I'm in a mess, starting with a meteor shower!

“Alicie..…”

Ryu tried to stop Aristia from making a fuss, but Fujimaru Ritsuka was faster. She reached out and pulled Ryu into her arms, so that she had Aristia on her right and Ryu on her left.

"Indeed, the pure spirits are quite good too. Thank you for helping me gather both the pure goddess and the pure spirits. Senior Alexei, in terms of taste, I would call you the strongest!"

Ryu, who was being embraced, was completely stunned. Then her face turned bright red, and she was dazed as Fujimaru Ritsuka hugged her, not knowing how to react at all.

Alexie was dumbfounded as she watched Ryu being dragged away.

"It's one thing that I can't even touch Lady Astrea, but you even want to take Ryu away from me! You've gone too far!"

“Alice, just like I told you last time.”

Fujimaru Ritsuka maintained her posture of embracing both of them, looking at Alicia with a smug expression.

"I am the leader... no, I am the strongest in the modern era! Only the strong deserve to possess beauties!"

That bastard Alexie dares to steal my harem! It's outrageous! These two are the women I've set my sights on!

"No! I want one too!"

Alexie lunged at Ryu again and tried to pull her out of Fujimaru Ritsuka's arms, but Fujimaru Ritsuka's embrace was so tight that Alexie couldn't pull her away at all.

As Liu was held tightly, her temperature rose higher and higher, and her whole body turned red.

Astrea watched the three bickering and shook her head with a smile, then reached out and tapped Fujimaru Ritsuka on the head.

"Alright, stop teasing Alexie. We should discuss something important."

"Important matters?"

The group of children who were playing around all stopped and looked at Astrea.

"It concerns Ishtar."

Astrea's voice fell silent.

"Because Ritsuka directly exposed Ishtar's connection with the Thanatos Familia in the game arena, Ishtar was judged to have lost the war game and was also accused of colluding with the Dark Faction."

"In Orario, the punishment for allying with the Dark Faction is very severe."

I do know about Fujimaru Ritsuka.

"So you're sending them back to the Heavenly Realm?"

"Yes, all the chief gods of the Dark Factions were sent back to the Celestial Realm after their followers were wiped out, and were forbidden from descending to the mortal realm again. Although Ishtar had always been on the front lines, this time Ishtar cooperated with Thanatos, which is equivalent to joining the Dark Faction. According to the rules, she would be sent back to the Celestial Realm after the game ended, but now she has escaped."

"Perhaps he was unwilling to accept it, which is why he ran away."

“But Ganesha told me that the military police did not find Ishtar at any of the city gates.”

Fujimaru Ritsuka understood Astrea's meaning.

"So, she's still hiding in Orario, right?"

As for where it's hidden in Orario, Fujimaru Ritsuka has already guessed it.

Knossos, also known as the Road of Daedalus, is an underground city built by Daedalus, the greatest engineer of antiquity. However, he did not finish its construction when he died, and because of his insistence, his descendants suffered a curse, carrying the curse of building the labyrinth for generations.

Orario's Dark Faction Valves are mostly hiding there now.

If Ishtar didn't leave the city, that was the only place he could hide, since there was nowhere else for that 2-meter-tall humanoid toad to hide.

Yes, the humanoid toad Frini is also gone. As the highest-ranking member of the Ishtar Familia, Ishtar needs her to operate.

Two other people were also missing.

One is Aisha, the vice-captain of the Ishtar Familia, and the other is Haruhime, a fox-person girl whom Fujimaru Ritsuka had been eyeing for a while.