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“Okay, do you mind repeating that for me?” Nagisa asked, looking at Marie as if she understood exactly what she said, but just was moments away from bursting into laughter from the absurdity. Marie, however, was definitely nowhere near as amused as Nagisa was.

“This is no laughing matter!” The kitsune goddess angrily stomped with her large furry feet, which only brought Nagisa closer to laughter. “I heard her! She actively insulted him, calling him a pig over and over again, even laughing about it! This woman can’t be good for Hiros, even if he claims to be working together with her! You have to do something about this!”

“Haha! So in essence you are angry about her calling him a pig, is that right?” Nagisa laughed, giving Marie an eye-rolling stare. Marie on the other hand tried to figure out why Nagisa found this whole situation so funny.

“Yes…? She shouldn't insult my… I mean, our Hiros!” Marie spoke, in a much more timid tone than before.

“And what would you like me to do about it? Should I just descend into the mortal realm and scold my brother's working partner because of harmless words she dared to speak to him?” Nagisa asked with so much sarcasm that Marie almost shuddered. It was very clear that the dark goddess didn’t intend to do anything about Marie's problem anytime soon.

“Fine, then I'll… uhm… try to do something myself,” Marie said, turning around rather defeated away from her mentor goddess.

“Whatever you do, make sure to transform Hiros into something hilarious,” Nagisa shouted after her.

“I will not!” Marie cried out offended. Though considering her track record, that notion wasn’t entirely unrealistic. Still rude though. It’s not like she was trying to get her machines to malfunction.

“Then at least stop stalking the two and leave them be like a normal non-obsessed person.” Nagisa giggled afterward.

Marie said nothing. She probably should do that. But only after getting her revenge. Then she can sleep more soundly at night. Yeah.

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“What the heck!” Marie gasped when she reached the home of Hiros again, spotting something that had her in awe for a little bit. “That is… that is Hiros’ shirt! Why is this oversized spider girl wearing it?!? That makes no sense! How did she even fit her four arms through that?!?”

At that point the goddess was already super distraught, almost falling off the tree she was hiding in to spy on her crush and his ‘work partner’. Though she was getting noticeably frustrated, she decided to just spy a little bit more before she jumped into action. “Let’s hear what they talk about before we jump into action…”

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“Hey, Shima. Remember that story draft I showed you yesterday? Do you think I should work over the ending again or do you think I can leave it?” Hiros asked, looking up at the massive spider girl next to him who was tapping on her pad with her pen.

“Oh, I always remember, my sir pig~ I liked it,” Shima answered, walking over to Hiros with her massive eight legs and started to head pat the guy, while giving a big smile. “And I think I know where you got the spider girl inspiration for. Although it's just a hunch.”

“Haha! And considering that your hutches are usually correct…” Hiros replied, shaking his head, then looking up at the girl behind him, before letting out a giggle. “Yeah… I guess this one wasn’t all that hard to guess.”

“Nope~” Shima laughed.

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“She did it again!” Marie stomped on the tree out of anger, making it shake a little bit. “She keeps calling him a pig and Hiros says nothing about it! Nothing! How can he…”

Marie then stared at her purse for a little bit, pondering for a bit, before clenching her fist and reaching into it. From there, she pulled out a massive crossbow loaded with a stone hammer and charged it magically to the brim, then gave off a big smirk.

“Fine, You have tricked me last time into turning you into a drider and I have cut my losses with honor, but I will not tolerate you consistently calling my Hiros a pig. Time for some poetic justice!” Marie shouted as she aimed with the crossbow directly at Shima, hardly even noticing that the window on the way was closed.

In her mind, it shouldn't really matter, as the momentum of the hammer should just easily break through the window and barely slow down. Not the most stealthy weapon in the world, but an effective one. So Marie took one more deep breath and pressed the button…

Ka-Pow!

Klirrrrrrr!

“Uwa?!?” The recoil of the crossbow was so immense, that Marie's sense of balance was immediately thrown off, and even with her four tails usually giving her some extra stability, it wasn’t enough for her to keep a grip on the branch of the tree she was standing on.

So she fell. Ungracefully landing on the grassy ground less than a few seconds after firing her oversized crossbow.

“Owww… Okay, that one's on me. I maybe should have thought a bit more about this before firing…” Marie admitted, lying on her back for a bit as she writhes a bit in pain. She might be a goddess now, but that didn’t mean falling from a tree that was level with the second floor of a building didn’t hurt.

But from that perspective, she could see pretty well the damage she had caused in her eagerness. When she looked up and slightly to the right, she saw the window leading to Hiros’ room completely in shambles, looking almost like someone had launched a hammer through it. That made Marie feel guilty a little bit.

“Ah! No time to lie around idly! I have to check on how Shima ended up!” Marie suddenly yelped, sitting herself up and shaking her hands. It was a stupid thing she did, but now all she could do was stick to it. So she climbed up the tree again, skillful as she was, and took a look inside Hiros’ room again. This time, not forgetting to turn herself invisible, since… you know… someone just launched a crossbow at that window.

Though it took a while for Marie to trust her eyes about the sight she saw in Hiros’ room…

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“Oink… Owww… Can’t believe that a hammer was launched straight into my side…” A pink-skinned girl said, rubbing her sides just under her decently sized boobs while shaking her butt a little bit. “Though somehow, that hammer now feels very important to me. Like I should always have it by my side.”

“Is that so? I guess it affected more than just your body then~” Shima giggled, playfully rubbing through the pink hair and patting the girl's head as she spoke, standing behind her dutifully. “Though I must say, you ended up pretty cute Hiros~ I always knew you would make for a great sir pig~”

“Lady Hera, the sir pig. If I may~” Hera replied, pushing her head back more into the caressing hands of Shima, who just giggled and continued with the headpats. Hera’s big floppy ears fluttered even more than before, but then she asked. “Though I wonder who did this. Oink…”

“I have a rough idea…” Shima said, briefly looking at the broken window, before continuing to pat her little orc. “But I am not going to tell you~”

“Oink, come on! Tell me!” Hera pleaded, though Shima only laughed.

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“I hit Hiros?!? Why am I like this?!? How the heck did that even happen?!? I know I aimed at the girl! Ahhhh!” Marie shouted, having teleported back into her office in her world after Shima had clearly looked at her, even if she was invisible. “Now I gave that spider an even bigger reason to call Hiros a pig! That is just not fair! Why do I always mess up like that!”

Marie was banging her head against the wall and then just slowly returned to her seat, noticing the tea from her afternoon shift still sitting on her table, even if it was probably already cold by this point. But that didn’t matter, since Marie simply needed something to drink after all that hysteria. So she took a huge gulp to cool herself off… which worked to a degree.

However, she still had no answer to the question that had plagued her ever since she had turned Shima into a drider. She just wished she knew why Shima dared to insult Hiros the entire time with…

“Good evening, Marie. I just wanted to tell you something. A little fun fact, if you will…” Nagisa spoke, appearing through a portal in Marie's room, catching her completely by surprise. “Did you know that one of Hiros’ names translates to ‘lil pig’ and Nick has been teasing him ‘sir pig’ ever since he found out?”

Marie was flabbergasted after hearing that…

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Round two of writer vs Goddess. This time she definitely will… oh, who am I kidding? I bet she finds a way to mess up again…