a fight with the first wielding his signature hammer and the second with his sacred gear active flying through the air to attack from afar.

But combat was not so simple. During the fight fought by the two, a third party acted as an intruder, attacking them by surprise and he was Vidar, one of the strongest gods with in the Norse pantheon, according to what Odin told her many years earlier.

Lightning bolts flew from a hammer that was constantly hurled across the sky and a dragon's voice familiar to her shouted 「DIVIDE」 at periodic intervals of time. In addition, a god would advance when one of them was off guard and punch them in the back.

"Looks like everything's fine over here. After they're done, I'll arrange a time to train the boy." Anastasia waves to Odin who looks at her irritated and she simply leaves the place trying to locate one of her former students.

After sensing a familiar presence she decided to head over and talk to her rune magic student. However, the scene she witnessed as she approached could be described as peculiar.

"Loki, you shouldn't be so arrogant. Peace is something inevitable, pantheons all over the world are already considering accepting it and all that's missing is someone taking the lead to propose it."

"Peace? What amusing kind of joke is this Göndul? I am a god and gods should not submit to conditions similar to humans."

"You act like you're the leader of this pantheon, you forgot that our leader is Lord Odin."

"You Valkyries really are annoying, you are nothing but creations to serve us gods. If that old man decides to accept some offer of peace with lesser races..." Loki speaks cruelly.

"What are you going to do with the old man, the great maid of honor of the god of thunder and notorious horse lover?" Anastasia decides to stop spying and confront the boy.

"It's none of your business worm!" Loki speaks without caring when he hears an unknown voice coming from his back but when he turns around he turns pale. "A-Anas-Anastasia are you still alive?" He quickly analyzes if it's some illusion made by Göndul to scare him, but when he sees that this is not the case, he turns even paler.

"Yes I am. I didn't expect you to turn into an arrogant and annoying brat like the older brother of Zeus or that son of Lucifer." She looks disapprovingly until she turns to an older woman beside her. "Hello Gön, how have you been my dear student? "

"Very good teacher. Too bad I haven't been able to see you all this time, but I've improved a lot on the rune magic you taught me."

As they spoke, the god of trickery quickly fled the scene, being noticed by both but having his presence ignored.

"I'd love to see your progress, but the years haven't done you so well." She teases her young student, who now didn't look so young expressing a form already affected by age.

"Time doesn't stop for anyone, and I already have a granddaughter so it was to be expected that my self was older." Göndul smiles offering a cup of tea that was on the table next to where she was sitting.

"Thanks." Anastasia looks around and notices a little girl with silver-white haired and aqua eyes. "Hello little friend, I'm your grandma's teacher. What's your name?"

The teen looks at Grandma with a dubious look before answering.

"It's okay Rose, come introduce yourself to her." Göndul I smiled affectionately, telling her to get closer.

"H-Hello, I'm Rossweisse, one of the valkyries in the service of Lord Odin."

"Serious? That pervert has such a cute little girl working for him, Göndul you shouldn't let your granddaughter get too close to Odin." She speaks in a comical tone.

"Professor, even a retired Valkyrie like me could disobey my lord. It's tragic that my little Rose has to suffer at his hands."

"Lord Odin isn't so bad."

"He is a pevert." Anastasia comment.

"And relaxed." Göndul adds.

"Alright, Lord Odin can be a little mean. But I'm still his valkyrie, I have to protect him."

"She's so cute Gön, it seems she doesn't know the real Odin yet. Little one, can I call you Rose as your grandma also calls you?"

"Since you are my grandmother's teacher, I will give you that honor." Young Rossweisse corrects her posture by trying to act more dignified.

"Rose, what is your role among the Valkyries?" Anastasia asks.

"I-I'm not as good as the other valkyries using weapons, but I study rune magic with my grandma." She is a little embarrassed at having to talk about her lack of talent, but quickly pulls herself together by talking about her important task. "Even though I'm not the strongest valkyrie, Lord Odin assigned me the task of being his next bodyguard when Brynhildr retires from the task."

"You mean until she gets tired?" Anastasia teases again getting a challenging look from Rossweisse who wanted to protect her senior's honor.

"Or too angry to continue, that's why I stopped." Göndul starts laughing.

Anastasia spent some time in the place discussing with Göndul about rune magic and both sharing new results with each other. The conversation made young Rossweisse have a glint of curiosity in her eyes, and was welcomed with suggestions and lessons from both the goddess and the retired valkyrie.

It's been a few months since the situation in Asgard became usual for Anastasia and Vali. The boy being trained daily by Thor and Vidar, and having his progress evaluated and corrected by Anastasia in periodic combats.

In addition, she maintains a parallel training with Albion's assistance to help Vali master sacred gear using her knowledge of creating them and the intuition of the sealed dragon. With this training he was able to reach Balance Breaker after a few months showing the potential of a genius, this helped him during physical training with Thor, Vidar and Anastasia. However, he still didn't maintain his Balance Breaker for long intervals, which became the new goal of his training.

Meanwhile Anastasia spent her free time chatting with Göndul and teaching young Rossweisse some rune magic. She also took the opportunity to play pranks on Loki in order to annoy the annoying god who has a god complex.

