Bastet offering to help was indeed beyond Mori Tsukisa's expectations.
Honestly, the girl understood in her heart that this black cat was similar to her in some ways: both would disregard most living beings. In their eyes, Mortals were no different from supernaturals who knew a bit of magic. Moreover, compared to her, a god was prouder and colder.
It was hard for the girl to imagine that this fellow, who had just regained its divine power and once looked down on all living things, would be so kind.
"Cough, it's not entirely without conditions..." The black cat tangled with its whiskers. "Well..."
"Oh, goodbye."
"Come back! You haven't even heard my request yet!!"
Bastet grabbed Mori Tsukisa as she jumped off her chair, her round eyes wide. "Give me some of your Spell Power! You heard what Anubis said, didn't you?"
"A Walker of All Realms' Spell Power more or less carries the power of the Multiverse. This would be of great benefit to me—just a little, a tiny bit..."
Bastet used two fingers to gesture a size from the top of its head to the floor... "Goodbye."
"Ah, hey, I can ask for a little less! Bargain, why don't you bargain!"
Mori Tsukisa turned around and made a gesture: her thumb pushing against the nail of her pinky.
"Just this tiny bit..." the girl said stingily. "This is all I can give you."
"I saw you use Spell Power to make chains for Nagini to play on a swing the other day... You're clearly wasting it!" the black cat screamed. "Would it kill you to give me some!"
Mori Tsukisa blinked. "I just heard someone telling me to beg them..."
"You heard wrong." Bastet pulled its head back, its ears flattening like wings. "I really need the power of the Multiverse... It will allow me to gain the most improvement during this period when the gods are slumbering."
"Cough, you also want me to advance soon so we can meet in other Worlds in the future, right?"
"I don't. Goodbye."
"Sen! Getsu! Sa!"
Pfft.
Nagini secretly covered her mouth, tugging at the black lace on her sleeve, and pushed the smirking Mori Tsukisa back. "Master, stop teasing."
"The land cards work very hard, constantly providing me with Spell Power every day, while I—I can't give them anything in return." The dejected girl lowered her head, her tone dropping. "And you want so much right away..."
"Do you know how sad the land cards would be? The energy they worked so hard to produce being given away by their Master to an unrelated god..."
"If I were them, I—"
"Spit it out, how much money?" Bastet narrowed her eyes and crossed her arms over her chest. "I still know a few more treasure locations."
"Can something as rare as Spell Power be measured by those shiny, beautiful, and charming little metals?!" The girl raised her head unwillingly, a flash of stubbornness in her eyes: "How can you use such vulgar things that only Mortals use—"
"There are many precious cat's eyes hidden there, and black opals that have almost vanished from the world."
"That won't do either!"
"There are also pink diamonds, emeralds, light jade, alexandrite, topaz..."
Names popped out of the cat's mouth one by one. Arrietty lay on Nagini's shoulder as if watching a play, looking at Mori Tsukisa, who was slowly breaking down. Until a certain precious chrysoberyl was mentioned, the girl finally sighed, stood on her tiptoes, and patted Bastet's shoulder.
The girl said with solemn awe: "Spell Power is something that will return after it's used up. But... helping a friend and letting our great friendship sublimate and become Eternity is the most important thing!"
"Tell me, is this much enough?" She drew a circle with her arms: "If it's not enough, there's that much more, okay?"
Greedy for money, crazy, big-chested and brainless, mentally challenged Child, standing paralytic, stupid girl, disliked by cats and ignored by dogs—instantly, in Bastet's vision, countless nicknames appeared above the head of this beautiful girl who was excitedly and sincerely selling her Spell Power.
She was reluctant just a moment ago, and now it's a Spell Power giveaway?
"This is called buying matches and getting a couple for free." Arrietty snickered: "It seems our warehouse is going to have another batch of expensive items."
Nagini excitedly and quietly calculated Mori Tsukisa's assets in her heart. As a woman who had wandered around since childhood, she naturally knew the importance of money. Perhaps she could learn some skills other than being a housekeeper to make her Master's assets grow more and more?
"Don't worry, no kind of business earns as much as one trip out for me." Arrietty said nonchalantly, holding a small sponge egg as a leisure pillow, as if she had seen through Nagini's thoughts: "Plundering is the fastest way to increase wealth."
"But we can't be like this forever." Nagini looked at the girl who was questioning Bastet, showing a spirit of being prepared for danger: "It seems the High Priest's joining is inevitable. In the future, the Master's Attendants will increase. You don't want the reputation of a 'Bandit Group' to spread to the ears of all the gods, do you?"
A Bandit Group... Arrietty thought about it.
One day—
Imhotep excitedly pushed the door open, with a circle of ammunition pouches hanging on him, a rifle on his back, and two combat knives at his waist. Green tactical camouflage was smeared on his face, and he wore a beret on his head: 'Report! Treasure ruins discovered!'
'Rob it back.'
'Rob it back! Rob it back!' Nagini excitedly waved two short, thick machetes, a long scar crossing the corner of her eye. A black animal tattoo was on the woman's neck, and she wore a dirty military uniform.
With one foot on the table and the other on the ground, she even had a thick cigar in her mouth: 'Rob them!'
Hmm... I'm actually looking forward to that situation... Arrietty rolled around holding the sponge egg and giggled.
"Arrietty?"
"Ah." The Little Sprite looked up at Nagini: "Do you like wearing military uniforms?"
"What?"
"Hehehe..."
"We're talking about the problem of the Bandit Group, Arrietty."
"I'm also talking about the problem of the Bandit Group—"
Nagini:...To some extent, the one who resembles Mori Tsukisa the most is the little one who followed her from the beginning.
"Let's talk about that kind of thing later. To be honest, as Her Majesty the Queen's strength grows, the places where these things can be used will become fewer and fewer—at that time, maybe something new will fascinate her?"
Nagini sighed: "At that time? Will we continue to rob at that time?"
Arrietty didn't understand: "Yes, otherwise what? If Her Majesty the Queen likes it, why not?"
Nagini realized that this sprite truly had no concept of black and white, good and evil.
"Oh. You do?" Arrietty looked at her strangely: "The man who sold candy before spoke disrespectfully to Her Majesty the Queen, didn't you secretly kill him?"
"It's just killing someone." Nagini argued in a low voice: "How can it be compared to plundering?"
Bastet, who was still talking about the deal with Mori Tsukisa, suddenly twitched her ears.
Sun God above... what did He hear?
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