The plan for Ainz Ooal Gown was very simple. It was designed to be so because compared to Seraphim, they didn't have nearly the same amount of resources that they did. If they wanted Seraphim to make several mistakes that would cost them the war, they would have to be careful with where they put all of their members.

As such, with the cooperation of all 41 members, they created a simple plan that was easy to remember and conduct.

First of all, they would always have at least 5 members within every group at all times. Then they weren't allowed to split up any further than a city. The reason why a city was chosen for the limits was because almost everyone in the guild had enough destructive power in their arsenal to start throwing buildings into the air, getting the attention of everyone in the group.

Of course, in a straight one-on-one confrontation, most members of Ainz Ooal Gown would probably lose to a member of Seraphim. But the purpose of these groups weren't really to fight, but rather make sure that someone can escape to alert the rest of the guild, because the chances of winning a 41 against 72 guild fight was actually higher than 1v1s. And fortunately, everyone had a set of stalling-focused gear that were only a few levels down, so they would be able to last long in a fight.

Sure, "Few levels down," meant level 94, a whole 12% stat disadvantage. But the set bonuses on the stalling gear was what they were really meant for. And it was a pain in the ass to farm back then, and they didn't even end up using it for more than 2 fights. They were pretty glad that they had a use now.

And so with those groups, they were mostly going to concentrate themselves outside of the Holy Kingdom. Not just because Nazarick was inside their borders and they wanted to hide that fact, but also the simple fact that being in a country where every town and city had an angel in it was… Unwise, to say the least.

They would eventually start to infiltrate the kingdom and start to plant the seeds of rebellion for the final battle, but they needed to make sure that it wasn't leading to Nazarick itself.

In fact, speaking of leading back to Nazarick, they had no idea if the angels in Carne Village and E-Rantel could be used to pinpoint where Nazarick roughly was. Could whoever summoned those angels look back at the memories?

If they could, they couldn't kill any of the angels they met because it would basically alert Seraphim to the fact that Ainz Ooal Gown was in their territory. Specifically in those regions.

They were so paranoid about this fact that Ulbert actually summoned a few demons to check out if this was actually a possibility.

As it turns out, the summoner has to use a memory-tampering spell like Control Amnesia to check. So, it was possible, but likely too costly in both resources and time for Seraphim to check every angel for any suspicious people.

So, if they were to ever gain wind of Seraphim actually doing that, they'll be sure to nuke every angel in the country. Peroroncino alone could probably do it, considering he went for a sharpshooter build, mixed with a racial class that gave him comically long attack ranges.

Next was their plan about any foreign nations they might come in contact with.

Long story short, they weren't that useful.

According to Fluder, Seraphim has sent a few expeditions into the rest of the continent to kill monsters that had the potential to cause them some slight trouble. That is to say, mostly the intelligent monsters and those who had potential to grow. But since they didn't bother to officially take over those areas, most of those regions are currently in chaos due to Seraphim taking down their competent leaders and strong monsters.

And really, everyone left was barely hitting level 40 or higher. They were not going to be useful in a battle against Seraphim, and they might even end up detrimental to Ainz Ooal Gown because there were several attacks that benefitted from how many things you could kill from those attacks.

Which was also why Ainz Ooal Gown decided to allow their members to use the surrounding citizens as fuel for their attacks if they needed to.

Not everyone agreed with this decision, but the logic about it prevailed over the emotions. Besides, it could also bait Seraphim into taking the high road and try to protect the citizens. Something that wouldn't work out very well for them.

Sure, the people of Apotheosis would hate them for it, but Ainz Ooal Gown would rather them be free and full of hate instead of in chains and ignorantly happy.

And with that decided, Ainz Ooal Gown decided to dispatch the most of their members to the Argland Council State to begin rooting out Seraphim spies and to make it look like Argland is their most important location to protect.

Their NPCs were all untested, so they didn't count them as part of the group of five just yet, but the higher leveled ones would be there to assist the players.

Liberta Prime did actually ask to be deployed into the Dragon Kingdom, but Punitto decided to shut that down until the NPCs gained a bit more experience in how to conduct an infiltration.

