The place Alte Barrette was headed to was clear.
There’s two Goddess Apostles in the present age.
To the side of the Limia Hero that they were originally supposed to have met up and cooperated with.
But Alte, who learned about the plan of the Anti-Goddess Cult to take over a major power, thought that this would be a great gift to the hero, and took a detour to save the Aion Kingdom.
Thinking back on it, this was the biggest mistake of Alte.
The wasteland that’s the gathering of the trash in this world, and the remote city of Tsige that serves as its lid.
What was hidden there were crazed merchants, and a monster that wore the skin of a company.
Their faith in the Goddess and Spirits is on a burning low, and in the eyes of Alte, it looked as nothing else but a metropolis of degeneration.
That’s why she thought that there was a need for the Aion Kingdom to restructure the city and guide it to the right path.
She ended up thinking that.
The wasteland is where the people, who the Goddess herself deemed as unnecessary, were thrown into and abandoned. There’s no way they would have faith in the Goddess.
Depending on the way you see it, the Aion Kingdom ignored the wasteland’s threats and left it to the merchants. Even if they managed to change that mistreatment into a chance and profited from it, there’s no way they would have high loyalty towards the kingdom.
The wasteland was recognized as a place of high risk and high reward in the world, and Tsige had caught the attention of the people as a city of profit…loyalty and faith are not something that just rises as time goes.
“Quick… To the place of the Hero and the Geezer…! I must not meet my end here. I finally learned the reason for it… The reason for there being two Apostles, the descent of Heroes…there’s no way it was only to counter mere demons!” (Alte)
She pushed back the revolutionary army with overwhelming power.
Using the intelligence gathering ability of Aion to its full extent, she learned of the contact between the Revolutionary Army and the Anti-Goddess Cult, and the internal affairs of Tsige that declared independence.
On top of that, she utilized any exploitable internal cracks and drove a wedge in them, weakening both sides.
That’s what Alte thought.
That plan of hers was actually half successful.
The miscalculation she did was truly a small one.
They were what you would call the luck of the moment, and for Alte, they were all small negligible factors.
She trivialized them all by saying ‘If it is something of that extent’.
Alte Barrette wasn’t a weakling who relied on the elements, and didn’t neglect her acquisition of knowledge. She was without doubt an outstanding woman that guides the hyumans as one of the Grants…and one of the few Apostles of the Goddess in history.
But due to the clever schemer by the name of Patrick Rembrandt, and the irregular called Raidou from the Kuzunoha Company, she had mercilessly bitten into the only experience she was lacking.
There’s no other word to describe it but unfortunate.
In order to see through the tricks of a magician, you need a decent amount of knowledge, experience, and revelations.
Even if you are sitting at the best spot to see through the magic trick of someone in your first time, it is almost impossible to guess it right straight away.
That goes the same when dealing with unprecedented natural disasters.
Even when you have some degree of knowledge to avoid it, it is hard to say whether you can put your knowledge to full use at the times when you have faced your first natural disaster like a big earthquake or a tsunami, and survive.
Sadly to say, it would be pretty difficult to do so.
“…There you are! We have to hurry on the treatment of my body. Even the recovery of the magic power… Who knows how long it would take…” (Alte)
The style that Alte is not that good at with her lightning element is cladding lightning onto her body. Within that category, there’s one high level spell that allows her to do something similar to teleportation.
It allows movement at a slightly decreased rate as lightning, and it is in essence the same as instant transmission.
It is a dream-like spell that’s said to allow you to run across the country in the blink of an eye, but the burden in the body is heavy, and it is mostly a physical type of skill that requires quite the physical training.
Taking into consideration the state of Alte, it would be like demanding someone heavily injured to do a full power sprint for 50 meters.
In that state that Makoto described as coming straight out of a horror film, having arrows lodged in her at several supposedly vital points, she had to run all the distance on the shortest route she could think of.
She crashed onto demonic beasts and people on the way, but she had absolutely no leeway to care about them.
And in this way, Alte Barrette is now in the present place.
At the training grounds of the capital where the Hero Hibiki and her party are at.
“! Is that you, Alte?!”
““?!””
The sudden thunderous sound and destruction as if lightning had struck.
Only one member of the party -an aged man- noticed the being that was clad in light and had suddenly destroyed the surroundings.
