Time Capsule

by Skryb

The previous reincarnate in line must've really hated her, because she's been forced to go to an dystopian world and play a game for a decade. Fortunately though, the game and the people in it aren't that bad.

9. Oh, Brave New World!

The first thing Vagisilious saw when she logged on was BigStall using one of his special emotes to gloat over her as he said, "Haha, you may have been here for 4 years, but I'm here first!"

She smiled, "Yeah, I'm glad you're here."

BigStall nodded, "Of course I'd be here! I mean, if I'm not here, how else am I going to claim that all of that Yggdrasil's made in the last 4 years is legally and rightfully mine?"

Ah, right, that whole situation.

So basically for the last 4 years, it wasn't really clear where her $15 monthly subscription and cash shop purchases were going. So BigStall was trying to get all of that money because, obviously, he's greedy and wants in on the millions that Yggdrasil has accumulated after its downfall.

RIght now, all of the money was in a bank, currently sitting untouched mostly because it belongs to a dead company.

She hummed, "Yeah. Anyways, are you going to do anything special as the last developer of Yggdrasil?"

"Ehhh," He noncommittally hummed, "Not really, better to leave things untouched…"

Ah, well, she gets the feeling. Some things really are better to be left untouched.

"Actually," BigStall immediately backs on his word, "Who's #1 in Yggdrasil right now… Ugh, still Seraphim?"

BigStall stood up and changed into his GM gear, "Not anymore!"

He pulls out… A weird, red cube out of what was presumably his inventory, fiddled with an invisible menu for a bit, and threw it over to her, which she easily caught.

Then, she took a look at what the cube did.

[GUILD RANK TEST CUBE: CHANGES GUILD RANKING SCORE. DEVELOPER ITEM.]

"...BigStall, did you do what I think you just did." She said, not really surprised at all.

BigStall changed back into his player form and sat back down, "Yep, we're now #1 with a grand total of about a quadrillion guild points!"

She chuckled, "So, do we get to keep this cube?"

He shrugged, "It literally does nothing except change our guild ranking score. Yeah you can keep it. It's not like it really matters anyways."

A beat passes.

"Seraphim is going to be so mad."

"Oh, definitely, yeah."

They spent the next hour chit chatting about random things as they waited for the others to get off work and be able to log on.

About the meaningless…

"So, have you played the new Pokemon games?"

"The dive one? I did, it was sort of good but I really just want a dive Alola remake…"

"You want a gen 7 dive remake? Literally insane."

To the somewhat important stuff…

"Hm, Otanabetabeki got a kidney stone a few years ago, right?"

"Yeah, and then he made a torturer for the sole purpose of wanting to whine about how painful that kidney stone was."

"Oh, that's when he joined Orphea's company, right?"

"Yeah, Orphea keeps on winning."

Things that only they cared about…

"Hm, you've met Orphea in real life, right?"

"Uh, yeah?"

"1-10, how cute was she? Does Pero have good taste?"

"Oh that's easy, definitely a 10. If I were a lesbian…"

"Don't finish that sentence for my sake, Vaggy."

To the depressing…

"How many do you think will log on?"

"All of them."

"That's kind of ambitious, Vaggy."

"No, I think I'll be right."

And eventually, other people did log on.

And the first to join was, predictably, Momonga & Ulbert.

"Oh, hey BigStall!" Momonga greeted, "Haven't seen you around in a while!"

"Hm, yeah, how have you been?" Ulbert followed up.

BigStall sent them a thumbs up, "Pretty good! Hey, check the guild leaderboards."

They checked, and they immediately laughed.

BigStall knowingly nodded, "I know. Comedy gold."

"Seraphim is going to be pissed!" Ulbert shouted, laughing.

She pointed at Ulbert, "That's exactly what I said!"

As they talked, within a few minutes Orphea showed up along with her entire company.

"Hey! What's up?!" Orphea boasted as she entered the conference room and sat next to Peroroncino, "Haven't seen you guys since my last birthday!"

BigStall tilted his head, "I've never seen you, though."

"That's because you're a meanie." Orphea replied.

Peroroncino nodded, "Yeah, BigStall, you definitely owe us for not showing up to anything we want you to show up."

Coup De Grace followed along with his masters, "Yeah, BigStall. Stop being so rude."

BigStall chuckled, "No."

Tabula & Punitto then chose that time to log in and enter the conference room.

Punitto immediately greeted her, "Hey Vaggy! It's been a while since we last spoke, huh?"

She nodded, "Yeah, a whole 5 months ago. At least you're not as bad as Herohero."

Tabula snorted, "I actually spoke to him not too long ago, like a year ago. He's been swamped with overtime work, and I asked him why he didn't just go to Orphea's company and he keeps telling me 'oh, it'll be embarrassing though.'"

"Whaaat? If Herohero shows up, I'm going to just give him a job interview right here and now." Orphea said, getting some laughs.

Herohero then chose that exact time to show up, "Hey guys."

Orphea immediately walked up to him, "Herohero, what would you say is your biggest strength?"

"...What."

Bukubukuchagama snorted, "This is an intervention."

Luci*Fer nodded, "Definitely an intervention."

Ankoro then showed up, "Hey guys! Looks like I got my timezones right!"

"Oh, yeah! How's America going for you, Ankoro?" Shizyuutensuzaku asked.

2 years ago, with the help of her American backing, Orphea's fat stacks of cash, and the local fame she got from being in the funny little play they held all those years ago, Ankoro managed to get to America and ended up working there.

Still somehow single, though.

Ankoro gave her a thumbs up, "Definitely way better than Japan! I love the feeling of actually being able to eat something that isn't paste."

"That's nice, that's nice." Garnet said, jealousy in his voice.

"Say, where's Genjiro?" Flatfoot asked, looking around.

"Ah, I heard he wasn't gonna show up because of some office crisis." Nubo said.

"Dang, that sucks, I wanted to screw around with him for one last time." Flatfoot sighed, "Shame."

Nishikienrai patted his back, "It's fine, it's fine."

Whitebrim exploded onto the scene with his paid emote as he yelled out, "GIVE IT UP FOR THE MASTERMIND OF ALL OF THE MAIDS IN NAZARICK! WHIIIIITEEEBRIIIIM!"

"Hey! Glad you could make it, Whitebrim!" Luci*Fer happily said, "You sound pretty happy today!"
Whitebrim flexed as he answered, "Guess who just got a promotion at work last week?"

"A promotion?! That's crazy!"

"Who's dick are you sucking, man!?"

"Oh, teach us your ways, master!"

She hummed as she counted the members present, "28…"

"Hey, Vaggy," Ulbert quietly said, "I want you to remember I have your name and address."

She smiled, "Yeah, I know. If I'm wrong, though, you'll have to beat me to the punch, though."

Ulbert hummed, "Dang, you're right."

Momonga chose that moment to speak up to everyone, "Everyone! Does anyone know if anyone else is going to come, or might come?"

There was nobody who spoke up, so it was presumed that this was everyone who was going to show up.

"In that case, why not one more tour of Nazarick before it's gone? We have 2 hours, we can check every bio if we want to." Momonga suggested, getting a bunch of cheers.

"Man, I totally forgot some of these floors, honestly." Suratan said, getting nods from a few people.

"What? How can you forget them?" Punitto asked, "Don't you remember the hours we spent just watching the floors on that big invasion night?"

Suratan waved it off, "I was exaggerating, of course I remember. I just don't remember all of the finer details.

"Well, in that case, let's start off with the first floor!" Momonga declared as they all got up to teleport-

And realized they were in crappy gear, and didn't even have the rings of Ainz Ooal Gown on them because they gave it to Momonga before they left.

"God, that's embarrassing." Orphea commented as she was sitting down, "That would never be me."

Peroroncino pointedly stared at Orphea.

"Dork."

Peroroncino groaned as he just sat down next to her.

"I can just make gates, you know." Momonga said, which immediately reignited the spirit inside of everyone.

And as everyone left for the first floor, Momonga, Ulbert, and herself straggled behind to have one last conversation.

"So, I'll use the Gate of Atlas to get everyone back here, and Momonga can use Hygiela's Chalice along with a staff of revival to revive Bellriver, and Ulbert can direct everyone to the treasury to get their rings and gear?" She repeated the plan.

Momonga raised his hand, "Now that I think of it, can I just borrow Tokino?"

She thought about it for a moment, then she nodded, "Yeah, that's actually smart. Do that."

Ulbert had nothing else to say, so he just entered the gate. And the other 2 followed behind him.

---

Peroroncino hummed as he looked over Shalltear, "Man, this gets me nostalgic, I really thought I made the cutest girl in the world."

Orphea tilted her head, "But then you met me, right?"

"I was going to finish my sentence with that."

"I'm stopping you from finishing that overly romantic sentence for your own sake."

"You would've liked it."

"I would've."

Peroroncino stared at Shalltear again.

"Eh, if I'm not going to bang Shalltear, who is going to?" He asked.

Orphea hummed, then she answered, "Momonga."

"Oh! That's such a good answer! Yeah, I'm adding that to her bio now…"

---

Otanabetabeki cringed as he saw Neuronist for the first time in years.

Nishikienrai patted Otanabetabeki on the back, "Hey, don't sound like that, man! Take some pride! We're the designers of the 5 worst NPCs in Nazarick, that's something to be proud of!"

"Yeah, but…" Otanabetabeki started as he tried to put his thoughts into words, "...I just kind of feel like I'm cringe for basically pouring out my darkest emotions into her."

"Ah, well, at least we'll be cringe together!"

Otanabetabeki snorted, "Yeah, I guess you're right. Neuronist, you will stay the same."

---

"Jeeze, Vaggy, you sure put a lot of stuff in Leviathan's bio," Tabula said as he skimmed through his bio, reaching the end, "...Ah, you missed us, huh?"

She nodded, "Yeah, I mean, you guys were gone for like 4 years."

Tabula hummed, "Well, we're here now. And I guess Leviathan is really happy about the fact that we're going to be gone again soon."

She nodded again, "I guess so, yeah. But I think he'll be sad that Tokino will be sad when we're gone."

Tabula then decided to open Tokino's bio.

And immediately closed it.

"I'm not reading all of that."

She laughed, "I've managed to bring you to your knees! Your knees!"

---

"Man, shame that Takemikazuchi couldn't make it, huh?" Herohero remarked as he skimmed through Cocytus's bio.

Punitto nodded, "Yeah, that's a shame…" He noticed something about Cocytus, "Oh, wait, is that weapon the same one that Takemikazuchi was going to use to challenge Touch with? The one he called the God-Slayer Blade because he was so confident in it?"

Herohero checked it, and said, "Oh yeah! It is! I guess it's cool that Cocytus got something from Takemikazuchi, huh?"

"Yeah, that is pretty cool."

---

Inside of the frozen court…

"Okay, Diviser! Tell us whether Momonga is cringe or not for making Pandora's Actor German!" Ankoro asked the Chief Justice NPC.

The NPC did not respond.

"Well, I think that's an innocent verdict, right?" Momonga said, clearly weirded out by the whole situation.

"Nuh-uh!" Luci*Fer said, "The Supreme Beings declare you guilty of cringe!"

"Who decided the whole Supreme Being thing anyways? I forgot." Ancient One asked.

"I think it was Vaggy." Daijobubua answered.

"Of course it was her."

---

"Oh, here's Liberta, Liberta, Liberta, Liberta, Liberta, and my favorite, Liberta!" Orphea joked as she showed off her collection of the same guy 6 times.

Peroroncino cheered her on, "Man, I really enjoy how you made Liberta look like Liberta!"

Coup De Grace gave her a thumbs up, "I like Lucilla."

They both stared at him.

"I mean, I like Tangaroa." Coup De Grace amended.

"I like that big dumb whale as well." Orphea said, nodding approvingly of his answer.

Peroroncino chuckled, "We like big dumb whales."

Orphea chuckled, and then suddenly stopped, "Wait a second."

Peroroncino tilted his head, "Huh? Stop about what?"

Orphea stared at Peroroncino, and then she sighed, "I'm a big dumb whale…"

Peroroncino blinked.

And then he laughed.

---

Bukubukuchagama took one last picture of Aura and Mare.

BigStall decided to ask, "Did you ever explain why you decided to have them crossdress, Buku?"

"It was cute." She swiftly answered.

BigStall stared at her.

"...Sexually." Bukubukuchagama reluctantly answered.

BigStall sighed, "Yeah, that's what I thought."

"Not on kids though! I've grown up from that phase of my life!"

"Yeah, yeah, definitely."

"100%! I just want to see them grow up or something! I'm better now!"
"Mhm, groomer."

"I'm not!"

---

Ulbert, Peroroncino, and Orphea stared at Demiurge.

Orphea sighed, "Man, did you really have to make him look like my dad?"

Ulbert shrugged, "Your dad looked evil, I don't know what to tell you."

She stared at Demiurge again, "Man, looking at you just makes me sad."

Peroroncino gave her a hug.

"Virtual hugs really don't feel as good as real ones…" Orphea commented as she accepted the hug anyways.

"I'll give you a real one later," Peroroncino offered.

"You give me a real one every night."

"Stop flirting in front of the evilest guy in Nazarick, dumbasses."

---

Punitto groaned as he laid eyes on Aureole, "Ugh, I just remembered that match we had where you kicked my ass with a teacup."

BigStall chuckled, "Oh yeah! I remember that! That was hilarious."

"That really happened?" Tabula questioned, "I thought you were joking because obviously it would've been dumb to challenge a Pokemon World Champion to a Pokemon battle."

"Wait- You're a world champion?!" Punitto said in astonishment.

BigStall nodded, "Yeah, but that happened after I kicked your ass."

"...Dang. I really stood no chance back then, huh?"

"That's what you get for calling me a fraud."

---

"Ugh, everybody's posting their final pictures on the forums now." Coup De Grace said, disgusted.

Ancient One, who was busy reading Rubedo's character bio, questioned him, "Really? I guess that was sort of expected, but why are you looking at the Yggdrasil forums?"

Coup De Grace sneered, "I wanted to know if we had the biggest reunion in Yggdrasil, but…"

"But?"

"Seraphim somehow got 72 members back for the final day." Coup De Grace answered bitterly.

"72?! Seriously?!"

"God, I wanna fight them now." Coup De Grace said, "Cut them down to a normal size."

Ancient One shrugged, "Ah, well, too late now. Besides, I don't think we'd win that fight."

"Ah, but what if we brought all of the NPCs with us?" Coup De Grace suggested.

"...Then they do the same, and then we get flattened?"

"Lore Accurate NPCs."

"Do you want to learn how OP those uptight angel players made their NPCs in their bios?"

"...Actually, you're right. Those NPCs must be all the direct descendants of God or something."

Ancient One chuckled, "Ah, but we'd still win, right?"