Because, really, that first expedition was meant to last maybe a week. It lasted one day. That can't happen again.

With that all in mind, Ulbert was clamoring to be able to meet the Cult of Ulbert Alain Odle in Argland, so they decided that Ulbert would publicly show up in the country.

Sure, there was a slight stain from the fact that Ulbert decreased his karma and ended up destroying a good portion of the capital city of the Dragon Kingdom. But hey, it was practically impossible for the people in Argland to know about that. They haven't seen a message spell being used once by the natives in this world.

And since Vagisilious was basically Ulbert's best support, and also in the same legend as he is, she's going with him.

They debated whether or not to leave the Mianguan, but they decided that Vagisilious should just permanently keep the Mianguan on.

After all, if she needs it and doesn't have it, that may cost them a surprise fight from Seraphim. And Seraphim presumably already knows about the fact that the Mianguan will automatically win a battle of attrition for Ainz Ooal Gown, so she's already a target for any world items that Seraphim may have.

To satisfy Ulbert's showboating and to display his might to the citizens of Argland, Vagisilious agreed to cast a few illusion spells from her racial classes to "summon" Ulbert to the middle of the massive coliseum where people were going to pray for his arrival.

Why were they in the massive coliseum? Because basically everyone in Argland converted to a follower of Ulbert Alain Odle once the tales of Nazarick being a real thing started to disperse from the council to the lower folks.

People were beginning to worship both Leviathan and Tokino too, but most people were opting to follow their bosses.

And just to make sure that Seraphim wasn't around to try and ambush Ulbert and Vagisilious as soon as they were in everyone's sights, all 41 members and every level 100 NPC in Nazarick would hang around the coliseum, just in case.

The resulting battle probably results in every citizen being killed, probably because Momonga would use that super-tier spell that summons the dark young who could tank for them, but it was technically a way for Ainz Ooal Gown to win the war early.

Of course, that only applied if he could stomach actually killing that many people. That applied to most members, actually.

It's one thing to say that they were going to make the logically and tactically optimal choice. It was another thing to actually walk the walk.

As Vagisilious stood on top of the biggest coliseum in Argland, waiting for the prayers to start, she figured that Momonga wouldn't be able to activate his spell.

Mostly because Ulbert would kill everyone first. That guy was seriously deranged, and somehow he's her only romance option unless she wanted to start from scratch with someone new.

…Huh, that thought bothered her, for some reason.

Maybe she really is into genuinely crazy people like Ulbert is.

Ignoring her questionable tastes in men, the people of Argland started to quiet down as the current head of the Cult of Ulbert, Alain Evermore, began to speak.

Alain Evermore was clearly named after Ulbert's middle name, which mildly amused her. To top it off, Alain was a wolf beastman. From one of her conversations in the past, Ulbert's second choice if he couldn't be a goat was to be a wolf demon. Obviously Ulbert and Alain would hit it off the moment they start talking. Ulbert probably dreamed of being a cult leader at least once in his life.

And what a crowd Alain was addressing. In fact, there were the four remaining Dragon Lords standing inside the pits of the coliseum, listening to Alain. Euryalus would've probably been there too, if it wasn't for the fact that he was still in Nazarick under Demiurge's supervision.

Something about "experimentation." She thought it would be fine, though.

"People of Argland!" Alain began to speak, his old voice echoing across the entire coliseum, carrying more vitality than Vagisilious thought it could, "Much has happened since the Cult of Ulbert Alain Odle last met! The Primordial Dragon Lord, Euryalus Joukahainen, has fallen to the Black Dragon from Nazarick! And the Deer of Nazarick, has revealed Nazarick to the world!"

It kind of annoyed her that they didn't bother giving Leviathan and Tokino a cool name. Plus, Tokino wasn't a deer, she was a qillin.

That's something that she's going to have to clarify later when she's down there.

As Alain kept speaking about how this meant that they were all going to serve under Nazarick forever, Vagisilious quickly used her divination on the crowd, checking for anyone that was attempting to keep themselves hidden.

There were 4 that she noticed. All of them are human. But they didn't have anti-divination spells high enough to stop her from bypassing it without alerting them.

