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Lazing on a lay-z boy, playing games, eating chips and drinking Mountain Dew without any worries is arguably one of the better perks of being a god. After my plans of 'going-out-with-a-bang!-but-not-really' got foiled and being employed (read: coerced) to work as a maid, it has honestly been a slow life since then, honestly I think someone changed the genre.

While my senpai is kinda a perfectionist with a short fuse, I guess it's not that bad, I even visit the other world from time to time and Vampy seems to get more clingy as the days go by, she isolated herself in a frozen castle off in the west, I'm afraid she's going to end up as someone antisocial who wouldn't even be able to start a conversation with anyone… eh? Pot meet kettle? Ha ha ha, I'm terribly sorry for being an introvert, but I'm not that bad am I? I like to think that is one of my charms…

Well anyways, The Demon Lord is living a simple life with Sariel, after I healed her soul damage, so she would not be dying anytime soon, I said it didn't I? 'No matter what anyone says, I won't accept any ending that doesn't leave the Demon Lord smiling.' I definitely make good on my promises.

Oni-kun travels the world alone helping anyone who needs help, he probably still feels guilty for everything he went through but he's also trying to make peace with it so gambare Oni-kun. Shun has accepted his fate of being a harem protagonist that has to make sure his heroines gets along, and also keep his scary sister in check. I guess even harem protagonists have it hard huh.

Oka-sensei gathered the remaining half-elves in the world and is looking after them and other reincarnations that decided to stay with her, while some of the other reincarnations are living various lifestyles. Although I destroyed the system, magic still exist but it's very difficult to use, and  people are still physically strong as well.

All in all, I think I did good so it's okay for me to laze around a little bit right? I can be a neet as much as I want right?

*FWOOSH*

Ah, but it seems the gods will not allow it, after all it is a god that just teleported into my room.

"Shiro! I have a deal for you!" She says as she walks and sit on a chair that just appeared out of thin air and starts eating… wait aren't those my chips? "Yes they are" she responds, arghh get out of my head D! Breaking into someone's room, you know I can call the police for this right? Gods get arrested too you know. Well, even though you didn't technically break anything, this is still breaking and entering. Also robbery for stealing my chips.

Knowing this would go nowhere, I look at her with all the displeasure I can muster. "Oh come on, don't be like that Shiro, this will be interesting, I'll even make it worth your while" you better restock my chips you thieving cat.

Sighing I pick up my can of Mountain Dew and take a sip, fine what do you want you evil incarnate "That's my girl" she replies happily as if I just fell into her trap, knowing D, that might even be true.

 Preparing myself to receive a lengthy explanation, what I am instead presented with is a dossier with a title that reads; 'How to deal with your alien problems' I immediately feel a trepidation. D, NO!

"D, YES!" She says with that sinister smile of hers

A portal opens under my lay-z boy and I start falling through

D, you bastard!… At least let me finish my Mountain Dew!!

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Softly landing on a sky rise roof, I am tempted to send curses to D even though I know it won't work.

 Ah that damn D, what if I had fell to my death?… Okay I know that's not possible but let me complain damn it. *Sighs* Looking around from the roof I landed in, I take in the view of my surroundings, at least it's a modern world but I've learned not to judge things too quickly, not with the previous world hiding sci-fi themes behind the fantasy.

*Sighs* I've been sighing a lot recently haven't I?… *Sighs* I could just teleport back to my apartment right? but it's D we are talking about here, she would definitely just send me back and then we will just keep going back and forth with each other, I don't want to waste energy on something like that.

Sitting more comfortably on my chair, I create a barrier around me that renders me invisible while I pick up the dossier on my lap, might as well. So what am I dealing with here?

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After reading through the dossier, my feelings could be summarized in one sentence: 'I want to go home'. No no no, that's even an understatement. It does not make sense right? While some of the details might be iffy since D would obviously not tell me everything, the few here just tells me this world is way worse than the other world… Modern world? Sci-fi? Forget that, this is straight up horror and apocalypse. I want my slice of life back, I promise I won't even be a neet anymore… Okay, I promise I will try not to neet too much. Something many things are definitely wrong in this place.

Haaaa, is D trying to punish me or something? Did she find out I've been using her credit card for my game subscriptions? She definitely did, didn't she?

Ah! Is this why she taught me how to bypass precognition, even though it doesn't let me escape from her? How long has she been planning to send me here anyways? *sighs* let's not think about that for now. What I need is information and a place to laz— I mean a place to base.

Standing up from my chair, I walk over to the edge of the roof and look at the city before me and where I'll probably be staying for the foreseeable future, it does not look nice, just from the souls I can see from up here, they all look so weary as if they are just winging through life. Just what do you expect me to do here, D?

No use thinking about it, I immediately open my sub space around the roof and my spider clones (the information gathering type) starts pouring out, alright I guess I'll find a place to stay while gathering information at the same time.

Apparently fighting dragons, elves, terminator robots, and gods were not enough, now I (probably) have to fight aliens?

"Nai wa"

A/N: I am writing this fic to sate my desire for more Shiraori. 

Characters might appear ooc, but it's just your imagination. For my Glorious queen!

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Going back to sit on my comfortable chair, I conjure monitors in the air linked to the sight of my spider clones, they are all currently invisible in case you were wondering and already I have a good part of the city in observation already. With a flex of my will, a can of Mountain Dew appears on my hand, as I take stock of what I've discovered so far.

So the people with abilities in this world are called Parahumans, who are either heroes or villains or outliers like rogues, seems that amongst them, there are especially strong ones like Alexandria, Eidolon and Legend… huh did they really pick those names themselves? That's gotta be a tall bar to live to. And apparently there are a lot of bad guys and people who just go around killing just because… well that's not my problem as long as they don't bother me… or inconvenience me.

And then there is the group? Company? who manages these Parahumans especially heroic aligned ones called the protectorate who is under the Parahuman Response Team. All these are just surface information anyways, I wouldn't get anything substantial until I infiltrate further into everything. My spiders are still roaming about passing every information to me, the name of the place I find myself in is called  Brockton Bay and from what I've seen through my spiders eyes, the place is so hopeless. Is this okay? It's like the villains advertise their gang like it's an idol agency but yet they are still functioning, stereotypes dictates that they should at least be subtle but it seems they threw that out the window. *sighs*

Eh, I just saw something incredible, there is a dragon here, nai wa… After fighting Gulie-Gulie I don't want nothing to do with dragons anymore, isn't that enough dragons for one lifetime? Has fantasy invaded sci-fi this time around? What is the last boss doing in my beginner's village? Anyway let's find him and keep an eye on him, so I  can avoid getting caught off guard like Gulie-Gulie did before.

Standing up from my chair and putting it into my sub space, I finally found a good place to settle down and immediately teleport there, what greets me is an abandoned building but that's no problem for me at all as it's still a hundred times better than the labyrinth. I would have gone to a hotel or something but I realized that I have no money and my appearance is way too distinct which would easily make me stand out, I'm definitely not trying to avoid conversing with anyone, not at all.

Alright let's get started, first of all, I create a barrier around the building that should keep anyone from coming too close and alert me if someone does come too close, I walk inside and then partially activate my [Territory] on just the interior of the building and then start conjuring the things I would need, a fridge, bed, toothbrush and other essentials, it only takes a few moment to do and I also designed the interior a little bit while at it, then finally closing every door and window in the building, I cover the whole interior in my webs… hehehe this reminds me a little bit of 'My Home' how nolstalgic.

I plop back first on my bed and conjure my monitoring screens again, my spiders are now all over the city and going even further, my knowledge of the world expands as my spiders do

Okay then, now what?

I finally decided on what to do and that is getting food identifying every 'cape' in this city just in case I ever need the information, apparently there is something called the 'Unwritten Rules'… good thing it's unwritten isn't it?

Finding the capes is comically easy, since all of them have a spatial disruption on their brain—which D stated is the source of their powers in the dossier— and for a spatial expert like myself, identifying it is fairly easy, a little bit of [X-Ray vision] and bam, every cape spotted, also these guys are kinda terrible aren't they? Super powered hitler wannabes, slave traders, drug peddlers, I mean look! This guy is obviously a spy right? He has powers but it seems like the PRT agency he works for doesn't know.

The more I discover the more I believe D sending me here is definitely a punishment for using her credit card. *Sighs*

Alright! Since I am hungry ( I actually don't need to eat anymore but that won't stop me) I guess it's time for some extreme actions, my reasoning is simple, if I take the monies of the bad guys then that means I am doing a good deed, it's like defeating bandits for XP, I get the XP, I'm happy! The villagers lose the bandits, they're happy! It's a win-win situation really. You could even argue I'm the good guy here. Yes, so for the sake of protecting the peace of the city, I will steal from the bad guys.

