Magic Gods and a Transcendent.
Both had stepped beyond the bounds of humanity. The higher ups of the Anglican Church and Roman Catholic Church couldn’t have predicted they would clash here.
The first to speak was Nephthys.
“Transcendent. We had left your divine school play alone, but you seem to have learned to talk big since we last saw you.”
“Magic Gods? Why should the girl listen to people who were born with nothing?”
It only occurred to Kamijou after he heard that.
Alice really was different. Stiyl had chosen the path of magic to resist an uncooperative reality. Even Niang-Niang and Nephthys had to be the same even if the scale was different. But Alice Anotherbible was something else. She was on the magic side, but she was one with talent.
“You don’t get to take things from other people just because you don’t have them. This is a problem you magicians fundamentally do not understand. Even the girl searched for money when she wanted a snack, but you magicians can’t do that.”
“You’re the one that stole from us,” said a voice. Magic God Nephthys’s somehow dry voice. “Transcendents are those who name themselves gods…or who want to be called gods. Meanwhile, we Magic Gods are those who others call gods. We’re similar to you, but fundamentally different. You aspire to be an existing god and work hard to try and reach that position, but we improve ourselves until we are referred to as new gods. There’s no need to actually fight – the result is already plain to see, don’t you think?”
Transcendent vs. Magic God.
Since both sides were extraordinary, Kamijou didn’t have a good sense of their relative powers or the threats they posed, but maybe that was one way of looking at it.
Except Alice Anotherbible also spoke.
Calmly.
“Are you sure about that?”
One of the brown beauty’s eyebrows twitched.
“Maybe you’re the originals and maybe you’re gods, but did you really have the resolve and responsibility to be known as gods?”
Nephthys in particular was a collection of the slaves and servants buried alive as pyramid grave goods. She was a Magic God who had been accidentally created by the mixture of a great magical device and many lives.
Alice had messed with the world without any kind of plan.
Kamijou highly doubted she had researched the details in advance.
But he knew that if anyone could draw the lucky card right when she needed it, it was her.
“You’re nothing more than the best humans. You wanted power surpassing that of a god, but you weren’t prepared to actually become a god and look after everyone. So the creation of all those new gods didn’t actually improve the world any. Just like you’re hunting down teacher for your own reasons now.”
“You talk big for a lab rat who was simply abducted and had her body altered.”
“Maybe so, but the girl and the other Transcendents did want to save people. Shoving all of that onto CRC was about the worst way of going about it, but that was our goal.”
Loved every second of this exchange
You just know these two groups have had past beef
