After awhile, his eyes were gradually returning back to its vivid clear vision. As his clouded vision had vanished, his eyes then met, Nassus. A guy with a Harajuku(spiky hair yet neat clean-looking) hairstyle dyed in bloody maroon. Complemented by his spear-like and eagle-eyed emerald eyes. Towering height of 6' 2". Narrow nose and thin lips. His facial features esteemed the great manliness and sheer favorable handsomeness. He has a sleek physique v-shaped toned body with visible muscles that was clothed in a white suit. It seemed he was better-looking than Zeran. Nassus's white slacks conformed his tall legs. Lastly, his notable factor was his demonic deep abyss black claw in his right arm and the white sleeve that was slathered in deep chrome black, blending to his claw.
He was looking at Zeran with an intimidating cold lion's look.
The woman near to Nassus's right side was a Goddess named Shunya. Her skin of pinkish glow. She has a shorter height of 4' 9" amongst the other Goddesses. Her hair was bobbed with twintails of chrome black. She has the eyes of cute and fiery redness. She has an adorable nose and small lips. Her facial appearance looked similar to a young-looking growing teenager. She has a flat-chested and petite fragile body that would trick anyone for her to be a small and fresh girl, despite her real age for a common Goddess. Her body was clothed in peculiar vibrant red china-dress you'd call, as it slit below, showing her nice and slim legs. She's thevery definition of a loli, a loli Goddess perhaps. Though, her glow on her eyes were gone, due to her frightened face, as she was looking on the floor very obediently to him.
Next, on his left-side was the serene-like Goddess Otorine. She has the model height of 5' 10". She has a porcelain skin of radiant white. Her sapphire blue eyes were soothing and calm to look upon. Her glistening light blue hair was tied to a sophisticated hair ornament that depicted a state of a matured woman. She has a small nose that's well-formed and narrow. Her lips were filled with decadence and redness. She was masking a decent amount of make-up that struck her beauty forevermore. Her face was matured as Ru but, devoid of sinistry and tenacity. Otorine's body of great glory and awe-inspiring goddess with cantaloupe-like breasts and a gorgeous toned body. While her body was wrapped in a light blue japanese kimono riddened in very artistic design of a koi dancing in the starlight. Lastly, her sleek and long legs were wearing the usual wooden sandals, in which those were very much paired with the japanese clothing. Same as Shunya, the radiance of her form seemed to be shrouded in a dense mist, since she was looking down on the floor, depicting immense obedience to Nassus.
Zeran saw the two looking scarred and terrified. Moreover, it seemed they don't want to face him directly in the eye. His very mind let him on a clear flashback.
That moment, at the same place as they were in. Zeran, Mai wearing a white dress and her eyes looking innocent, Shunya and Otorine were now sitting upon the chairs. There was a strong silence in the air. His expression was very much pissed-off about Mai for some reason and his fingers was crackling relentlessly on the table. Soon enough, he took the initiative with his rage infused look upon his eyes. Though, he contained it inside as he let out his words to Mai,
"Mai...could you leave us for a sec?".
As Mai heard his boiling words, she left out a farewell but, her face was riddened in grave sadness, due to her sudden guilt that swelled later on, uttering out sorrowful words,
"Okay I understand...Zen...".
While Mai had left the three, Shunya tells to him in a very awkward way, as if trying to grasp the situation with an embarrassing smile upon her face,
"So I guess you weren't happy with her...".
On the outside, he showed an angered face and burning hatred in his eyes yet, he had rambling thoughts in his head,
("Ofcourse I wasn't!").
Though, he tried to calm himself down before he started speaking to both of them, in a very serious way. As his boiling self has gradually ceased, he uttered out his words filled with seriousness,
"I'll just say this once..."
"Stay away from Nassus and his cohorts..."
"He's lethal and dangerous...".
Though, his very thoughts were even more puzzled,
("That guy...why did Mai even agree to MARRY HIM?!")
("That guy's no hero...HE'S A MONSTER!").
As for Otorine, she seemed to notice that he was very much saddled in much pain upon looking him in his very eyes, so she left out a very concerned face for him. She held his restless hand, like an ideal guardian angel would. Then, she says a few words, trying to ease him down,
"Zen...".
