Chapter 286: The Twelve-Parted Agulora

Loki had already made up her mind. If the worlds were going to merge, she would convert her familia into gourmet hunters. Perhaps she could even recruit more followers from that world.

Because of this plan, Loki came over directly. She brought Hestia along as well. After all, no matter what, Hestia was a hearth goddess. If she came to this world, she'd surely be welcomed by all the chefs. So, albeit reluctantly, she partnered with Loki.

Her familia would go out hunting for ingredients, while Hestia would recruit chefs into her own ranks. A powerful alliance to grow even stronger and greater.

This was a major world after all—connected to so many others. If they could expand here, just how powerful could their familia become?

It was with that vision that Loki sought development in Takumi's world. And truthfully, there were many familia with the same idea, especially after the rules of the merged world began to change.

The others simply couldn't develop any further. So they were all preparing to move to a new world.

Loki didn't hide the situation from Takumi. She had mentioned it plainly before, and it likely wouldn't be long before other familia began arriving too.

By being the first to arrive, she would naturally get a head start.

In fact, many who discovered the portal had already rushed over—including Kazuma.

Takumi's world was so modernized; of course, Kazuma wanted to return. He had no interest in staying in that old-fashioned fused world. Even though it was safe now, he just didn't like it. Too outdated.

He preferred modern technology.

Even a certain slime thought the same.

But Takumi didn't pay much attention to any of that. If they wanted to come to his world, let them. The more his world developed, the more he benefited.

At that moment, Takumi had already returned home.

Seeing Takumi bring back Jibril, Miori Shiba was instantly confused.

"Eh? Why did she turn into Little Jibril?"

"Did she fight with Schwi?"

Miori Shiba was stunned. Takumi had brought back both Little Jibril and Schwi. Seeing them together, she assumed they must've fought, which caused Jibril to become like this.

"No, not at all. She wanted to convert all her energy into Honkai energy, so she blasted a Divine Strike... and well, you can guess the rest."

Hearing that, Miori Shiba was speechless.

"Good grief! That's Little Jibril for you."

She stepped forward and scooped up Little Jibril in her arms.

Little Jibril was immediately upset.

"What are you doing? Let me go!!"

Jibril was furious. What the heck was this woman doing, just picking her up like that? Was she looking to die?

"Be good!"

Miori Shiba smiled brilliantly. Right now, Little Jibril was just a powerless loli. She could be squeezed and hugged however one wanted.

With that thought, she happily carried Little Jibril back inside, not forgetting Schwi either. She brought them both into the house.

Takumi's home was now incredibly lively.

Twelve lolis, plus Lilia and Esdeath were all present.

These lolis had become quite familiar with the place. It was entirely their home now.

Some of them had even gotten into magical girl shows?

As Takumi entered the main hall, he saw several of them reciting lines they had picked up from who-knows-where.

The moment he returned, Takumi was greeted by a bunch of chunibyo kids.

No wait—not chunibyo. After all, they could actually pull it off.

If you can do what you say, that's not chunibyo—that's badass.

"Thou hath returned?"

Agulora was lounging on the sofa eating ice cream.

She was the first to notice Takumi's return. Her eyes lit up the moment she saw him.

The other lolis turned their attention as soon as she spoke.

All of them stood up in unison.

Seeing this group of girls, Takumi couldn't help but smile. His mood was great.

"You're all here. How have you been lately? Getting used to this place?"

Takumi sat beside Agulora.

She nodded cheerfully in response.

"This place is heaven! I'm really happy here."

She answered excitedly. In this place, she didn't have to do anything. Whatever she wanted to eat, she only needed to say it.

She was absolutely thrilled.

"Yeah, yeah! And there's so much fun stuff!"

"Mmm... I want to go to school. Is that okay?"

"Me too! I want to learn magic."

"I want to become a magical girl."

"Me too, me too!!"

At Takumi's question, the girls all started chattering.

They all had dreams.

Perhaps the only one who didn't want to attend school was Agulora?

But honestly, these twelve girls might all be a little dumb.

They were originally a single entity, now split into twelve.

If that quintuplet anime could rate intelligence, then these girls were probably even worse.

"Alright. Just have Prometheus arrange it. It's no big deal. You can just ask."

Want to go to school? That was a piece of cake.

Once they got Takumi's confirmation, the lolis erupted in cheers.

"Yay!"

"Awesome, now we can become magical girls!"

"No more yay!!"

"Hmph, childish!!"

A group of lolis shouting noisily—it was chaos.

Takumi watched all this with a big grin.

With so many people in the house now, it felt much livelier.

"So what are you going to have me do?"

At that moment, Esdeath walked over, eyes fixed on Takumi.

What about her? What would she do next?

"You? You'll be building an army. That'll be your job."

"Before that, get familiar with how things work in my world."

"There might not be much fighting, but we can't go without an army."

Takumi turned to Esdeath and said seriously.

Having a sword and having nothing are two very different things.

If they could establish a force, then they should.

"Got it!"

Esdeath nodded without hesitation.

She didn't refuse. As long as she had a purpose, she'd fulfill it.

Without wasting any time, she picked up a terminal and began studying the data of this world.

Thanks to Takumi's order, Prometheus—omnipresent as always—granted her access to various permissions, letting her understand the world in detail.