"I told you that we o tell Elizabeth that he no longer had those skills..." Her hubby grumbled at the side. It wasn't her [Whole] hubby, of course, most of him was busy holding together the world or whatever. But it was a very [BIG] part of him.

  "I mean, she was going to deal with him anyway, and how was I supposed to know that the [Fragment] I left iheria had met him?" She answered with a frown, today her hair was long and silky with the smell of a thousand steltions going supernova. Advantages of [Godhood], who would have thought she wouldn't actually get a hoodie with the [Godhood]?

  Had she known she would eventually make that st step she would have asded in that realm that granted hoodies with the apotheosis...

  "I told you that leaving that [Fragment] of yourself behind was a mistake, even if it eventually ran out of mana. You really shouldn't be leaving that kind of thing behind." Hubby always pined about that part, had she known it would be like this...Well, she would still have told him about that part of her.

  The part of [Catherine Saintsworths] that she ripped apart and made into a [Simucrum]. She had o do that, lest she turn into what she hated. That part was desigo be the [Demon Queen], she still could summon that part of her of course, it had grown back...

  Her [in] wasn't that easy to break, nor easy to transform. Not then, not now.

  She could still feel it pulsing at the back of her [Godhood], still waiting for her to call upon it, for her to embrace her true self...Even if she despised it with so much hate, even after she had torn apart it to pieces.

  At the end of the day she was still the same, not [Catheriarlight - The Ethereal Traveler] but [Catherine Saintsworths - The Guardian of Life], her [in] was the same, even if she mao hide it uhe [Space] attribute, at the end of the day her [Magic] was ouo keep and protect those under her banner.

  It was made so that the [Hero] she was supposed to serve would survive ahe world safe. Not that the [Bastard] did a good job, he abused them all and then got angry when she wao return home.

  "Cath?" Hubby's hand nded on her shoulder, "Are you okay? Did this [Bug] bring bad memories? I summon my whole self and deal with it if you want."

  She was tempted to say yes to it, but no. Elizabeth o deal with this, she had awakened something troublesome and this was as good as a ce for her to learn about it. She hated the fact that she o gh all of it.

  But "No, Eli-Eli o deal with this, it is an important life lesson. She o know her own limits, what she do, and what she shouldn't do...And it is better if she learns them while doing it against something that has no redeemable factors." It would hurt her daughter, and she may hate them should she find that they khat they didn't warn her about what this step would cause.

  But they were [Gods] now, and as such, they never had been so limited in what they could do upoerial p least till they mao free themselves from these shackles.

  Their new boss didn't want them around that much either way, that [Woman] had only accepted their assion si was better for them thahan, and this would make fair the situation in the [World]. She still liked to think that her [Status] in the new world would have been fun to read.

  How does oranste a [Soul] with as many different systems affeg it as hers? And then there was hubby, how would the [System] rea, someohat broke past the limit with a mortal body and a single [Skill].

  His was as close to his [in] as one could get without basking on it, and even then he was still purifying his body, soul, and mind more and more.

  Her shining bea of hope, the only reason she ever dreamed of a happy life [Jack Brighton - The Bulwark of The World], when they asded and she was able to see her husband for how what he truly was, she finally uood why she always felt safe with him.

  It wasn't because he owerful, nor how adorably clumsy he acted when invitio a date so many years ago, it was his [in], what made him who he was. It was the promise that should she accept being part of his [World], then she would be safe.

  That her [World] would never be taken from her again, she could relinquish the crafted [in] she put atop her cracked soul, she could allow herself to [Heal] ahe same silly girl who was summoo another world to [Heal] a dying world.

  Should she [Wish] for it, Jack would make the [World] bend on his knees and make her dream e true, and...she had beeed, but at the end of the day, that was the dream of Catherine Saintsworths, the silly blonde girl that got a tragid, killed her friends and was [The Destroyer of Worlds].

  "She will be fine," Her hubby said, "She is strong like me, and probably as smart as you."

  ...Okay, she may o send a diviervention message to that pink-haired girl, she sycho, and a stalker, and robably crazier than her [Demon Queen] persona, but she was someone who wahe best for Elizabeth. So she would do, maybe if she told her to flush their lovely [Oath] with healing mana?

  No, Elizabeth was currently in that [Bug]'s [Soulscape], the mana would leak into him and give it away. She wasn't sure how Elizabeth had mao swipe that Aurelia girl's soul into her service, but that girl was doing a fine job keeping the [Bug] busy.