On one of the days she went after Odin to discuss something, but did not find him in Asgard even after searching through several locations and using tracking spells. She decided to ask one of the valkyries who served as her guard, the leader of the valkyries Brynhildr.

"Hello Brynhildr, do you know where Odin is?"

"Miss Anastasia, Lord Odin has gone to a Japanese city called Kuoh, whose regent, the noble devil Cleria Belial, has recently been murdered. He asked me to come back as he would be safe and not cause any trouble."

"Do you really believe in that?"

"No."

"Do you want me to pick him up?"

"Yes, please."

With that Anastasia after obtaining the approximate location of Odin teleported to the place, but not before using a spell on herself to further hide her energy since the place is the territory of the Shinto gods and was ceded to devils.

Upon arriving at the place she used magic to track magical frequencies that she is used to, she felt the presence of a fallen angel, a god and strangely a human with a dragon inside. These three were in this city, being that the god and the human were in the central region and the fallen angel in a more distant area.

When looking for Odin she found a certain old man with one eye talking to a child on a park bench.

The boy appeared to be around 12 years old similar to Vali, he had brown hair and brown eyes. The face was certainly a Japanese one, he was not a foreigner, but what puzzled Anastasia is the topic the old man was teaching the boy.

Anastasia after improving her hearing using magic heard the conversation from afar.

"Boy do you know what the most important thing in the world is?"

"Family and friends?"

"No, it is BOOBS! When you touch them you'll understand. Look over there." Odin points to a black-haired woman with large breasts. "Look boy, the bigger the better. But even the little ones are amazing." He says this by pointing to another woman.

"I-I don't know." The boy follows what the old man is pointing interested due to the hormones in puberty.

What the young man does not notice is the look of disgust that the women who were pointed out were sketching directed at the old man and consequently at him.

Odin then pulls out a magazine from his pocket that he acquired during his brief outing and shows it to the boy. The magazine was an R-rated magazine whose cover featured a model's breasts. Issei upon observing had a nosebleed.

"But there are so many breasts. I won't be able to see or touch them all."

"You just need a harem."

"What is a harem?"

"A harem is when you have multiple girlfriends or wives."

"I understood. For all the boobs, I'm going to become the harem-king!"

"That's right boy, that's the spirit." Odin pats the boy on the back.

The boy then points to a direction mentioning for Odin to look at the breasts of a beautiful white haired woman. The young man watched the breasts without noticing his accomplice's look of panic.

The woman began to approach, making the young man nervous and making the old man tremble even more.

"H-hi s-sorry for staring." The young man apologizes immediately in panic.

"What's your name little boy?" Anastasia smiled when she felt the draconic presence emanating from the boy's interior.

"Issei Hyoudou." He says, lowering his head.

"Well Issei, you shouldn't be staring at women's breasts, let alone listening to advice from old perverts." She says glaring at Odin and suddenly her smile turns into a playful. "Dad, you're so old and now you're running away from home to look at women, imagine what mom would do when she found out about this." She speaks in a loud voice so that some women in the vicinity could hear and they stared at Odin with a disgusted look.

Odin upon hearing this was in disbelief until he was dragged away by Anastasia. "Dad, it's time to go home."

"Oh sir, what about the magazine?" Issei asks.

"You can keep it." Odin speaks quickly knowing that she would be destroyed if he caught her in this situation.

Both leave the place and when they enter an alley they teleport to Asgard.

"You were teaching a teenager to be a pervert? Is that the best you can do in your free time?"

"It wasn't so bad." Odin shrugs.

"Did you do this with Vali?"

"I tried. But he wasn't that interested in boobs."

Anastasia sighs in relief, as Odin mentally completes 'He prefers butts.'

"I came after you to say it's me and Vali leaving. See you next time." She says giving a hug that surprisingly is reciprocated without any peversion.

"Where are you guys going?"

"I'll send Vali to take care of a new organization called the Khaos Brigade, apparently they're planning to hunt longinus and they're related to one of Grigori's cadres and the wizards of Oz."

"Problematic guys, but I don't think the kid is ready to handle it alone."

"That's why I'm going to send him to meet with the current Governor General of the Fallen Angels. Azazel loves to research sacred gears, he would love to study a longinus and has a good heart to be moved by Vali's past."

"Going to fool your own son. Besides being crazy, you are also evil." Odin mocks.

"It won't do either of them any harm, and Azazel will grow more with the responsibility of caring for someone else. He'll be a good guardian for Vali."

"And what will you do?"

"I'll collect what I need to resurrect Yahweh and maybe try being a teacher at a school for a while. That city, Kuoh, looks very interesting to me."

"Then you will proceed with this madness. I wish you luck my friend, until next time." Odin withdraws and lets her proceed with her plans.

Anastasia goes to Vali and tells him what she has planned, ordering him to deal with the current Khaos Brigade having his first mission to find the governor general of the fallen angel. She tells Vali to trust the guy by telling him his past with Rizevim and letting him study the sacred gear.

She then informs him that she intends to travel the world for a while and will likely be teaching at one of Kuoh's schools as a cover. She finally gives a phone created with magic that allows a single line of exclusive communication with her, and finally teleports the boy to the place where she sensed Azazel's presence.

"It's time to leave." She looks around with a smile and teleport.