"It's better to put down the gun and sword." Rika Fujimaru said to the Terminator team behind her, "First of all, it's rude, and secondly, it's useless to be vigilant in force. If Texcatlipoca meant that, it would have been an easy thing for him to wreck the entire ship. ”

Rika Fujimaru only stated the facts while making a reasonable suggestion, but unfortunately, although the Midnight Lord team followed her advice and was relieved by the hint that "there will be no war for the time being", it still appeared ...... I would love to run away.

So far, the reason why they have not made up their minds to abandon this mission to "protect the personal safety of Fujimaru Ritsuka" is simply because it is a direct order from their genetic father.

The skeleton's eyes were hollow, but there was a certain scrutinizing will that fell on them, and the invisible pressure instinctively held their breath. Astarte is a reformed person who has been strengthened by a series of means, both physically and mentally, and should not panic at the slightest trivial, and have almost lost the ability to feel fear, or lose their mind because of fear—not to mention the Midnight Lord, who uses fear-mongering as a special weapon. However, they realized here that Astarte was not out of the human realm after all.

They felt a shudder from the bottom of their hearts. It is written in the lowest genes and instincts, and it has existed since the beginning of the existence of the "human" species, so that living beings can perpetuate the race—the most primitive "fear" that exists as an early warning agency in the face of danger that can easily crush people as individuals.

"What did you bring with you 'crooked melons and cracked dates'?" The invisible and heavy pressure dissipated, and Tezcatlipoca turned to ask Rika Fujimaru, "Although you are the kind of person who 'can't learn well even if you die once', you are still appropriately critical of your companions...... No, count me as talkative, your words are fine. ”

This was of course a little resentful of the Midnight Lords, who were no different from the derogatory remarks, and they said "slightly" because they hadn't done anything special about it.

When confronted with a great being that is far beyond common sense, the human spirit is often under tremendous pressure. This pressure flows from the mind to the body, and the load of the brain and nerves cannot support them to continue to command the human body.

It's not that the Midnight Lords don't want to say or do something, they just can't do it under such intense pressure.

But Rika Fujimaru treats it as nothing.

"It's a long story, and I have a lot of questions I want to ask." She was calm and steady, "But the most difficult thing to ignore is - does it feel like you're getting weaker?" ”

Not to mention the changes in appearance. This is a subspace, and there is no restriction for the "gods" that must have a physical body to limit and anchor itself in order to remain. Perhaps when confronted with Texcatlipoca, which is still huge and terrifying in terms of the scale of existence, the scale comparison of "a thousand times larger than a human being" is enough to despair for those who have never seen its majesty, but for Rika Fujimaru, who has never seen it but peeked at the power of the gods from the side, this "thousand times" is not even more terrifying than the "Tezcatlipoca with a treasure" she had seen in the Persona Zone, and that one was even reduced to a mimic follower who was attached to a human body.

In the final battle of Miktriampa, although the opponent limited his own contribution due to the nature of pursuing fair competition, Fujimaru Rika also understood what the "Divine Domain" should be like as a battle arena. And although there was some smoke wafting from the nearby illusion that represented Tesca Lippoca, it obviously did not have the power to "demarcate the realm".

"Haha." The Almighty God, whose current appearance is between a ghost and a skeleton, laughed twice, "This is not the original world after all, even if I am an Almighty God and can move between the multiverses, I can't exert my power properly under the premise of being rejected by the universe itself." It's you—"

The invisible pressure similar to "sight" was transferred to Rika Fujimaru again. Judging from her expression, it was obvious that she was unaware, but from the same place, it was clear that she did not regard this as an important matter.

"-It really fell from the roots, it's a shame that you can bear it."

"It's not that I can handle it...... I've also planned it well, and before I actually carried it out, I underwent the transformation of the third method, and fixed the physical and mental forms......" Fujimaru Rika said inexplicably and quietly, and finally suddenly raised her voice as if to cover up her weakness: "Anyway, judging from the results, I survived well!" That's it! ”

Tezcatlipoca laughed again, a loud rumbling sound echoing through the hangar, and even the walls seemed to tremble. The Terminator team was forced into defense, but the psionics farther away didn't seem to be aware of it.

