Crossover: The Problematic Human of Arcadia — Shaper of Anime Worlds Chapter 210: The Truth Revealed

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Just as Ryo was starting to panic, Hers was panicking too.

One glance at Perseus, lying with only his head on the sofa, and he imdiately saw through it—Perseus's body was dead.

His eyes shifted to Aishelia, perfectly fine. Then to Ryo.

In that instant, Hers pieced together the scene: Aishelia must have been forced by her elders, dragged in Ryo as outside help, and together they flattened Perseus.

Big trouble. Exactly how big, he didn't know yet.

Hers flicked his wrist casually.

Laius —the boy he'd been using as a navigation puppet—instinctively turned and started walking back toward the cells.

Hers had been posing as Laius's friend, all to secretly visit Perseus without the other gods catching wind. Athena had been the one to suggest this cover so he could et Aishelia in secret.

Now that Laius had served his purpose, Hers discarded him without a second thought.

That wasn't the priority anymore. What mattered was: just how bad had things gotten?

He cleared his throat, putting on his best concerned face.

"What on earth happened here? How did family end up brawling like this?"

'How do you know we were fighting each other and not soone else?' Ryo cursed silently but didn't speak. Instead, he cast Aishelia a look.

Aishelia, who had been stunned, quickly caught on and said, "My deepest apologies, Lord Hers. Because of so… disagreents, my ancestor and I clashed a little. But it's been resolved."

"Resolved?" Hers pressed.

Aishelia nodded quickly. "I've already signed a treaty of cooperation with him—"

"I get it, no need to say more."

Hers's face twisted like he'd just swallowed a lemon.

"Just tell one thing. Did you sign that treaty under the center of Little Garden's witness system?"

Aishelia froze, then nodded stiffly.

Hers slapped his forehead, teeth chattering. "Dead, I'm dead, I'm so dead!"

He began pacing back and forth in frantic circles.

"Does anyone else know? Any other gods? If not, I can try to suppress the treaty for now—"

Ryo and Aishelia exchanged awkward looks.

Hers felt his heart sink. "…Who knows? Which pantheon?"

Aishelia clenched her teeth, not daring to et Ryo's eyes. "…Lady Shiroyasha."

Hers's legs nearly buckled. He staggered backward a few steps, face pale.

"Of all people… why did it have to be her?"

"I am truly sorry."

Aishelia dropped to one knee, her tone sincere. "All responsibility lies with . I will bear it alone."

"Bear it?" Hers gave a pained laugh, his expression twisted.

"Whether you bear it or not doesn't matter. Athena is gonna skin alive. Can you get skinned on my behalf? No? Then don't talk nonsense!"

Aishelia flushed with embarrassnt, but facing one of Olympus's Twelve Main Gods—Hers Trisgistus—she didn't dare talk back.

Even if this was only one of his incarnations, he was still a three-digit god. Way out of her league.

Suddenly, Hers moved.

In a flash he was right in front of Aishelia, shoving a roll of golden parchnt into her hands like he'd just passed her a live grenade.

"Listen carefully, Knight Aishelia. This scroll—I gave it to you before Perseus ever arrived. Understand?"

Aishelia blinked in shock, dumbly holding the scroll. "This…"

"No excuses. You must insist on this before Athena. Even if she sees through it, keep insisting. Every second you stall matters. I'm begging you."

And with that, Hers disintegrated into ash right there in the hall.

"He… killed himself?" Aishelia whispered, dumbstruck.

Ryo's mouth twitched hard.

The two stood in silence for a long mont before Ryo finally said, softly, "Forget the rest. Open the scroll."

Aishelia looked down at the golden parchnt in her hands, gritted her teeth, and slowly unrolled it.

Ryo leaned over her shoulder, reading. The more he read, the stiffer his expression beca.

The scroll began in Athena's voice.

She reminisced about training Aishelia, praised her courage and wisdom, and then stated she wanted to entrust Aishelia with a great mission.

Ryo instantly recognized the type of mission. Back in Demon Slayer, he'd pulled sothing similar. He'd even been planning another round in Strike the Blood.

Athena's order: send Aishelia to an unobserved world, pull it under Little Garden's observation, and in doing so, weaken Christianity's faith advantage.

But that wasn't all.

The scroll made it clear this was not just Athena's will. The decision ca jointly from Zeus, Hades, Poseidon, Hera, Hestia, and Athena herself.

Even Hers hadn't been told the details—he was just the ssenger boy, kept in the dark to prevent leaks.

Half of the Twelve Olympians had created chaos in the upper layers of Little Garden specifically to cover Aishelia's infiltration of this other world.

Given the importance of the mission, Athena instructed Aishelia to fake being gravely injured by Perseus and Laius's scheming, then flee. That way, no one would suspect she was on a covert assignnt.

The scroll even listed various thods to evade divine surveillance.

At the end, Athena offered words of comfort—and then dropped a bombshell.

If the mission succeeded, Aishelia would be guaranteed a seat as one of the Twelve Gods in the fourth generation.

The promise bore the signatures of three god-kings and three gods, proof that it was binding.

"…"

When they finished reading, both Ryo and Aishelia looked like they wanted to curse but didn't know where to start.

Ryo broke first, snarling, "Why the hell is this intel only reaching us now?"

If it had arrived on ti, none of this would have happened. Aishelia would be fine, Laius wouldn't be dragged in, and Ryo wouldn't have gotten sucked into the ss. Instead, Aishelia would've scored big—her own seat among the Twelve Main Gods.

Aishelia's lips twitched as she took a deep breath.

"…Hers. This is Hers's fault."

She didn't even bother with honorifics anymore. That bastard Hers wasn't worthy.

Ryo's face darkened.

If Hers hadn't already bolted, he'd be tempted to really burn his cosmos and punch the idiot into the dirt.

What kind of god screws up delivering classified intel this badly? This was supposed to arrive before Perseus even showed up!

Where the hell had that dumb courier been wandering?

"…What now?" Aishelia asked, her face pained.

Athena's mission was already a bust. Worse, both she and Ryo would be on Athena's blacklist now.

What had they done to deserve this?

"Huh…" Ryo's face twisted. He reached into his coat and pulled out a gift card.

On it, a single ssage from Shiroyasha: {Co to Gate 3345. Athena has arrived.}

"…"

Ryo's face turned into a storm of mixed emotions.

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