"What am I saying? Oh, it's just this. Of course, this isn't a problem at all..." Ishtar nodded repeatedly. She could certainly keep this secret. In fact, she also understood why this spirit had to disguise itself and hide away. So, it wasn't just the Gods saying goodbye to humanity?
Even the Fantasy Species and non-human races seed to be retreating to the inner side of the world shortly, leaving the stage on the planet's surface entirely to humans.
"Thank you, Lady Ishtar..." Akai Hinako gently breathed out as she expressed her thanks politely but sowhat distantly.
"You're welco, you're welco! If there's nothing else, shall we head back now?" Lady Goddess said carefree and nonchalantly, her eyes shining brightly, as if she were rubbing her hands with excitent. "I've fulfilled the contract; now I need to urge that guy to get to Uruk quickly."
Involving such a massive fortune and what was promised, Lady Goddess was now full of energy, practically glowing with enthusiasm.
Akai Hinako simply pressed her lips together, glanced at the two garish lucky cat statues beside the Divine Hall, and wisely chose not to say anything.
However—
When the two returned to the valley, they found that soone had coincidentally gone out and hadn't returned yet.
Ishtar's heart instantly burst with joy as she naturally assud that guy had gone to fulfill the agreent, heading to Uruk to persuade that annoying Gilgash to open the Treasure Vault's doors, preparing to tribute two-tenths of the minerals within to her, so happy that she spun around in place.
The literature-major girl, however, keenly noticed that her Summoning Array was gone. But she didn't think too much of it, just assuming it had been cleared away.
......
...
"...How should I address you? Should I just call you Tamamo no Mae?"
Gu Mo furrowed his brows, scrutinizing the pink-haired, golden-eyed fox-eared girl before him. Her pink long hair was tied in a large ribbon behind her head, and she wore a witch's robe predominantly in blue, not the classic white and red hakama style, and even wore blue over-knee socks.
It was exactly the figure of Tamamo no Mae, appearing in the Caster class, as he rembered.
"Caster, Little Tama, or even Sweetheart, it's all fine with ~" the fox-eared girl said with a bright smile, her hands behind her back, and three large fox tails swaying behind her, kicking at stones on the ground as she spoke, seemingly very happy.
"Then Caster it is. We're not that familiar yet." Gu Mo nodded calmly.
"Ah, why so? Shouldn't it be one of the latter two? That title is too formal..." The fox-eared girl looked sowhat deflated, her ears and tail drooping a bit dispiritedly.
Is it just her disposition?
Or is it also influenced by my Guardian Spirit?
After all, strictly speaking, her other half is my Guardian Spirit now, so she feels very close to ?
Thoughts flashed like lightning through Gu Mo's mind, but his face remained impassive. This was all a bit unexpected, and he certainly couldn't accept it calmly. So he was sowhat approaching it with a scrutinizing gaze and mindset... Fortuitously, he could still feel a connection akin to that of a Guardian Spirit.
His gaze lingered on the fox-eared girl, pondering over sothing unknown.
The fox-eared girl suddenly perked up, puffing out her chest proudly: "Ah! Master is so enthusiastic! But there's no helping it. My top-notch cute figure, absolutely nothing to be ashad of, weighing 49 kilograms, asurents are..."
"No, no, I'm not concerned about that... I'm just a bit curious as to why there are only three tails?" Gu Mo tugged at his lips, decisively pointing this out and voicing his queries.
Though he knew the Caster Tamamo no Mae of this world would, even with her Spirit Base at its limit, only appear as a three-tailed form within a normal Servant's limits.
However, his Guardian Spirit was a Nine-tailed after all...
Thus, since it was ford on the basis of his Guardian Spirit, combined with the intelligence on Tamamo no Mae, and resulting in such a strange outco, even though intellect, personality, and wisdom were all of Tamamo no Mae, he could understand this part. But why was the number of tails still reduced?
Could it be that the world's Nine-tailed Fox was too overpowered, so it could only shrink like this... he speculated.
"Because I sealed away the other extra tails myself..." The fox-eared girl seed to take another blow, speaking expressionlessly, "I reflected on my past misdeeds and voluntarily severed my tails. I'm a kind Fox Elf aiming to beco a good wife!"
Saying this, she breathed a long sigh and looked at the young man before her with a peculiar glance, slightly curling the corners of her lips upward:
"Speaking of which, I was also quite startled. The Spirit Base Master provided already had nine tails from the outset. That's a very dangerous thing..."
"Ultimately, it's a different essence, how could it be so dangerous..." Gu Mo furrowed his brows slightly. The Guardian Spirit Nine-tailed and this world's Nine-tailed were completely different entities, right?
"No, no, no, Master, you're sorely mistaken if you think that way. In the realm of Mystery, symbols and connections are often more terrifying than the actual anings..." the fox-eared girl said seriously, "Beyond three tails, Little Tama would get corrupted, but don't worry, I'll always stand by and support you..."
Gu Mo gently furrowed his brow. So, if it was said like this, could it be truly dangerous?
It seed he rembered that if Tamamo no Mae's Nine-tails were fully unleashed, she would declare herself as the Evil of Humanity, possibly even becoming a Beast... Thinking of this, the corners of his eyes twitched sharply.
If that were the case, perhaps the Counter Force wasn't just investing in him but also to prevent a more malicious Evil of Humanity from appearing?
If he were completely unaware and, in this world, finally transford into a Nine-tailed Demon Fox using a completely demonized form to combat Tiamat... By that ti, perhaps as a monster from another universe, would he instead make this world even more despairing?
"Looks like you understand, Master, but please rest assured, I am determined to beco a good wife and a good kid. I won't do such things..."
The fox-eared girl cutely blinked at him.
"From now on, leave everything to . As long as you devote yourself to , whatever you wish to do..."
"Ah, let's skip that, thank you..." Gu Mo coughed lightly, interrupting the fox-eared girl's self-praise and grand assurances. "Let's just keep things as they are now; I'm the Master, you're the Servant, and let's maintain that relationship."
"Why!" Tamamo no Mae seed quite disgruntled.
"Well, because I have a preference for long black hair, and you have pink hair..." Gu Mo glanced at her hair and refused her suggestion slyly.
Indeed, for soone who has a thing for long black straight hair, how could pink hair ever take precedence? Impossible, absolutely impossible.
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