"The Italians…" Mother started, leaving an annoying dramatic stop there. Just to annoy her, Elizabeth was sure of it.

  "Why do you call them like that? There isn't any or city-state called anything like that." Agatha said from the side.

  No! Don't give her a way in! This womao expin what the deal with [The Prophet] was!

  "The thing with Lucía is that she is too greedy," Mother said, summoning the image of a silver-haired woman dressed in a white robe with gold decorations.

  "Lucia?" Elizabeth asked, looking at the image, something creeping at the back of her mind.

  "Cath, you fot to turn off the security node," Papa said, sighing and blowing air in the image's dire; somehow, his breath, instead of being colorless, was golden and tinged with so much Prana that Elizabeth almost choked on it.

  As soon as that arrived in the picture, the information came crashing down, including the simirities and the face of the woman. Elizabeth had seen that woman before.

  It was the only time she saw Mry.

  During one of her birthdays, a woman had arrived with a group of men wearing bck suits; Mother stormed in her dire ahem away; it was one of the few times Elizabeth saw Mother using Magic...but not being happy or mischievous about it.

  The Magic also didn't form any magic circle, unlike how Mother did usually. Instead, it was closer to seeing Magic ripping out from cracks within space.

  The woman merely shook her head a a box on the floor before leaving, that time Papa took the box and Elizabeth was not sure if she ever got the present within the box, but small girl Elizabeth didn't think too much of it.

  Now however?

  Elizabeth found the enter...extremely w, the fact that Mother had used a school of Magic that she hadn't remembered ever seeing...The fact that her usually stoic Papa didn't retaliate against the obvious slight at his Power.

  And the fact that this woman was someohat knew where Elizabeth lived...

  "Lucia De' Medicci," Mother said pointing to the image, "The holiest woman on the p, daughter of one of the a s of Zaanam and founders of Veritalis."

  That seemed...normal? Elizabeth felt that she should be more impressed, but holy, a s and rulers of tries or nations kinda turned average for what Elizabeth was dealing with on a daily basis.

  Part of it was the fact that she had the s of a gaxy-spanning empire stu her Soul for so long before; the fact that she was, in turn, the st survivor of the said made her, in turn, a s of the aid .

  And if that wasn't enough, then the fact that her Soul was currently a whole world on its own, then yeah...

  A daughter of an a could not pare to the empress of a p.

  Not like that mattered at the moment, "And? What is her deal?" Elizabeth asked.

  "...She wants to achieve Apotheosis, before we asded she saw me as an obstacle since I brought Magic to the world, but even after almost 200 years I remained on the p." Mother said with a sigh, "She thought that I couldn't achieve the step, and so wasn't worthy to stand at the top."

  ....To be fair to this woman, Mother did in fact do not deserve to be at the top.

  "And like the Italian she is, she didn't mind the type of things she did to achieve her goals. We had some fights because she would offer predatory deals to girls and women that made them ied to her, having them work for her uhey wao suffer." Mother didn't seem to like that aspect.

  If Elizabeth was a guessing girl, then the problem wasn't the fact that she used predatory tracts but that she targeted cute girls. At least from Mother's side.

  "Your maid Aura is one such example, she bought her after getting her parents into debt, then used as a disposable pawn. Even while knowing that I wanted her as your friend." Mother said with a sigh.

  "So that Maid is the one you wanted for her? But the medlings of [The Prophet] made it so Aurelia ended as her roommate?" Agatha asked.

  Elizabeth didn't want to ahat, nor did Mother a.

  "As for the Italian thing, the world your Mother es from had a criminal group of people who all came from the same peninsu that Veritalis inated from. Sihe De'Medicci family es from the same pd has ties with anized crime, your Mother keeps calling them Italians." Papa expined why Mother called them as such even though there wasn't any , city anization called like that. "The De'Medicci family thinks this is do of respect so they embraced the naming though.

  ...that was just sad.

  "After we asded there was the problem with the power vacuum, and while we didn't prepare a rept since we hadn't po asd to godhood..." Mother said while grimag as she summoned a video of how the magazihat had her photo started disappearing, how the statues, the a figures, the merch...all that was tied to [The Starlight Explorer] started vanishing.

  "Sorry about that," Elizabeth said at that.

  "It's fine Eli-Eli, I don't regret doing it. I would never regret doing anything to help you." Mother said, always using the sappy one-liners..." Now, after asding the problem with Power... We may have not po leave this phis early, but there were some pns already on the back."

  "Namely [The Juggernaut] and [The Beast Master]," Papa said from the side, "Jenna is powerful, I'm sure you noticed it. Her power level is... adequate."

  Adequate?

  Only adequate?

  Jenna is a monster!

  "Same be said about Joseph," Papa carried on. So [The Beast Master] was called Joseph? That sounded more refihan Elizabeth had expected.

