Yes, the next chapter is already here, but it's shorter than usual. I'm about to move out, and even though I'm Swedish, IKEA furniture is difficult to build even with home field advantage.
SO this is the last chapter you get before Christmas, and maybe for a while. I haven't even started building my bed yet. But here's the chapter.
When I woke up, the first thing I noticed was the noises and movement. I tried to move around to see where I am, but I was stuck so tight that I couldn't move. "Heh! Where am I? Have I been kidnapped? Kingnappt? Camponnapped?"
"Take it easy, Lord Godesu." I heard Erica's voice." We are in my car, we rope you up so that you would not fly around in the car. Believe me when I say that you don't want to be unconscious when Arianna is driving. And when it comes to correct word choice, it doesn't exist. Because a Campione can't be kidnapped."
I looked around. We're in Arianna's car. Well, it's Erica's car, it's only Arianna who drives it. "Oh, did I die".
"I don't know, but you've been unconscious for a whole day. We are on our way to Sicily. Well, to take a boat there." I looked out the window. The sky was dark, but it is not raining." If we take too long we will not be able to get to Sicily on time, then the island and everyone living there destiny is in Melqart's hands."
"Ok, but can you get me free? My nose is itching "
"As you wish. Arianna stops the car for a minute." We stopped and the door next to me opened. It wasn't just seat belts that held me down, but ropes and sheets. But when I got free, I noticed something different.
"Why am I in a maid uniform?" I was in a maid uniform like Arianna's. But mine is a bit too big on me.
"Yes, when you were blown up by the White Stallion. Something that I find hard to believe even now. You got healed by another authority. But it doesn't look like it did anything for clothes. So, we gave you Arianna's extra uniform. But even with magic and Arianna's tailor knowledge. This was something that couldn't be mad for you."
I had a feeling I knew what Erica was going to say. I took a hand to my groin and my other hand to my chest. "Oh! I don't have any underwear!"
"Sorry, but unfortunately we don't have any clean ones" Arianna said apologizing. "But you look great in my uniform."
"There's something I want to ask you." Erica said in a serious tone. "I have not answered any calls from the Copper-Black Cross. I didn't know if you wanted us to tell them about you. And then I'll be ordered to come back while another Copper-Black Cross Knight takes my place by your side."
"What! No, I want to be with Erica-chan!" I said. I knew to defeat Melqart I need the Warrior. Which means I need to know his story, which means a kiss from Erica. "Don't tell them I'm here. Or who I am." I said and hugged Erica. I got a surprised cry out of her, but then I felt a hand on my head.
"Ok, then I won't say anything. Shall we go to town and buy you some new clothes?"
That's when I got an idea—a fun idea. "OK, but I can keep the maid uniform."
"Heh, why?!" Both Erica and Arianna said at the same time.
"Because if we meet someone who asks, we can just say that I'm your new maid."
"I don't know if it will work. Arianna is my apprentice, even though she has no talent in magic." Erica looked like she was thinking about something. "But with your great source of magical power, you can fit as a Witch or Princess Shrine Maiden. Yes, it can work." Erica said and thought it through." If it is not one of the higher ups or if they ask the higher ups, I can say that I am looking into the storm and the Heretic God related to it."
I smiled a smile full of pride. And Erica noticed.
"I should have guessed that a Campione would have come up with something so clever. But let's go and buy underwear for you. I don't want my new maid to go comando."
"Ok" I said with a smile.
Erica Blandelli Pov
We were outside the store. I was pretty sure she can't hear us. But I don't know all her authorities. But I believe that we should be safe.
"Do you think it's a good idea?" Arianna asked unsure. "Won't she be angry if she finds out that you have already contacted the Copper-Black Cross."
"Maybe, I can't tell with her. Plus, I didn't contact the Copper-Black Cross. Only my uncle Paolo. And I've said that if I don't contact the Copper-Black Cross and inform them about her, she doesn't want her identity to be known yet. So he knows that she doesn't want her identity out yat."
"But won't Mr. Blandelli be alarmed about your health?"
