The World's most Overpowered Side-Character

Chapter 262: Celebrate Life.

"Dude, I can't believe you've been back for over a month and didn't tell me you had a girlfriend, she's gorgeous," Mark slipped around the crowd of chatter and stood next to Uriyu. "What's her name?"

"She isn't my girlfriend, Mark," Uriyu chuckled. "And if you want to see her name just use the system what the heck?"

"Are you kidding me, with the way you look at her I thought for sure you've already f-"

"Stop it."

Uriyu raised his brow at his friend and huffed.

"Don't say what you can't take back, everyone here has spent the last four months defending us from threats beyond your wildest imagination, she's gone through a lot for your sake, she's suffered so you get to live a trivial existence; show her the respect she deserves, she's an honoured guest, not someone who's name should ever be dragged through your filth of a mind." Uriyu stared at Mark seriously.

"Jeez..."

"Besides," Uriyu smiled as he glanced at the goddess happily chatting with Sol and resting her hand on his arm playfully. "She doesn't see us, from what I gathered of the story, her heart was stolen long ago, she just hasn't noticed it yet." He huffed.

"What are the two of you up to this time?" Eve shimmied her way towards them and stood next to Mark, leaning on his arm. "Uriyu's got lost puppy eyes again."

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"Just catching up on some college stuff, you know... Guy stuff." Mark scratched his cheek while Uriyu cleared his throat.

"So, how has Earth been for the retired Goddess of Chaos?" Sol rested his hand on Renia's shoulder with worry etched on his face and watched her smile slowly wane as a crack in her mask showed the trauma that lay underneath.

"Master Vestic..." Renia placed her palm over his hand and smiled. "I would rather not be called the goddess of chaos anymore," She stared at him, and Dr'ul along with her brothers, Ikaris and Dina looked around at her as if an invisible tether had pulled their eyes in her direction.

"You all keep telling me I am not to blame, but I am burdened by so much guilt and hate that I could never wear such a noble title with light shoulders again, if it causes no bother, simply calling me Renia is enough..."

"The title doesn't belong to anyone else but you-"

"Please," Renia squeezed Sol's hand and he looked around at everyone else seeing their worry for her as well. "Please, for my sake," She smiled sadly at him and he conceded with a sigh and a nod.

"Okay, Renia," Sol dropped the topic and squeezed her shoulder. "You look a lot better than the last time I saw you, still," He smiled at her warmly and she chuckled and sighed as the warmth of his hand left her.

"Thank you, Master Vestic."

***

"I wish I could be there with them," Jenifer laid on her bed with her gaze to the ceiling as Alpha shared with her the real-time happening of the gathering, she stared at the food, and at the faces of everyone both old and new. "Even he realised Keele Hawke managed to become a part of his group, and by the looks of it her transition is a lot smoother than mine," Jenifer pouted.

[Quite a lot has happened between then and now, with the most notable being the massive increase in strength amongst the Arkadian gods, once you would be able to fight them, but currently you are nearly the weakest amongst them all, fourth from the bottom after Usami, Sara, and Lady Arla.] Alpha answered in Jenifer's head and she sighed and licked her lips again

"Thanks, Alpha," Jenifer responded and the system seemed to hesitate as she left a blank reply screen in Jenifer's body before her words came through vocally in her head at the same speed they appeared on the panel.

[Why are you thanking me, is your desire not to be at the gathering?] Alpha asked.

"I mean; it is, but I'm thankful that you're here with me, if it was a case of constant radio silence I don't think I'd have been this comfortable, but thanks to you I can freely speak to sir or anyone else who would accept a conversation with me," She smiled and closed her eyes taking in the gathering in more detail. "How are we doing now?"

[We are nearly 30% complete; your universe is a large one] Alpha hummed in her mind, and she nodded with a small smile.

"When it's fully under your influence and control sir will come, that's in another three months, I'm glad," Jenifer tapped her belly as she salivated over the food Sara was sharing around the table. "I just have to wait until then. Hopefully, I don't get-" She stopped and opened her eyes, sitting up in surprise when a chiming sound came from her living quarters. "Yes?" She spoke outwardly.