At a glance, it looks like nothing but an attack, however, his words made the guard of Hibiki and the others loosen a bit.
“Geezer…I have messed up.” (Alte)
“I can tell just by looking. The fact that you lost despite all the preparations you did… Was your opponent that Raidou that Jou-chan <young lady> spoke of?”
Without minding being called geezer, the man looked at Alte, the prince, and Hibiki.
Seeing the wounds of Alte -the arrows pierced in her- he guessed who it was, and Hibiki herself had a pale white face.
The man saw the equipment of Alte and could tell how serious Alte was, which made cold sweat run down internally, but he was acting as if he were calm.
“If I hadn’t been sharing souls, I would be dead already.” (Alte)
“I have to question that way of using a sacred treasure, but…well, if you are alive, that’s good. Alte, even though we warned you that much to not go too deep…”
“Uuh…I don’t have the time right now. Please heal me. Also, hear me out on what I have to say.” (Alte)
Alte reluctantly accepted the painful sermon, and prioritized the urgent matters.
She had to tell them about Raidou.
His dangerous way of thinking which might be far more dangerous than that of the Anti-Goddess Cult.
“Hmm. Chiya, can I ask this of you? First, let’s take out the arrow and pour as much healing magic on her as possible. As you can see, she is also an ill-suited Goddess Apostle comrade of mine. She has a better brain than me, so she will be of use.”
“Y-Yes!!” (Chiya)
“Good grief, you lowered your guard too much, Alte.”
Chiya and the man approach Alte to provide treatment to her and check her state.
At that moment, Hibiki, who was silently watching the events unfold, speaks with a grim expression.
“Alte-san…” (Hibiki)
“What, Hero? Right now I am trying to talk about Raidou; about that Devil of the Kuzunoha Company…” (Alte)
“I know. If you have something to say, say it at once. I am sure you don’t have much time left anymore. Hurry.” (Hibiki)
She didn’t stop the man and Chiya, she simply hurried Alte.
“? Yeah, I know that. Listen here, Raidou has no interest in Aion, Tsige, and the wasteland. He was probably happy to have encountered me.” (Alte)
“…”
“Hibiki?”
Hibiki didn’t react to the call of the man at all as she looked at Alte.
“He is waiting for the chaos of the world. Waiting for the result which would be the Goddess-sama having no choice but to descend.” (Alte)
“…”
“And then, he will face the Goddess-sama.” (Alte)
““!””
“I can tell now that…Raidou was trying to gauge the power of an Apostle, the power of a God. He wasn’t even focusing on me at all -me, an Apostle! That guy…!” (Alte)
Anger and wrath take over the words of Alte.
The man, who had grabbed the arrow on her forehead, opened his eyes wide at the raw emotions Alte was showing from the bottom of her heart.
Chiya was already healing her.
The surroundings were getting noisy, and only Hibiki was calm while biting her lips.
“Continue.” (Hibiki)
“…Raidou will defeat the Goddess. I am sure he will. But he won’t become the new god. Because order, ruling, peace, and chaos are of no worth to him.” (Alte)
“…I see.” (Hibiki)
She groaned lightly, and responded weakly as if she had been expecting that answer, or had received backing for her thoughts.
“The meaning of several Apostles and Heroes gathering in the same era must be…not because of mere demons, but because there’s a being that can shake the order of this world…no, its very life. Rather than the demons, we should all be joining forces to defeat that Devil and his group together with the Godde—?!” (Alte)
“?!”
“Wa?!”
“Aah…as expected. It was already over…” (Hibiki)
The man jumped back from the surprise.
The left eye of Alte that was okay had been pierced by an arrow.
The same type of arrow she had many pierced in her before.
Hibiki remembers that she has been hit by that attack before.
It is far more polished than that time, and it was a bone chilling way of using his power.
(The difference in power is getting wider and wider, huh. Makoto-kun, you…) (Hibiki)
Hibiki remembers her reunion with him in Limia, and the words of Mio.
“Wa…?” (Alte)
Alte was shaking from the shock of completely losing her sight.
But she knows the reason for her shock.
But that was an event in Aion, and there’s no way she should be getting hit by an attack in Limia that’s far far away.
