"You..."
"Metatron, what's the difference between you and the previous you?"
Kiana interrupted Metatron, who seemed to want to pursue the matter, and asked slowly.
Metatron raised her beautiful eyes, tapping her cheek with a thoughtful expression, but soon felt it was too much trouble and stopped thinking, saying casually:
"Who knows? Thinking and speaking are too tiring. Let me rest for a bit first..."
As she spoke, a holy and pure throne appeared behind Metatron. She fell back onto it directly, a comfortable expression on her face.
Then, under everyone's strange gazes, she pulled out a blanket from nowhere and covered herself with it.
"Goodnight... zZZ"
Even breathing sounds began to rise. She was even too lazy to counterattack Kiritsugu, who had just tried to ambush her.
This move left everyone speechless, especially Kiana, who walked up to the throne.
Didn't you want me to be your body pillow?
Fine~ This Young Miss is coming for you~
Kiana wore a dark smile as she directly lifted the throne and returned to the room Irisviel had prepared for her.
Metatron felt the throne vibrating and opened her eyes. Her eyes widened in surprise when she saw Kiana carrying the throne.
"Where's the throne's protection mechanism...? What about its defensive clearance...? Why didn't any of them trigger?"
Metatron was dazed, her small hands clutching the blanket. With the sleepy tears in the corners of her eyes, she looked quite pitiful.
The reason she dared to be so relaxed in front of everyone was entirely because the clearance of this throne itself was enough to give her peace of mind.
But now it seemed the throne had been affected by her Sin of Sloth clearance and had gone on strike along with her!?
"Um... can we make peace...?"
Sitting on the throne in a duck-sit position, Metatron propped her hands on her fair knees. Her clothes slipped slightly off her shoulder, revealing a glimpse of her fragrant skin as she chuckled.
She admitted her voice had been a bit loud when she demanded the other party be her body pillow. Could she just be allowed to be a Salted Fish in peace now...?
As for beating this white-haired girl up?
That would be way too tiring!
"What do you think~?"
Kiana's tone was soft, but her eyes looked somewhat gloomy under the light, and a slight curve hooked the corner of her mouth.
"Ah... do whatever you want then..."
Hearing this, Metatron simply gave up, put on an eye mask, and began to sleep soundly.
Anyway, this was also a woman. The other party could do whatever she wanted; it wasn't like she could actually 'do' her, right?
In any case, Metatron didn't believe it.
Tohsaka Rin flew over from behind, curiously wanting to touch the throne, but in the next second, a beam of holy light grazed her scalp as a warning.
"My hair!"
Tohsaka Rin clutched a few strands of scorched hair and cried out.
"As I thought, this is the defense mechanism the throne should have..."
Metatron lifted one finger below her eye mask, revealing one eye to look at Tohsaka Rin.
Why Kiana didn't trigger it was unknown. She wasn't that omniscient and omnipotent Metatron~
She was just the separated Sin of Sloth~
Soon the three of them arrived in the room. Kiana locked the door and casually set up a barrier.
Metatron, sensing all this, began to panic a little. Based on her understanding of 'Galamu,' wouldn't the next step be...
Thump, thump—
Kiana leaned against the throne, one hand on her hip as she knocked on it twice. Then she asked the slothful angel who was faking sleep:
"Hey, stop faking sleep. Tell me what your relationship is with that state full of divinity. Maybe I have a way to help you become an independent entity?"
"It's such a pain... I'm just one of the Seven Deadly Sins separated by Metatron to experience life, the manifestation of the Sloth clearance..."
Metatron waved her hand weakly. She thought that if she didn't answer honestly, she might be harassed constantly, so she might as well tell her.
Anyway, even if she knew this, what threat could she pose to that omniscient and omnipotent version of herself?
The answer was: To~tally impossible.
Of course, what Metatron didn't know was that because of Kiana's body and saint graph, plus being just a split consciousness, her own power couldn't be fully exerted.
Once her main body descended, we'd see if this Metatron and this world would panic or not.
"No wonder you look so lazy. So that's how it is."
Tohsaka Rin looked at the hair in her hand with some heartache and then pouted her small mouth.
If this were in the past and someone burned her hair, she would have definitely brought down the divine punishment of the Goddess of Venus.
But now, influenced by the young Tohsaka Rin, she was different from the purely divine Ishtar.
Although her mindset had been rejuvenated, she still had basic judgment. She really couldn't beat this Metatron.
Though due to her divinity, she was hard to kill, being beaten up would still hurt.
Even if she and that annoying white-haired girl teamed up, they probably wouldn't be enough for the other party to handle.
If Kiana read Tohsaka Rin's thoughts, she would definitely sneer and give her a look to understand for herself.
"So that's it. No wonder you suddenly became so cute. Once the Holy Grail War is over, we'll take down that fellow who wants to judge all of humanity and then make you independent."
"Huh~? How could you possibly do that? Even tying all the Masters and Servants of the Holy Grail War together wouldn't be enough to fight her~ Including that Grand Caster too."
Metatron seemed to have heard a funny joke, looking at Kiana with eyes like she was looking at an idiot.
It seemed this white-haired girl completely failed to understand the weight of a 'Little God.'
But Metatron was too lazy to explain further and continued to curl up on the throne in her 'Salted Fish' state.
Watching the two fair, beautiful legs dangling over the throne's armrest and swaying constantly, Kiana's eyes flickered, and then she said to Tohsaka Rin:
"Little Rin, go out and play with that group from Chaldea for a while. I have some business to do with this slothful angel."
"???"
Seeing that Tohsaka Rin didn't understand, Kiana directly grabbed her by the scruff of the neck, opened the door, threw her out, then instantly closed and relocked it.
"How dare you treat this Goddess like this! I will definitely curse you! Just you wait!"
Coming to her senses after being thrown out, Tohsaka Rin stomped her small, fair feet on the floor in anger, looking like a kitten with its fur standing on end.
After venting for a bit, Tohsaka Rin's eyes shifted as she thought: if she couldn't bully these two, then those three from Chaldea...
Wait, isn't that Master an easy target? It should be fine to bully her a little bit, right?
Thinking this, Tohsaka Rin's mood improved significantly, and she flew back with a mischievous grin.
...
In the castle's open-air courtyard, the three from Chaldea and the Saber group fell into deep thought as they watched the direction Kiana had left in.
The entire environment was permeated with a heavy atmosphere.
Fujimaru Ritsuka and Mash looked at each other, seeing worry in each other's eyes.
But they couldn't stay downcast forever. Thus, Fujimaru Ritsuka, who had grown after the baptism of several singularities, had a determined look in her eyes and decided to break this heavy silence.
"Everyone, perhaps things haven't reached an unsolvable point. We can still summon powerful helpers through Chaldea's Spiritron System. In the meantime, we can inform all the Masters of the Holy Grail War about this. If everyone unites, there might be a turning point."
Fujimaru Ritsuka's eyes flickered, her brow furrowed, and she said with a look of determination:
"We at Chaldea will go and persuade the other Masters and Servants to resist Metatron together."
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