  "Cath, she will be fine." And then she felt the [World] shift, as the presence of her husband flooded the divine pne. She even heard a sigh from the [World] as they got an annoyed mana pulse sent their way. "She has plenty of help from those [Revenants] she keeps around. Case in point."

  The big s they used to look into the mortal world split a small s fog on the Aurelia girl, or what she had been at some point. Right now she was a [Doppelganger] inhabiting a copy of Elizabeth, not that she was doing a good job of it, with all her mana turning the lovely blonde of their daughter into purple dotted with stars...

  She would make a o try that look ter.

  "She did mao ie that girl quite well..." Aurelia Vitelius, the [Maiden of Space], she was the ahe [World] had created as a panion to Elizabeth, someohat would help her advand would cover the weakness of Elizabeth. She was supposed to be able to help her at any time.

  And what had happened? She got killed by the pink-haired girl for sharing the room with Elizabeth, then her [Soul] still uhe and of the [World] hadn't moved on the circle of transmigration, and Elizabeth instead of helping her move forward in life had [Assimited] her into her service.

  The girl was scary effective, whatever those souls saw in her [Shadow Haven] must be good, to her it just looked like the ruined capital city of her former world...

  "And now she is deep within the [Soulscape] of her enemy, her pn is gutsy if nothing else. To steal the part of [The Knight of the sword] that the [Bug] keeps in his [Soul]." Hubby said. And that was one way to do it, especially since Elizabeth didn't have any talent in [Soul] magic. Her Girlfriend may be able to do it, but that red-haired girl wouldn't survive the intervention.

  Her soul was even more fragile than hers after her inal [in-shift], and that girl didn't have a way to restore her [Soul]. And while some [Love] may be able to fix that soul, if her current [Love] wasn't reciprocated?

  She was stuck there, or at least till her daughter saved the girl and she formally joined her cohort. " I 't wait till she finds out that she will not be able to release Rena or she dies." Elizabeth wasn't a fan of her pn to keep Magical Girls as a hobby, and here she was, making a harem full of broken girls. It was enough to make a grown woman who liked to gush ical girls cry.

  "The problem will be if the [Bug] finds out before she has been able to finish," Hubby said fog the main camera ba Elizabeth, while also splitting another small s towards the bug iion.

  Suzuki Akira, formerly known as [Edward Smith] or how she knew him for what he was [The Depraved King], his [in] was truly corrupted beyond reason, and he had mao twist his [Hero] blessing to do this kind of deeds. She had seey of twisted and ht depraved [Heroes] across the multiple worlds.

  Some had been twisted into what they became after beirayed.

  Some had been brought low by treachery a, only to rise above those and implement justice.

  Some had twisted their [Blessings] to make what they wanted.

  Most? Most abused their new power to fulfill their fantasies, the most on [Power Fantasy] setting that other people had found about in on stories. She had found it hirious how most of those worlds leaked into other pnes as mere [Stories], it was an innovative way fods] to harvest some extra [faith] from other pces.

  She wasn't sure if she would ever let the data from this one leak like that, but as far as she was capable she would try and prevent it, imagine, people reading about her adorable daughter and her private time with her girlfriend and future new girlfriend.

  No no, a girl deserved her private time. At least for now, she would mao take a peek at her daughter kissing her girlfriend at some point.

  "Cath, st to get into Liz's private time. Would you wao peek at us?" Hubby asked, why yes. She wouldn't mind her daughter looking at her kissing him.

  Really, why would she? She was a looker, her hubby was a looker, what was to hide?

  "Catherine, no [Odyssey] let our daughter have some privaless she wants to share. No peeking." Hubby said while using her rue Name].

  ...He was so hot when he was angy like that.

  "Fineeee, but as soon as I get permission from one of her future wives I'm taking it and you 't take away my recs!" She of course would get it, eventually. Maybe not from the main wife, that psycho would probably try to steal her [Divinity]... Or something like that, she wasn't sure her position as [Mother of Elizabeth] would be enough to stop her from that.

  The sed wife...

  "Do you think Rena will want to be my apostle?" She asked her hubby, and he only grunted. His dismissal grunt that is.

  "Impossible." Came the monotone voice of their boss.

  "Oh, she speaks! Jack, it's the end of the world! She speaks!" Jack as always didn't react to her antics besides raising an eyebrow. It was way funnier when she had a whole group of Magical Girls to hype her up, but she didn't have nearly enough [Allowao transform them into familiars (Yet).

