Van's eyes widened, raising his head to the familiar woman with green eyes.
"Evelyn?"
That was really her.
Forgetting the carrot in his hand, he started to question if he wasn't dreaming.
"What are you doing here?"
Evelyn shrugged.
"I grew that carrot myself, so it's fresh."
She was growing vegetables even in this world?
Pushing the information aside, Van rubbed his temples.
"…How long have you been in this world?"
***
His spiritual intuition triggered, Gehrman turned his head and saw a woman appear, focused on scribbling notes on the notebook in her hand.
…Gehrman did a double check.
Feeling someone's gaze, Fors lazily raised her head and flinched.
She cursed the Law of Beyonder Characteristics for making her meet him. No, she was searching for The World in the first place, so maybe it was a good thing.
She saw him glance down at what she was writing and hurriedly closed her notebook.
'If he finds out I was writing a forbidden love story of him and Amon having a secret child, he's going to kill me!'
Said secret child was cutely holding onto that madman's sleeve while staring at her shyly.
…Is that Gehrman's secret child she heard about earlier?
"Miss Magician?"
Fors Wall's pupils shook, frozen.
"Ahjussi knows her?" Shin Yoosoung questioned her.
An acquaintance of Gehrman from before the scenarios? This was the first time they encountered someone who knew him.
Were they friends?
But she seemed… terrified?
Did ahjussi do something wrong to her?
Klein ignored Fors's usual frightened state and questioned her, "How did you come here?"
Fors cleared her throat.
"A-as someone with a pathway adjacent to yours, I had a connection to cross over to this world."
Was it because she was from the Apprentice Pathway that her crimson star had seemed different from the others? Because she was closer to Sefirah Castle than other members?
Fors regained her composure, "I can't explain the exact details, but Mr. Fool's mirror led me to these coordinates."
Arrodes?
"Did any other Tarot Club member come?"
Fors immediately answered.
"No."
She seemed oddly sure about it.
Fors tensed up under his gaze, wondering if he would suddenly have the whim to turn her into Beyonder Characteristics.
No, she was also the Fool's believer, and it wouldn't bring him money, so he wouldn't… right?
Trying to distract the madman from her, Fors glanced toward the child next to him.
"And this is…?"
Klein sighed.
"Shin Yoosoung."
Fors nodded.
"…Shin Yoosoung, I am Fors Wall. Nice to meet you."
Not having a death wish, she didn't dare to ask if Shin Yoosoung was really his secret child.
Fors cleared her throat.
"Mr. Wor- Gehrman, I was sent to assist you."
Klein raised an eyebrow.
'Are you sure? Because you seemed to want to run away just now,' he lampooned.
And 'sent' by whom? The other Tarot Club members?
Feeling his gaze, Fors suddenly regretted all of her life choices.
***
The day to face Olympus soon came.
Cheon Inho took the lead.
"As agreed before, we will lunch a preemptive strike on Olympus before the scenario starts. Is everyone ready?"
"The Blood Demon is not here."
"It can't be helped. We'll have to start without him."
Han Sooyoung cut him off, a frown on her face.
"Why would you be the one to lead the operation?"
"Because I was ranked higher in the Seoul rankings."
Cheon Inho, the 'Evil Sophist', was in second place.
In sixth place in Seoul Dome was 'Prophet Anna Croft'.
And in seventh place was 'Black Flames Empress Han Sooyoung'.
Technically, Lenoch was ranked higher, but he was currently disguised as Victor so he couldn't say so.
Han Sooyoung clicked her tongue.
"We're not all from Seoul here."
Did she really have to raise the issue right before they were about to start?
Before other incarnations joined the debate, Anna Croft intervened.
"Focus, we're starting."
Cheon Inho called the dokkaebi in charge and told it to turn on the channel.
After all, they couldn't discuss their plan with the ones they intended to attack watching, right?
"Depending on the situation, I'll leave it up to your respective judgements."
The moment the channel was turned on, Anna Croft's eyes glowed.
"Kim Anna?"
