Peordandy: A New First Meeting:
Worldbringer of Joseun's version.
"So then please make your request, Keiichi. Anything you want is fine, but just only one," Peorth said as she tried to entice Keiichi to make his wish.
Keiichi's mind ran into a halt.
What did he want for a wish?
He didn't know. His life was pretty good. Belldandy was more than he had ever dreamed of, he had no money concerns, he was passing school, Motor club wasn't deeply in the red with Belldandy helping to restrain Otaki and Tamiya. His sister was doing fine and his parents were alright.
Keiichi nervously looked over at Belldandy
Belldandy smiled, a happy joyous smile full of trust in him. One that reminded Keiichi that Belldandy had also been made happy with his wish.
Darn, if Belldandy didn't have a wish, then Keiichi didn't know what to wish for to make her happy. Although to be honest, he would rather have worked to make Belldandy happy by his own efforts.
But wait, if Belldandy was happy by his own wish, why not use this second wish to make Peorth happy? That way, she can leave the temple and he can get back to his ordinary - well not-so-ordinary with three goddesses in it - but happy life.
"I wish-" Keiichi started.
Peorth leaned in, eyes lit up in excitement. So was Belldandy, curious at what his wish would be.
"-you could have your own wish fulfilled." Keiichi wished, avoiding looking down their dresses.
Two thuds of a faceplant came from where Skuld and Urd had been standing. And a happy clap from Belldandy who was in full agreement with Keiichi's wish.
"Keiichi, you are supposed to use a wish for your own benefit," Urd scolded as she got up. "Genuinely wishing on behalf of the Wishgranter just makes it so that you get kicked to a new list, a higher-priority and more leeway granted one. But you don't need that for a class 1 wish. You are already as high as it goes!"
Peorth stared wide-eyed at him, a smile growing on her face.
This was a return wish. A wish that was passed among the goddesses working in the wish granting business as a legend, a myth. Everyone had heard of a mortal wishing for the happiness of their wish-granter but no one knew of anyone who had been given such a wish
"Wish granted," she said gently, even as her own angel, Gorgeous Rose popped out of her back in alarm.
Peorth might not have granted it if she had been fully aware that her wish had changed when Keiichi had made his wish.
Because as she listened to Keiichi make his wish for her, her heart had a change.
As she sent up the beam to Yggdrasil, her heart's wish had already become a wish to be in Belldandy's place.
A long time ago, in a galaxy not quite far, far away (unless you counted alternate dimensions as distant)… A series that lasted forever had just started….
"Hello! You've reached the Goddess Technical Helpline!" Belldandy said brightly as their center intercepted Mr. Morisato's call. "We will be there in just a moment to grant your access request."
Belldandy was smiling as she hung up, mirror at hand for her to transport herself to Mister Keiichi Morisato's residence.
She held down her excitement at being able to help another person become happy. To be able to reverse the course of a person's life from a downward direction to a happier one.
She loved doing it. She loved her job.
But Belldandy had no idea what was in store for her as she entered her mirror.
Meanwhile, at the Earth Assistance Hotline…
Peorth looked over her next client's profile.
"Oh my, you poor soul!" Peorth exclaimed, her hand holding a rose thrown onto her forehead as she read through her profile. "I can hear your heart crying out for help!"
"Peorth!" her supervisor bellowed. "It's okay to be dramatic but try to be a bit quieter!"
"Yes!" she yelled back in her call center's daily ritual. It was never a full day without the supervisor reprimanding one of his subordinates for their quirks and eccentricities. Usually for how loud they were being.
Everyone knew that the supervisor had a point. Everyone also knew that by now, the supervisor was only saying that because it was a tradition. It was still true, but he was a lot more okay with the volume and eccentricities than just taking his bellow at face value.
Neither the reprimand nor the dramatics impacted the service of the Earth Assistance Hotline. Peorth would know as one of their senior wish-granters. She was one of the best goddesses in the wish-granting business and had spent time in meetings and training trying to improve her skills in any possible manner. The truth was, Peorth knew that their boss liked having people with slightly different demeanors than average working here.
The widely ranging personal styles and outstanding personalities meant that they broke new ground, made lives better, and did it in a fashion unique to the Earth Assistance Hotline. Each goddess had their own preferences and specialties.