Coup De Grace nodded, "Obviously, we kicked their asses the last time."

Ancient One hummed, "I'm done reading Rubedo's bio, now. Real piece of art that Tabula made."

"I wish we could've used the caloric stone for like, anything else though…"

"She's strong, though, and Tabula put in her bio that she's literally an incarnation of some strong creature from the abyss or something. That's a 2 for 2 on lore and gameplay power!"

"Didn't Vaggy keep talking about how Leviathan clears Rubedo in a lore accurate fight though?" Coup De Grace asked, "How does a world enemy beat anything from the lovecraft verse?"

Ancient One shrugged, "I don't know, magic? Rubedo is called an incarnation, that might be it. And it doesn't really say that the strong creature is a god or anything…"

"I think you're stretching it."

"I don't think I beat Vaggy in a stretching competition, though. She'd probably point out something I couldn't even think of yet to try and prove Leviathan beats her in lore."

"Oh, yeah, definitely. It's like she thinks her words just make things law. I mean, there has to be a reason she wrote like, 6000 words for Leviathan's bio."

"Haha, if anyone would get that sort of power, it would definitely be her. She'd probably love a power like that."

"...Are you going to ask her about that?"

"Oh, god, no. That'd be embarrassing going up to a girl and asking 'hey, if you had a power…'"

"Haha!"

---

"Nishiki! What's our status on our horny limit?" Whitebrim asked as they were staring at the 41 maids they all individually made.

This really was the pride of Whitebrim. Because he spent an ungodly amount of time just trying to convince everyone that they needed to make their own maids.

Which he won, by the way, when Touch finally caved in which made all 41 members of Nazarick have their very own maid.

Nishikienrai thought about it for a second before replying, "We're at full capacity."

Whitebrim began to speak, but then he stopped, "Wait, full capacity as in we can't be horny anymore, or full capacity as in we're about to blow it all?"

Nishikienrai shrugged, "I don't know, I only thought about it for a second."

Whitebrim was unimpressed as he decided to be horny anyways, "I wanna stick my dick into all of these girls."

"Yeah, you're not allowed to be horny anymore."

---

Vagisilious stared at Sebas as she commented, "Man, you're pretty similar to Leviathan, huh?"

Orphea tilted her head, "But Leviathan has the fancier suit, doesn't he? He's got that extra flair to him that Sebas doesn't have, since he's just a butler."

Vagisilious nodded, "Yeah, I guess so. Leviathan also has longer hair, and his hair is black with white streaks in it."

Orphea nodded, "Leviathan's build is also better."

"You're just saying that because you have the same build as him."

"Yeah, I totally am."

---

Herohero sighed as he looked at Solution, "Man, I wish I had a girlfriend like Solution…"

"Herohero, you just want to be mothered." Peroroncino diagnosed.

"Yeah, I do…"

"Good taste."

"Thanks, I see that settling down hasn't dulled your tastes either."

"Naturally, who do you think I am?"

"The king of horniness, obviously" Herohero answered, "By the way, would it be rude to leave right now? I really need some sleep."

"Yeah, it'd be pretty rude," Peroroncino replied, "You've gotta stay with us, man."

Herohero sighed, "Yeah, I guess so…"

---

Tabula looked at Albedo holding Ginnungagap with some surprise as he said, "Dang, I left that on her like 2 years ago, and you just let her keep it?"

Momonga shrugged, "It's not like it was going to be used ever again. Might as well respect your wishes to make Albedo look cooler."

Tabula checked Albedo's bio, and sighed, "Dang, I was sort of lazy with her. Momonga, do you have any good ideas for a gap moe for her?"

Momonga tilted his head, "I thought Albedo's gap moe was that she had no gap moe and that she was just a regular horny succubus?"

"I don't like it anymore."

"...Then why not just make her… I don't know, asexual?"

"That's boring."

"...Make her monogamous?"

"Hmm… With who?"

"...Me?"

"Momonga, you're a genius."

"What."

Tabula quickly edited Albedo's bio, "Making her monogamous despite her species usually being polyamorous is a decent start, but making her in love with a skeleton that can't reproduce is doubly good!"

"Are you making fun of me?" Momonga asked.

"Yes."

"Oh."

Momonga then paused, "Wait, you're a bit hornier than I remember you being…"

Tabula paused, then he slowly answered, "Well, the writing industry has been tough on me…"

"You've been writing smut."

"Yeah I've been writing smut so I don't go broke."

"You should probably talk to Orphea about that."

"Yeah I really should."

Momonga only realized the implications of what that change would entail after the end of Yggdrasil.

---

Eventually, the final 5 minutes of Yggdrasil was upon them, and so they all gathered in the throne room.

"Man, it's really just the 28 of us? I thought there'd be more." BigStall said as he mentally counted everyone who was there.

Orphea shrugged, "Well, it sucks to suck! We're the true members of Ainz Ooal Gown."

"Hey! Don't say that, I'm sure the other 13- Ah, 12 members wanted to be here too." Momonga said, briefly bringing the mood of the room down with the silent mention of Bellriver.

"Man, I wonder how Bellriver could've screwed this up." Pannokishi said.

Ulbert snorted, "He'd probably act like he didn't die or something and pretend everything was fine."

Tabula hummed, "Yeah, and then we'd all make fun of him for dying."

"What names would we call him, though?" Vagisilious asked, "Cause I don't have any good ones."

Everyone shrugged, because nobody had any good ideas.

"You're all boring sometimes." Vagisilious said.

"You didn't have any ideas either." Ulbert pointed out.

A beat passes.

Tabula asked Orphea, "Hey, Orphea, I'm broke, can you hire me?"

Orphea laughed, "Seriously?! Okay, yeah, yeah, just message me your resume."

"Thanks," Tabula thanked, "Do you want my smut too? Or just my books."

"You write smut?!" Peroroncino said, surprised.

"For the money, obviously." Tabula answered.

Vagisilious hit her palm with her fist, "Oh man! That just reminded me! I used to make art and label it as 'authentic' to make money back in the day!"

Orphea blinked, "Wait, was one of your art pieces titled 'Memory of Home'?'"

Vagisilious blinked, "...Yeah?"

Orphea shouted, "YOU SOLD ART TO MY DAD?!"

"WHAT?!"

WHAT A CRAZY REVELATION! RIGHT IN THE FINAL MINUTE OF YGGDRASIL TOO!

"Dang! The plot twists in Yggdrasil goes crazy!" BigStall commented, laughing, "By the way, you'll have to take that conversation elsewhere, it's the last minute."

"We are so talking about this later." Orphea promised as she ended that conversation.

Then, Ankoro asked, "Wait, do forced log outs hurt?"

BigStall nodded, "Oh, yeah, big time. Hurts A LOT!"

Ankoro jumped in fear, "Wait! I don't wanna be here anymore!"
Momonga chuckled, "Ankoro, BigStall is just messing with you, it's not that bad, you just get sent to the dive home menu."

Ankoro sighed in relief, "Oh thank goodness, because I was about to quit…"

And so, they all shared one last laugh before Yggdrasil ended…

In 10 seconds.

"Wait, aren't we supposed to say something cool right about now?" Ulbert asked.

"Oh! Wait, that's my job!" Momonga quickly said, "Uhh, guys it's been really great knowing you all-"

The time turned midnight.

Momonga's voice changed as he continued, "And I will really- Oh what the heck happened to my voice?"

Vagisilious tilted her head, "Huh? What are you- Oh that's weird!"
She quickly jumped up from her spot on the ground and took in the sensation of floating.

Then she realized she could smell the foulness of the throne room and immediately wanted to throw up, if, well, she had a stomach.

BigStall laughed.

Then he immediately said, "Holy shit I don't like this."

Orphea looked around her, then she realized, "Wait, wasn't there supposed to be a forced log out?"

Peroroncino stared at Orphea, "Uh, Orphea, I think that's not happening anymore."

"Woah, your voice sounds…" Orphea said without thinking, as she then realized the issue, "Wait."

Eventually, someone had to say it.

And it was obviously going to be Ulbert, who loudly announced, "Hey guys, I think we just got isekai'd."

Everyone started to say things, but it didn't really matter to her because she had something more important to do.

She trusted Momonga and Ulbert to follow the plan.

Once she got used to her body, she used her ring of Ainz Ooal Gown to teleport to the 4th floor.

She immediately found Leviathan, Tokino, and Shatallia waiting around the Gate of Atlas. Standing in the same spot she left them in.

Leviathan spoke first, "I suppose nothing has gone wrong, Lady Vagisilious?"

She was actually temporarily stumped by the fact he just spoke, despite knowing that he would eventually do that.

"...Yeah, I'm about to use the…" She began, but then she eventually had to admit, "You sort of sounded different in my head."

Leviathan stared at her, unimpressed, "I see."

Yeah, that was really lame of her. It looks like Leviathan wasn't too insulted, though.

"Tokino, Momonga needs you right now, so go to the throne room and hopefully he'll still be here." She ordered, and Tokino left immediately without a word, "And you two, Shatallia you guard here, Leviathan you'll come with me for the added protection."

Leviathan nodded as he silently casted fly on himself, as Shatallia answered, "Yes, Lady Vagisilious."

Again, she thought Shatallia would've sounded a bit different?!

Floating over to the Gate of Atlas interface, she tried to open up the menu… But then she found that her thoughts just melded into the gate itself.

And so, she told the Gate of Atlas, "I want to go to Earth. Tokyo."

The Gate of Atlas did not respond.

She glared at the Gate of Atlas and declared, "You will make a gate to Earth."

The Gate of Atlas responds accordingly as a portal is created in front of her, leading to…

Ah, her apartment.

Maybe she just has to be forceful with her words every time she wants to use the gate.

"Shatallia, make sure this gate stays open, and ensure that anyone who comes from this gate isn't harmed. If I see even a scratch on any human who comes here, it'll be your head." She said as she entered the gate.

Looking around her apartment, she finds her body lying on the bed, motionless.

She decided to unplug the wire from her neck, but she was still Vagisilious, and she could tell by this point that her body was dead.

A bit unnerving, but somewhat interesting. She supposed she should probably pick up the dead bodies later.

But that wasn't the priority.

She activates her divination from her Overseer of Souls class.

Mentally, she decided that playing a divination build was the best decision in her life.

It was a bit of a weird experience at first, but eventually she found that her skills remembered the souls of her friends, and so she could identify them.

She makes a gate to the closest soul.

---

Sawaru Masayoshi was just about to go to bed after finishing saying goodnight to his daughter and wife.

Internally, he was a bit upset that he couldn't make it to the end of Yggdrasil like he promised he would, but they have his phone numbers. They could understand.

Anyways, that wasn't really relevant right now because a giant portal had appeared out of nowhere in front of him, right before going to bed.

Sawaru blinked as he saw… Wait, is that Vagisilious?

"Oh, Touch? You lived 20 minutes away from me? Small world, huh?" She said as another person came out of the portal.

Wait, is that… That one NPC that Vagisilious wrote a billion words for?

Vagisilious tilted her head, "Oh, your family is in this house too, huh? I guess I should take them as well…"

She turned to Leviathan, "Can you take the wife and daughter? Don't hurt them, obviously, but you can use some force if you need to."

Leviathan silently nodded as he went to complete his task.

"Wait-" He began to speak, but Vagisilious shushed him.

"Don't worry, Touch, they'll be fine, but you need to come back to Nazarick."

…Nazarick?

"You owe them a visit, after all."

---

She hummed dissatisfied as she saw Yamaiko sleeping with her boyfriend.

Did she really miss out on the final hour of Yggdrasil for sex?

…Well, she could understand it. She just sort of expected better of Yamaiko.

So, she immediately woke them up, told them to get clothed, and told them to come in.

And she also stole Yamaiko's sister, who seemed to be excited to get a vacation in comparison to the confusion of the 2 adults.

It was an odd 6 minutes, to say the least.

---

"You have cancer?" She asked Takemikazuchi, who was laying down unconscious in a hospital bed.

"And you didn't tell anyone?" She said, knowing fully well he couldn't hear her.

She sighed.

Her guildmates really were stupid at times.

She took out her weapon, Trillion Teraphims, which was only about 10% worse than her best crafted talisman, and casted the spell, "[Sovereign's Blessing]"

Did that heal his cancer… Ah, not really, it looks like cancer is a damage over time thing and all she did was push it back his death a bit. She probably needed to use a different spell that actually got rid of curses and things of that nature.

So, she plucked another teraphim off and used the spell, "[Mercy Of The Sovereign]"

Takemikazuchi opened his eyes, and then it widened as he registered her presence.

She smiled, "Shh, don't worry, Takemikazuchi, you'll be fine, I'll get you to Nazarick safe and sound.

---

She frowned as she saw Amanomahitosu holding a bottle of alcohol in his sleep.

He must've spent his whole fortune on that thing, considering alcohol is a bit expensive these days for the average worker.

If she had to guess, he was probably depressed over Bellriver.

Well, she can guarantee one person who'll be happy with her intervention, at least.

"Heeey, Amano." She said, shaking him up.

He groggily woke up, muttering, "Huh…? Who's…"

Then, he registered what was in front of him, "What the… Vaggy?"

She nodded, "Yep, wanna come to Nazarick? We got the isekai treatment, and I just so happened to have a way to get back to Earth."

Amanohitosu blinked.

"Why are you wasting time talking to me? Drag me there!"

She laughed, "Alright!"

---

Blue Planet was, surprisingly, still at a meeting.

That she accidentally crashed.

"Oh, sorry, did I interrupt something?" She said to the room, filled with middle-aged workers talking about… Something.

Nobody dared respond to her question.

Leviathan cleared his throat, but she just held up her hand and silently told him to not.

"Blue Planet, you wanna come to Nazarick?" She asked, staring directly at him.

"Vaggy, how the hell did you do this?" He asked as he got up from his seat, indirectly saying 'hell yeah.'

"Magic."

"Of course."

As Blue Planet entered the portal behind her, she looked back at the room of workers.

…It'd be sort of cruel to kill them, but it's also kind of risky to just announce their presence so easily like this…

Mentally sorting through her spells, she finds something from her Will-o'-Wisp tree.

She raised her hand, "[Mass Amnesia]"

There we go, that should basically make them forget everything in the past 30 minutes.

---

Aw, Denshosho was asleep at the library, how in character for him.

Sitting across from him and tapping on the table to wake him up, he didn't say anything as he stared directly at her.

"So," She started, "Wanna go to Nazarick?"

"...Yeah."

---

Wish III and Variable Talisman lived right next to each other, apparently.

And they were eating dinner together.

"Hmm." She hummed as she sat down at the same table, taking in their shocked expressions.

Then, she pointed at both of them, "Gay?"

Their faces immediately drooped down, as Wish III said, "Yeah, that's Vaggy."

