Chapter 11 : Yuri-chan is under attack ! And it won't go awayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

One of the problems in collocation with other people, I soon realized, was the lack of intimacy. While there were guest rooms, they lacked locks, and the idiot brother always conveniently forgot about me, to try and apologize by pestering me for details regarding my 'cousin'. That was pretty annoying.

The deal was pretty fair I think, I cooked for them and I was allowed to stay here. I did not want to gloat, but I'm pretty good at this, and I wanted to be prepared, just in case I had to participate in a cooking type. I actually wouldn't have minded a cooking type, but since I would have liked that, of course, no trace of one. Same for mystery, seriously, who wouldn't want to becomes Sherlock Holmes ? But then again, that would require people to die, so I'm pretty divided about that...

"Oi, shut in, it's time to get the groceries."

Ah! I have been upgraded from 'idiot' to 'shut in', because 'idiot' is his brother's second name apparently.

The young boy ( who is fifteen but looks twelve) was waiting as I got out of the room with my wallet. He opened the door and locked behind us.

"Between you that would get lost if I didn't keep an eye on you and that guy who'd invite anyone home, seriously, are all adults that useless?"

I gave him a cattish grin and readjusted my glasses.

"Fufun.. But Nagito-bou, I don't see you trying to rid yourself of us.You even go as far as to accompany me-nya~"

He blushed and walked faster mumbling something about two-faced older sisters.

Responsible tsundere younger brother types Banzai !

"Wait you peasants ! Your god orders you to slow down!"

Only one person would dare to scream that in the middle of a packed street.

"Are... Agito-nya ? What are you doing here ?"

The black haired young man stopped running, wheezing as if he was about to die, before striking a pose.

"The great me decided to join you lowly mortals in your quest for sustenance, for tonight, you hellcat will have to prepare a meal fit for the gods themselves!"

I looked at him, surprised.

"Agito-nya, you have friends ?"

Nagito looked as flabbergasted as I was and the older male was visibly offended by what I said.

"Hmph, I don't have to prove myself to a heathen whose only redeeming quality is that her appearance is similar to my icy goddess..."

"That and my cooking apparently-nya"

"But since you begged me, the great me will enlighten you : Tonight, a council, made of a representative from each pantheon will assemble in our abode !"

As we entered the shop, I realized one of the implications of his actions.

“Nee, Agito-nya, did you just broadcast Nagito-bou's coordinates knowing everyone was after him 'cause he was close to my cousin ?”

“ Indeed, I gave them to each leader so that they would know where we would reunite!”

That...!

Nagito was faster than me though.

“You moron ! You're saying that you invaded the god damned Gms and GSs at MY house without informing me ?!”

“Hmph, you might me my brother, but I am the eldest here!”

“Nyaaa, sorry to burst your bubble, but I'm older than you...”

The idiot then pointed at me dramatically

“ Doest that mean you are a pedophile ?! Stay away from my little brother you bitch!”

“Wait what ?”

An officer tapped my shoulder.

“A problem ?”

I screamed internally.

One hour later, after Nagito beat up his brother with a rusty pan, then spoke to the officer about the fact that yes, his brother was an idiot, no I wasn't interested in him, no I didn't touch him in funny places and yes, he really was fifteen, the younger brother and I were going back to the store, while Agito was to stay at the post a while longer. I might have turned up my charm a bit with the officer and he miiiiight be convinced that guy was a persistent stalker now. Not that he wasn't anyways, but y'know, I can't let that kind of accusation go...

We were now going home with a loaned cart for the groceries when we heard people shouting.

A rich looking young woman was visibly angry at a handsome looking man who was holding a glasses wearing girl who was cowering at his side.

“We're in love, and there's nothing wrong about that!” Said the boy.

I sighed. Shoujo sucks.

I approached, followed by Nagito. Since this doesn't affect me in any way why not try and better the world ?

That was sarcasm, I'm just doing this out of personal hatred for this scenario.

Y'know ? Where handsome guy dumps girlfriend because he found a cute, innocent looking girl that he liked better? And that he just chose the first girl because she was convenient ? It's just too pitiful. I actually feel sad for those girls.

“We heard screaming, something's wrong ?”

“I-i-i-it's m-m-m-my fault” Started the crying new girl.

“Damn right it is!” Continued the rich looking one.

“O-kay ? I'm gonna need details. Boy, everything's your fault apparently, explanations please ?This nee-san is a bit lost.”

Well, that shut them all up. The boy started reluctantly while the girls were looking at the ground.

“Ah, this is a bit embarrassing, you see, I have a fiancee, and we were going out, not anymore love “ he added towards the girl at his arm” but she didn't want to let go and started bullying my love mercilessly. I was telling her to back off and that we were breaking our engagement.”