And every one of them was a professional. Peroth would do her best to make sure that her client would be happy with her upcoming wish and that this new client would make the best wish that she could. And if it took her natural flamboyance to make the experience better, then she would do it with all the energy she had!
As Peorth continued to read the file, she tensed up as she felt something seize upon her.
She instantly relaxed as she recognized it as Yggdrasil, or more accurately, the Ultimate Force.
As Peorth realized it, worry and concern bubbled up in her. Wish granting goddesses were only contacted by the Ultimate Force if a prior wish was in jeopardy. If a wish was going to become untrue and the Ultimate Force needed a goddess to intervene to make the client happy. And usually, the Ultimate Force chose a goddess who was there for the making of the wish.
So Peorth willingly opened herself up to helping make a poor client's wish stay true.
And she wondered as her body started to teleport directly to its destination, which of her past clients would need her help today?
And on Earth...
"Hello and good evening!" Peordandy said brightly as she bounded out from the mirror and posed on the ground beside the table, big smile on her face as her hands were spread to show her good and open nature. Her formal goddess robes fluttered around her as they settled down after her movement. "It is so good to meet you! My name is Peordandy, Goddess First Class, Type Two, Unlimited."
Peordandy blinked at the mess made when the mortal rolled over in his panic at having a beautiful woman such as herself appear to grant his wish.
"Oh dear," she said as she bent over to help pull him up, her robes opening slightly at the top. She didn't notice until after Keiichi was up on his feet and he blushed and looked down, at their hands.
Peordandy let him. She was here to make Keiichi Morisato happy. And if looking down her dress made him a bit happier, then she would gladly do it. If holding hands with a girl would help him make his wish and become happy, then she would spend their entire time together holding his hand until it was time to go.
But judging by his reaction, this was a deep and dark wish of his heart. One that he was ashamed of. Oh poor soul. His life was obviously lacking in romance.
But Peordandy wasn't sure where to take it. If she was just Peorth, she would move in closer on him, telling him to give her the deepest and darkest wish of his heart. If she was Belldandy, she would try to remove the discomfort for him and use her happy demeanor to ease past the awkwardness of a first meeting.
But she was Peordandy, the fusion of them both. A professional wishgranter, the best in the field!
Well, at least she should be. She was a fusion of two top, first-class, gorgeous goddesses that were the best at wish granting. Her skills were top-notch!
She just didn't know which approach would be better. Much less why she was suddenly fused when a misunderstanding had interfered with the friendship between the two goddesses.
But Peordandy had a unhappy and unlucky client in front of her. Her own issues could be handled at a later time, one when someone's happiness wasn't on the line.
"Let me help you." Peordandy offered as she straightened up and put back upright the table and phone that Keiichi had knocked to the ground.
Keiichi's head was just swerving between the mirror and herself, stunned disbelief on his face.
"Must be dreaming," he muttered as he rubbed his eyes. "I must be seeing things."
"You are not, Mr. Morisato," Peordandy said as she tried to help him past the stage of disbelief and denial. Until this stage was over, Keiichi would not be able to give his wish. But any wishes he made as he moved on from this stage would be more likely to be either deeply troubling issues that he desperately needed help with or tests of her power and nature. She sat down at the table across from him, subtly prompting him to take a seat himself across from her. It would help him feel more comfortable being in a more casual situation like this. "I am the goddess Peordandy and I am here to help people with problem, like you."
Keiichi seemed stunned, not quite believing her.
Peordandy wished she had a business card. For some reason, it helped mortals accept the reality of her existence to have a professional business card in their hands. But right now, the only business cards she had on her was Belldandy's. And right now, she was Peordandy. It would just confuse the poor man even more if she handed him another goddess's business card, claiming it as her own.
And Peorth didn't use business cards, preferring her own roses.
Of course!
She had Peorth's roses! And this place could definitely use a bit more life.
"Here," she added, summoning one of Peorth's roses into her hand before handing them to Keiichi who automatically took them. "Please, take these as a free gift. I always find that roses make a house feel better and more welcoming."
Keiichi still seemed stunned as he stared down at the red rose in his hand.
"We received a system access request from you," Peordandy said excitedly, her sense of drama causing her to leap to her feet and extend her arm to point towards him. "And I came to grant your heart's desire!"
