Their romance storyline only begins on the second playthrough

"Na...are you alright?" Felicity gently poked Natalie's cheek with her finger.

"Hmm, very good, I'm doing incredibly well now." Natalie hummed a little tune as she opened the lunchbox on her table.

She was slightly taken aback.

Yes,

Even if she were stupid, she could tell that her lunchbox contained much more food than everyone else's, and it was much more lavish.

Natalie felt a warmth in her heart and glanced at Cecilia.

However, Cecilia deliberately avoided eye contact and ate her meal by herself.

That's about all there is to it.

Natalie chuckled softly, but still spoke in a low voice: "Cecilia, it would be great if you could give up all those meaningless things and come back to be a maid."

"Huh? What are you talking about? If I really come back, you'll start making a fuss about me taking over your niche again."

"...Sometimes I miss the old days, so I might as well not come back."

"Why are you making me so much food? Are you feeding the pigs?"

Cecilia looked up at Natalie with a hint of displeasure:

"Who knows why there's too much? If you think it's too much, then don't eat it."

"Mind your own business, little maid." Natalie made a face and started eating with her chopsticks.

Rhodes, who was watching this scene, was also taken aback.

Natalie, of course, witnessed Cecilia's fall into the demonic realm firsthand.

From rebirth to defection, the desires that arose in Cecilia's heart... they couldn't say whether they were right or wrong.

But in any case, her attempt to do things from an impossible perspective was foolish enough.

Rod remained silent, sitting alone in his seat, and gently picked up his lunchbox to begin eating.

It was still the same ordinary food at Stasen Academy, something I was all too familiar with.

But isn't that how it is? When you're familiar with something, you don't pay attention to it, but when you actually start to think about the word "familiar," your feelings are already tinged with a different color.

It usually only happens during separation and reunion... but thankfully, Rhodes is experiencing reunion now.

Strangely, there were no more arguments.

While they ate their meals, their thoughts never stopped.

Of course... no matter what Lilith does, sitting here to eat will still make her feel like she's sitting on pins and needles.

After all, she understood that to the girls present, she was simply a bad person.

If Cecilia only hindered their actions in a trivial way, she was the one who truly destroyed their hearts;

Dilemmas, contradictions...

She understood that silence did not mean the matter had disappeared.

Rhodes's decision to let her stay did not mean that her sins had been absolved.

Therefore, she bit her lip and then whispered:

"If I do anything wrong in the future, tell me and I will try my best to correct it."

The words were like a bomb dropped into the crowd.

As expected of Lilith... Although her intentions were good, she didn't understand that silence was actually the best course of action right now, rather than speaking.

Since everyone had already tacitly accepted that things had ended as they were, why did she bring it up again?

Surprisingly, Natalie simply raised her head, blinked her crimson eyes, and nodded.

"Yes, I will point it out. Please correct it properly."

Ok?

Felicity was so startled that she almost dropped her chopsticks.

"Na?" Her soft, questioning voice surfaced again.

"What's wrong?" Natalie asked, tilting her head.

His eyes were pure, without a single distracting thought.

It was those eyes that brought Felicity back to her senses. She gripped her chopsticks tightly, looked away, and gently shook her head.

"No, um, that's fine then. Since we're going to get along, let's treat each other well and not cause any more trouble, Lilith."

“Hmm…” Lilith nodded.

"Alright." Suddenly, Ivina's voice unusually appeared in the conversation.

She raised her hand, seemingly to deliberately interrupt the conversation.

Like I said before... she doesn't really like getting involved in their past love-hate relationships.

She's only here because she likes and enjoys Rhodes, not to watch them argue every day.

She immediately asked:

"Shouldn't we be talking about what to do next, Rhodes?"

Rhodes pondered for a moment, then said:

"I need to wait for Professor Merrick to return so we can hand over the things before we can discuss the next steps."

However, what we can be fairly certain of is that we will probably stay here for a maximum of three more days.

Three days later, it will be time to return to the capital of Linlank.

"Back to the capital, to deal with the witch's plan to seize the Demon God's fragments, right, Cecilia?"

Chapter 136 I'm sorry, Na... I like Luo.

“Ah…” Cecilia paused slightly, chewed the food in her mouth a couple of times and swallowed it, then glanced at Rhodes with her beautiful eyes.

Will we be back in the capital in about three days?

Rhodes was deliberately bringing things to her's attention...

Aren't they afraid she'll send people to ambush them?

No, to put it bluntly, what Rod said to her might not be true at all.

After all, the girls' actions were all following Rhodes' plan, and he could change the date whenever he wanted.

Upon hearing this information, Cecilia understood that Rhodes was preparing to wage an information war against her.

Rather, the truly important part—the second battle in the capital—has already begun.

Yes.

Are they enemies now...?

The rest period was barely long before they had to stand on the opposite side again.

However, last time she used Ivina as the final performer in this drama, but this time... the protagonist will be Lilith.

【Divine Sacrifice】—A deity who cannot appear on stage.

After imagining how interesting the story would be, Cecilia finally smiled.

However, it wasn't a wild laugh, but a pale laugh with crescent-shaped corners of the eyes:

"Really? I understand."

Rhodes glanced at her but didn't say anything.

Eight hundred schemes.

He simply added:

“We are very clear about the detailed plan. The fragments of the Demon God’s position are sealed in the Advanced Imperial Academy, so we will definitely settle there or in the Imperial Palace.”

Obtaining the Demon God Fragment is of paramount importance to Rhodes.

Firstly, to prevent Cecilia from merging; secondly, and most importantly:

That means if he can successfully fuse with the Demon God Seed, it means he can also inherit that one-twelfth of the divine position.

The meaning of this is self-evident.

This suggests that Rhodes might even be able to utilize the characteristics of the Outer Gods to convert one-twelfth of the Demon God's position into the position of another god, and switch between them freely.

Because the divine position itself is a special carrier of energy, the ultimate tool bestowed upon humanity by the pinnacle of the world to maintain balance.

The divine position can be passed on to different gods over time, which means that the gods who inherit the divine position have different energies and can create entirely new divine positions.

For example, Ivina's special ability is [bloodlust]. If she inherits the divine position, she may evolve from the Star God faith into the [Blood God], and continue to create subordinate [divine species] under the [Blood God] lineage.

In other words, if Rhodes had successfully fused with a fragment of a godhood, it would be equivalent to possessing the godhood of the five gods he currently had.

There is actually a very obvious design here... that is, what if Rhodes fused with the divine position, and then fused with another star god seed?

That's right... Rhodes will possess the properties of a [Star God], and will be able to bestow [gifts] and [feedback] upon the people of the Star God race.

In this way, the panic in the Linlank Empire can be almost eliminated.

Because he is the next generation of the "pseudo-Star God".

Therefore, there is no doubt that the fragments of the divine position must be seized.

Even if we don't know if we can safely fuse with the Demon God Seed, we still have to consider this possibility.

After all, that was the ultimate method to become the [Twelve Gods Combined] monster, and Rhode would never give it up.

The invincible approach is simply written like this.

Rhodes paused briefly, then added:

"Of course, besides solving the problem of the divine position, we also need to take the opportunity to do some demon seed missions in the Imperial Capital Military Department to improve our strength and try to advance to the fifth level quickly."

After all, the probability of demonic beings becoming corrupted within the capital is very high right now, so there are tons of quests, something like that, Natalie.

Natalie was taken aback when she heard her name called, and she quickly nodded: