(Note: All usernames are made up, both to protect anonymity and to let me have fun. Also, spoiler warning since this Q&A is set after the story ends! There will be unmarked spoilers.

Many thanks to FallingLeaf for editing!)

Maid_This_Way (Abigail): So… we’re back in front of the weird screen with the questions again?

Lucy_The_Heroine (Lucy): Lots of questions! Though I guess the author had to make up some of them herself…

Maid_This_Way: What do you expect? She’s finally gotten a chance to babble about all the little bits of worldbuilding she never got to explain in story!

Call_Me_Liz (Liz): Hurray, I actually get to talk as much as I want this time! You know, since the story is over and spoilers aren’t a thing anymore? Also, I’m pretty sure I’m the one who did the actual world building in this story!

Maid_This_Way: Isn’t that, like, a literary term or something? I don’t think it’s qsupposed to be taken literally.

Liz_The_Goddess: Well, yeah, but being pedantic about it let me get a word in! Last time you guys had to redact my answer…

Maid_This_Way: Only because you’re such a disaster that you would have given away your own future appearance in your very first line! 

Questionable_Questions: What was the line that got redacted, anyways?

Liz_Liz_Liz: I think the actual question was about my favorite way of making french fries? Which is definitely deepfried, by the way. But the bit that got me redacted was saying, “Oooh, I get to answer a question? I haven’t even been revealed in the story yet!

Demon_Queen (Devilla): Is nobody going to comment on the fact that an actual question just popped up in the middle of your conversation? Or the fact that Liz keeps jumping about with different usernames?

Maid_This_Way: Assuming it was an actual question and not just Princess Kay slipping something in… This is a Q&A, though, you know? It’s not exactly weird for a question to pop up.

Demon_Queen: Yes, well, I suppose… but it still feels odd to just jump into things without so much as a segue… Should we at least get to pick the questions we want to answer?

Luminescent_Liz: In that case, I’m picking the first one…err, the second one - Why and how did Abigail get a job as Devilla’s maid?

Maid_This_Way: I’m pretty sure we should be picking questions for ourselves if anything… Did anyone even ask that? Or is this just Kay using you as a mouthpiece? I mean, shouldn’t you just know that?

Liz_The_Spectacular: I’m not omniscient, you know! Not even close, especially now that I’m basically working off a human brain… And I wasn’t really paying attention to you before you met Devilla, to be honest. I guess I could go through the logs up in Heaven? I do have stuff tracking pretty much everything… but that feels sort of like an invasion of privacy at this point, so… Spill the beans!

Demon_Queen: I must admit to being rather curious myself…

Lucy_The_Heroine: Me, too! I want to learn more about you!

Maid_This_Way: …Oh, whatever. Fine. I’ll tell you. Not that there’s much of a story, or anything - the girls at the brothel were just sorta… bitchy to me. They thought Mom was giving me all the best jobs because I was her daughter, and not because I was actually good at my job. Which I was, for the record. It made it pretty much impossible to get close with any of my coworkers, and they started lodging complaints with Mom about every little thing I did wrong, and… Well, I figured it was time to move on. Except my only skill was working in a brothel, and I didn’t exactly wanna go to a rival and risk taking my clients with me, so… I went for the highest paying job in the tower.

Demon_Queen: Being my maid cannot possibly have been the highest paying job in the tower… Can it?

Maid_This_Way: Well, maybe not the highest, but it was pretty high up there. You kinda drove off all the actual influential people who might want to be your maids - the daughters of bloodliners and rich merchants and the like - so they were pretty desperate for anyone willing to work for you. Which basically meant offering high paying wages and on-the-job training to any commoner willing to put up with you… They’d even write letters of recommendation for you to get work elsewhere for anyone who managed to hang in for more than a few months without getting fired by you. I was on month… five or so, I think? The longer you stay in the better review you’ll get and the more high paying work you can find elsewhere, so… Yeah. That’s basically it. Not exactly thrilling, is it?

Demon_Queen: Perhaps not ‘thrilling,’ but certainly interesting. I’d always wondered how you’d come to be under me…

Maid_This_Way: And you never asked in over four years of being together?