“Raidou…! Could it be… Could i—!” (Alte)
*Thwack Thwack Thwack!*
Several arrows appeared on her back with exquisite rhythm.
Accurately piercing through the openings of the spine, and crushing the bones; an attack to the vitals.
“What’s going on?! From where is it coming from?!”
“Most likely from Aion, Reverent Gai.” (Hibiki)
Hibiki mutters bitterly.
The robust elderly man called Gai was showing agitation.
He moved to the back of Alte and prepared for any further attacks while searching for the location of the enemy, but it couldn’t be helped that he would feel confused being told that the attack was coming from Aion which is unrealistic.
“!!”
“Impossible!”
An arrow pierced deep into the back of Alte’s head.
It was impossible.
Gai should have been in its trajectory.
It shouldn’t have reached the head of Alte without hitting Gai first.
But it did hit her.
“He…also crushed…the Sky Nue that I…raised.” (Alte)
Alte was now gasping for breath between words.
“What?!” (Gai)
“I see. I really…was…pitiful prey…that was caught…in the palm of your hands…in your spider web… Ugh…” (Alte)
Hibiki, Chiya, and Woody react to the word ‘spider’ for an instant.
It is due to having recalled an old memory of theirs.
Arrows were piercing vital spots one after the other from a variety of angles.
The arrows that were hitting her were accurately aimed at the spots that allowed for easy passing of magic power, and were crushing them.
“No…way…he saw…through me…? Aah…why…did I go to a place like Aion…? I was supposed…to have met up here…and bettered my—!” (Alte)
Her mouth was covered.
“…Thanks, Alte-san. He is not the type of person who would show mercy to their opponent at this point. Please rest in peace already.” (Hibiki)
“Hibiki! That’s not it! Alte serves an ancient one! She has entrusted a part of her soul into a sacred treasure, and is currently in a state of semi-immortality and can even resurrect!” (Gai)
Gai explains the situation, but Hibiki closed her eyes and shook her head to the sides.
“No, Reverent Gai. Raidou…Makoto-kun wouldn’t confront an enemy he intends to kill and leave them go. Vitals from the body, vitals for a mage, and equipment; and if she doesn’t die with that either, he will go with the brute force method and won’t loosen his hand till he turns her into scraps of meat.” (Hibiki)
“Alte is an Apostle, you know? There’s no way a Fake Apostle like him would be able to…” (Gai)
In Raidou’s case, it was other people who spread names like Apostle and Devil as they wished.
And even if he were to call himself an Apostle, it doesn’t mean that he would be inferior to one.
Hibiki swallowed those words she wanted to say.
She placed strength in her throat as if she were enduring tears.
And then, as if betraying the words of Gai, as if affirming the words of Hibiki…the pace of the arrows increased.
*Thuck Thuck Thuck Thuck!*
It was already at the point where they couldn’t tell where the new arrows were hitting anymore.
From several directions, with the will of scraping away the meat, with the will of crushing everything; doing this methodically like that of working at a conveyor belt, continuing endlessly as the speed rose up.
“If there’s any chance, it would be through resurrection. The sacred treasure you meant is that scythe?” (Hibiki)
“…Umu. The strongest one is that scythe. Rather than calling it a weapon, it is more of a catalyst for magic. If it is to put your soul into, it would be that no doubt.” (Gai)
“Then secure that sacred treasure alone. Woody, do the preparations for the resurrection spell! Chiya-chan, keep a proper eye on her state. Just for the time that you think healing magic is still effective.” (Hibiki)
(There’s no mistake in terms of instructions. But…will she be able to maintain her fighting spirit after suffering this much? If this just serves to lengthen her suffering…I think it would be better to just have her accept her death. Even if it is a resurrection that isn’t that long after her death, with a body injured to this extent…) (Hibiki)
Within the secret techniques of Limia, there does exist resurrection magic. But this was a recent result of research.
The success rate is pretty low, and there haven’t been any cases of succeeding with bodies that are not in perfect state.
The secret technique of the undead mage called Shiki to pull the souls which he showed at the time when the capital was burning.
Hibiki and Chiya had burned that sight into their eyes.
Combined with the limited medical knowledge of the modern era that Hibiki had that gave birth to many powerful magic tools, Limia managed to recreate a part of this miraculous thing called resurrection.
