Intermission: Little G.o.ddess

“Demon G.o.d, you ok?”

“Parion huh.”

“Un.”

Demon G.o.d raised his body in his luxurious bed.

He's currently resting in order to remove the impurities he got from fusing with the [Poisonous Satou], a trap set up by the pantheon.

Demon G.o.d stopped Parion as she was about to innocently hug him like she usually does.

“Why?”

Parion asked the reason since Demon G.o.d would usually be delighted whenever she hugs him when they're in material forms.

“You'd get infected with the impurities.”

“…Uh huh.”

It seems she's still not used to her newly created body, her face is all wriggly like ‘poyayan'.

“But I'm impressed you managed to get this far.”

Impressed that she was able to reach the deepest part of Netherworld filled to the brim with demons who absolutely loath G.o.ds without causing even a single commotion.

“Authorities, cultivated.”

“I see, good girl Parion”

Praised by Demon G.o.d, Parion puffed her chest triumphantly.

An unfamiliar object came into Parion's view.

“What is that?”

Parion s.h.i.+fted her attention toward a pearl scythe clad in rainbow colored lights decorating the bedroom.

“『G.o.dreaping Scythe』–a weapon capable of slaying G.o.ds.”

“Slaying G.o.ds?”

Parion took the scythe in her arm as she muttered.

It appears to be too heavy to Parion's body, she's staggering around dangerously.

“That thing is dangerous, put it back Parion.”

“Gotta go kill first before that.”

Parion unsteadily takes a stance with the scythe.

“That is still incomplete.”

“Why?”

Parion tilted her head like ‘poyayan'.

“That doesn't yet have Divinity in.”

“How do you put it in?”

“That weapon is the reason why I created Purple Towers, to collect divinity. They will have enough to fill it up in 10,000 years.”

“Why not use Nymphs' Divinity?”

“Nymphs have too little Divinity to matter. Even all of them together won't be enough to fill this scythe up.”

“How much it needs?”

“About one G.o.d's worth of amount.”

Parion's eyes opened wide to hear such an enormous amount.

“What to do.”

Parion tilted her head and her body with furrowed brows.

She never thought the completion of a G.o.d-slaying weapon requires the contradictory action of slaying a G.o.d first.

“I'll come, again.”

Parion left Demon G.o.d's palace after murmuring that.

“Demon G.o.d. I thought up of a good idea.”

Parion immediately got straight to the point on her second visit.

Demon G.o.d isn't sleeping in his bed today, apparently the poison inserted in the fake Satou has gone already.

“Welcome, Parion. What is this good idea of yours?”

“Let's use White Radiant Crystal.”

“–White Radiant Crystal? That thing hidden in the innermost part of G.o.d's Realm huh…”

“Un.”

Demon G.o.d realized that G.o.d Parion was telling him to use the White Radiant Crystal to charge the G.o.dreaping Scythe when he saw her glancing over at the scythe.

“Enough?”

“The crystallization of Divinity [White Radiant Crystal] will indeed suffice… But I cannot agree to that.”

“Why?”

“That crystal is needed for the protection of human world on top of G.o.d's Realm.”

It's the [Seven G.o.ds' Barrier] that's protecting the human world from the threat of [Outsiders] wandering in the void sky, and the White Radiant Crystal is a booster that converges the power to make that a reality.

That's the extent of Demon G.o.d's knowledge on it.

“It's OK.”

Parion threw out her chest confidently.

“Is that so?”

“Everyone can just deliver. Everyone is hiding spare Divinity.”

Parion insisted that the G.o.ds could make a new White Radiant Crystal if they all just put together their hidden stash of Divinity.

“Our ambition can be realized then.”

Demon G.o.d ponders. He could free humanity from G.o.d's reign if he used the [G.o.dreaping Scythe] to threaten those G.o.ds.

Just what's in the mind of the smiling Parion–.

“Let's do it.”

“Very well. I'm counting on you to guide me to Realm of G.o.ds.”

“Count on me.”

Thus a tag team of Demon G.o.d and Parion was formed, and the theft of White Radiant Crystal from Realm of G.o.d was carried out.

“Demon G.o.d, you OK?”

“…PParion.”

“Un.”

Demon G.o.d couldn't even afford to raise his body off his bed as he looked up at Parion in pain.

The divinity overflowing out of his body is far beyond the usual amount, but it's stagnant like a black sludge.