“Was the engagement decided when you were young ?”

“Yes.”

“Did you start seeing number two when you were still with number one ?”

“...”

I'll take that for a yes.

“Did you ever answer to number one's feelings or even try to tell her you didn't want to ?”

“I told her I needed more...”

“So no definitive no.I see. Clench your teeth.”

And I broke his nose before he couldn't even react. The slime, no, lower than that.... thing. Yeah, let's go with that. The thing moaned pitifully to the ground. I might have hit his head too hard.

“You're a two timing, fickle scumbag of a man. You're only with a girl when she's convenient for you and relish on having them depend on you. What will happen when a newer, fresher girl appears huh? Make her go through this again? Because number two's social life will be so destroyed by then that she'll have only you to rely on. People like you make me sick.”

I turned towards girl number one ;

“ You've been trained since a young age to love only that bastard. That's not love, but rather conditioning. You're better than this anyways, so don't blame the poor victim here. 'Sides this guy broke off your engagement already, so now you can find yourself a newer, hotter guy who will like you by himself. Anyone deserves better than this.”

And then to girl number two.

“ You're a victim too, so don't blame yourself, do the sensible thing and blame him. He picked you because of your insecurities so work on that. You can create an association with number one or something to pass time together, you two need to talk calmly anyways. Any guy who'd make two girls fight over him instead of being firm and taking responsibility for his actions is trash, end of the line. Let's go Nagito-bou, the food will spoil if we stay near that for too long.”

Strangely enough, Nagito didn't comment on what we saw during the trip back, and, as we were peeling the carrots, he asked.

“Ever been in this situation?”

“More times that I care to remember. And often much messier too.”

He made a noise of approval and we ended making dinner. There was too much for only the two of us.

The bell rang and I opened the door. There was a giant guy there, who looked around awkwardly and held out a package.

“Th-Tha's Agito's house, right?”

“Hm, yes it is, who would you be ?”

Nagito called out from where he was moving the furniture.

“Neechan, let him in, he's one of that idiot's friends. He's probably here for the meeting.”

Ah, I forgot about that. Soon enough, twenty-something people came and it was time. Everyone was currently introducing themselves over dinner, until the last one, someone who greatly surprised made her move.

She was small, with a slender build, long, glossy black hair pale skin and pitch black eyes. In other words, she had the looks of the perfect Japanese lady. Then she spoke.

“Yo, I'm Odin, how's it going ?”

I inhaled slowly.

“Aiyaaa, so that's the perverted molester and general asshole I heard so much about ? From Yuri-nee's description, I thought you were a man in his twenties”

The girl turned towards me and stared at my chest for a while. Good thing I didn't stop bandaging them since day one of my little 'voyage'.

“Eeeeeh...”

Wa ? No need to have that disappointed look on your face, you pervert!

A girl from the elves finally noticed us.

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“Who are you two, you aren't GS , are you ?”

Nagito took command of the session.

“You are right. I'm Zeus' younger brother. He's currently unavailable so I have been tasked of being this council's host. She “ he motioned to me” lives with us and, as many of you probably already guessed, she's Freyja's relative. Now, let's examine this reunion's objective. The demon's premature invasion and the problem of that hacker, who already destroyed several accounts using his ' [Soul ripping demon god's shot] '. Anyone has comments about that ?”

Odin started out, tearing her eyes from the buxom Representative of the dwarves.

“Yes, I heard from Thor, who is Freyja's twin brother, that she looked mentally and emotionally confused, attacked him and left home. They're keeping it quiet, but it might be that those who survive that particular attack will lose their own will to something more sinister.”

What the fruitcake ?! That incestuous bastard ! Next time I see him I'll rip his balls out and feed them to him ! Poor hacker guy... Nagito pinched my thigh under the table, I must have let my emotions show. Good save.

“For now, they haven't left Nord territory, but they always target the same kind of person, so it's someone who harbors a grudge.”

“And what would that characteristic be ?”

**Bang**

The door was violently opened, even though it wasn't locked, and a familiar guy with a harem arrived.

“Where is she ?!”

Nagito's eyebrow twitched.

“What are YOU doing here Cronos , it's a GS council , you are not welcome!”

Aaaah ! That's the Tasu guy I gave my key to !

“Screw that, I heard from a friend you guys were holding Freyja prisoner here, where is she you bastard?!”

He tried to catch Nagito, but nobody touched my tsundere little brother without permission! So I gripped that guy's arm and sent him flying back to his girls.

“Fufufun, gomenyasai, but I won't tolerate anyone touching Nagito-bou without his consent here.”

The guy looked heartbroken.

“F-Freyja ? W-Why ?”

I frowned.