(In the first place…) (Hibiki)
Hibiki thought this as she saw Alte who had turned into a porcupine.
People say that when fear passes a certain threshold, they end up laughing, and Hibiki was in that very state.
She was in a state of mind where she would even compare her to a porcupine.
Chiya shook her head to the sides.
The scariest part is that the arrows are not showing any signs of stopping, Hibiki thought.
The porcupine is still moving.
He is most likely shooting arrows with no thought in mind, simply for the sake of bringing certain death.
He most likely has a carefree face, like the time when she was talking with him before.
Hibiki couldn’t stop the trembling that was attacking her body.
(If it is him…he might be able to kill even your soul.) (Hibiki)
The root of resurrection is the relink of the body and soul.
If there’s death for the soul as well, if there’s an attack that makes that death possible, it would bring a result where it is impossible to revive her.
A despairing hypothesis.
And so…the resurrections that were cast on Alte Barrette the whole day and night all ended in failures.
They couldn’t manage to regenerate her body, and couldn’t confirm the presence of her soul.
A number of the sacred treasures that somehow maintained their shape had their effects completely destroyed, and had turned into just divine articles.
On this day, only one Apostle of the Goddess was left in this world.
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Yeah no. No matter what they say about Alte being skilled and just having bad luck to ignore "tiny problems" you ain't fooling anyone into thinking Alte was brilliant. She only got results because she could bulldoze through problems with pure strength. She's basically a baboon carrying a big stick. Also how the hell was stopping a rebellion in Aion supposed to be a gift to the Heroes? Neither of them are even based in Aion so why would they even care about what happens there in the first place anyways?
I'm sorry, WHAT?! Alte has a better brain than the old man Apostle? A... better... brain? Then how fucking stupid is this Reverent Gai? How can he even know how to breath?
Tsk, too bad that since those arrows are a conceptual attack, they don't travel through the air so they can't go through obstacles along the way to their target. If they did they Makoto could have eliminated all the surrounding trash too like Hibiki and Gai. If Hibiki were smart then she would realize that she should just give up and not oppose Makoto. Unfortunately I don't think she is smart. I think the only thing that is keeping her alive right now is just the fact that she's Makoto's senpai. Otherwise Makoto would have already recreated the microwave attack he used on her in one of his dreams of a parallel timeline and used it on her already.
On another note so Hibiki knows about the Apostles. I seem to recall that originally it was mentioned that Gai had been sent to secretly infiltrate Hibiki's group. If she knows about them then she must have actively sided with Bug.
Hahaha, I know right? That Reverent Gay must be fucking retard like Althot bichtrette
Hibiki admitted the only reason she's not siding with Makoto is because she wants revenge against Io for killing Nabal (? can't remember name)
Which is a damn stupid reason. Since she's now antagonising someone that makes Io look weaker than an infant, and someone who she knows won't hesitate to kill those who he deems as enemies.
As an aside, do you recall where Gai was introduced, cos I must've missed him completely
@Haxe: Hibiki did not give a similar argument like Zef's to Makoto. All she ever talked about was that Bug was necessary for the world so it doesn't get destroyed which is just her own opinion and not even Bug has told her that. She claims that that's why she's fighting the demons because she fears that they will eventually come up with a way to kill Bug. Makoto then argued that they're only waging war because of Bug's treatment of non-hyumans which is an undisputable fact. Then Hibiki agreed that they aren't being treated fairly but that they will just have to put up with it because Bug's existence is necessary and that after she defeats them, she'll work slowly to change how they are treated but then says it'll take centuries and that the non-hyumans will just have to put up with it until then. Makoto then countered that the non-hyuman races won't last that long and they can't hope other hyumans will pick up Hibiki's work after she's long dead. Makoto then mentally singled it out that Hibiki is thinking like this because she's never been on the oppressed side, that she's never lost anything so the problem to her is just something that will eventually fix itself someday and thus it's not something she should really do much about now. After realizing that, Makoto came to the conclusion that they're beliefs are incompatible and just left while telling Hibiki to leave him alone. It's only after Makoto leaves that Hibiki realizes that despite her supposed noble reasons for fighting the demons, all she really wants is revenge on Io for Naval's death and that everything she's said is really just to make herself feel better.
