Chapter 1042 Choices

After Kisuke's injuries were healed, Line immediately returned to Loki and the others, but not before receiving a reminder from Kisuke, "Chaos knows of your existence and might try to eliminate you first if he gets a chance. When Hestia-sama makes her appearance, make sure to stay close to her."

"Hestia-sama? Why?" Line asked.

"It'll be the safest place in the whole world. You know the importance of your role so you have to take that spot."

Fear immediately surfaced on Line's face but she shook it off, "U-understood."

Seeing her put up a brave front, Kisuke couldn't help but regret it a bit. If she were not as excellent as she is now at what she does, Chaos would probably ignore her, but now an existence like hers came to light, it would be weird if Chaos would still ignore someone who could potentially change the tide.

Patting her head, Kisuke reassured her, "He's going to us first before he reaches you. And after this, I'll ask Sona to give you an extensive tour on the other side."

Line froze and thought, 'Ah... How many years has it been?' As the hand that saved her from certain death, she couldn't forget the comfort that it brought her. And with just this simple gesture, it actually gave her courage, "...I'll do my best!"

While watching her run off, Yoruichi asked, "If that guy really wanted to take over this world, there's no way he'd let us go, right?"

Kisuke chuckled, "If I was in the same shoes and had the same personality as him, I'd never let go of myself either. I pose too much threat to just turn my head away."

"So? How would you respond?" Serafall curiously asked.

A smile that could only be described as 'bad' emerged from his lips and as he said, "With everything~!"

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A few hours had elapsed and just as Kisuke had expected, a black line was drawn in the sky before it split open and revealed the void. From the unsettling darkness, a single figure in a white suit and pants came floating down and stopped just a hundred meters away from the temporary base where all the significant figures were currently staying.

Feeling his presence, the Deities locked in an endless discussion came pouring out of their place. On their way out, they saw all the mortals, including the Xenos blankly staring at the sky with fear-filled expressions and couldn't seem to move their sights away.

They also looked up and saw the gentleman with sleek black hair and crimson eyes slowly and silently floating down and all of them, without any exceptions, lowered their heads. As much as they wanted to help and hide their children away, they couldn't do it because of the absolute authority and power of the gentleman in front of them.

But the man completely ignored them and set his sights on Kisuke's group, who were hiding their presence, "It has been a while."

Although he was facing Kisuke and the others, they knew that he wasn't talking to them.

A second later, Yoruichi kodachi started vibrating.

"As we've agreed. The little girl can go."

'So we're not even worth talking to, huh?' Kisuke thought while waiting.

Yoruichi kodachi vibrated again a few times and it seems that the man understood it, "That's your problem. Only your contractor is included in the stipulations."

Finally, the man looked into Kisuke's eyes, "As for the additions, I'll give them a new set of contracts." But his eyes soon left the group and were transferred to the Deities below.

"Zeus, I see that you're trying to do something amusing."

Zeus groaned. Even though this man, Chaos, was not exerting any effort, the pressure from his eyes was enough to turn his stomach, '...This... Is really dangerous.'

Chaos chuckled at his reaction, "So you don't have any comments." He then turned his eyes to the other Deities, "And what about you lot? Have you forgotten that it's only thanks to me that you're even enjoying your life? And now not a few of you are planning to rebel? How amusing. You actually think you stand a chance?"

A wave of killing intent washed through everyone and made all mortals buckle to their knees while the Deities did their best to keep standing.

Zeus, Odin, and Ouranous, however, fought against this insanity-inducing intent by releasing their own Divinities and releasing a multi-colored light that blanketed everyone and protected their minds, "Enough of this, Chaos! Are you intending to destroy these children's souls!?" Zeus shouted.

The smile on Chaos' face didn't disappear, "Why would I care if a few of these lower life forms disappear? I'm just expressing what I feel right now."

A vein popped on Zeus' forehead, "Lower life forms... you say? They are the foundation of this world! Without their souls, there wouldn't be a Lower or an Upper World!"

In response, Chaos exaggeratedly spread out his arms, "That's because this is a flawed world~!"

Odin raised an eyebrow at that and asked, "And now that you've come down, are you intending to correct that?"

Chaos snapped his fingers and a black throne appeared behind him. As he sat down on it, he snapped his fingers once again and hundreds of black lines were drawn on the sky similar to how he arrived, "Of course. And there's no better time to do it compared to now when Tiamat's dominion has already disappeared."

A second later, various grotesque creatures started peeking from the opened void and looked down on everyone, sending an aura of impending doom.

Zeus, Odin, and Ouranos were gritting their teeth while the other Deities were thinking about what he meant by fixing this 'broken' world and why he was welcoming his minions to this plane.

"Naturally, I don't intend to start a massacre here since that would be too wasteful. As such, I'm giving everyone here a choice. Come under my banner or get annihilated as the creation of the new order."

While all of this was happening, a grin emerged from Kisuke's face, and sent a message to Sona. He didn't care if Chaos noticed him since his goal wasn't to have his message come across safe and clear. In fact, he wanted him to notice this so that someone could secretly send messages locally.