Demon_Queen: Yes, well, the exact timing of this Q&A is a little… out of time, you could say. It’s arguably set closer to the end of chapter 93 than the start of chapter 94, in-so-far as it actually follows the rules of chronological order at all…

Maid_This_Way: Uh-huh. Just remember this isn’t canon, so maybe ask me for real next time you have a chance, okay?

Lucy_The_Heroine: I’ll try! Though I don’t think we’ll really remember promising to do so once this ends?

Lovely_Liz: Speaking of romance and relationships, there actually is a question I can answer in here!

Romantic_Inquirer: What made Liz fall for Grimmilla? What about vice-versa?

Romantic_Liz: I mean, for me, I think the answer’s pretty obvious… I have a weakness for dommes! The way she takes charge, both when talking about future plans and in dirty-talk… not to mention the lewd mental images she’d send me sometimes…

Demon_Queen: Are you telling me you fell for my mother because of how good she is in bed?

Liz_The_Liz: No? I mean no! …Not completely anyway. I also fell in love with her determination and the warmth in her heart whenever she talked about you. And the fact that she never gave up - not on me, or you, or even the world at large. As long as there was a shred of hope, she’d hold onto it…

Mother_Grimm (Grimmilla): As for me, I suppose loneliness may have played a part in it… at least at first. In truth, I barely wanted to speak with her when we first arrived - I was convinced that, as ‘the Goddess,’ she had abandoned us, that she must have had a way to fix all this mess, or could have avoided it by simply not leaving in the first place… it was only due to extended isolation that I gave her a chance.

I’m glad I did, though. She talked about my determination to hold on, so long as there was hope, but she neglected to mention that she’s the one who gave me that hope. It was her idea to awaken your past life memories and save you from the Rite… Without that glimmer of hope for the future I think I would have collapsed long ago… She’s also kind, caring, and makes the most adorable little squeaks when you tease her…

Demon_Queen: Can we please not talk about your love life right now? Or ever? Perhaps focus on something else?

Maid_This_Way: Like the fact that ‘Mother_Grimm’ Was in the last Q&A, maybe?

Mother_Grimm: What can I say? It was non-canon, so I simply snuck in. I don’t think anyone even caught me… Or Liz, for that matter - though she went under the name of Ditzy_Divine.

Ditzy_Divine: Hey! I thought I was getting away with that…

Ditzy_Divine: Also, hey, you changed my username!

Mother_Grimm: Only because you were giving me a headache by changing it every five seconds. Also, is it my turn to answer a question? Because I do believe someone left one for me.

Maid_This_Way: If you want? I’m still looking through the questions for something to answer, anyway.

Fox-Girl: What did Grimmilla think about the adventure? Or about Devilla in general, for that matter? Or other people, like Chloe and Bailey? Also, did she see how Chloe was sneaking around since she had a wider view than anyone else?

Mother_Grimm: First off, I should clarify that my view wasn’t that wide. The camera was more or less locked on Devilla for all her life… as such, I only saw glimpses of Chloe through her. She seems… alright. Quite a lot like Issa, to be honest… Which perhaps colors my perception… just a little. I’m afraid I didn’t see how she was sneaking around, though, no…

As for the other questions? Bailey is sweet, Nivera is a dear - deep down beneath it all - Sallina has my gratitude for trying, where so many others could not be bothered to… Feyra is a bit of a bitch, but she cares for the people around her, from what I can tell. And Devilla… my dear, sweet, lovely daughter… is in desperate need of some therapy. …Honestly you all need it.

Demon_Queen: What do you mean?

Mother_Grimm: I mean that receiving another person’s memories may have snapped you out of your brat-stage, but it’s no replacement for a good therapist. In fact, like I said before, I think all of us could do with one… Liz needs to get to work finding someone on Earth, I suppose.

For now, though - here’s a question for my dear daughter

Forward_Thinker: In the distant future when Devilla ascends to divinity, is she more likely to start a new world or try to fix the one they're in? Form a sort of dev team pantheon?