She actually gave makoto a similar arguement that Zef in their meeting post Limia gave to Makoto, the hatred between both sides is too ingrained that there is no way makoto method of leveling the field would be accepted, she reasons to herself that a reason why she doesnt is because of Naval death, as she was close to her and sacrificed just to *stall* a bit of time against Io who received next to no damage from that fight, and even trampled on her during the capital raid, which is a valid reason, as well as she went with the deal of not bothering makoto with requests of joining the war but just supply them with goods, basically the "not kicking the horn nest" approach, also, hibiki herself isnt antagonizing makoto, she is in actual fear from him as he in her mind looks like a psyco sociopath murdered able to beat anyone, which is a valid terror, for hibiki standard, makoto has done things that she cant even dream of, one being subjugating the Black spider aka Mio and forcing her into a pact where he is the ruler, as well as basically treat as a child toy the opponent she hates and despises, and now beating and killing one of the highest powers she knows of from the commodity of a different country without any way to stop him, the description of her biting her lips while even ending tearing up and even ending like a broken dam where she can just call alte a porcupine just shows how much natural fear she got towards him, as how she experienced the same attack once during their bout, remember, an attack that basically could kill you without ever realizing where it came from the hit
This is the first time he was introduced. It was only said that there is one more apostle who went straight to limia wile alte went to aion
it is interesting to see how hibiki reacts.
Look at her...
holding her lips together, trying to endure her tears.
it is not like makoto is trying to "kill" her or ruin all her upcoming plans.
As it is not even mentioned in this chapter, I really wonder if Hibiki is thinking that Makoto is killing Alte out of no reason.
She doesn't seem to care why Makoto wants to kill Alte...
She seems to treat Makoto as a psychopath that will kill anyone as long they annoyed him in the slightest bit...
i mean, sure, hyumans are a low bar, but it's not like the apostles have actually conversed much with the goddess or been to the borderlands, so hyumans is about the highest bar they'll have, unless they train extensively with the heroes, in which case, heroes is the highest bar they have.
notably, the bar of heroes wouldn't even come close to the kuzunoha company, though, and the insight of someone on the level of heroes would only barely scratch the surface (while being a complete anomaly compared to hyumans)
as opposed to the demons, whose insight has been refined by years, decades of aptitude-test whittling
Intelligence is not the same as wisdom, also she was very confident, in the end she accepted that she should never face it.
The question is what will Hibiki and her group do after witnessing this, will they be smart and keep their distance seeing how easily he can kill an apostle or antagonize him?
Hibiki thought he would kill the goddess and leave the world broken.
Makoto didn't tell her about the affair of the gods. Like there will be another god at the ready to take over when the goddess goes down.
sono touri
cap 210:
“In that case, Senpai, even if the Goddess doesn’t exist anymore in this world, for example; even if a different God were to take her place, you wouldn’t mind, right?” (Makoto)
Well, even if I say a different God, I don’t have a specific God in mind though.
I am just saying and see how she reacts.
But if Senpai does think that way, I thought that maybe it would be possible to form a cooperative relationship with her.
If she thinks that a society where demi-humans don’t face discrimination is better, it would be possible to speak with the demons as well.
“…Even if the Goddess is gone?” (Hibiki)
“F-Figuratively speaking.” (Makoto)
“…Even if the Goddess is gone?” (Hibiki)
“F-Figuratively speaking.” (Makoto)
He didn't confirm that it is the truth. She practically didn't know about Earth's gods involvement so she would assumed that was really his hypothesis.
base on how hibitchking attitude ... she will still going to try to convince makoto to help them defeat the demon race ... probably...
Regarding Aion, you can see it this way: if it gets into chaos and turmoil, one, it lackens the ammount of reforcements they can send to the anti demon area, as well as getting vulnerable to demons who are good at milking this situations, see Rona specialty, so setting order would allow more spare room for troops after the Lilia failure where if not of Makoto they would have gotten their asses on a silver platter
i'm assuming normally she's fairly competent, and for anyone under the goddess who doesn't hide ten bajillion trump cards (looking at you, lily, makoto), her tactics can probably do a number on them
unfortunately, she then (quite stupidly) decided to use her normal tactics against someone who does hide ten bajillion trump cards, and didn't adjust accordingly. which resulted in this funny and also stupid combat exchange, where she gets roflstomped.
