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Volume 5 Chapter 2 Part 5

That is why thinking about such things and the ways to compensate for the lack of them is the job that belongs to the Spirits and the incarnation of the Gods who act undercover as the employees of Tokuteru’s company, and their services are going to be required more than ever now that the path that the brothers decided to take in order to prevent the ruination of the world is the steepest out of all the possible ones. If they really want to succeed and truly overcome 「The Final Trials of Humanity」, their own strengths and wills are not going to be nearly enough. If they want to even start thinking about succeeding, they need to ensure that various powers from around the Outer World are going to give them their support.

「That being said. . . . .three of the 『Twelve Devas』: Nitten, Fuuten and Rasetsuten have already infiltrated the ranks of the World Health Organization, so with them gone I have to admit that while they might be not on the same level as that of 『No Name’s』, my Community also has it rough when it comes to the trouble with the lack of proper manpower.」

「I see. . . . . wait, Nitten and Fuuten? You mean Arjuna’s brothers?」

「Yeah.」

「But. . . . . . why these two in particular? Was your original plan not have them disguise themselves as the Players participating in the 2^nd War for the Sun’s Authority or have them monitor and influence it as Organizers, same as what Heracles did?」

Shiroyasha tilted her head in confusion, not understanding why would Tokuteru go for such a sudden change to his original plan.

As it was known to the war’s Organizers and some of the Investors, the Argo Fleet that landed in Atlantis together with Heracles was a fake Community created by the Organizers themselves. The current ownership of 「The Argo」, the flagship of the entire Argo Fleet and the most famous naval vessel in the Greek Mythology that was used by Jason and his Argonauts when they embarked on their quest for the Golden Fleece, is assigned to Shiroyasha, and although she only ended up summoning and using it only a few times across the span of the last few hundred years, but it still remained a fact that she was its legal owner. Now that  「The Argo」has been destroyed along with the rest of the fleet as a result of the attack of that mysterious sea monster on the pier where the Argo Fleet was supposed to be stationed, The Sun Authority that has been enshrined within it, the one that allowed 「The Argo」to sail across not only the regular ocean but also the ocean of the stars in the sky has returned to Shiroyasha along with the other Sun Authority that has been held by Heracles up until this point. So now, even though 「The Demon Lord of the White Night」released the Sun Authorities that she held within herself when the 2^nd War for the Sun’s Authority started, they have already returned to her even though she was not a proper participant in the war. But there is nothing that she can do about it now that it has already happened, so there is no point thinking about it too much.

The Argo Fleet was most certainly destroyed by some of those bastards from 『Uroboros』, but even though they have clearly crossed the line with that attack, there really is not much that the Organizers can do in the way of punishing them for it, because this war’s purpose and the entire reason for going through with it in the first place is to have the participants compete with each other fairly and squarely.

But then, there is also a matter of that one thug who showed up out of nowhere together with Heracles and used him to cause quite a disturbance, even though Heracles was not a Player, but an Organizer who was not supposed to engage other Players in battle.

Aside from Argo, there was also one more fake Community that was working as the Organizers of the 2^nd War for the Sun’s Authority: a group of people registered under the name 『Sanat Kumara』. Or maybe instead of calling them a fake Community, it would be better to say that it was a Community that once existed, but now it ceased to be.

Communities such as 『Argo』 and 『Sanat Kumara』, which once existed as Sub-Communities governed by 『The Heavenly Army』 have all been almost destroyed during the days of The Dystopian War, so this time the names of those former Communities have been borrowed as a kind of a camouflage.

「It is exactly as you are saying. Originally, I was planning on having Nitten and Fuuten participate in the war as regular Players, but then the 『Bull of Heaven』 incident happened shortly before everything could have been finalized properly, and as a result I only had one person available who could do anything about it: Dyaus’s Avatar, and because the rest had their hands full with other tasks, I decided it would be best to ask them to do some digging on 『Uroboros』 and other Communities behind their backs.」

It was during his battle with Arjuna in the Minotaur’s Labyrinth. Back then, Arjuna acted as if he already knew that his brothers were going to be participating in the war, even though there was no way for any of the members of 『Sanat Kumara』 to know about that, even though they were also one of the Organizers.

In other words. . . .  that information must have been leaked to the outside. And in light of that, it was obvious that as a person in charge of the entirety of the 『Heavenly Army』, Tokuteru would try to take immediate action.

「Hmm. . . .  so you changed the lineup of your personnel that would be participating in the war after you realized what the wish of your son was?」

「This and that are the entirely separate matters. Even if he were to have a rematch with him in his current state, that would have solved nothing for the two of them. So until Arjuna himself will correctly figure out what he was so angry and sad about that it made him point his weapon at me, I will never allow him to meet with Nitten. . . . . to meet with Karna like that.」

That last line that Tokuteru spoke. . . . .he did that not while looking and speaking like a father worried about his son, but as the King of the Gods.

Karna. . .  a half-brother that Arjuna had at one point in his life, but of whom her rarely spoke now.

Arjuna, the son of Indra, the Chief God of the Indian Mythology and the strongest god of War, and Karna, the son of the Sun God Surya. Their fated duel was the same one that Kuro Usagi and Kasukabe You were talking about three years ago. An eternally long time has passed since that time, but now Arjuna has lost sight of what was the essence of the regret that made him despise the outcome of that duel for so long. That warrior was stronger than anyone else and kinder than anyone else, but now he did not even remembered the exact meaning of the tears that he shed at the end of that duel. . .  and what Tokuteru. . .   what Indra, the King of the Gods of Indian Mythology wanted the most right now, was to make his son remember once more.