[Chey Law is at the door, shall I let her in?" Alpha asked; she had already replaced the UI of the apartment and had complete control over everything it used to do, doing this meant that Jenifer now had access to doing whatever she pleased since Alpha could tamper with or create 100% fabricated footage and audio of her and fool any other intelligent device that came anywhere near and tried probing for information.

"Good afternoon, Head-Captain Chey Law," Alpha greeted using the UI's voice while the door opened with a click letting the woman in at Jenifer's confirmation.

"Mother," Jenifer exited her room closing the door behind herself and greeting her with salute. "What brings you here today?"

"Your UI must be broken Jenifer, it still calls me captain, but I have no regime and no general to lead me, quite literally us two and my crew that were courtmarshalled with me are the only ones who survived the encounter with the Godslayer, he killed everything," Chey returned the salute and then relaxed her shoulders and posture holding up a small bag of groceries.

"Can't an old lady come visit her daughter to celebrate her life every now and then?" Chey asked and Jenifer rocked her head and gestured to the kitchen as her mother's couldn't be more perfect.

"Sol Vestic," Jenifer looked over her shoulders as she began taking down pots from a hangar.

"Hm?"

"His name, it was released a day ago, he's Sol Vestic; and since his collective was unnamed and disappeared they just named it after him, it's official; the Sol Collective."

"Huh," Chey mused quietly while she removed the food from her shopping bag. "I'd say it's more than he deserves but you have to admit, that fucker deserves to be recognised, even if he is the enemy I still think he's pretty dang amazing to have pulled off what he did and gotten away with it; now that I think back we were lucky," she looked at Jenifer meekly.

"Indeed," The daughter replied with a serious nod.

"He completely destroyed the entire 3790th fleet and vanished into nowhere and then popped up again and destroyed an outpost inside of our very own collective, he faced and survived an encounter with the 100th general and even declared war on the Emporium, everyone's in a fit about him, he's the most popular name since the announcement of Ikaris's return, and the declassification of her sealed files," Jenifer looked at Chey for a reaction and found her mother staring at her.

"You have been keeping tabs, I see," Chey nodded.

"Well, I consider myself blessed to have faced and survived an encounter with the most powerful Godslayer of recent times and not only that but it turns out that the woman we tried taking from him was Ikaris from the Vatui clan of that same name, we're lucky, mother, lucky to still be in one whole," Jenifer chuckled at the irony and Chey smiled and started pouring water in a pot.

"Indeed we are kid, the Emporium well and truly pissed him off and he struck back like an exploding star against our face, we managed to meet him while he still had the naivety and innocence of a man who simply wanted to protect his family, I believe he will keep his promise and keep destroying outposts until someone manages to stop him," Chey hummed.

"You think anyone will?"

"There are people out there who are unbelievably powerful, monsters among men, he may be the great Sol Vestic now, but he is still only one Godslayer, he will have his run but at the end of the day the Grand Emporium is a superpower that will remain uncontested by all foreign forces; if he couldn't handle and had to flee from General Viktor Flint then what hope does he have of facing the upper echelon of the Emporium's finest?" She asked and saw Jenifer pause in wonder.

"I don't think he's fought to his fullest yet, at the time he had to protect Ikaris who was going through childbirth, she was in a weakened state and vulnerable, just look, he disappeared with a promise of retaliation and a month later he completely wiped out an entire fleet in a matter of minutes."

"You don't seem to think he will lose," Chey paused and stared at her daughter's back.

"After what he did to me..." Jenifer huffed holding her arm that had been shredded beyond recognition by Sol's most casual attack.

"I don't think he will."

"Then I'm lucky to have struck that deal with him, I kept my word and he was able to go back to his wife, hopefully the day we meet again he will remember I am the woman who chose resignation over confrontation." Chey chuckled and Jenifer laughed in response.

***

"We'll see," Sol leaned his head watching their interaction.