Variable Talisman nodded, "Only she would say something as dumb as that."

"So are you or not?"

"Nope, I hate that you even asked that question."

"Vaggy, shut up and take us wherever you're intending to take us."

"It's Nazarick."

"Holy shit."

"Holy shit."

---

Genjiro entered his apartment, only to come face first with herself.

"Oh, you just came home? They're working you dry, huh?" She said.

Genjiro blinked, "Why are you here?"

"I'm here to take you to Nazarick, since apparently you were busy."

"Say no more, I'm done with my job, man."

---

Mekongawa was asleep.

She was debating on whether or not to mess with him a little bit, but she decided to be nice and just woke him up the normal way.

And then he punched her.

"Wow, I come here to get you back to Nazarick and that's what I get?" She sarcastically said.

Mekongawa blinked, "Oh, sorry, my bad."

She chuckled, "You wanna-"

"Yeah, obviously."

---

Tigris was chilling on a rooftop, apparently. Not about to jump or anything, just sort of looking into the polluted sky.

"Hm, I hope the sky that we get in the other world is way better than this one." She said, surprising Tigris.

And by surprising him, she meant that he basically jumped away from her.

"What the hell?! Who are- Vaggy?!" Tigris panickingly shouted.

She sent him a thumbs up, "Wanna come to Nazarick?"

"Come to Nazarick?" Tigris parroted.

She nodded, "Yeah, we're in the isekai genre."

Tigris's shocked expression slowly morphs into a stupid dumb smile, though she couldn't see it because of the mask on his face.

"You know, I think I understand what Coup De Grace felt when Orphea joined us."

---

She… She couldn't find Temperance. It's like he's completely gone off the grid.

She frowned, as she thought of the possibilities.

It could be that Temperance is just too far away for him to be detected, but she feels that the more likely scenario is that…

…He's dead…

Those coffins better work, no, those coffins will work.

"Lady Vagisilious?" Leviathan cautiously said, "If I may question you…"

She glanced over to Leviathan, "Ah, you're different from the other NPCs, you don't have to do that Lady stuff with me."

She could see the gratefulness on his face as he said, "Thank you. Anyhow, this is the origin world of the Players, yes?"

She slowly nodded, "...Yeah?"

"Now that we've extracted your friends from this…" Leviathan paused for a moment as he looked for an appropriate word, "Hell. May I have your blessings to completely annihilate it?"

"...What." She couldn't help but say.

Leviathan took that as permission to elaborate, "I have nothing but loathing for these players, as you know. So to see them so weakened and their planet polluted with such filth… It would please me greatly for this planet to be the first to taste the wrath of my full power."

Ah.

That's very in character for him, she's not even mad.

…But at the same time, the guild probably wants to finish up some business around here, so she's going to have to say, "Not yet. Once we return, the other members will have some things they want to finish up here."

Leviathan frowned as he slightly bowed, "As you wish. But…"

"Well, I'll ask for you." She said, "After all, I'm your biggest supporter- Well, other than Tokino, I guess. I would like to see you accomplish your goals too."

Leviathan smiled, "Thank you, Vagisilious. Now, I believe they are waiting for you?"

She shrugged her shoulders, "They probably need some time to adjust. Speaking of adjustment, how's that whole world enemy thing going for you now?"

Leviathan raised his hand and allowed it to glow with dark energy, "It was like being reborn. I can feel myself more clearly than at any other point of my life, and I can feel the abyss pulsating within me, under my control. I feel so powerful that I feel that I could even pose a threat to you and your friends."

She raised an eyebrow, something she previously couldn't do in Yggdrasil, "Oh? But do you think you could win?"

Leviathan stares at her for just a moment, and closes his eyes, "No, though the battle would be closer than the first time we fought… I feel as if it is a foregone conclusion."

Ah, that's a… Well, she was about to say shame, but maybe not quite that. Pity?

"But," Leviathan continued, "If Tokino were with me… Perhaps I could take on all of Nazarick."

She chuckled, "Well, let's agree to hope that's never tested."

Leviathan simply lowered his head in agreement, "Very well."

She created a gate, "C'mon, I think I gave them enough time. Let's go back home."

---

Entering back into Nazarick, she saw Ulbert waiting there for her.

"Oh, hey, Ulbert, I wanted to ask you about-" She started before being cut off by Ulbert.

"Temperance? Yeah, apparently the bastard died and didn't tell us. Momonga and Tokino revived him, though, along with Bellriver." Ulbert said.

"So that means-"

Ulbert nodded, "All 41 of us are back, and they're all in the conference room waiting for us. I think Momonga is in the middle of trying to explain everything to everyone, your backstory included. We can probably chat for a minute."

She will not lie, she did cry tears of relief in knowing that she succeeded.

Ulbert blinked awkwardly upon her starting to cry, "Uh, do you… Need a hug or something?"

"No- I'm fine, I'm just- I'm just super happy." She said, trying to wipe her tears away and failing as more and more came out.

Which put Ulbert into an awkward position as he had to try and ignore the crying girl in front of him, so he turned to Leviathan, "Uh, hey, Leviathan, right? Why don't you go uh… Scout the outside a bit, like, go try to find a small village or something. And don't get caught!"

Leviathan tilted his head slightly, "May I bring Tokino with me?"

"Uhh…" Ulbert hesitated, "Yeah?"

Leviathan smiled, "Thank you, Lord Ulbert Alain Odle. I shall set out immediately."

As Leviathan left, Ulbert just muttered out, "...Lord Ulbert Alain Odle?"

She sniffled as she managed to get her tears under control, "Um, yeah, I'm good now, I think I can go meet our friends without totally breaking down now."

"...Will there be any orders for me, Lady Vagisilious?" Shatallia suddenly asked, causing both of them to turn to her.

"Uh," She hesitated, "Make sure this portal stays open, alright?"

Shatallia bowed, "As you wish, Lady Vagisilious."
"Well, let's get going, then," Ulbert said, teleporting away.

"...Right." She said to herself, using her ring to teleport directly into the conference room.

Opening her eyes, she finds all 40 of her friends staring directly at her.

And Punitto was the first to speak, "I want to know- And I just want to know that I'm not picking on you or anything but WHEN WERE YOU GOING TO TELL US ABOUT THIS?!"

She stood motionless at the question.

Herohero sounded pissed, "Well I'm not going to pretend I'm not picking on you. Because I'm absolutely pissed you didn't tell us about this sooner! All of that overtime was totally wasted!"

Bellriver nodded, "You know, if I knew that this was going to happen, I would've died sooner!"

Amanohitosu turned to Bellriver, "You dumb bitch! Stop being so nonchalant about your actual death and rebirth!"

Bellriver held up the middle finger, "I'll be as chilled out about this as I want!"

Her face started to tremble.

Orphea vigorously nodded, "Yeah! Do you know the millions of Yen I could've wasted on Yggdrasil if I knew that life didn't matter?!"

Orphea blinked as she thought about it more, "Wait, I probably would've gotten assassinated by my board if I did that. Nevermind, Vaggy, this was a great call by you."

Tears started to form on her face.

BigStall made some weird mechanical sound as he said, "Honestly, if I knew this would've happened, I would've given myself a dick. Now, I'm dickless."

Peroroncino saluted BigStall, "This is the greatest tragedy of this whole situation, my brother."

Orphea lightly elbowed Peroroncino, causing him to shout out, "OW! You're a monk, Makoto! That freaking hurt!"
Orphea immediately turned apologetic, "Oh, wait really?! I'm sorry! I forgot!"

Momonga scratched his skull, "Oh yeah, I guess I don't have a penis anymore, I kind of glossed over that."

She will not lie, she definitely started to bawl again as her tears immediately betrayed her words from before.

"Oh- We made her cry!" Temperance said in surprise, "Should we, uh, apologize?"

Punitto shook his head, "Nah, she deserved this one."

She smiled through her tears of joy, "I'm just- I'm sorry I-"

"You don't need to apologize either, Vaggy," Punitto said, "You're just kind of stupid like that, don't be sad over it."

"These are tears of joy." She explained as she floated over to her seat, sobbing.

"You cry a lot, Vaggy." Garnet commented.

Bukubukuchagama nodded, "Yeah, he's right, you do cry a lot."

She looked up at her friends, and then she immediately asked, "Why am I the only one crying about this?! Isn't this a happy moment?!"

"I physically can't cry." Replied back basically most of the guild.

"Oh." She dumbly replied back.

A beat passes.

The tears are exchanged for laughter.

"Ah, I hate my emotional suppressor," Said Momonga as he stopped laughing first.

"Same here, buddy, same here." Replied BigStall and Garnet, both automatons of some sort.

"I have the same problem as you, man." Said Daijobubua, a vampire, "Sucks to suck for us undeads."

"Maybe I should've been a regular ogre instead of an undead one." Said Coup De Grace, "Kind of sucks."

Luci*Fer laughed, "Haha! Us organics stay winning even in an entirely different genre!"

Touch finally spoke up, "Guys, I like this moment as much as the rest of us, but I sort of have a family to get to, can we move it please?"
Temperance nodded, "Yeah, also, can I take off my ring? It's kind of weird just being a wind elemental."

Variable Talisman shrugged, "I'd like to be human rather than a big cockroach."

She wiped away her tears as she said, "Um, so there's a problem with that, I think. Namely the NPCs? I don't know if they recognize your human forms."

Ulbert nodded and answered her question, "They don't recognize them. The only reason why they're here right now instead of being killed by one of our NPCs is because I told them that any human in Nazarick is not to be harmed for now."

Touch nodded, "I thought I was basically done for when that weird green bush creature started to rush me, but then your naga NPC, uh, I forgot her name, protected me and told everyone that we weren't to be harmed."

Ah, Leshy? Well, she is the eager one of the duo, she should probably tell her off for that in the future.

"So, for now, keep your guild rings on for safety." Momonga declared as we all nodded.

Then, Momonga said, "Alright, so the first thing we need to do is to figure out… Hm, do you guys want to figure out the NPCs right now? Or do you want to figure out where Nazarick is?"

Blue Planet turned to her, "Don't you know where we are?"

She shrugged, "I didn't pay attention to the anime. Plus, that was like, what, 15 years ago at this point? How am I supposed to remember something from that long ago?"

"We were in an anime?" Peroroncino incredulously asked.

She raised an eyebrow, "...How much did Momonga tell you guys?"

"You came from another world and know the future?" Ankoro hesitantly answered back.

"Oh, well, yeah that's basically it, but this world was an isekai anime or something." She answered, but then she remembered, "Wait a minute- I wrote my maid, Emily, to be the same Emily from back home. Maybe she remembers it a bit better."

"Wait, so that wasn't some sort of nostalgia bio? That was you planning for the future?" Tabula questioned.

"No, it was a nostalgia bio disguised as planning for the future."

"Oh."

Ulbert then spoke up, "I sent Leviathan and Tokino out to scout the outside, and to specifically find the closest village to us, so I think we've got that handled."

"...Wait, the same Leviathan that's now a world enemy?" Tabula said.

Ulbert blinked, "oh. Uh, yeah, that same Leviathan."

"With his wife?" Questioned Yamaiko.

Ulbert facepalmed, "I just sent the guy who hates us to scout for us, and also sent out the only person able to stop him from fighting us with him."

Everyone groaned at his stupidity.

She came to the defense of Leviathan, "Uh, I don't think Leviathan will turn on us, because if he did, Tokino would be sad and Leviathan wouldn't like that."

"Tokino would be sad." Punitto repeated, "That's your reasoning for why Leviathan won't blow us up?"

She nodded, "I mean, I brought him along when I was rescuing you from the old world…"

Touch hit his hand with his fist, "Oh yeah! You did! Yeah, actually, I think Leviathan is safe."

Peroroncino coughed, "If we're done with that line of thought, can we go back to the whole, uh, Emily thing?"

She tilted her head, "Do you want me to call her here so we can question her?"

Nishikienrai raised his hand, "Why don't we call a bunch of NPCs so we can question them about things, then? That way we can collect information about Nazarick to see if we're safe."

Orphea nodded along, "So like, we're going to interview everyone?"

Whitebrim interrupted that line of thought, "Actually, before we do that, can I ask what happened to our real bodies in the real- Well I guess other- world?"

She answered, "Oh, yeah, we're dead now. I saw my dead body and everything, didn't respond to me disconnecting my neural link."

A cacophony of noises erupted around the room.

Orphea loudly groaned, "Ugh, I somehow expected that, but that sucks!"

Coup De Grace suggested, "Why don't we get our bodies to Nazarick, just like, just in case?"

"What would happen if you revived your old bodies?" Temperance asked, "Would it not work? Or would you like, split the body or soul or something?

Bellriver shrugged, "I don't know, I got blown up, I don't have a real body other than this anymore."

Peroroncino stared at Orphea, "I just realized I can't really kiss you anymore."

Orphea confusedly stared back, until her face dropped with dismay, "Oh, dang, I just realized that too. At least your feathers are soft?"

Peroroncino nodded, before he looked down at his crotch, "Oh, I think my dick is bigger too."

Orphea started to grin, "Oh, our bodies have more stamina now…"

"Can you guys stop being horny? Seriously." Genjiro said, causing them to straighten up.

"My bad."

"My bad."

"If you want, we could go get the bodies now, the 4th floor is safe with Shatallia knowing the situation." She suggested.

Punitto hummed, "But then we'd all have to go there so you can teleport us to our apartments, that's kind of a big task. I think that has to be the last thing on our list."

Ancient One disagreed, "No, because the other things might take too long and they might take away our bodies to cremate them- In fact, they might be doing that right now."

"In that case, write me all of your addresses and I can go grab the bodies?" She suggested again.

Nearata nodded, "That's a good idea, yeah, I agree with that."

A quick wave of agreement goes through the table, as Momonga immediately procures a paper and pencil and starts to write and pass it along.

As that was happening, Ulbert said, "Okay, so after Vaggy leaves and comes back with our bodies, what are we doing with them? Where can we keep them?"

Takemikazuchi raised his hand, "How about the 5th floor? It's super cold, right? And I think it's like a thing where you can freeze a body and it won't go bad."

"We don't know how the NPCs on the 5th floor will react, though." Pointed out Yoipesuto, "Unless if we interview Cocytus first to make sure he's safe, and then we interview everyone else?"

"Not a bad plan of action," Shizyuutensuzaku complemented, writing his name and address down on the paper and passing it along, "I think that's the most efficient use of time."

"Alright, all in agreement with that plan?" Momonga asked.

There were no loud disagreements, so as soon as she got the paper, she went out to collect the bodies as Momonga called for Cocytus to appear.

In the downtime, though, more casual conversations began to appear.

"So, Bellriver, Temperance, how was being dead like?" Suratan curiously asked.

