"So, how do I look? Pretty cool huh?", Anya showed off.

"Just how many things did you tell Niki to give us?", Dante asked.

"I just kept tagging her on Semori! the deeper we got into this. The outfit I'm wearing now wasn't in the list, until I...you know...experienced some 'growth'. And besides, these are all pretty much mandatory needs. These phones are coming in with multiple gadgets, including hologram calls and both a private messaging network and an extremely powerful GPS and tracking system!", Anya flexed her phone.

"I can see that...I can talk to Lilith, even though she's in the forest! The signal capabilities are amazing!", Yuno kept texting.

"Of course they are...I personally ordered an exclusive satellite and communications department to be set just for us to use!"

"That's very good Anya but...don't you think you're going a bit overboard with the spending?", Dante worryingly said.

"Pfft, haha!", Anya laughed. "Imagine telling the daughter of the guy who basically owns the worlds capital that there's a spending limit! I've long set up my own empire next to dad's big guy. It just took a little bit of 'possession manipulating' that I thankfully had as a head start. I rightfully own every penny spend and I can't even spend it before making ten more!"

"Is she flexing on us right now or what?", Yuno said.

"No, I'm just further elaborating on my achievements. Something you probably never had.", Anya bagged Yuno

"I'm currently on a diplomatic mission to save the world. How's that for an achievement?", Yuno answered back.

"Wondering how you ended up here in the first place..."

"Hey, if this guy dies, I die too.", Yuno pointed at Dante. "And besides third parties from multiple areas are nice for negotiating."

"Exactly, but you feel more like a fourth or fifth party.", Anya nagged Yuno some more.

"Said the daughter of the richest guy in the world. You're a first party if anything, so I doubt we have a non biased party going with you."

"Who paid for the phone you're texting your girlfriend with again? I should probably also send her about your perverted escapees...", Anya smugged.

"She is not my girlfriend!", Yuno blushed. "And if you ever text Lilith a single thing, I swear!"

"Will you two cut it already?!", Dante presented them the door. "Just shut up and come in...Risa should be in here apparently...according to Terna's post anyway. And where is she, a kids bedroom?"

Not before long after crossing the door, everyone met up with an arm folded Tiki and a smiling Hikari.

"Hey Senpai. Did you recover?"

"Uh...yeah. Something wrong?"

"No I'm just a little...exhausted.", Hikari sighed.

"And what about you? Wait...is that a-", Dante looked at Tiki.

"What? This? I've had worse.", Tiki shrug off her broken arm.

"I need someone to tell me exactly what went down...and what exactly is this place?", Dante looked around.

"It's the Falana Orphanage. Rather...what remains of it.", Hikari said.

"You know this place?", Yuno looked at the top floor.

"I do. Well, I did once. It's been a really, really long time since I've come across it.", Hikari said.

"Well, in that case, since we're all back together, shall we get going? Gardard shouldn't be that far away anyway.", Dante said.

"Actually big guy...can we prolong it for the day? After everything that happened, for me at least, I'd like some time to recover. I don't like watching from the sidelines while everyone kicks ass in front of me." Tiki swiftly said.

"This time, I guess we should, Lass. It's way too dangerous to move forward with such injuries...", Yuno said.

Dante sighed. "Look, I know we should, but I doubt a broken arm can be healed overnight. Shouldn't we go to Gardard for actual, professional treatment?"

"I can't be healed instantly, but I can heal rapidly. By tomorrow I should be able to do basic movements with it, maybe fight if I stretch it. However, I should expect some lingering aftermath, it was broken real good out there...", Tiki said.

"By who, may I ask?", Dante said.

Before anyone could say a word, Luna started coming down the stairs towards them.

"I have finished my maintenance."

"By her.", Tiki pointed at Luna with her thumb. "But we made up for it, so it's kind of cool."

"I can further treat your injuries tonight, if needed. My proficiency is not high, but it should suffice for such a basic injury.", Luna looked at Tiki's arm.

"I'll take you up on that. Not before we settle for the night, however."

"Who are you, by the way?", Yuno asked.

"Luna Falana. I have heard most of everything about you from...Ikarisa-chan here, so further introductions are redundant. Do note that upstairs lyes my little sister Lina with your idol friend Terna. I have called them down to attend the meeting however.", Luna looked up at Lina's room.

"Is she...alright, by chance?", Anya asked.

"Hmm? The idol?"

"Yeah."