Keiichi blinked at her, her sudden movement causing him to finally break out of his state of shock.
Looks like this guy was stubborn in clinging onto his idea of reality. Admirable trait as the stubborn people were the ones who would keep on being good even as their life got worse and more unlucky. They were the ones most worthy of receiving a wish.
But even stubborn people had their limits. And she was here to make sure his life got better!
"What? Where did- How did you-?" Keiichi questioned as he examined the rose in his hands, turning it over and looking at it more closely.
Peordandy pouted. Her rose was a work of beauty but she was more beautiful! The rose was to remind him of her and that Yggdrasil was there for him, not to distract his attention!
"Mr. Morisato…" she said as she bent over to face him more closely, staring into his tired chocolate brown eyes. "I am here to help you. I have been authorized to grant you one wish."
She sighed as she sat back down, primly now that his attention was back on her. "Unfortunately, you only get one wish."
Surely, if Keiichi was worth an amazing fusion such as herself coming to grant his wish, then he deserved more than just one wish. Perhaps two or three, one from each of her components and one from herself?
Alas, Belldandy had only been granted permission for one wish.
So Peordandy would make sure that his wish was a great one! One that would be worthy of her service!
"So lay it on me!" she exclaimed, leaning forward excitedly. "Give me your heart's deepest desire! I care not if it is dark or innocent! If you desire the romance of the heavens, or the love of the world's most beautiful woman or the freedom of space, speak and I will make it so!"
Peordandy got up again, twirling around and flourishing freely with her robes adding majestic fluttering, trying to convey the enormity of what she was offering him.
"If you desire to rule the world or wealth unending, we'll grant it!" She exclaimed. "If something in the world displeases you, we can remove it!"
She paused, robes settling down a little. "Of course if you want to destroy the world, we can do that too. But we try to avoid doing business with that kind of customer."
"But I am sure that you are not the type. For it is your good nature that appealed to the heavens and drew our eye to you!" she resumed, turning to point at the wide-eyed man.
"Speak your heart to me and I will grant it!" She finished, laying one hand on her hip as she cocked her hip to the side.
"A wish?!" Keiichi exclaimed. "For anything at all?"
"Yes," Peordandy sat down, making sure not to sit such that she would pressure him. "Anything you like."
And she waited, calmly, patiently and carefully.
This was an important part of the process. He needed to consider what his heart wanted, what would make him happy.
And for her to help, she needed to listen in on his thoughts.
'Am I dreaming? Nah, this must be some kinda setup by that jerk Tamiya and his sick buddies. They sent her over for a laugh 'cause they know I'm such a loser with women.'
But beneath the surface layer of his thoughts, Keiichi's emotions flowed with the tinge of betrayal and hurt.
Oh dear, this would not do! She came to help him, not to make him feel like his friends had betrayed him! She was sure that his friends were good and nice people.
She would have to act fast in order to avoid ruining his friendship!
"This is no joke!" she exclaimed, quickly placing a hand on the table and pushing herself up. "You're not dreaming and this is not a joke! As a first-class goddess, I cannot lie and I would never do such a malicious and insidious prank on anyone!"
Her righteous indignation must have conveyed itself to him as he looked utterly and completely startled.
But his thoughts had indicated what his problem was.
Keiichi was lonely.
It was not good for anyone to be alone. And to not have the fruits of love in his life to the point that he was starting to disbelieve that he could be loved.
Well, it would be enough to make her cry. Even if she was single and both of her component goddesses had been for centuries now. Somewhat embarrassing for a love goddess like Peorth.
But the spark just hadn't occurred for them yet. Belldandy and Peorth had yet to find a god who they could fall in love with. Peordandy was sure that after the fusion was split and the cause discovered, they would one day fall in love with a handsome, kind, and generous god!
But more relevant to Keiichi, how could she help Keiichi Morisato realize that his heart's wish for love?
Ah! Of course!
"Why do you believe that you never have good fortune with women?" she asked gently.
Come on, think about it! She, Peordandy, most excellent of wish-granters and a goddess of love is perfectly suited to help Keiichi discover love in his life. Think and reflect and she'll make sure he falls into the full depths of love!
But he has to arrive at his own wish by himself. It would be wrong if she decided what his wish would be. He needed to have the freedom to make his own wish.
