A thousand years of solitude had left Ganesh speaking with a slight stutter. She even seemed to have forgotten Mash, Ritsuka, and the others. Fortunately, she had prepared for this possibility beforehand and brought along a memo. After a moment of silence, the light finally returned to Ganesh's eyes.
"It's Master. So I succeeded."
"That's right, you succeeded. You worked hard."
Ritsuka looked extremely excited, which was only natural. For the Chaldea group, only an instant had passed, but for Ganesh and Lakshmi, roughly a thousand years had gone by. Ritsuka knew very well what hardships they had endured during that time.
Lakshmi had fared somewhat better. She had used her Noble Phantasm to become the outer protection of the Divine Sky Rock, while her consciousness had remained sealed away. Unlike Ganesh, she had not needed to remain conscious for a thousand years, so she had not suffered through that millennium of solitude.
"This is probably the greatest difference between gods and humans."
Watching Ganesh slowly recover, Shen Fei could not help feeling moved. At the same time, he understood something: gods and humans had entirely different perceptions of time. Only that could have allowed Ganesh to endure for so long.
Thor, the hammer god of the Marvel Universe, had broken up with Jane largely because of this. To Thor, spending a few years away from Earth was nothing, but to humans, several years was an incredibly long time.
"Could that be why some gods are so heartless?"
"Since they are safe and sound, that means my plan succeeded. The proof is complete. Arjuna is no longer a perfect god," Sherlock Holmes said from the side.
"Correct. It went extremely smoothly—so smoothly that it is infuriating. More precisely, this is a curse: a curse accumulated over a long period of