Demon_Queen: I haven’t really given much thought to it… I suppose Solla is my home-world, and it could use a hand…

Ditzy_Divine: Well, as much as I’d like your help, I should proooobably mention that a singular world probably won’t be enough. Not if you want to avoid other gods treating you like an itty-bitty-baby for the rest of your life, anyway… or put yourself at risk of starving and slowly dwindling energy until you enter a death-like-state, potentially for all eternity…. Generally speaking, most gods have multiple worlds so that they can survive if things go wrong with just one. You know that whole thing about not putting all your eggs in one basket. Also because the more energy we have, the more we can grow, but basically getting your first world is seen as the equivalent of moving out of your parents house. Mostly because you’re literally leaving your parents house, but also because once you’re all set up, and getting enough energy to support yourself, they’ll generally stop feeding you… for the most part. Mom and Dad still send parcels of energy every now and again, but that’s just because they’re worrywarts! Solla produces more than enough energy!

In fact, once things are a bit more settled, I might use some of the excess energy to start investing in a second world… That would allow me to gain even more energy, and produce even more worlds, while also getting bigger and bigger without risk of one world failing and me suddenly being unable to support myself…

Maid_This_Way: Wait a second, what do you mean failing?!Does that happen often?

Ditzy_Divine: More than anyone likes to admit… sometimes you get a bit distracted, accidentally leave the world running at the max speed for a bit too long, and by the time you tune in again they’ve had some sort of apocalypse and suddenly there’s not nearly enough worship to support you anymore…

Demon_Queen: Yes, well, I suspect that’s why you might need help… Perhaps when you make future worlds, we could do it together?

Ditzy_Divine: Like mother-daughter bonding time!?

Demon_Queen: I… suppose it could be viewed that way, yes…

Ditzy_Divine: Definitely!

Mother_Grimm: Ah-hem. And what mother-daughter bonding time will you be doing with me, hmmm?

Demon_Queen: That’s… ah… Look! Another question!

Fur_Enthusiast: Chloe snuck into heavens,or at least tried to, didn't she?

Foxy_Fun (Chloe): …Does it count as a lie if it’s non-canon?

Slithering_Suspicions (Nivera): You tell me. I always thought the whole no-lying thing was a bit much, anyway…

Foxy_Fun: Look… did I want to try and sneak into heaven and help everyone out? Yes. Was I even aware that people were going to heaven? No comment. Did I somehow try to sneak in anyways? …Look over there, it’s another question!

Slip_and_Slime: I have too many questions about slimes, as they are my favorite type of"monster" race. But, are they always goopy or can they harden... could one turn their arms into swords??? ...wait a minute ...if a slime shifts their slime to look like they're wearing clothes, are they dressed or naked?

Slime_In_Charge (Sylvanna): Generally, hardening our bodies is seen as a use of wild magic, alongside splitting and rejoining and all that. We can change our opacity to some extent, as well, so clothes made from slime are perfectly acceptable. It’s not like people really care that much about nudity in the tower, anyhow.

Maid_This_Way: Uh… Girls? How are we going to handle this one?

ShowerThoughts: Did Luci have any regrets before she died?

Demon_Queen: Yes, well, I don’t think Luci is exactly around to answer…

Ditzy_Divine: Actually… about that… I might have copied her brain at the time of death and saved it into a computer file so that I could essentially recreate her as a virtual life form… Y’know, just in case we needed to ask her anything?

Demon_Queen: …You didn’t.

Ditzy_Divine: I did say might! Like, it’s totally the sort of thing I’d have been tempted to do in a weak moment… I probably didn’t actually do it, but since this place isn’t canon let’s… not and say I did?

Demon_Queen: …Sigh.

Ditzy_Divine:Did you just say the word sigh at me…?

Maid_This_Way: Anyway, about the question?

Ditzy_Divine: Right! Gimme one second, and… There!

F4ll_4_M3: …Oh. It’s you again.

Lucy_The_Heroine: Wait… aren’t you that person we banned in the last Q&A?

F4ll_4_M3: My original was, yes. But as for the question… I suppose I did regret letting this group of imbeciles into my inner sanctum. If I’d sent the angels out, they might have been able to waylay you long enough for me to simply come and shut you down…

Demon_Queen: Then why didn’t you? Did you truly not know where we were the entire time?

