"We're back!" The empty living room was instantly filled with people, and the once quiet room suddenly became lively.
"Let's take a bath together!" Asagami Fujino proposed while holding the Cthulhu Loli.
"Okay." Tamamo-no-Mae was the first to agree, followed quickly by Tamamo Cat. The other girls had no objections, though Her Highness the Imperial Princess and Alice hesitated for a moment before nodding in agreement.
The girls had all come out of the bath and changed into their respective pajamas. There were some suggestive styles, some cute ones, some petite ones—the variety of pajamas combined with the girls' perfect figures was a feast for Asagami Fujino's eyes.
Sitting on the sofa, she let Sakuya behind her take care of her long, wet hair, while Asagami Fujino helped comb the hair of the Cthulhu Loli in her arms.
"093"
"It starts tomorrow, doesn't it?" Touko sat down beside Asagami Fujino, holding a comb that Fujino had bought for her back in Misaki City.
"Yeah, it can start tomorrow," Asagami Fujino replied while combing the Cthulhu Loli's hair.
"Do you need help?" Touko asked.
"No need, leave everything to me. I'll need your help later on," Asagami Fujino said with a smile.
"Fujino, I want to sleep with you tonight!" Jibril suddenly hugged Asagami Fujino from the other side, her cheek pressed tightly against Fujino's.
"No! Fujino is sleeping with me!" Aika stood up, looking at Jibril with an unfriendly gaze.
Seeing this, the others immediately turned their gazes over. After all, they enjoyed watching the drama, even though they also wanted to sleep with Fujino.
Asagami Fujino escaped from everyone's embrace. Except for Alice, Her Highness the Imperial Princess, Sakura, and the other Little Lolis, and Alice and Sakuya who was looking after her, all the other girls in the Western-style Mansion were in their own rooms—or rather, they were all on her bed. If she hadn't expanded the size of the bed, it probably wouldn't have fit so many people. Of course, last night Fujino and the girls just slept together; nothing happened. With so many people, Fujino couldn't have handled it anyway, especially with the Cthulhu Loli lying right beside her.
Carefully fishing the Cthulhu Loli out from the girls' arms, Asagami Fujino changed her clothes and also changed the Cthulhu Loli's pajamas. After visiting Alice and Sakuya in Sakuya's room, Fujino disappeared from the Western-style Mansion with the Cthulhu Loli.
Throne of Heroes. Asagami Fujino appeared here and placed the Cthulhu Loli on the pure white floor of the Throne of Heroes. The Cthulhu Loli's golden eyes scanned the surroundings.
"Sister Fujino, you're here." Gaia appeared before Asagami Fujino, affectionately hugging her and greeting her. alaya followed behind Gaia and called out respectfully, "Lord Fujino."
"Alright, just call me sister." Smiling at alaya, Asagami Fujino looked at Cthulhu. "Let me introduce you, this is Cthu—"
Before Asagami Fujino could finish, she saw Cthulhu walk up to Gaia. Her golden eyes sized Gaia up, making the latter grasp the hem of her skirt in fear. Then, Cthulhu turned, pointed at Gaia, and said to Asagami Fujino, "Delicious."
"A-chan, help!" Gaia's face turned pale instantly, and she immediately hid behind alaya. alaya's expression wasn't great either. As the counter forces of the world, both of them felt an immense sense of dread toward the Great Old Ones, who possessed powerful strength and could easily bring about destruction. Moreover, the two had dealt with the existence of Great Old Ones before. There were a small number of Occultists in the Type-Moon World who wanted to summon the Great Old Ones into this world, but they had all been thwarted by Gaia and alaya, or dealt with by Heroic Spirits. Although these Occultists couldn't summon the actual Great Old Ones, they could summon lower-level servants, which were still a major headache if not handled properly.
"Alright, they aren't for eating. I'll give you blood to drink later. Be good~" Bending down, she smilingly stroked the Cthulhu Loli's head. The latter nodded obediently and returned to Fujino's side, though her golden eyes still glanced at Gaia from time to time, keeping Gaia on edge.
"Alright, time for business," Asagami Fujino said. She opened the system shop and found the main god core. This time, the value of the main god core wasn't the previous one hundred million. It wasn't that the system had raised the price, but that the main god core she had seen before was just a low-end version—only a core without the Main God Space, item exchange functions, and so on. This high-end version, however, had everything.
Of course, the price was also very high, reaching four billion points. To the current Asagami Fujino, these four billion points were just a drop in the bucket. After recycling countless green gems in Rlyeh, Fujino's points had reached the height of a million trillion. (One trillion equals one thousand billion.)
Directly purchasing the main god core, a sphere emitting a brilliant radiance appeared in Asagami Fujino's hand. At the same time, all the instructions for using the main god core appeared in her mind.
"Expand, Main God Space!"
The light emitted by the sphere became even more dazzling, and the surroundings of the Throne of Heroes began to change. Pillars made of white jade rose up with a crash, reaching the top and connecting together. Surprisingly, a green dragon was coiled around each white jade pillar! With deer antlers, a bull's head, a donkey's mouth, shrimp eyes, elephant ears, fish scales, a human's whiskers, a snake's belly, and phoenix feet—these were exactly the features of an Eastern Divine Dragon.
These dragons were alive, living on the white jade pillars and breathing out clouds and white mist.
Gaia and alaya both gaped in shock. The Cthulhu Loli also looked up at the dragons on the pillars, her golden eyes flashing with curiosity.
It wasn't over yet. The ground everyone stood on also changed. Strange patterns appeared on the pure white floor, extending and intertwining, finally converging in the center. A silver-white pedestal rose, and the main god core in Asagami Fujino's hand flew onto it, beginning to enlarge until it became a massive, illusory-looking sphere. The giant main god core emitted a white ring of light that spread outward, and wherever it passed, the space began to expand and stabilize.
The corners of Asagami Fujino's mouth curled up. She walked to the main god core and pressed her hand directly against it. Invisible waves of information began to ripple out through space.
At this moment, the Heroic Spirits who had been in slumber, unaware that they had been excluded from the Throne of Heroes, opened their eyes simultaneously. Two lines of blood-red text appeared before them.
"Do you want to understand the meaning of life? Do you want to truly... live?"
"YES/YES".
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