< System Space >
< Location: System Resident Chamber #5 >
" Shit! That was all...? " Ragna asks after seeing all of it.
" Dammit! " Ragna was pissed not only because he sees his uncle dead which clarifies his curiosity but also because he knew 'how' he died.
" So Loki's the one who killed him, dammit! " Ragna was angry in front of Battle Maiden.
" He killed him like that, he...! " Ragna still couldn't take it, he sees Loki stabbing his uncle by the back and just killed his uncle like that, even though, the reason his uncle was defeated is that the blade he was struck with, thanks to it was imbued by a particular dagger's blade that technically could be nerfed it's opponents.
" I'm sorry, if it ends like this, Ragna... "
" But- "
" I understand, Maiden! I know this is my uncle's Karma for killing all of those priestesses and gods within them, I know! "
" But what makes me angry is, how the hell my Uncle could be defeated just by pure... "
" Luck! " Ragna was furious, he knew what actually happened in that battle, his uncle, who was built up as hell is defeated by his enemy because he had some luck as a god somehow.
" Dammit, guess Lord Loki is really that Lucky just like what 69 said, isn't he? " Ragna says.
" Lucky...? " Battle Maiden asks as she was curious after hearing what Ragna just said earlier.
" It's something I've learned from my leisure and chill conversations with Ragna 69 and Twelve, Maiden. "
" In their Timelines, Lord Loki is known not only as the Asgardian Allfather but also known as the Trickster god and... "
" The god of... "
" 'Luck'... " Ragna tells it which made Battle Maiden surprised.
" The god of 'Luck'? " Battle Maiden asks, she was so surprised for as an Avatar, she should've at least known some things about the gods, but this, this is new, even for her.
" Lord Loki is the 'god of Luck'? impossible! "
" Wasn't that title belong to the lost goddess, Fortuna from Olympus!? " Battle Maiden asks.
" Yes Maiden, but sadly, she died from the Second Holy War. "
" She? died? " Battle Maiden asks as she responds.
" Strange, the gods said to me that she was lost in the war, not dead. "
" Really? Lost!? " Ragna counters it as he then responds.
" If they were really 'lost' like what the gods tell us, then... "
" Why the lost aren't found yet until now? those lost gods!? "
" Odin!? Thor!? Hades!? Hecate!? Susanoo!? Fortuna!? the others!? "
" Where do you think they're gone, huh? they're hiding or something? " Ragna asks the Maiden which made her stutter.
" Of course, you can't answer it, for the answer are obvious. "
" Because they no longer exist... " Ragna says which made Battle Maiden go silent as she couldn't accept that gods could die.
" Chin up, Maiden...! " Ragna says to her.
" I know this is hard for you, but this is reality... "
" The gods may seem looked 'Immortal' due to their exceptionally high self-regeneration of their divine physical biology. "
" But sadly, just like Ragna Twelve, 69 and Hundred told me. "
" Those gods and demons, Diviners and Deviants... "
" They are not 'Invincible' or even 'Invulnerable'. "
" Like Amaterasu and the Takamagahara gods we've seen for instance, or even those gods my uncle killed within their Avatars. "
" Do you still think they're still alive, somehow? " Ragna asks Battle Maiden as he explains it.
" But their soul still exists, right? " Battle Maiden asks suddenly which made Ragna stops for a while.
He thinks for a bit and sighs.
" Yes, but the 'soul' won't exist in the realm that long. "
" What do you mean, Ragna? "
" The souls of the gods and those who followed them will be returned to the [Universal Reboot Device] in the place unknown to us. "
" For any gods who exist in this world already had their souls bound to the very Device they made, in order to make them exist in the next Timeline after it 'Rebooted' things again. "
" It's basically like that. "
" With that, I could've guessed that the gods you asked for might've already gone there first, Maiden. " Ragna tells her what he knew, from Twelve and the others.
" Impossible..., to think that- "
" Yeah, it's difficult to accept, to learn, and to explain. "
" Even I, who knew some, don't dare to explain even the basics of it, believe me. " Ragna assures her as his explanations made the Battle Maiden rethink everything from the core, from the start, for this knowledge made her thought had to struggle with what she was planted from the start.
As Battle Maiden had a belief crisis, Ragna decided to leave, but before that.
" Ragna, before you leave! " Battle Maiden calls him.
" Yes, Maiden? " Ragna stops while his body doesn't turn around as he was going after the door.
" I know, I should've not asked this, while I'm in this confused state and... "
" After I show you what happened to your uncle... "
" But... " Battle Maiden stops for a while.
" As I watched the Memory Records in the 'A Dark Turn Part 2' record... "
" I've seen your uncle, holding you when he first gets the Gift, flashback. " Battle Maiden says this while Ragna still went silent, still maintaining his position, not even bothering to turn his body back to see her.
" Not just that, in some time, when uses his powers or something, he seemed to always remind you, for some reason. " Battle Maiden.
" Of course, he should have... " Ragna responds.
" So, as I see those things. "
" I've been wondering. "
" Do you know something regarding how your uncle got his powers or... "
" Perhaps you've seen what happened exactly to your uncle, back then...? " Battle Maiden asks Ragna responds with silence at first as he thinks about it.
" *sighs* " Ragna sighs as he had to answer it.
" Oh, sorry, it seems you didn't want to talk about it, Ragna? " Battle Maiden says as she sees Ragna's behavior, she even tells him if he didn't want to say it, he could do that.
" Well, about that... " Ragna says as he then turns his read around, and places his index finger to his lips.
" It's a secret, Maiden... " Ragna responds, telling Battle Maiden that this is a part where he should keep it to himself.
" Besides that, Maiden. "
" The reason I can't say it to you is because... "
" Despite I kinda realized what's going on with my uncle back then... "
" I too, wasn't sure to describe it, so... " Ragna turns back to go to the door as he opens it, leaving Battle Maiden's chamber.
" I see... " Battle Maiden says as Ragna leaves her, she felt bad after showing him all of it.
Ragna leaves her, for he then came out from Battle Maiden's section and walks into a nearby corner, looking around and...
*Smash*
" Sonnuva bitch! " Ragna is pissed off after seeing all of it, he slams the nearby wall in the System Space's corner, almost destroying the entire section he walks to.
" So it's Loki and Misaki, huh? " Ragna says as he recounts the two people.
" Lord Loki kills him, but it was that goddamn Hollow Witch, Misaki who make him cornered as she dumps him. "
" She might as well be the one who took his money and my inheritance account that uncle keeps. "
" Damn it, it was her all along! " Ragna shouts angrily, he recounted, that he and his grandmother would've been so prosperous if this event doesn't happen or even the September 6ths.
" Guess I got another target to take on. " Ragna said as he walks, leaving the wall broken due to his hand's punch.
( At the same time. )
< System Space >
< Location: System Resident Chamber #5 >
" Phew! I guess things are just connected by fate. " Battle Maiden says while reflecting on everything that she had been through.
" I maybe had a few banter with Andrew, but it seems Lord Athena's memories within my body made me feel related to the man as she battles him using my body. "
" But still, no wonder the name Ragna felt similar... " Battle Maiden says as she remembers why she wants to protect Ragna in the first place for she remembers her vow to Grandma Rory Kent*.
"( Mrs. Kent, your grandson will be fine. )"
"( As long he fulfills his mission, I will try my best to guard him. )"
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Extra:
*Battle Maiden's vow to to Grandma Rory Kent in Chapter 64: Holy Temple Evacuation