  "Greetings [Akasha]." Hubby has always shown respect to their [Overlord], she was irked that he would bow to someone else, but she uood why he did it. She was, after all, still the sole responsible for the [World] they lived in.

  And so long she didn't cross the lih Elizabeth, she didn't mind that she held the reins over their lives. Granted, she had tiptoed the line wheried to strip their daughter of one of her pets. Not that it would make her less powerful, but that lizard wasn't the reason she could do what she did.

  It would make it harder for her to manage her little [Revenant] army of course, but she was already incubating a [Daughter] that could take up that role, and if that wasn't enough, the [Space Maiden] robably a good enough rept for managing some of the load.

  "So? Do you also want to watch Eli-Eli squish that [Bug]?" She would try to be polite, but she was ahat this girl didn't let her desd, "Who do you think will try to stop her first? The [Teachers]? The [Board]? Or maybe the [Student cil]?"

  The first one wanted a future S-Tier cssers, the sed one just wanted a new [Hero] that wasn't aligned with the [ars], after the Italians took over they wao pursue their own agenda.

  Jack had even ughed when they did that, with all that they used to hate how he rawelve], they now had someone more ied in politid they hated it. It had beeic.

  "Squish." The purple-haired woman said and made a motion with her hand towards the [Bug].

  She couldn't help but smile at that, "Exactly, Eli-Eli should just squish that bug, but you see...he still has some of that [Blessing] from his former employer, anyway we could...you know...[Remove] it?" She had tried that of course, hubby too. But they hadn't been able to tamper with it.

  Part of it because it was on his [Soul], deeply embedded with his [in]. It was the reason they had granted Elizabeth their own [Blessing] and [Titles], si was hard to remove once granted. And it would prevent further attempts at her from other deities should they even try.

  "Impossible.Not mihe girl answered back.

  "e on Cryssy....I know you do it, you are the big honcho here! I haven't seen one of your [Type] before and I have traveled plenty!" She still got the shivers when they asded and found her waiting.

  Her presence, and the pce they nded...[THAT] had been worrisome to see, this half-mute girl was imposing, granted part of it was because they had [Asded] under her blessing and in her [World]. But still, she had been half sure that they would be able to deal with her.

  It was the first time she had been s, they still could run away of course, she had a few tricks about that, and sineither she nor hubby were [Tainted] by the [Faith] they got, they could always throw away their [Divine Bodies] aurn to the mortal coil.

  "Sacrifice, [Shard], break,[e].Only,if,Elizabeth,dead." The girl said back at her.

  It took her a few mio process that, "I [Respect] you for what you do, giving life to the world, making it so it works..." Hubby started speaking, only for [Framework] to finish for him, "So I will ask this, you saying that if we [Sacrifice] Elizabeth's [Soul] you will remove his blessing and allow us to smite him?"

  He...she...Did she want them to destroy the world?

  "Or are you saying that if Elizabeth dies, you will sacrifice a [Shard] to break the [e] between the [Pest] and his blessing?" After saying that Hubby raised a hand and catched something.

  She only noticed after hubby [Crushed] that, it had been an icicle covered in stardust. A look from him took her bad she noticed how around them the world had [Shifted], they no longer were standing in the [Divine Pne] as before, they stood in the [ROOT].

  The pce where their [Divine Cores] were tucked in uhat purple girl care, and the pce where their [Divinity] was at the stro.

  She was in her [Odyssey] regalia, magic circles pulsing around with multiple spells at the ready, all fueled by her [Prana], had she lost trol of herself and attacked Crystal?

  Yikes.

  Better to ask for fiveness from the big honcho, "You better expin yourself Cryssy, I may not be able to kill you. But if Elizabeth dies because of you [I WILL BATHE THIS WORLD WITH THE BLOOD OF ALL THE SAPIENT OR SE LIFE I FIND AND MAKE YOU SUFFER FOR A THOUSAND YEARS]." .

  "*sigh* Troublesome, Idiots." Their boss and the literal metaphysical maion of [The World] sighed and snapped her fingers, there in front of them materialized a purple fragment of a crystal.

  It didn't have any mana on it, nor did it seem important enough, really, it looked more like a rock than anything. "Fragment, World, Sister." She said pointing at the thing. Then summoning another s with a blotle girl she said "Fragment, Shattered, Sister."

