While Jibril was mocking Azrael, Sora and Shiro looked at Xiao Qiangwei for his answer, who unhesitantly replied.
Xiao Qiangwei: No.
Azrael raised her personal freedom as a condition, but even if they would get her, they wouldn't acquire the Flugel race, and Xiao Qiangwei didn't want to live with another disappointment, Jibril was already enough, even if she gotten much better than the first time.
But Azrael didn't looked as if she would give up.
Azrael: Eh… Jii-chan's naked body…
Xiao Qiangwei: 'I wonder how will she react when she finds out that we slept for 2 weeks…' Whatever, I will go meditate for now.
Sora: Then we will browse the books here.
Sora and Shiro disappeared in the piles of books, while Xiao Qiangwei stood somewhere nearby and meditated.
Meanwhile Jibril and Azrael watched them leaving and started to talk.
Azrael: Mm… I wanted to use myself as bait to get Jii-chan, could it be that the bait was too big, nyan?
Jibril: ...You really haven't changed, Azrael.
Azrael: Jii-chan can even talk back to people such as me and Artosh-sama, so it's impossible that you would serve under mere Imanity, even though he is incredibly strong, nyan.
As long as it's by the pledges, sealing one's intentions or making one a puppet should be easy, nyan. Anyway he must have won by pure luck, so you're being forced to follow them, right, nyan? To be honest… Jii-chan has changed.
Jibril: Yes, I have changed… Whereas you can't.
Azrael: …
Jibril: As for how I was defeated in that challenge, you have nothing to say… My expectations were all for nothing… The reason why I defied my late Master(AN: Artosh) and you, is because… I just can't take your personalities anymore… Too stubborn, so…
Which is why we lost, and until now… You still won't change.
Hearing those words, Azrael's smile completely vanished. It was like she became a cold puppet… No, it was a completely different existence with Azrael's appearance, and it spoke.
???: Final Unit, hast thou discovered the Answer?
Jibril looked at that existence with a gaze of pure hate, and she spoke to it, almost spitting her words.
Jibril: Yes, or more correctly, I found it long ago, it's just that I didn't have concrete evidence.
Then Jibril turned away, leaving behind the silent existence.
???: …
Azriel: ...What do you think, nyan?
???: You had to ask.
Azriel: ...Yes, nyan, but what if you're wrong?
???: You don't have to ask, you know already.
Azriel: ...That's right, nyan…
???: First Unit, I completely trust your decision, not just me, but everyone else.
Azriel: I know, nyan…
She was replying… To the will of the Phantasma, Avant Heim, residing within her, Azrael merely looked at the guests that came here, gazing for some more seconds to the anomaly in the library, who was absorbing the Elementals around the place at a really fast speed, and converting them to a mysterious energy.
Meanwhile, Sora and Shiro were searching through books, half-hour passed.
Sora: ...No, we won't make it at this rate. Shiro, how many languages of this world have you learnt?
Shiro: ...Only… The Imanity, Werebeast and Elven languages…
Sora: *Sigh* Jibril, which languages are these?
Jibril: It's the Dwarven and Demon languages, I can vaguely understand them…
Sora: ...Jibril.
Jibril: Yes.
Sora: There's no time, if we take too long, Ino's life will be in danger. Even if we have a lifeline, if the Seirens think we're genuinely running away, we'll be in big trouble… Can't you get some help?
Jibril: Hmm… I can get help, but I fear it may not be what you're expecting.
Sora: There's no other way, so let's do what she wants since we don't have the time to just sit here, Qiangwei!
Xiao Qiangwei replied from far away.
Xiao Qiangwei: Yes?
Sora: Can you come with us?
Xiao Qiangwei: No problem!
Then in an instant, he appeared near Sora and Shiro, and then the siblings, him, and Jibril walked towards the place where Azrael stood, and called her.
Xiao Qiangwei: Hey, Azra...el?
He and the siblings froze momentarily, Azrael was buried in a kotatsu-like thing, with her head covered within a blanket, staring at a projector that had only static on it.
