Eris sighed tiredly. Speaking to Him was taxing – how couldn't it be? – but she had managed to look into the current living Reincarnates to see if any of them would be willing to accept help in exchange for doing a task for her.

Most of them would be willing to accept help, but most annoyingly, many of them probably would expect it to arrive from Aqua, and not her.

She supposed that that made some kind of sense – Aqua had sent them there, after all – but she handled the humans from Japan, not here.

Eris shook her head. Speaking of handling the humans, she did need to do that. Finding time to work on her other projects, along with helping those who died to move onward would be… tiring, but she would have to.

She left her office area and entered the 'black box.' She supposed it was a cute enough pet name for the vast, infinite space where all the Gods and Goddesses met with the humans under their purview.

She came to rest in her seat, and she opened the small desk by her white chair to see who she was meeting first…

She grimaced. Oh…

She looked past the first page, to confirm that the others were up next. She shook her head and decided she'd do a group meeting.

The one chair in front of her silently multiplied into four, and four humans suddenly appeared.

As one, they screamed out, and Eris winced. Many who died in the midst of a battle did that, and, sometimes, it took… too long for them to come out of their fear of battle.

Thankfully, they all calmed down rather quickly, and Eris steeled herself. They had agreed to help her in order to take their revenge, and instead, they'd all died for the effort.

When they had all calmed down, they began to speak. "Damn, I thought we'd get her that time…" Rin muttered.

Kei shrugged helplessly. "Well, at least we all-"

He was situated on the far left, but he looked ever farther left in an attempt to find… something. He turned to her and raised a nervous hand. "Ah… uh, Miss Goddess, do you… know what happened to Chris?"

Eris felt an eye twitch, and Jin, his eyes wide, shot up. "Does that mean she won?"

She sighed. How… couldn't they tell it was her? She hadn't changed anything about her face…

Was her outfit that different?

Their enthusiasm for the outcome didn't change, however, so Eris rolled her eyes. "Firstly, my real name is Eris. Secondly, no, I didn't win. I had to kiss that monster so I could grab one of her explosive knives, create a distraction, and then find an out of the way place to warp back here."

They all blinked, looking her up and down. Eris's eyes widened. If they so much as-

"You pad your breasts," they muttered as one. Eris glared at them, very tempted to unleash some kind of power on them, and they all sat back in their chairs, heads bowed.

She sighed. "Honestly, who did you guys think I was?"

"Uh… another Reincarnate?" Rin ventured. Kei nodded his ascent to that sentiment, while Jin shrugged noncommittally.

"I thought you might be some kind of special Reincarnate, but otherwise, I didn't like to think about it."

She shook her head. "Well, I suppose that this is the part where you all get mad at me-"

Kei cut her off in an instant. "Why?"

Eris looked at him in confusion. "W-Why? Because we failed, of course!"

Kei shook his head. "…It was a long shot though, right? She had guns and stuff, and while taking them away was a good idea, there wasn't any guarantee that she couldn't just… activate her relics and wipe away the town."

Eris blinked, and she felt guilt welling up in her. She had been expecting anger and dissatisfaction; this was… different.

Many, many adventurers who came here were often angry about dying, despite being her adherents. Most of the time, she couldn't do much other than shrug and tell them how many times they could have died, if they didn't have their Luck.

Acceptance was… not better than anger. She knew how to deal with anger. She didn't know what to say in the face of them being… fine with death. How often did this happen with humans who died young?

Jin's calm smile didn't have the effect he probably thought it did. "Yeah. We tried our best, and while I would have liked a more… noble death, we gave it our all."

"At least she killed you personally. She just tossed one of those cool knife-grenades at me," Rin muttered. He and Jin began to argue, and Eris looked down.

She supposed that soldiers were supposed to treat death as an old friend, considering just how much of it they saw, but… none of them were soldiers.

Eris heard Rin cut off his argument. "Anyway, whatever. We'll just have to hope that that evil bitch gets killed by one of our countrymen or something. For now…"

He turned away from Jin and looked towards her. "What are… our options? Last time, it was Heaven or Reincarnation, either into that world or into any other. What have we got this time?"

Jin looked at Rin. "Heaven? I only got Reincarnation…"

None of them looked at the still silent Hiroshi.

Eris shook her head. "You… you all tried your hardest, and you helped out Heaven, so…"

She smiled at them. "I'll pull some strings and see if you can't go where you want."

She looked to Rin first, and he smirked. "I suppose I am the easiest to sort out of us, so…"

He smiled. "How about Heaven?"

Eris looked down at the book and turned two pages forward, quickly looking at his life. "Hm… you might have ended up as a Cardinal if your life hadn't been cut short, so I'm proud to say that you'll be eligible to become an Angel in a few thousand years."

He blinked in shock, and then grinned widely. "Neat! Uh… in case I get… bored of… immortality?" he half-asked. She waved her hand a bit to indicate the sort-of immortal nature of the souls that moved on. "If you get too bored, you can Reincarnate."

He nodded. "Yeah, I'll just go to Heaven."

She nodded, and then she turned to Kei as Rin sat down. The former Thief was looking helpful, but she shot him down. "We don't have any openings, but…"

She leaned forward, and his spirits rose. "Some of us were kind of like you once. I wasn't, but plenty of Gods and Goddesses were mortal once. I'll send you to get Reincarnated in a world where it might happen."