Anna Croft turned toward the others, alarmed.
"The Blood Demon betrayed us!"
[The nebula, 'Olympus', descends.]
Aware of their plan, constellations from Olympus descended onto the battlefield earlier than expected.
[The Administrative Bureau…]
Cheon Inho remained calm.
"Change of plans."
Han Sooyoung activated her skill.
[Exclusive skill, 'Predictive Plagiarism Lv.5', is activated.]
Many simulations ran through her head.
[Simulation #1: failure.]
[Simulation #2: failure.]
[Simulation #3: failure.]
[Simulation #307: success.]
Moreover, they also had someone from Olympus on their side.
[The constellation, 'God of Wine and Ectasy', looks at you.]
'This is a mess,' Lenoch thought.
But he was used to things not going according to plan.
Beside him, Evelyn readied an arrow toward the sky and fired.
[The constellation, 'Troy's Sorrow', descends.]
"Fortunately, it's not one of the 12 main gods right from the start…" Cheon Inho sighed.
"Don't jinx things!"
[The constellation, 'Spokesman of Justice and Wisdom', descends.]
The constellation's aura pressed down on them, announcing its status. It made it hard to breathe.
One of the 12 main gods.
Some started to have doubts.
'Can we really win against this?'
"…"
Han Sooyoung glared at the Evil Sophist.
In response, Cheon Inho shamelessly shrugged.
"It's a coincidence. They would have appeared regardless."
"Stop using your 'Incite' skill on me."
Wasn't he using 'Incite' right now to convince her because he didn't believe it himself?
From the constellation names, Lenoch deduced that it must be Achilles and Athena.
'Olympus' was a nebula that contained the constellations associated with The Twelve Olympians in Greek mythology.
Surprisingly, the '10 Evils' stood their grounds against the constellations.
As expected of the ones judged to be the strongest trash- incarnations around.
Victor stared at the scene, his arms crossed.
He evaded a spear thrown toward him and thought.
'If I catch an Olympus executive here, maybe they can tell me what I wish to know.'
He needed to interrogate them, so he should keep them alive, right?
Manipulating magic threads, he sent back the spear at full speed.
Meanwhile, worthy of her title 'Black Flames Empress', Han Sooyoung fired black flames.
Then, she unwrapped the bandage on her arm and spouted some chuuni things to increase her sponsor synchronization, making the black flames' power stronger.
"…"
Athena raised her shield, effortlessly blocking it.
[An incarnation of that immature brat?]
The mantra resonated in their ears.
[The constellation, 'Abyssal Black Flame Dragon', retorts that he is not immature!]
Cheon Inho incited himself.
「I am Yoo Joonghyuk.」
The skills of the person in question were embodied.
Then, he raised his sword, occasionally provoking and destabilizing people through words.
He somehow managed to turn a constellation to their side and make them fight for them at one point.
However, more constellations descended.
[The constellation, 'Poked Out His Eyes', descends.]
King Oedipus.
"…This is endless."
At least, there didn't seem to be any more of the 12 main gods coming.
Han Sooyoung separated more avatars, recovering the ones that died, and activated Predictive Plagiarism again.
At the same time, she was dumbfounded.
"Tell us honestly, Cheon Inho, what did you do to Olympus for them to try so hard to kill you?"
It was rare for a giant nebula to send down so many of their members at this point.
Even if they were weakened, they must have paid an enormous amount of probability to be able to come here.
[The scales of balance tilt.]
Han Sooyoung closed her mouth.
Was the Great Hall about to open?
Instead of the Great Hall, another giant nebula came down to the battlefield to face Olympus, but also seemed hostile to them.
"…What did you do?"
"Why do you assume that the nebula's target is necessarily me?"
"Then is it not?"
"…"
[Kill the Evil Sophist!]
Han Sooyoung crossed her arms.
"Hey guys, let's just give them Cheon Inho as a show of peace."
"…"
"Your sacrifice will be remembered."
In the end, they did not sacrifice Cheon Inho.