Kusanagi Shizuka has recently been pondering how her life had recently gone haywire. She had thought until just recently, that her brother, Godou was nothing more than any other man in their family, namely a horrible womanizer. For the last year she had watched as he had started gathering girls around him. This included her sempai that she had looked up to, Mariya Yuri. She didn't understand how Yuri-sempai could fall for her brother. She didn't think that her brother had anything that could make Yuri-sempai interested in him in any way. Then just recently, she found out that magic really existed in the world and that Yuri-sempai and the other girls that followed her brother all could use magic and that Yuri-sempai was a hime miko. Also, she found out that her brother was a Godslayer, or in other words someone that had the power to kill gods. She didn't know how to really respond to that and had spent alot of time trying to come to terms with it and the relationship of the girls around him.

They had told her that he was going to be marrying all of them; and Yuri-sempai, instead of looking like this was something shameful, looked positively overjoyed about it. Shizuka was seriously confused and furious at her brother.

Currently her brother was visiting one of his fellow godslayers, another woman, who he only refered to as 'Nee-san. He said that she was chinese and had been a godslayer for over 200 years. Also, that he was the only one in the world allowed to call her 'Nee-san. Lilliana-san had said, when Shizuka had asked her if she would ever meet this Onee-san, "You probably would be better off if you never meet her, Shizuka-chan. She is a very dangerous person." This, of course really only made her want to meet this person even more.

Also, she wanted to know more about the world of magic. She had definitely seen her brother do things that she couldn't explain. Godou, Erica-san, Ena-san, and a boy that Shizuka didn't really know, but was said to be the disciple of that 'Nee-san, did a duel so that Shizuka could see some of Godou's abilities. She had seen him do things like disappear from one place and appear somewhere else. Even in mid-air. She also saw him jump higher than should be normal. She had seen him get wounds that quickly disappeared after Erica-san had kissed him declaring herself the winner.

That had really made her mad.

Also, it was implied that her brother had committed such shameless acts like that with all the girls. She could readily believed that he had done so with Erica, or even Ena-san, but she couldn't believe it of Yuri-sempai. She was to much of a Yamato Nadeshiko, and Shizuka couldn't believe someone like sempai could do such a thing once, let alone more than once.

After Godou had left to see that Onee-san, Yuri-sempai and Lilliana-san had gone with her to the house. Then Yuri had left, but Lilliana had stayed. She said that it was to be available in case of trouble until Godou returned. So she decided to ask Lilliana some questions.

"Lilliana-san, have you done that with Onii-san much?" secretly pleased when she saw Lilliana blush furiously at the question.

"Shizuka-chan, I am Godou's knight, and talking about these things without her King present would not be proper. And properly that question should be addressed to Godou-san." Lilliana attempt to act properly, but her face was still completely red.

"But Lilliana-san, if I asked onii-san about this he will either avoid the question, or refuse to answer it out right. As his sister, I should know about these things, don't you think?" Shizuka gave it her best innocent expression trying to get Lilliana to confess.

"As a proper knight, I have assisted my King when the need was present, but that is all I will say." Lilliana was doing her best to answer, yet not answer Shizuka.

"However, I do believe that you aren't interested so much in what I have done or not done, but rather whether someone else has. Wouldn't it be better to ask that person directly instead?"

Shizuka looked troubled by that as she saw that Lilliana had seen through her to what she really wanted to know.

"I will say this as the others did earlier, we all love Godou very much and wish to be with him forever. All of us do." Lilliana spoke with great emphasis. "We also feel he is a king that is truly worthy of our service. As his sister and not familiar with what Godou has recently accomplished as a Godslayer, it is understandable that you will have a hard time seeing what we see in him, but he has shown that he cares for us and also for the people. I do know this. Every time he makes a mistake and something gets destroyed, it bothers him very much. But as he is fighting gods, goddesses and divine creatures, it is only natural that things like that happen, but he does care which is much more than most other godslayers do."

With this, Lilliana decided it was enough for now as Shizuka looked like she was finally listening instead of just reacting. Also, it appeared that there really was nothing more to say. Shizuka appeared to be thinking deeply about what Lilliana said.

Shizuka thought about what Lilliana had said, but really didn't change her mind about how all this was just completely shameless. Also, she believed it was all her brother's fault no matter what he or the girls said. She was still certain that he had somehow used his status to get them to follow him. She deteremined when he got back that it was time for another interrogation.

