Xian Xu is currently recovering from her injuries under the expert care of the resident ghost doctor, harem member #6. Chun Bu confronts Adael!!!

  Chun Bu:

  “How dare you lower my woman to such a low standard!!! You shall pay!!!”

  Adael:

  “She is not lowered… she is exactly where she needs to be.”

  Xian Xu:

  “Are you saying I’m of lower standard?”

  Her voice is cold—freezing.

  Chun Bu starts sweating.

  Chun Bu:

  “It’s a figure of speech!!!”

  He then begins furiously slashing at the shield, an understandable tantrum caused by his loose mouth.

  Adael:

  “Do the crowd wish for an encore?”

  The crowd goes wild, shouting:

  “Encore! Encore! Encore!!!”

  Chun Bu sweats even more.

  Shit… how am I supposed to win this and still win the heart of the girl?

  Xian Xu:

  “Divine…”

  She says it very deliberately.

  Chun Bu:

  “Divine? Divine energy is her weakness!!!!”

  Shit… I don’t have a goddesses in my harem yet!!! I’m doomed.

  Chun Bu System:

  “You know Mom would help you if you did something for her…”

  Chun Bu:

  “Fuck that. She’s the one who dragged me into this hell!!!”

  System:

  “You cannot lose, your charm will be harmed if you lose!!! You are receiving help even though you don’t like it!!!”

  Suddenly, Chun Bu is empowered for no apparent reason by the Blessing of his NTR Goddess.

  His body swells. His skin darkens to a deep tan. His hair turns yellow. He looks like a punk straight out of an H-manga.

  The women in the crowd go crazy, hearts in their eyes.

  The men look at him with disgust and aversion.

  Some others are just happily watching their significant others enjoy themselves… SUS on those guys.

  Adael looks at Chun Bu, resisting his charm with all her might—but her band members do not have the will to resist. They stop playing and suddenly attack Adael for Chun Bu's attention.

  Adael reacts instantly, condensing the shield around herself and exposing her team.

  Adael:

  “I’m sorry everyone, there won’t be an encore as promised…”

  She makes a weeping gesture, then smiles.

  Adael:

  “Don’t worry. I can go solo when I have to.”

  Her microphone transforms into an angelic sword. Her wings spread wide asserting dominance. The angelic barrier condenses onto her left arm, forming a golden, translucent shield.

  Adael enters combat for the first time in a hundred years.

  Chun Bu:

  “She’s vulnerable now!!! Swarm her!!!”

  The cultivators rush Adael, and even her former entourage attacks her.

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  Adael:

  “Before taking care of guests… let’s take care of the problems at home first!”

  She ignores the cultivator attacks using unusual combat techniques—dodging impossible strikes from impossible angles—focusing entirely on defeating her traitorous band members.

  Chun Bu:

  “Protect the angels!!! They’re the only ones capable of making her vulnerable!!!”

  Chun Bu moves to defend the traitors while Xian Xu finishes recovering.

  Chun Bu:

  “Why can’t we hit her?! She’s too much!!!”

  A traitor shouts:

  “She’s the angel closest to Deus… her power is on an entirely different level!”

  Chun Bu remembers Hajime’s sleep-talking:

  “Deus… time… fucking leave me alone.”

  Chun Bu:

  “Everyone!!! She has partial control over time! Update your predictive algorithmic adware to compensate!!!”

  Adael:

  “That won’t matter. The future is ever-flowing, the past is already set, and in this present—you shall lose.”

  Xian Xu:

  “Amanonus didn’t think so.”

  Adael:

  “What did you say?”

  Xian Xu:

  “Neither does this year’s hero.”

  Adael:

  “You…”

  The angel begins to seethe.

  Adael:

  “Time to expedite the finish.”

  She looks toward Hajime, still riding the cow, smiling.

  Hajime:

  “It’s such a nice ride, Zeus reminds me of Daisy.”

  Valiant:

  “Daisy? Another cow?”

  Hajime:

  “No, she was the farm’s resident horse, always at the side of mom.”

  Valiant:

  “I’ve got a question. How is your world compared to this one?”

  Hajime:

  “It’s a shit world with a lot of problems.”

  Valiant:

  “Yet you still want to go back.”

  Hajime:

  “Yes, that’s a wish that won’t ever change.”

  Valiant looks a little sad.

  Valiant:

  “Hypothetically speaking… if your family came to this world with you, would you still want to return?”

  Hajime:

  “Yeah, I’d take them back with me without a second thought.”

  Valiant:

  “Why?”

  Hajime:

  “I wouldn’t want my family living in a medieval-tech world full of demons and buffering curses.”

  Valiant:

  “Is your world free of demons?”

  Hajime:

  “I can’t really say were free, but humanity controls every aspect of our world.”

  Valiant:

  “Wouldn’t that be paradise?”

  Hajime:

  “Not exactly, we hate and kill each other for the most idiotic reasons.”

  Valiant:

  “Why kill each other when you can cooperate for a better life?”

  Hajime:

  “It’s in our nature... Humans are omnivorous predators inclined toward the pursuit of power in societal hierarchies. All can be reduced to survival.”

  Valiant:

  “I understand survival… but we shouldn’t reduce people to animals.”

  Hajime:

  “Then what are we?”

  Valiant:

  “Aren’t you just people?”

  Hajime:

  “That’s a label an animal invents to make itself feel more important than it actually is.”

  Valiant:

  “Then how important is humanity in your world?”

  Hajime:

  “Very important. The apex species and the arbiters of civilized order.”

  Valiant:

  “I don’t get you. Do you hate or love humanity?”

  Hajime:

  “I love humanity. It’s what we are and always will be.”

  Valiant:

  “Then what makes you happy in your world? It sounds like a pretty unhappy place to live in.”

  Hajime:

  “What makes me happy? …It’s simple. Honoring the dignity of my own life.”

  Valiant:

  “The dignity of your own life?”

  Hajime:

  “Yes. We all have the power to be happy. In the end, everything is a choice.”

  Valiant:

  “Yet some people live unfair lives.”

  Hajime:

  “They do. It’s probably a lie I tell myself. Objectively, some people will suffer unavoidable fates. No matter how hard they try, they’ll never be happy. I know that there are choices that interfere with the happiness of good people”

  Valiant:

  “Then why live with that lie?”

  Hajime:

  “Because lying to ourselves is sometimes the only way to be happy...”

  Valiant:

  “…Is that your flaw?”

  Hajime:

  “Yes. That’s what makes me human.”

  He smiles and gently caresses Zeus’s mane.

  Valiant remains silent.

  Whalescalibur quietly cries in the corner of the mindscape.

  The elevator rises through the shaft, a tortured amalgamation of metal and steel. It no longer looks pristine—a repurposed monster, an anti-thesis to the world’s aesthetics.

  Caladblock:

  “Go faster!!! We’re almost there!!!”

  The elevator accelerates, screaming corrupted cries of pain and resentment.