While Serafall and Wukong were talking, a soft thud of knees hitting the ground could be heard and everyone looked at the source of it, only to see Ais on her knees, breathing rapidly while also clutching the shaking Lysa strongly to her stomach.
"Ais!? What's wrong!?" Lefiya immediately went to her side along with the other girls of the Loki Familia.
"Could it be a side effect of her transformation!?" Tenestra muttered loudly which made everyone nervous.
Line was already at her side and trying to diagnose the problem but she also had the same guess as Tenestra.
But while they were trying to calm Ais down, Wukong approached them and said, "You don't have to worry about her. But I would like to apologize on my companion's behalf."
Everyone turned to her, including Ais who doesn't know exactly what just happened.
"Both of you are young Dragons and seem to be unaware of how dangerous the world could be." Wukong continued, "You just felt the aura of a very dangerous kind of Dragon."
Ais thought back and it was indeed it when the strange man arrived that she and Lysa suddenly froze in fear, "D-Dragon? He's a Dragon?"
Wukong rubbed his beard and replied, "Yes. But after that initial encounter, you should be able to get used to his presence, so just endure it for now."
"I too, apologize for his sudden appearance." All of a sudden, while the Deities were retreating, a voice came from above them. And when they looked up, Sona, whose hair grew longer and with five pairs of Devil wings behind her, descended along with Irina and Akeno, who also possessed five pairs of Fallen Angel and Angel wings of their own.
But before Sona could reach the ground, a shadow tackled her, "Sona-chaaaan!!! I missed you!!!" She was pushed back and only Serafall's trailing voice could be heard.
Irina and Akeno landed on the ground as if none of that had just happened with the latter immediately greeting Hestia, "Hestia-sama, it's been a while. I hope you're doing great."
Irina, on the other hand, immediately grabbed her hand excitedly, "Hestia-sama! I really missed you!"
"Akeno... Irina..." A bit of tears came out of Hestia's eyes, "You've grown." She then grabbed both of them and hugged them tightly. Although they didn't receive their Falna from her, she still considered them as her own children.
Naturally, both Akeno and Irina know that this wasn't the right time to have a sentimental reunion, "Hestia-sama, please cooperate with Rossweisse to transfer your barrier to the floating island."
Hestia looked up at Akeno and asked, "Rossweisse?"
Akeno pointed up and when Hestia looked up, she saw more people coming down.
In the lead was a tall beauty with long and straight silver hair, wearing white and silver armor. Behind her was another beautiful woman with blonde hair and a very soothing aura surrounding her. As they landed, the silver-haired woman immediately introduced herself, "Nice to meet you. I'm Rossweisse." Followed by the blonde-haired one, "And I'm Asia Argento. It's very nice to meet everyone."
It wasn't just them but more people could be seen coming down and some of them just came straight to them when the enemy Deities started retreating. Soon a round of introductions started with the children of various Familias and even the Xenos being included in it.
However, there's one person who's clenching his fist so hard that his palm started bleeding and he wasn't feeling any negative emotion but hope, '...If it's them...'
He took a heavy step forward and took a deep breath. Those around him noticed his strange demeanor and called out to him, "Bete? What's wrong?"
But the white-haired werewolf just gritted his teeth and continued his steps toward Hestia, Akeno, and Irina.
His strange fluctuation of aura was soon caught by everyone and interrupted by whoever was introducing themselves now. And even with their eyes full of confusion and concern focused on him, he only stopped when he reached his target.
"Bete-kun?" Hestia wondered what he was up to.
But before saying anything, Bete suddenly dropped his knees to the ground and almost smashed his face on the ground, "Please! Please save my family! I beg you!"
His words of intense desperation were met with silence and those who knew him well were in shock. But after a second, they could understand where he was coming from and turned to Akeno and Irina to wait for their answer.
Akeno and Irina were taken aback but only for a brief moment, "Please stand up."
But Bete didn't listen to Akeno and just continued his begging, "Please! I beg you! Save my family! I will do everything to repay you!"
"No need for that." An answer suddenly came from behind them and they turned their heads, they saw Sona fixing her glasses and dragging Serafall who was rubbing her face with a disgraceful expression on her stomach, "It's our intention to help on all fronts."
Bete, with a messed up face, turned to her and asked again, "Y-you'll save them?"
Sona thought that just giving him the verbal agreement won't be enough so she showed everyone her Communication Magic, "Kuroka, Koneko, how is the situation on your side?"
From her Magic Circle, a reply immediately came, [The enemy is already retreating and it seems there's a power that is forcefully teleporting them somewhere, nyaa~ I also found a few settlements within the scan radius. So we can start the rescue effort, nyaa.]
[I also found a few settlements on my side. We're waiting for your signal, principal.]
"Good. You can proceed with the rescue operation. Also, please bring one unit down here and let Bete Loga become the guide."
[Understood, nyaa~ I'll send Saji to take care of him.]
Sona closed the communicator and looked at Bete and said, "Do your best in being a guide."
Bete stared at her for a few seconds but before he could express his immense gratitude, a purple armor landed beside him, "Is this the guy?"
Sona nodded.
Without waiting for any reply from Bete, Saji, in his Balance Breaker, grabbed him by the waist and immediately jumped into the air, "Don't bite your tongue. Point at the direction we should go."
Bete still can't keep up with what's going on, but thankfully, he was able to point in a certain direction due to his instincts.
"Gotcha. Hold on tight!" Now with direction, Saji instantly accelerated and broke the speed of the sound barrier, creating a shockwave, and almost instantly disappeared from everyone's sight.
Those from Loki Familia thought that they heard Bete's shrill scream but thought it was just their imagination.
Clapping her hands, Sona gathered everyone's attention once again, "Everyone's tired so let's move proper lodgings and rest for the time being. Those who want to be guided, please tell me immediately and I'll prepare the proper arrangements."