Immediately stacks of dollar bills appear in front of me… Eh did you think I was going to pull a James Bond stunt and go out to stealthily steal the monies? Ha ha ha of course not, not when I can just teleport all the money right to me especially with my spiders everywhere now. I also got some phones I found, in my sub space they go. Now time to get food.

Dine N Dash Employee, Terry

Terry has been working for 'Dine 'N' Dash' for about a year now and he has seen various weird and ridiculous things, when you live in Brockton Bay, I guess it would be more weird not to see them. But this has got to be the weirdest.

A note appeared on the order counter followed by a few cash, startling Terry, he looks around the restaurant but doesn't see anything particularly out of place. He cautiously reaches for the note while still maintaining a vigilant eye around the restaurant, he reads it to find that it's a takeout order. See now Terry would like to believe he is a smart guy, so what did he do? Without a word he packaged all the meal listed on the note and placed them on the counter and watches as they immediately disappear with no fanfare, he lets out an audible breath he didn't know he was holding.

When you live in the Bay, where there is a rage dragon, super powered hitlers, super powered drug dealers and other ridiculous things, so when a cape decides to order food using their powers and even paying? You shut up, take the money and tell them thank you!

Shiraori

Wow! I didn't think they would actually take my order, are the people in this city actually very nice?!

A/N: I was going to write in a situation where it seemed like Taylor almost took control of Shiro's spiders then I realized that doesn't make sense whatsoever since Shiro's spider are basically a clone of herself and have a part of her consciousness, while it would have led to an admittedly interesting situation, it is an insult to my spider queen.

I also realized that based on Shiro's personality, if she's ever in a world like worm, the only time the locals would even realize she exists is if she somehow drank alcohol. She might just go punch the Simurgh thinking she's related to Sariel lol

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Shiraori

Hello everyone, it's your favorite spider-girl, Shiraori desu ~ live on 'Earth bet'… I sit on my chair in front of my gaming setup, the games in this world are pretty terrible, I feel like they are trying to shove superhero adoration down my throat, which is why I resorted to playing the offline games I brought here from the previous world.

It's been a week since D sent me to this new world to deal with the alien problems, but isn't it weird that the parahumans are the ones going around killing people instead of the aliens? Well I guess the aliens are the ones who enable them.

Well anyway, I'm constantly compiling a boot load of information that will definitely help me in the future, I have spiders in every country of the world, with stealth capabilities and teleportation, infiltrating places is very easy, especially if the one doing said infiltration is an inconspicuous spider, they never saw me coming because they thought I was always there, he he he. Not that they can see me anyways.

Sifting through the information in my head while playing video games and eating meals obtained from 'Foodboy'— it seems he wanted to quit but the manager did not let him, I wonder if he does not get paid enough but it seems that the manager has even increased his pay, that's not my fault is it?… Anyway it also seem while you can take someone out of 'neetdom' you can't take the neet out of someone— three things immediately catch my attention.

This world really is complicated, apparently the Canadian superhero called 'Dragon' is an A.I (I found that out a little while ago) but that is not what draws my attention, it is the fact that there are a group of people who have direct access to every single thing she's doing, seeing at any moment  and takes advantage of it. Yes! It is as you have surmised, these middle aged men and woman are basically stalking what is basically a girl in middle school age… Eh? What is that? I'm also stalking the world? Well, that is that and this is this.

There is only one possible action to take here.

Through my spider clone, I activate [Inert Evil Eye] freezing the 3 evil doers in time and then activating [Evil Eye of Grudge] after and they all keel over immediately. Good, pedophiles should die.

Do I feel a tiny kinship with the A.I girl because she was created by a power beyond her and still trying to do good? I guess you could say so and besides from all the information I have, she's honestly one of the good eggs in this world.

I send a note with the location to the A.I girl since some of her cool stolen mecha suits are there then my spider clone opens my sub space below the device dubbed 'Ascalon' and it drops gently into it. Ah! The bodies as well, good. While the A.I girl is undoubtedly one of the good people in this world, I'm not going to risk letting the second coming of Potimas happen, so I'll be safekeeping that.

As for the second thing that catches my attention, dimensional portals, there are actual alternate worlds in this… world? That's very intriguing but it seems like it's so small that people can't pass through them, but for my spiders, the portal might as well be a gate, I immediately direct a few spiders in there.

Wait a minute! If the alternate worlds keeps existing to a nigh-infinite amount, doesn't that mean I can easily replenish my energy? Even though I passively regenerate my energy, it's actually not a fast process. Is this why D said this would be worth my while? Have I finally made it to the bonus stage? Well, I'll have to be careful not to hurt the planet but still, the future is looking bright…er, it's looking brighter yeah. I drink from my can of fruit juice and continue focusing on my game… ah I miss the good games.

And for the last situation, it is the most weird one, from the first day I deployed my spiders, someone or something has been trying to take control of them, I've let them be for a while hoping they would realize it's a futile endeavor but it seems like whoever it is just decided to take it as a challenge. I've located the culprit as a high school girl with powers over bugs, and on a whim, I did something that would help me know if she would be able to eventually control my spiders. I used my [Future sight] on her…

I paused my game, dropped my pad, sigh and then rubbed my temples.

Just why?

What are you doing fighting a dragon, Buggy?!

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It's ridiculous isn't it? I mean not even I was this careless, I remember making a plan before fighting Araba all those years ago you know, this is the equivalent of taking a knife to a gun fight, only the gun man also has a sniper zeroed in on the knife wielder. Do these people perhaps lose their common sense when they get their powers? Nai wa…

Let's just keep an eye on her for now, my guts tells me I won't regret it.

I pick my pad and then resume my game, D better let's me take a vacation when all this is over. I definitely deserve it.

Ahhhh just 5 more minutes… My sleep (Even if I don't need to, I'll do it anyways) is interrupted by klaxons alarm that seems to be coming from every direction. What does a girl gotta do to get a shut eye around here?

*Sighs*

Sighing drowsily, I hauled myself from the bed into the dining area, taking a can of juice from the fridge, I go to sit on my couch, now what are we dealing with here?

I open up my monitoring screens… ehhh, isn't that kinda bad? I pop open my juice offhandedly. The Kaijuu angel is going to attack Australia soon, yes that is definitely bad news. I've used my [Clairvoyance] and [Evil Eye of Analysis] to check on her before and even done a full body X-tray with no one the wiser so I know she's very strong, and has some type of spatial core inside her body.

What I don't understand is why go through the trouble of attacking every 3(?) months when they are very much capable of destroying countries easily. Yes since the time they first showed up, they should have already destroyed the world with how strong they are. Ah, how troublesome. I hate not having enough information to work with.

Already, the people in ground zero are already panicking and moving helter-skelter. Capes are gathering in PRT buildings around the world, the ones classified as movers are already helping evacuation efforts, they have a good response time huh, but that wouldn't really matter, [Future Sight] says the city will be cordoned after all.

*Sighs*

Sipping my juice while watching the Kaijuu angel descending from space, I make a decision on what to do.

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Time to punch another winged humanoid on the face, I guess.

Nai wa.

A/N: You know, Eidolon is actually quite lucky Shiro doesn't know he subconsciously controls the Endbringers, she would have definitely killed him.

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I know I said I was going to go punch her on the face but actually I lied, I'm very sorry, I don't want to go outside after all.

Still, I plan to help but just from the comfort of my home. Why go outside when you can stay home? The people who choose to go outside are the weird ones from my perspective

Watching the Kaijuu angel descending, I activate a [Though acceleration] equivalent skill so I now have enough leeway to come up with a plan.

Reviewing what I know about the so called Endbringers, both what I've seen online and what I've personally gathered, I know that destroying the core might be a bad idea due to the spatial attributes tied around it, to destroy the core, I would need to teleport it to an alternate world or another planet entirely due to the potential destruction it could cause.

Even destroying them might be a bad idea because it might tip off the final boss who I've not made enough preparations to go after yet. And who knows if they don't have more of them lying around? I mean, I myself have a lot of Queen Taratect class spiders lying around you know.

