Min was still trying to find out the right words to use in this situation, but she wasn't exactly much of a talkative to begin with,

So, in the end, all she could do was silently stare silently with a wide and gaping mouth like a fish.

It seemed that a time pause button was clicked and all of them paused with min staring at them and them staring back at min,

Until happi couldn't take it anymore and practically tackled Min in a hug which caught her by surprise, but another thing she noticed that baffled her was...

'No one that has ever hugged me since mum's death has made me feel… refreshing, but this girl…, her hug, it's almost like it's very comforting, so warm and assuring and she smells like flowers too'

Min actively burrowed into the hug like a cute little baby, sleeping in her mother's arm, so very cute~

And Happi was a sucker for cute things, so in her excitement, she literally picked min up like a baby she saw in her and went all 'Yeah~', while flying around.

The complete change from a calming hug to a rollercoaster ride was so sudden that min yelped a bit before struggling to get down

"Hey! Put me down!"

Happi pouted a bit but still did as told, after putting min down, she flew around min in circles until after seeming to get her fill of taking in the sight of min, she finally broke into giggles.

"EIK! We missed you sooooo much min and now you're here, yeah! Although it's kinda sad that you're memory of us is still locked, it's still a great pleasure to see you", continues giggling

Min stared at the giggling girl and opened her mouth to say at least one or two words when a very sarcastic someone broke their 'get together'

"Tch, were we brought here for this bullshit, eh? Atama-I?"

"RIGHT. Min if you don't want to know more about us, we could let you awaken your power and send you away, but you can also choose to come with us, your option"

Min stared at this spring haired girl staring at her as if she was some trash thrown on the floor, just to be given a mere derisive glance by a passerby and unexpectedly got annoyed, somehow she felt that this girl wasn't supposed to be so…. Robotic?

Like emotions in her had gone extinct but min decided to ignore her slight annoyance.

She considered her choices carefully, if she left it'll be the safest options to avoid more unpredictable situations like or more than this one,

But the spring-green haired girl eyes held a silent threat in them, intentional or unintentional and she didn't what to find out the threat,

Besides her gut instincts told her that they weren't danger going with them, and her guts were NEVER wrong,

Coupled with the fact that she was as curious as heck who these guys were, with this she finally decided.

Looking at them, she solemnly nodded.

The saucy one glanced at her for a split second before she stepped back into the portal, the look held a deep nostalgia with a tinge of sadness,

Min was a bit surprised by the look and stared afix for a while before following them into the portal.

Min was blinded by the flash of light for a bit, she opened her eyes and was stunned once again by the sight before her eyes;

There was a house!

A large house and she was brought into the dining room with a huge feast!

Almost like a celebration, not only that, they were more of these girls and after counting the girls along with the seven that brought her here, with her eyes, she found out that they were Twenty-three!

Looking exactly like her with different colored hair, their eyes were the same color as their hair and they stared at her with different expressions.

It was a bit creepy, just imagine yourself looking back at you, forget the colors and others, just with the different expressions.

Min was still stunned when happi dragged her to the table where the others were, even the other seven girls seemed to have ended up there somehow.

Happi said with a happy voice as always-

"Look! We brought Miin!"

"Min!" A peach colored haired girl called out and opened her mouth to say something when another one with midnight blue hair and eyes shoved a strawberry into her mouth while chuckling with a somewhat hoarse but feminine voice with a tinge of wickedness in it.

"Calm yourself Oshaberi, she might never leave if you start at it again"

Oshaberi removed the fruit from her mouth, mumbled frustrated, and sat back down while pursing her lips which Min found a bit cute but then found her thought bizarre, since, well, she was finding her own self with peach colored hair and eyes, cute, the insanity.

"Alright, who's gonna introduce us to her? I kinda feel she's gonna go crazy any second from now" the midnight blue haired girl commented again at atama-i

Many eyes flashed expectedly at atama-I, but she only glanced at sukiru who got the signal and started

"How to shorten this….., okay let's see, which do you choose? Lengthy form or short form? The lengthy form talks in detail how we're related, while the short story is what you need now although you'll have lots of question, and yes you'll get to hear the long story another time"

Min stared at this girl with different colors flashing on her hair and eyes and wondered whether the indifference look was mutual.

She noticed that some of these girls had that indifference but it was more explicit in the sukiru and atama-I girl, she wondered why they had such a look but discarded the thought after thinking that it was none of her business. She opened her lips and said---

"The Short form please"

"Nice choice"

Sukiru opened her mouth and thus, started her explanation.

"You're an reincarnation of a fallen goddess, but before that, you were betrayed by her own and we are bounded to your soul due to that reason and other special reasons, you thought that saying the name from a people that betrayed you was infuriating, so you decided to call us the nicknames you gave yourself and us when we were younger, ridiculous names according to our temperament;

Also, if our temperament shows a bit too much in you, you could sub consciously activate our powers.

After you fell, your memory was locked due to certain reasons and we need you to get your strength back not only 'cause they'll come to eliminate you as you are a threat to them but also because the more you reincarnate, the more your existence will slowly fade away along with us, and we can't let that happen..."