It was an important part of improving his life. He needed to be able to realize that he was free! That he could go wherever he wanted, that he could live however he wanted. That all the bad luck that falling on him could be cast away starting from now!
That the romance of a lifetime was just one wish away!
But that would involve him believing it. If he didn't believe that love would come for him, he would never have the courage to ask the woman he would later fall in love with out. And that would be a tragedy!
To have love guaranteed, but never achieved because of a heavy heart!
Peordandy restrained her tears at the thought.
Keiichi's mind was now on the subject of women and love. He would soon make a wish that only an excellent love goddess like herself could grant to the fullest!
It also explained why Yggdrasil fused Peorth to Belldandy before coming to this client. Belldandy had no romantic experience. She would never be able to realize what Peorth would. She wouldn't know how to help Keiichi like Peorth can.
But the first step was to help him realize what his heart's desire was. And after that, Peordandy would show forth the reason for her inherited excellent service record!
"Can't you tell just by looking at me?" Keiichi asked bitterly.
Of course, it might take a while. It looked like he had a bad experience with romance in the past. Or a series of them.
"No," she answered in full honesty as she examined him.
He was cute. His wild, black hair, his chocolate brown eyes, his well-muscled and healthy figure. Very well-muscled arms as his sleeveless plain shirt showed…
Definitely ranking at least a 7 on the hotness scale if Peordandy had to judge. Of course she knew that a person's ranking could change depending on how they dressed and acted but Peordandy would be willing to bet that if well-groomed and brimming with confidence, Keiichi could hit a 10 at the very least.
And his heart was pure. He lived simply, honestly and kindly. He was someone that would make any woman happy to married to him.
Keiichi obviously held back a wince. Like he was having to show something shameful.
"Okay, stand up for a second," was all he said as he put her rose down on the table.
Peordandy stood curiously. In his thoughts, there was something about his height. A complex of sorts?
Keiichi also stood up and moved over to stand next to her. He was shorter than her. By quite a bit actually.
"Now see what I mean?" he asked exasperatedly at her slightly befuddled look. "I'm too short!"
No he wasn't. His features were excellent if a tad on the average side while his soul was amazing in quality. Why would his height matter at all? Was height seen as a desirable trait in romance between humans now?
But more importantly, Peordandy didn't want him to use a wish on making himself taller! That would be a waste of a wish!
"I'm sorry," she said politely. Move away from height, focus on romance! She was a love goddess! She could make sure that he had a whirlwind romance that would go down in the history books! "You are short, yes but why would just your height deprive you of love? You have many wonderful traits that any good woman would like."
Keiichi stared at her.
"Well, take a look around," he said, gesturing around his room.
Peordandy looked around. It was a humble apartment. Not very large and everything was cramped. But she had seen smaller homes with more people inside before and they had been happy there.
"I don't have much money," he explained, somewhat down about his economic situation. "Without money, who would be interested?"
"I can understand if lack of future prospects was a turn-off," Peordandy conveyed her honest thoughts. "But you do have many great opportunities ahead of you. You are having a rough patch now but in the future, your hard work will make a life with you a joy to whoever you decide to marry."
She leaned forward, speaking earnestly. "You are a good man, Mr. Morisato. You might be lacking in resources now but given time, you could amass a comfortable and happy lifestyle. One that any of a large number of women would be glad to share with you. And the best women are able to see past that current lack and would easily fall in love with you."
Take the bait. Take the bait please! She was eager to start help him make his wish come true.
But the man slumped back against the wall. His emotions were strong, a mix of surprise, disbelief, pain, and doubt. Doubt that was directed towards both her and himself.
She waited for him to ask. Right now, she she had to let him think and reflect. After that, then she could remove the obstacles-
But at that moment, Peordandy sensed something crystalize in his mind and heart. She couldn't make it out clearly, not amidst his current rolling emotions, but one thing was clear.
He had resolved on his wish! She could see it! Keiichi's whole heart, full of yearning even if tinged by heavy doubt, moving forward! Peordandy was certain that his would be his heart's desire!
"Okay, I might as well make my wish," he said resigned.
Peordandy held herself back from dancing, even if she started to shake in eagerness. If she broke out into dramatics, it might distract him from his wish.