And then they have layers and layers of skin— Does that even classify as skin?— that gets tougher the further you go but for a spatial expert like myself, that is not a problem at all, which is why killing them might be easy but the consequences might make it a Pyrrhic victory and the only pyrrhic I like is pie… a wind blows through my room as if trying to comfort me for my bad pun. Stop it D! I don't want your pity…

Anyway, considering everything, I think the win condition here is the traditional method the capes of this world use. And that is…

'Hit it hard enough so that it goes back whence it came'

But I wouldn't be waiting for the Kaijuu angel to land like the capes do.

'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone'

And since I happen to be the lesser sinner here which is close enough, I'll be casting the first stone, itadakimasu~

I immediately teleport in more of my spider clones on the path of the Kaijuu angel which is before she gets to the earth's stratosphere. I'm not using a lot since I'm not trying to kill her but damage her just enough, so I send in a few hundreds.

These spider clones are different from the usual ones since these guys can use [Spatial Separation] and [Inert Evil Eye] on their threads, it's basically immovable object and unstoppable force added together, sure it cost a lot of energy, but the alternate world project is already yielding good results, so it's okay to splurge a little bit if only for a sure win condition.

Wearing stylized white military get-up, with purplish-pink accents, a captain's hat and white gloves… eh what's that? I'm having too much fun with this? That's not true at all, this is me giving my 100% don't worry about the small stuff baby and besides this was a good chance to make use of this outfit I made years ago for no reason.

 I stand before a bigger sized monitor floating in the air. Everything is in place.

In 30 seconds, the Kaijuu angel will enter my assault zone and the battle will begin in earnest, my spiders are prepared and lurking between cracks in space that are hardly visible to the naked eyes.

I watch as E.T.A approaches.

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I exaggeratedly swipe my right index finger forward

'All units! Engage! For the Spiderland!'

Immediately 3 of the Kaijuu angel wings are cut off with no resistance and she immediately comes to a halt, puzzlement is visible on her expression and the way she looks so inhuman is even creepier than the A.I girl who actively codes her facial expressions.

She takes a leap up and tries to dive down from another direction, and she loses her right leg for her efforts.

Come on! Isn't that enough already? You don't have level ups here to heal you, you know? I guess she would have a way to heal overtime though, it seems the core is capable of that.

She also can't locate my spiders' threads since they are invisible and basically cut out of reality. Just go back okay?

She floats up a bit as if trying to confirm something, then floats down, gradually and gradually and gradually and this time I make sure to cut just close enough to the core to send a message.

My message is received loud and clear and she shoots back up to the Thermosphere without a second wasted. Haaaaa, I'm so glad you are at least a little reasonable.

The cut off body parts are immediately teleported to my sub space, why? Because I genuinely believe someone would be stupid enough to do something foolish with it if it gets to earth, these parahumans seems to cause more problems for themselves after all, it's almost like a competition to them. I know I'm stereotyping a bit but you get the point.

'Soldiers, report back to base… we have won the war!'

I declare over the monitor, although I say that, I'm actually not taking my spiders away from there, I left them in their position in case she decides to come back, I do not know how these murder aliens think so I would rather not risk it.

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Hmmm, I think this calls for some celebration. Yes, I definitely worked hard so I will reward myself for my hardwork by ordering *pan pan ran*… premium A5 wagyu beef!!… ah I was almost drooling there, hehehehe

Now 'Foodboy' give me your best meat… I think that sounded better in my head, wait but I'm saying all these in my head in the first place… Arrgh, don't think about it, let's just enjoy the beef in peace.

I telekinetically take out 2 can of juice from the fridge, also I would not be drinking alcohol even though I really want to, I mean I eventually caught on you know, drinking with D and then getting recorded on camera was very embarrassing, why didn't The Demon Lord or Vampy ever tell me of my embarrassing moments?

Were they embarrassed by me or they didn't want to hurt my feelings? I think it's the former for Vampy and the latter for The Demon Lord, she can be weirdly kind like that, I think back to nolstagic memories with a small smile on my face.

And besides I only thought alcohol makes me not remember what happened before drinking but it seemed alcohol made me do many things

Sitting in my kotatsu in the room, with my A5 wagyu beef and juice, I take my pad and start up the game I've been trying to beat for 2 days now

Another day, another dollar game

A/N: Yeah, this couldn't have gone any other way. Shiro is a highly competent hunter and she hardly fights battles she can't win. If she can't win? She would run until she gets strong enough to win and if she can? She would make sure to win fast

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It's been a day since my battle— what do you mean it wasn't a battle, are you ridiculing my efforts?— with the Kaijuu angel and as one would expect, the reactions are varied.

The PRT are both happy and wary, apparently A.I girl caught the battle from her satellite but that doesn't matter since I doubt she could pick my threads or spiders since they were invisible or any useful information from it. 

This is the first ever endbringer battle where the endbringer was driven off before it even made contact, with also no recorded death nor injuries. 

What they are wary about is how there is a cape who is seemingly capable of cutting through an Endbringer like butter without even being present and yet no one has ever heard of anyone with such abilities, it doesn't help that their think-thank is not thinking properly. 

I guess it's a scary thing to think about and for all they praise their 'Unwritten Rules' they are actually looking for said cape. 

Give me a break.

Presidents and government agencies around the world are making statements of offering rewards and medals to the one who drove off the Endbringer with zero casualties. But surely as you have guessed, it's all propaganda. Everyone wants a piece of me.

If the people of this world knew magic, I'm sure the group called "The Fallen" would have sent me curses and more curses a thousand times over because how dare I desecrate their deity?… how scary, anyway [Rot magic] for every one of you, you should be ashamed of yourselves even in death. 

With a name like that, did they think anyone would stand for them?

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Hey! That was a good one right? So why are you not laughing?

Anyways, as for the parahuman illuminati.

"So can someone please explain what the hell happened yesterday?" The hero popularly known as 'Eidolon' all but demands from where he seats amongst his colleagues.

Finding out parahuman Illuminati existed was almost unbelievable even though I could see it through my monitors.

Also, don't these guys basically fit the demon lord army equivalent? They even have the round table as well.

"What you know is what we do as well, we have a lot of thinkers analyzing the videos obtained from Dragon, and they are not really making any progress, whoever the cape is, they have a good resistance to thinkers." The woman who is definitely not a mother nor a doctor replies to the hero.

 Some of these guys have really ridiculous names don't they? Like for example why would anyone in good conscience choose 'Skidmark' as a cape name? I don't know why and I don't think I want to know either.

"What about Contessa? Did she have anything to say about this?" The other hero present in the room, Alexandria, also the chief director of the PRT asks.

 I had to admit, subtly controlling the public perception while also working in the background, she would have definitely fit right in, in The Demon Lord's army, her strength is also an extra bonus.

The doctor sighs "Contessa says the path has not changed" she replies tiredly, she has been cashing out favors trying to find a trail to me without any luck, I'm really sorry for causing you trouble, I bow to the monitor in front of me.

As for the 'I-win-lady' of course the path has not changed, I'm cheating as she is after all, while she basically has cheat codes to a game, I am the adult who takes the pad off her hands and tells her to go touch grass outside. 

It's unfair for her but fair for me.

*THUD* 

The hero, Eidolon brings his fist to the table "So, what are we suppose to do about this? There is a cape out there strong enough to cut through an endbringer as if it might not even be there and we don't have the slightest clue about them? That's just rich isn't it?" 

Eh? What are you getting angry at me for?

Shouldn't you be happy you didn't have to fight?

"Calm down David, the fact that they showed themself now might also mean they are a new trigger and it's obvious they have some thinker resistance. From what I can logically deduce is that they are some sort of Tinker with maybe a forcefield specialization, so perhaps let's check that avenue first. If it's incorrect and the cape has still not shown themselves, we will come back to this again, okay?" 

Oh! Alexandria unexpectedly brings a solution to the table, I wonder what new discoveries they would have made by next week's episod- I mean meeting, next week's meeting.

"You're right, Becca" he sighs "I shouldn't get worked up like that. I will also juggle through powers and see if I can find something to help" he says to her.

Alexandria smiles at him, "Yeah that would help"

"So what about the other cape? The one who took out the dragon slayers and seems to be helping random civilians and stopping odd crimes around the world?" Alexandria asks the doctor and the conversations proceeded to go on its course.

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Yes as you can see, varied reactions. 

Overall though, the world seems to be going through a festive mood, it's kind of pitiful really because it's not like the endbringer is dead or anything, but they are just happy for small mercies.

 I guess a little bit of hope can go a long way huh? And what most of the people living in this world needs. Hope.

But that does not mean the netizens should literally start calling me 'Hope' on online forums you know? Yes, apparently my cape name has been designated as 'Hope' by the majority. 

