Chapter Hasten the Plan
When Lifa and everyone returned, Elysia and Rhea paused their experiment to meet everyone. However, Elena volunteered to continue their research with the king"s chess piece and the p.a.w.n.
"Welcome back. Did you have fun finding good stuff?" Elysia waved her hand in greeting.
"Yeah... We ended up buying a lot of things. But it wasn"t fun." Ai immediately approached Elysia subconsciously.
"Huh? Why is that?" Elysia wondered what actually happened. She tried to find out more based on information from their shared processing, but someone informed her immediately.
"That"s because some people try to hara.s.s us on various occasions. Not to mention those people who carry cameras. That"s the most annoying thing. Duh, they think we are supermodels in cosplay. We don"t understand the meaning, but they"re annoying." Sylvia clenched her fists in annoyance.
"Fufu, at least you understand my predicament and worries." Elysia covered her mouth with her hand.
"Ah, yes..." Sylvia nodded even though she didn"t quite understand.
"It"s time for lunch now. Want to cook some delicious dishes with me? We have a pretty big kitchen." Elysia put her hands together.
Of course, everyone agreed, but not everyone could contribute to the kitchen business. After a hearty lunch with everyone, Elysia once again telepathically sent Xero a reminder for lunch.
However, he refused because he was too busy with his business and did not want to be disturbed for the time being.
Therefore, Elysia decided to return to the bedroom to help Elena in their experiment.
"We"re going to do a little experiment and concoct the sample products, the antidote to the mysterious disease. In the meantime, what are you going to do?" Elysia wanted to know what her friends would do in their free time.
"We can wait while playing some games and behave like good girls." Vanessa looked at her master with an innocent yet confident look. She was good at waiting.
"Hm, we can wait while looking for information from that magic item. Sylvi said that that thing can display various world information, right?" Ai pointed at the TV.
"We will save a lot of trouble because of the vast knowledge, and we will tell you important things we may need to know later, master." Yuuki agreed with the proposal.
"Oh dear, let"s see what this thing can do." Lifa checked that thin and sizeable magic item. However, she didn"t know how to turn it on.
"It can only be operated using a remote, maybe? Ah, it"s that thing with many b.u.t.tons on the table." Elysia pointed at the remote on the table.
"I"ll hold the controller!" Sylvia rushed to grab the remote. She then checked it while figuring things out how to use it. After pressing the power b.u.t.ton, the TV turned on.
"Please let us know if you want us to do something. We will gladly help." Lynn could tell Elysia, and the G.o.ddesses would be busy for a while. Even though she intended to help out while learning new things, she knew that now was not the right moment.
"Mm." Elysia waved her hand to everyone before going to the bedroom with Nell and Rhea. Lifa also decided to follow.
"..." Ai stared at Elysia"s back in silence until the door closed. After that, she glanced at the two little beasts by the window. One lay lazily basking in the sun, and the other relaxed in the corner of the room, barely visible.
"Glutton and lazy during a peaceful time, huh..." Ai shook her head and took an instant food. She saw how it was made and immediately put it into practice in the kitchen.
"Ai, come with us and watch this TV together!" Vanessa waved her hand high.
"Okay." Ai just nodded, but she still proceeded to the kitchen. Afterward, she returned to the living room to watch the so-called TV. "What"s up?"
"Hmm, we"re watching international news. Several countries are at war, but a mysterious disease forces all soldiers to retreat for treatment. Then, economic crises, general chaos, natural disasters, and much more. The world is really chaotic right now, right?" Evelyn heaved a subtle sigh.
"Yeah, that"s what they brought to themselves." Ai shrugged her shoulders as if she didn"t care.
"Wow, look at that natural disaster. The nature spirits are really mad, huh..."
"Yeah, but they are calmer now. We shall help them to end the evil G.o.d Game."
"But are we only going to hunt the partic.i.p.ants in two more days? I already wanted to hunt them down so we can face the Ruvoid G.o.d in the Heaven Realm soon. After that, we can enjoy our peaceful time on Earth for a while before returning to Vrelenia."
"Hm, but the plan came for a reason."
The girls chat with each other regarding issues presented by international news media.
Sylvia then changed the channel several times and stopped when she found the good one. "Hey, look! I found great news."
"Mysterious sickness, punishment from a G.o.d? The death toll is over a million in a month? Well, it escalated quickly. That number was much higher than the population of the largest city in Vrelenia, right?" Yuuki commented while stroking her tails.