"I heard a subtle humming and singing from my sister's bedroom. I would most likely correlate that to a healthy mental state.", Luna reassured Tiki.

"Not all singing is joyful, Luna. Sorry, she's always had a little bit of an issue understanding others...", Hikari said.

"You don't say. You sound somewhat like...a machine? Like an AI of sorts?", Yuno looked at Luna.

"I have been partially augmented. My main functionalities were only enchanted without removing aspects of living integrity."

Hikari's eyes lit up with a scared look, as she gazed back at Luna...

"W-Wait...don't tell me...", Hikari thought.

"I...don't think the second part is that accurate...", Dante scratched his head. "Risa-chan, you definitely have some weird friends in the back scenes, despite them being few. But honestly, she's kinda interesting."

Hikari snapped out of it. "I-I uh. Yeah...I do."

"So we're settled for an overnight stay then?", Yuno asked.

"Most likely, yes. No way I can force a rush on us anymore, we've done this how many times now?", Dante asked.

"More than what would be acceptable under normal standards.", Anya said.

"Which one in this group looks normal to you? A demon with a broken arm, a Wolven kemonomimi turned into a furry, some sort of ex-pervert floating dragon thing, a normie meatbag and an 'almighty, world creating goddess'. Chances are, your digital assistant 'Sairi' here will most likely come along with us, listening via voice commands whenever we call her name.", Tiki said with a straight face.

"Uh...she has a point.", Yuno said.

"We know.", everyone said back to Yuno and Tiki.

"Fine, I get it. I'll try to clear some of the ruins over here. Probably can find a room or two that are in decent shape for a one night hosting.", Dante said.

"As far as everything goes, I've got us covered. Compared to the little to no preparations we had earlier, this time I've got everything under the sun plugged into that car. Snacks for tonight and additional guns, some bombs, first aid etc.", Anya said. "I'm gonna go fetch it."

"Wait, that thing has bombs in it?!", Tiki yelled.

"Yeah, but it's not rigged with it."

"Ok so, what happens if those bombs in the car are met with a strong collision?", Tiki angrily said.

Anya looked at Tiki with a gloomy face. "I'll be right back!", she started running across the hallway.

"Wait, furry! Do you even know how to defuse that?!", Tiki yelled.

"I'll look it up on Omni! See y'all in a bit!", Anya kept running.

"She said what about what now?", Dante worryingly said.

"I'm sure she will be fine...hopefully.", Yuno said.

"You know, last time I went along with her, I came back bleeding red. I'm not even gonna try this time...", Dante said with a straight face.

"Uh...I don't really wanna...you know. Willingly walk into a bunch of bombs...", Yuno said.

"Tiki.", Dante looked at Tiki.

"What? Oh, hell no! Just today I realized that furry plus car equals for some nasty shit.", Tiki looked at her arm. "Oh yeah...you're also asking a cripple to go disable bombs. Asshole."

"I could try to eliminate all high explosives by removing them to a safe distance.", Luna suggested.

"Are you serious...", Dante facepalmed. "Risa-chan already had it rough anyway and there's no way in hell we're taking on that much of an aggressive strategy. Come on guys...maybe Terna knows how to defuse bombs?"

"Are you deadass?", Tiki tried to fold her arms.

"Oh for the love of...", Dante started dragging himself towards Anya. "I know what's gonna happen. I know it very well..."

Dante slowly and disappointingly made his way towards Anya, having the thought of being exploded at the back of his head.

"Alright, that's one down...", Tiki whispered. "Yo, pervert.", she looked at Yuno.

"You know, it was just favorable scenario's, right? I mean, who wouldn't daydream when scenario's like that showed up?", Yuno corrected Tiki.

"Bet."

"I'm serious! God..."

"Ok, whatever, listen here. Since your goody two shoes knights friend is out defusing bombs, how about you help move this pile o' rocks out of the way?"

"Why don't you do it?!", Yuno yelled.

"Crippled.", Tiki showed her arm.

"Seriously? I saw you lifting an entire group of enemies with one hand!"

"I did it with my left one.", Tiki began to look up her phone.

"You're right handed! All your swings with your axe are done with your right hand!"

"'And you won't even believe that he tried to take advantage of the situation when Anya slept on him to touch her-'", Tiki typed with one hand.

"Wait-what are you doing?", Yuno tried to look at Tiki's phone.

"Nothing, just using my right hand to type down a long message to Lilith who I found on your followers list~", Tiki smugged.