Isn't that ridiculous?

They don't even know my gender nor have they ever seen me before. Hell! They don't even know if I'm actually a villain or a hero, and yet I already have fan pages? H-O-W?? 

Pourquoi?

Nazé the why?

And what the hell are those cursed fanfictions? 'Specific_protagonist' I will curse you if you don't stop that!

There is even a cult following already, called 'The Wing Clippers'.

Stop it! I didn't ask any of you to do that!

It's only been a day, can you all calm down? Don't you have anything better to do?

*Sighs*

Of course there are those who consider all this a 'ziz-plot' I mean look at this:

► XxVoid_CowboyxX

Replied on February 25, 2011:

You guys can not see the truth, this is obviously another one of Ziz plots, she injures herself on her way to earth so that she doesn't have to attack on that day, and now she now has one free slot open when she can descend to earth whenever she wants without anyone expecting her, she might even decide to come when another endbringer is attacking. Open your eyes to the truth! … since I would definitely be getting banned again, the last thing I will tell you is that Scion is an alien.

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No, no, no I too was surprised as well from his last sentence that I ended up actually tracking the owner of the account thinking it's a person with powers who figured out the final boss' identity, but it was not. 

It was just a weird high school kid with a really active imagination and he even lives in the same city as I do. And also a known shitposter.

I facepalmed so hard.

Thinking it logically, isn't it more weird that no one thinks Goldie as an alien? 

I feel like if someone thinks about it, as in really thinks about it just a little bit, they could perhaps arrive at that as one of the possibilities, maybe I'm just been biased, or maybe it's the handiwork of the 'I-win-lady' who knows?

Slurping ramen, I silently pray to my namesake for things to cool off soon.

Nai wa, it sure is tough been popular.

A/N:

Shiro to the fallen: Wow these guys are really scary… so anyway, I started blasting

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Standing up from bed while yawning and stretching, it's a beautiful day outside. Birds are birding, flowers are flowering… on days like these, it seems even high schoolers still have it rough huh?

 'Buggy' is getting bullied today as well, I'm surprised how she just takes it all, I thought she would have caused a plague by now, but for 'Buggy' whose dream is to be a hero, such a thing is unacceptable.

She probably thinks herself the bigger person for not retaliating, and in normal circumstances she would be right, but she's not dealing with the average bully here, one of them is a Parahuman after all.

I actually helped her a bit after finding that out, uploading a video of 'Buggy' being manhandled on the school forum actually made them back away for a while and even the 'Shadow girl' seems to be going through forced mental evaluations after the video made it to the PRT. After being questioned by the 'master of arms' his lie detector probably told him she is not alright in her head.

But it doesn't seem like that stopped the red head though, it only just made her increase her vendetta. I'm really sorry 'Buggy' it seems like I caused more troubles than you already have. I bow to the projection monitor before me.

Anyways, it appears that my stunt with the Angel Kaijuu seems to have even spurred her on further to start planning her cape debut. She has been speeding through her outfit creation and even started gyming for the past 2 weeks, along with her morning runs. She has decided to make her debut in a few days. You go 'Buggy!' Use violence by beating criminals to deal with your bully problems, that will probably go well for you. And I hope you know the way you keep checking out that black muscled guy is very obvious. I guess hunks are her types huh.

Placing my toothbrush back in the cabinet after making use of it, I look myself in the mirror. Yes I'm looking pretty as well today.

It's the second week of March and I'm glad things seem to have cooled down a bit.

Walking back into my living space, I get ready to order lunch. I slept till midday after all.

Looking through my monitor, the sight of the girl is enough to make me shudder a bit, not out of fear, just out of… wrongness. Yes that's the word.

A young girl with average looks, she would look normal if not for the many many limbs and heads on animals and various things and fluids I'll pretend not seeing that seem to be squirming every which way connected to her lower body.

I have been observing this group for a while now and they are called 'The Travelers'. I was still deciding what to do with them until this lanky PRT infiltrator guy decided to contact an associate, trying to recruit the group for himself.

Now that my hands are tied, I decided to take advantage of the situation by trying something I've been meaning to for a while now.

So I decided to use this girl as my Innovative participant… What? That's just fancy speak for experimental test subject? Hahaha, I have no idea what you are talking about at all~

This is the first time I'm going to be trying something like this, and only because her power is not connected to the final boss himself so I'm hoping he doesn't notice, but if he does notice I am confident I can hide my trail.

With no fanfare, I immediately teleport her into a pocket dimension I created, and I can see her visibly panicking already, her limbs and other parts of her body are latching out every direction. Scary.

Let's not forget about the 'Boy-with-many-faces' as well. This is why you should never eat things you pick from the floor.

Tsk tsk, children.

Oh and I also decided to turn the interior of my home into a pocket dimension as well, so in case anything unusual happens or someone tries to get the jump on me, I can literally pack my belongings over my shoulders and scram, and besides it is also a better defense since I am basically living in a space cut out of the world.

"Is someone there? Please help me!" She yells out looking everywhere "I know I've done terrible things, I didn't mean to hurt those people… and my friends, my friends please. They are trying their best. I know circumstances have left it's blight on us and they get weary by the day b-but, but they are really good people. I don't know what to do… I just… I just want to go home" she whispers at the end with desperate pleas and sobs, argh now you are just making me feel bad… it's not like I'm trying to kill you, you know… it's not like I'm purposely trying to kill you, you know.

I use [Evil Eye of Calm] on her and her breathing and many limbs stable over a few seconds. A note appears in front of her in mid air which reads "I'll do my best" since I'm flattered she thinks I can help her, I'll do my best! I'm definitely not trying to use her to gather data, not at all!

I immediately teleport a pint sized spider to where her corona is located in her brain and in the 'Boy-with-many-faces' as well then got to work immediately.

It has been almost a day and looking at the frozen in time form of the 'Girl-with-many-limbs' and 'Boy-with-many-faces' I'm happy that my gamble paid off, I wasn't sure I could pull it off, I mean I was sure I wouldn't fail, but I wasn't sure I would succeed either, now to take care of those unnecessary body parts. I'm glad she's currently frozen in time so she can't feel the pain.

I cut her into two parts starting from where her many many limbs begin, and immediately disintegrate the unnecessary bits then cast a highly potent healing magic on her— I also cast it on the boy just to be safe— and her body regrows right in front of my eyes, bones, tendons, muscles, skin. Good that worked out well.

So what do I do next? I remove the spiders in them and unfreeze them.

The girl looks down at herself in awe, not believing her eyes. "Y-you fixed me?" she asks with barely a whisper as she  touches every part of her legs. "YOU FIXED ME!" This time she screams out, she falls to her bottom and starts crying uncontrollably while muttering thanks over and over again.

The boy just looks blatantly confused in the pocket dimension he is in.

I smile a little then teleport the girl, the boy and their friends who found themselves in this world back to their previous world, 'Earth-Aleph'. Those two would lose their powers and to that I say good riddance. This is the least I could do since I learned a lot from this endeavor.

I watch the panic, excitement and happiness in their eyes as they meet with one another again— the others have been panicking since I teleported two of their friends away right in front of them— the water works begin in earnest and even the 'hat-guy' can't pretend to act tough as he is bawling his eyes out already. As a little parting gift, I heal their friend in the wheelchair as well.

All in all, I think I did good today.

I even feel like a god who just performed a miracle… oh wait, I am one.

A/N: Because I kinda get sad when Noelle gets killed in fics

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Lying back first on my bed and eating popcorn made by yours truly, I once again marvel at how fast the psyche of most Parahumans crumble when they get their powers.

I watch through my monitors as a girl of half-Japanese descent swears profanities and aggressively tinkers various bombs with a plan of taking her school hostage because of a bad grade… 

Ehhhh! Is that really worth destroying a school over? And if you are complaining about a B+ grade, what should the people who scored lower do? Destroy the world? Sheeesh, you are such a good student aren't you? I didn't think there were actually people who liked schools like this.

*Sighs*

As expected, I don't want to deal with something like this. 

I swing my right hand in a sideways chop with just a little bit of strength and it connects with the back of a neck, on the monitor, the girl collapses. 

My spider clone puts a paper bag with eye holes on her head, ties her hands and feet with a rope, with that done, I teleport her into a cell in the New York Protectorate building along with a note and location of her attempted crime, yeah they can deal with her themselves.

Now then, I guess I'll continue working on my plans for the final boss

Tonight in Brockton bay there are two not so major events going on and I have them displayed live on my monitors

"Bitch! Go right!" A girl in a skin-tight black and purple body suit on top of a giant dog tells her team mate who is also riding on a giant dog as black smoke spills out around the alley from behind them. 

