"Hold on!" I yelled, "Are we just gonna gloss over the fact you guys are... us sized!?"

"We appreciate your delicate word choice in not outright calling us tiny." Pry chuckled.

"I have already made my point clear." Selz replied with a pouty tone, "Your endless mockery of us Gods must cease at once. And what better way to do that than to make ourselves assume your own body sizes?"

I still fail to see the exact logic on that one, but I suppose if it'll make him happy, then I don't mind. With just a snap of a finger, he managed to shrink both himself and Pry to the size of a regular human being. I'm still gonna make fun of him for being a lousy God, though.

"I am NOT lousy!" Selz roared, "And from now on, we are not Gods, either!"

"Eh? Hold on, so you're saying...?" Sheep gasped.

"Sigh, that's right..." Pry finished the thought, "On top of getting shrunk, Selz also made it so we both lost our Godhood. As such, we are no stronger than a regular human in Heaven 2.0."

"Wow, so you're not lousy..." I turned to Selz with a meaningful stare.

"Took you long enough to realize something so simple."

"You are a horrible friend, however." I furrowed my brows, "As if wanting to prove me wrong wasn't petty enough, you actually had to get poor Pry in on your shenanigans as well!"

"H-Hm?" His voice cracked.

"What the hell is wrong with you!?" I kept going off on him, "You've just jeopardized our entire operation, and why? Because you got your ego poked by a little girl you could literally squash like a bug!? Shame on you! For shame, Selzion!"

I can't believe the world I live in, where the God of Knowledge is this much of an idiot! And I know he can read my mind, so I'll think it again—he's an idiot!

"Migu, that's quite enough." Pry stopped me from angering his colleague any more, "Though, I do agree that he's an idiot."

"Hey!" Selz yelled.

"Enough of you, go to sleep. It's the main reason you got us in this mess in the first place..." Pry glared back at him, "As for the journey, you shouldn't worry too much about it."

"Huh? But we're now two Gods short." Sheep tilted his head, "No pun intended."

"Hey, good one." Pry chuckled, "Actually, the reason I say we'll be okay is because of you."

"Me?" He cocked his head back.

"Remember, the only imperative on this journey is that we have an archangel in our party." Selz said, lounging comfortably on his bed, "Everything else is mostly optional."

It's that "mostly" that worries me, though. Well, if they say it's okay, then who am I to judge? In any case, it's not like they're actually planning on helping us save Vastoria.

"Hrm..." Selz groaned, turning his back on us.

"What's the matter with him?" I asked.

"He's offended, and frankly Migu—so am I." Pry crossed his arms, "I have to ask what it'll take for you to believe us."

"Maybe don't try and get us killed all the time." Energy coughed.

"Oh come on, that was a one-" Pry bit his tongue a little bit, "T-Two time thing, okay? It won't happen again, there's no reason for it to happen again!"

"Yeah, 'cause we've already proven it won't work." I shot back, "Honestly, why would you assume I'd trust you at all? The only reason I'm traveling with you guys in the first place is because I'm worried about Sheep's safety."

"...don't know anything..." Selz grumbled quietly.

"What was that?"

"You don't know anything, do you?" He rolled back to face us, "You don't know our goals, our convictions, our motivation, nothing! And yet you shun us for trying to give you undeserving trash a second chance!"

"Whoa, that's a bit harsh, isn't it?" Sheep wondered.

"We have allowed everyone's souls an equal chance to live out proper lives in Heaven 2.0, and then do it all over, again and again!" Selz shouted over him, "In this environment, you can be anything you have ever dreamed to be, so why is it that you do not accept our gift to you!?"

"T-That's... I didn't-" I stuttered.

"Why, humanity!? Why have you failed your creators!?" He pleaded to hear the answer, "Must I shout for everyone to hear, but for no one to understand!? Is the gift of life so meaningless to you that you don't even want an extension to it!?"

"Pry."

"Answer me, humanit-!"

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A snap of the fingers from Pry later, and... nothing happened. Selz kept shouting like a maniac while the rest of us anxiously tried distancing ourselves from him. It seems Pry wanted to shut him up by Materializing something, but forgot he no longer had his Godly powers. It actually took him a few more snaps before he realized it and took matters into his own hands.

"O-Oh, right." He lightly blushed.

"Humanity~!" Selz kept shouting as his colleague calmly approached him.

"Selz, buddy."

"Not now, I'm pondering the ungratefulness of humanity and their feeble existence." He briefly paused to address him, "Ahem, why humanity~!?"

"Hrm..." Pry readied his fist, "Hey, Selz?"

"I said...-!"

Blammo, a strong uppercut to the chin sent the God of Knowledge straight to bed. After he got knocked out, Pry even had the decency to respectfully tuck him in as well. I guess there you have it—if you've ever wondered how a fight between two Gods would look like, you just got your answer.

"A lot more anticlimactic than I thought it'd be." Sheep figured.

"Did you have to go that hard on him?" Energy asked Pry, "That could've easily killed him, you know?"

"Eh? Nahh~!" Pry reassured us, "We may be humans now, but a human wouldn't die from a punch to the chin."

"...."

"......Selz?" Pry tried nudging him awake, only to get no response, "W-Wakey wakey...?"