  "I spent enough time training both up to standards, and Joseph knows to keep his priorities and responsibilities. He will make sure the p is not destroyed," Papa nodded, "Anything he 't solve Jenna will deal with, and the other way around."

  "But won't he turn Izanami into a world power?" Rena said from the side, "[The Beast Master] is partial towards Izanami right? Won't that be a problem?"

  "No," Elizabeth said first.

  "It doesn't matter," Rossie said sedly.

  "Of course it will," Agatha chimed from the side, fused at Elizabeth and Rossie's answers.

  "Not really?" Mother of course k wasn't a problem.

  "It doesn't matter, the petty squabbles of the popuce are meaningless in front of true power." Papa said balling his fist, the air around his fist cracked as the pure Power dehere, Elizabeth was not seeing any mana manipution or prana, anything to say that the phenomena was made out using anything else but true Might. "I made The Ameri United Federation into the most powerful nation because I didn't want to deal with world politics too, that is a fair approad I will not judge Joseph for doing the same with Izanami."

  "...The Ameris are a world power...because you didn't want to deal with world politics?" Agatha asked baffled, "Not because their own effort? Are you saying that the effort we made is meaningless?"

  "Yes," Papa didn't wait or bat a Agatha's astonishment, "The Powerful has no reason to mind the struggle of the weak, for the powerful got there after striving to be better."

  "Not everyone achieve the degree of talent that you did, some of us have limits," Agatha said in a small voice. "And you are saying that our opinio matter?"

  "Don't bother on that Gatty, I have been spending the st 400 years attempting to teach hubby the struggles of the weak," Mother said from the side shaking her head i.

  No, wait, wasn't she only 200 years old? Where had the extra 200 years e from?

  "You?" Agatha said surprised, as if she had heard the most impossible thing ever, which to be ho, she had. Not even Elizabeth could uand how someone like Mother was the one advog for the ued.

  "First of all, rude." Mother said narrowing her eyes, "And sed of all, yes. Me, I know you all only know the beautiful and talented diva. But I was just like you....well not you Gatty, or Eli-Eli...or the pink mehere...actually I wasn't like any of you. I was more like...Let me see..."

  Then Mother made a magical circle in the air that showed an image of the exterior, there she quickly started moving it all around passing by the images of several students(all females of course, because Mother couldn't cast something that showed anything that wasn't a cute girl even if her life depended on it).

  It quickly looped around all the students and then started moving towards the exterior, soon Elizabeth wasn't sure what the people that showed had going for them, at some point they al started looking...average.

  "Here! She is not as cute as I was, but it's close enough!" Mother said, stopping the spell in the image of...a random girl.

  Elizabeth couldn't deteything special on her, not in looks or mana capacity; actually, she couldn't detey Mana on her.

  "A civilian?" Agatha asked fused, "So what? You awoke yic after being a civilian?"

  "Nope," Mother said, "Did you fet my backstory? I came from another world."

  "Oh..." Elizabeth said.

  "Yes Eli-Eli, oh indeed." Mother said nodding her head, "I was normal, talentless, painfully average...and the only thing I had going for myself was my good looks."

  "Couldn't you use your [Divine Powers] to show us your past?" Rossie asked from the side.

  "...This is why people don't like you, if it wasn't because Eli-Eli likes you I wouldn't even dignify your question with an answer," Mother said turning to Rossie with a smirk, "But to ahe question, my world died. And even if it didn't, no god i with their past. Not even to look at it, when you achieve apotheosis your past is removed and all of it is turned into [Mythos], just like how there are legends of me instead of reports. To Zaanam I desded to this world as a minor deity and started blessing girls with Magic. Hubby asded as a lod deity and spread powers to everyone."

  ...Papa did look like the average y indeed. And Mother did have that vibe of an evil spirit, so Elizabeth didn't see anything wrong with that interpretation.

  *Bonk*

  "Ouch," Elizabeth somehow was uo dodge the chop to the head from Mother, even with her stats, buffs to perception, trol over Space. Her Mother's fist somehow mao pierce all of that. "That was uncalled for."

  Of course it wasn't and Elizabeth k.

  "Yeah right, As a Mom I reserve the right to bonk any cheeky girl I birthed...And those that I didn't," Mother said while humphing, she could be so childish sometimes...

  Elizabeth missed that.

  "So going back to the main topic, hubby here is what we call a talented freak of nature genius with broken powers," Mother said pointing at Papa.

  "I worke-" Papa started defending himself of course, and Elizabeth was sure he was right.

  "Nope, no. It does not t," Mother, however, interrupted both Elizabeth and Papa's defense, "Hubby, how long did it take you to disassemble and reassemble your first rifle in the army?"

  "...Arouo fifteen seds. Why?" Papa answered, Elizabeth knew not if that was fast or not, but if Papa did it, it ought to be at least fast enough.

  "I see; for those that know nothing about it, what is the bare minimum time that is allowed for a soldier to field strip or disassemble their on?" Mother asked .

