Ji looked down onto the monkeys wrecked body. It was still alive but various different injuries covered its small body. Its right arm was broken and dislocated in an unnatural way, its two legs had large cuts to them, white bone was visible amongst the red flesh. The formerly snow white fur had become brown by the dried blood.

The monkey was in a horrible condition.

Nevertheless, it glared at Ji, its eyes full of fury and bloodlust. It wanted revenge. Revenge for the thousands of its kin that had been killed on Ji’s way here, revenge for the humiliating defeat it was experiencing right now.

Ji shook his head.

“You are still the same idiot as you have been four thousand years ago. I honestly can’t imagine how a group with a member like you was able to lift the suppression of that fucking geezers.”

The monkey laughed darkly. “You human bastards just were too afraid to try! The heaven has become too lax, too weak. These lunatics forgot that the world isn’t going to freeze in time just because they banned us from the open world.

We just rallied a few lower gods and easily surprised the guards that were supposed to oversee us. They must be raging over the billions of humans we killed!”, he grinned devilishly. “Of course, if those lowlifes that still serve you wouldn’t be the spineless bugs they are we would have wiped out all of your kin.”

Ji sighed as he looked at him with pitying eyes. “And that is why I call you stupid Nagu…”, he lifted his leg and stomped down onto Nagu’s stomach.

The monkey’s eyes turned white and his face cramped up. Foam gathered at his mouth and he vomited black blood. For a few seconds his body violently cramped up, then it became limp.

“You always manage to enrage those you shouldn’t.”, Ji lifted his foot and gave him another kick. It hit Nagu’s body and flung it against a nearby boulder. Ji walked towards Nagu’s bloodied body.

“I know you aren’t dead yet so stop pretending.”, a third kick followed.

Nagu groaned in pain and rolled away to escape the kick. His eyes turned normal and he stared at Ji. This time the fury was gone and replaced by a slight fear. “You really would kill me?!”, he seemed surprised.

“You killed millions of my kin, wouldn’t it be normal for me to just kick you until all what’s left of your dogshit body is a dark stain on the ground?”, Ji asked a horrifying smile on his face.

The monkey was silent for a moment.

“You killed almost all what was remaining of my kin. We are even.”, suddenly Nagu had become calm.

Ji tilted his head.

“That’s all of your tribe? I could have sworn there was a lot more of you when I last saw you.”

“99 percent of my tribe was killed while we battled the heaven to lift the suppression.”, there was a slight shadow of grief on Nagu’s face. “Now all that is left are a few dozen females and offspring. It will take at least a few thousand years to regain our former strength and that is if I can protect my race for this long.

I am the last god of my species. Once I’m death we are as good as finished.”

The smile on Ji’s face disappeared and was replaced by a frown.

“It seems like I made a mistake.”

Nagu chuckled. “It seems we both did. The heaven is going to come and avenge the humans that died, at that time I will most likely die. Once I’m dead my remaining kin will most likely also die.

Well at least I felt a little bit of freedom before it all ends.”, there was a silver of regret hidden in his words. “As for you… I guess you are gathering your forces?”

“This time I will kill every single one of them.”, Ji promised him.

Nagu nodded slightly. “We will see.”, he rose up from the ground.

His body began to shine. The wounds that covered his body rapidly healed, his dislocated arm put itself back into place. The dried blood on his fur simply fell of as if it had never been there. A moment later the monkey looked completely healed, it’s white fur shining brightly in the sunlight.

Nagu gave a last look towards Ji. “I take it that my debt is paid?”

Ji nodded.

Nagu closed its eyes and grinned. “Then I hope I will never meet you bastard again!”, he suddenly turned into a white ball of light and flashed up into the sky.

Ji watched as he disappeared amongst the clouds. He felt melancholic.

This was the world of gods and spirits. The strong rule, the weak struggle for survival. If the strong fall they too had to struggle to escape death.

Rey on the other side sat on a boulder and looked confused. The fight had awed him, especially as he realized that Ji had protected him the whole time. This only showed just how powerful Ji was compared to the monkey god. Rey was sure that if either of both gods chose to destroy a mountain there would only be a pile of dust when they were finished.

Nevertheless, there was one thing he didn’t understand.

“Why the fuck did I even have to come with him?”, he muttered under his breath.

Ji still heard him and turned around. “We still have work to do and I don’t want to do it alone, so get off your ass and start gathering stones like this one.”, he pulled out a small round stone and showed it to Rey.

“I want to get the array going before noon!”

…

In the town Saji and Kelin had spend three hours within Saji’s room.

Both felt exhausted.

“You really are a stubborn girl, do you know that?!”, Kelin frowned dissatisfied. She held a white bra in her hands.

Saji on the other side looked even more tired, she covered her body with a small towel.

“NO ONE WOULD GO OUTSIDE ONLY WEARING A TOWEL!”, she couldn’t help but shout at this point.

“You wouldn’t wear the shawl, so I proposed this one, but you still don’t like it! What do you want me to do? You need at least a dozen different outfits and until now we only have 11 that you accept!”

“ELEVEN ARE MORE THEN ENOUGH!”, Saji was really desperate. For three hours Kelin had proposed different outfits, each more unwearable then the former. Yet somehow, they managed to find eleven outfits that Saji could barely agree on. Furthermore, two of those could be worn in different variations, but the crazy goddess still wasn’t satisfied and continued to press for more.

Kelin looked at her and her eyes turned sharp.

“Fine.”, she crossed her arms.

“Fine?”, Saji couldn’t quite believe it.

“Yes fine, but you have to wear the sweater without underwear!”

Saji almost exploded, yet she forced herself to stay calm. At this point she was ready to do almost everything just to escape this scary woman.

“Fine…”, she forced herself to say.

Kelin suddenly smiled radiantly. It was obvious that this had been her goal from the very beginning. She took the knitted sweater and gave it to Saji. The later took it hesitantly.

“I have no choice…”, she muttered. She quickly wore the sweater over her otherwise naked body.

It was a grey knitted sweater with a very wide neckline. When Saji wore it, it only covered one shoulder, while the other was completely bare up till halfway to her elbow. A little wider and Saji’s small breast would be in full view. Aside from the unusually wide neckline the sweater was also longer then a normal one. It reached halfway to Saji’s knees and completely covered her lower body. The only draw back was that if Saji lifted her arms to wide or bend down to pick something up her lower body would be completely visible to anyone who looked at her.

Truthfully it was only a little better then wearing a see-through shawl.

“Perfect!”

At least Kelin was satisfied with the result.