The eerie, icy haze was spreading.
The Underworld clone had returned.
Everyone gathered in front of the nutrient pod. Stussy's body lay inside, wearing only a swimsuit. Unlike Chaos, who'd been stark naked before, she was a woman, after all.
If Stussy had been naked, she might have poked everyone's eyes out when she woke up.
"Let's begin!"
Chaos's face was expressionless, but his eyes were filled with solemnity and anticipation.
He didn't want anything to go wrong.
Everyone else looked just as serious. Stussy's resurrection would determine whether they could live it up without restraint in the future. Still, in the world as it was now, the only one who could threaten them was God.
The only other possibility was someone of their own caliber—and it would take at least two of them.
The next steps went like this, then like that, then this way, then that way. Finally, before everyone's eyes, Stussy's lifeless body gradually began to regain its warmth.
This resurrection went surprisingly smoothly, unlike Chaos's, which had been fraught with twists and turns.
A stroke of luck beyond all measure.
Slowly,
her long eyelashes fluttered once, and at last her confused, dim eyes opened.
"Welcome back, you old hag!"
Betty and Baccarat smiled. They meant it from the bottom of their hearts.
As long as this woman woke up, their workload wouldn't be so heavy. They could also pursue their own interests, like holding concerts and whatnot.
"Since everything's done, this god is leaving."
Enel turned into a flash of lightning and vanished into a mirror, arriving on Pluto in the blink of an eye.
He'd just eaten the Rumble-Rumble Fruit and the Return-Return Fruit, so he still had to consolidate and develop their powers. Maybe there was still a slim chance of improving further. In