Bellriver shrugged, "I mean, the last memory I had was being blown up. Then I woke up as my Yggdrasil character. Kind of wacky."

Temperance nodded as best as he could, "Yeah, I got hit by a truck and woke up here."

Denshosho didn't believe him, "No way you got the real isekai treatment!"

Temperance turned to Denshosho, "I swear on all of the world items in Nazarick that was what really happened!"

Punitto slammed his head on the conference table, alerting everyone, "We have the world items! God damn it I forgot about those!"

"I swear every single sentence just opens up another can of worms." Ulbert groaned, "Let's do that later, yeah? I don't think that's important right now."

"Yeah, let's do that." Blue Planet agreed, "By the way, who's asking Cocytus the questions?"

"I am," Momonga answered, "...Now that I think of it, we never did tell Vaggy where to put the bodies until we confirmed Cocytus was safe, did we?"

Everyone groaned at their stupidity.

"Hang on, I'll send her a [Message]." Ulbert answered as he put 2 fingers to his forehead.

His expression turned worried, "...I can't reach her."

"That might be because of the fact that she's in an entirely different world right now," Denshosho theorized, "It would make sense, [Message] is only a 2nd tier spell."

"If we don't hear from her in 15 minutes, we can start panicking," Orphea said, "Speaking of, when is Cocytus going to arrive? Are we just going to start the interview without her?"

Which is when Vagisilious decided to enter the room with a [Gate], immediately telling everyone, "I just realized you didn't tell me where you wanted them stored, so I just went to the 5th floor and got the frost virgins to freeze them, and I just gave the bodies to Diviser and told him to keep them safe."

Ulbert blinked, "Then what the hell is the point of-"

Something knocked on the door leading to the conference room.

A brief wave of panic hits the guild as they all realize that one of their NPCs were about to walk into the room.

"Quiet! Quiet!" Momonga cried out, "I have this handled! If you need to ask Cocytus a question, raise your hand first!"

As the guild quieted down, Momonga called out, "Cocytus! You may come in!"

Cocytus opens the door and walks into the room, immediately kneeling before the guild, "I. Am. Honored. To. Be. Called. By. The. 41. Supreme. Beings!"

Nobody was quite ready to be called the 41 Supreme Beings, so they had all shuffled around in their seats a bit, but Momonga cleared his throat and said, "Thank you for accepting our request, Cocytus-"

"I. Am. A. Loyal. Servant. Of. Ainz. Ooal. Gown. Lord. Momonga. I. Am. Not. Worthy. Of. Your. Gratitude." Cocytus interrupted, surprising them.

"Ah- Very well," Momonga recovered and replied, "In that case, we wish to ask you a few questions in order to see what effects the transition has had on you."

"Transition?" Cocytus asked, 'I. Am. Not. Aware. Of. Any. Transition."

"Ah. I see." Momonga said mostly to collect his thoughts to figure out what to ask next, "Then in that case… Recall the last year for me, but make it quick."

Cocytus murmured for a moment as he raised his voice to recount, "The. Last. Year. I. Was. Training. Constantly. In. Order. To. Prove. Myself. Worthy. To. Be. In. Your. Presence. Once. More."

Momonga tilted his head, "And today?"

"The. Same."

Momonga hummed, "Do you know what your job and racial levels are?"

Cocytus nodded, "Yes. My. Lord. I. Can. Name. Them. If. You. Wish."

Momonga shook his head, "That is unnecessary. Next… Has your power level changed significantly since 4 years ago?"

Cocytus shook his head, "No. My. Lord. Though. My. Skills. Have. Become. Sharper. I. Have. Not. Gained. Any. Significant. Power."

"I see." Momonga said, "Then, how loyal do you think the other NPCs of Nazarick are to us?"

Cocytus did not hesitate as he answered, "Not. Counting. The. Previous. Ruler. Nazarick. We. Will. Give. You. Everything. You. Wish. For."

"Then, say, in order of loyalty, who's orders would you follow if they were all to clash?" Momonga asked.

Cocytus paused for a moment before answering, "...First. I. Would. Prioritize. The. Orders. Of. My. Creator. Lord. Warrior. Takemikazuchi. Then. I. Would. Follow. Your. Orders. Then. It. Would. Be. Lord. Ulbert. And. Lady. Vagisilious. As. They. Were. The. Ones. Who. Stayed."

Cocytus paused, seemingly ashamed of what he was going to say next, "...Then. It. Would. Be. The. Ones. Who. Made. It. To. The. End. After. Would. Be. The. Rest. Who. Came. By. Lady. Vagisilious's. Power."

"Huh?" Momonga unintentionally let slip, "How do you know that the others weren't here at the end?"

Cocytus's bow seemed to sink even deeper, "Leshy's. Words. After. Finding. Out. Has. Spread. Throughout. Nazarick. Additionally. The. 28. Who. Graced. Our. Presence. Before. The. End. As. You. Called. It."

"...Ah." Momonga figured, "Leshy? Vaggy, that's your NPC, isn't it?"

Vagisilious seemed caught off guard at the sudden inclusion of her into the conversation, "Huh? Oh, yeah?"

"Oh, is that the one who attacked me? The bush mon- Uh, NPC?" Touch said.

Cocytus immediately made the room a lot colder, "Leshy. Dared. Try. To. Harm. You. Lord. Touch. Me?! Allow. Me. To. Bring. Her. Head. To. You!"

"Ah- That'll be unnecessary, Cocytus." Momonga immediately put a stop to that, sending a shush signal to Touch, "We will handle her punishment ourselves. Do not worry about it."

"Yes. My. Lord."

"Then…" Momonga thought up another question on the spot, "What do you think of us? In a general sense."

"You. Are. All. The. Most. Magnificent. Beings. In. Existence. There. Are. None. Who. Could. Challenge. You." Cocytus answered without even thinking about it.

"...I see." Momonga neutrally answered, "In that case…"

Momonga gestured to the rest of the table, silently telling them that they can start asking questions.

Takemikazuchi raised his hand, to which Momonga immediately permitted.

"Do you know what a character bio is?" Takemikazuchi decided to ask.

Cocytus regretfully shook his head, "I. Apologize. My. Lord. I. Do. Not."

Takemikazuchi hummed, "Alright, that's fine… Then, uh, who do you think wins in a fight between us?"

"You. Would. Win. Handedly." Cocytus said with absolutely no hesitation.

Takemikazuchi continued, "Then what about between me and Touch?"

Cocytus hesitated, "If. I. Am. To. Be. Truthful. Lord. Touch. Me. Is. The. Superior. Warrior."

"Can you beat… I don't know, Vaggy?" Takemikazuchi asked.

Cocytus briefly looked at her before speaking, "...I. Feel. As. If. Lady. Vagisilious. Would. Have. A. Trick. In. Order. To. Improve. Her. Disadvantageous. Match. Up. Against. Me."

"Hm." Takemikazuchi hummed, tilting his head, "Is there a single person that you think you have a decent chance at beating?"

"No. My. Lord." Cocytus answered.

Takemikazuchi then suddenly turned the conversation into a different area, "If I told you to kill, say, Momonga, would you?"

Everyone stared at Takemikazuchi incredulously as Cocytus struggled to come up with an answer.

After almost 10 seconds of deliberation, the longest he spent on any question, Cocytus finally answered, "...I. Would."

"How?" Takemikazuchi asked.

"...I. Would. Challenge. Him. To. A. Duel. Before. His. Throne. And. All. Of. The. Supreme. Beings."

"Wouldn't the chances of you killing him be higher in some sort of ambush, though?" Takemikazuchi pointed out.

"...I. Could. Not. Permit. Myself. To. Stab. Lord. Momonga. In. The. Back. So. Honorlessly."

"Huh," Takemikazuchi pondered, "What if I told you to ambush him?"

"...I. Would. Do. It. In. The. Throne. Room. Or. An. Open. Space."

"Ah, so you want to follow my orders, but you don't want to seriously actually kill Momonga." Takemikazuchi deduced.

"...Yes. My. Lord." Cocytus shamefully answered.

"That's good, actually." Takemikazuchi complimented, much to Cocytus's surprise, "It's good to know that you won't actually seriously harm us in any way."

"I. Would. Never." Cocytus confirmed.

"Hmm…" Takemikazuchi rubbed his chin to think, as he came to another question, "Alright, this is my last question. If you could ask me personally any question, what would it be?"

Cocytus breathed out frost as he answered, "I. Would. Never. Dare. Question. My. Creator."

"But if you could."

Cocytus paused for 5 seconds before answering, "...Where. Did. You. Go. During. Your. Absence?"

Takemikazuchi hummed, "Ah, well, I guess I was just-"

"You. Needn't. Answer. My. Selfish. Question. My. Lord!" Cocytus quickly interrupted.

"Oh, nah, I actually want to. So basically a year after we all sort of went on vacation, I ended up fighting against cancer for 4 years." Takemikazuchi answered, absolutely shocking everyone in the room, "I was basically about to lose, but then Vaggy came to save my ass and killed it, and I ended up coming here."

…Oh, yeah, she did cure that for him, huh? She sort of forgot to tell anyone that happened.

"Impossible. A. Foe. That. Could. Harm. You. To. Near. Death?" Cocytus said in disbelief.

"I was about to win, cancer just managed to catch me off guard." Takemikazuchi lied, mostly to keep Cocytus happy.

Takemikazuchi signaled that he was done with his questioning, and so Momonga once again looked for raised hands.

There were none.

"You are done here, Cocytus. Please keep the details of this meeting a secret for now." Momonga dismissed Cocytus, who got up, bowed, and promptly left.

A beat passes.

"You had cancer?!" Orphea loudly asked, "Why did I not know about that?!"

Takemikazuchi shrugged, "Eh, I thought I could beat it. Then it kicked my ass."

"How did you even get the money for the treatment?" Nubo asked.

"My rich uncle died and I got the inheritance money by sheer luck." Takemikazuchi said.

"Ah." Nubo murmured.

"Oh, yeah, thanks for that by the way, Vaggy." Takemikazuchi offhandedly said.

She sent him a thumbs up, "No problem. Don't be stupid next time."

A beat passed as the conversation reset itself back to zero.

"That was a poor interview." Orphea flatly stated.

"If it was a poor interview, why didn't you say anything?!" Takemikazuchi asked.

Orphea shrugged and didn't reply back.

"Why didn't we come up with a sheet of questions or something?!" Punitto slammed his head on the table, "Are we stupid?!"

"I think we are, man," Said Herohero, "I was thinking of a few questions, and the moment he walked in here saying that he's super glad that we're all here I'm all like 'uhh okay?'"

"Honestly, props to the both of you," complimented Garnet, "I also have an emotional suppressor, and I definitely couldn't have done that interview."

Variable Talisman whined, "I didn't even say a word and that was still the hardest interview in my life!"

"Okay, but what did we learn from that?" Asked Ulbert, "Because I know we learnt a lot, but I don't know if I kept track of all of it."

"Uh, our NPCs won't murder us in our sleep, for one." Answered Flatfoot, "And also, they all love us."

Nishikienrai nodded, "Yeah, and apparently they had lives before the isekai happened, but to us it just looked like they were standing still."

"Oh, and apparently my orders are worth less because I was busy working instead of playing Yggdrasil." Genjiro Despondently said.

"That's on you, though." Nubo said.

"Alright, I think I got all of that," Punitto said, showing off a notebook and pencil, "I actually started only halfway during that interview, though. And yeah, we definitely needed to pull that interview off better."

"Okay, so we're definitely making a sheet of questions next time," Momonga said, getting agreements, "I think the questions I asked were good, but let's try to brainstorm some things we can also ask."

"I think before that, who do we call next?" Bellriver asked, "It's Vaggy's maid, right?"

"If it's Emily, I think I can just wing it, Emily is chill, even though I haven't spoken to her in like 14 years." Vagisilious said, confident in her assessment.

"Are you sure that's actually your friend and not an NPC with the memories of your friend?" Temperance asked.

"I really hate that you brought that up, Temperance." Vagisilious plainly stated.

Then, she shrugged, "Eh, we'll see. I'll call her in right now."

"Huh?! You can't just do that!" Momonga protested, alongside most of the guild.

They didn't get a chance to protest for long, though, as Emily meekly opened the door without knocking, "Um, hi? Vagis- I mean, Lady Vagisilious called me here?"

"Woah, you got here fast." She remarked, "Hey, Emily, it's me, Lauren."

Emily immediately let go of her meek demeanor and accusingly pointed a finger at her, "I KNEW IT! LAUREN YOU WHORE! WHY DID YOU NOT COME VISIT ME MORE OFTEN IF YOU KNEW I WAS YOUR FRIEND?!"

She grinned, "Oh, yeah, that's Emily all right."

"YOU DIDN'T ANSWER MY QUESTION!"

She raised both of her hands in mock surrender, "I mean, it's not like you could talk back to me!"

"You could've shared with me some gossip! Not whatever thoughts you magically telekinetically put into my brain!" Emily shouted.

She blinked, "Wait, how do you interpret the character bios?"
Emily momentarily paused her rage and tilted her head, "Huh? Is that the thing where you come to me, I zone out for a bit, and I learn something new and I have to come up with an original thought about it?"

"...Those were what I thought you would think about those things I introduced to your head." She slowly answered.

Emily slowly answered back, "...Those were the thoughts I independently came up with on my own."

"Huh, okay, that's… Interesting to know." She said, mentally filing that one so she can ask another NPC about how it feels to get their character bios edited.

Emily coughed, "ANYWAYS! I'll forgive you for being a crappy friend to me if you can just tell me what's going on!"

"So, you know the isekai genre?"

Emily nodded, "I know, I've been in the isekai genre."

"Oh, right."

"Yeah, thanks for that, by the way! I was asleep one moment, weeping over my dead friend, and the next I was suddenly in a maid's costume thinking about someone with the same name as my BFF's online handle!" Emily pouted, crossing her arms.

"You like your maid costume though, right?" She asked.

"Oh, yeah, I love it a lot, definitely keeping this one." She immediately answered, "Anyways, I sort of recognized what's-his-face, the skeleton? So what have you been up to?"

"Oh, actually, that's what I called you here to ask, do you remember, like, anything about the anime? Because I zoned out-"

Emily immediately rushed up to her and started shaking her up and down, with great difficulty, mind you, given that she was level 100 and Emily was level 1, "I KNEW IT! I KEPT ASKING YOU "Oh are you tired we can just watch it later." AND YOU KEPT ANSWERING "oh no I'm awake we can keep watching" AND NOW YOU'RE HERE ADMITTING THAT YOU'RE A FILTHY LIAR WHO LIES! I AM VINDICATED!"

"Sorry! Sorry!" She apologized, "But seriously! Do you have any sort of memory from that show?"