As it turns out, they're just native humans with some weak trinkets that hide their power. Vagisilious doesn't really recognize any of them, but maybe it's something important, so she uses a spell that takes a picture of whatever she sees, implanting those photos in her long-term memory, so she could use another spell to show it off to the guild later for an examination.

She did a little more searching after that, but found nobody interesting. Maybe that'll change and she'll regret not searching harder after she floated down to the middle of the coliseum, but she doubts it.

Besides, Nubo was looking out too. If she wasn't alerted for anything, then it was all right.

So, Vagisilious tunes back into Alain's speech.

"And so, let us all share a prayer!" He shouted out, holding up a golden chalice high in the air, "To His Majesty, Ulbert Alain Odle, we will devote everything to your everlasting reign over both Hell and this world!"

Yeah, this looked like her cue.

As everyone was praying to Ulbert's name, Vagisilious undid her invisibility illusion and gently floated down to the middle of the coliseum, slowly circling the arena to let everyone get a good look at her.

Unlike the man himself, Ulbert's cult was very polite as they all decided to whisper about her presence instead of shouting about it. And they were all basically guessing the correct thing.

She was the fairy in the stories about Ulbert Alain Odle.

Alain's hand was trembling as he took a step back, because Vagisilious chose to take his spot.

The dragons all had an astonished expression as well, it actually made her kind of happy that they were taking her so seriously.

Maybe not enough to get used to it, but she gets Ulbert now.

Staring at her palm, she quickly reminded herself of how Ulbert wanted to be "summoned."

He was a big fan of summoning circles, and her illusion magic was versatile enough to create a fake one. But if Ulbert appeared in the middle of it, then was it really fake?

Anyways, the insignia he wanted to use was the same as his guild banner. She had to make sure that she didn't screw it up, because she doesn't doubt that everyone was going to remember this for the rest of their lives.

…Also, Ulbert wanted the summoning circle to encompass the entire coliseum, but she didn't have the patience or the focus, maybe not even the range to do that. So screw that, he can get a decently sized summoning circle.

Pushing her arms out performatively to the side, she created a massive summoning circle on the ground, summoning fake fire onto the borders, then causing them to lead back to the center.

And she didn't have to do anything after that, because Ulbert himself casted Volcano right behind her, teleporting inside of the lava to make it seem like he was summoned from the lava.

Hopefully, that was enough for Ulbert.

As the lava harmlessly landed on the ground, though probably still causing everyone to sweat, Ulbert calmly walked towards Alain, who was genuinely kneeling at this point.

Sparing the audience a casual glance, and a more pointed look to the four dragons who had ditched surrounding the center and instead gathered together, Ulbert remarked, "Hm, all of your heads are quite high right now."

And like clockwork, everyone's head hit the floor, even if the positioning was awkward amongst the audience.

"Lord Ulbert Alain Odle…" Alain's voice was in total awe, his entire body trembling at Ulbert's presence, "I never thought that I would live to see this day… To see your godly providence!"

Alain had dropped his golden chalice onto the floor, so Ulbert picked it up, placing a finger to pick up the wine so he could lick it. Vagisilious knew full well that it was an aesthetic choice.

"Your language mocks my liberated form, for I answer to no godly will," He said, casting a flame spell that instantly burnt the golden chalice to ash, "And your practices to honor me are pathetic. It is truly a shame that you think what is done in my name is enough."

Obviously intimidated by the heat of the flames, Alain apologizes right away, "I'm sorry, Lord Ulbert Alain Odle! Please, teach us the proper way of honoring your liberated name!"

The reason why Ulbert was able to answer so quickly was because he talked about it with Vagisilious a lot, "Hell is a place where all are placed equally upon the altar of sacrifice. If you want to gain my favor, you should've made this place a place that mirrored Hell itself. You should've demanded for your upper class to elevate you all to their level, or dragged them all down with you. Action is the only thing I respect."

In her opinion, what Ulbert just described was basically communism, or what Vagisilious remembered to be communist, anyways. But considering Ulbert was an authoritarian, she thought that it was on-brand for him.