Later, his flashback stopped and his very mind came back to his senses, seeing himself with Ruhime, Shunya, Otorine and Nassus around him. Nassus says to Zeran in a very cold way that seeped the whole place in deep silence,
"I see you aren't glad to see me..."
"Since you're here..."
"I'm gonna let you have some alone time with them...".
Shunya and Otorine bowed to Nassus, as if real servants to him when he left after, despite the both of them are revered as Goddesses. Though, Zeran's look was cold and filled with seething wrath upon the leaving Nasus. The air around the place became less heavy and awry as he was gone. The other Gods, heroes and Goddesses were back to there usual talkative and expressive selves, except for Zeran and the flock of beautiful Goddesses before him. Shunya and Otorine took a sit at the vacant chairs around Zeran and Ru. Ru introduced herself to the two Light Goddesses. The two responded by telling their names yet, it seemed they weren't interested to share their side of the story. It's as if they were frightened to even open their mouths as it seemed they were ordered to keep their mouth shut. Even though Nassus's presence wasn't there. Whence, Ru noticed the two doesn't want to open up to her, she looked at Zeran and left out a nod at him saying, "It seemed they don't want to talk to me...so why don't you talk to them...". Instead, she called upon the waiter from the distance. As soon as the waiter came, she ordered 4 Milk teas in various flavors. The waiter left afterwards to do her bidding. Next, she grabbed her customized violet earpods(earphones) and snucked it unto her foxy ears and listened to some relaxing trance tunes. Even though Nassus was gone, Zeran's face was still fuming in raging furiousness. Shunya took the first act and left out a pleading voice to him,
"We had no-no choice Zen..."
"You see...there was utter chaos in both of our worlds even with the help of our counterparts we can't contain it..."
"And Nassus was our only option to restore order...".
Otorine then adds upon with a desperate frown and said,
"To save everyone from despair...".
As he had witnessed them expressing those words, he asks them a very sensitive question to them and even feeling such unsettling vibes about it,"And what about the other heroes in your world...don't tell me...".
Shunya replies,
"They weren't even that capable to do it..."
"They died and they chose to be reborn in other worlds...".
"D*MN!"
,as he smashed the table with impending force, releasing an intense sound that reverberated the area, that even made the other Gods and Goddesses on other table to be alarmed for a sudden moment. Ru felt that he was feeling more and more anxious with wrath upon his eyes. She removed her earpods. She held Zeran's enraged hands and tries to change the course of his flowing anger by asking a trivial question to him,
"I'm sorry to butt-in Zera but..."
"But why so concerned for Nassus?".
Her innocent words made him to do a hilarious facepalm expression, that meant piss and naiveness upon what she doesn't know. Though, her tactic worked and his swelling anger blew-off some steam, that made him to explain less enraged and in an elaborate way,
"Ugh..."
"First...I'll say this...Nassus is one of the greatest heroes..."
"With superb powers and capabilities..."
"One of the notable things about him is his..."
"INFINITE STAMINA"
"IMMORTALITY"
"PENTA-DRAGON ELEMENTALS"
"AND...MULTIPLE BLADE MEMORIAS"
"Not only that...he can transfer to any world and become a PSEUDO-HERO..."
"Without reincarnating...unlike I do..."
"But here's the catch...if you were to BEG for him to save you and your world..."
"You'll have to become one of his wives...no...SLAVES!".
Though in his thoughts were even darker and deeper in sense, revealing his very deep scar that was sealed in his very core before,
("And I have seen it before my eyes...on how he treated Mai cruelly without any hesitation...")
("Her cries...those tears...I can't believe such a Goddess was treated like that by her own HERO...")
("Maybe on what I did to her was also a good thing to her too...").
He continues to explain,
"And if you were wondering why I know all of this is..."
"It's because he's my former ally before during my..."
"4TH WORLD REINCARNATION...".
Ru then let out an eager yet teasing smile to him, as if to compliment him in a subtle way. More than that, her tail was wagging quite restlessly. Then, she says with a flirty smile on her face filled with flattery,
"So that's why you know alot about him...you smart*ss Zera..."
