The trials. Eris, Medea.
A year has gone by in the human worlds, Kazuma and Megumin have started living together in Japan with their newly born son, while Darkness has given birth to a pair of twins. Eris living in heaven is still pregnant since time works differently there. Now a trial is coming up, and Eris as the goddess with the responsibility for her world has taken on the role of the prosecutor against Medea. The gods of judgment will go through Medea's case since she was affiliated with the demon king of Eris' world.
"Will the prosecutor Eris, please present the case against the demon king's daughter Medea" A god with a long white beard reaching down to his toes said as he gestured to Eris.
"Very well, Medea is accused of working together with the demon king that created chaos in my world, and will thereby also be charged with limbo as the other demon king generals have been previously," Eris read from her golden document.
"How does the defendant plead?" A beautiful woman with dark waist-long violet hair asked as she gestured for Medea to speak.
"I am truly guilty of being a demon king general, I admit that. However, I am different from all the other generals, since I never got to decide if I wanted to join his court or not. I was born into his court and never learned right from wrong. My father always neglected me, and I never had a good role model growing up." Medea informed the gods before her, while she tried her best to keep a brave face.
(Poor thing) The violet-haired goddess of heat thought
(Oh my) the old god of wisdom thought as he looked at the girl with pity.
"The defendant was known as the most manipulative and cunning demon king general, be mindful of this when passing judgment," Eris sternly informed the two gods.
"We are thankful for your concern, but we elder gods cannot be manipulated mind you," A young girl with shoulder-length purple hair said in a calm tone, totally disregarding Eris's warning.
"Would the defendant please tell us about how they were killed? This is not clear to us since it was hidden behind the veil of the defeated demon king," The young-looking goddess of age asked in a gentle tone.
(She can't lie in heaven I don't get what she can possibly say to clear her name) Eris thought as she looked at Medea.
"Ok, but it is rather gruesome, so be mindful of that. I had just created some wonderful stew for the one man I have ever loved, while he was sleeping. I had taken the utmost care in finding out what he liked and put it together for him."
"Excuse me, but when did you fall in love with this man?" The goddess of heat asked, clearly interested in what kind of man a demon king's daughter would fall for.
"Ah yes, the man of my dreams. It was none other than the man that defeated my evil father and ended his reign, Kazuma Satou. The moment I heard of him defeating my father I couldn't do anything than fall in love with him." Medea dreamily said as she looked to the heavens above.
(Oh how romantic!) the two goddesses at the council thought to themselves.
"But how did you die, is what we want to know?" Eris asked to get them back on track.
"I will tell you then, even if the memory hurts me deeply, but I beg of you to not harm my beloved in any way, as I believe he wasn't in his right mind at the time. I think that he was brainwashed by a certain despicable woman to these horrible actions to me." Medea pleaded, with a look only a true lover would, which all the elder gods instantly recognized.
"We promise to not pass judgment on your beloved Kazuma Satou, regardless of what he did to you," they all said in unison.
"With that reassurance, I will tell you what happened that faithful day. My beloved suggested me to get another tool to successfully complete a mission, and when I came-"
"What was this mission?" Eris interrupted.
"It was a mission to release him from the brainwashing of course, but sadly I failed in my mission, and I was forced to endure hours upon hours of torture, but the most hurtful part of the torture, was that my beloved performed it on me. It was a clear attempt to break my mind apart so I couldn't form a soul, however the love I felt for him kept my mind together until his love for me managed to break through and he ended my life with a swift swing with his sword." Medea praised Kazuma as she told them about her experience.
Since the gods couldn't find any lie in her words, which meant she truly believed what she was saying. It truly horrified the gods to their core, and they felt so much unimaginable pity for this poor woman. The goddess of heat couldn't keep some tears back, but Eris has been told Kazuma's side of the story, so she is not moved by this crazy woman.
"Weren't you killed in this manner, because you wanted to perform the same torture onto the girlfriend of Kazuma, and in response to this he did this to make sure you wouldn't perform any such actions onto her. You even in detail, explained to him how to do it, do you deny this fact?" Eris sternly informed as she looked at the crying Medea.
"All I did was to tell my beloved of the way I would cure him of his brainwashing, I never did any harm to anyone close to my beloved. I would never hurt him in any way!" Medea cried without even a trace of deceit behind her words.