"Yes?" she asked eagerly.
The man coughed and blushed, obviously embarrassed.
Of course he was. He was obviously going to be wishing for love! There was nothing better to be embarrassed about! The love of a man and a maiden would redden the cheeks of people everywhere! It was the best wish he could possibly make! What else could he even want to wish for?
"I want a goddess like you-"
Peordandy nodded eagerly. Yes, she, the great and marvelous Peordandy, was the perfect goddess to make a wish about love to. He must have sensed her nature as a love goddess!
"-to be with me always!" he concluded with a smirk.
"Right away!" Peordandy said cheerfully as she approved his wish.
Then her brain realized what he actually said.
"What?" she gaped.
A proposal! Out of the blue like this?! She was flattered and if he had been a god, she would definitely agree to go out on a date on the spot but the Judgment Gate-
And Peordandy belatedly realized that the wish was already approved and was about to be sent up to Yggdrasil.
"Yeah, figured that it would be no good-" Keiichi started but Peordandy couldn't focus past the link to Yggdrasil taking up all of her attention.
"Uuh," Peordandy groaned as she returned to the consciousness of her body.
She was held in a warm man's arms. A bridal carry, if the pressure on the shoulders and under her knees was right. Something that she would definitely appreciate waking up to in a normal situation. It had always been a dream of one of her to be carried like this.
But now was not normal or the time for dreaming about marriage!
She had just been proposed to! As a wish! By a cute mortal!
This had to be a joke! There was no way Yggdrasil could approve this wish! It couldn't have gone through!
Perhaps it was a dream!
But as she woke up, opening her eyes to the handsome face of a blushing but obviously relieved Keiichi Morisato, Peordandy faced the fact that it might not have been a weird dream.
"Oh no!" Peordandy exclaimed.
Her job! Her homes! Her fusion! Her rose garden! She had been planning on investigating why she had been fused without anyone's input after the wish was taken care of!
"Excuse me," she exclaimed as she shot out of his arms ignoring his bewildered 'what?'. "I need to use your phone!"
"Yeah, sure," the man said from behind her as he stared at her.
She could understand him staring at her. She was a beautiful goddess. One that he had just proposed to.
Peordandy couldn't keep the blush off of her face. When she been encouraging him towards love, she had been thinking of acting like his guardian goddess! One that would help him, encourage him, provide him advice and root for him as he got the girl! Not-
Not- well, not to be the girl.
As she typed in her father's personal number, Peordandy's thoughts rambled.
How could this wish have come through? Surely, it must be illegal to bind a goddess to a mortal. And by a proposal no less!
Not that there would be a better way to bind a goddess to a mortal than the bonds of love, but surely she hadn't married him!
She had just met the man! Where was the whirlwind romance? The lovey-dovey dates? The passionate kisses? And she was a fusion of two goddesses!
When she defused, which one would the first wife and who would be the second?!
Peordandy breathed in deeply and calmed herself. She was a first-class goddess. She would not panic and lose control over her magic.
Even in a crazy situation like this.
She probably wasn't married anyway. She didn't have a lovely wedding ceremony yet.
"Hello, this is Peordandy," Peordandy hesitated as she realized that this was probably the first news of her fusion to her father.
Okay, she had two things she needed to talk about. The status of her wish and her fusion.
"Ah, yes," The Almighty answered, his usual decorum somewhat missing. Peordandy guessed that if anything was worth shaking the Almighty's composure over, it would be this one. "Belldandy, I mean, Peordandy. I've been expecting you to call."
Sounds of paper rustling and of people chatting came over to Peordandy's end. Obviously her father was busy.
"Um," Peordandy hesitated. How to ask about it without being rude?
"This is about your fusion right?" he asked.
"Yes," she answered simply. "How is-?"
"How is it possible?" he finished her question. "Well, we don't have any laws about a situation like this. No one ever considered that a wish might be used to bind the wish-granter to be by the mortal's side forever. And no, it is not considered a marriage. If anything, you are more of a personal deity who is much more obvious about your presence."
Peordandy breathed out a sigh of relief. While she wouldn't mind being married, she didn't want her marriage to happen like this.