Azrael: ...What is it, nyan…? What is it so important that you have to bother someone useless like me, nyan?
Xiao Qiangwei: ...Ah...Um, you know about the hibernating Empress of the Seirens, right?
Azrael: Nyaaaaa… That idiot that was influenced by fairy tales and pushed two races including herself to the brink of extinction in the span of a single generation, leaving even the shellfish speechless? Everyone knows, nyan…
Xiao Qiangwei: Yes, that's her, we're looking for the records of the conditions she set before starting her game.
Azrael: ...If that's you want, Jii-chan knows as well, nyan! It's "She will continue hibernating as long as she hasn't fallen in love", nyan.
XIao Qiangwei: Yes, but… That's fake.
Hearing this, Azrael's eyes lit up with a sharp glint as though forgetting her previous depressed act.
Azrael: Oh! Is that why everyone lost, nyan? So what's the actual conditions, nyan?
Xiao Qiangwei: That's what we want to know, we are looking for all available records of people that have carried out games with her, and the exact words the players were told for comparison.
Azrael: Oh… About that, if you're looking for records, they're placed in a certain somewhere, look for it yourself and I'll inform you again if you have a definitive goal.
Xiao Qiangwei: Even if I use my Immortal Senses I need at least 1 day to check the entire place, time that we don't have, so where are all the related records?
Azrael: I don't know at all, nyan! Ahahahahaha… Because of the Equality Law, nyan. After lending those books out countless times, even I don't know where they are, nyan…
Jibril: Do you understand now? His Highness, this is exactly why I left my hometown.
Xiao Qiangwei: ...Since you all live to collect books, you should at least keep them properly…
Azrael: Hmm? That's wrong, yan, our aim is to collect Knowledge, books are actually nothing to us, nyan, I even think that as long as we can memorize the contents of the books, throwing them away is fine as well;
but since the people who haven't read them would be angry, we didn't do that, nyan…
Xiao Qiangwei facepalmed in exasperation, and Jibril, who looked as if she was ready to strike at any moment, said.
Jibril: Do you understand now? His Highness, this is exactly it! The reason why I left my hometown.
Xiao Qiangwei: So, what should I do?
Azrael: Hmm.. Just let the people that are in charge of the books' locations to search for them! There are some others that are just as close-minded as Jii-chan, so as long as they're willing to, you should be able to get all of them, nyan…
Xiao Qiangwei: Mm, so I'll leave it to-
Azrael: I'm not in the mood, nyan… I can allow my cute imouto's toys to wander about everywhere, but I have no obligation to take care of you all. I have no value in being your companion, and even Jii-chan called me an idiot, so I'm very depressed now, nyan…
I'm very hurt, nyan. So I don't want to do anything, nyan…
Xiao Qiangwei: Even if we show you videos of Jibril in the shower?
Azrael: ...…...No.
Xiao Qiangwei: If you agree now, I'll order her to call you Nee-san from now on.
Azrael: .......N….No deal.
Azrael replied while sweating furiously, as though she was engaging in a mortal combat with something.
Azrael: I-I'm very… Hurt now, nyan… Something like that… Ah, no, I'm not dismissing Jii-chan as something beneath me, nyan! It's just that I'm too hurt, so I need something more than that… Um, you should know… What I mean, right?
Xiao Qiangwei grumbled silently, it meant that he would need to play a game with her.
Xiao Qiangwei: Whatever, I'll accept.
Azrael: Kill and plunder for the things that you desire, for that is the tantamount to the decree of heaven, nyan! You will play a game together with Jii-chan's friends that you're looking for, then you can ask for their help.
She snapped her fingers, and in an instant, everyone present was teleported with a force that even Jibril and Xiao Qiangwei couldn't resist. And what they saw after the scenery had changed was… A long banner with the words "Higher Heaven's Paragon Autograph and Handshake Fan Meeting" written on it, with countless Flugels setting up the place.
Xiao Qiangwei: ...What the fuck?