The impure miasma fog covering the whole Netherworld was apparently all from the Demon G.o.d.

“What happened?”

“Those G.o.ds got me good. The White Radiant Crystal had Malice in it.”

Malice–The [Forbidden Power] sealed in the moon.

Demon G.o.d was saying someone had put it in the White Radiant Crystal.

He probably needed to take the Divinity into his body before he could unload it into the scythe.

“Who did?”

“Most likely Zaikuon. He's the only one who would do such a self-sabotaging foolish act among those G.o.ds.”

“Uh huh.”

G.o.d Parion nodded with her ‘poyayan' face.

“Has it been filled with Divinity?”

G.o.d Parion asked while pointing at the [G.o.dreaping Scythe].

“It hasn't.”

Discontent dwelt in G.o.d Parion's face once she heard Demon G.o.d's reply.

“Why?”

“If I did that, the 『G.o.dreaping Scythe』 would be defiled by the impurities too. It would have been a repeat of last time.”

“Uh huh.”

G.o.d Parion walks toward the [G.o.dreaping Scythe].

A demon in the form of a saintess stood before Parion just as she stretched out her hand toward the scythe.

“Move.”

“You must not.”

“I can't kill without that.”

The saintess is looking at the [Gimme] G.o.d Parion with a troubled look.

The saintess's guard was impeccable, she blocked all attempts G.o.d Parion made to take the scythe.

“Stop, Parion. There's no need for you to get revenge on Zaikuon.”

“But.”

“Don't worry. My trusted retainers are currently making scapegoats to transfer the impurities over. Let's think about threatening those G.o.ds afterward.”

“Okay.”

Parion nodded reluctantly.

“Leave Netherworld, Parion.”

“Why?”

“I cannot hold back the impurities at this rate.”

If he failed at holding it back, the netherworld will be contaminated by impurities severe enough to defile a G.o.ddess like her.

Demon G.o.d fears that his power would end up defiling the little G.o.ddess.

“I cannot let human world be defiled either. I must shut the gates to the human world before that happens. Leave Netherworld before the gates are shut.”

Demon G.o.d is apparently aware that she makes a transit at the human world whenever she visits Netherworld.

“I'll come again.”

After saying that with her poyayan-face, G.o.d Parion left Demon G.o.d.

Thanks to her Authorities, none of the demons coming and going in the pa.s.sages she takes notices her.

“A scapegoat to transfer impurities over…”

G.o.d Parion murmured.

“…There is one.”

Parion knew.

That the Satou Demon G.o.d took in was a fake other G.o.ds had created.

Parion didn't tell him.

Since she thought that Demon G.o.d was already a perfect form that didn't need Satou.

Parion mulls.

Demon G.o.d's Uniform Body that's in the human world will fit best as a scapegoat to transfer the impurities over.

Parion plots.

A way to bring the Uniform Body to Netherworld in order to transfer the impurities.

“–There.”

There stood one of the pink-haired little girls in Parion's vision.

She's one of the girls who have been pointlessly moving about in the corridors while saying stuff like, “Oh no~”, “What should we do~” restlessly.

Parion approaches the little girl who has strayed off from her group.

She fixes up her ‘poyayan' face while moving, putting up a face befitting of a G.o.ddess.

She hasn't lived for 100 million years for nothing. So long as she wills it, Parion is capable of playing the act of a sublime G.o.ddess.

“You, yes you girl, do you wish to save Demon G.o.d?”

“–Who?”

“I am an old friend of Demon G.o.d.”

The little girl relaxes her guard at Parion's gentle voice.

“I shall give a mission to you who loves Demon G.o.d the most among all his familiars.”

“Mission?”

“You can save Demon G.o.d if you do as you're told.”

“Truly?!”

“Yes, I promise. Will you undertake this mission?”

“Un!”

Thus, G.o.d Parion cunningly sent a poor lamb to where Satou was at the human world.

She even gave her an authority to wrench open the shut gates.

Even though there is no way a G.o.d like her isn't aware that doing so would bring the impurities over to the human world.

“Kufuu, kufufufufu.”

Parion laughed innocently.

“I will finally get my hands on it. 『G.o.dreaping Scythe』–a weapon to slay G.o.ds.”

Parion's whisper disappeared into the rift without ever reaching anyone's ear.

n.o.body knows the true nature of G.o.d Parion.