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A few worthless nudges later and even the Meditative Prylos began to panic. What with them being Gods and all, I assume they don't quite know the limits of their human bodies yet. It's quite funny to witness, but I imagine it's gonna get quite tiring having to constantly explain basic stuff to them soon.

"What are you two doing?" He saw Sheep and me lying back down.

"More importantly, you should get some rest too." I added, "You're human, aren't you? Fatigue is way more prominent in your body than in mine."

He sniffled once more, obviously distraught about his friend's safety. Sigh, he's seriously not gonna let us sleep until he sees Selz is fine, isn't he?"

"Alright, stand back." I begrudgingly got up and walked to Selz's bedside.

"W-What are you going to do?" Pry whimpered.

"The only thing you can do in these scenarios." I returned a confident smirk as I pinched Selz' nose.

"...Mph-!?"

Just like that, Selz became livelier than ever as he struggled to break free of my trap. Obviously, he wouldn't die from a punch to the chin. If he did, boxing would have been called a deathmatch instead. The way I found out he was alive was by noticing multiple smaller details about his state. First off, his hands were curled up into fists, indicating his fine motor skills were okay. Secondly, when Selz fell back into his bed, he was conscious enough to put himself into a comfier position. Usually people would spasm more, but he just fell unconscious. Oh, and the third part is the most important one of all.

"You could literally see his chest going up and down, so he's still breathing." I finally let go of his nose, "So that's why this tactic worked so well."

"T-The..." Selz uttered something after catching his breath.

"What's that?"

"The... audacity!" He lunged at me from his bed suddenly, "A mere angel wishes to slay a God! And after all that we've done for you!"

Gah, this bastard's actually choking me out! My neck isn't golden though, so it's not like he'll succeed or anything, but it's still scary to think I'm gonna be out journeying with this lunatic.

"Yo, stop that!" Sheep broke up the fight, "She didn't try to kill you, Migu actually saved your life!"

"...Hmph." He let go with a pout and a pair of crossed arms, "Saved me, how could an angel-"

"She did, dude." Pry frowned, "We're humans now, remember? I'm sure you do, since you're the reason we're mortal to begin with."

"Oh."

So it finally clicked in that tiny little head of his why relinquishing one's Godhood is an extremely dumb idea? For the God of Knowledge, he really is stuck up. Even now, he only turned to me with a bewildered stare without even saying a word of gratitude.

"Migu..." He had trouble letting go of the words in his mouth.

"Yeah?"

"I..." He ultimately bailed, hopping back in his bed, "I still cannot comprehend why you would willingly want to return to being a human."

"Oh, you stupid...!"

"Let it go, Migu." Pry stopped my mighty hand from striking him in his bed, "He's finding himself, we must be supportive of his endeavors."

Now this guy's spouting crazy nonsense too! He's not a monk living alone on a remote mountaintop to be finding himself. In fact, I find it infuriating how you would even classify "finding the strength to admit a girl saved you and thanking her" as something he needs to figure out. It's really not that difficult, asshat!

"That is not what I meant." Pry chuckled, lying down in his own bed as well, "I suppose you'll understand more clearly what I'm saying after our journey. For now, it is as you said—rest before departure is crucial."

"A surprisingly mature answer." Energy babbled from within my pockets, "At the very least we have one decent person on the team."

"Yeah, me." I proudly replied.

"If we were to create a list and check it twice, you'd still be at the bottom."

"Energy, need I remind you that your brain is literally small enough to fit in the palm of my hand?"

"All brains are like that!" He fussed, "What, do you seriously think a brain is something bigger than a palmful?"

That's... How should I know that!? I'm neither a brain surgeon nor a neuroscientist, so obviously I'm not too knowledgeable on the average brain size. Still, I'm positice Energy's is smaller than average!

"Phrasing." Both Selz and Pry said in unison as they laid on their beds.

Hrm... I totally forgot, but I'm the only girl in this group now. I hardly even met Nerys for longer than a few minutes, but I still miss her more than ever. Ugh, if Vastoria was here, we could have fun talking about all sorts of cute and silly stuff on our own, but now I have to endure nothing but rouchy dick jokes and stuck up bickering.

"If Vastoria was here, then we wouldn't need to be doing this in the first place." Pry suddenly spoke up.

"Will you shut up and go to sleep already!?" I yelled, "And quit reading my mind all the time! In case you haven't realized it yet, humans can't do that!"

"...Uhm." They gave each other a glance, "W-Well, technically..."

"Everyone." Sheep rose from his bed in all his winged glory, "I just found out my wings can become razor sharp."

"Ah, yes." Pry began to explain it in detail, "This is only scratching the surface of your new powers. Your wings can actually detach and become-"

"I don't think you quite understand." He primed them for fire, "Razor sharp can cut through human skin."

"..."

"......"

"Goodnight, everyone." Pry nodded.

"Yes, quite." Selz followed suit.

Is it finally over? Can we finally go to bed now? I feel like we've been up all night just talking. Hell, if it wasn't for the nights in Heaven being 24 hours long, we might've actually greeted dawn at this rate. I can't believe I'm saying this, but the Gods actually cooked on that one.