"And the term 'forever' makes this situation a bit more unique. One of the things that could present a danger to fulfilling the wish is the Judgment Gate. As such, Keiichi has had a libido limiter placed on him. I know it isn't the most ethical thing but better safe than sorry. It would be bad if a demon was able to force you two apart by hitting one or the other of you two with an aphrodisiac and Judgment Gate judged your love as poor, which it would naturally be after you were drugged into it. The Gate would then render you two unable to see each other again and the wish would enter a state of paradox and that would create a whole realm of mess. And we can't just give another wish out in its place as the circumstances are such that taking a valid wish away would be illegal. The wish has already been approved by Yggdrasil and it would be illegal for me to not sign it without a cause."
Peordandy nodded. She could see that. Yggdrasil had anti-tampering laws in place. To declare this wish invalid after it was established and without any crimes would be illegal. Laws were in effect that limited what powers the Almighty could exercise. And Keiichi was no criminal, if he was, then that would allow the Almighty to declare certain conditions as fulfilled and allow him to access the power to veto the wish.
And the wish wasn't a crime. More of an unexplored area. And to declare it a crime would require extensive ethical debates before the ethical decision could be reached. A conclusion that could take centuries to reach due to how Keiichi had ignorantly proposed as a wish. If you made a hasty judgment here, you would impact future generations of gods by either denying good marriages or forcing bad ones through. Not to mention the statue requirement to examine how to seamlessly merge the new law with the old ones without rendering one set of law invalid or illegal.
"The wish can still be canceled upon either of your request though," the father said somewhat brightly. "The standard revocation of a wish that is no longer desired can be carried out. With it being binding on both of you, it can be canceled by either of you. Since I know my daughter and I've heard good things about Peorth, I assume that you won't be canceling the wish anytime soon?"
"That is right," Peordandy affirmed.
"Thought so. It would be cruel to ruin his wish this early," Tyr said understandingly.
"However," he continued on. "The situation is a lot more complex than you know. And I am not just speaking about how the wish was made to you as a fusion."
"Yes," Peordandy said. "How did this come about anyhow?"
She waved one hand up and down at herself. Belldandy's long brown hair had been shortened and darkened down to a lighter shade of Peorth's shoulder length black hair with the exception of the long braid of hair in back but Belldandy's cowlicks had transferred over to the top of her head. Her eyes had turned heterochromatic, with one blue Belldandy eye and one brown Peorth eye. Peordandy's jewelry and limiters were all being worn simultaneously to help keep the combined power of two goddesses from being too high and her formal goddess robes billowed off of her back while her front was Belldandy's full heavy set of robes over Peorth's lighter set.
"And that is most of the complexity," Tyr, the Almighty, admitted. "It looks like Yggdrasil has a log of an alternate timeline that was rewritten. One where Belldandy alone answered the System request and received the exact same wish of "I want a goddess like you to be with me always". That was fine, no reason for Yggdrasil to rewrite just from that. Pretty similar result to what I've already told you. The issue comes from the second System request for Keiichi Morisato."
"What?" Peordandy asked in shock.
A second system request?! No one had ever gotten two wishes from Yggdrasil before. Was the current wish a bad one then? Had she ruined a wish for Keiichi Morisato by only paying attention to the wish of the heart he had made?
"Yes, another system request for Keiichi Morisato, given to Earth Assistance Hotline operative Peorth, goddess First Class, Type Two, Unlimited. Said wish was 'I wish you could have your own wish fulfilled'."
"Oh," was all Peordandy could say.
A return wish. The rarest of the rare. A mortal who, despite being in a difficult and unlucky situation, decided to use his wish for nothing less than the benefit of the god or goddess sent to help him.
"Wait," Peordandy's brow furrowed as she considered the wording of the second wish.
"Yes, that should have fulfilled Peorth's wish before being kicked back to Keiichi Morisato," Tyr agreed. "However, the wish in Peorth's heart at that moment in the alternate timeline was to be in Belldandy's place in regards to having a contract with Keiichi Morisato."
"Yggdrasil found the best way to resolve the paradox of Belldandy being with Keiichi Morisato always and Peorth being in the place of Belldandy was to fusion you together for your first meeting. That way, Belldandy is still with Keiichi Morisato and Peorth is in Belldandy's place."
"But then we have the issue of an unused returned 1st class wish," Tyr's tone darkened. "Which wish was just made to you as Peordandy. You are permanently fused."