"He already is. I'll be careful and not go in between their fight. I'm also going to try to find out if she's a danger. Yes, I know she's a Campione, but you know my theory."
"That she works for someone else?"
"Yes, but it's possible that she doesn't even know that she does. But there are holes in that idea too. But I can say with certainty there's something fishy about Kusanagi Godesu."
"Wait, I thought Godesu was her first name?" asked Arianna confused.
"It is, but in Japan you say the family name first. So I would introduce myself as Blandelli Erica."
"Oh, that's a little weird."
"Yes, but it's only because you've grown up here—she's coming." I turned to the door. The store was a high quality lingerie store, one that I have used myself. I had given her money so she can also buy the highest quality without any problems."
"Ok, I'm done now." Said the god slayer as she came up to us. "This feels really good. It is the best I have worn. And guess what." She said with pride. "We're matching now."
"Oh really" I said deadpan. For some reason, I'm not surprised by this. I could even hear Arianna trying to hide a laugh. "But now that you're properly dressed, we have to make it to the next boat. If we miss this, there is a great risk that the next one will be cancelled by the storm."
" Aye aye Capten... Um, what should I call you? With me being your maid and all."
"Arianna likes to call me Miss Erica, but she's my friend and you're new. So you can call me Miss or Lady Blandelli."
"Ok, Miss Blandelli" she said with a beaming smile. I don't know why, but she looks like she's enjoying this. Maybe she's into being a maid...
It was then some very strange ideas came to mind. When I'm the master who does lewd things to her maid or orders her to do so. And I know that there is a possibility that I will be ordered by her to give her that type of order. To be ordered by a king, to order the king for sex…
What has my life become when I accept that THAT is a possibility?!
I ate the last of my steak. Normally I would drink more wine, but with how I am supposed to keep track of a god slayer with an unknown background, I can't afford to get drunk. Arianna and Godesu were next to me, one of them had stared too much at the food than a maid should. The last boat was a luxury cruise, so everything was luxurious. But that means that my maids will get to eat later.
I drank the last of my wine, Godesu was about to fill it up, but I raised a hand to stop her. I have to say that she knows all the right etiquette too pour wine. If I remember correctly, yesterday before Melqart came, she had looked after me and gave me wine too. It makes me wonder where she got the skill from.
"Ah, isn't that Erica Blandelli, just the person I was hoping to meet." I turned to the familiar voice. A high-class suit. The cigar in his right hand that looked very expensive. A unified sense of solemnity and criminality. It took me a second, but I recognized who he was.
"Uncle Zamparini, are you traveling on this ship too?"
"Ah yes. I remember we only met once, but what a great memory you have. Paolo Blandelli's niece is indeed as clever as rumored." Walter Zamparini. The commander-in-chief of Panormus. And a man that definitely would try to get on Godesu's good side for his own sake and Panormus. Yes, I can see him try to use her.
I broke out of my thoughts when he bowed down on one leg and I was afraid that he had already realized that Godesu was a king.
"If I may, I can offer my assistance to defeat the Heretic God. King Erica Blandelli, the youngest of the Campione."
"What?" I said. It took a while to understand what he was saying. Me, a Campione? Before I could ask him, I felt a hand on my shoulder. It was Godesu who gave me a thumbs up, nodded and blinked with one eye. What does it mean, what is she trying to say... Oh. Oh no. No no no no. She can't mean that I should. She and Arianna bow down on the floor too. OH GOD, that's what she meant! This is worse than the sex thing!
I turned to Zamparini, he was looking down as he bowed. He has not seen Godesu's signal. And unfortunately, she has said that she doesn't want to be identified, and she has signaled that I should go along. I looked around the room, Zamparini must have cast a spell because no one was looking at us.
"I'm impressed Zamparini. But I must ask, how did you know?"
"It wasn't hard to figure out. You were the only known mage in the vicinity of when the Heretic God who is believed to be Verethragna died. Some of my agents could divine that someone with his divinity was on the ship. And what do I see, the Diavolo Rosso. But that's not all." He took out a compass. It was an older model but I could feel that it had a strong magical energy. If I had to guess, it was one rank below Cuore di Leone. "This is the divinecompass. One of the most valuable magical items of the Panormus. It has the power to point towards the nearest divind being. Both Campione and Gods. And it pointed me to you, my Lord."