Everyone in the audience could hear him clearly, so some people already began to offer everything they own so that they could gain Ulbert's favor.

But Ulbert shut them all up by saying, "I don't recall giving you all the permission to raise your heads or speak."

Despite that sentence being aimed towards the audience, Alain was petrified because he also wasn't given the permission to speak. Though he didn't raise his head.

She was somewhat interested in how Ulbert was going to give him mercy, but…

"PLEASE SAY SOMETHING!" Ulbert shouted in his message with her, still keeping a cool exterior.

Yeah, Ulbert did not plan that and he didn't want to look stupid by excluding Alain.

Genuinely chuckling, though not for the reasons the audience expected, Vagisilious told him, "Ulbert, you don't have to be so… Cruel, you know? It's fine to have a little mercy in your life."

Shifting his head towards her, he coldly said, "Vagisilious. You are under my control, are you not?"

Huh? He seriously wants to go with that idea? Screw that, she's not following his script.

"You merely contracted me," Vagisilious corrected, finding Ulbert subtly surprised by her denial, "I am free to do as I please. That is the only rule in Hell, yes?"

Rolling with the punches, Ulbert readily agreed, "Hmph, you are right. Fine, then, I don't mind sparing these mortals."

Hah, another victory for her!

She happily put her hands behind her back as she backed off to let Ulbert address the audience, "You may raise your heads."

As everyone did so, he continued to speak, dramatically raising his arms, "In my infinite benevolence, I have deemed this city to be molded in my image. From now on, Drako Urbo shall follow my name alone. Nazarick will set you free. I will set you free."

Everyone took that as the moment they were allowed to cheer, and so they cheered. They cheered his name, her name, Nazarick, and anything else they could think of.

And as they all cheered, Ulbert turned to Vagisilious, "Let us depart. There is much to be done."

Snapping her fingers, she created a gate to a random isolated location not far from their location.

And with that, his debut was over.

"So, Vaggy, was I cool?"

"Super cool."

The post-debut discussion was only between Ulbert and Vagisilious because Punitto convinced everyone that they should all just jump to what they should be doing instead of patting each other on the backs. They could do that at another time.

While everyone was exiting the coliseum, the two of them had about an hour to kill before Ulbert wanted to have a one-on-one conversation with Alain. So, it was up to them to figure out how to spend that time.

There were about 20 members of Ainz Ooal Gown littered around the city, keeping an eye out for anything suspicious. So the two of them were free to screw around if they really didn't want to help the rest of the guild catch any potential spies.

And, to be perfectly honest, they really didn't want to work right now.

"Sorry for kind of going against you for a moment, by the way," Vagisilious lightly apologized, giving him a sheepish smile, "I kinda thought the way you put our relationship was stupid."

He easily waved it off, "Nah, that's fair. Besides, it makes you look more equal to me, so I don't have to deal with people thinking I'm so far I can't be touched."

Glad that Ulbert was fine with it, she wiped nonexistent sweat off her forehead.

She really was glad that he was a chill guy once you were in his friendzone.

…Though, she just realized that the two are alone with each other and she might not get another opportunity like this for a while…

Ah, damn it, this was a lot harder to do than she thought it was. She wants to like Ulbert, love, whatever, but it's just awkward!

Plus, Ulbert hasn't even shown a single sign of liking her back! Sure, most of the time they spent together was in a game, so there really wasn't much physical attention he could show. But… Yeah, she doesn't really have a good rebuttal.

Still, she consistently complained about her romance anime protagonists not just telling their love interests about their true feelings right away. Is she really going to be a hypocrite?

Looking at Ulbert's face, he looked completely content with the world as he looked at the coliseum which was in the process of moving everyone out of it. But would she call him handsome? Maybe not.

So, Vagisilious wasn't in this for the looks, but rather personality.

…Of which was just displayed to her just now. But she still found that kind of hot, even if she was being a bit contrary just to make herself look better.

After more moments of deliberation, she decided to throw all caution in the wind and try to approach the matter in a subtle way.

"So, uh, Ulbert," Vagisilious said, sounding way more nervous than she wanted to, getting his attention, "...What do you think about me?"