  ...Wasn't that the little girl that Alexanders had in a testing tube when they went to visit him for help?

  She had fouhat their former world had colpsed thanks to some experiments the idiot had doh Mana....."... That is a fragment of your sister, a [World]." She said while pointing at the purple crystal, "And that is a [Shattered fragment] of my [Home World], or as you put it, your [Sister]."

  "You will sacrifice the fragment of one of your [Sisters] to save Elizabeth should she die?" Asked Hubby as his form ged back to normal. She too felt the [Prana] within her body calm doower down to her more mundane form.

  "Yes.Promised, sister, take care, Elizabeth." Crystal said as they got summoned back to their little er of the [Divine Pne].

  The part where they spent time living as if nothing had happened, occasionally peeking at Elizabeth. "So... The dead girl Alexanders kept around was more important thahought?" She said to hubby.

  "Your cousiher killed a being above [Gods] or mao e oher way, if he survived we may o [Kill him]." Hubby was so hot when he wao murder people.

  No wait, focus Catherine!

  "I mean, I didn't feel any [Mana] from that girl, and he did say that time that she was dead...Maybe he mao e a body of [The World] of my [Home World] by dumb luck?" She didn't think Alexanders had survived, Elizabeth had his [Soul], well it wasn't [His] anymore, she didn't have anything of him besides some remnant [Mana] that had turned into [Skills].

  While he was a cockroach, he wasn't that good that two [Gods] and whatever Crystal was couldn't find him and squish him food.

  "Either way, if he survived or not. That girl obviously survived the death of her world...So if she was [Akasha]'s sister, it means she also survive this world's [Death]." Hubby poihat...that roblem.

  "Maybe she wasn't like Cryssy...She didn't have purple hair!" If Crystal could survive without the world...They had fewer ways to deal with her.

  "I doubt one's hair color dictates if they are part of [The World] or not. ces are that your idiot cousin got one of your family members and ied him with a distilled serum of the world's maion." Hubby said.

  No way, not even the [Saintsworths] were that crazy, "I...don't think Alexanders would do that... Even like he was, he still was somewhat sane...for a Saintsworths... Maybe she wasn't a [Human]? I wasn't that important among them, but there were rumors of [Bio-ons]. Maybe she was ohat was more probable than Alexanders iing random Saintsworths with motes from a [World-Core].

  At least Crystal was smart enough to hide her [World-Core] within the [Soulscape] of the p, it was still accessible with the right [Skillset] as [Ethan] had done before. But after their assion, they would o get past her wards and hubby to get to it.

  "Either way, we gotta thank that girl. If she isn't dead we should grant her [Divine Prote]." Hubby said, did he wao get jealous?

  Grahat little girl was the most bea...

  "[Mind Prote], [Mind se], [Psychic Hazard se], [Soul Hazard se]." She cast the spell oer the other, then looked at the [Memory] of that girl.

  That little girl...wasn't ugly, she was cute all right, but whatever she had going on made her think that somehow was the most cute aiful little girl in the multiverse, and that was too much.

  The most cute little girl in the multiverse ought to be Elizabeth when she was a baby!

  Then maybe herself as [Odyssey] if she ever went into age-py. But that girl?

  "Cath? Something the matter?" Hubby asked.

  ht, "What do you think about her?" She asked her hubby, if she o know if he was the victim of the ito hazard.

  "She is a little girl, what do you wao say about her? Do you want to add her to your colle? She isn't a Magical Girl." Hubby asked fused.

  Right, he had that thing in his [in] that made him hard to influence. "Nah, she doesn't have the right vibe for a [Magical Girl], besides, ces are she is dead. Alexanders said she died at least. And Cryssy didn't seem to imply that she was alive. She did use an image of her dead after all."

  And besides, should she be alive, she would o keep her away from hubby, if she had a [ito Hazard] that made people think she was cute or pretty...She didn't want to think about what she would grow into ter.

  Maybe she would o prepare and deal with her? But she seemed to want to help Elizabeth...She would ask Elizabeth ter about that, for now, she o watch what she would do now.

  Elizabeth was about to finally move on towards the [Core] of that [Soulscape]. "Get me the pop Jack, this seems to be about to get to the good part."

  Really, asding had its perks sometimes, she could eat without having to use [Magic] to keep her figure slim!

  And she didn't o worry about her skin! Granted she hadn't o do either in decades thanks to her [Shift], but she still had a [Body] before that was susceptible to this! Now she didn't even have to worry about that!

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