“I'm not Freyja, I'm her cousin Marisa ! We don't even look like each other that much !” I patted my chest. The brown hair color didn't fade, I was still wearing glasses, put on green contacts and put freckles on my face this morning.

“Erm. Brbsrt.”

Our attention was brought back to Odin.

“What ?”

She blushed a little.

“They seem to target red headed females who have big breasts. I promise it wasn't me, I'm more of a groper than a destroyer!”

That isn't the kind of things you should readily admit...

“Ahem. They also have a human in their midst, who somehow has acquired the 'demon king' title. The Other continent's GS couldn't tell us much, but none of the requirements to open a link between our two continents have been accomplished. They think the hacker used the irregularity created by having a human finish the 'god of chaos' questline to squeeze in one or two supplementary commands to the game. If so, we'll have to wait until the GMs do something to repair it. After all, what happened to Freyja “ “What happened to her?!”” Who was one of our strongest will happen to us too if we get involved.”

“What ?!”

Oh, god, shounen protagonist got excited.

“We're not going to do anything while people die out there ?! You guys are gods, protecting mortals is supposed to be your job! And...”

“Shut up chuuni boy, you're giving me a headache.” And headaches often got me in the mood to destroy egos.

“I'm not...!”

“ I said shut up! It's a game. Nobody died, the company was paranoid about that situation happening and there are hundreds of failsafes put in place. What you don't understand though, is that as a targeted character can, the GS position can be erased. And it is extremely hard to outright create another position. It would take an enormous amount of time and money to do so, and as such GS can't afford to go there, they are already busy as is by the day to day tasks. An irregularity like you that creates more and more work for them, abusing its powers without even DOING ITS JOB has no place to talk. Especially since there are talks among the GMs that your account is soon to be deleted anyways. Face it, you are not relevant here. Now go away, you're keeping us from actually doing something to help the players.”

“What?!”

One of his girls shrieked. Good gods, her voice is high.

“And how could you know that ? I'm pretty sure that information was privy to GS only” Odin said with a strange expression.

“I'm living with Zeus, you can't give him a secret if you want him to keep it.”

That was pertinent enough. I wouldn't count on Odin not to recognize me, but she knows my brother well enough that giving him my location wouldn't be a good idea at all.

I sat up.

“I'll let you guys deliberate, it's time for Nagito's English lesson.”

The black haired boy's eyes widened, before he put his chopsticks back and scurried towards my room. That was a big, fat lie, but I didn't want to risk being with them any longer.

“What a bummer.”

“Yeah...”

We spent our evening reading and checking on them from time to time, and then, a loud crashing noise and angry shouts could be heard.

Sympathetic wavelength detected...

When we entered the living room Cronos was punching Zeus, who was apparently insulting my brother, who just arrived by breaking through the window.

Calculating atmospheric conditions...

This is going to be a long evening...

Trajectory confirmed.

“neechan, you think he can pay for the window”

Ygdrassil System activated....

“Yeah, yeah, I'll do it, no worries Nagito-bou”

Possible host located...

Aaaaand then everything went to hell.

The roof flew off, a giant ray of light fell upon us and everyone and everything close to me, including me, started floating.

A traction ray, projeted by a giant flying robot.

No, no, no, no so much no !

“ Like hell!!”

I tried to move, but my body was paralyzed.

So frustrating.

“Do not fear, humans, for you shall be the heralds of a new, enlightened era under the Zul !”

So despairingly lame.

I don't want it.

I refuse it. But I now I am currently powerless. So I can only scream out my frustration.

“Like hell I'll accept a Sci-Fi mecha genre! Even fantasy would be bet-”

And I was heard, for a big summoning circle suddenly appeared and swallowed everything caught in the ray, including me.

So cliché.

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Sorry for the lateness, I had my inscriptions at the uni, so it took me 1 day to go there, another to see lots ans loooots of people, and a third one recuperating. I've been typing this for 1 ½ half now, I think, after 20 hours of zzz ( I had periods of 1-2 hours of wakedness but that's all) u_u

My thread per day average, Noooooo T0T

Since it's the first in a while, I've made it a bit longer than usual to compensate.

Sooo, yeah, the last character of the crew ( and ironically enough, for now, the one who has the best shot as a love interest) Odin-chama has been introduces, and I flipped a coin to determine the genre. I'm so happy fantasy won, I 'm no goot with science-y things in general u_u

As for the shoujo moment, blame Burikko and the likes. I've never really liked that scenario, but seeing those poor girls existing only to be thrown away is too much!

And RPG heroes are assholes. How many of you didn't steal or kill NPCs huh ?

Thanks as always for reading, now I shall prostrate myself to my senpais for not stalking them for 3 days u_u