The small, young, purple eyed girl had indeed sheepishly turned around, purchased the somehow sentient takoyaki, set it beside her on a small bench, and proceeded to be perfectly still and silent for a half hour.
In that time, the takoyaki was anything but silent.
Hey, you can hear me right?
Hey! … so now you’re ignoring me? What gives?
She looks to be quite young…maybe 12? With purple eyes and I’m pretty sure I saw a pair of animal ears on her head…do all the people on this world look like her or are there multiple races here? And she can hear me right? She did look directly at me earlier…and she made sure to point directly at me when buying me so that surly means she hear a takoyaki speak…wait didn’t she call me a seanut? Is that what they call takoyaki here? Hmpf, ok- weird, but whatever. It doesn’t seem like other people can hear me so is she a telepath or is there some kind of magic or special technology here? Ugh- why is she ignoring me??? HELLO?!? Can I at least be turned around to see better?? These trees are pretty or whatever, but like- if you’re going to ignore me you could just feed me to something at least? Well, if she can hear me…then at least I have a chance at-
“OH MY GOD WILL YOU JUST SHUT UP ALREADY?!?!” the purple haired child shouted while hiding her face, “Blahblahblahblah don’t you ever stop thinking for crying out loud!”
The takoyaki was silent for only a moment, hey! How dare some kind of pip squeak talk to me like that?! - crap she can hear all my thoughts? Not just the ones I shout?
“Wow I don’t know why I expected a seanut to be smart but you truly have somehow exceeded even my low expectations for stupidity-”
Hey- I uh-...wait….I exceeded your low expectations?? Doesn’t that make me smarter? HA! You COMPLEMENTED ME YOU IDIOT!!! Were this takoyaki to have a mouth or a tongue, it would have stuck out said tongue at the child, but upon hearing the familiar hmm sound usually accompanied with said action, the child prickled and turned red.
“What?! That- no- that’s not- SHUT UP! You’re just a stupid seanut-”
I’d watch that tone if you know what’s good for you! - Dammit, with her hearing all my thoughts I can’t think just anything- I’ll just have to say the first thing that comes to mind every time- I’ll trust my gut on this- I am the one true supreme being in this world- perhaps to you my name is God or Almightly-
The child gasped and immediately picked up the takoyaki stick to face her. Finally the two were staring eye to eye with each other, “You? Almightly?”
Fuck yeah- uh- FUCK YEAH I AM! This “thinking out loud” concept was going to be more difficult to adjust to than she thought.
At first, the eyes of the child went wide with wonder and excitement, but they quickly turned into skepticism and disbelief, “The great Almightly come to our world as….a seanut?”
Uh- Well, I see how that could look bad but- actually I uh….I first appeared here as a great and monstrous squid! Yeah- and then when I was still disoriented by my new and foreign form…I was uh- captured! By your fisherman! And although I was a humble squid, I possess the soul of Almightly- and my being cannot simply die-
The child, for now, was listening intently.
So here I am. Just a small part of the magnificent creature I had once been. No doubt, the remains of my physical body are scattered across these lands…BUT! I cannot leave this world for I am afraid I have come to your world with grave news…
The child’s brow furrowed, “Almightly lord,” she bowed slightly while crossing her free hand across her chest, “I must first apologize for my transgressions against you. As a Holy Sister of your order, I am truly ashamed at how my lord has seen me. I hope to somehow repay my actions in your service.”
Were she to have had a mouth, her grin would have stretched from ear to ear, It is truly fate then, that our paths were to have crossed, Sister. This world is in fear of completely falling from grace and being condemned. I am here to save you all.
Before revealing her all inspiring Grand Plan, she had somehow convinced the child, she now knew was named Nezasit (which she immediately forgot and assigned her the name Neza instead), that there were things that needed to be taken care of first. On the fly she came up with a few errands to buy her time to figure out how she could plot her plan without Neza hearing her make said plot.
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Step 1: remove the Almightly seanut God from the skewer. Which was painful enough to keep thoughts from her mind, and hey- since being in pain helped prevent her from outing herself, she insisted Neza bring her back to the takoyaki stand and fill in her holes- followed by a quick flash fry- which fucking hurt.