When Godou returned home, Shizuka was in her room. She heard Lilliana telling her brother that she had stayed as protector so that no one did anything while he was away. Shizuka, at first didn't understand why that would happen, since it had been a year since this began and no one had bothered her before about it, but then understanding came when she realized that now she "knew" about their world and knowledge could be dangerous.

When she heard Lilliana leave, she went downstairs. "Onii-chan, I think it is time for a one-on-one session with you." beginning her interrogation.

Godou immediately recognised her mood and knew he wasn't going to get out of this.

"So tell me how marrying all of the girls is not worse than grandpa? You are just as bad as he ever was and have become very much worse." Shizuka accuses him directly.

Godou sighed and settled in for the interrogation he knew was coming.


Annie Charlton had been somewhat relived because things in America seemed to have entered a time of somewhat peace. None of the sorcerers had been active much lately. She had been a little worried about that for a while, but decided it must have been due the the heavey losses they suffered during the incident that had ultimately introduced her to Kusanagi Godou. She had spent some time following what was going on over in Asia, and been somewhat aghast that he was having so much trouble. She contemplated a couple of times of going over to see if she could offer any assistance. But even though she thought about it, his personal life always seemed to deter her. So instead she just stayed in LA and kept a watch over the situations he got into.

Tonight she was sitting in her living room slowly making her way through a bottle of wine. Suddenly she heard the doorbell. "Who would be calling on me tonight?" She didn't expect Professor West, as she knew he was busy with something else. A minute later, her butler came in. "You have a visitor to see you. She said to announce herself as Princess Alice."

Annie was shocked. She knew of Princess Alice of the Wisengamot, but had never been formally introduced. She had been aware that she was present in the fight against Sun Wukong, but they never really interacted. Especially after she had turned into her Godslayer persona of John Pluto Smith.

Her Butler led in a pretty, young English woman who appeared to be the same age as her, but to her godslayer senses didn't quite appear to be there. She rose to greet her guest, "Welcome to my home. I presume that you are the same Princess Alice of England's Wisengamot."

"That is correct. I am the self same person. Would you prefer me to address you as Miss Charlton or do you wish me to address you as your alter-ego?"

"Well that certainly proves your identity as not many people know that there is a difference. You may address me as Annie." Annie was a bit amused at her under covering her secret so easily. "I guess that you have come all the way here to see me, means that there is something that my other persona should be aware of." Annie said matter-of-factly.

"Actually, the news I came to share is actually probably of more interest to you directly. Meaning both your personalities.'

Annie's right eyebrow rose at that statement. "Really by that statement, it seems that it must be something very complicated and important. So what would have that level of importance." Annie offered her a seat on the sofa.

Alice sat down properly on the proffered sofa. "Something recently has caused a serious stir in the magic communities of Europe and Asia. It is expected to cause serious issues for the entire world of magic."

Annie was now concerned. Something of that magnitude could be seriously disastrous. "What could cause this type of chaos in the world?"

"Recently a magical event happened in Japan. It was a dreams summons by Pandora to Kusanagi Godou and also his attendants."

Annie frowned at Alice's statement, "Do you know what this summons was about? Pandora doesn't usually work that way. She talks to the campiones but not to any others. Also most of the time, what she talks about is lost due to the traveling back and forth."

"One of Kusanagi's attendants is my student. She has skills very close to mine and since she started following Kusanagi, her powers have grown considerably. She told me that her abilities were used so that the attendants all remembered at Pandora's request. And this was to be able to re-awaken the memories of Godou. Other than that the reason was that Pandora decided to act like a mother. She commanded Kusanagi Godou to marry all the girls." Alice spoke matter of factly, but also colored a bit in mentioning it.

Annie was left speechless. She couldn't believe what she just heard. It was completely not believable.

Alice silently watched the woman who unknown to nearly everyone was the mysterious godslayer John Pluto Smith. Since Maryia Yuri had told Alice about the rest of the comments from Pandora about two of Godou's "sisters" had also an interest in him, she was very interested in seeing Annie's reaction. While Annie remained calm on the surface, Alice was well aware of a terrible confusion below the surface. Annie had met Kusanagi Godou after all of the girls were already serving him and they were "rescuing" the youngest. It was truly interesting to watch this reaction from Annie.

She was hoping to get some indication from Annie about what she was going to do about it. Also, Annie was in may regards not that much older as far as campiones go, then Godou. It had only been a little over a decade since Annie had become a campione, and from what she had heard, Annie, among other things, was suffering from loneliness.

After some time, Annie said, "I think maybe I should return to Japan."