"...What did you just do?" asked Loki while looking at the nonsensical scribbles on the screen and feeling the very turbulent explosion of Divine Power in the distance.
"I asked Artemis-sama to secretly contact a few Deities and told them to agree with Chaos' terms if they want to help out going against him and securing the safety of their children," answered Kisuke while unceremoniously packing up.
"Wouldn't there be too many holes in that plan? You could be double-crossed too."
"Of course, I took that into account. After their mistake of showing us the result of their experiment a few years ago, I'd already gathered enough data to deal with their 'descent' in case that happens again."
Astarte recalled the incident seven years ago and asked, "You mean when the three idiots used their children's souls to summon their Divine Avatars down and bypass the system's laws?"
"Indeed. I thought that we might come across something like that again so I devised several methods to unlink the souls safely. And after my initial assessment of Amaterasu's soul earlier, I was able to modify it so that even if Chaos gives the Deities his blessing and fuses their souls, there's a way to safely store and isolate the souls of the mortals without fully fusing them with the Deity."
"That way, they'll be able to blend in among their ranks."
Still not convinced, Loki added, "Then again, someone could betray your trust and reveal everything to Chaos."
But in response, Kisuke just chuckled, "My~ Loki-sama. Do you really think I'd trust any of them? As I'd said, I have several methods and they're distributed at random. So even if someone reveals it and takes Chaos' side, they need to find all of the hundreds of methods. They might be just slight variations of each other, but a complete deciphering is needed for each of them.
"In the first place, I only did this to delay them and buy us some precious time and according to my conservative estimates, they would need around 3 years to weed out every traitor in their ranks. I think that's more than enough time for the three days we need to adjust ourselves and come up with a countermeasure for our current predicament."
Everyone, except for Yoruichi, Serafall, and Artemis who could only sigh, were stunned.
"...You made a confusion that's enough to last for 3 years just to give us 3 days of time to prepare?" Hermes asked in disbelief.
Kisuke finished packing up and added, "If I had more time, I would have given each and every Deities a different method but we were pressed for time so I could only do much. In the worst case, a failure or critical bug surfaces in my system and they take advantage of that, rendering my effort useless. So before that happens, let's go meet your children and start delegating resources and tasks. I have more things to buy us time but they are not as reliable as just confusing them, so let's hurry."
He then left the tent and Yoruichi, Serafall, and Artemis followed him closely. The war had just started so they had to do everything they could to gain even an inch of an advantage.
The Deities who were left were still stunned at the scale he was operating on and still believed that his act of buying time would fail.
"Aren't we in good hands?" Freya suddenly commented with a graceful smile on her face.
"I've always believed that we're already done for," Miach added, "But I have a feeling that making an enemy out of him is not any worse than going against Chaos."
"...What a coincidence. I'm having the same thoughts," commented Takemikazuchi.
Ouranos sighed while saying, "We're stuck between a rock and a hard place, huh..."
Contrary to him, Odin has a smile on his wrinkled face, "At least he doesn't give a malicious feeling like Chaos." He then looked at Loki before adding, "He kinda reminds me of someone."
Loki shuddered and immediately shook her head, "Don't compare me to him! I do things spontaneously and that guy is too systematic in that it feels like he has an answer to everything! He's scary!"
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In the now cleared-out space, everyone gathered with the Deities and Kisuke's group in front of them. It was obvious that everyone was still not in the right state of mind even after they were shielded from Chaos' pressure and Kisuke concluded that Chaos had the ability to induce insanity in those significantly weaker than him, 'I will need a countermeasure against that in case he has a stronger version of it.'
Kisuke and Yoruichi could attempt to use Kidou to heal them, but the damage that Chaos left was that of mind and their souls were almost entirely unaffected. They could calm their minds but it'd take far too much time and they didn't know if the problem wouldn't just resurface.
At this moment, Yoruichi tapped his shoulder and as he looked over, she saw her pointing at Freya, causing something to click inside Kisuke's head, "...I can't believe I forgot about that..."
"You're tired." Yoruichi simply commented and she was correct.
Although Kisuke looked just fine, he had been working nonstop on top of fighting Tiamat. Although he had been very careful, it was inevitable that some things would miss him after straining himself so much, "You're resting after this. I won't take no for an answer."
Kisuke sighed and listened to Yoruichi while taking out a golden orb from his sleeve. He also knew that his head wouldn't be in a good state if he had forgotten something so simple.
Upon seeing the orb, those who don't know why it's in Kisuke's hand froze and a horrified look came over them.
"Oh~ You're returning it to me?" Freya asked casually after seeing the orb.
Kisuke nodded, "Your charm should be able to overwrite Chaos' influence over them. Just don't over do it."
Freya happily walked towards him and received her Divine Core that she lost in a bet with him. With this, she'd be able to use her Divine Power and would be able to use her 'Charm' to overpower Chaos' 'Insanity' to return everyone to the right state of mind.
Meanwhile, Loki commented from the side, "I almost forgot that happened."