As soon as Kisuke woke up, he packed his Gigai controller module up since he had a feeling that it might get destroyed here if he left it behind.
[Are you going?] The strange voice talked to him for the first time in a while.
Kisuke immediately replied without stopping, "Yes. I'm not sure to what degree things are going to develop, but I'm preparing for the worst and inevitable."
[...I see.]
For the next few minutes, only the sound of Kisuke packing up was heard and when he was done, he finally said, "If you go up there, it'll be the death of you."
[...I know. But I'm not going down without a fight... Even if it means destroying this world.]
At her answer, Kisuke grinned, "Is that so? Then do you mind listening to my proposal?"
[You're most likely the one who'll kill me and you know this too, or else you and those important to you are going to perish instead. So what proposal is so great that would circumvent that?]
After making sure that Benihime wasn't listening, Kisuke walked towards the pond while cutting his wrist open and letting a huge amount of his blood flow out, "It's not something great and you're still going to die, but..."
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Kisuke returned to an obscure corner of Orario through Teleportation Magic. To his surprise, he immediately found that the whole city was almost deserted with only a few strong Adventurers roaming in secret. But most importantly, it's mostly monsters that were running amok the surface, 'Yoruichi and Serafall wouldn't have let this happen... Did something change?'
Kisuke extended his senses thin and found the concentrated amount of Magic Power on the spot where Melen is. However, what's more concerning is the 'Deity' at its full power resting on the first floor of the Dungeon.
He hid his presence and started running around the whole town to check if his formations were still intact. If there were damages, he'd fix it.
That took about three hours and the sun was already setting when he was done. After taking a quick peek at the Dungeon's opening, Kisuke decided to finally leave for Melen.
Kisuke ignored the war that was being fought between people and monsters at the halfway point between Orario and Melen and went straight to a relatively large house in the most southwestern part of Melen.
As soon as he got to the door, Kisuke immediately felt some unfamiliar presences along with very familiar ones. When he opened it, he was greeted by a crowd of Deities sitting in a circle and their guards standing behind them.
"You're finally back." Serafall waved at him with a cheerful smile from behind Artemis.
Kisuke waved back at her with a smile, "Sorry for the wait~" He then looked at Yoruichi who in turn, just sighed and shrugged her shoulders. She knew what he wanted to ask, but there was really nothing she could do but to let things pass this point.
'So the final round is, indeed, approaching... I'd like to say that I'm fully prepared, but I can't let my guard down.'
Kisuke then looked around and saw every Deity eyeing him for many different reasons, 'No wonder Hestia-sama didn't run to me or even greet me. Everyone's on guard against each other.'
Starting from on his immediate left was Hermes with Asfi Andromeda behind him. Next to him is Ganesha with Shakti Varma, Kali with Argana Kalif and Bache Kalif, Hephaestus with Tsubaki Collbrande, Freya with Ottar, Miach with Bell Cranel, Ouranos with Fels, two old men he didn't know, Takemikazuchi with Kashima Ouka, Astarte with Carys, Hestia with Yoruichi, Artemis with Serafall, and finally, Loki with Riveria.
Feeling the heavy atmosphere around them and the gazes that the Deities are giving him, Kisuke guessed that Freya had already undone the spell she'd cast on their Avatars to make them forget him and his Familia.
"Allow me to introduce you," Loki suddenly spoke up, "Since you probably already saw everyone here except for those two old men, I'll just skip to them. The old guy with long white hair and mustache is Zeus and the other old man with short silver-gray hair is Odin."
Kali immediately slammed the table in protest, "Do it properly! Even after the bitch's spell, it looks like I'm the only one who still hasn't met him in person!"
Loki shot her a fed-up expression and said, "...And that unfortunate shortie over there is Kali. She's no one important so you can just ignore her."
Kali stood up from her seat and put her foot down on the table, "What was that, you bitch!?"
But instead of Loki, it was Kisuke who spoke up, "Ah, Kali-sama. I've heard so many great things about you. It's an honor to finally meet you~."
Kali's anger immediately dissipated and she sat back down, "My, looks like you're one sensible lad."
But immediately after, Kisuke took out a chair from his inventory and placed it in between Hermes and Loki before sitting down among the Gods.
Those who don't fully know his capabilities creased their brows and the heavy atmosphere became even heavier with their guards about to pull out their weapons.
As soon as he entered, Kisuke immediately asserted the position he wanted to take, 'Oh my~ How fun.' He thought while waiting for someone to jump on him so that he could stomp that guy's head to the ground.
"Shall we start over?" He said while placing both of his elbows on the table and clasping his hands.