"Really? You display that right in front of my ramen, Sylvi devil?" Ai felt her intention to taste her newly acquired instant food was lost when the miserable victims were shown on TV.
"Maa, let"s change to something more fun. It"s not good to watch all about gloom and doom situations when we"re about to save the world for a n.o.ble cause. It"s all because of those idiots who partic.i.p.ated in the G.o.d Game. They caused all that and will bear all the sins." Sylvia laughed dryly and immediately switched to another channel.
"..." Ai didn"t respond, but she grabbed one of Yuuki"s tails onto her lap and put her ramen. This girl was cold in nature, so her hot ramen would cool down quickly.
"???" Yuuki glanced at Ai, but she didn"t say anything. Her master"s twin treated her tail as a blanket?
"I"ll borrow one of your tails for this." Ai asked permission out of courtesy.
"O-oh, okay..." Yuuki was speechless. Her tail turned out to be used to cool the hot food.
Meanwhile, Elysia and Elena had just finished experimenting with the chess pieces. After that, they concocted an antidote with Rhea, Nell, and Lifa"s help. They followed the instructions according to the recipe given by Mother G.o.d.
It took them two hours for the product samples to be finished and ready to be tested.
"Phew, we"re finally done." Elysia wiped her sweat while gazing in relief at the box containing several antidote vials.
"Thanks to you, we made this faster than expected." Elena wiped her hands with a towel.
"Well, it"s an easy thing. All of this is also thanks to Earth Mother. The credit goes completely to her, and we will use this for the good of humankind in this world." Lifa waved her hand in front of her face.
"Then, are you really going to ask for this to be tested on patients before it"s ma.s.s-produced by the Alchemy a.s.sociation and the Minamoto Clan?" Nell put her hand to her chin as if considering something.
"What do you think?" Elena wanted to know another opinion.
"I think it doesn"t matter who will ma.s.s-produce this. However, we are talking about cunning humans. Most of them have high authority, right? If so, this could backfire as they will try to monopolize things." Nell a.s.sumed the worst first.
"So what"s the best solution you have in mind? We"re open to all kinds of suggestions and feedback." Elysia thought about it one more time, and she felt the risk was there if those cunning humans interfered in this matter.
"A plan without gaps and loopholes. An absolute command and order. We must distribute it to several other countries, but not for free. The stronger nations are our priority. We will make this one of the bargain chips to end the war and the world"s chaos. Then, I ask you to speed up the hunt for the G.o.d Game partic.i.p.ants. They can do anything in those two days of downtime. A warning letter won"t change their minds that easily." Nell tried to persuade Elysia and Elena because she thought three was too much and one was the best.
"If that"s the case, we will be pretty busy today. Let"s put it like this, we will only eliminate the partic.i.p.ants who wanted to hurt Ely because of that stupid bounty. Tomorrow we will start a total hunt for all partic.i.p.ants. Everyone will be eliminated tomorrow, so they won"t cause any more trouble." Elena made a steeple of her fingers.
"I think it"s much more efficient. We must not allow the Ruvoid G.o.d to mess around in the Heaven Realm for too long. We can"t just let his grand scheme of things progress." Rhea completely supported this new decision. This way, they could hasten all the good and end the evil sooner.
"Very well... Sora, you and the nature spirits no longer need to send warning letters to all the G.o.d Game partic.i.p.ants tomorrow. One is enough for them, and tomorrow we will eliminate them from this stupid thing. We will be divided into about a dozen hunting teams, so please choose the best nature spirit to guide us." Elena conveyed her instructions to the ball of wind on the ceiling.
"O-oh! That"s the thing I"ve been waiting for the most! All right, Earth Mother has prepared for the selected guiding nature spirits, myself included. So, we just need to invite them tomorrow. We nature spirits can quickly wipe out all the human partic.i.p.ants, but those evil deities are really troublesome." Sora grumbled a little.
"We received requests to minimize casualties, right? I"m not sure Earth Mother would support that." Lifa shook her head.
"Yeah, you"re right... But nature"s wrath is justifiable, okay?" Sora justified her fellow nature spirit"s actions.
"Yes, let"s act immediately to test this and introduce it to the world. I"m sure every country will be scrambling to have this antidote recipe soon, and the war will end tomorrow." Elysia put her hands together.