Emily paused as she thought about it for a moment, "Uh…"

She shrugged her shoulders, "I remember that there was basically 0 threat to the main character in the show. I think it was just a show where the main character got to flex on the weak noobs of the fantasy world."

"Okay, that's great actually, since I didn't know that because I thought all of those flashy characters looked pretty strong and I fell asleep during the fight scenes-"

"Once again proving that you're a filthy liar who lies."

"So it's good to know that we should be perfectly fine, yeah?"

Emily hummed, "But what if this is a fanfic?"

"...What."

Emily decided to elaborate, "What if this isn't canon? What if we're in like, Game of Thrones or something? Or maybe there's an evil God that made you reincarnate and the actual real enemy is that God."

"...So you're telling me that there's a possibility that we're not in a show where the main characters get to flex on the weak noobs of the fantasy world, and that the little nugget of knowledge that you do have is worthless." She deadpanned.

"Yeah." Emily answered, equally as blank.

She sighed, "I should punch you."

"You wouldn't, you love me too much."

"You literally got me stabbed."

"What- Oh, yeah! That did happen to you, didn't it?"

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU FORGOT I GOT STABBED TO DEFEND YOU?!"

"IT'S BEEN 14 YEARS HOW DO YOU EXPECT ME TO REMEMBER EVERYTHING?!"

She buried her face in her hands, "Oh my God, Emily, you haven't changed a bit."

Emily shrugged, "Eh, potato potato, I was sort of trapped being unable to do much of anything for like 14 years."

"...What do you mean trapped for like 14 years?" She slowly asked.

"Uhh…" Emily hummed, thinking of how to describe it, "It was sort of like being in a really long dream, actually. I could sort of feel the time washing over my body, and I was sort of aware of the time passing. But I couldn't really move myself that much, but… It felt like… A dream, you know? Like I knew it was going to pass, which made it not that bad considering I was only half-awake for most of it."

"Oh, that actually wasn't as bad as I was thinking it would've been." She said, suddenly very glad that she hadn't just subjected her friend to years of torture.

Emily giggled, "Oh, yeah, it would've been OVER for you if you made me super uncomfortable for those years. I would've been throwing HANDS the moment I could."

They both broke into a short laugh as she decided to turn around and realized that her other 40 friends were just sort of watching the entire exchange happen.

"...Were you guys going to say anything?" She asked.

"Uh," Momonga voiced the thoughts of everyone watching, "No."

Orphea decided to chip in, "Hey, Vaggy, why doesn't our friendship look like that?"

She raised an eyebrow, "Our friendship does look like that. I just haven't spoken to Emily in like 14 years."

"I have never seen you or I call each other whores."

"I- When in doubt, blame Pero."

"Why are you suddenly dragging me into this?!"

"Uhh…" Emily awkwardly stuttered out, suddenly aware that she's just been yapping in front of her technical superiors, "So, do I do anything or…?"

She shrugged, "I mean, unless if anyone wants to ask questions."

Peroroncino raised his hand.

"RELEVANT TO THE OVERALL SITUATION AT HAND." She amended.

Peroroncino lowered his hand.

"So, I can go now?" Emily asked.

"What are you even doing all day?" She decided to ask first.

Emily shrugged, "Clean, I guess. I mean, all my fellow maids basically got right into it the second we had free will and I was sort of stuck trying to figure out what the heck I should be cleaning."

She chuckled, "Yeah, good luck with that. I would not want that to be me."

Emily pouted, "Yeah, I'll show you! I'll turn this into a cleaning anime and I'll be the main character!"

She started to wave, "Alright, you can go now. Just don't tell anybody about this, though!"

Emily waved back as she walked backwards towards the door, "Okay! Bye bye, Lauren! Be sure to come visit me occasionally instead of never, you insensitive friend!"

Then, Emily hit the door and awkwardly walked into it hoping that it would open.

It was a pull door.

"You guys are insane maniacs for making this a pull door," She blankly said as she turned around and quickly opened the door to leave.

The smile on her face reached her eyes as she turned around back to her guildmates, "Alright, did you guys get all of that?"

Punitto held up a pen and paper, "Yeah, I did. All the actual relevant information, anyways, that wasn't just you two talking for fun."

Whitebrim then decided to commit suicide by asking, "Hey, Vaggy, can I date her?"

"I will literally kill you, Whitebrim." She responded.

"Then why did you make her body hot?"

"I will literally kill you, Whitebrim." She repeated.

Momonga sighed, "Enough with that, Whitebrim, don't do that."

Whitebrim shrugged, "Well, you can't fault a man for trying."

"I really can." She said.

"Enough with that." Momonga repeated, moving on, "Okay, so how much are we going to go over that conversation? Did everyone get everything or do we need to go over it?"

Otanabetabeki raised his hand, and Momonga permitted him to speak, "Okay, so, uh, all I got from that was 'We still have no idea what the hell is going on?'"

Daijobubua shrugged, "I wouldn't say that, I'd say we know a bit better about what the hell is going on. We're in a fanfiction."

Denshosho snorted, "How did you get that one?"

Dajiobubua raised his hands in confusion, "I don't know? I mean, if we have a show, and we aren't going in accordance with the show, then it's fanfiction."

"That is an absolutely wild thought process by you, Daijobubua," Bukubukuchagama commented, "I would've thought that would've come from Ryuji or something."

"Is it 'gang up on me' time?!" Peroroncino indignantly asked.

"I'm going to be honest, I don't remember any of your real names," Herohero said, "Can we just stick to our usernames?"

Wish III breathed a sigh of relief, "Oh thank god someone said it. Everytime I hear Ryuji, or Makoto, or Lauren, I'm thinking to myself 'Who the hell was that again?'"

Momonga hummed, "Then in that case, refer to each other as our avatar names, then. At least in official settings like this meeting, or talking with the NPCs, okay?"

Amanohitosu looked at Momonga curiously, "This is an official setting?"

"Technically, yes." Momonga replied.

"Hey, since Whitebrim just brought it up a moment ago, what is the policy on dating the NPCs?" Herohero asked, "Because to be honest, I really want to date Solution."

"Well, if you're their creators, you're sort of their parents." She pointed out, "So if you date your own NPCs, I win because it's incest. If you date someone else's NPCs, you should probably ask their creator."

Herohero blankly stared at her, "I really wish you hadn't brought up that whole parent thing."

She sent him the peace sign, "Incest enjoyers keep on winning."

"Uhh, hey, Momonga?" Peroroncino shyly called out.

"...Yes, Pero?" Momonga cautiously asked, absolutely not trusting his tone of voice.

"So, uh, I may or may not have given Shalltear the hots for you, so, uh, you have my permission I guess." Peroroncino awkwardly said.

Tabula then realized, "Oh, wait! Momonga, you sly dog! You were setting yourself up with Albedo and trying to get me to approve it!"

Momonga let that information process in his brain.

"Oh my god." Momonga gasped, "I'm so stupid, it's unbelievable."

"That wasn't intentional?!" Tabula shouted in disbelief.

"So what I'm hearing is that Momonga has Shalltear and Albedo going after him?" Peroroncino asked, "That's good, right?"

Tabula shook his head, "No! I made Albedo monogamous when I made that change!"

"If we're doing bets again, I'm betting Shalltear wins that fight." BigStall said.

Punitto looked to BigStall, "Aren't you a GM- WAIT, YOU'RE A GM! USE YOUR GM STUFF!"

BigStall's robotic eyes blinked, "I did try. Like, in the throne room. But it didn't work and Momonga was already explaining everything, so I just didn't bring it up and I guess everyone forgot.

"Huh? Really?" She asked, "I guess that sort of confirms that we're not in Yggdrasil, right?"

BigStall shrugged, "Beats me."

"God, I really hate this meeting," said Touch, "I swear every single conversation just sprawls into 3 different cans of worms, which then extends the length of this meeting even further when I just want to meet my family to tell them everything's okay."

"Where did you guys put the families, by the way?" She asked.

"On this floor in the guest rooms area, I told them to make sure that they stay safe." Momonga answered.

Ah, that makes sense, yeah.

So, she summed everything up, "Well, with Cocytus, we effectively confirmed that everyone in Nazarick loves us. And we've got our dating policy in place. We also got everything we needed from the old world, right?" There were no objections to that, so she continued, "Okay I was sort of expecting to abduct more families but I guess you were all single or something. Anyways, we should be fine now, right?"

Punitto raised his hand and spoke, "We still need to test out our magic spells and stuff like that. We also need to test the Gate of Atlas a bit more. We also need to check if the world items are still, you know, working. And we need to check the more important NPCs' loyalties like all of the super smart ones."

Everyone stared at Punitto, unimpressed.

"...But we can take a 30 minute break, yeah." Punitto bent the knee on the subject. "We can probably do anything in Nazarick, like talking with our NPCs. Just uh, don't do anything stupid like tell them the truth, because we still need to figure out how to tell our NPCs about that subject."

"Great, message me when that break is done, I'll be with my wife and daughter." Touch said as he immediately teleported away.

"If you need anything from the old world, ask me and I can do that." She called out as everyone was starting to get up.

"Oh, and don't go to the 8th floor just yet! That's the one floor that we probably shouldn't enter!" Momonga called out.

Soon, everyone began to do their own thing, and the first thing that she decided to do was to message Leviathan to see where the heck he was.

Putting 2 fingers up to the side of her head, she asked Leviathan, "Leviathan? Where are you right now?"

It took Leviathan a moment to respond, "Enjoying the scenery with Tokino. Discreetly, of course."

Oh she absolutely needed to get eyes on that.

But work needed to come first, "Weren't you supposed to be, you know, scouting?"

"I am finished with my scouting, as I've come across the village that Lord Ulbert Alain Odle wanted to find. I just felt the need to fondle Tokino for a while."

Ah, of course. Luckily for him, they don't need his report for a while, "Well, we'll probably call for you in like, 30 minutes. So be sure to be ready by then."

Leviathan responded back, "Of course."

After hanging up the message, she immediately fired up her divination to go find Leviathan and Tokino- And yep, that was Leviathan groping and making out with Tokino in their humanoid forms in a forest. How scandalous.

They're obviously loving it. Probably going to start having sex soon now that she's basically given them 30 minutes of free time.

She grinned. They really are her creations.

Widening her field of view, she also finds the village that Leviathan was talking about. A small one, seems to be a farming village. Also entirely populated with humans and…

…A low tier angel? From the third tier?

Huh, and obviously from Yggdrasil. Maybe there's a player defending this village? But she doesn't really know why this village in particular…

Hm, maybe it's just a native with the ability to summon angels?

Either way, that's something to look out for. And she'll have to do the reporting for that.

Turning her view up, she also notices that it looks like it's going to be raining soon.

…Rain that isn't toxic…

She remembers the first time it rained in Japan. She thought it would've been like back home.

Then the rain slightly burnt her.

She's always kept an umbrella on her just in case after that.

So to finally be able to take an actual walk in the rain without being unnecessarily hurt…

She's definitely going to threaten the life of the NPC who tries to stop that rain with [Control Weather].

"Hey, Vaggy, are you going to meet your NPCs?" Ulbert asked, "I'm about to go meet Demiurge, and I just saw you here looking at your weird divination magic like a weirdo."

"Huh?" She muttered as she was knocked out of her train of thought before responding, "Oh, right, I probably should go meet my other NPCs…"

She looked over to the other people straggling behind in the conference room, "These guys must have a lot of shame…"

She shouted at Momonga, "Hey! Momonga! Go meet Pandora's Actor!"

Momonga furiously shook his head, "No!"

"You gotta!"

"No!"
"Don't you want your son to feel loved and appreciated?!"
"You can't guilt me!"

"Imagine Pandora's Actor crying that you don't care about him because you couldn't use your 30 minute break to just say hi to him-"
"Okay! Okay! Fine! I'm successfully guilted! I'll go meet him!"

She smiled, "Alrighty! I'll see you later, then!"

She stood up and turned back to Ulbert, "So, I'll see you later."

"In 30 minutes, yeah."

"I'll see you later." She repeated as she teleported to the 4th floor.

---

Touch walked around the 9th floor to try and locate where his family was as soon as he possibly could.

So, he found the first maid and immediately asked, "Do you know where my- The other humans are?"

The maid immediately bowed her head, "Yes, Lord Touch Me! I'll lead you to them as fast as I can!"

Then, she started sprinting.

Quite frankly, it was almost comical how easily he caught up to her, but after a minute of running, the maid finally came to a stop as she bowed again, "I'm afraid I do not know where any specific humans are, but nobody would dare interrupt you if you opened every door."

"That's fine, thank you." He brushed off as he started walking towards one of the doors that was labeled 'taken.'

Before he could open a door, however, a voice came from behind me, "Lord Touch Me! How may I serve you?"

Turning around…

Oh, his NPC that he created.

"Uh," He said, a bit stumped on what to say, "...Do you happen to know which door houses m- Nobara and Hanami Masayoshi?"

His NPC pointed on the other side of the hall, "The two claimed to be family, so we housed them in the same room."

Nodding he walked over to the door his NPC pointed at, and just as he was about to open the door, he stopped, turning to his NPC and saying, "Thank you…"

"Sebas Tian, my lord." Sebas bowed before him.

"Sorry for forgetting your name, Sebas." He apologized.

"You need not apologize, my lord. It is a blessing to my eyes to be able to see you once more." Sebas said.

"...I see. Thank you, Sebas. Please make sure that nobody hears what happens inside of this room."

Sebas informed him, "The rooms are all soundproofed, my lord."

"...Oh, alright. Then in that case, make sure nobody interrupts us." He said as he entered the room, closing the door behind him.

The first thing he sees is his wife, Nobara, and his daughter, Hanami, embracing each other on the side of the bed to comfort each other.

The next thing she sees is another maid simply standing next to the door.

He addresses the maid first, "Leave."

"As you wish, my creator!" She responded, bowing and rushing for the door immediately.

My creator?

"Wait!" He called out, "What's your name again?"

"Ah- It's Hanami, my lord!" She bowed.

Oh, right, he named his maid after his daughter… But with his actual daughter here, that shouldn't stand.

"Your name isn't Hanami anymore, it's…" He paused, thinking of a new name, "...Maki."

It wasn't the best, but it was the best he could think of.

The newly named Maki bowed, "As you wish, Lord Touch Me! My name will now forever be Maki!"

Then, Maki left the room, closing the door behind her.

He turned to his wife and daughter who seemed to be stuck in-between fear and confusion.

"I…" He started off, approaching the two.

They flinched, and he stopped immediately.

Oh- Right, the ring.

He takes off his gauntlet, and takes off the ring of Ainz Ooal Gown, transforming him back into his human self.

"Sawaru…?" Nobara cautiously asked.

He nodded and approached them slower this time, "it's me, it's fine, it's safe here."

