When Line reached her room with dusa, she was still very out of it. As much as she wanted answers to their and her own questions running nonstop through her mind, she couldn't even fathom where to start.
"We're here."
If not for dusa reminding her she wouldn't have realized that she had been standing blankly in front of her door. Realizing her mistake, she imdiately faced dusa and started bowing repeatedly, "I'm sorry! I'm very sorry!"
dusa's deep and soothing voice, however, instantly gave her a huge sigh of relief, "It's fine. It's not sothing to apologize for."
But as soon as she straightened her body, she noticed a tray containing a tea set for two people and a plate of sweet baked snacks on her hand, "T-that is? You didn't have anything in your hands when we left the conference room, did you?", asked Line with a start. She knew for sure that dusa doesn't really like taking out food from her inventory if she could prepare it properly. She heard it as one of the passing subjects when they had downti and talked among themselves.
"Oh, this? I made a quick detour to the kitchen while we're on our way. By the way, do you mind if I co in?"
"Ah... Oh, yes, please!" replied Line while opening the door and thinking, 'So this is how a professional maid works? She managed to separate from without even realizing it. Incredible...'
The fact that she was too out of it to notice didn't even occur to her.
As Line arranged the seats and dusa placed down the tray and prepared the tea, the forr thought that she's here to convince her. But to convince her whether to accept the forbidden fruit of knowledge or reject it, Line doesn't have any idea.
Both of them sat down quietly and dusa offered her a cup of tea, "Please take this. It'll help you calm your nerves."
"T-thank you."
However, that's it. The two of them just silently sat there and drank tea and ate snacks. Line indeed was able to calm her nerves after the first cup of tea, but on the third one, she started getting nervous from the silence and could only stare at this beautiful maid that has a grace that doesn't fit her attire, '...Now that I had a good look at her, she's more like a princess than a maid. And I almost forgot that she's kind of a Goddess from everyone's hotown... Though I still can't wrap my head around that. As far as I know, I think she ntioned that she's not trying to hide her aura so I wonder how different she is from the Goddesses I know.'
So ti ago, it was revealed that dusa was a Goddess. Although she couldn't understand what they were talking about nor the reason why she was allowed to listen in on such a conversation, the main takeaway she got from that was that dusa was different from the usual Deities that she knew.
With a quick peek at her, on the other hand, dusa was able to make sure that she was able to finally take her mind from the earlier conversation. Although she planned to bring it back up again, it was already a good start that she was able to clear her mind with so other things.
The sound of the cup hitting the coaster beca the signal for dusa to start, "I won't talk about other things so I'll go straight to the point. What do you think?"
Even without clarifying it, Line knew what she's asking about. Her curious expression imdiately beca sullen as she also put down her cup, "...What do I think? I honestly don't know... I don't even know what to think of the situation."
"That's understandable. They were just talking about Master at the start yet it suddenly beca you 'betraying' the world with what you want to learn."
As Line gave her a stare full of suspicion, dusa imdiately guessed what's on her mind, "Don't get wrong. I'm not here to convince you. I'm just going to be here to answer your questions and help you clarify so things. If you want to hear my opinion, I could also share that."
dusa doesn't know what Sona was expecting when she asked her to accompany her. However, she's sure that Sona knew that she'll follow Kisuke's example of not convincing anyone and just giving them their choices in various scenarios, 'I'm not sure why she wanted to do this, but I'll do my best.'
Of course, Line also recognized this as Kisuke would often help her with her studies this way. If she was lost, he would give so options based on the current situation, would explain how it ca to be, and would teach her how to watch out for such things, 'Although it has been a while since he gave bits of advice because I already learned how to decide for myself. There have been so mistakes, yes, but as Kisuke has said, it's an important part of learning and growing.'
Now that she has an idea of what their private talk entailed, Line imdiately asked the first thing that ca to her mind, "Is fighting a God or Goddess possible?"
dusa was taken aback and her purple eyes behind the Mystic-Eyes-Suppression glasses widened as she was not expecting that as the first thing that she would ask, "Why this question?"
"Because you talk like you're prepared to go to war with the Deities.", replied Line with resolute eyes.
dusa beca silent and contemplated how to answer her question.
After a minute or two of patiently waiting, Line finally got a reply, "Because Master is fully capable of taking down one or two of them in a frontal battle."
It was Line's turn to be surprised and exclaid, "He can!? He's that powerful!?"
dusa raised her hand to signal her to sit back down and said, "It seems that you're misunderstanding sothing."
Line obediently sat down and asked, "What is it?"
"You've already seen how Master and Serafall-san fought."
"B-but that's..." It's indeed a very impressive display of strength that they never thought possible, but...
"I'm sorry to break it to you, but the Deities that you thought are omnipotent are also only around that level. Loki-sama might not have admitted it, but if you were to ask her, I think she'll tell you the truth."
dusa watched her trying to comprehend her words, however, she did understand where her suspicion was coming from. From the ti when the first Deity ca down to the Lower World, they've always presented themselves to be the overseer of the mortals and that they governed every aspect of their lives.
Even with the birth of Magic along with their arrival, no one could imagine what kind of power was needed to control life and death. As such, they beca an omnipotent and unconquerable existence in every mortal's mind, so even when Line and the rest of the girls from the Loki Familia saw the unbelievable battle, they couldn't have thought that it was already at the level of the Deities.
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