That's a pretty low bar. I mean hyumans in general are so stupid that they think fights are two mages setting up their personal barriers before taking turns hurling magic at each other like it's a turn-based RPG all in an attempt to brute force punch their way through the opponent's barrier before they run out of mana first. Or how wars for them are just demonstrations between each sides' commander to see who can give the most showy speech to gain Bug's blessing and the loser automatically surrenders without even having fought. If they're that dumb then it doesn't take much for an Apostle to be called intelligent or competent in comparison.
@Haxe: But Aion is barely even counted as war potential by the other countries. Aion has barely even sent any reinforcements to the other countries when they are fighting the demons. Whether they get wiped out or not makes no difference to the other countries.
A very satisfying chapter indeed.
Porcupine pincushion either way that’s what you get for hurting Tomoe and Emma and antagonizes the mc.
What are you talking about?
Obviously it was revenge for Toa. He even started with Alte's hand.
Since he didn't know, isn't that a Karma, Lol.
He doesn't know about Alpine's situation, thanks to Ginebra/Guinever from Apple. He just went for the hand holding the weapon.
Let’s say both.
He was pretty an angry about the apostle calling Emma a pig
mess with the waifu , you lose your laifu
Thanks a lot for the chapter!!
Hibiki and the apostles are so wrong about everything...
I suppose not knowing that Asora exists makes them think he wants a world to rule.
I remember Hibiki knew about it (or at least, she has deducted its existence)
Which made her all the more terrified because she now thinks Makoto could breaks the world as much as he want and would never feel a thing since he always has a safe place to return to
She’s always scared how powerful yet indifferent he is to everything. So it’s basically one fear stacking upon another, causing her to freaked out more and more
Seriously though, instead of worrying about random possibilities, they could just leave the wasteland alone and pretend he never existed then wait for him to die of old age (he wanted to live and die as a human anyway). That would be the safest bet for them
She doesn't know about Azora but she senses that Makoto has a base to take refuge in, she thinks it's the mirage town.
At this point I don't think Makoto is still a mortal.
basically, what hibiki should be doing is acting like modern-day japan
"i see no need to piss off america, and i see no need to piss of china
so why not just not piss them off, lol"
but instead, she's more like aus- **gets shot**
She thinks he got a town or a community that supports him deep in the wasteland, what she theorized is that even if the world was destroyed (read that as every country collapsing and general mayhem) it wouldn’t really affect him there.
And they are truly idiotic once more if you know a god is up above and think there is a comparable power near by, you do not antagonize either, the beat idea is to try and curry favor or at least indifference from them. Not actively scheming against or around them. Kinda like setting up shop in a mafia neighborhood, you don’t go around it’s safer to go say hello and ask for permission
Even Bitchiki knows Alte is pretty much dead at that point. lol
Thanks
thanks for the chapter
Thanks for the chapter
A miserable end for the Apostle Alte Barrette. I wonder what kind of end the two Heroes and the remaining Apostle will have.
The other apostle maybe more sophisticated end, because Makoto would have developed more powerful anti-goddess skills, Trashmoki, i hope a more humiliating end, since he has caused too much damage to innocent ppl, and hibiki, maybe she may survive or if she dies, if it isn't an honorable death, at least it would be swift
At this rate it seems like Hibiki might have or soon will give up on trying to go against Makoto and just try to minimize the damage he deals in his conflicts with the Goddess. Or she could fully invest in going against him, either way should be interesting
The interesting development here would be to think about the "agreement" between Makoto and the Bug. Will she take it as Makoto antagonizing hyumans, are will she understand that it was her lackey that provoked him while she was supposed to not meddle in his affairs?
Thank you for the chapter.
Logic doesn't matter to Bug. She'll just say that Makoto is at fault regardless of anything because she thinks he's ugly and thus deserving of her hate and contempt. Whether she can actually do anything to Makoto is another story. The gods who visited Makoto before said that they placed some kind of restraint or choker as Athena called it on her so she can't interfere with Makoto anymore. Though depending on how pissed she gets, she may try something drastic without even caring what might happen to her because of her restraint. Conversely if Bug really does turn out to be Aphrodite like most of us think, she may just whore herself out to charm some dumb god to do her bidding and go after Makoto for her. Like Ares. All myths say he was really dumb and could be tricked easily plus he was one of Aphrodite's lovers.