"What the hell?! Give it back!", Yuno tried to get the phone back.

Tiki put her phone away and grabbed Yuno. "Nah-ah. Work first, then I'll delete the message."

"Do they usually...fight like this?", Luna whispered to Hikari.

Hikari sighed and folded her arms, looking at bot Yuno and Tiki with an exhausted expression. "You'll...get used to it. Honestly, I can see where Tiki is going wit this, but her plan is, again, messing with others..."

"Fine, fine! God...just...don't send that message. Please...", Yuno said.

"Fine by me, so long you keep your part. Mister 'guardian'", Tiki chuckled.

Muffling a lot of words that I will not go into detail about, Yuno faced the giant line of massive boulders on the left hall and began taking them down one by one, carefully, as to retain the stability of the building while also releasing the entrances to other rooms.

"And thats that...now, where were we? Ah yeah. Time to start spitting truths.", Tiki looked at Hikari.

Hikari nodded. "I saw through what you tried to do already...can you...meet me up at the main office? And if possible, can you fetch Anya as well?"

"I will go ahead and get her.", Luna said.

"Alright, so I guess Tiki and I will be waiting.", Hikari started going up the stairs.

As Luna went outside to the flower field to grab Anya's attention, Tiki followed Ikarisa up the stairs into another main hall. Meanwhile outside...

Anya stood above Dante. "So uh...I think for the IDS model it's the...blue?", she looked inside Omni.

"Yep, that's right master!", Omni happily said.

"You sure for blue?", Dante sat down, trying to disarm the bomb.

"According to Omni, yes.", Anya kept looking.

"Exactly master! Though there's never been anyone disarmed it, it's right in the manual!", Omni happily said.

"Wait, no one has ever done this before?", Dante asked.

"Nope! But do not be alarmed! Your chances of success are 90%!"

"Wait, what?!", Dante yelled.

"Yeap! Seeing as no one experimented on diffusing this model before, there's some chance that an error of a living being can cause it a failed disarmament!", Omni kept happily saying.

"What?!", Dante and Anya yelled.

Without realizing it, Dante's hand moved a little on its own and accidentally put more force onto the wire clippers, cutting the blue cord in half. The bomb began an ominous flashing sequence.

"Damn it! I don't like this, not one bit!", Dante held on to the bomb.

"That's the detonation sequence, the instructions were indeed, mistaken! You're quite lucky to hit the unlucky 10% master!"

"Eh-ah, what do we do?!", Anya looked at the bomb in despair.

The bombs flashing sequence started to become faster and faster as the two were stunned out of fear, gazing at the lights.

Dante snapped out of it. "Mutt, your saw!"

"Ah, yeah?!", Anya took out her saw sword.

Dante moved away from Anya. "Turn it on its flat side!", he stopped and took a pitching stance.

"Got it!"

"Take it!", Dante pitched the bomb at Anya.

"Heya!"

Anya hit the bomb with both her massive sword and her massive strength, she send the bomb flying upwards, extremely high up in the air, before a giant explosion covered the night sky and a loud bang was heard over the horizon...

"Look at the size of that explosion!", Dante stared in fear.

"Yeah, I know, cool isn't it?", Anya smugged.

"Cool?! If it wasn't for quick thinking, we'd be dead! What the hell was in that thing?!"

"It's a pure Obsulyte bomb, semi-illegal produced series of experimental weapons revolving around Obsulyte! Series includes, bombs, guns, swords and even machinery which is not naturally usable by non Obsulyte users!", Omni said.

"Obsulyte infused bombs?! What the hell mutt! What, you'll step it up next and give us dark matter bombs?!", Dante yelled.

"I was considering it, but I couldn't get the papers done in time...", Anya scratched her head.

"You're literally insane, there's no other way to put it..."

"Hey, you guys said you're going up against gods! What's wrong with a little bit of nuking if that's the target?"

"You know, master has a point.", Omni said.

"Oh, piss off with you. Actually good for nothing book that got us nearly killed!"

"Excuse the error inside me, but I only ever record whatever has been written or typed down in Riza! Unfortunate errors like that were done by living beings who are vulnerable to said errors."

"You guys both need to go burn...", Dante exhaled heavily.

Just then, Luna approached them both, facing them and the explosion with a straight face.

"Hmm. Luck was on our side when they didn't detonate when I suffered a hit.", Luna said.

"Hit? Hit by what?", Dante asked.