"They're still some fucktards we need to take care of" the saucy one interjected with a wicked look in her eyes

"Indeed" sukiru affirmed

"So, my job?"

"You're not curious about, you know, a lot of things?" kokishin asked min with a bit of disbelief in her eyes

Min shook her head "Instead of wasting my time seeking answers you guys seem not so ready to tell me, I'll rather go straight to the point"

"What a mature kid, see kokishin? Try to hold your curiosity more like her" the blonde chastised Kokishin to which she 'hmphed' and turned her face away.

Sukiru continued her explanation—

"So for the introductory part, the spring colored one is Atama-I, the light-brown one taida, the raven haired one with stars also in her hair is cosmica, hot pink girl is sass…"

"Hey, what do you mean by hot pink girl, you bitch?"

(Ignores her)

"The blue one with a sword is Kanfa..."

"You mean Kanfu?" Min asked with a confused face

"No, Kanfa, and listen! The brown one Puran'na, the sea green one Taikutsuna, the peach one Oshaberi

(she grins at min, which min replies with a small smile), the bright red one Ai

('no kidding, I'm seriously seeing love bubbles spread in her eyes' min thought )

the hazel one Shinpi, the green one Yukan, the dark-red one Ikari

(Ikari glares hard at min with a look that screamed annoyance, and min could only sweat drop and give a fake smile at while thinking

'looks like that's the grumpy one, they've always been one in the group huh?'),

the ash one is Shai, the light green one Kettei, the pink one, which you've already met is Happi, the sky blue one is Kokishin, maroon-- Musekinin, midnight blue-- Fuhai, blonde—Sekininsha, white—Yosa, violet--- Jisei-shin and lemon green--- Guruti,

Phew! quite long and that's that, what do you say?"

Min was driven thoroughly speechless by their names, rather than the noble reason her former self gave, she was sure as heck that their names were given due to convenient purposes and most of them probably knew but didn't change it and she wondered why…

'Maybe my former self was quite close with them? It sure will be surprising if they were not close though, since they were literally in her;

It also seems the ability of this memory of mine to turn to a chicken's own when it came to names didn't start now, did it?

Anyway I like the naming like this, I just need to look at their faces and it will practically scream their name, example Is like the one named kettei, her eyes literally has her name in it..'

"Your names are pretty Cool, I gues… ahk!"

Before she could finish her sentence, a certain dark-red haired girl threw a vase at her which she dodged and it hit the wall and shattered. Ikari glared at Min hard while pointing a finger at her and shouted.

"You gave us those ridiculous names, you dumbass! And it was obviously for convenient purposes! But yet, here you are giving us a pitiful look! Come die! Come, come, I promise I'll make it painless for you…" ლ(ꐦಠ◡ಠლ)

She said with a smile that looked like a demon's own while beckoning on min with hands wide open

'Come? Come?! Who WILL go into thy hands my lady? QAQ'

Jisei-shin patted ikari's back which seemed to calm her down as her harsh breath evened out, she huffed at min and finally sat down.

"Sorry min, she has anger issues, she easily gets angry, it has something to do with her powers, don't get mad at her" Jisei-shin smiled while explaining to min.

Min could see she was the calm one and could control ikari, coupled with her name, she relaxed a bit but still kept a considerable distance away from ikari.

"Anyway, you guys still haven't told me your main purpose of bringing me here…"

"Indeed, we brought you here because we had to tell you what we need you to do for us…" Sukiru said

"Continue…"

"Your real god-like powers will definitely draw the attention of the gods and if they attack you right now well, it's complete annihilation, they'll find you someday so before that, you need to get stronger…"

"You guys say I can always reincarnate, right?"

'Why is she asking this? I hope it's not the reason I think it is for…'

"Yes, so?"

"So can you guys just spare me this time and let's try in another life?"

Ikari nearly launched at her at this inconsiderate little piece of shit, if not for Jisei-shin.

This time the others thought that min really needed ikari to give her revitalizing punch, musekinin choked a laughter and sass looked like she had a million and three words to say but didn't know where to start

Sukiru thought: 'This lazy thing'

Min the lazy thing: Did I do something wrong? Wasn't I told to ask any question if I was confused?

Sukiru was looking at Min's face and saw the confusion and had a bad feeling about it....

'This girl isn't really gonna…'

But the idiot did, SHE FUCKING DID IT,

She really didasked another infuriating question.

While ignoring the atmospheric pressure around her, min went on to ask another very STUPID question like a brainless fool---

"Did I say something wrong?"

Ikari's hair glowed bright red along with her eyes instantly, it didn't turn bright red, it was still dark red while glowing, giving off a melancholy look. Her tense fingers making a creaking sound from being stretched.

She glared right at min looking like an angry lion that got stepped on, on its tail, at that moment min knew that SHE SURE SCREWED UP.

Because ikari's powers had been triggered, jisei-shin had to activate hers, which made her hair and eyes glow, a violet and blood red glow covered the entire room and in no time ikari's power was kept at bay, although it winded up with her feeling weak and sweating profusely for triggering the power without using it.