"What? You mean it is a permanent fusion?" Peordandy blurted out. She had thought it was just a temporary fusion for the duration of the wish!
"Yes," her father said as Peordandy summoned her angel Sacred Rose. Her single fused angel. Her angel that was wearing Holy Bell's white cloth draped between Gorgeous Rose's rose vines.
Keiichi yelled as he scrambled back to the wall, staring at the sudden appearance of another -person? She didn't have legs!? And why did she have wings?! And what was she wearing?!
The angel examined herself, twisting and turning in the air to examine how she looked now. Once she finished, her eyes lighted upon Keiichi who was gaping at her.
She flew over to him to examine him more carefully.
Keiichi blushed as he noticed how skimpy her clothing was.
The angel got in really close, staring into his eyes, causing Keiichi to sweat before she nodded once, smiled, and flew back to Peordandy.
I like him, Sacred Rose said with a giggle. He's adorable! And I think with a bit of work, his soul will be really, really comfortable to be around!
Yes, he is cute, Peordandy almost distractedly replied as she tried to listen to the Almighty's explanation as to how the permanent fusion was deemed as necessary by Yggdrasil in order to fulfill all three wishes. But later!
"As for the last bit of business here, Peorth's next client will be transferred to your colleague Eloha at the Earth Assistance Hotline since you are bonded with Keiichi Morisato for the foreseeable future," Tyr concluded.
"Wait, you mean-!" Peordandy said, alarmed.
"Yes, your work as Keiichi Morisato's goddess has taken precedence over all responsibilities, duties, and obligations. I would suggest that you view it as a vacation" her father said.
"Almighty One! You can't-!" Peordandy protested. Her work! Her future clients! The happiness of others! That outing with Skuld!
"Enjoy it," the Almighty commanded before continuing in a mutter. "Goodness knows that I would like to have a vacation."
Well, Peordandy's Belldandy component would have liked to have her father home more often too.
But still!
"That takes care of all the relevant issues," the Almighty said. "We will be working on how to develop laws about multiple wishes, overlapping contracts, becoming a personal deity to a mortal, and everything else that this case has revealed. I anticipate it taking a while. A long, long while."
The note of dread in his voice about all the extra meetings and adjustments to legal procedures was not imagined.
"Oh, and Peordandy. You are still my daughter," Tyr said affectionately before he had to hang up.
Peordandy stared ahead blankly.
This was-
Unexpected.
She had had some plans, arrangements, and meetings to accomplish this week. For both Peorth and Belldandy.
And now she had none.
She was suddenly on a long-term assignment with Keiichi Morisato. For what looked like forever.
"Well, this was unexpected," she muttered to herself as she reoriented herself to face the end of all of her past plans and the beginning of something new.
But if she was going to be among the humans for this, she should change from her formal robes. They really weren't meant to be worn on top of each other and it was kind of uncomfortable.
A brief shimmer of power as she reorganized the atomic matter of her two robes into something much more comfortable for herself.
Her robes were now a well fitted red pants with an orange belt snug on her hips and a skin-tight black tubetop that showed off her beauty yet was modest as well. Over her shoulders and down to the upper half of her arm was an unbuttoned red jacket. Her shoes had been changed to a nice set of practical boots yet still looked good on her.
She stretched a little, noting how it was perfectly fine for free movement and wouldn't involve showing people her underwear in case she needed to fly anywhere before turning to face the mortal she was now bound to.
'Well', the fused goddess thought as she stared at the wide-eyed mortal. 'At least he is handsome.'
A.N.
I've already heard that Peordandy isn't acting much like Belldandy. Unfortunately, Belldandy is a somewhat passive character. She isn't as dynamic or active as Peorth. So when Peordandy is being spontaneous or proactive, Peorth has a stronger influence.
If you look over Peordandy, you'll find times when she was more passive than Peorth. Times when she was patient when Peorth wouldn't have been. When it comes to reacting, Belldandy is a stronger influence.
As the fusion progresses, it is likely that Belldandy's influence would start to show more in her day to day actions. Especially her possessiveness over Keiichi. Belldandy didn't really display it save for subconsciously. Peordandy is more likely to go passive aggressive. Peorth is likely to go aggressive.