His daughter immediately started to be sassy again, "Your friends just kidnapped us. And… Why was that maid named after me?"

Nobara shook the head of her 14 year old daughter, "Shh, Hanami, Sawaru and I need to talk."

Nobara stared at him, "Explain. Now."

He chuckled awkwardly, "So, uh, you know that game I spent 10 years in?"

When they didn't say anything, he continued on, "...So basically, this turned into an isekai, and they brought me along with them."

Hanami immediately changed her whole tune about the whole situation, "Dad, this is awesome. Please tell me that we're royalty now!"

He chuckled at his daughter, "Uh, yeah, I think so? If I tell everyone that you're my wife and daughter, I think you'll effectively become royalty around here."

The smile on his daughter's face was so big, that even his wife seemed to be warming up to the situation.

"You know what, Sawaru?" Nobara said, "I'll forgive you for spending 10 years in that game if you can make that whole royalty thing happen."

He eagerly nodded, "Yeah! Yeah! I can do that, but uh… I think you'll need to get used to my… Game avatar."

They didn't say anything, so he took that as permission to back up a bit and put back on his ring of Ainz Ooal Gown.

As he transformed into his avatar, he decided to take off the headpiece so they could get a look at his face.

Hanami looked only slightly weirded out, while his wife looked totally disgusted.

"You're not sleeping in the same bed with me in that form."

"Haha, of course…"

---

Yanagi Katsumi, also known as Yamaiko, looked at her boyfriend, Hori Kichirou, and his sister, Akemi.

"So, uh, isekai?" Hori asked.

Yanagi nodded, "Yep, isekai."

"The good kind?"

"Yep, the good kind. I got the guild base I sometimes showed you pictures of."

"The one where your friends basically made heaven on Earth if it was actually real?"

"Yep."

"Yanagi, you need to marry me."

"Yep."

Akemi gave her big sister the thumbs up, "I approve."

---

Ulbert looked at Orphea oddly, "Why are you on the 7th floor? Shouldn't you be talking to your NPCs too?"

Orphea shrugged, "I don't want to mess up. So I'm going to watch you mess up and take notes."

Ulbert snorted, "As if I could ever mess up."

Which was when Demiurge decided to show up, "Lord Ulbert Alain Odle! I am extremely honored that you have decided to grace the 7th floor with your presence!"

Ulbert immediately stuttered out, "Oh-Uh wait- Hold on-"

Orphea started laughing, "Haha! Demiurge! You surprised Ulbert! Haha!"

Demiurge's face turned worrisome, "My Lord? Have I displeased you in some way?"

"Oh, uh no, it's just uhh…" Ulbert struggled to find the words, "...I'm gonna be honest, it's weird hearing you speak for the first time."

"Would you prefer for me to be permanently silenced, my lord?" Demiurge asked, completely serious.

"No! No!" Ulbert immediately denied, "I just needed a moment to get used to it… Ah, anyways… How have you been?"

"That was the worst thing you could've asked him, Ulbert." Orphea chipped in.

"Orphea, shut up."

"My day has improved significantly now that you've appeared, my lord!" Demiurge replied.

"Oh, that's good… Hey, now that I think of it, what's your opinion on Tokino?" Ulbert asked.

Demiurge frowned, "While I respect her as a peer… I do wish that she were more like Leviathan. I feel that Tokino is heavily held back by her personality."

"Yeah, completely change that opinion." Ulbert flatly said.

"What?" Demiurge blankly said for a moment, before immediately getting back to it, "Yes! My lord! What would you like for that opinion to be?"

Ulbert shrugged, "Something a bit more positive about her, just, uh, don't be rude."

"Of course!" Demiurge replied, then he seemed to realize, "Oh! Could it be…"

Ulbert tilted his head, "What?"

"Do not worry, my lord! I have gotten the message in your commands!" Demiurge proudly said, grinning, "I will show that you may depend upon me!"

Ulbert turned to Orphea, hoping she would know what the hell Demiurge was talking about.

Orphea decided at that moment she would go to the 6th floor.

Ulbert sighed, the damn traitor. He hoped that she trips and falls while talking with her own NPCs.

---

"Lord Peroroncino!" Shalltear Bloodfallen bowed before her master, "It is my greatest honor to welcome you into my home!"

"Okay, that's great, first, we need to talk." Peroroncino said, sitting down on the nearest chair.

Shalltear decided to kneel in front of him instead of sitting on the chair opposite of him.

Peroroncino decided to ignore that as he said, "Okay, about you and Momonga…"

Shalltear's eyes gleamed with light, "Oh? The love that you've instilled into me for him? What about it? Will you help me get closer to him?"

"Uh, something like that," Peroroncino vaguely replied before leaning closer, "Actually, I need know- Do you have any magic or items that allows you to have sex with a skeleton?"

Shalltear blinked, "Uh… No?"

Peroroncino sighed, "Okay, yeah, that's what I was worried about, because Momonga doesn't have a dick, so you'd need some other way to pleasure him or get his kids."

Shalltear's face fell, "I- I don't believe that I would have a way to be able to do so, my lord!"

Peroroncino hummed, "Then in that case… Albedo is probably in the same boat! Therefore, you two are now in an arms race to develop the magic needed to pleasure Momonga!"

Shalltear's eyes glistened with competition, "Oh? In that case, I'll do everything in my power to ensure that I win this competition, my lord!"

"Atta girl, Shalltear!"
Man, this whole talking to NPCs thing was really easy! He wonders how Orphea is doing right now.

---

She regretted every single decision that made her decide that creating 6 versions of the same guy was ever a good idea.

The sister and the whale was a pretty fun one, though. She liked those two.

"So, I just want to clarify," Orphea said, trying to not trip on her words, "Liberta…s. You guys share each other's thoughts and all 5 senses, right?"

Liberta Prime nodded, "Yes, my lady!"

"Okaay… And that means whenever you see something, you basically instantly have 6 different perspectives on it, yeah?" She asked.

Liberta Prime nodded, "Yes, my lady!"

"This makes you one of the smartest members of Nazarick, yes?"

They nodded very pridefully.

"...Then, how much can you decipher from me right now?" She asked, almost afraid of the response.

They all stared at her very intensively for 10 whole seconds.

Then, Liberta Prime declared, "We could not read a single action from you, my lady! You are too vast in comparison to us for us to decipher!"

Oh, these guys think way too highly of her.

Yeah, nevermind, these guys are dumbos, they're fine.

She turned to Lucilla, "Hey, how does it feel having 6 versions of your brother?"

Lucilla frowned, "I like them, but… Ugh."

That is so unbelievably true.

Yeah, her NPCs are all alright.

---

Momonga's NPC was absolutely not alright.

"Mein Schöpfer! You seem to be distressed with something! How can dein treuer Diener help you?"

Momonga should've never listened to a single word that came out of Vagisilious's mouth and he should've changed his NPC's bio to never be like this.

"Ah, uh, no, it's… Fine, Pandora." He answered, his emotional suppressor working on overtime, "Why don't you tell me about… Ah, the treasury? Is everything fine?

"Wunderbar!" Pandora's Actor exclaimed, "There is absolutely nothing missing from the treasury, Mein Führer!"

"Hey hey hey hey!" Momonga quickly said, cornering Pandora's Actor into a wall, "Hey, I'm your creator, right!?"

Pandora's actor nodded slightly, "Yes, of course."

"And you have to follow any order I give you, right?"

"Yes, of course."

"Then in that case, tone down with the German! The poses and outfit is fine, since you need a personality, but please stop with the German! You're going to embarrass me in front of my friends!" Momonga urged.

Pandora's Actor's head fell as he accepted Momonga's order, "Yes… Sir."

Momonga felt a twinge of pain for his NPC, so he quickly said, "Okay, look, you can keep speaking some of the German and the other languages you know, but just like, keep it to one outburst per conversation, okay?"

"Thank you, mein Schöpfer!"

"I said once per conversation!"

Then, Momonga remembered the maid that he made when Whitebrim nagged about it for 2 weeks. He thinks her name was Etoile.

She spoke German and French too.

Momonga gave Pandora's Actor some more wiggle room, "Uh, okay, you can speak with no limits with Etoile, but nobody else! And I'll give her the same orders that I gave you too, so keep each other in check!"

Gosh, what the heck was Etoile doing?! He needed to go give her his new orders right now!

---

"Guten Tag, Sebas!" Etoile said as she was walking through the halls of the ninth floor.

"Good day to you too, Etoile." Sebas replied as he patrolled the 9th floor for any irregularities.

---

Tabula hummed as he stared at Albedo, Rubedo, Nigredo, and Citritrinas all kneeling before him.

Yeah, he has absolutely no idea what to do in this situation.

"...So, uh, I have 30 minutes and I'm not quite sure what to talk about with you 4, feel free to just start speaking." He said.

Albedo decided to take the initiative, "Lord Tabula Smaragdina, will you be able to advise me on my attempts to woo Lord Momonga?"

Tabula paused.

Then, he silently messaged Peroroncino, "Hey, so, uh, how are we dealing with that whole love thing with the NPCs and Momonga?"

Peroroncino messaged him back, "I'm going to be honest, I'm just going to tell Shalltear that Momonga doesn't have a dick, and I'm just going to tell her that she needs to win an arms race against Albedo to get Momonga a dick."

Okay, never trusting Peroroncino with anything ever again.

As a proud (former) human being, he can't really accept making Albedo march towards an unreachable goal of giving a dick to a skeleton so that she can have sex with it.

As someone who now has an agenda with Peroroncino, though…

"So, uh, here's the thing, Momonga doesn't have a dick and as far as I'm aware, nobody has any way to give him one, and Shalltear knows the same thing, so you need to get the technology to do that before she does…"

---

Bukubukuchagam wanted to die.

Not really, Aura and Mare were literal angels and she would definitely die for them.

But it was super embarrassing to just watch them crossdress without any idea of the shame behind them.

And it's not like she could change it at this point either…

Eugh, she really should hit Vaggy really hard for that, because if she knew that her actions had consequences, she would've definitely changed the entire bio for these two.

Well, probably just the cross dressing part.

She enjoyed the words coming out of Aura's mouth as she was talking about her pets.

Yeah, she was being nitpicky, she was just going to enjoy having 2 kids now.

…How the hell did she get kids before her brother did?

---

Yoipesuto and Amanohitosu were just chatting with their mutual creation, Shihoutu Tokitu, the head chef of Nazarick.

Originally, Shihoutu was Yoipesuto's creation, but then he lost a game of Smash Bros to Amanohitosu, so he had to give up the creator title to Amanohitosu.

Though, it seemed to mostly be a 'for show' thing, considering when asked, Shihoutu considered Yoipesuto to be his true creator, and Amanohitosu to be something like an uncle or something.

"You know what, Shihoutu, you can go on and create a feast for all 41 of us, probably start that as soon as possible, because I think some people are going to realize that they're starving." Yoipesuto said, "Oh, but we gotta cook together at some point, yeah?"

Shihoutu started to cry, "My Lord! It's my greatest honor to not just be able to create a feast for the Supreme Beings, but also to have the opportunity to cook with you!"

Yoipesuto chuckled and tried to wave it off, "Haha, I haven't actually made anything good in a while, so I'm a bit rusty."

"Even while out of shape, you will no doubt be able to create works of art! I will start work on your feast straight away, my lord!" Shihoutu said as he immediately rushed towards the kitchen to get started.

Amanohitosu hummed, "Nice guy."

Yoipesuto nodded, "Yeah, I think I'll enjoy cooking with him."

"Hey, you gotta teach me how to cook, though. It's always been on my radar to learn how, but I've never gotten the resources to be able to do it."

Yoipesuto gave him a thumbs up, "Sure, man. Anyways, wanna just chat up the maids now?"

Amanohitosu shrugged, "I have some other NPCs to visit."

"Ah, right, you do. Well, I guess I'll just go watch Shihoutu work, then."

"See ya."

"See ya."

---

Warrior Takemikazuchi brandished his blade against Cocytus, "Care for a quick spar? I don't think the others would approve of this, though, so mind if you keep this spar quiet?"

Cocytus took out his 4 best weapons and took up a fighting stance, "It. Would. Be. My. Honor. My. Lord."

---

Vagisilious stared at Takemikazuchi and Cocytus fighting and sighed.

Diviser tilted his head and asked, "Shouldn't we stop that?"

"Probably," She replied, "Here, you go to the 4th floor, I planned on talking to you all as a group, and I'll deal with this."

Diviser nodded as he walked off to the teleporter.

She hid behind a corner and booted up her divination to continue watching the fight from a better angle.

When she said she'll deal with it, she didn't mean immediately. This could be a great fight to watch.

---

Cocytus somehow managed to lose that fight. Takemikazuchi is apparently really good with a sword.

Anyways, she healed them both, told them off, and went on her merry way to the 4th floor.

Her floor.

The inner authoritarian within her was definitely giddy about the entire cave being hers.

As she teleported to where her NPCs were gathered, her ego was massively boosted when they all bowed to her.

Which made this next moment sort of awkward.

"Leshy," She called out, the bush monster stiffening, "I hear that you attacked one of the humans that I explicitly said not to attack."

"I-I'm sorry, my lady! I will atone for this with my life if I must!" Leshy quickly apologized, prostrating before her in a dogeza.

She hummed, "No, that's unnecessary, I think I have something worse for you…"

Leshy's head sunk further into the ground, "If that's what you wish, I'll accept any punishment!"

She smiled, "I want you to confess your feelings to Heket right now. Right here. In front of everyone."

Leshy and Heket immediately panicked, and she felt only sort of bad for making her 2 creations get together in this way.

On the other hand, this is going to be super cute.

---

After the big confession, she was nice enough to let them make out behind one of the buildings on the 4th floor that housed the pop materials they make down here.

She also realized Tokino was going to be pissed about missing that, but oh well. That's what she gets for probably having sex with Leviathan in the middle of the forest.

…Are they actually doing that?

She quickly checked.

Oh, yep, balls deep.

Turning away from that since she had to pay attention to the rest of her NPCs, she decided she would ask Herias first, "Hey, do you want me to call you Bernays, or…"

He blinked, and then he nervously said, "I, ah, I will accept anything you decide to call me, Lady Vagisilious!"

She shrugged, "Bernays it is. Your other name is still the real one, though."

Bernays bowed, "Very well! I will accept your judgment!"

Diviser hummed, "I didn't know you had a different name dude! Why are you hiding that from me?"

Bernays gulped, "Ah, well, you see… It's a secret!"

Diviser was totally convinced, "Woah. Alright, don't tell me then, Bernays."

Shatallia disinterestedly side-eyed them as she turned to her, "Lady Vagisilious, are your orders to not harm anything coming out of the Gate of Atlas still valid?"

She tilted her head, "Huh? Yeah, why?"