"The car.", Luna pointed at the car.

"Are you serious? Is that why there's faint blood stains in the hood of the car?!", Lass yelled.

"Yes.", Luna answered.

"Ehe...about that. I guess it's a bit late for...you know. Hitting you with a car full of explosives.", Anya lowered her ears.

"Apologies excepted. Though I also take shelter in the knowledge that had I been engulfed by a bomb blast at that moment, you'd have suffered an equal fate."

"In the span of what was a few hours, Risa found an old abandoned orphanage, we bought a giant mall, Tiki broke her arm and you hit someone with a car while, I presume, you were drunk?", Dante looked at Anya.

"I was not drunk! I too have my limits, y'know.", Anya folded her arms.

"I'm damn near done for the day. I don't think I can physically, or mentally, take much more...".

Anya dragged the rest of the bombs out of the car. "Well, we still have a lot more defusing to do. Let's move a little bit away so that the car isn't in the blast radius. Even though besides that big one, all others should be fairly mild...", Anya softly gave Dante the bag of bombs.

"I'd recommend that master Dante continues the defusing while you attend to Hi-Ikarisa-sama's calling. She has requested your audience.", Luna said.

"Master what now.", Anya giggled.

"Master Dante. For Ikarisa to refer to anyone as her 'Darling', I can only begin to fathom what incredible abilities they may possess. Such the origin of the title. I do hope you are not disturbed by it.", Luna bowed to Dante.

"I mean...I'm not. But it's just a little...weird?", Dante said.

"I could simply call you 'master' if you wish.", Luna suggested.

"Eh...honestly, you can do whatever floats your boat.", Dante looked at the bombs.

"Well, in any case. Risa called for me, no? Might as well go and see what she has to say...hopefully not the usual.", Anya lowered her ears and tail.

"If I tell her one bit about the bombs you 'wanted us to use against the gods', you bet your ass she will scold you harder than usual, mutt.", Dante looked at Anya.

"It was in good faith...", Anya sighed. "Anyway, let's go. If it's what I think it is then I might as well get it over with. I'll be back in a few, big guy. Do some progress until I get back and I'll catch up. Oh and move away from the car in case of an...accident.", Anya walked away with Luna.

"What, so you're leaving me behind with a bag full of bombs?!", Dante yelled.

"You have a magical, all knowing book by your side. You'll defuse them just fine.", Anya said

"That 'magical, all knowing book' made one of them explode just now!", Dante looked at Omni. "Hey, are you listening?!"

"They are too far to hear you properly now, especially when you have your voice to a lowered tone than what's needed for in an open field.", Omni said.

"Shut it. Just...show me other manuals of the bombs here."

"Right away, user!", Omni flipped through its pages.

"What, I'm a user now?"

"Well, you're not my master, so that makes you a user."

Dante stared at Omni. "Yeah, you know what, screw this.", he took out his phone.

"Wait, what are you doing?"

"I'm using my own magical, all knowing book. It's called a smartphone and a mobile data plan. Thank god the mutt gave me both."

"I still doubt you will be able to find bomb defusing manuals anywhere online than police bomb squads databases or company restricted manuals for in door experimentation...", Omni said.

"Found it."

"What?! B-But how?!", Omni worryingly said.

"Apparently there's a QR code inside the bombs shell that directly links to a bomb defusing manual. Pretty cool, I guess the makers thought ahead.", Dante flipped through the manual on his phone.

"What the-who puts that inside a bomb shell?"

"People who are afraid rich kids might get their hands on them via copious amounts of legal paperwork and potential bribing."

"Master is nothing like that, user!"

"I never said she was, just the fact that she's rich is applicable to her. I doubt the legal part is into play."

"What?! Preposterous!"

"She literally got an entire arsenal of 'experimental' bombs and an illegal battlesuit for Tiki slotted in for us at a public mall. What law is that?"

"Corosta's Weapon Rights Law, page 56, column 7!"

"It literally doesn't exist on the map anymore.", Dante said with a straight face.

"It's laws are applicable as a nation, despite capital absence! Master knew this all along! She wrote it in her messages with both Niki and her massive lawyer team!"

"You know, I'm starting to see why she keeps you locked up most of the time.", Dante angrily said.

"Do you require my help, or not?", Omni said.

"Just shut up! I'll call you when I need you!", Dante pushed Omni aside.