  "We are given two minutes and thirty seds to disassemble, awo and half mio test it up to standard..." Papa answered, "That is because we are usually asked to do this after training, so we are tired and covered in grime, making it harder; most people field strip their on in seds; that is normal."

  For a sed Elizabeth had thought that Papa would burn away his excuse!

  "And this was the very first time you disassembled your on? Were you doing it after training? Was the on funal after you did that?" Mother asked .

  "...It was after a day of training...and it was ihe first time I had field striped...hmm...Am I a Genius?" Papa asked o everyone around.

  "...That does sound like a genius...sir." Rossie said from the side, "Nothing wrong with being a genius, Eli-Eli is also one."

  "Any warrior worth their weight in gold should be able to instinctually know how to give mainteo their ons; I also don't see anything wrong with that." Rena added to the defense of Papa.

  This was why Elizabeth loved both girls.

  "Now, this was BEFORE he got his powers. What do you think his Power was? ht, lemme just....Eli-Eli already knows, but her waifus don't so...Tei," Mother pulled a couple strands of her hair and threw them at Rena, Rossie and Agatha...She hadn't dohat to Agatha yet?

  Either way, the two adorable(and hot/sexy) girls eyes shone in golden light...and Agatha also did the thing too or something.

  "...wow." Rossie said, nursing the side of her head; Elizabeth wao give her a little smooch to pave over the pain.

  "...Enharength and durability, so...Iructible body?" Rena asked, Elizabeth could see why someone would say that, since Papa rarely got hurt, his muscles were Rock Hard after all. There was a reason why the ideal man to Elizabeth was the buffed one...

  "That is the obvious ahe fact that Mother-In-Law asked is because that isn't his inal [Skill], so..." Rossie said thinking while pouting cutely, "I'll say momentum preservation or full trol over kiiergy."

  That was...one weird ass way to interpret Papa's Power.

  "Probably a domain type, ohat allowed to impose his will over a certain area around his body," Agatha said from the side, "That is the only ohat could expin how someohat isn't...Catherine.....mao achieve apotheosis."

  Elizabeth hat was ohat actually made sense, even if it couldn't be more wrong.

  "Nope," Mother said with a smile on her face, "His Power is adaptation. Expin your power hubby, not that it matters anymore. Or would matter before."

  Papa sighed and shook his head, "My power is Hyperion Enha," Papa said, the words thrumming with Power as the symbol of a DNA spiral helix shone on his chest, "It allowed me to train and evolve against all odds."

  And he didn't say anything else.

  "In a nutshell, if you shoot hubby with a bullet he will get wound, but the sed bullet will do less damage, and the third even less...Shot him enough times aually the bullets will stop hurting him." Mother said summoning images of Papa getting shot by bullets during the war, "The war was quite good on him, his skill let him bee resistant to most type of wounds, bleeding out, disease, toxins and explosions. It made his muscles rip and regee almost daily..."

  "And each time he became better for it, each time his muscles destroyed with excercise his body became more effit, after a point his strenght limit dissapeared since his skill allowed him to get better at it..." Rossie said as she processed Papa's skill, "So his skill enhanced how he attairength, but unlike everyone else. His skill also allowed his body to withstand the increased strength... Allowed his body to mahis Power uplifting all that was him... So when Magic came into the world."

  "I was able to harness Mana to increase the effiy skill. What was inally graded as K-Tier skill became F-Tier, then E...D...C....B...A...And finally S-Tier." Papa Rossie's uanding, "Anything that is thrown at me, if I survive it, I evolve past it. Mind manipution is meanio me, so are most Magid now that we asded to divinity..."

  ....Yeah, that sounded like Papa; he was already w on making himself immuo divinity. Wonder what form would that take.

  "But I still o work myself to the bone, I still o work for this Power. I 't grow in Power waiting or asking for Power from others if I want to be immuo divine fire. I o be subject to Divine Fire." Papa said shaking his head and turning to Mother, "Uhe magic casters who jure what they want from thin air. Unlike Lucia who made tracts with the fake gods we allowed to remain on this pne."

  "ht, we should probably focus more ohan in us huh...So much Meandery." Mother said, dismissing all the other images and videos that had been piling up. "Lucia De'Medicci, [The Prophet] she is a holy caster and ohat made a tract with a group of pseudo deities that we allowed to survive on Zaanam since Holy Type casters do heir power to e from Prana."

  "And not because you wanted cute girls wearing nun magical girl-type dresses," Elizabeth said from the side.

  "I give you a list of tailors that make your pink waifu to look sexy, cute, hot and like a sin all at once." Mother said in a serious tone.

  "I am sorry for any bad thing I ever said about you, you are the best Mother any girl could hope to have." Elizabeth said falling to her knees and pnting her head against the floor in front of Mother as a sign of apology.

  Pride? Ego? Who cares about those things. Sexy, hot, cute and sinful Rossie nun? YES.