Three day had passed, and we are finally able to settle once and for all at Kiserre's orphanage. It was a rough journey, to the Mermaid kingdom, fill with revelation after revelation. To think, in a sense, I am Brother Ash's biological little sister, that's one of the most, if not the most shocking thing I have ever heard, and I still find the fact a hard one to believe in and Mahsuri right now isn't with us, so I couldn't ask her more. Even is she didn't take the post as the Mermaid Queen, she still couldn't give the full explanation, so for now, I just have to accept the fact

Elise and Kara are with Mrs Saga. The three of them are summoned by Queen Rinz regarding the recent incident that happened back then at the mermaid kingdom. I thought of going with them as well, but my mana isn't fully recovered, so I was asked to stay behind by her highness herself

(Still... The ten commanders...) [Charlotte]

Based on what the mermaid king left behind, they are the ten elites among the Devil, almost like a mirror image of us the ten heroes. I'm sure this is some kind of sick joke from the fallen god, or maybe a sign that she wanted to settle the score with Goddess Achalasia once and for all. For that, the fallen god gather ten powerful individuals and bestowed upon them extra power and blessings just to rival us

Terrifying...

We are lucky that the mermaid king somehow able to access this information when he was being swallowed by the miasma. How he manage to do that is beyond our understanding, but we are still glad about it. Information is a weapon, and knowing is half of the battle.

The ten are said to be from various races, and some are monsters turn into powerful devils, and the one leading all of that is Agnes... Isn't she the one that kills Brother Ash. If so, that makes her the one that all of us hated the most, maybe even more so than Motra, and speaking of Motra, he/she's one of the commander as well

"Sigh... Motra is already that strong and it takes three of us to beat him/her... No, to make her retreat from further attacking the mermaid kingdom... And why is he/she is there in the first place!?" [Charlotte]

I wonder how we will fare when fighting against all ten commanders at once. We are obviously the one at disadvantage here. We don't even know all of them, so this, this feeling...

(Aaahhh!) [Charlotte]

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Thank goodness this soft pillow absorb all of my screamingly sound, so I can just keep shouting without anyone barging in checking. Thinking about all of this just stresses me out. Why did we have to face against someone that strong... What should we do!!!

"Sigh... I want something sweet, more specifically, I want some chocolate banana cake..." [Charlotte]

At a time like this, a supply of sweet and sugar for the brain is what I needed the most. The kids are mostly playing, and since they see how struggling I am to take a step, they didn't come rushing to tackle me (their way of saying play with us), Instead, they lend me their hand as we walk toward the fridge. That's sweet of them, enough to makes my heart melt, but unfortunately, there isn't even a single chocolate banana cake in my line of sight, but there are other sweets that we could snack on.

"We want that one"

"This is sweeter!"

"No, it's this one!"

"Right. Right. The sister told us not to take too much, so I'll just pick some, so make up your mind" [Charlotte]

In front of the fridge, we are all debating about which sweets should we choose for our afternoon snacks. There are some tea leaves inside the jars, so maybe some sweet biscuits and tea will be a fine choice.

"How about biscuits and tea. Mrs Saga and the other will come back soon, and we could serve them some. Surely they will be delighted. Plus, they will usually bring some sweets from the castle, so we should prepare more tea than usual" [Charlotte]

"Right!"

And we prepare the tea and biscuits for the snack. Since Sis Diana and I are quite close with each other, she taught me about the proper etiquette of brewing and making tea for snacks. It was a tough lesson, but one that is worth it in pursuit of the ultimate sweet tea time, and now

"Ouch!"

"Careful now. Here, let me heal you and demonstrate the technique once again" [Charlotte]

Healing the little sibling... His hand is small, and quite fragile. I wonder, the orphans did pledged to support us in our fight against the fallen god, but what can this fragile hand do...

"Sigh..." [Charlotte]

"Am I doing something wrong?"

"No. I'm just tired" [Charlotte]

"Then let just eat it!"

"Right. If I wait any longer, my stomach will start grumbling" [Charlotte]

As we eat and drink our fair share of tea and biscuits, the three of them finally show arrive, and as expected, they brought some sweets as well. Good thing that I prepared some extra tea for them. They join us, and we talk about what they were discussing with the queen

"Thing is, we might actually know half of the ten commanders" [Khamishah]

"Really! How?" [Charlotte]

"From the various encounter in the past as well as some rumour, but one of them is..." [Khamishah]

"?" [Charlotte]

"Anyway, I'll tell you those that we are sure of. There are Agnes the immortal, Motra the half butterfly, Saintess Angela of the old teaching, Zin the monstrous giant and..." [Khamishah]

"And..." [Charlotte]

"The mysterious wondering scythe master..." [Elise]

"Most probably..." [Kara]

"Are you serious!" [Charlotte]

"The one giving us this info is Rean. So, we should ask him about the details later on" [Elise]

"Right!" [Charlotte]

It couldn't be... Right? If this is some sick joke from the fallen god, oh how unfunny it is.