With Melusine's assurance, Guinevere's mood shifted from cloudy to sunny and finally to bright and radiant, her heart finding solid ground.
Having witnessed Melusine's two battles from the sidelines, Guinevere could say without any burden that no one understood Melusine better than she did.
You're right, but that is simply who Melusine is.
Her attack power effortlessly cleaved the Faceless Queen in half, her speed was impossible to track without abilities rivaling the gods, and she was connected to the planet's ley lines, able to draw upon their energy at any time to enhance herself.
Her power limit remained unknown to this day, and no one had ever lasted more than three moves against her.
After the Wolf King turned into a dead dragon... ahhhhh!
Do you understand the sheer value of instantly killing a Campione dozens of times over?
With Melusine standing on her side, Guinevere finally felt how much confidence that brought.
She even abandoned her plans for hiding and skulking, wanting only to complete her mission with the utmost speed.
Melusine didn't care about her thoughts, but looking at Princess Alice, who seemed significantly more distracted than before, she spoke up:
"The awakening of the Last King cannot be postponed forever."
Alice's gaze was drawn to her voice.
"His awakening is a guaranteed fact. When that moment arrives, even if no one is running around trying to wake him, he will wake up," Athena stated.
After all, this was all destiny, or rather, a script arranged by the Goddesses of Fate.
Manipulating the destiny of all living things, and even the world itself, was the instinct of the Goddesses of Fate, and also her hobby.
However...
Melusine was a bit curious about the current state of the Goddesses of Fate now that she had appeared.
Logically, it was impossible for her not to have noticed her, but since she had noticed her, she should have made arrangements regarding her by now, right?
Her curiosity didn't last long.
On the third day after Melusine arrived in England and was staying as a guest in Princess Alice's home, news of the birth of a new Campione spread across the entire world.
"The newly born Campione is a sixteen-year-old high school student in his first year at Jounan Academy in Japan, Lord Kusanagi Godou." Alice shared the information she had received with Melusine.
At this point, Europe had lost all of its Campiones. Although Melusine had no intention of acting as a 'King,' her status and strength doomed everything in Europe to lean toward her.
Just like now, Alice unreservedly gave her everything she had learned.
Melusine, having just gotten out of bed, gave a lazy yawn and felt somewhat surprised by this.
Kusanagi Godou actually became a Campione after all?
And he killed one of the prototypes of Verethragna, Heracles?
Can Susanoo really arrange things that well?
If it were before, Melusine might have thought so, but after considering the existence of the Goddesses of Fate, she couldn't help but ponder a question:
Was this matter arranged by Susanoo, or was it arranged by the Goddesses of Fate?
But that didn't make sense either; after all, Pandora created Campiones precisely because she couldn't stand the methods of the Goddesses of Fate.
It couldn't be that Pandora was also under the manipulation of the Goddesses of Fate, right?
Although that wasn't entirely impossible...
Melusine couldn't figure it out, but she soon stopped thinking about it.
After all, it didn't really matter to her who it was.
Her biggest task right now was to slack off as much as possible before things got hectic later on.
However, the more one tries to avoid something, the more often one encounters it.
Half a month after Kusanagi Godou became a Campione, Alice reported to her that the Campione from China, the Martial King, had arrived in Japan and was likely to summon a Heretic God there.
Such behavior wouldn't have mattered before, but now there were Heretic Gods in Japan as well.
In this situation, the Martial Arts King's actions would undoubtedly be a provocation.
This matter should have had nothing to do with Melusine, but a day later, two more events occurred that forced her to abandon her enjoyable, soon-to-be-nonexistent long vacation.
"Last night, the Martial Arts King tried to restore the sealed Heretic Sun Wukong to his complete form, and during that time, he fought with King Kusanagi of Japan."
"Japan has completely turned into a state of chaos." Alice faithfully acted as the messenger, explaining the information she had gathered to Melusine:
"Furthermore, this morning, John Pluto Smith from the United States also seems to be heading toward Japan."
It truly lives up to its reputation as an island nation, truly disaster-prone.
Melusine sighed without emotion. She originally didn't intend to care, but heard Athena say: "Guinevere just contacted me, hoping we can go over and help these next two days."
...I guess that works.
Although Melusine hadn't explicitly paid attention to Guinevere these past few days, she had heard Alice mention that Guinevere had summoned a few Heretic Gods during this time.
Combined with Sun Wukong, a top-tier God of Steel who ranked high in mythology, Guinevere's ritual should be in a state of only missing the final push.
Without much hesitation, Melusine set off again, intending to head to Japan.
This trip wasn't rushed, and since she hadn't taken Athena along last time and made the other girl somewhat unhappy, she simply chose to travel by private jet again.
Athena was originally very dissatisfied with Melusine's daily routine, but knowing that Melusine planned to shoulder the responsibility of the Last King entirely upon herself later, she felt pity and didn't say anything more, instead thoughtfully asking if Melusine needed a lap pillow.
She was then refused by Melusine without hesitation.
There isn't even any meat on these legs; it's impossible for it to be comfortable to lie on them.
Although she thought this in her heart, the girl wasn't about to say it directly.
She was afraid that Athena might get competitive and turn into her full form.
The speed of the private jet wasn't slow, but it would still take about ten hours of flight time.
At first, she could pass the time by assembling models, but after a long time, it would feel dull, not to mention that this kind of thing, which was quite difficult and challenging for ordinary people, was something Melusine could quickly bid farewell to.
Having nothing to do, she simply pulled up her chat group.
As the king of spamming chats, second only to the original self, Melusine felt no burden regarding her neglect of proper business.
[Noelle: I originally thought this was a mythical or movie world similar to Arthurian legends, but then I saw bounties for the Seven Deadly Sins...]
[Amber: The Seven Deadly Sins... I heard the later stages are like gods fighting? Sorry... I've only watched the first two seasons.]
[Melusine: Are there new people again?]
[Amber: It's not just one new person.]
[FujimaruRitsuka: Didn't expect it, but there's me too!]
[Melusine: ...Huh? I've only been gone for two days, how did two new people from different worldviews suddenly appear? Can the gacha pool be this crooked?]
[Amber: Actually, I saw Melusine's gacha banner was closing soon, and then I thought about whether I could pull Morgan, so I tentatively threw some in... But I didn't pull Morgan, but I pulled Ritsuka instead.]
So that's how it was.
[Fujimaru Ritsuka: The world I came to is a bit rough; I'm experiencing a world-ending crisis planned by the gods. However, because of a Valkyrie named Brunhilde, this crisis has turned into a trial.]
[Fujimaru Ritsuka: Right now, I'm trying to find a way to participate in this trial.]
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