Crimson Moon: So you're the ones who lured Mo Wang here? / What do you mean the Chaldea Master took a spaceship to attack Millennium Castle?

Mo Wang felt no guilt at all. If anything, he sounded perfectly justified. "I couldn't help it. Who told you goddesses to have such ridiculously tough bodies, every last one of you? If I don't use a little force, I can't guarantee I'll be able to send you... mm, 'safely' off to dreamland."

"If I go too light, it won't work. It might just make you angry instead, and that would be even more trouble."

Then his tone shifted, taking on that familiar hint of teasing and probing. "So? Our esteemed mistress of the Underworld came all this way in person because you're planning to abandon the dark and join our side? Have you finally come around and decided to resist that bullshit contract of the Alliance of the Three Goddesses?"

When Ereshkigal heard that, she turned her face slightly away, avoiding Mo Wang's far too direct gaze, and sighed. There was helplessness in that sigh, along with something like resignation. "If I hadn't come... next time, you reckless fool would have barged straight into my Underworld to 'discuss' things with me, wouldn't you? Or... were you planning to use some other 'physical method'?"

She had no desire to get hit again by this man who never played by the rules, especially not on her own turf.

In a certain sense, Mo Wang's "by any means necessary" way of doing things really was troublesome for this lonely, somewhat stubborn goddess. It even had... a strange, unwillingly acknowledged pull to it? Of course, right now, there was more of a headache and a little lingering anger.

Mo Wang paid no mind to Eresh's accusations and threats. Instead, he put on an expression that said it was only natural and spoke in a relaxed tone. "Couldn't it just be that I simply