"And your two Light Goddesses here..."
"From your 2nd and 3rd worlds before..."
"Somehow broke their promise to you...".
His response was a sudden nod. Though, in his thoughts were quite different in aspect,
("Hmmmm...so she knows that...but not much about Nassus...").
Soon, she says to him in a very soothing way but, filled with immense eagerness in her amber eyes,
"Oh♪"
"And Zera..."
"Care to share your outstanding feats you pulled off?"
"It piqued my interest♪"
"Hm♪?".
While she carressed his face with, her soft hand and her ears were twitching with subtle excitement, like a sly fox on the prowl for something. As for Otorine and Shunya their faces looked very doubtful and dumbstrucked, as they were seeing Ru doing those flirty actions to him. Though, for Zeran he was feeling a surge of uneasiness, as his eyes witnessed that he wouldn't want to see but, his heart skipped a beat, while he was seeing Ru was more beautiful than ever before, staring at him straight in the eye. The air around them became quite intense with an unusual fluttery feeling. He turned his head to the sight of Otorine and Shunya. Though, Shunya and Otorine turned away their faces from him immediately although, their faces were blushing and steaming with strawberry redness upon their cheeks, looking quite embarassed. While he had noticed that, he agrees and suggests to the charming foxy Goddess Ru,
"Well...okay...and could you stop touching my face?"
"You're embarassing me here...".
As she heard his plea, she removed her flawless touch upon his face. The entrancing whiff in the air calmed down. Afterwards, Zeran briefly explained his recent adventures and humble feats from the previous worlds with them.
He started to explain first with Shunya as the Goddess of the SHAIFAN world. Shunya was dying through an illness and once she dies, all of the people and animals will die too as per the judgement. Thankfully, through him finding and bringing back the magical curing plant. Shunya's illness ceased and the crisis was averted upon her world. As a reward, he was granted the ability of "PERMANENT MEMORY STORAGE".
As he was done explaining, Shunya, nodded energetically at Ru, in response, in order to tell her that he was telling the truth. He continued to explain to her, as he was dead he chose the reincarnation route.
This time, the world he was in was the world of UMINOYA, Otorine's world. He told Ru that princess Otorine was held captive by the dark Goddess of her world, who was in the physical form of a huge eastern dragon. He told Ru that he fought the huge dragon and won. Thereon, he was able to save Otorine. Though, he was shocked that she wasn't just a mere princess but a Goddess in disguise, to test the world's benevolent faith for some reason. He was granted another wish and he wished to gain the special ability called "DIMENSION INVENTORY".
Otorine left out a calming nod and smile, as she agreed upon what he had said. As soon as, he was done explaining to her his two experiences with the two Light Goddesses with them. He was caught on to a sudden pause, since he had doubts if he should continue to share more of his stories or not. Moreover, his very hands were shaking and his eyes was feeling deep hatred. The chilling sorrowness or even cowardice coursed throughout his veins. Though, Ru held his hand and told him that she was already satisfied on what she had heard upon. Zeran's heavy feeling and shaking hands wore-off. After a while, Ru tried to recall upon but in her own way or another,
"Hmmmmmmm..."
"So your 2nd world is SHAIFAN the Red Orient world..."
"3rd world is UMINOYA the Watergarden world..."
"Then 4th world is AIKO, Sky Glass world..."
"Now your 5th world is...HIMENEA the Melding world...".
She knacked out a daring smile and a compliment, as her canine ears were twitching with sudden interest, that would soothe any adventurer's and hero's heart in a way,
"Wow! You really are amazing Zera!"
"An ISEKAI chain♪!"
"I wonder what's your 6th world would be?".
His deeply scarred feeling was gone fast. Yet, he was looking dumbfounded instead, since he couldn't believe on what he had heard from the Dark/Evil Goddess Ruhime herself. Though, soon enough he was in his thoughts,
("So she knows something about my 4th world...")
("That's something...")
("And...why did she compliment me?")
("There are alot of better ISEKAI CHAIN heroes than me...like Nassus...").