While Jibril was mocking Azrael, Sora and Shiro looked at Xiao Qiangwei for his answer, who unhesitantly replied.
Xiao Qiangwei: No.
Azrael raised her personal freedom as a condition, but even if they would get her, they wouldn't acquire the Flugel race, and Xiao Qiangwei didn't want to live with another disappointment, Jibril was already enough, even if she gotten much better than the first time.
But Azrael didn't looked as if she would give up.
Azrael: Eh… Jii-chan's naked body…
Xiao Qiangwei: 'I wonder how will she react when she finds out that we slept for 2 weeks…' Whatever, I will go meditate for now.
Sora: Then we will browse the books here.
Sora and Shiro disappeared in the piles of books, while Xiao Qiangwei stood somewhere nearby and meditated.
Meanwhile Jibril and Azrael watched them leaving and started to talk.
Azrael: Mm… I wanted to use myself as bait to get Jii-chan, could it be that the bait was too big, nyan?
Jibril: ...You really haven't changed, Azrael.
Azrael: Jii-chan can even talk back to people such as me and Artosh-sama, so it's impossible that you would serve under mere Imanity, even though he is incredibly strong, nyan.
As long as it's by the pledges, sealing one's intentions or making one a puppet should be easy, nyan. Anyway he must have won by pure luck, so you're being forced to follow them, right, nyan? To be honest… Jii-chan has changed.
Jibril: Yes, I have changed… Whereas you can't.
Azrael: …
Jibril: As for how I was defeated in that challenge, you have nothing to say… My expectations were all for nothing… The reason why I defied my late Master(AN: Artosh) and you, is because… I just can't take your personalities anymore… Too stubborn, so…
Which is why we lost, and until now… You still won't change.
Hearing those words, Azrael's smile completely vanished. It was like she became a cold puppet… No, it was a completely different existence with Azrael's appearance, and it spoke.
???: Final Unit, hast thou discovered the Answer?
Jibril looked at that existence with a gaze of pure hate, and she spoke to it, almost spitting her words.
Jibril: Yes, or more correctly, I found it long ago, it's just that I didn't have concrete evidence.
Then Jibril turned away, leaving behind the silent existence.
???: …
Azriel: ...What do you think, nyan?
???: You had to ask.
Azriel: ...Yes, nyan, but what if you're wrong?
???: You don't have to ask, you know already.
Azriel: ...That's right, nyan…
???: First Unit, I completely trust your decision, not just me, but everyone else.
Azriel: I know, nyan…
She was replying… To the will of the Phantasma, Avant Heim, residing within her, Azrael merely looked at the guests that came here, gazing for some more seconds to the anomaly in the library, who was absorbing the Elementals around the place at a really fast speed, and converting them to a mysterious energy.
Meanwhile, Sora and Shiro were searching through books, half-hour passed.
Sora: ...No, we won't make it at this rate. Shiro, how many languages of this world have you learnt?
Shiro: ...Only… The Imanity, Werebeast and Elven languages…
Sora: *Sigh* Jibril, which languages are these?
Jibril: It's the Dwarven and Demon languages, I can vaguely understand them…
Sora: ...Jibril.
Jibril: Yes.
Sora: There's no time, if we take too long, Ino's life will be in danger. Even if we have a lifeline, if the Seirens think we're genuinely running away, we'll be in big trouble… Can't you get some help?
Jibril: Hmm… I can get help, but I fear it may not be what you're expecting.
Sora: There's no other way, so let's do what she wants since we don't have the time to just sit here, Qiangwei!
Xiao Qiangwei replied from far away.
Xiao Qiangwei: Yes?
Sora: Can you come with us?
Xiao Qiangwei: No problem!
Then in an instant, he appeared near Sora and Shiro, and then the siblings, him, and Jibril walked towards the place where Azrael stood, and called her.
Xiao Qiangwei: Hey, Azra...el?
He and the siblings froze momentarily, Azrael was buried in a kotatsu-like thing, with her head covered within a blanket, staring at a projector that had only static on it.