"Yes, for you, 'surviving' is a victory in itself." The gods agreed, "And then? Although I admit that the fate that was once formed echoed each other, and it is normal for the universe itself to push two beings from the other world to an intersection, since you have come to me like this, you must not have come to say hello, right? ”

"It's important to say hello, but there are a lot of reasons. Because of some long stories, I'm currently cruising around as an imperial envoy - and even if I don't mention that, I'll have to reach out and pull a shipwrecked ship anyway, right? ”

"It's very much your style...... But now you're the Emperor's priest. The word "priest" in the mouth of the otherworldly god was a completely unfamiliar pronunciation to the people of the Empire, but when those syllables came out of his mouth in this environment, everyone inexplicably understood its meaning, "I caught a glimpse of it when I came here with Debit, and it looked like a not very good patronus. You don't want to get entangled by troublesome guys again and be forced to start working in the dark, right? ”

Rika Fujimaru was eerily silent here.

"Hmm...... I think it's better to talk about it first, and you must be calm down when you hear this. There was a tentative uncertainty in her tone, "Emperor, he's not a god. ”

"Huh?"

"The emperor is not a god. Just a little bit peculiar and very strong human ...... To analogize a very strong human magician? Although it is different from ordinary people in terms of life form and latitude, the 'heart' part is still human...... Roughly like this? ”

"Huh?"

Tezcatlipoca made a "Are you kidding me" sound.

"Wait a minute, the 'Emperor' we're talking about is indeed the 'sun' that lights up the galaxy-level super-large lighthouse and burns on the earth, right?"

"yes? That's a human, huh? ”

"But isn't it obvious that he is 'ruling over mankind as a god'?"

"Cause and effect are wrong, you haven't had time to delve into the history of this universe in detail." Rika Fujimaru said, "It's not 'the emperor who rules over mankind as a god,' but 'the people are treated as gods as a great emperor who rules over mankind.'" Although he has been regarded as a god by a large number of humans for almost 10,000 years, so it is inevitable that he will change, but he is still human at heart. ”

I don't know if it was an illusion, Texcatlipoca was speechless for a moment.

"One, human? Ruling a vast empire the size of this galaxy? ”

"To put it simply, the story is this: 10,000 years ago, the emperor tried to unify the entire human race spread across the galaxy, and then found a way to free humanity from the shadow of the gods. But the Great Expedition failed at the last minute, and the Empire at this point in time was the wreckage of a 10,000-year back-up plan activated. ”

"—He wants to say goodbye to the gods on his own?"

"It's almost going to work, if the gods didn't do anything, they would have succeeded. It's a pity that the gods of the universe here obviously have their own ideas...... However, in the end, he reluctantly sat on the throne and temporarily avoided the fate of the entire human race. ”

“……”

After a period of silence, Teskatlipoca burst out laughing even more insolently.

"What a fool who wants to single-handedly perpetuate the survival of a doomed race! I see, I see, I see, this can't be human! Only a human being would do such a stupid thing! ”

The whole space shook with the catharsis of the gods' feelings. There was a commotion of uneasiness in the psyker camp, but it seemed that they still hadn't figured out what was going on in the hangar.

“…… I feel like I've been scolded together, but it's okay. It's good that you understand that. After Tezcatlipoca had almost had enough of laughing, Rika Fujimaru shrugged her shoulders indifferently, "Anyway, as a fool who has also been burdened with the survival of the human race, I really can't ignore this after seeing him, so I'm currently acting in support of his position." It would be nice if there would be no conflict in the future because of this. ”

"I understand, I understand, hahahahaha......"

After barely stabilizing his emotions, the huge skeleton waved his arms and leaned down to approach Fujimaru Ritsuka:

"I can't promise you that I won't be against you, after all, I'm the 'wind of impermanence' and I don't know where I'm going."

His tone was solemn and serious:

"But you are my favored 'warrior', and I will recognize the emperor as you did when you 'challenge the impossible'—you can rest assured that even if I haven't met him, I, as the 'god of warriors', will still give him equal preferential treatment."

"So tell me, what do you need right now? For the warriors who defeated me at one time, the god Tezcatlipoca will generously reward me. ”