There are a total of four individuals who identify as villains and they are called the Undersiders. 

These guys just carried out a real life heist on a casino on the outskirts of the city, I wonder why they decided to do something so big when they have been content with being small time so far. Is this one of those 'street cred' things you always see in yakuza movies?

So far they have always been able to get the drop on their opponents because of how their abilities synergize with one another, and with their own personal Sherlock Holmes, they always know when to flee a scene. 

Well, I don't think they would be getting caught anytime soon but with how they seem to be escalating, who knows? At the very least they seem to be treating the whole villain thing as a game right?

I bite on my red bean buns. Delicious 

The second not so major event but close, happening today is Buggy's fight against a cape. Ehhhh, doesn't it seem like this girl is power leveling?

You are already taking down capes?

She made her debut a few days ago where she took down some of the drug dealer guys and even saved a young black girl, although she might have regretted that since the girl was such a pain in the ass. 

And then she met the hero, Assault who explained some things to her she didn't know before, although she rejected the subtle invitation to the 'kids program', she left the scene in a happy mood.

To be honest, I'm surprised at how competent she seems. When she adorns her costume, she all of a sudden gains confidence that it's almost unbelievable to think it's the same Buggy who lets her bullies walk over her. 

I definitely didn't use [Evil Eye of Analysis] and [X-Ray vision] on her to check if she might have been mind-swapped, not at all.

She has been patrolling everyday since then and successfully taking out unpowered members of various gangs. 

Although she's just a bit serious than others, I assume that is because the bay holds more sentimental value for her than most. 

And right now, she stands before two groaning capes who can't even move a finger, retrieving a phone from her utility belt, and dials a number. 

"Hello, this is Creed, a new— oh okay… that makes things easier. I'm downtown at 44s, a short walk before 'Dine 'N' Dash'. I've apprehended Skidmark and Squealer, I'd like some assistance on how to proceed… okay thank you, I'll wait." 

Yes, she just took out the ring leaders of the drug people and honestly? It wasn't even a fight. They didn't stand a chance.

She fights like an assassin, she does not confront her opponents until they are down for the count and since she has been practicing seeing through her bugs, while not perfect, it seems to help her greatly.

She's building a reputation already, with her outfit and her power over bugs, I understand why her opponent gets scared when they see her. 

I guess she went for the 'dark hero' aesthetics huh. 

Gambare Buggy!

I look around my room which has little squared monitors spread out over every single surface that I actually have to step on them to walk around, displayed in them are alternate worlds.

I guess I have to work hard as well

You know, I have purposely left this man alone since it seemed like he was one of the few who doesn't actually cause damages or go out of his way to seek fights.

And then how does he repay my goodwill? By planning to kidnap a 12 year old girl. Yes people, this man is not only a lolicon, but he is a degenerate as well. Does he think his admittedly cool lair means he can just do whatever he wants?

 He is the same one that tried to hire those group of kids I sent back home. Just what is your problem anyways?

You would think that someone who seemingly has the power to control probability would have bigger dreams or something but no, what he wants is to take over the city— and it's not like there is anything special about the city either— and rule it like a king. Don't test me reptile, I have fell a kingdom before and I'm not afraid to do it again!

Sitting in a beach chair, wearing a white and purplish-pink bikini, with same colored scarf tied around my waist and a dark shade to go with it, I aggressively sip on my tropical fizz. Hmph!

Oh? Are you curious where I am? Well, you see, I'm on the beach!!! What's that? Why am I on the beach even though I'm a neet? Oi! Isn't that rude? I can definitely go outside if I put my mind into it you know… as long as there is no one else around… in the world.

Hey! Don't judge me! It can't be helped. 

I am currently in an empty alternate world and after doing what I came here for, I decided to indulge a little, is that so wrong? 

It's not like it's the end of the world.

And besides, I have a lot of my spiders around isolating this world so that means no one can or would notice I'm here, I have to take heavy precautions after all. 

Anyway, back on the topic of the reptile, I just teleport him into the place called the 'Birdcage' he's on timeout till he learns to be a decent human being.

 'But Shiro, is it possible for someone to become a decent human being while in the birdcage' you say?… Then I guess he will be there till whenever then.

After that, I teleport the Sherlock Holmes girl right into the reptile's office in the base after defusing every trap and everything underhanded. I send a note as well which reads "Reptile in time out. You're boss now. Don't screw up."

Ah, I helped her get out of a villain's thumb, meanwhile I can't even get out of D's.

*Sighs*

Even a god like me has it hard.

I don't bother to continue observing her as I stand up from my recliner and then stretch my body.

There is just something about every worlds in this place that wears on my soul. I want to leave here as soon as possible.

So.

I guess I'm as ready I can be.

Alright then final boss, let's do this!

A/N: 'Bigger dreams' to Shiro is being a neet lmao

Coil can be at two places at the same time. Shiro is everywhere at the same time, bro didn't stand a chance lol.

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Lisa

Her day had started normal, which is basically waking up groggy with a pounding headache due to using her powers a lot last night.

Stalking out of her bedroom, she walks towards the kitchen with slow steps, putting on the TV on the way, she notes it's almost midday.

A discussion about 'Hope' catches her attention, the news anchor wondering if 'Hope' would be participating in the next Endbringer battle, happening next month.

'Propaganda. Government trying to paint 'Hope' in heroic light in case villain. News discussion about 'Hope' getting more frequent. Subtle pressure on 'Hope' to take part in Endbringer battles.'

She sighs.

She knows that already.

Lisa is a very curious person, she can't stand not knowing something, and that is why she is also irritated about the situation of 'Hope'.

Not even she is able to get anything worthwhile from the footage found online or the one received from her boss. The only concrete information is that whoever 'Hope' is, they have a ridiculous resistance to thinkers and they are not new to their abilities. All other information are merely speculations.

She goes through the familiar routine of making coffee and getting meds for her headache.

She also doesn't know why her boss is overly invested in 'Hope' even more so than the public. There is no use thinking about it, everyone is waiting for them to make another appearance, and since people are now watching, that means there would be more information to glean from if or when they do appear.

Sipping on her mug, she walks to the couch and plops on it.

And that is when her day went wrong.

Instead of sitting on her couch, she finds herself sitting on an executive chair before an ornate desk, she stands up immediately, dropping her mug on the table and looking around.

What just happened?

Panic sets in.

'Teleportation. Unknown cape. Cape not near. Clairvoyance? No local cape with such power. New cape? Didn't need to be near to teleport you. No range? Can see you? Is seeing you?'

Lisa is already freaking out before her power finishes.

A note appears on the table and she snatches it immediately, it reads: 'Reptile in time out. You're boss now. Don't screw up.'

Her heart beats faster as she paces around the room.

'Note is new. No finger prints. Was teleported to you. Cape can see you. Reptile is Coil. This is Coil's base. Coil is dead? Detained? Missing? Teleported. Traps defused. Cape knows about you.'

She gulps.

"H-hey! A face to face meeting would have been better you know, especially in costume. Preferably over coffee." She says to no one in particular as she tries to hide her fear but she knows the cape is watching her.

No response.

'Cape does not care about unwritten rules. Silence suggests threat? Display of teleportation to let you know they can get you anytime. Got Coil. You can't run. You can't hide.'

Shitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshit.

She bites on her nails.

So basically she's no longer under Coil who sets bugs on her apartment that she can at least work around but a cape who doesn't care about the unwritten rules, can observe  her 24/7 and is also capable of teleporting her seemingly without any delay. If Coil had recruited her with a gun, then this cape is recruiting her with a nuke.

She puts her hands to her head.

"Fuck."

Shiraori

Looking through my monitors with a popsicle in hand, I consider what I'm about to do.

Since I discovered the alternate worlds, I have been mining energy basically 24/7 even till this moment while also setting my plans in motion, and I think I finally have everything I need for my final boss battle.

The first thing I did was direct a ridiculous amount of pint sized spiders to every Parahuman both on 'Earth-Bet' and on every other alternate worlds I've discovered, which is an equally ridiculous amount but the further I go, the lesser parahumans there were, so that made things easier.

While there are definitely some I missed, it can't be helped, not even I can save everyone after all.

In some cases, the spiders teleported right into their brains… it's kind of scary to think about but all this is to protect them from the potential backlash so I have no choice.

I am going to be attacking 3 fronts, the main body of the final boss, the brain dead corpse of the other alien pair and the avatar of the final boss himself.