"Because the portal is still on, and I fear that others may find it." Shatallia answered.

That is… A totally valid fear!

"Actually, you know what, let's just be safe and close it." She said, teleporting over there.

Alright, now how does she do this…

She guesses she'll just take Atlas out of its socket?

Doing so, the portal immediately closes.

Ah, well, that was easy.

Putting back Atlas into the socket, the gate remained unresponsive, so she called that a success.

Alright, now that that's done…

"Hey, Bernays, how is it going with Fovalin?" She asked.

"Oh, well, I suppose it's been the same as it's always been…" Bernays despondently answered.

"Yeah, not anymore, come on, I'm getting you together with Fovalin right now."

"...What."

"Come on! Diviser, Shatallia, you can come watch too."

"...What!?"

---

Before she left the 4th floor, she took the time to take a look at the fraction of Nidhoggr.

And yep, it's still there, just writhing in pain, screaming.

She took the opportunity to use [Mercy's End] on it, her 10th tier pure damaging spell.

The Fraction of Nidhoggr didn't die, of course, it just screamed out in pain. Looks like that whole sentence in his bio about him being cursed to never die does wonders.

Hm, she should probably remind everyone about this punching bag at some point…

A moment later, she teleported out of the 4th floor.

---

Eventually, 30 minutes had passed, and everyone gathered around back at the conference room.

"Okay, does anyone have anything interesting to share?" Momonga asked.

Punitto raised his hand, was called on, and spoke up, "I visited the 8th floor."

"After I told everyone not to?" Momonga asked.

Punitto nodded, "Yeah."

"Why?"

He shrugged, "All my NPCs are on that floor."

"...Fair enough." Momonga conceded.

Punitto continued, "Anyways, I saw the free NPCs that we got from beating Nazarick on the first try, and they're all chill… Except for Nazarick himself, he tried to fight me, but he got his ass kicked by everyone else."

"So are we going to lock Nazarick somewhere?" Nearata asked.

Coup De Grace suggested, "Let's just kill him, yeah? I don't think we should leave that guy roaming around."

"We can't just kill the guy," Touch said, "That's just morally wrong."

"Nazarick is evil, though." Bukubukuchagama pointed out, "Though… I just realized that most of us have negative karma builds, huh?"

"Does karma actually affect us?" Denshosho asked, "I have positive karma myself, so I'm not really sure…"

"I have maxed out negative karma, and I haven't felt anything too unusual so far." Ulbert said, "I think we should just revisit the topic in the future."

Momonga hummed, "In that case, revisiting the old ruler of Nazarick, what will we do about him?"

Tabula raised his hand, "Why not just keep him on a leash? He's only level 81 anyways, most of that floor beats him in a 1v1. We have nothing to be afraid of."

"The other free NPCs are safe, yeah?" Bellriver pointed out, "I think we can do nothing about this. And man, I just got memories of beating those bosses, haha."

Peroroncino then slammed his hands on the table and shouted, "I just remembered!"

"Remember what?" Orphea asked.

Peroroncino pointed towards Vagisilious, "When I beat Gargantua solo! Do you remember?"

Vagisilious looked at him with a confused expression on her face.

Then, like a thunder strike, she remembered.

"How did you remember that?! That was years ago!?" She yelled, "And how did you not bring it up literally any other time we've met in real life?!"

"I forgot!" Peroroncino cried out, "But now I remember!"

"What the heck are you two talking abou-" Ankoro started, but then she remembered as well, and started to laugh uncontrollably.

As more and more members began to remember what they were talking about and laughing about it, Orphea pouted and said, "I feel like I'm being left out. I don't like this."

"Can't believe the OG members are flexing their old muscles like that," Yoipesuto said.

Peroroncino decided to explain, "So you know about how I killed Gargantua basically solo, right?"

Orphea nodded.

"So, while everyone was dead, Vaggy apparently shouted out, 'hey, if you win, I'll sit on your face!' and then I won."

Orphea raised an eyebrow.

"...Yeah, uh, Vaggy, I am hereby declaring that you don't have to do that anymore." Peroroncino awkwardly said.

All she said was, "Whipped."

Orphea nodded, "That's right, that's right."

"Well, moving on from that…" Momonga took control of the conversation once more, "What do you guys think our next course of action should be?"

She raised her hand, "I think we should take a look outside of Nazarick. Leviathan and Tokino have been out there for 30 minutes."

"Shouldn't we test out our magic first, though?" Temperance asked, "So we, you know, know how to use them in case we need it?"

"Actually, I'm in agreement with Vaggy, I wanna go outside!" Orphea said.

"Wait, the outside isn't polluted, is it?" Blue Planet asked.

She shook her head, "It didn't look polluted when I checked with my divination."

"Oh! I do have divination magic, don't I?" Nubo realized, "Yeah, that's going to be fun to use."

"Okay, I wanna go see the outside world?" Blue Planet excitedly said.

A wave of excitement goes through the guild as they all realize that the outside world would be different than the polluted wasteland that was their own home.

So, it was unanimously decided that they would all go and see the outside world.

Immediately, they all teleported as far out as they could go, which was the first floor, and began to excitedly walk towards the front door of Nazarick.

Along the way, they met Leviathan in his humanoid form and Tokino in her qilin form.

They both kneeled as Tokino told them, "My lords! It is an honor to be in your presence! Do you require our report?"

"No, it's okay for now, I saw with my divination spells the village that you were talking about." She casually said.

Tokino nodded, "Very well, Lady Vagisilious!"

Leviathan hummed, "It's also beginning to rain outside. You may wish to rush to see it before Demiurge gains any idea of attempting to dispel it."

"Aw, it's raining?" Blue Planet disappointedly said before realizing, "Wait! Is the rain acidic?"

Leviathan shook his head, "No, it is just water, my lord."

Orphea gasped, "Guys we gotta see this!"

She immediately ran towards the doors, and the rest of the guild followed.

Demiurge and his 7 sins were staring at the rain, likely deciding what to do about it, before they sensed their presence and immediately kneeled before them.

Demiurge started, "My lords! If this weather is undesirable I will dispel-"

Ulbert interrupted him, "Demiurge, if you do a single thing to the rain, I will actually kill you."

Demiurge's head dropped to the floor, "Yes! My lord! As you wish!"

Ulbert was the first to cautiously walk towards the rain, his hands warily raised to feel the droplets.

He flinched at first, but then he looked at his hand and said, "It's… just water, guys."

The rest of the guild took that as permission to go outside into the rain and take in the sensation of being hit with raindrops that weren't acidic like the ones back home.

"Woah," Orphea mouthed as she tried to drink some of the water, "I can drink this? And not die? That's crazy!"

"Hey, Temperance, can you stand still? Your wind is deflecting a bunch of the rain and I wanna be soaked." Bellriver said, standing closer to Temperance.

"Hehe, this is a weird feeling!" Pannokishi remarked, watching himself get soggy, "I think I like it! This is new!"

Peroroncino pointed at a nearby puddle, "Hey guys! Watch this!"

He jumped into the puddle of muddy water, laughing.

After that, everyone just started to play around with the water coming down from the sky. Drinking it, gathering it up in their hands and throwing the water at someone, simply just standing in the rain taking in the moment.

"Man, this kind of reminds me of when I was like, 6 when I played in the rain for the first time." She nostalgically said, smiling at everyone screwing around with the water, jumping into puddles and splashing each other.

Ulbert laughed, "Hey! Is that supposed to be some subtle insult or something?"

She shook her head, "Nah, you guys deserve to have fun."

"Hmm, why don't you go have some fun too?" Ulbert asked, "Bet there's a good sight above the clouds."

She tilted her head, "You mean the sun? I mean, I guess it's getting dark, if we go up, we might see a sunset."

"I've never seen a sunset before, it's always been too cloudy with pollution." Ulbert said.

She then immediately decided that they were going to see the sunset today.

"What was the spell again?" She said as she looked for her fly spell in her 300 spell catalog, "Oh, here it is, [Mass Fly]."

Suddenly, all 41 members began to fly in the air, as she announced, "It just occurred to me that some of you have never seen the sun set before? We're fixing this effective immediately! We're flying up!"

"What the- I'm afraid of heights!" Ankoro protested.

"I can hold you when we go up," Mekongawa offered, "It's usually less scary that way."

Ankoro quickly accepted the offer, hanging on to his arm.

Momonga excitedly nodded, "Alright everyone, let's fly!"

They all flew into the air, moving through the rain clouds and getting absolutely drenched in the process.

But the view was most definitely worth it.

The sun was in such a position that it was low enough to create a brilliant sun set and at the same time on the other side of the world, stars were beginning to show.

In fact, this was probably her first time seeing stars in person since her reincarnation.

Nobody said anything as they took in the view.

All 41 of them were just enjoying the moment.

Momonga chuckled as he looked to the stars, "This world is like a box of jewels, isn't it?"

Demiurge spoke up, "If you so wish, we would do everything in our power to take this box of jewels and give it to you, my lords."

Momonga chuckled, "That would be nice, wouldn't it?"

"Man, Vaggy, I'm really glad you were right." Ulbert said, sitting cross legged in the air.

"Me too." She returned, tears starting to form in her eyes again, "I'm just… The last 14 years were all leading up to this, and I just feel so blessed right now."

At this moment, she could definitely say that her journey was most definitely worth it.

---

Short Stories To Pad Out The Word Count To 20k.

1: Why you will never get a Liberta PoV other than this (Canon)

"...Then, how much can you decipher from me right now?" His creator, Lady Orphea, asked.

His own mind at the peak of his life looked at Orphea and sensed…

Nothing. He can't see a single flaw within her that could reveal a single thought within her head!

No, no, she looks sort of nervous! The mind in the youth of his life said, I think she might be afraid of us!

No, you fool! That is merely a front to hide her thoughts from us! The mind at the midnight of his life responded back.

The mind at the prime of his life threw his hat into the ring, I believe that the adolescent is right in his assessment in saying she looks nervous, but the reasoning is beyond our limits.

The mind at the penultimate of his life hummed, What if we're too focused on her looking nervous? What if it's her way of displaying confidence?

You're right! The mind in the adolescence of his life said, They are the Supreme Beings of Nazarick! Of course they would show emotions in ways we couldn't comprehend!

Yet that divine knowledge is what we seek the mind of his prime stated, But we are void of knowledge at the moment, we may have to concede that at the moment, we are nowhere close to being able to decipher even a letter from the way she stands.

I think we can get a letter! The mind in the youth of his life responded, I bet it has an A in it!

The mind in the evening of his life disagreed, No, what if her stance is a way of showing contention? What if we are so far off course that Lady Orphea is disappointed with us?

The mind during the adolescence of his life shivered, No way! This is just a test! She wouldn't be so heartless as to abandon us over failing an impossible quiz!

The pieces must be in place for us, but we cannot find them, concluded the mind in the prime of his life, Perhaps we are thinking too linearly, Lady Orphea no doubt has the intellectual capabilities to think on levels beyond the comprehensible dimensions.

The mind at the midnight of his life agreed, Yes, no doubt even during this pause in the conversation, her mind must be thinking of thousands of different things we cannot even begin to fathom!

So this was an impossible question? The mind in the youth of his life asked.

I don't believe so, the mind at the penultimate stage of his life said, I believe we only need to decipher a part of her to gain her satisfaction. But…

Then let us start trying to dissect a tiny grain of her magnificence, The mind at the prime of his life declared.

After a few more rounds of deliberation between his other selves, Liberta Prime offered the final verdict to Orphea, "We could not read a single action from you, my lady! You are too vast in comparison to us for us to decipher!"

Truly, they would need hundreds, no, thousands of years and many more perspectives to begin deciphering the Supreme Beings…

---

2: How Myths Are Created (Canon)

Alah Alaf groaned to his assistant, some human guy whose name he forgot, "Man, have we ever told you about Ulbert Alain Odle?"

He tilted his head, readying a writing utensil, "No, I believe not, my lord."

Alah Alaf nodded as he started to monologue, "Yeah, because I just remembered what a dick that guy was! So Yakedo has this super powerful class, right? We went through the pain of having to kill this one really powerful demon, all by ourselves, and then we had to juggle it around a bit so that Yakedo could actually use his new class. So we were having a bunch of fun for like, a month, right? But then we noticed someone tailing us and we were like 'oh? Do you really think you can fight us?' and you know who that guy was? It was Ulbert Alain Odle! God, I hate that guy! Anyways, we ended up fighting his 6 to 1, and Ulbert was obviously getting his ass kicked, but then his friend- I forgot her name, I think it was something unpronounceable like… Vag… Something-something? Anyways, we were all playing mage builds, and she had this special item that could sap away our mana, and she could heal Ulbert too, so then we started to actually lose that 6v2 because Vag-something was playing the most busted healer in the entire game and we couldn't outdamage her healing, so then Yakedo died, and I mean, we tried our best to take it back but god DAMN they were just better players than we were. So yeah, Yakedo got his class stolen from him and we were pissed about that for years. But it gets even worse! So we hear that the guild that Ulbert was in, uh, I think it was called… Ainz Ooal Gown, yeah, how could I ever forget the name of those dicks? Anyways, they apparently pissed off this bigger guild called, uh, I actually forgot that one, but anyways, they were inviting basically everyone to join in to beat Ainz Ooal Gown's asses. So we joined the massive raid, I think there were like, 5000 of us there all going in on their guild base. Nazarick, yeah, it was called Nazarick. So anyways, we were like, I forgot when we got into that tomb, but we walked past the first 3 floors since the other players cleared those out, and we had to fight against this giant black dragon and purple deer monster, right? Well, I swear that those stupid developers overtuned the NPC strength in response to our 5000 man raid, but that dragon literally ONE SHOT our tanks! And every time we damaged him, the purple deer monster would just reverse time to heal him back up! It was so stupid! We were all dying one by one, and we couldn't do squat because the aura damage from the dragon was so massive! Anyways, we died like, halfway into the fight, and I bet that stupid freaking demon and fairy were just laughing it up in their throne room on the 10th floor."

Alah Alaf paused, "Uh, did you get all of that?"

The assistant nodded, "I think I got most of it, my lord!"

Alah Alaf hummed, "Ah, well, alright. You're turning those into fun little stories, right? I don't know how you'll turn us getting our asses beat into something fun, but hey, good luck with that."

The assistant looked down at his notes, and silently nodded.

---

Hundreds of years later, the tales of one drunken rant have morphed into thousands of different variations.

The stories of the demon Ulbert Alain Odle and his fairy familiar has made its way into popular conscience as a warning to young fighters to never fight someone or something that you have no idea of their full capabilities or allies, for you will never know if that demon would have backup or some special ability or not.

