If it looks like a Yuudeshi and quacks, it's Yuudeshi [Chifuyu, Shadin]

Did she dread this moment? No, if anything it was just another meeting. The time that passed as they remained apart never really weighed on her in anyway. Her father was busy, she preferred her own space the same as when she was a teenager. Why else did she join Vanguard if not for that distance?

So much had changed; she had grown from a teenager into a young woman, she had matured the crystalline powers she was created with, she had a daughter and relationship and yet she shared very little of that information with him. Since World War 4 that little bit of information boiled down to nothing, she had vanished outside of the omniscience of the Yuudeshi Network that monitored the planet.

It was however that very time she spent concealed among the martian population while raising her daughter that she saw how much she could aid the aliens. They had no grand power like what the people of Earth did, resources did not come from mere energy like Gods for them and reality didn't bend. That made her intent very clear and firm when she returned to Earth, especially with news of Kin's death and Shadow Fall's retreat.

The simple fact of the matter was just that, there was no major contender anymore for her father to oppose. No great menace showed themselves, and therefore she should shift her focus elsewhere to begin to repair that damage that stretched from centuries of abuse.

For the moment though, she was just a woman waiting on her father.

"Oh?"

She raised her arms as a show of resignation, it was what it was. Chifuyu was never the sentimental type when she was younger and even in the context of her adulthood she could not be called the type to get attached to things. Azure spent months before she warmed up to him, Aria was the exception which made sense to her. She was her daughter after all and the only thing she prioritised above all else, she'd move heaven and earth for her child.

"I have evaluated the status of the world since my return; Kin is dead. I cannot say I know what will occur within the wake of his death, it's too optimistic to assume the organisation will just crumble without their figurehead."

"Shadow Fall is purged from Earth and Valentine reports that Demon World is in political instability after the shift from Shadow Fall to Moksha. I have established a truce between Vandenreich and Lux Orior, since it's been through multiple genocides it appears their change of philosophy is a lot more accepting."

Chifuyu took a moment, looking out the window while contemplating.

"Pardon the forwardness of my question, Dad. I'm sorry cannot imagine a soft way to word this though, where do you fit into the picture now? You've reached the peak of your apotheosis and there is no longer anyone to oppose you lest you wish to charge into Demon World and give reprisal for all the decades of conflict."

It was a good thing Chifuyu was a thinker. There was one issue she had not yet raised to him that was occurring in the world. She might even call it the most pressing one since the world had reached its stability.

"Hmm? No. Not at all actually."

She cocked her head like it confused her. It did, those kind of irrational acts were not the way of Chifuyu when she preferred to operate in more subtle ways. Sending her father to bathe in the blood of millions of demons as a culling was far from what she wanted, it would be no more appropriate a move than the demon princess assaulting the living realm over some pathetic matter--at least something she viewed as such.

"The demon matter can be handled differently, as long as their influence remains off the planet I do not really care beyond the potential relapse of those events. The matter I have withheld though does relate to the demons however, that can wait."

The Yuudeshi's hand came up to fix her hair and tuck it behind her ear again. She'd discuss the matter after this one.

"It is more for my curiousity that I asked. You've spent so many centuries as the opposing force of Kin, the equal reaction to his action and keep the Kokuryuteshi at bay from acting. Now that he's dead, demons have left the living realm. It is important to me to know where you intend to go from here? Will you remain inert as a looming threat until you meet a similar fate to Kin or.."

Now what she wanted to discuss in more depth, his status was one which lacked presence but was omniscient and he didn't act. While she wouldn't vocalise it so directly Chifuyu did feel her father was a relic of a world that had disappeared over the course of the year. The great allies and enemies he had were either dead or dispersed.

"Will you opt for a successor? With the old world gone, it's our responsibility to ensure the next is as equally ready. Do you agree?"

"Very well, for the moment I opt myself. I am by all means qualified to succeed you, since before Azure even died I was groomed for succeeding him of his position in the event of his death. I assume you still trust me, even if I took my time to do my own things, everything I do is for the benefit of this world."

She made that clear, she could speak on the other candidates but there was no point. Hayden was both leader of Vastime, also considered dead and the recent incident in regards to Death is at it's core a problem. There was already plans formed in her head on how to deal with that but they would require assistance from others to prevent the catastrophe from forming. It did occur to her that the demons wouldn't like the result of those plans but considering Mana's assistance in the situation when it arose she was confident that the benefits would outdo the costs of such an act.

Valentine was not someone she'd entrust Earth's future to, she knew he had the best intentions for the planet like she did but his status as an alien foreigner made it less meaningful to actually put him in the position when they were in a relationship and came as a couple regardless.

Yuel was missing. No other people stood out, Zin? Kakine? All the other Yuudeshi were doing their own things. She did consider Shatari but the two of them did have distinct strengths and weaknesses and Chifuyu believed that her strengths as a successor outweighed Shatari's own for the job, but Shatari did have benefits that she could not do. That was just the nature of the situation in her eyes.

"I do believe a bit of a restructure would be beneficial but I do not think it would be radical to the organisation, or the world to implement them. I will provide those details later, there's a lot of matters I can give you details on later. For the moment I want to see this one sorted out first."