Azrael: ...What is it, nyan…? What is it so important that you have to bother someone useless like me, nyan?
Xiao Qiangwei: ...Ah...Um, you know about the hibernating Empress of the Seirens, right?
Azrael: Nyaaaaa… That idiot that was influenced by fairy tales and pushed two races including herself to the brink of extinction in the span of a single generation, leaving even the shellfish speechless? Everyone knows, nyan…
Xiao Qiangwei: Yes, that's her, we're looking for the records of the conditions she set before starting her game.
Azrael: ...If that's you want, Jii-chan knows as well, nyan! It's "She will continue hibernating as long as she hasn't fallen in love", nyan.
XIao Qiangwei: Yes, but… That's fake.
Hearing this, Azrael's eyes lit up with a sharp glint as though forgetting her previous depressed act.
Azrael: Oh! Is that why everyone lost, nyan? So what's the actual conditions, nyan?
Xiao Qiangwei: That's what we want to know, we are looking for all available records of people that have carried out games with her, and the exact words the players were told for comparison.
Azrael: Oh… About that, if you're looking for records, they're placed in a certain somewhere, look for it yourself and I'll inform you again if you have a definitive goal.
Xiao Qiangwei: Even if I use my Immortal Senses I need at least 1 day to check the entire place, time that we don't have, so where are all the related records?
Azrael: I don't know at all, nyan! Ahahahahaha… Because of the Equality Law, nyan. After lending those books out countless times, even I don't know where they are, nyan…
Jibril: Do you understand now? His Highness, this is exactly why I left my hometown.
Xiao Qiangwei: ...Since you all live to collect books, you should at least keep them properly…
Azrael: Hmm? That's wrong, yan, our aim is to collect Knowledge, books are actually nothing to us, nyan, I even think that as long as we can memorize the contents of the books, throwing them away is fine as well;
but since the people who haven't read them would be angry, we didn't do that, nyan…
Xiao Qiangwei facepalmed in exasperation, and Jibril, who looked as if she was ready to strike at any moment, said.
Jibril: Do you understand now? His Highness, this is exactly it! The reason why I left my hometown.
Xiao Qiangwei: So, what should I do?
Azrael: Hmm.. Just let the people that are in charge of the books' locations to search for them! There are some others that are just as close-minded as Jii-chan, so as long as they're willing to, you should be able to get all of them, nyan…
Xiao Qiangwei: Mm, so I'll leave it to-
Azrael: I'm not in the mood, nyan… I can allow my cute imouto's toys to wander about everywhere, but I have no obligation to take care of you all. I have no value in being your companion, and even Jii-chan called me an idiot, so I'm very depressed now, nyan…
I'm very hurt, nyan. So I don't want to do anything, nyan…
Xiao Qiangwei: Even if we show you videos of Jibril in the shower?
Azrael: ...…...No.
Xiao Qiangwei: If you agree now, I'll order her to call you Nee-san from now on.
Azrael: .......N….No deal.
Azrael replied while sweating furiously, as though she was engaging in a mortal combat with something.
Azrael: I-I'm very… Hurt now, nyan… Something like that… Ah, no, I'm not dismissing Jii-chan as something beneath me, nyan! It's just that I'm too hurt, so I need something more than that… Um, you should know… What I mean, right?
Xiao Qiangwei grumbled silently, it meant that he would need to play a game with her.
Xiao Qiangwei: Whatever, I'll accept.
Azrael: Kill and plunder for the things that you desire, for that is the tantamount to the decree of heaven, nyan! You will play a game together with Jii-chan's friends that you're looking for, then you can ask for their help.
She snapped her fingers, and in an instant, everyone present was teleported with a force that even Jibril and Xiao Qiangwei couldn't resist. And what they saw after the scenery had changed was… A long banner with the words "Higher Heaven's Paragon Autograph and Handshake Fan Meeting" written on it, with countless Flugels setting up the place.
Xiao Qiangwei: ...What the fuck?