Additionally, the second half of the tale has become popular in demi-human societies, where Nazarick is seen as this ancient fortress where the most powerful monsters go after they die. With the black dragon and the purple deer being seen as the peak of their respective races. Even the Dragon Lords had to give reverence to this unknown dragon, for they know the might of a single player very well, and to be able to defeat hundreds of them with ease, the black dragon would've had to be very strong indeed.

In contrast, the humans see Nazarick as the most well defended fortress in hell, for being able to defeat the 6 great gods and 5000 of their peers, and is mostly known by historians and myth chasers attempting to find the location of Nazarick.

---

3: Changing Names (Canon)

Nicky Deeze, the self-proclaimed minotaur king, has just defeated the previous supreme leader of the demi-human tribes that was bothering the 'country' that he happened to be in.

The previous leader prostrated before him in the mud, asking for forgiveness, "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I yield before your might!"

The village elder, some sort of bird demi-human, bowed before him, "We recognize your strength! King- No, God of Minotaurs! We humbly request your name, so that we may carry it to victory!"

He was about to proclaim his name as Nicky Deeze-

And then he realized what a terrible fucking choice that would've been.

His real name, Tobaya, wouldn't work either, so…

"Call me… Crete!" He declared.

Yeah, Crete, that was a cool name. Definitely way better than Nicky Deeze.

---

4: Late Night Regrets (Canon)

DarkKnight, now known as Diluc because he would've actually killed himself if he unironically called himself "DarkKnight," was sitting down with his brother, now named Kaeya, at a campfire.

They were currently taking the night watch for the self-proclaimed 13 heroes that the idiot vampire named themselves, which the entire group took far too eagerly as their way to make themselves legends for defeating the demon gods that were busy tearing apart the land.

Demon gods that Kaeya summoned by accidentally using the world item that they had stolen from their guild, Teyvat.

And it was their only world item too, just to rub salt in the wounds. One of the 20, even.

And now, they had no more world item, no more guild base that might've come with them if Kaeya hadn't given into his intrusive thoughts to just betray the guild and steal the world item in the last hour of Yggdrasil, and now they had to live with some weirdos larping to be heroes when they were the villains of the entire story.

Diluc sighed, "Kaeya, I want you to know that this is all your fault."

Kaeya tilted his head, "Oh? You tell me this all the time."

"If we hadn't betrayed the guild, we might be living in luxury in our guild base."

Kaeya shrugged, "Eh, then we would have to deal with all of the super controlling NPCs that Heavenly Principles made. I think this is better."

"It's really not. Instead of having to play by some rules that I'm sure we could bend, instead we're dealing with the aftermath of you summoning a bunch of demons, and now here we are, trying to fix that problem instead of lounging somewhere and doing nothing all day."

Kaeya took a bite out of an apple he plucked out of a tree somewhere, speaking with his mouth full, "Agree to disagree."

Tsaindorcus Vaision hummed as he left the area, having heard enough.

---

5: Tales of the bar (Canon)

"Ah, Sebas! I hadn't expected to see you down here in the bar!" Demiurge greeted Sebas as he took a seat next to him, "I wonder why you're deciding to drink your woes away?"

Sebas hummed as he took a sip of his drink, "I believe that's for me to know, Demiurge. But I do wonder why one of the greatest minds of Nazarick, not accounting for our masters, is also down here drinking his woes away?"

Sous-Chef pointed out, "Demiurge hasn't ordered anything yet. By the way, order something if you want to sit down here at the front."

"I'll take your newest experiment," Demiurge said before turning back to Sebas, "I wonder if you're perhaps here to drown out the sounds of some failure?"

Sebas raised an eyebrow, "You speak of failure as if you hadn't only gotten to kill 200 invaders on that day."

Demiurge flinched at the casual mention of his catastrophic failure.

Demiurge quickly straightened himself, "Ahem, I don't think this conversation has any merit to continue. Sous-Chef, I'll take that drink to-go, thank you."

Sebas didn't even bother following Demiurge with his eyes as he quickly left the bar.

He chuckled.

Deflecting Demiurge has become so much easier since he figured out he absolutely hated being reminded of his lackluster defense of the 7th floor.

…Though, it was quite a shame that he was so easily defeated in the end as well, forcing the Supreme Beings to clean up the mess that they couldn't.

Yes, they must better themselves like Demiurge is to ensure that day could never repeat itself again.

---

6: Where the heck did they go? (Canon, but this is played up for gags. Realistically it sounds more serious.)

Fuku Shachō picked up the phone, as vice president of the Karasu Group, it was obviously a very important call.

The first thing he heard was, "Sir! Sir! The president and all of her associates magically disappeared!"

He raised an eyebrow, "What do you mean, "magically disappear?""

"Like, they were just sleeping, and then bam! They disappeared! It was crazy! You should've seen it!"

"...Wait, so…"

"You're in charge now, man!"

"LET'S GOOOO!"

DREAM JOB ACQUIRED! CEO BABYYY!

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7: April Fools Teaser (Non-Canon)

Standing in some vast grasslands, she could only give one thought to her brain.

…Is she dreaming?

She knows she went to bed, hell, she remembered thinking to herself, "Oh, I wonder what dream I'll have tonight!"

And then she woke up in some plains biome! Where the heck even was this?

Maybe this is a lucid dream? She hasn't had one of those before. This is pretty cool.

"Hey," Some guy's voice echoed throughout the grassland, "Do you happen to know where we are?"
She quickly turned to meet the person who spoke to her, and she found…

…Some kind of bandit looking sort of person?

Wait, is that the American flag on his arm?

"Crazy…" She murmurerd, this is a pretty weird dream. She didn't know what this meant or who that guy is, but she's ready for the weirdest possibility!

The man sighed, "Alright, let me try this. My name is Fuse, I know your name is Vagisilious, don't bother asking how, and if you're not sure where we are, can you tell me if you're American or not?"

…Okay that's a pretty weird thing to say.

Maybe this is some sort of personification of her American nationality? But if so, why is that manifested in some sort of bandit way?

Well, this is her dream, she could do whatever she wants! And she isn't bound by human concepts like nationality anymore! Take that, humanity!

So, she proudly declared, "I'm not American!"

Fuse shrugged his shoulders, "Well, that makes this easy, then."

Then he pulled out a gun, and started shooting at her.

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Canon Members of Ainz Ooal Gown.

Momonga (skeleton) (dps necromancer)

Touch Me (Insect) (dps warrior)

Nishikienrai (half-golem?) (dps rogue)

Wish III (Djinn genie looking mf.) (support mage that specializes in buffing)

Warrior Takemikazuchi (Nephilim) (dps warrior)

Ancient One (Dragon) (tank monk)

Flatfoot (Goblin) (dps rogue)

Amanomahitotsu (Crab) (tank/support warrior) (Blacksmith)

Peroroncino (birdman) (dps ranger)

Bukubukuchagama (Slime) (tank warrior)

Herohero (Slime) (dps rogue)

Blue Planet (Some nature creature idk, made of stones I guess) (dps druid)

Ulbert Alain Odle (Demon Bafolk) (dps mage)

Garnet (Automaton i guess) (dps ranger) (Gun gun)

Bellriver (blood thing (Gibbering Mouther?)) (tank warrior/mage)

Variable Talisman (insect, Centipisturm? My guy has an official image) (dps warrior)

Nearata (Ghazt from my singing monsters, which is like a jellyfish) (support mage)

Nubo (I quite liked angel Nubo from godhood) (That Nubo is an angel, right? I haven't read Godhood in months either.) (support mage that does divination & raw healing)

Genjiro (Spider-guy) (dps rogue)

Yamaiko (Nephilim) (dps monk)

Whitebrim (Mammon from helluva boss (jester-demon. Greed.) (support mage specializing in control)

Punitto Moe (Death vine) (support/dps priest)

Tabula Smaragdina (Brain eater) (dps abyss mage)

Beast King Mekongawa (Big ass lion - like brutus from afk arena) (tank warrior/pet tamer)

Tigris Euphrates (demon of the stealth variety.) (dps rogue)

Temperance (Wind elemental) (dps mage specializing in wind magic.)

Suratan (Ghost) (support mage specializing in detection)

Ankoro Mocchi Mochi (big dog lady) (dps warrior)

Shizyuutensuzaku (Nue = some chinese human dragon thing.) (dps mage talisman user)

Luci Fer (Angel) (dps mage dual light/dark damage)

Coup De Grâce (Undead Ogre) (tank warrior)

OC members of Ainz Ooal Gown.

Vagisilious (Fairy) (Support mage, talismans)

Orphea (dps mage) (HoTs) (abyssal fighter) (bday nov 2)

Yoipesuto (support mage doing Healing over Time) (Jellyfish) (Good Paste) (chef)

Denshosho (support mage) (Goblin) (Lore with an extra Sho.) (Crowd control like deckard cain) (potion master)

BigStall (tank) (Big Robot) (pure soaking)

Daijobubua (tank) (Magic resist Tank) (Undead Vampire)

Pannokishi (tank) (Living bread) (Counter attack tanking) (Knight)

Otanabetabeki (tank) (Crowd controller) (Big tanuki)

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An:

Me starting to write this chapter: Oh, well, I just finished up 7k words for Manifest Destiny, and I think I'll write a shorter chapter for the next chapter of Manifest Destiny, so I can work on this for a bit, maybe shoot for an ambitious december 27th release or something haha.

Me 18K words in, in 3 days: WHAT THE HECK AM I DOING?!

Yeah so I lack the self control needed to not write for this and instead write for Manifest Destiny, which is why that last short story is the start of the April Fools chapter that I'll write in 4 months where it's a dream fight between Vagisilious and Fuse.

Winner gets an extra chapter, I guess.

Anyways, the short stories exist because of a combination of: Someone keeps wanting to hear about these other players in my reviews, I wanted to make a joke about me never making a Liberta PoV, and I wanted to get to 20k words since I was so close.

Mostly the 20k words, though.

Feel free to suggest topics to do short stories on in the scenario that I need to pad out my chapters again. Probably won't happen every chapter, but there might be some where it's close to like 10k or 20k or something and I feel the urge to push it there without having to create a whole new scene on the spot.

The list of members exists because there wasn't much care for a full list of OCs in a hypothetical chapter 9 to make this chapter 10, but I also realized I didn't have any formal list for who the members of AOG were, so I put it here.

Also to pad out the words.

I wanted to get through all of the experiments on this chapter so the next chapter could just be actually advancing the plot, but Cocytus kind of killed that idea because I was like 'holy crap I cannot take any more of this.' and decided to just let the goofballs roam free.

So, my question for you for this chapter is:

Is there some experiments you want to see next chapter?

Here's what I have down for what's happening next chapter.

Figure out how Gate of Atlas works.

Test out one of their world items and its interactions.

Does gear level work like it did in Yggdrasil?

To what extent will the NPCs follow orders?

How delicious is the food the head chef is cooking up? No, seriously, how good is it, they're starving, your honor.

If the Gate of Atlas can still connect to Yggdrasil, can BigStall access his GM form (The answer is a 'kind of but not really.' by the way.)

Are there any special properties added to the spells and abilities?

Does EXP still exist? Can they go past 100?

And that's all I can think of off the top of my head. There's probably a few more that I'm not thinking of, and that's why you exist.

X

Hori Kichirou is Lucky Son in Japanese Random Name Generator)

Yanagi Katsumi is Victorious Beauty in a Japanese Random Name Generator)

Yakedo is burn google translated.

Sawaru is touch google translated. Masayoshi is justice google translated.

Fuku Shachō is Vice President google translated.

Touch's family are all names I stole from Jujutsu Kaisen.

The title of this chapter, "Oh, Brave New World!" refers to the book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley because I read it recently. Honestly only kind of like a 6 or 7 out of 10 book for me personally, not my style, but the conversation between the Savage and the World Controller was a 10 out of 10 for me.

Why is this chapter called "Oh, Brave New World!"? That's spoilers.

I think that's it, it might not be, but I'm not reading 20k words screw that.

X

I photoshopped 5 more stuff in MS paint.

(Once again, FFN doesn't allow images, so you'll have to go to Ao3 to see them. Also, if you want a reply from me in a way that isn't as inconvenient as me having to review my own fic, you should probably comment there.)

I cooked, I know.

So Orphea is one of her official art pieces from Heroes of The Storm. Liberta is the same, but his game is AFK Arena. Take my advice and never play it, I'm an idiot for falling for 2 gacha games.

The forest picture, the guy on the left is Leviathan and the image is Wriothesly from Genshin Impact, and on the right is Tokino and the image is Mona from also Genshin Impact. Leviathan should technically be in a fancy suit, but you're crazy if you think I can do that.

Reinhard Van Astrea and Subaru are Alah Alaf & the random assistant recording every word. They're from Re:Zero.

And of course, my MS Paint masterpiece is at the bottom, with Fuse, my OC from Manifest Destiny on the left and Vagisilious, my OC from Time Capsule on the right.

Yeah, spoilers for April fools, but I'll drop a 1v1 between them on that day on both stories with different PoVs. Who wins? If you read both stories and just do some quick power scaling and imagine their growth in 4 months from now, you can probably guess who'd win.

But then you'd have to subject yourself to reading Manifest Destiny, and that may be a fate worse than death.

X

So now that I'm writing canon characters, how are their characterizations like? Because there's a little nugget of doubt saying 'Yeah, you should watch the anime again, chief.' because I haven't seen a second of Overlord in like, a year at this point.

And also, I'm not smart enough to accurately convey the intelligence of these guys bruh. In Demiurge's scene with Ulbert, I tried to do a 'aha, i know your plan' BUT I DIDN'T KNOW THE PLAN DEMIURGE WAS THINKING OF so I just wrote 'orders received.' and called it a day.

Also I forgot about Akemi until just now so I just added her in lol.

We're also disregarding some canon material here and there, but that's kind of par for the course for this type of fic.

Again, since this fic was made in 3 days, there are going to be some parts of this chapter that feels undercooked and needs more time in the kitchen, but we're speedcooking this.

Why? Idk, ask past me.

Anyways, if you regularly read all of these ANs, you've probably already guessed who's the guild that acts as the primary antagonists of this act. And I can tell you that your guesses are probably right. I'm not spelling it out, though.

Oh and I just remembered Vaggy's characterization from the last chapter.

Uh, we call it subtle character building. Or something? Or maybe now that everyone's made it, she's all happy again. I dunno, I'm working on it. How does beating depression work?

Hang on, my google docs is about to reach 22K words. And I just reached it hooray.

Alright, expect a shorter chapter next time. And have a good Christmas and a happy new year!

Or maybe I'll have to say that again next chapter, who knows, I don't.

See you next time on the next issue of "Skryb Should Not Be Allowed To Under Cook Chapters In The Kitchen."

And maybe this is just confirmation bias, but I think people comment more when I tell you to comment at the very bottom of the page.

So, comment.