Slaanesh was crushed by that holy aura until she could barely breathe. She had no doubt that this being calling himself Inquisitor Puni possessed the power to utterly erase her with ease.
Slaanesh's voice trembled slightly. She forced herself to stay calm and struggled to put on a pale, helpless expression befitting her current "pure elf" form. "Lord Inquisitor, I... I came to seek protection and apply to join the Hilling Empire. I... I mean no harm."
Puni's gaze did not waver in the slightest. He simply watched her silently, waiting for her explanation.
Slaanesh took a deep breath and sped up, trying to explain everything before he passed judgment. "I... I was originally Slaanesh, the God of Desire within the Sea of Souls. But the Abyss... opened a passage near my domain. That place has already been contaminated! I don't want to be corrupted by the Abyss, lose myself, and turn into one of those meaningless monsters left with nothing but madness and Chaos!"
There was genuine lingering fear in her voice. It was not entirely an act.
Even now, recalling Yog-Sothoth's maddening knowledge left her deeply shaken.
"In order to join the Imperium, I abandoned most of my power and that fallen nature and shattered my godhood. I heard that the Hilling Empire possessed the power and order to resist the Abyss, so... so I came. I want to join the Imperium and seek a way to survive."
She cautiously watched Puni's reaction, then added, trying to close the distance between them, "And... Liang Bing and I... get along fairly well..."
Puni's eyes, capable of piercing through falsehood and essence, flickered faintly. Slaanesh felt as though every thought within her, every trace of her divine makeup, even every remnant of her past, had been thoroughly scanned.
The feeling