Ah, I think this will be that last time I fight for the fate of a civilization, isn't this too much responsibility for one person? Even though I'm a god, I'm still just one person, you know.

Looking at the location of the 2 massive aliens through my monitors, I take a deep breath, I'm really doing this aren't I?…

Hmmm, I think I should eat a lot of food first… no no no, that is definitely not a death flag, I'm just going to stuff myself since they say you can't fight a battle on an empty stomach. Umu yes, that's it.

…

…

Eating the last piece of Karaage chicken and saying my thanks, I look around for anything else to distract me but then sigh. I'm just stalling aren't I?

Come on Shiro, you have faced impossible odds before, what's one more? Although this should not be all that impossible.

I look towards the monitor at my targets.

Alright then, let's get this show on the road.

On the location of the main bodies of the aliens, the sky and every other part of the world starts to fractal into the shape of spider webs and spiders starts pouring out.

Hundreds.

Thousands.

Hundreds of thousands.

Millions.

Hundreds of millions.

And that number kept increasing by the second.

I immediately assign a good deal of them to isolate the space so that nobody would be able to teleport in or see through by whatever means. All these take a ridiculous amount of energy to put into motion but I barely feel the strain. The sheer amount of energy I'm brimming with is unbelievable after all.

Destroying a planet could be done with trivial effort but that is not my goal here.

While spiders swarm the earth, just as many remain in the sky as well giving me an overview of every single location, nothing escapes my sight. And then I activate my trump card through every single one of my spiders.

Knowing that my spatial isolation won't keep Goldie away for too long since he has no doubt noticed what is going on, I stretch my right hand forward and grip 'Come' my scythe immediately appears in my outstretched hand.

I give it a little twirl and then smile, yep, still got it.

Using every strengthening spell, perception spell, thought acceleration, speed enhancement, physical enhancement, you name it, I immediately teleport behind Goldie and lop off his head with no fanfare.

After using my [Evil Eye of Analysis] to analyze the energy used on an attack that seemingly passes through every dimension from the Parahumans that are capable of using it, I succeeded in replicating it.

Although a spatial expert could easily circumvent it and it's also useless if it doesn't hit, but that is why I'm using the same energy to enchant my scythe which already has the [Rot Attribute] for maximum efficiency to get up close and personal.

My plan is simple, the aliens die if they run out of energy, so I am going to siphon that energy completely while keeping Goldie here occupied.

This was what I did when fixing the 'Girl-with-many-limbs' and 'Boy-with-many-faces' isolating their connection with their powers completely, since they shared the same.

I used that spatial connection to access the 'shard body' and then sent a lot of my spiders in since I then knew the location and utterly siphoned it's energy right to the last drop.

Alright then.

(Spiders: Billion range.)

Round 1, fight!

Alexandria

Receiving an emergency summon from Doctor Mother was not how Rebecca saw her day going today.

She had been in the office on her 'Rebecca Costa-Brown' persona going through the latest problems— because of course trouble never seem to be able to rest in this world after all— when a note fell on her desk where she had been writing a memo. She picks the note which only reads 'Emergency'.

She immediately gets up and opens the door to her office "Rita" she calls out to her personal clerk who looks at her "I'll be busy for the next… you know what? Cancel my schedule for the rest of the day and don't let anyone in here." Rita looks a lot puzzled but responds anyway "Yes, ma'am."

Closing the door and walking back to her desk, she opens the first drawer and presses the button located at the inside top of the drawer and the door of her office gives out a muffled sound as the windows roll shut, she closes the drawer, looks to the side and "Door me." she says and immediately an hexagonal portal appears and she walks through just in time for David and Keith to step out of their own portals.

Doctor Mother and Contessa are already present, the former has a grimace on her face and the latter looks calm but from the tapping of her feet, you can tell she's anything but.

She takes a seat as the others do as well.

"So, what is the problem?" Keith or Legend since he's in his costume questions the doctor who looks at them all before she starts to speak.

"The warrior is being engaged by an unknown Parahuman, Clairvoyant was able to keep an eye on them for a while but it seems they are moving too fast while also going through alternate worlds for him to keep up." She seems shaken up saying that and tension immediately fills the room

That is definitely a problem. Who and why would anyone try to engage Scion? Something does not add up here, not only is engaging Scion a reckless endeavor, there is no known way to defeat him, the consequences might also trigger him to start the apocalypse, no one knows how his mind works after all.

"And that's not all." That only just makes her stomach drop more even though that should not be possible with her power.

"We can no longer access the garden." She contin— "What?!" She doesn't know who shouted out but with the way David and herself is on their feet, she can't be bothered to care.

"What do you mean you can't access the garden? The only solution we have to saving the world and you can't access it how?!" She says now getting bewildered.

 It can't be helped after all, she has literally given her life for this cause sacrificing bits and bits of herself daily for the sake of 'It would be worth it in the end, it's for the greater good.' only to find out the solution— and that is overstating it— is no longer accessible.

And the trepidation she feels that everything is about to blow up does not help.

"The cape engaging Scion, what do they look like." Rebecca can almost taste the anger in David's tone.

"And you mentioned 'engaged' does that mean they are able to keep up with Scion?" Keith asks as well.

"It seems they have a stranger power as the only thing Clairvoyant can remember is that it's a woman who appears 'white' as in the color white and yes, they were able to keep up with the warrior the last we witnessed." She responds but that doesn't seem to quell David's anger.

"And, what about the path?" She asks Contessa who had been content with tapping her foot for a while.

"The cape can not be pathed. Pathing Scion feels like being stopped by an insurmountable wall. Pathing the cape feels like she isn't there… doesn't exist." She says the last part in a small voice.

That surprises Rebecca a lot, after all Contessa's power was like the ultimate fuck you and if it's not working on the cape, she must be a great deal powerful.

'What am I saying? Isn't the cape fighting Scion already and keeping up? I don't think anything else screams 'Powerful' more than that.'

"I keep hearing problems but I don't hear any solutions." David bites out

"Is there anything we can do?" Keith asks

"I have Clairvoyant still trying to observe the fight. I don't know if we can make any moves yet but I want everyone on standby, we have no idea how this will end, I am calling in all our favors, Rebecca I want you to organize the Parahumans you can, even if you have to tell them an Endbringer is about to attack, just have them on alert." She orders.

Rebecca ignores David's gritting teeth "Alright, and what about the garden?" She asks again.

"There is nothing we can do about it, even Clairvoyant can't see it, it is effectively cut off from us." She says in resignation.

Rebecca nods, this is not the time to wallow in despair or point fingers, the apocalypse might start when Scion defeats the cape but she prays just a little, she doesn't know if there is a god out there, but she prays just a little.

'May god help us.'

And besides is it too much to hope the cape can defeat Scion?

A/N: This chapter originally never had a Lisa's POV, but since some people wanted to see her reaction, I decided to include it even though I don't think I did it justice. Also, yeah this book will be ending in like 2 chapters.

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The few people that were around when I teleported in and lopped off Goldie's head immediately start screaming and running, it seems like he just put out a fire, what a nice guy you are, Goldie.

Wait! Doesn't this make me seem like the bad guy though?… Meh, not the first time.

By the way, can you guys stop screaming over there? It's not like he's dead you know, if it was that easy, I would have done it from home.

Already, he's regenerating his head albeit slowly.

I look towards the screaming people as if conveying a 'You see?'.

Watching him regenerate his head is almost as creepy as D's when I punched hers off.

He turns to look at me with a little bit of panic on his golden face, yeah that must have destroyed a lot of 'shards' and he no doubt realizes I'm the cause of what is going on, on his main body.

He tilts his head, observing me— my image perception blocker obviously doesn't work on him— seemingly trying to communicate something.

'Oh, I'm sorry, me no speak alien'.

I instantaneously appear in front of him, fist stretched back and coated in the same energy and punched him through a portal I opened.

Even though I tried to minimize the damage, it does not stop the surrounding area from turning into debris. I go into the portal as well and it winks out of existence.

…

…

We are currently in an uninhabited world, where civilization has literally died out, I couldn't find a lot of info but it seems a biokinesis virus was released into the air and water, the notes I found mentioned something about evolving humanity to perfection, apparently perfection means death.

Nai wa.

It was a sad place to come across, I ended up fixing things but there was nobody to appreciate it which was why I had a beach party here 2 chapters ago.

I focus my sights on Goldie who created a large crater on the ground from when I punched him.

