Chapter 18 (Patreon)

Now that I was free of Tiamat's grasp, I took a quick step back from her but made sure my face wasn't showing any huge signs of fear or whatever. "Uhh Tiamat... I hope its ok if I call you that, but I need to go check on Ran. The kitsune you threw through my marble door."

Tiamat smiled gently nodding. "Yes, that name works fine for me... The kitsune is still alive though she does have some broken bones." She said nonchalantly obviously not giving a damn about Ran in the slightest.

Instead of trying to communicate with the woman who was slowly shrinking down into a more normal size and was obviously not going anywhere off my throne I just teleported to where I felt the feeble energy of Ran.

A soft pop announced my arrival, and I could only grimace at the sight of Ran's broken form as she had several bones poking through the skin from her arms, the legs and even her ribs were bleeding with white protruding spikes from Tiamat throwing her through my enchanted door.

I quickly kneeled beside her and put my hand on her chest and started pushing mana into her body with the intent to reverse time upon her body rather than healing as I certainly couldn't fix all those protruding bones without causing more agony.

"Why did you do this?" I asked simply and wasn't surprised when Tiamat grew out of the ground beside me looking at the healing form of Ran with disdain.

"She reminds me all too much of Inari who with the help of Amaterasu and Izanagi sealed away the growing soul of my child who was growing on mount Fuji in order to use his power to keep Takamagahara the heavenly abode of the Shinto Pantheon flourishing eternally even if the pantheons faith dries up which it hasn't for the major gods..." She snarled and the Earth shook beyond my control before she too took a deep breath and the ground stopped shaking.

"So, seeing a kitsune running at my semi unconscious form, brought back some bad memories, correct?" I asked gently as all of Ran's injuries faded with her body technically de aging past the point of time of when she impacted the door, but she was till unconscious at the moment.

With a snap of my finger, I teleported Ran back into her spare room atop her bed as I turned to study Tiamat who was still behind me.

"Would you be willing to apologize to her for your... overreaction." I said uncertainly as I had little clue as to what kind of person the literal embodiment of the world was like. Well other than an extremely doting mother in any case.

Tiamat shook her head. "No. I will not apologize as I did nothing wrong in throwing aside a woman who got close to my son without my permission."

Yeah... I can tell this is going to be a lost cause.

Without Tiamat smothering me in her presence I could finally 'look' around my barrier and just deadpanned seeing the collection of individuals outside it.

"Tiamat... I got business outside my barrier can you just wait at my throne room or something." I asked tiredly and she just shook her head making me groan.

"No... I can see they are doing a ritual that will distort space in a local environment which with the help of that girl who can manipulate fate they plan on launching themselves through chaotic space with her help sending themselves safely obviously here through the barrier you made." Gaia patiently explained with a motherly chiding tone like I was lazy child who forgot a math problem on a worksheet or something.

Well, jeez sorry mom. Didn't think I needed my barrier especially tuned to block people skipping through nonexistence...

I wordlessly just teleported in front of the collection of individuals working on a large circle of runes.

"Marissa, Alice, Scarlet Devil Mansion cast. Could I ask you to simply knock on the barrier like civilized people not attempt to create a tear in reality that I or Yukari will need to fix..." I said sarcastically making the group freeze in shock at my arrival.

Before I could metaphorically blink a number of large knives were sticking out of my barrier in front of me.

I woodenly turned towards Sakuya who looked sheepish at her over reaction to my appearance. "You can have these back then." I said and my barrier flexed sending the knives back at the silver haired maid in a chaotic manner but once again she disappeared all the knives likewise disappeared as she reappeared beside Remilia Scarlet who was silently eyeing me.

"So... What's the point of all this?" I asked pointing at the fading runic circle as all the girls stopped supplying it with mana.

"We came to borrow your house!" Marissa said confidently.

...

Even Tiamat who silently appeared behind me stared at the witch in surprise at how shamelessly she said they planned literally stealing my entire cathedral.

I blinked and stared at Marissa in disdain. "Marissa you are so poor you have to eat wild mushrooms from the magic forest and half of them are toxic or hallucinogenic... Steal some more books from Patchy over there, she is a much easier target, and you could probably sell her books to the humans inside the village."

Patchouli had a fully body seizure hearing my words and the thought of a bunch of grubby not even magically accomplished humans getting her books from Marissa was all too likely as she couldn't protect her library unless it was her familiar, herself and Sakuya all attacking Marissa at the same time.

"What would you people even do with my Cathedral... You guys already literally have the biggest mansion/castle in Gensokyo and the only reason the damn place is inhabitable is Sakuya is a cheating cheat who works herself to death literally stopping time to keep it clean." I turned to Remilia who visibly braced herself to be roasted.

"What? You going to 'hire' more half sentient fairy's that will just write on the walls in crayon and kill themselves trying to play with your sister Flandre?" I lectured the tiny vampire who looked like she just wanted to crawl into a hole.

"Lord Moria please don't be rude to Lady Remilia." Sakuya said colly but the threatening tone in her voice was well apparent.

I completely ignored her words as I looked over at Alice who was silently inching to crouch behind Marissa to avoid my attention. "And you Alice... I thought you of all people wouldn't start this kind of nonsense... I bet your mother would be proud of these chaotic actions."

The puppet maiden froze at my words but now I turned to the silver haired maid who stared me down dauntlessly obviously awaiting to refute whatever words I would say. "You are a stupid chunni child who got bullied a couple times when showing off your powers to other children who got jealous and ran off to work for a vampire who eats people. Also why is a maid who works for a vampire using knives made out of silver?"

Sakuya's mouth froze as she went to refute leaving me to just shake my head. "Look... Just get off my lawn and go home. You all will gain nothing here and if you invade my territory, you will die here."

I wasn't at all saying to threaten them personally... No Tiamat will turn these girls into smears on the ground if they actually show themselves to be a threat while she is around.

Remilia went to say something as she stomped forward but the world stilled as Tiamat walked past me and through the barrier with not a single sign of care for the barrier that turned aside Yukari and countless other Yokai beating upon it with both blades and magic.

"Predator of Man... Leave lest I remove you." She said simply still walking forward and the heavy presence of the very world froze the vampire preventing her from moving.

"Tiamat, stop!" I said helplessly as it was well apparent with all the pressure Remilia couldn't even move in the first place. "They aren't gods who shape reality... They cannot even move under your gaze." I pointed out as only Patchouli was able to form a sphere of magic with the help of Alice and Marissa to protect themselves as Sakuya and Remilia fought to not kneel from the gaze of Tiamat.

I have a strong feeling only high-ranking god like Odin, Chaos or other primordial gods can tangle with her. And are probably the only form of contact she has.

Which explains a lot...

"Remilia I know for a fact that you wouldn't do this nonsense just to steal a building from me. Why are you actually here?" I asked.

Remilia no longer being pressed into the ground just brushed some dust off her dress with a flat expression before sighing. " I wanted to leverage the building to have you power a ritual that would allow me and my sister to finally grow into our fully grown bodies."

Damned supernatural people in trying to force others into helping when they could just ask...