He looked happy enough, but she quickly added, "I warn you, it's a rare, almost impossible occurrence, and you might not even want to do it in your next life."

He shrugged. "Eh, I'll try my Luck. It could never hold a candle to your's, but I'll try all the same."

She nodded and turned to Jin. He seemed incredibly smug, but she had to disappoint him too. "First things first: what do you want?"

He smiled triumphantly, though her tone seemed to dampen his spirits somewhat, if the falling of his shoulders was anything to go by. "Well… like I said down there, a world where Japan didn't get bombed by the Americans would be-"

"Yes, but in what way? The Nazis won in Europe and nuked America themselves? America joined the Axis powers? Japan never unified, and never became a world power? I need more specifics."

He blinked, but then he shook his head. "W- What? Why would I want the Nazis to win?"

She raised a skeptical eyebrow, and he rubbed the back of his head. "Ah, I suppose that I did word things a bit vaguely… but did you all really think I was…"

The others all stared pointedly at his and said nothing, and he touched the tips of his fingers together nervously. "I didn't mean anything like that… my family just owned a lot of businesses in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Most of them – quite obviously – went under. I just… wanted to go to a world where that didn't happen."

Eris felt her expression softening. "Ah… well, in that case, there is still a lot of wiggle room. Do you want nuclear physics to not be able to be used in nuclear weapons? Do you want two different cities to be bombed? Do you want to go to a world where the Americans had to do invade conventionally and take the country by force?"

For a moment, if seemed as though Jin was about to pick one of those, but then he sighed and put his head in his hands. "If I chose a different city, like… Tokyo…"

Eris said nothing, and, after a few moments, he looked up. "The Taisho era!"

She blinked, but he continued to grin. "Can you find a world where the Taisho era continued on? I don't care all that much about the specifics, but if it's a world where Japan stayed democratic, then I'm all for it!"

Eris tilted her head and nodded. "Alright. I'll see what I can do."

With that, she looked at the journal by her side. The other three were staring at the still quiet Hiroshi, and Eris took that opportunity to send them off.

In a flash of blinding light, they were gone. She would bring them back here for their specific reincarnation when she found specific, good worlds for them. For now, however…

She glared at Hiroshi, and his formerly stony expression stretched out into a wide smirk. "I was wondering when we'd get to this! Now, I'd like to go to a world where the legal age is… let's say eleven. Preferably, it's ruled by-"

"Shut up."

He raised an eyebrow at her, and she just continued to glare. "I must say, it was hard keeping my hatred of you in check."

He raised an… indulgent eyebrow. "Oh? You can't stand my fetish? I thought us religious types didn't mind that sort of thing. At least, the ones in my old world certainly didn't seem to mind, as long as we didn't get caught."

She snarled. "Do I look like Aqua? She might accept anyone and everyone, including people into bestiality and pedophiles and homosexuals, but the perks of only having followers in one world means that I can keep a tight leash on my followers."

He snickered, and she snapped her fingers. His wooden chair was replaced by a much more foreboding black one. Chains sprang up from the sides and bound his arms to the chair.

"I find it hilarious that Aqua doesn't even care about her followers after they die. I oversee those that die in that world, including her followers, and I do not often look kindly on them."

He smiled again. "Come on. You managed to work with me then. What's so-"

"I have a job to do, and, in accordance with your karma, I sentence thee to Hell!"

He didn't even have the decency to look terrified. "Sheesh. I don't think you're even using 'thee' right, but-"

"There are no children in Hell, you piece of shit."

That seemed to break his mask of superiority. Then, he just shrugged. "Eh, I've got more than enough memories of my first life and of Degurechaff to last me for a while."

As the ground below him began to light up – much like it did when they reincarnated those going to this world, except that it was red – she smiled at him with mock-sweetness.

"Oh? You didn't know?"

His mask disappeared, and he looked concerned. She smirked. "Gods, Goddesses, Demons, Angels… none of us have any genitals."

He blinked rapidly, and she giggled maliciously. "It's true. We have not a single dick, vagina, or nipple among us."

His glare became furious, but, just like that, he was gone. She sighed.

She hated dealing with these types, but it was unavoidable. Even working with him down there had been tiring, especially with how often he volunteered for reconnaissance, but he was where he belonged now.

She stood from her own chair, intending to stretch, when she realized that he had taken his chair with him.

She smiled at the spot he had been. Oh, how unfortunate. He'd been dropped into Hell strapped down to a chair that needed more strength and power than he would ever get.

She immediately pushed him out of her mind as she stretched before those she had to see next. That was just too bad, wasn't it?

-OxOxO-

A/N 1: Canon.

A big thanks to Mechamorph for their comment suggesting this. I was fine with those four's end being in Chapter 18 and never hearing from them again, but they gave me the idea for this.

I might also use the other ideas they had, later on.

Other than that, I hope you all enjoyed. Expect the next chapter of TTtC on Friday or Saturday.

A/N 2: Oh, and for any of you that are here from specifically KonoSuba and not Youjo Senki, the whole 'no genitals' thing is stated by Vanir numerous times and confirmed by the Fallen Angel, Duke, in Volume 13.

This does, of course, mean that all of the Succubi in Axel have nothing.

This also means that Aqua has nothing.

(I cackle for over an hour after unleashing this fact on you all, which is how long I laughed when I first realized what Vanir's words about the lack of genitals on the denizens of Heaven and Hell meant for Aqua)