I would have used my [Territory] on him but trapping him might cause him to lash out, thereby taking drastic measures.

And who knows, he might just 'figure' something out about energy conversion, then somehow gain a 'final form'. I don't need that type of cliche in this fight at all.

He stands up and his chest is regenerating. He stretches his hand and a beam of light comes my way but it is redirected back to him through a portal, he dodges it easily.

He should be able to break through my portals with those type of beams but all I have to do is use up more energy than the beam he fires.

Because right now, I have a lot of energies, plenty energies, all of the energies.

Seemingly noticing this as well, he appears in front of me and I'm crashing through multiple buildings, I can't even keep count, I think I even made it to the next city, yep definitely did.

Ugh, being punched while under various thought acceleration abilities is not nice at all.

I can see him already flying towards me with no resistance whatsoever, I isolate the space around myself and equally zoom to meet him with not a resistance as well.

As we clash fists, a city wipes off the map.

The space fractures and we are in another alternate world. I slice him through the chest with my scythe and that part blackens, healing very slowly, he takes a distance and immediately burns himself with his beam seemingly creating more injury.

 I would think he's stupid but he knows exactly what he is doing.

The [Rot Attribute] of my scythe is basically the personification of death energy, so by cutting that part off his body, he can regenerate it normally.

I hate dealing with enemies that know how to make quick decisions in battles.

Going after him again with my scythe, he starts… zooming off?… Oi! Don't run away from me, he is surely feeling the ridiculous drain on his energy reserves already but since I'm spending a large amount of energy to isolate his main body, he can't do anything about it.

Speeding up, he passes through various alternate worlds and I'm right on his tail. Why is he trying to run anyway? This is literally a battle of attrition in my favor.

If he doesn't fight me, he risks losing his energy reserves and embracing entropy.

Is that okay Goldie? Are you really fine with that? I mean, I would be very happy if you decide to give up, though. It would make things easy for me and I like easy things, why do you think ramen is my favorite midnight snack?

More alternate worlds zoom past us, and as I get close to him, I do not notice quickly even with my fast though processes, he releases the same beam of light in an AOE burst, I block with my scythe and quickly teleport few meters above, looking at him.

I look at my missing arm in annoyance, the arm that held my scythe, said scythe automatically disappears into my sub space.

My arm regenerates instantly.

Cool.

The thing about Gods regeneration is that as long as your soul isn't destroyed and you have sufficient energy, you can regenerate your body endlessly and since I'm brimming with energy, not even a full body disintegration could kill me, although it would hurt so I'd like to avoid it, thank you.

The energy beams Goldie uses has no metaphysical aspect to it, so he wouldn't be destroying my soul anytime soon.

Eh? Don't I have this one in the bag already?

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Oh myself, I spoke too soon didn't I?

Oi! Oi! Stop that, blackholes are not allowed, time out, time out. Are you trying to kill everyone in this world?

I immediately isolated the space around the black hole that Goldie casually created. It's natural that anyone would be scared of a black hole you know.

Trying to destroy the world in one move is not fair at all. Where is your game balance?

Do you not feel pity for all those living their lives here?

Yare yare. You are really keeping me on my toes aren't you?

Goldie is floating a couple distance before me, annoyance present on his face.

I can tell that he is losing energy at a rapid pace, my spiders are in the trillions already.

He looks at me, really looks at me and then did something I didn't think he was capable of. In hindsight, I should have know he would be able to.

He spoke.

"Who are you?" He says.

His voice holds no inflection whatsoever, a default voice from a computer sounds more human than him.

He sounds off.

Alien.

Now that he puts me on the spot like that, I can't help but squirm, don't talk to me please! I have no social skills, they are dead!

I can't even hold my liquor and you expect me to hold a conversation? No way, no way, no way, that's impossible.

But not one to pass up a chance to look cool, I say one word.

"Vengeance." I respond.

There, nailed it!

I don't wait for him to respond— definitely not because I can't maintain a conversation or anything like that— and immediately activate my [Future Sight] on a constant 10 seconds refresher and activate the opposite of the [Inert Evil Eye] on myself which I named [Blitz Evil Eye] and the world slows even further than before.

I'm on Goldie again with a punch and this time using that same energy to enchant my full body, he can't react as fast as before, I punch tens, hundreds, thousands of times in less than a second, fists passing through force fields, resistance and flesh? as if they are not even there.

Going 'Ora, ora, ora, ora' when it seems like time is stopped is an obligation after all.

I take a distance as time flows back to the previous level and Goldie is shooting through countless buildings and not stopping, going further and further, I follow after him even as I teleport various people out of the way, the others who do not make it, I say a little prayer in my mind. We have been moving so fast that no one can even react to us.

He finally crashes into a sea, sending waves of water everywhere. I briefly look around the area wondering if it's the Japan equivalent of this world. They would be dealing with irregular weather patterns for a while.

My [Future Sight] warns me of a situation and I immediately teleport in front of Goldie, still underwater, kicking him back into that same uninhabited world and quickly teleporting thousands of meters into the sky.

A continent and some more disappears.

Oi! Are you serious? That's too hardcore, that would have completely destroyed that island(?) you know.

I know I'm not one to talk but there was a lot of innocent civilians there you know, it would feel like I failed if I had let them die, especially when I have access to this much energy and besides that, do you not care about energy expenditure anymore Goldie?

I estimate he doesn't even have up to 500 years worth of energy left anymore. Nai wa.

If the father of their powers can escalate this much, is it a wonder that the Parahumans are the way they are? Teleporting back down to the now barren land, I prepare to put an end to the battle, before he gets any more ideas.

Doing so would cause me to lose all of the spiders present in the location but if it's to secure victory then it's definitely worth it.

I look towards Goldie in front of me, I make sure not to look below since he has long since lost his outfit, the only reason I still have mine on is because it is imbued with spatial attributes.

Somehow, he looks like he has given up. I see. It would have left a bitter taste in my mouth if he had tried to go the Araba route.

I first of all activate a [Spatial Separation] skill on the spiders I put on the brains of every Parahuman, then isolated their connection to their shards, they can deal with losing their powers for a few seconds. Those spiders are also capable of highly potent healing magic so they can solve any unforeseen problems that might arise.

Looking at Goldie one final time, I activate my final move through every one of my spiders present in the main bodies of the aliens.

(Spiders: Quadrillion range.)

And then Goldie disappears from my view.

A/N: Probably could have done better, but this is the best I could do. So I'll suck it up like a running nose.

Chapter Text

Rebecca 

Silence reels its head in the space where the members of Cauldron gathers. It's been a month and some since the mysterious cape— who has been designated as 'White'— fought Scion and also the incident that shook almost every earth and Earth-Bet in particular.

For how worried that everyone present in the room should be feeling, the colorful clothes they are wearing is an obvious contrast to the situation at hand but honestly Rebecca couldn't bring herself to care much.

If after all that and Scion is still alive, she is ready to burn along with the world.

Probably.

"What is with that get up, David? Are you trying something new?" She teases.

"You are one to talk Becky, are you into cosplay now? What's with the frilly clothes? At least Keith was decent enough to hide the fact he was on a beach." David replies without his usual bite.

"Ah… and I was sure I hid my tracks well." Keith chuckles as he scratches his head.

"Heh, not well enough." David smirks, but there seems to be something underneath his expression.

After being teleported and isolated in an alternate world Island for a month— by what we suspect to be the doing of 'White'— with no way of leaving, David seemed to have gone through a tremendous change. The usual proud and impatient Eidolon is now very meek.

What had happened on the island? Nobody knows.

"I'm glad everyone is in good shape." Doctor mother says to the group.

"It's a wonder what Scion's death can do for one's health isn't it?" Keith laughs.

"We don't know if he is dead but since all evidence proves that he is, and even the path closed itself, while the body of The Thinker has all but perished, it's safe to assume so." Contessa who is wearing her usual fedora but with pinafore and sleeves, and licking a lollipop states. 

Hasn't she been too carefree lately?

Well, Rebecca could somewhat understand.

Everyone had lost their powers for a few seconds, which they think is the moment Scion had died. That should have made things chaotic but there were no casualties, not even from people whose powers assisted their living. 

Was that also something done by the mysterious 'White?'. Most likely.

In those few seconds though, Rebecca had watched her hands, enthralled, feeling more alive than she had ever been. It came just as fast as it left, but the feeling had been very refreshing. 

Contessa might have also experienced something like that too.

"And how is the state of things in Bet?" The doctor continues.

Rebecca hums before responding.

