"By the way, are you the only one today? What about the rest?"
Eris looked around and found that there was no one else except Takumi, so she asked.
"They all have their own things to do. In fact, we are usually very busy there, and I just happened to finish all my work these days," Takumi explained, while taking a deep look at Eris. A trace of imperceptible helplessness flashed in his eyes.
Before coming here, he didn't expect to run into Eris. Now Eris was by his side. Watching her, he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed to act. At least until he found a suitable reason, he couldn't take action against the Demon King's army. Otherwise, it wouldn't be easy to explain to Eris why he did that. After all, although the Demon King's crusade was the common goal of mankind in the Konosuba world, this was an internal matter of that world.
As an outsider, Takumi rashly intervening in other people's internal conflicts was very inappropriate. Even if the unstable factor of the Demon King was eliminated, this was what the gods in the Heaven Realm, who are the Lords, wished. But they were already doing it. What would an outsider like him want to do by intervening at this time? There were too many misunderstandings that could be caused, so without a reason, Takumi really wasn't in a position to do anything.
As for helping? The Heaven Realm also needed Takumi's help. It was just a Demon King. If these gods in the Heaven Realm were serious, any one of them could solve the problem. Especially the one who manages this planet, Eris. This was her home ground. She has a huge number of believers on this planet. When this power of faith breaks out, it is absolutely easy to destroy the Demon King. Only due to some rules of Heaven, the gods in the Konosuba world cannot take action directly.
The reason was also very simple. It was to maintain faith, which could also be said to maintain their strength. Distance produces beauty, and all fear comes from the unknown. There are many such statements. They all say that sometimes being too close is not a good thing. This is especially true for gods and believers. The Dimensional City and Orario in the DanMachi world are the best examples.
Because the girls in Dimensional City, who usually live together, have almost no respect for the two gods Hestia and Hephaestus. The situation in Orario is similar. Although believers will still maintain basic respect for the gods who descended to earth, there are really not many people who truly believe in these gods. Therefore, the gods in the Konosuba world have always kept a distance from their believers and will not show up easily. In order to maintain the awe and belief of believers in them.
This trick was also used by Takumi in the world of Akame ga Kill!. He never showed up twice after taking action. In addition, there was another problem. Gods are not the nannies of believers! If gods were too easy to contact, then there is no doubt that they would face all kinds of prayers from believers. Say no, and maybe the believers would be reduced by one on the spot.
But if they don't refuse, then every believer will come to ask the gods for help. Then wouldn't they become nannies? Let's not talk about whether the gods are willing to take care of these believers. Let's just say that the fact that the gods are nannies is not good for the long term. It is not beneficial in terms of development. When everyone relies too much on a certain powerful existence, then that group is not far from extinction.
For details, one can refer to Mondstadt in the world of Genshin Impact, which has a population that relies heavily on others. This situation is the result of over-reliance and gradually losing one's own initiative. In this case, once the being who is relied on has an accident and can no longer take care of them, then a random army, a natural disaster, or a disease could kill this group of people.
Because these people have been domesticated at this point and have lost the most basic survival instinct that a life should have. When they encounter danger, they don't think about resistance, and when they encounter difficulties, they don't think about how to solve them. They only think about finding the existence they have always relied on to rescue them. Therefore, whether it is to maintain a high standard or for long-term considerations...
When the gods of the Konosuba world intervene in various planets under their management, they arrange for their messengers to be reincarnated there, and they will basically not intervene personally. Even if Eris descends to earth like this now, it can only be achieved through exploiting loopholes. Moreover, Eris cannot use her power as a goddess on this planet. Otherwise, the Demon King and everything else would have been dealt with long ago. Then it wouldn't even be Takumi's turn to take action.
"Like this..." Eris didn't know what Takumi was thinking, but after hearing Takumi's explanation, her eyes lit up. It was good that no one was following him! This way she could free up her hands and feet to deal with Takumi! Hmph! This time you are in my hands! Eris began to think about how to trick Takumi later, but on the surface, she smiled and said: "Then I will accompany you for a walk. By the way, do you have any plans? Where do you want to go?"
"I don't have any plans; I just came here for a walk on the spur of the moment, so what plans would I have?" Takumi looked at Eris's smile. For some reason, he suddenly felt a chill down his spine and an ominous premonition. He couldn't help but become vigilant. Just when Takumi was about to think that Eris was plotting against him, a brick suddenly jumped out from the side and flew straight towards him.
"Hm?!" Takumi couldn't help being surprised, but with his strength, he naturally wouldn't be hit. He turned sideways to avoid the brick. "What's the situation?" Eris was also shocked. She hadn't even started to take action yet. Why was Takumi attacked? At this time, a young man's roar sounded from the direction where the brick had flown.
"What are you doing! You stupid goddess! I'm really impressed by you! I asked you to hand it over! Not for you to throw! So hard! Do you want to kill me?!" The two of them looked over and saw a young man in modern casual clothes at the construction site not far away, scolding a girl in aqua blue—no, the color of wisdom. It was the pair who had traveled to this place recently: Satou Kazuma, who came from Earth, and Aqua, who was chosen as his bonus and came down with him.
"Fortunately, I reacted in time and hid quickly so I wasn't hurt! And this is very dangerous, you know! If we hit someone else, what are we supposed to do?" Satou Kazuma was ranting with all his might, then turned his head and saw Takumi and Eris. And the brick behind the two of them. He immediately couldn't speak anymore. "..." The scene was very awkward as the three of them looked at each other.