Meanwhile, up the stairs, Tiki followed Hikari through the hallway. Ripped and burned wall paintings and paintings could be seen left and right. Unlike the main hallway at the floor bellow, there seemed to be no maintenance done to any of the objects in this floor. Trash, wrecks and rotten flowers were the only objects filling the long walk towards the door at the end of the hallway.

"Man...compared to what I saw with Terna downstairs, this is day and night. Do you know anything, shorty?"

"I-I...I wish I did. But my memories don't seem to be serving me at the moment."

"Huh, really? Those memories seem to be serving you whenever they wish, oddly enough."

"What do you mean?", Hikari looked at Tiki.

"You want me to spell it out? Fine. As far as what I've heard from others and what I've seen and heard myself...you're full of shit."

"H-Huh?"

"Oh come on, cut it out with the conflicting personality. The girl I was told you were, compared to what I've seen is like these hallways. Day and night. Your fighting abilities could rival me, your powers have long established themselves to do way more than healing and you yourself seem to be constantly looking over your shoulder. If I'm to follow you, or anybody else over here, I'd at least appreciate knowing the very basics."

"Everyone has their burden to bare, right Tiki? I...I understand your frustration about it all...if you want to believe me, I myself am frustrated for not realizing it earlier."

"Realizing it? You mean to tell me that you did it all by accident?"

"I assure you, I'll explain most of everything...just, let the others come in as well first, okay?"

"Hmph. Fine. We're here anyway..."

Hikari pushed the door as it creaked open. Inside was a disorganized, dirty office. Loads of paperwork was tossed left and right, with a single, pristine looking wooden desk being lit in by the large window in the middle of it all. On the floor, a large, red carpet was laid all over, and a big stain seemed to have merged with it over the years. The silver moonlight lit before them the wooden chair behind the desk, as it reflected off the royal red of the chair's cushion. Hikari could not put a finger on it, but she herself was sure. Despite her movements suggesting cluelessness, she herself was well aware that it all looked familiar...

"So this is...", Hikari approached the window. "This view..."

"All this paperwork...I mean, it's an orphanage, but does it really have this much to manage?", Tiki grabbed a few papers off the ground. "Ripped, soaked, I can make nothing out of them.", she tossed them back down.

Gazing on Hikari for a second, Tiki could very well see a flash of light coming from her face, as the moonlight reflected off a single point in her face's surface.

"Hey shorty...are you...", Tiki approached Hikari.

Hikari snapped out of the view. "H-Huh?"

Looking at her image in the big window, she could see not who she thought herself to be and a pair of tears rolling down her face.

"I-I...I'm sorry. I didn't mean to worry you, really. Sorry...", Hikari wiped the tears off her face.

"Whatever, forget about it.", Tiki stuttered as she pulled back. "Let's just wait for the other's."

Those words said, almost immediately after, the creaking door opened again, with Luna and Anya coming forth.

"Speak of the devil.", Tiki said.

"Yo Risa, you called? Luna said you wanted to tell me something.", Anya stood besides Tiki.

"Yes, I did." Hikari said.

"I suppose for such an audience, the information shared must be confidential based on previously acquired intel?", Luna said.

"Jeez, pipe down 'Sairi'. We get it you're a mechanical smartass that kicks ass, but come on.", Tiki folded her arms. "Hmm. Eh?!"

As if no pain was felt, Tiki strongly press both her arms together as she folded them...

"What the hell? Shorty did you-", Anya cut Tiki.

"Oh, so that's how the suit works...interesting even Obsulyte incompatible people can use this? Sweet!"

"What?! That's why I had such strength?! "

"Well, yeah, hence why this was decommissioned, on paper. Old blueprints tend to explore more...powerful aspects than what the world wishes to see today. But even then, I was sure it would serve you, specifically, fine!"

"You have no idea what you just did! There's a reason why demons shouldn't be infused with Obsulyte."

A swift smack on the head from Luna, both Tiki and Anya stumbled forwards, as she cut their bickering at once.

"We can frolic with other such matters later. The gravity and importance of the situation requires more attention to it, rather than this."

Tiki scratched her head. "Fine! We got sidetracked, though I'm still dragging your ass down after this!", Tiki folded her arms again. "So, shorty, spit it out."

Hikari prepared herself. "Whew...alright. I guess I should re-introduce myself then. I am not Ikarisa. My name is Hikari. Hikari Ayano. And I...I'm not the creator of Riza."

A huge shock came over everyone besides Hikari in the room, all stunned in the moonlit goddesses presence...