Arjuna walked slowly down the corridor of the Storm Boundary.

During the time he left and headed for a vigilance mission in subspace, the position of the Chaldean Mothership did change, but it did not affect his ability to accurately recover and restore the entity inside the ship.

Perhaps the appearance of the white-clothed blood is more indicative of Arjuna's recent grappling, but bringing the subspace pollution of the "blood of the living" back to the ship is completely unnecessary and impossible. It was unlikely that the energy made entirely of true aether would get stuck in Arjuna's spiritual base and reappear on the shell he had woven with the aether, but just in case, he went to the lounge with the statue of the emperor, lest there really be any "chaotic influence" left on his body.

After all, the people who had just fought him were Tzeentch demons. Although in terms of strength, they are obviously not a climate, but since they can have a place under Tzeentch, it cannot be completely ruled out that they do have some negative damage technology at the bottom of the box.

However, when the door to the lounge slid open in front of Arjuna, he was somewhat surprised to find that there were already other guests in the room who had arrived first.

"Smoking is prohibited in the public areas of the ship, you should know where the smoking area is." Arjuna frowned and walked into the smoky lounge. As a Heroic Spirit who didn't actually need to breathe, neither the choking smell of smoke nor the hallucinogens still contained in secondhand smoke had any visible effect on him.

He continued in a tone that sounded obviously dissatisfied, but still rude, "Also, I didn't expect you to leave yet. I thought you didn't really want to show your face in front of people outside of the Chaldea on this ship. ”

"That's true, but that doesn't mean I have to leave as soon as I've said the necessary things to Tachika." Smoking a Rajo stick—I don't know where it came from, but the Storm Frontier's supplies couldn't have a modern cigarette anyway—Teskatlipoca muffled, "And, I do think it's time for me to talk to him." ”

He shook his hand at the statue of the emperor across from him, but the statue itself remained unresponsive and silent. Even any Heroic Spirit entering the room could clearly feel the constant movement of psionic energy within it.

"Didn't go well?" Arjuna asked knowingly.

"It wasn't that smooth." Texcatlipoca's reply was somewhat unexpected, "Although he has been pretending to be dead like this for four or five days, at least he is not completely unresponsive to my presence. ”

Arjuna probably can't see it now, but Tezcatlipoca can deduce from the clues that the current emperor is most likely arguing with him.

For the Emperor, no matter what kind of disguise Tescatlipoca in front of the statue makes, no matter how much he looks like a "human" in the current way he uses to circumvent the rejection of reality, whether he is imported from another world and is not a "native species" in the subspace of this universe, whether he maintains some kind of trust relationship with Rika Fujimaru - God is God. This undoubtedly means that the Emperor's PTSD for the gods of the subspace will also carry over to Tezcatlipoca.

What's more, even if Fujimaru Rika is to judge, the "smoke mirror" itself is not particularly trustworthy - a god is a god, even the Chaldean lord would complain like this. They did help her a lot on her journey, but it should not be forgotten that they often joined after causing great trouble to the Chaldeans. There are even some who, after joining the Chaldeans, decided to take on the role of "behind the scenes" again, causing problems for everyone.

Although Fujimaru Rika is clearly the milder in his attitude towards "gods", at least in the part where "gods are troublesome", the emperor and Fujimaru Rika essentially hold the same view. The difference is only a slight difference.

"It's not penance such as apprenticeship or praying to God, generally speaking, people will get angry because of such a long cold reception." Arjuna didn't care about putting "Emperor" and "Texcatlippoca" on an equal footing, not caring if they would be unhappy with each other, "I'm not suggesting anything like 'you should walk away at this point,' I'm just trying to say that under normal circumstances, it's obviously called 'not going well.'" ”

"Of course I know, that's usually the case." Tskatlipoca lazily replied, "But this one? Be more lenient with him. Tens of thousands of personalities are arguing with each other in his head over the question of 'do you want to see me?' In terms of direct democratic majority voting, it is not uncommon for there to be no results within four or five days. ”

Arjuna furrowed her brows suspiciously, but her eyes were still on the statue: "Are you such a forgiving pillar god?" ”

"Sometimes I can be." "The wind of impermanence" replied a little narrowly.

There was silence in the lounge for a few seconds. The room was still filled with the energy that was inconspicuously emanating from the emperor's statue, which was difficult for ordinary people to notice, but it was obvious enough for the two "heroic spirits" present.

"He has the ability to unite himself again." Arjuna suddenly said with great certainty, "He could have truly become a god on that throne, instead of being so coerced by the faith of trillions of living people." ”

"He could, he just didn't choose that." Tezcatlipoca snuffed out the Lajo stick, which had burned to the end, "Obviously, he thinks that the ending of making himself a god who is 'holding trillions of people' hostage is even more unacceptable than letting himself be 'coerced by trillions of people'." ”

Arjuna was noncommittal: "Yes." ”

"It's so cold." Texcatlipoca complained, "But that's normal, everything in this world has nothing to do with us anyway." After hearing the situation like that, Rikka immediately decided that it was the Great Sage among the Great Sages who wanted to help. ”

"But it's undoubtedly the right thing to do—"

"—I don't deny that this is the 'right thing to do.'" Tezcatlipoca noted, "But would the 'average person' do it for the sake of something 'right' that has nothing to do with her, as she did?" You also know the corresponding plan, but you don't realize what kind of result it may lead to in the end, right? What she threw at the table was not just a simple thing like life and soul. If in the future, the laws of the realm record belt are successfully established here as planned, what kind of monster do you think the name 'Rika Fujimaru' will breed on it? ”

"......," Arjuna was silent for a moment before replying, "I'm here to stop things from coming this way." ”

"Yes." This time it was Texcatlipoca's turn to be noncommittal, "But do you think this can really be 'stopped'?" ”

Arjuna turned his head suddenly, as if to stare at a hole in Texcatlipoca's body: "What does this mean?" ”

"It's not interesting, it's just saying that there are so many best of both worlds in the world, and even God can't do it." "If you really want to 'stop' things from developing out of control, I suggest you pay more attention to Lika herself than external factors." ”

"There's nothing wrong with the Master." Arjuna quickly objected, "She is no different from when she was in Chaldees. ”

But Tezcatlipoca just smiled and lit a new Rajo stick:

"For an 'ordinary person', after going through 'so many things', there is still 'nothing changing' - isn't that the biggest 'wrong'?"

(End of chapter)