( Minutes earlier, before descending into the 6th Floor. )
" You want me to destroy the Living Divine Curse inside Ragna Orion Kent, Mr. ...., "
" Ragna Twelve, I'm the Ragna Orion Kent from the 12th Timeline... "
" I thought you should've noticed already once your goddess Athena awakened all of your previous memories. "
" But it seems, she just left you with it and go away without giving you some basic guidance after receiving it. " Ragna Twelve comments, for he explains the Battle Maiden about everything he knew.
" So, this universe exists in Timelines, plural? " she asks.
" You could say that for that is what your gods and goddesses mainly worked things about, right lord Aphrodite? " Twelve asks.
" Hmpphh...!!!! "
" What, didn't I tell the truth? " Twelve asks.
" Yes..., you do... "
" So..., why are you mad? "
" I didn't say anything that made you go angry with me, didn't I? "
" Hmppphhhhh!!! " Aphrodite replies like that again while the trio descends into the 6th Floor.
" Seriously, you old-no..., ukkhhh... ancient lady!!! " Ragna Twelve shouts at Aphrodite while trying to address her properly since by default, despite her looks younger than him, Aphrodite is technically many years or many millennia older than him in any way, thus making the already-a-grandpa Ragna Twelve confused since he can't still get the logic on a looked-young people who's actually older than him.
"( Shit, this is why I never really understands gods [Diviners]!!! )"
"( They are really above the world's law, in every way! )"
"( From their looks, their age, their power, their knowledge, they are all that the humans aimed for in our lives, thus is why we even worship them in the first place! )"
"( Even work for them... )" Twelve suddenly remembers Carla, reminiscing the memories he had back in his Timeline, the memories left by his granddaughter who clawed her way into the top, making her recognized by the gods (Diviners) at that time, receiving their Authority and Blessing, becoming their Divine Hero, fight the Demons (Deviants) in their name, and also had many gods supported her, empowering her with their powers.
"( But instead be given a right to be enlisted in all of their Pantheons as its citizens for her promised reward, she was instead executed for some reasons that she seemly only told me few about it! )" he says while remembering the last moments of him with her before escaping the Timeline Reboot.
"( Shit, this is getting more wrong and wrong for everything's sake...! )"
"( If I... )"
"( If I what!? )" Aphrodite suddenly asks, using her telepathy ability as she communicates with Twelve.
"( Huh!? how did you!? )"
"( We Diviners can see mortal minds, you idiot! )"
"( How did you think we can know what you mortals wished from us? prayed from us? )" she asks.
"( Really, so you... )" Ragna Twelve stutters awkwardly.
"( Yes! )" Aphrodite angrily responds.
"( If you want to talk shit things about my race, you should've think at least far away from me, to make your voice sound far from my mind's ear reach. )"
"( But still, I will still hear you by the way! )" Aphrodite explains for she tells Twelve that she can hear him out loud about his comments regarding her Divine Race which she also can understand, hence why she only interrupts him when he's getting out of the line.
"( I understand how did you think about us... )"
"( Indeed, our dominance really did costs many mortals' lives. )"
"( We strived and campaigned for world peace, using our moral standards as our basic Divine Principles, creating many items, weapons, and armories to extend our might over the world we're in, subjugating every realm, eliminating every threat that exists and will exist. )"
"( But that is not for naught, despite what you mortal think, our duty did preserve peace over the world, hence that is why humanity still exist right now to-) "
"( You mean the humans who serve you, the Divine servants who you and all Diviners let exist while killing those who don't! )" Ragna Twelve asks.
"( We all know that you're divine race actually feared us more than your rival race, hence why you divines always try your best to limit our capabilities, are you divines not? )" Ragna counters her, telling her the question that will make him win this topic for good.
Hearing that question, Aphrodite just stay silent for a moment after hearing that counter-question Ragna Twelve just made. Seeing her silence, Twelve continues to murmur inside his mind, knowing that he hit the ball with that very question, the very question he really wants to ask privately with one of the mythological gods/beings who the humans serve.
His suspicions are quite true, despite the humans' overall weakness against the Deviants and the Divines, the humans have some other unnoticed capabilities that often made them so godly which often be proven by some of the humans becoming too overpowered in the past, in the ancient times before the Diviners starts the [Universal Reboot].
"( My first guess on what they feared is our capability on absorbing nature's Mana. )"
"( The power Mana might be powerful, but still it has some weakness against their Divine Power, but still... )"
"( Using the Mana, there are some humans who instead become so godly that they even rival the Divine Beings themselves or even imitate them. )" Ragna Twelve remembers those stories he somehow managed to acquire, the stories that the Diviners tried to erase from history for some reasons which Twelve immediately assume that it has to do with the Diviners ban of Mana from entering the human's body, hence giving their power to the humans in order to wipe out those other potential energies.
"( From these assumptions, I could only theorize. )"
"( That the Diviners are... )"
" You two ghosts seemed to have talked some things behind me...? " Battle Maiden asks as she looks back at the two, while still descending.
" It seems you two had some philosophical debate or some sort, aren't you two? " Battle Maiden asks which made Ragna Twelve and Aphrodite shocked.
"( Did she hear us? Did she also..? )"
"( I guess so... )" Battle Maiden responds using her mind, telling them that she already learned this during her time with Athena.
"( I thank you for your thoughts, it really fuels me with new info! )" Battle Maiden says which made Ragna Twelve and Aphrodite look at each other.
"( But first, we must all descend quickly. )"
"( I can sense a radiating power below, guess it must be the Living Divine Curse, isn't it? )"
"( Guess we should waste more time after we descend it seems the use of Libra is fully required. )"
"( For I will perform the Divine Judgment on it, how's that sound? )" Battle Maiden asks while looking at Twelve which made him close his lips before saying.
"( Just do it, reap that thing out from my Current Self's body would you? )" he says to her, telling her that if she could also destroy it then it would be a great bonus too.