That was not subtle AT ALL. She's going to kill herself if this goes poorly.

At the very least, Ulbert wasn't expecting that question at all so he goes into a stunlock, "Uh… Think about you? You're…"

Ulbert's eyes flicker up and down as he checks out her body and she's in dismay as there's absolutely no way that Ulbert hasn't checked out her body once and still finds her as romance material.

"Oh, actually," Hitting his fist into the palm of his hand, Ulbert deduced, "I remember this! You kept complaining about your romance characters slow burning! And we're like, almost a month into our new journey…"

Oh, right. She almost forgot Ulbert could be smart whenever he wanted to be.

And with that, Ulbert reached the correct conclusion, "You're basically asking me if I like you, right?"

This casual tone was absolutely not the right tone to have for this conversation. She hates this entire situation right now because she absolutely should've followed the conventional wisdom of anime and turned this into a slow burn. Ulbert DID NOT like her.

She's done for-

"Yeah, I like you," Ulbert said, sounding pretty happy about the whole situation, "I wasn't sure if you were, though. You're kind of a tsundere sometimes."

The whiplash hits her like a high-speed train. She couldn't even comprehend his thought process.

She imagined the reveal to be more, say, romantic. But Vagisilious forgot she was dealing with Ulbert Alain Odle, who was not romantic at all.

"Oh," Was all that she could say.

In hindsight, it kind of makes sense? Ulbert probably went his entire life not really thinking about romance because he lived in the closest place to Hell. He probably doesn't associate it with any of the grandiosity that she does.

So, Vagisilious confirmed, "Uh, I like you too, yeah. I want to date you."

Holy shit she sounds so lame. Has her years of watching romance anime taught her nothing? This is maybe the worst day of her life right now.

She's cursing Earth so hard for robbing her of her romance skills. The lack of genuine human connection during those 14 years is genuinely killing her here.

Ulbert smiled, and to be perfectly honest, it looked goofy, goats were not made for that expression, "Hahaha! Alright, so we're dating now, right? Do you want to kiss?"

She opened her mouth to respond. But then she closed it. She tried it again, but couldn't speak.

Then, she gained the courage to speak her true thoughts, "I would have to close my eyes."

She joked for a bit about being a goat fucker. But she really just can't accept that face of his, even if everything else about him was totally fine. Great, even.

"...Oh, are we dating for personality instead of looks?" Somehow, despite Vagisilious being blatantly obvious in her dislike of the goat face, Ulbert sounded perfectly fine with it.

She sighed, feeling a bit bad about it now, "Ah, yeah, sorry. I just can't really, uh, kiss your face, you know?"

Scratching the back of his head, Ulbert didn't sound too upset as he suggested, "Well, I'm not that angry about it. I don't think I would date someone who looks like a goat too. Maybe we can just save it for after we defeat Seraphim and we can have a victory kiss using the Seeds of Yggdrasil?"

Vagisilious thought about it for all of 1 second and she immediately replied with great enthusiasm, "That's awesome, this is why I chose to date you!"

That would feel legendary and she's getting excited just thinking about it!

Though she was reminded one thing about herself.

"Oh, by the way, take me on a few dates before you get more intimate with me," Vagisilious asked, "I wanna, you know, feel like a proper girlfriend, you know?"

Luckily, Ulbert seemed to understand as he muttered, "Proper girlfriend? Well, if that's what you want to feel like, of course I'm not going to fight you on that…" Then, Ulbert turned his attention to the nearby market that caught his eye as he was scoping out the area, "Uh, wanna go shopping? That's a popular thing with couples, right? Or at least, that's what I remember, anyways."

Smiling, Vagisilious picked up Ulbert's hand and happily agreed, "I haven't gone on a proper shopping trip in basically decades. I would love to!"

Though that entire conversation went off any imagined rails, Vagisilious still considered this a victory. She was no longer a single woman after 14 years!

…Oh, wait, how the hell is she going to have a sex life if she doesn't even want to see Ulbert's face?

…

Well, a blindfold will have to work. She probably has enough character development left in her to have a kink for that.