@aditya88sora I forgot which chapter it was, but it's been mentioned that world was one of Brahma's creation and that bug was given it to manage. That's also why Shiva is connected to this.
I should clarify this. The world is just one of multiple worlds but they never said that any god created it. Daikokuten only mentioned that it was then assigned to Bug but now that they've seen how badly she's been managing it and causing a bunch of problematic alternate timelines because of her summoning of the heroes that Daikokuten AKA Shiva has to destroy to preserve the world, he is saying that the gods might decide to hand over the world's management to Brahma as a better choice.
@aditya88sora eh no, Bug is the goddess of the world, but its not its creator, it is stated before how the world before the goddess was inhabitated by the Superior Dragons, stated by Root itself, while Tomoe also says how Mio predates the era before the goddess as a drifter which was akin to the spirits, Bug is merely a manager of the world than its creator, she can create but cant do in the scale of a world entirely, where makoto goes against Gods thinking due to the linking of his mana, Tsukuyomi gift and Tomoe pact with Asora
That seems possible but I think the restrains that the other gods put on her would prevent that from happening. But she may get some of his apostles to go after Makoto. That would be awesome to see.
the problem is that the goddess is the creator of the world itself if you want to fight Makoto must be the god of the moon or the god of destruction or the messenger of the trimurti of the creator of the new universe can fight, but the problem is that Makoto is only accommodated by understanding the words of the goddess and the way and the power of the moon god and is still being built slowly is not the throne of the moon god itself that was given to Makoto
Bug have a choke with the intention of restrain her, even if she try to use this as a reason to fight Makoto, there are not enough material that can be used to fight Makoto, his participation in the war of Tsige is minimum and that is a war between hyumans so he isn't antagonizing directly the hyumans as the agreement say, and Alte attacked first the side of Makoto with hurting his publicly knowed subordinates, he also only attacked Alte, so there are no enough reasons that justify take action.
I mean, at this point, I don't think Bug wants to fight Makoto. She may actually lose.
She obviously want to fight Makoto, she clearly look down on her and think he is at most as a annoying bug (yes, really ironic), until she seriously lose to him or get hurted is probably that she will still think the same way, even after that is possible that the change in his mentality will be little.
At this stage in the series would he care to bother explaining? I imagine that the next meeting between the bug and devi- makoto would be an all out fight
He can argue that he kept at minimum regarding tsige and sion, he had a merchant approach in favor of Tsige and no more than provide materials or things inside, while even went to retrieve the Moon Grizzly that slipped out, it was Alte who attacked Tomoe first after all and was also the very same Bug mistake of not giving the apostles the info of "Makoto also is an otherwolder, we have thus deal, don't antagonize him" or any info at all before the other gods put the collar on her
@Haxe, why would the bug not informing the apostle abt the deal be a fault? I mean, she doesnt like makoto, she cant do anything to him because of the restraint put by the other gods, and the only loophole is that she doesnt specify to what extent this "antagonizing humans" is.
Given her personality, if her apostle killed makoto, she would just say "i didn't tell her to do so" and just go by with it, and if the apostle died instead, she might turn this "misunderstanding" into an excuse to bypass the restraint and erase makoto, she lose nothing.
Makoto can argue that he is with the Hyumans. He is helping Tsige after all. Alte is also the one who attacked them so it is self defence
But it is bug so I doubt she will accept this.
The agreement is basically already null though, right? She's moved his hand to meddle in the affairs of humans twice. She can no longer complain about him, nor does she have any right to.
That was so satisfying. Have been waiting long for it. About now i only care for 2 thinks while reading the novel.
1. Direct mentions of makoto and his girlfriends romantical advances
2. Direct interactions with hibiki or tomoki.
Really i wanna see them trying hard their stupid moves and get crushed in heart and mind by makoto.
Haa. Thanks for the chapter, keep it up please. Wanna read more snd Sooner
Doesn't matter if she accepts or not, she has to obey the rules or the other gods will punish her again, that's why she can't make wrong interpretations to use as excuses to atk him.
Thnx for the translations~