I looked at the compass and I panicked. From where Zamparini came from it must have looked like it was pointing at me, but now it's clear that it was pointing at Godesu. "I see, what a useful artifact. I think it might be useful so I will take it just in case." I said and took the magic item. He had started to look up but didn't look at the compass yet.
"But my Lord, I don't want to sound disrespectful but it will only point at you when you hold it."
"Are you trying to tell me what to do? And who said you can look at me." I said in a pride full voice. I've always seen myself better than most, I got the name Diavolo Rosso for a reason. But my up bringing has always teach me that I should be respectful to my higher ups and those of the other associations. And I'm going against it now. I know it's a Kings order but still, this feels wrong.
"Excuse your Majesty. I didn't mean anything disrespectful."
"I hope so for your sake." I stood up. "If you want something, I'll be in my room. It will take nine hours before we are in Sicily, and I want to be well prepared."
"I understand your majesty."
"Good. You're excused." With those words, Zamparini left and walked away. He never looked at me while he was doing it. I then looked over to my maids. "I want to go to my room. And I want to have a conversation with you."
"Yes Miss Erica".
"Yes, your majesty." Godesu said with glee in her voice.
This little girl.
On the island of Sardinia, at the ruins were a fight between god and man where fought, was a man. But he didn't look like someone you would find on the island at this time. He manifested here because he could feel the power of his former prisoner. And not long after someone used the power of a god that did not belong to them.
He knew it was his prisoner's niece who had used the power she had taken. He looked towards the ground before his gaze went back to the rocks in front of him.
Prometheus' Grimoire had broken. There was too much power with no rest in between. But it works just as good for him. Now that he was in the mortal world, he can punish those who become his captive's newphew and niece.
Because he was Kratos, a enforcers of Zeus. And not the Ghost of Sparta as the people of this time have come to see him. He took a hand to his new red tattoo. There is something else he has to fix when he is here. As if he would ever go against Lord Zeus.
AH ha. Did you think I was joking with you when I said fighting Kratos. But this is not your usual Walmart Kratos. No, this is mythology-accurate Kratos. Well, not entirely. Kratos wasn't so well known before the God of War games and now when you hear the name Kratos, that's what comes to mind. So the games have affected him.
Oh yes. ALL HAIL THE MAID KING! Come on, say it with me. Hail the maid king. I mean, with how the most well-known female god slayer is Luo Hao, they have a hard time imagining a Campione in a maid uniform. I also think it's hard to imagining Madame Aisha in one too. Although it is much easier than Luo Hao.
And as for Erica, they thought she was the Campione before they realized Godou was in the light novel . And unfortunately nothing fun happened while they thought Erica was a Campione. Something that I have fixed here.
Men det är allt för idea. Men jag har något för er innan vi går och läser något annat. Authority Profil. Jag har sätt andr fanfic göra det så jag gör det nu. Och så glömde jag göra det föra gången.
Authority Profil.
The info from this document comes from a report from Erica Blandelli after the fight with the three gods when the youngest of the kings was in Sicily and Sardinia.
Namn: Nemesis Sword
Original owner: Verethragna,
Current owner: Kusanagi Godesu.
The sword itself is a weak authority, but it is a nexus to ten other authorities that represent the ten incarnations of Verethragna. It looks like most authorities have a condition to activate or it's powers scale with something. Or need to wield the sword in order to use the authority at full power. Depending on the situation, the authority can be incredibly strong or useless. With the sword that she calls the Nemesis Sword changes shape depending on which authority she uses. She can only use one incarnation at a time and once it has been used, she has to wait a day before she can use them again.
Also, note that the name was given by the King herself and the name that Witenagemot gave the authority [Golden Warlord] was not accepted by her. Like Luo Hao, she will be enragedif use the improper name of her authority. She has stated that she will let the Witenagemot give suggestions for names, but to not act like they are the official names until she gives the approval.