Donning human illusions over themselves, the new couple slowly walked through the repopulating merchant's district. Most of the city had finally exited the coliseum and were beginning to go back to what they were doing the day before.

Of course, while Vagisilious did have the advantage of having a whole other previous life where she was once able to do things like this, it's also been another 14 years since she actually could put it in practice.

To be honest, her memory surrounding the first of her three lives has been getting foggier with every passing day. But just walking down a simple street with a date brought back so many memories of a much simpler time.

…Well, it could be argued that trying to fight humans larping as angels was easier than filing taxes, paying for car maintenance, and working a job was simpler than that, but she'll have her nostalgia glasses on, thank you very much.

Floating next to Ulbert, she decides to put her head on his shoulders. It was something that looked cute in an anime, so it should be cute here, right?

As it turns out, his shoulders, kind of boney. It also probably didn't help that his gear wasn't as soft as his fur.

Dissatisfied with her findings, Vagisilious unpleasantly hummed to Ulbert, letting him know of the terrible situation that they had on their hands. Or, well, on his shoulder.

"You can come closer to my neck, you know," Ulbert suggested, lifting his head away from her to expose more of his unprotected neck, full of fur, "Though, you'd have to be behind me instead of next to me."

Weighing her options, her next best thing that wasn't doing that was to hold his hand, and, well…

Lightly lowering the gaze of her eyes, Vagisilious blankly stared at Ulbert's hands.

He was still wearing his level 100 gear, the one with the claws on the end of his fingers.

Yeah, she's going to have a discussion about that in the future. But she was nice enough to just accept that she wasn't going to look as good as she wanted to on the outside.

So, moving from her position from Ulbert's side, she went behind Ulbert's arm so she could wrap her arms around his shoulders to push her face into his neck.

And holy shit she missed actually hugging people. Ulbert clearly thought so as well, because he suddenly stopped walking.

She wasn't in the best position to receive a hug back, and she was heavily considering just abandoning the "I want to feel like a proper girlfriend" route and just taking him back to Nazarick to indulge herself…

But, after serious considerations and 7 whole seconds of hugging Ulbert's back, Vagisilious decides that, no, she wasn't going to abandon her idea. It would make her look bad if she immediately crumbled under physical contact.

Yes, she was being petty, but as long as there were no hurt feelings, it was alright in her mind. She'll just apologize to Ulbert by cutting down on half of the plans she was planning before he was allowed to ravage her in bed.

But Ulbert decided that he wanted to be selfish as well, so he took her hands off his body and turned around. Then, he wrapped his body around hers.

The hug felt so warm and comfortable, Vagisilious felt genuine difficulty in saying anything to progress themselves.

…But, well, that can happen later too.

Until then, they'll just enjoy the most intimate physical contact they've had in years. The rest of the guild can wait an hour.

Bonus Story (non-canon)

3rd Anniversary

Looking at the random letter that suddenly appeared in her hand, Vagisilious decided that the universe was stupid.

She has no idea what the contents of this letter are, but she still thought that it was stupid.

So, upon actually reading the letter, nothing changed for her at all. Because word for word, the letter went like this.

"Dear Vagisilious (Fuck you), I, The Writer of Liberation, Skryb, formally invite you to my 3rd birthday."

Why the hell is a 3 year old giving her a letter through magical means? And why does he hate her?

Then, she was not where she previously was. Instead, she was now in a corporate office, much like the ones back on Earth.

She yelped a little in surprise, thinking that she had suddenly traveled back in time. But a quick check with her body showed that, nope, she was still Vagisilious, not Lauren Moore.

Taking a look around, there were a bunch of other people here. Both humans and heteromorphic. But even just a quick glance with her divination shows that they were comically strong. As though she walked into a meeting of world enemies.

And, as she was figuring out why her teleportation spells weren't working, a shadow fell upon her.

Collecting her nerves because being overshadowed by someone was never a good sign, she slowly turned around to face…

Oh, that's just an ant man from Yggdrasil, but edgier. She can totally deal with this.

Losing all of her fear, Vagisilious greeted, "Hey, what's up? Could you explain to me what's going on here?"

