I woke up, brewed a pot of coffee, and was just sitting there sipping it while wondering how to spend my day when Canalis-san stopped by.
"Good morning, Kaito-sama. Might you have a moment to spare?"
"Good morning, Canalis-san. Yeah, I’m free... Oh, would you like some coffee too?"
"Oh my! To be hit with such a massive reward the second we meet... my emotions are in a total tailspin. Tee-hee! Please forgive my instability! Coffee hand-brewed by Kaito-sama himself is such an overwhelming honor that I'm practically at peak humility. I shall gratefully accept!"
"I’m really just pressing a button on a magic tool, so I’m not sure if it actually counts as me 'brewing' it..."
I gave a bitter smile at Canalis-san, whose voice was rich with emotion despite her face remaining expressionless as always, as I poured coffee into a mug and handed it over.
"So, did you need something?"
"I suppose you could say I’m here to check your schedule. Tee-hee! Saying I’m checking it so I can ask you out on a date might be an exaggeration—or rather, it's a bit off-topic."
"A date? If it's just going out with you, Canalis-san, I’m fine with it as long as I have a free day."
"Whoa there, Kaito-sama. That is an incredibly dangerous thing to say. I’m a total 'easy god,' you see. If you tell me something like that, I’ll take it to heart so much I won’t be able to sleep at night—I’ll have to shift all my sleeping to naps! Tee-hee! Not that I actually need sleep, being a god and all... Oh! This is unrelated to why I came, but I actually finished building a really nice ranch. Would you be willing to come with me to eat soft-serve ice cream sometime? If I invited you, would you come along?"
"Ye-Yeah, I don't mind at all. It sounds like fun, so I'd actually like to go."
She had mentioned before that she was selectively breeding cows, but it looked like she had already moved on to building an entire ranch. I hadn't visited a place like that very often, so I was genuinely interested.
I wondered if the soft-serve was made from the milk of those selectively bred cows. It sounded delicious, and I definitely wanted to try it.
"Actually, I got sidetracked. My thoughts were already racing toward that ranch. Tee-hee! I'll ask you properly another time. As for the main topic... a divine acquaintance of mine—specifically, a god associated with Nebula-san—received permission from Shallow Vernal to visit you. I'm here to check your availability."
"Ah, I see. My schedule is pretty open, so even tomorrow would be fine. Is this a different god from Electrone-san?"
"Yes, the one scheduled to come is known as the Bipolar God. Well, she's a super-strong god."
"Su-Super-strong?"
"She's a god who is almost scary-strong. Barring a few very specific exceptions, she's on a level where she might be the strongest even among the Omniscient and Omnipotent Class. Oh, no, her personality is perfectly normal. I’ve been on good terms with her for a long time, and she's a kind World Creator who will gladly accept all sorts of sudden requests. She's just... intensely strong."
For Canalis-san, who was herself an Omniscient and Omnipotent God, to say so clearly that someone was strong meant she had to be on a completely different level.
Of course, since they were already beings that existed on a dimension beyond my imagination just by being Omniscient and Omnipotent, hearing that she was one of the strongest among them didn't really help me grasp the scale at all.
"Well, look at it this way. To begin with, a battle between members of the Omniscient and Omnipotent Class might be unfamiliar to you, Kaito-sama. To put it into words, it's like a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors with no time limits or turn limits, where you can change your hand as many times as you want."
"...Huh? Wouldn't that mean it never ends?"
"In most cases, they don't. A fight between those in the Omniscient and Omnipotent Class is really just a matter of endlessly repeating 'Reactive Rock-Paper-Scissors,' and it's rare for a clear winner to emerge. They just keep throwing hands pointlessly until one of them gets fed up and suggests a truce. The one who blinks first ends up signing a treaty on slightly disadvantageous terms. And since getting to that point can take tens of billions of years, it’s a real hassle. Tee-hee! Sorry, my god-tier sense of time is showing."
"That's quite an amazing world."
Now that she mentioned it, if both sides were Omniscient and Omnipotent, it made sense that things would end up in a stalemate.
"A World Creator who can end a fight that would normally turn out like that in a short amount of time is clearly strong. You might even say they are 'Surpassing the Omniscient and Omnipotent Class.'"
"Is the Bipolar God like that?"
"Yes, precisely. How should I put it... in the case of the Bipolar God... if we go back to the rock-paper-scissors example, her rock pierces through paper, her scissors cut through rock, and her paper smashes scissors. Does that help convey her strength?"
"I definitely understand she's absurdly strong."
In other words, no matter what you played reactively against the Bipolar God, you'd just be blown away head-on. She seemed like an incredible person, but since Canalis-san insisted she was normal and kind, she must be a good person despite her immense power.
That was a relief, and I looked forward to meeting her.
Serious-senpai: "So she's coming, that Unreasonable Berserk Gorilla..."