When Line reached her room with Medusa, she was still very out of it. As much as she wanted answers to their and her own questions running nonstop through her mind, she couldn't even fathom where to start.
"We're here."
If not for Medusa reminding her she wouldn't have realized that she had been standing blankly in front of her door. Realizing her mistake, she immediately faced Medusa and started bowing repeatedly, "I'm sorry! I'm very sorry!"
Medusa's deep and soothing voice, however, instantly gave her a huge sigh of relief, "It's fine. It's not something to apologize for."
But as soon as she straightened her body, she noticed a tray containing a tea set for two people and a plate of sweet baked snacks on her hand, "T-that is? You didn't have anything in your hands when we left the conference room, did you?", asked Line with a start. She knew for sure that Medusa doesn't really like taking out food from her inventory if she could prepare it properly. She heard it as one of the passing subjects when they had downtime and talked among themselves.
"Oh, this? I made a quick detour to the kitchen while we're on our way. By the way, do you mind if I come in?"
"Ah... Oh, yes, please!" replied Line while opening the door and thinking, 'So this is how a professional maid works? She managed to separate from me without me even realizing it. Incredible...'
The fact that she was too out of it to notice didn't even occur to her.
As Line arranged the seats and Medusa placed down the tray and prepared the tea, the former thought that she's here to convince her. But to convince her whether to accept the forbidden fruit of knowledge or reject it, Line doesn't have any idea.
Both of them sat down quietly and Medusa offered her a cup of tea, "Please take this. It'll help you calm your nerves."
"T-thank you."
However, that's it. The two of them just silently sat there and drank tea and ate snacks. Line indeed was able to calm her nerves after the first cup of tea, but on the third one, she started getting nervous from the silence and could only stare at this beautiful maid that has a grace that doesn't fit her attire, '...Now that I had a good look at her, she's more like a princess than a maid. And I almost forgot that she's kind of a Goddess from everyone's hometown... Though I still can't wrap my head around that. As far as I know, I think she mentioned that she's not trying to hide her aura so I wonder how different she is from the Goddesses I know.'
Some time ago, it was revealed that Medusa was a Goddess. Although she couldn't understand what they were talking about nor the reason why she was allowed to listen in on such a conversation, the main takeaway she got from that was that Medusa was different from the usual Deities that she knew.
With a quick peek at her, on the other hand, Medusa was able to make sure that she was able to finally take her mind from the earlier conversation. Although she planned to bring it back up again, it was already a good start that she was able to clear her mind with some other things.
The sound of the cup hitting the coaster became the signal for Medusa to start, "I won't talk about other things so I'll go straight to the point. What do you think?"
Even without clarifying it, Line knew what she's asking about. Her curious expression immediately became sullen as she also put down her cup, "...What do I think? I honestly don't know... I don't even know what to think of the situation."
"That's understandable. They were just talking about Master at the start yet it suddenly became you 'betraying' the world with what you want to learn."
As Line gave her a stare full of suspicion, Medusa immediately guessed what's on her mind, "Don't get wrong. I'm not here to convince you. I'm just going to be here to answer your questions and help you clarify some things. If you want to hear my opinion, I could also share that."
Medusa doesn't know what Sona was expecting when she asked her to accompany her. However, she's sure that Sona knew that she'll follow Kisuke's example of not convincing anyone and just giving them their choices in various scenarios, 'I'm not sure why she wanted me to do this, but I'll do my best.'
Of course, Line also recognized this as Kisuke would often help her with her studies this way. If she was lost, he would give some options based on the current situation, would explain how it came to be, and would teach her how to watch out for such things, 'Although it has been a while since he gave me bits of advice because I already learned how to decide for myself. There have been some mistakes, yes, but as Kisuke has said, it's an important part of learning and growing.'
Now that she has an idea of what their private talk entailed, Line immediately asked the first thing that came to her mind, "Is fighting a God or Goddess possible?"
Medusa was taken aback and her purple eyes behind the Mystic-Eyes-Suppression glasses widened as she was not expecting that as the first thing that she would ask, "Why this question?"
"Because you talk like you're prepared to go to war with the Deities.", replied Line with resolute eyes.
Medusa became silent and contemplated how to answer her question.
After a minute or two of patiently waiting, Line finally got a reply, "Because Master is fully capable of taking down one or two of them in a frontal battle."
It was Line's turn to be surprised and exclaimed, "He can!? He's that powerful!?"
Medusa raised her hand to signal her to sit back down and said, "It seems that you're misunderstanding something."
Line obediently sat down and asked, "What is it?"
"You've already seen how Master and Serafall-san fought."
"B-but that's..." It's indeed a very impressive display of strength that they never thought possible, but...
"I'm sorry to break it to you, but the Deities that you thought are omnipotent are also only around that level. Loki-sama might not have admitted it, but if you were to ask her, I think she'll tell you the truth."
Medusa watched her trying to comprehend her words, however, she did understand where her suspicion was coming from. From the time when the first Deity came down to the Lower World, they've always presented themselves to be the overseer of the mortals and that they governed every aspect of their lives.
Even with the birth of Magic along with their arrival, no one could imagine what kind of power was needed to control life and death. As such, they became an omnipotent and unconquerable existence in every mortal's mind, so even when Line and the rest of the girls from the Loki Familia saw the unbelievable battle, they couldn't have thought that it was already at the level of the Deities.