The ant man stared at her for 2 seconds before replying with his very deep voice, "I see. You are invited to an anniversary of a man you do not yet know. Come with me, I shall enlighten you."

As the ant man walks towards somewhere she has no idea of, he continues, "I am Zavvox, we are all equals here, so I shall not bore you with titles. You are in the presence of Fair and Balanced Incorporated, a company run by the gods. It is our master's three year anniversary of something he keeps close to his chest, and it is his will that we celebrate it."

Fair and Balanced Incorporated? That's kind of a dumb name. Is Skryb stupid?

Making a right turn, they found someone sitting at a round table for three, a human warrior with no crown on his head, calmly sipping coffee.

Deeply humming, Zavvox said, "Chorus, you isolate yourself far too much."

The now named Chorus slightly shrugged his shoulders, "I prefer the silence. My match was quite traumatizing, you know."

"That was hundreds of years ago," Zavvox pointed out.

"Quite traumatizing," The warrior simply repeated, before looking towards Vagisilious, "And this is… Her?"

Narrowing her eyes, she silently questioned what the heck Chorus meant by that. She wasn't about to ask, though, since it sounded like the both of them were the monologuing type.

Nodding, Zavvox confirmed, "Indeed, this is Vagisilious, though she is… Young."

And what the hell was THAT supposed to mean? Is she meant to just stand here and take that? Hell no!

"Hey! I'm an adult, you know!" Vagisilious upsettingly clarified, pouting, "Just because I have a body that looks young doesn't mean I'm a kid!"

Chorus rolled his eyes, "That wasn't an insult, but I see where your description fits, Zavvox."

"I can kick both of your asses."

"You can't."

Clearing his throat, somehow, Zavvox stated, "There is not much to do on this day, so let us share stories, yes? I believe it is our duty to make our guests feel welcomed."

Two more cups of coffee appeared on the table, and Vagisilious decided to drop the previous topic and sat in her chair.

She couldn't do anything, so it was probably fine. She would just wake up from a dream, maybe.

As she picked up her cup, Vagisilious asked, "Okay, so, uh, when do I get to meet this Skryb guy? He's the one who sent out that invitation so I should be meeting him soon, right?"

Nodding, Zavvox confirmed, "The time of your meeting will be soon at hand. But that is irrelevant at our current moment…"

Then, Chorus placed his cup down, his expression seeming to remember something, "Hey, Zavvox. Isn't it about that time?"

Vagisilious raised an eyebrow, even more so to the fact that Zavvox wasn't responding.

So, she couldn't hold it in to ask, "Uh, what are you talking about, Chorus?"

With a cold expression on his face, Chorus replied, "To once again change the timeline… And claim the universe."

Though Vagisilious couldn't quite remember the faces or names of anyone on that day, nor remember any of their names… That line stuck with her.

AN:

First of all, this 5k chapter (4k if you don't count the bonus story) was all written in the span of 8 hours. At night. It's 8:44 AM right now. So there's gonna be weird things about this chapter.

Secondly, it is my 3 year anniversary, that is the cause for this early update and the bonus story. The two OCs in that are from my first fic, "Is this fair and balanced? Absolutely not!" And "Freeloading Souls."
The first of my stories, and the one guy I dropped because I wasn't feeling his storyline.

If I have time tomorrow, I will write Vagisilious and Ulbert shopping together in this chapter. If you are seeing this, I did not have the time and will put it in a bonus story next chapter.

I will also definitely write the other perspective of the Ulbert debut in a bonus story next chapter. Because Vaggy is just unserious about it and I think you guys would like to see what it actually looked like from the outside. But again, I have one more chapter to write for another fic so I don't have time to put it in this chapter.

I will go to sleep now, and when I wake up, I will begin to write another chapter for another fic and be able to update 4 of my fics on my 3 year anniversary. [Nah, that didn't happen. Burnt out at the very end.]

[Also, still no smut in this fic, though they're definitely banging off screen.]

If you would like to complain about my procrastination that led me to having to write 5 chapters in 6 days, thus leaving them all undercooked, feel free to leave a comment about it.