"While gathering every cape to fight Scion in the case 'White' had lost, was passed off as a worldwide drill for an Endbringer battle, the confirmed disappearance of every Endbringer a few days later seemed to have improved the standing of the PRT even more." 

"At least, the economy won't be crashing anytime soon, so cheers to that." Kurt adds offhandedly, eyes still glued to his laptop.

"That's good, then."

The Endbringers disappearance was like having the sword of Damocles that has being menacingly looming over everyone's head suddenly disappear. 

It was such a surreal feeling, though they didn't mention the news until May ending, when they were sure no Endbringer would be attacking.

Although there are still questions like: Where did the Endbringers disappear to? Not even they know, but as usual, the suspect is 'White'.

Rebecca is glad that the world seems to be healing itself at least.

She would admit that one of the first things she did was tracking the S9, Contessa helped her with their location, and she's glad she finally avenged Hero.

And all this was made possible by 'White', the maybe-Parahuman who they do not even have a picture of or know anything about except she is female and who knows if that is true as well?

"And we still have no leads on this 'White?'" David asks.

"Apart from appearing white and female, and the ability to access alternate worlds, including teleportation, we have nothing. And we don't know what they are after either. Since they took out Eden, that means they are at least aware of us, but we have received no contact yet. It's nerve wracking." The doctor responds.

Rebecca doesn't think they could stop 'White' if they were after something though, they can't be pathed and they fought and defeated Scion, alone. 

What can they do to someone like that? Especially now that they have basically lost what had made them 'Cauldron', which includes the vials.

And even after flushing through their securities, there is still the lingering threat that 'White' could teleport them anytime, as they supposedly did with David so they have all been vigilant… well, as vigilant as they could be. 

It's impossible to not get caught up in the worldwide celebration that doesn't seem to be ending anytime soon after all.

So all they can do is make contingencies against a probably-opponent they know nothing about while keeping up their false sense of security.

The conversation goes on even as the gnawing realization of their crimes and the lives they have ruined eats at them, knowing that despite all the atrocities they have committed, someone else was the one that took care of the problem, without any input from them.

Someone they do not even know.

One person.

What a distasteful feeling.

Everything they had done, while not for nothing, almost is. The 'It would be worth it in the end' now hangs as a blight upon their existence as they look upon their blood-soaked hands, whether caused directly or indirectly.

She speculates this is what David feels as well. 

The 'savior' turned observer.

What had he dedicated his entire life for then?

They would live with the feeling of self-loathing till whenever their light goes out.

Or so Rebecca thinks.

And, even though it would not be enough, even though it won't make up for anything, she hopes to spend the rest of her life atoning for her sins.

She swears it even as she converses with her fellow sinners.

Shiraori

Nom.

Nom.

Nom.

If you can guess where I am, I will give you a piece of my takoyaki and a sip of my juice.

Bu bu bu. You guessed wrong.

I will tell you where I am. You see… I am back in my original apartment!! Woohoo!!! 

A big cheers to myself!!

Congratulations, congratulations. 

Ah thank you, thank you. I rub the back of my head as I nod in embarrassment.

You see, after dealing with Goldie, and fixing the dimensional fissures caused by my last attack— Yeah, who would have thought [Annihilating Evil Eye] would start annihilating space as well, definitely not me— I went back to my Earth-Bet apartment to find D playing my games and eating my food.

I punched her to Uranus. 

How dare she steal my celebratory dinner. 

That's rude. Not when she has not reimbursed me for my chips.

I will forever hold that grudge. Hmph!

But as expected, she did not die, she just came back as if nothing happened. It seems not even the frost of Uranus can freeze her, since she's already cold at heart. Maybe I should try the sun next. Fingers crossed.

*Sighs* Was it too much to hope she would somehow die though?

"Shiro, is that how to treat your boss?" She says plopping on a chair she manifested and enjoying a bowl of yakisoba. 

I. Shiraori. Did. Not. Drool.

D is actually a really good cook, but she's just really lazy to do any cooking, a trait we both share, although she's worse than I am though.

Anyway, a boss you are, sending me to a world on the verge of an apocalypse, don't you get tired of that sort of genre D? You know you can enjoy other things right? I hear 'Slice of life' is trending these days.

"But I don't want to, watching you suffer is more interesting."

D, I will send you to the sun.

"Okay, okay, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I should have briefed you about the world before sending you here, don't send me to the sun please, it would be annoying even though it won't hurt." She says even though we both know she's not sorry at all.

*Sighs* I guess that's the best I can get out of her.

My mission is complete right? Can I have my vacation now?

She laughs. "Of course, Shiro, even by gods standard, you gathered a stupidly ridiculous amount of energy after all, and even now, you are still at it, so I'll cut you some slack for the time being." 

Well, thank God, so thank me.

"Oh! Did you know the Endbringers were being subconsciously controlled by Eidolon?"

I stare at her. 

D, you and I both know you purposely left out that info from the dossier!!

"Errr… teehee?" She pops out her tongue and knocks the side of her head with her hand.

Not now D, I don't want to deal with you. I want to go back to my apartment and enjoy my limited freedom in peace.

Oh! Before I forget, you have to take care of the shard stuffs since they would go out of control with no Goldie around, I had planned on destroying them all but civilization is too dependent on it, and it's not like magic where residents of the other world can still use it to a lesser degree even without the system.

"Oh, don't worry about that. I already took control of the shard network when you were fighting, since I knew you were not interested in it. I have everything under my control. The Endbringers will disappear in a few days as well." She says with a knowing smile.

I stare at her. This bastard.

You could have at least waited for me to finish fighting first you know. I almost died you know… okay that's a lie but dammit D! 

So she was probably the reason why Goldie looked like he had given up in the end huh? Poor guy.

Anyways. You better not come for me till like a hundred years have passed.

The last I hear before teleporting is her laughter.

D, you stupid baka.

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And that is how you find I, Shiraori right here, enjoying my takoyaki and juice, while still mining energy 24/7.

Sometimes I check back on that world when it crosses my mind.

Since there are no Endbringers tormenting the world, the villains are now getting cracked down on, which is to be expected.

Buggy has become a well known cape in the bay and she even has merch now. She started going out with the hunk from the gym, apparently he's the brother of that pain in the ass girl she saved that one time. She also made a deal with the PRT to supply them spider silk. 

Meanwhile I used to give mine to The Demon Lord's army for free. 

Isn't that kinda unfair? 

Nai wa.

Anyway, the Sherlock Holmes girl turned her villain group into a rogue one under a different name. She might be the richest person in the bay. Even going as far as to hire the girl who the lolicon reptile tried to kidnap, I don't know how she managed that.

But what I don't understand is why she placed the note I sent to her on an altar, and keeps saying things like 'I hope I did not screw up today' and 'Please don't send me to the Birdcage' to it.

Hmm, I wonder what that is all about. 

As for the 'many-powers-guy', the truth is that I sent him to an island as a sort of 'go stand in a corner' punishment, since he was largely responsible for almost destroying civilization, although unknowingly and before I knew it, a month had passed— I totally did not forget about him!— and when I checked back, he seemed to have passed through all the stages of grief. 

He was lying on the ground and staring at the sky when I checked back on him.

Well, at least he seems like a more decent person now, so good job me?

And good for them too, I guess.

As for myself, not to brag, but I am living the life.

It must be true that good things happen to good people.

Undoubtedly this is truly the best benefit of being a God, and I will not let anyone come between me and Neetdom… sorry I meant freedom. Me and freedom.

Not Dragons.

Not Elves.

Not Terminator robots.

Not Aliens.

And certainly not Gods!

I am a spider but so what? I'm the strongest spider there is after all.

Muhahahahahahahahahaha.

"Master, did you hear what I just told you?"

Eh? I forgot I was not alone. What is it Vampy? And when are you going to stop calling me 'Master?' You know you don't have that curse anymore right?

"Sophia-chan, you know Shiro-chan has not been listening to you for a while now right? I'm pretty sure she has been monologuing." The Demon Lord who is enjoying a wine all of a sudden sells me out!

Don't listen to The Demon Lord, Vampy. I was definitely listening.

And so my adventure comes to an en—

*FWOOSH*

"Shiro! I have a deal for you!"

D is teleported to the sun. 

And so my adventure comes to an end.

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Good, no more surprises right?

My Still Glorious Queen

A/N: Nai wa.

This would have been incomplete without Ariel and Sophia's cameo.

Anyway, thank you all for riding with me through this short story. Shiro blesses you. I hope this inspires someone to make a Shiraori fic as well. Probably a longer one too.