She truly believed what she was saying, and even crazy people would be cured of their insanity when they came to heaven, but Medea wasn't normal. Her affiliation with the devil king mixed with both her insane devotion to Kazuma and brutal death damaged her soul so much that this was the only thing she was able to collect. This was something the gods had never seen before, and they didn't even think it possible for a crazed mind to collect itself and still remain as messed up as it once was. The gods were therefore deceived that day and made a fatal decision.
"It is after careful consideration of both your brutal life and end to it that we are happy to inform you, that you will be granted godhood. You will gain control over a world, which you will watch over, while a younger goddess will be your senior and guide you through the rules and duties a goddess shall perform and adhere to." The goddess of age said as she slammed the hammer of judgment down, making the worst decision ever.
Eris was shocked by the decision they made, but she couldn't change it, she had to accept it. Hopefully, this wouldn't come back to bite her in the ass later. Unfortunately it did, oh my it really did. Here is what happened 5 years after Kazuma started living in Japan with Megumin.
First, Eris finally gave birth to her child, a little demigod girl with green eyes like her father and silver hair like her mother. In the meantime Medea had gotten trust from her senior to an extent one should never really grant to another goddess/god, she gave Medea responsibility for her world, while she took a vacation. You can compare it to giving away your bank account password to your "friend". Medea seeing an opportunity to merge the two worlds together so she could gain more power immediately abused.
"If I can gain enough power, I can go back in time and live life with Kazuma and avoiding the horrible fate he had to suffer," She reasoned with herself as she started to merge the worlds killing millions of people. Luckily for Kazuma and Megumin Medea couldn't find them, since they had moved to Japan, which she never learned about.
When the goddess came back after the merge had taken place, she was also absorbed by Medea, since she was now weaker than her junior. She also didn't expect to get backstabbed by her friend, so the heavens didn't even notice this outrageous action. Which in essence meant she had gotten away with it, but then Medea found out about Eris' daughter, and who the father to the child was, none other than her beloved Kazuma.
Medea didn't waste a single second telling the gods of judgment about these "horrible" news. This time Medea appeared as the prosecutor before Eris. Her crime was to have relations with a mortal. So as a goddess she needed to be punished. The question was just how to punish her.
"The prosecution would recommend that the goddess Eris, is stripped of her divine powers, and her child is removed from her forever." Medea coldly stated.
"That is unfair, my child should not be punished for my actions, you can take away my divinity, but don't remove me from my child!" Eris pleaded as tears started to run down her face.
The elder gods on the council had all had relations with mortals back in the days and didn't really want to punish Eris. However, a demigod with their parent could pose a great threat for any other god, since that is enough to tip the weight in a battle between gods. So out of safety they rather took precautions.
"Goddess Eris, while you have broken the divine law, we don't see any reason for you to lose your divinity. However, we cannot let you raise your child, so-" Eris cut her off.
"Then let her live with her father!" Eris pleaded.
"Who would her father be?" The god of wisdom asked.
"Kazuma Satou, her father is the demon king slayer Kazuma Satou," Eris said with tears in her eyes.
This information truly frightened the elder gods, not only was this demigod's mother a rebellious goddess that liked to visit the mortal realm, but she also had a mortal father that was capable of killing a demon king. Letting her grow up with either could prove extremely dangerous to their own existence since demigods had an easy time becoming god killers.
"This divine punishment will also apply to him then. The punishment will be that she will be raised in an alternate Japan. Neither you as her mother or her father, Kazuma Satou will ever be allowed to enter this dimension. You won't be allowed to affect anything in this dimension. This demigod child shall grow up without any of her parents, and she shall never meet her parents for as long as she lives!" the goddess of age sternly said as the hammer of judgment hit the table, making it final.
"NO!" Eris screamed in agony, which Medea loved to see.
Eris was so sad about these news that she went to her best friend Darkness crying her lungs out. At the same time she (as Chris) took on the responsibility as Darkness' daughter godmother, but she projected her wish to be with her own daughter onto this little girl and spent as much time as she could with her every day.
She kept telling Kazuma about the status of all his children, while she had to see her own daughter suffer as she grew up. Never did she tell him about Medea, not until she started to affect his life again that is.
Eris only received a little hope when she saw her child start living with a boy that didn't listen to what others told him, and this time her child didn't lose her memories, she wasn't abused by a corrupt religion again and she had finally found a somewhat stable relationship.
Well, that was the trials of Medea and Eris and their own respective judgments. I hope you enjoyed. Next time I will probably go into detail about Darkness' and Kazuma's night together. So stay tuned.