Shai averted her eyes and pushed a pill to ikari who shoved it into her mouth and chewed it and in no time she stopped sweating and got her glow back, she turned to face Min with a very displeased look.

And the fool of the century who seemed to want to answer death's calling so bad really didn't know when to stop.

"Em, so sorry?"

Sukiru who really wanted to beg Min to stop: Oh.., you're even wondering what you did wrong, come on people! Was this the 200+ IQ genius I was promised?

Sass was so pissed off, she couldn't hold herself any longer and started "You Crappy little…."

But atama-I stopped her by holding up her hand, she calmly looked at min, since they were the same height, no one was looked up at or looked down at and so she very slowly said to min in an excruciatingly vivid manner

"AS WE REINCARNATE, OUR ENERGY DEPLETES, WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME AND INSTEAD OF WASTING OUR PRECIOUS TIME ON A USELESS TRASH OF AN REINCARNATE, WE'LL RATHER JUST KILL YOU AND REINCARNATE TO THE NEXT WORLD WITH A MUCH BETTER OPTION, UNDERSTAND?"

Her voice wasn't loud, in fact it was calm but the words made it a different type of calm, it made it a chilling kind of calm, the type that bored into the soul, it put pressure on min and min finally understood the seriousness of the matter and turned very solemn.

Although she couldn't deny that words like 'Useless Incarnate', 'Waste of time' and 'Rather kill' stabbed her at the center of her heart, the one that hurts most, she hadn't been called useless for a long, long time and this time was worse than the former.

She sighed "I understand and I apologize"

Looking at Min looking all droopy, most of them couldn't handle it, min had always been like this, even though atama-I was the heartless one, she still liked her best and couldn't handle her reprimanding her, even if her memory was lost, in the end she was still a bit sad.

But Atama-I wasn't fooled, this sneaky brat was playing sad to get everyone feel sad for her, it might have hurt min but even if the most of them didn't notice it, she noticed that this brat wanted to test their closeness with her former self and also their attitude just for the heck of it, but how did she do it?

Simple, by toying with them for a bit, if not, how could a genius like min not be able to understand the feelings that was sooo obvious even to an insensitive fool, like that hothead nearly set the place on fire if not for the violet haired girl, what's the name again?.... Fuck. She had forgotten.

Jisei-shin: I suddenly feel like I want to hit someone

Min seeing that atama-I wasn't fooled by her act gave it up, her piteous expression changed to that of playfulness and she smirked at all of them, they were stunned except from atama-I, min sighed, still facing them, she said---

"Come on guys, I didn't mean to ruffle your feathers, spare me this once, okay?"

Seemingly wanting to change this conversation, she continued....

"Uh! the meal looks good, may I join? as expected shai is an amazing cook" Smiles at shai, who blushed and bowed her hair playing with her fingers, happy but too shy to reply.

Because the way min acted was very like her former, even knowing exactly who cooked the food stunned them and while some were reminiscing, the others decided to look at min from a different angle.

Seeing how min efficiently manipulated these guys even without her memories atama-I was very sure she wasn't mistaken,

This was the one that was getting back everything, the former may have failed since her temperament leaned more on ikari's, hot-headed and acted more on emotions than reasoning, this one was mischievous and very cunning, exactly the one they needed.

'Such a trickster, nearly fooling sukiru, as I thought that IQ of yours wasn't for show, to manage to guess the cook instantly, just by mere observation…, quite a good intelligence'.

Atama-I being in a good mood and not being much of a talkative either didn't sell min out and thus everyone became calm and the atmosphere lightened up.

"Alright min, come join in the feast while we gist you a bit about us" oshabiri invited Min over with excitement.

Min nodded and took a seat in the very middle, sekininsha who had been unusually quiet throughout stared at min for a while, seemingly wanting to say something to her but sighed and just served everyone, then went back to her seat.

Min had noticed the meaning behind sekininsha's stare and gave her a small smile which made her sigh and sit back down.

Min glanced at sekininsha and musekinin who gave her an exact replica of her smirk, even more mischievous and leaning more on destruction than trickery and she understood how sekinisha found out.

'So~, this musekinin is just like me but more destructive and sekininsha is the unlucky one that handles her, no wonder she found out everything I did was a trick,

Even the sukiru girl is giving me a suspicious look and that midnight blue hair girl is also giving me a wicked look that shows she knows everything,

Not to mention the hazel one, no wonder my former named her that, she seems so unfathomable and unlike atama-I who gives off the feeling that you can never understand her, this one gives off the feeling that she is very easy to see through all you just need to do is solve all the puzzles, so mysterious…" (Smirks)

'I like mysteries, It seems I underestimated not only their closeness to the former me but also them as a whole;

I'm glad, extremely glad because I've finally found what I was looking for, even before mum's death, I've found something…. INTERESTING'

And so min was glowing in her seat which made sukiru squint her eyes in suspicion, while atama-I having guessed what min was thinking only rolled her eyes.