After sometime, the waiter came back with 4 ordered milk-teas on the wooden tray. The milk teas were towering within slim-looking glasses of classy appearance. The four of them took the milk teas and sipped to their tasty pleasure. The waiter left as soon as their orders were served. Sometime soon, Nassus came back and there was another woman with him. As she was a matured and having the bright-red flaming haired Goddess embracing his chest and shoulders, like a sinister flaming snake around him. Though, soon enough, she left the fray and waved a flirty goodbye to Nassus. He looked with a prideful and cold stare at the sitting Zeran afterwards and said,
"So it seemed you four are done talking..."
"And if you want to know my number of isekais now Noah..."
"It's 21..."
"Also..."
"Goddess Ruhime..."
"I'm sure this is one of the things you are after...".
He swapped his look upon the Ru drinking the milk tea in her leisure. He brought out a sophisticated glass figure sculptured in the form of a right wing, illuminating a bright violet glow and it was releasing a cold mist too. Moreso, his other hand brought out another glass sculpture looking like a left wing but, this time it was tinged in deep blue glow and it was leaving out a chilling air. He tells Ru with deep intrigue,
"And with my help I'm sure you'll be better off without this weakling Zera—".
Though, the response she gave was a sudden tempered slap to Nassus, that was filled with such intensity, leaving out a severed mark upon his manly face. Not only that, she splashed her milk tea in front of his face, drenching and soaking his hair and outer appearance in sticky substance. The other heroes and Goddesses from the other tables noticed the scandal going on, so murmurs sprawled about the occasion. As the air was getting more and more intense, she left out a chilly icy stare yet, her tone and emotion were filled with intense rage. Thereupon, she said,
"Now I know why Zera's cautious about you..."
"YOU DON'T TREAT US GODDESSES RIGHT!".
Soon, she stood up very abruptly from her seat. Her very hand pointed at Nassus with straightforward fierceness added with her defiance in her very tone and expression, that depicted the dark abyssal aura to emerge from the surface,
"And to tell you something here..."
"I am not interested in you or your offer..."
"And I could say, those aren't my own artifacts..."
"You just BOUGHT THEM didn't you?"
"Lastly...I'm already good with just Zera here!".
She took the two artifacts tipsily and dropped the two to the floor on purpose, leaving out the shattered sounds and the broken fragments scattered on the ground, and said insulting him,
"Oh dear...".
Though, Nassus just looked very complacent and collected but, his very anger was leaking out from his core. As for Zeran, he just sipped his milk tea in silence, while there was a boiling scandal. Though his very emotion from the inside was filled with shock and uneasiness even in his thoughts,
("Ruuuuu! What did you do?!").
Though, he had second thoughts and he was also feeling some kind of awesomeness and interest of the action she did. For some reason, he wanted to support her on that but, needless to say, he is also terrified of Nassus.
("On second thought...wow!")
("She slapped his prideful face! And she chose me over him...")
("Now I'm liking this weird Dark Goddess more and more...kinda!")
,as he said in his mind. Nassus noticed that Zeran was clapping his ears and a tensed smile was noticed upon his silly face. Moreover, Zeran was drinking the milk tea but, he was sipping the emptied milk tea, since there was only ice left, turning Nassus to say with a grave menacing tone at Zeran,
"While I want to crush your body and even humilliate you..."
"I would blow of some steam unto Noah here..."
"Since I dislike fighting women...and he's also your contracted SLAVE...".
As Nassus shifted his dark eyes unto Zeran afterwards. Though, Zeran tried to make a stand and his very expression was now filled with sarcasm and confidence, compared to before. His eyes had direct-contact on Nassus. Thereon, the atmosphere felt intense, as two heroes of different worlds met eyes with each other, riling up the heat in the air. Later, Zeran brought out his tough and chivalrous words,"I guess I can't back out now...""I won't let you down...Ru...".
Though, it seemed there was still an ounce of dismay inside of him or even worse, as insane panic and call for help was in his very soul and mind, screaming like a scared kid inside,
("Ohhh Gods!")
("I'M GONNA FIGHT ONE OF THE OVERPOWERED HEROES OF ALL TIME!")
("AHHHHHHHHH WHY RUUUUU!")
("MOOOOMMMMYYYY SAVE ME!").