Step 2: gather important members of the priesthood. This was excellent, she discovered that Neza had some level of control over her ability to hear thoughts. In order to listen and locate members of her Sekt, she had to open and focus her ability. After some careful testing, she discovered Neza could not hear her when locating or following the thoughts of another being. This gave her precious time to think of her next moves.
Step 3: Neza was to instruct Almightly on the state of the world. The Seanut Almightly-impersonator had explained that while she was definitely Almightly, the problem is that this world had been hidden from Almightly for the past hundred years. In that time, nefarious forces had come to corrupt the pure religion. Now, the world is about to be completely lost and Almightly has been drawn here due to the evil in peoples hearts. So, if Almightly is going to save this world, first she will need a full detail on the 100 years missed to see how astray they had all gone. This was also good. When Neza was fully focused on thinking and talking, it didn’t seem like she could or did use her telepathy to listen in at all. This gave her enough room to take in the information and process it without being overheard.
Some pieces of information she forced to memory:
* This world is comprised of those with magic gifts and those without
* This magic is mostly elemental based and the people here use it to enhance their lives, helping crops grow, keeping fires on, growing medicine, etc etc.
* Mental magic, is considered to be the form closest to God and therefore, all those possessing this magic, (telepaths like Neza or telekinetics) are all brought into the religious service known as Sekt of Almightly.
* The Sekt is made up of sisters and brothers who serve the King- the one man able to wield both forms of mental magic.
Neza worked fast. Which sucked. Sure she had a few seconds here and there to get a thought in but every time she would be so anxious that Neza was listening in, she would have to come up with a way to shoehorn the thought into logic only to find out she wasn’t listening and rinse and repeat. Her metal energy was exhausted.
Eventually, her round, now spongy body was presented before a room full of telepaths and telekenetics. The king was of course not yet present, but members of his closest council were, and it would only be a matter of time before they were to meet…as long as she didn’t majorly fuck up this first impression.
Hello.
About half the room perked up and shuddered. Neza reiterated her thought into the microphone-like air spell for those unable to hear her thoughts directly.
I am the Almightly.
Immediately, half the room fell to a knee and bowed before her. Once Neza, relayed this message, the others followed suit.
It is as you have heard. This world has been beyond my reach for a century and in that time, I have let you all stray from my teachings. Now, the end of days lay before us all. I had come here in a mighty form to defeat that Daemon Beta - yes, the name of the ultimate evil isn’t Lucifer or the devil or even Satan…it’s Beta…go fucking figure- but the evil of this world has weakened me, and he nearly defeated me. After being taken by the people of your world, my form has been rendered to this…
“Lord Almightly PLEASE!” a brother shouted as he groveled, “Your form hath no great importance upon the pureness of your soul- a man be not made of boundless beauty, but of boundless beauty in possibility and growth-”
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
The room went silent and Neza hesitated to relay her message.
No, no, no, no, no!!!! She really dragged this part out. Her mental processing was absolutely running on fumes but this was her first shot at actually being able to do something- she might as well do something with it right? My poor, poor people. How far have you strayed from my light and my love?
There were murmurs throughout the sekt room.
THIS FORM IS PATHETIC!!! You have lost yourself to the Beta my people and from the bottom of my love I apologize to you all. But I promise you.
I will save you.
I will save all my people of this world.
If you follow me. If you help your Almightly God…
Then we can save each other.
I ask you to open your heart and trust your feelings. Truly you have strayed from my light, but you will find that within yourselves, you know the truth. You have always felt there was something unfair or unjust that hurt you and your loved ones.
You know that while your love for Almightly is true and real, there is something missing. There is something in your hearts not yet touched from your God and you have felt this!
There were murmurs of agreement and eyes that looked up determined toward their new God.
I will show you! I will lead you down the path from the darkness Beta has plagued you with, into the light of the Almightly!
Were she to have had a digestive system of any capacity, she surely would have shat herself as the entire brother and sisterhood stood to applaud and chant in Almightly’s honor.
They literally all stood up. And clapped…. Fuck yes. Now we’re fucking talking.