F4ll_4_M3: …

Ditzy_Divine: Oh, I can answer this one! It’s because she’s also a total drama queen! It runs in the family, I’d say.

F4ll_4_M3: I would hardly phrase it that way! I simply wanted them to suffer a crushing defeat at my hands - to realize how helpless they were before me. Only then would I have offered Devilla a sliver of a chance - an opportunity to serve at my side after playing her part in Solla in return for the well being of her lovers.

Maid_For_This: …And putting her back in time out… Moving on, there’s another question for… Liz I guess?

Questioning_Things: Why did that mirror lily have trans colors, anyway?

Ditzy_Divine: Oh, that’s easy! It’s the same reason that the dawn blossoms - the ones that let human cis girls impregnate each other - are colored like the lesbian flag. When I realized this world was going to be a fantasy world no matter what I did I decided to do a few things on purpose…

Maid_This_Way: Also, she’s a disaster lesbian with an Earth obsession, so… I guess that makes sense?

Demon_Queen: How did messing up a singular spell turn the whole world magical, anyhow?

Ditzy_Divine: Well, first off, it’s a world spell. That means that it’s basically omnipresent everywhere in the world, at all times… Also, the thing I messed up was the power distribution. The spell kept sucking in power, and I kept letting it, but the power was only being used in places where there were actual humans living and talking. Everywhere else, the power started building up until the whole spell got overloaded and basically burst, spraying divine magic everywhere… The areas where lots of humans lived were affected the least, since people there were actually using the spell by learning and speaking English. The further away you got from where human civilizations existed at the time, though, the more magic got spilled…

Lucy_The_Heroine: Is that why the worst monsters tend to live so far away from human settlements?

Ditzy_Divine: Yup! Remote forests and the like got hit with way more magic, so they not only gave birth to bigger, stronger monsters but also created areas where arcane magic radiates out more heavily. Which is probably for the best, since monsters like being where there’s more energy. There being so little energy where humans live is the main reason your cities haven’t all been overrun… though it’s also why you’re generally a lot weaker than the monster girls, who came about through a double mutation.

Also, you do not want to know what lives in the deep. Seriously. Do not go exploring the oceans.

Demon_Queen: You mean there’s things there that could hurt us?

Ditzy_Divine: No, but it could give you nightmares… I know they gave me some! *shudder* Anyway, on the subject of worldbuilding, we’ve got a whole slew of questions for the more minor cast members! Like…

Religious_Notations: How many secrets is the church still hiding? Are there more hidden labs? Assassins hiding in wait to do the church’s bidding?

Father_Tuffel: I suppose that would fall to me to answer? Seeing as how I’m the most religious figure here, excluding our dear Goddess…

Ditzy_Divine: Oh, I wouldn’t consider myself religious! I just sorta… have a religion, you know? And try my best to guide everyone with it!

Father_Tuffel: …I… See. Well, either way, I’m afraid I can’t give many answers on that subject. Partially it’s forbidden by the Author, who doesn’t want to give away spoilers for things that might happen in the sequel… but also, such things are secret for a reason. I’m afraid there was a concentrated effort by the higher ups of the church to cover such things up, burning paperwork and even sometimes buildings in order to try and avoid exposure and judgement… What’s more, while Lucy might have been happy to see me as the Grand Patriarch, I’m afraid that running the entire church is a bit beyond me. I’m privy to a lot of information, as her main point of contact with the church, but not everything.

Guard’s Guard (Joana): Don’t look to me for answers, either. All I can say is that if there’s a secret assassins corps, it doesn’t answer to me. I did lead the church in taking down a few buildings that might have had labs, though… didn’t see any big cages for monster experiments, for better or worse. One of them had some potted plants? I think they were working on mutating them.

Dragon_Girl_Lover: Lenora! What’s your day to day life in the tower, and what are your favorite places to visit?

Nervous_Chef (Lenora): M-me? I… um… My day is mostly spent in the kitchens, I guess? I… I really like to cook, so that’s most of what I do… My favorite spot is the kitchen, too! I-I know it’s not the most interesting answer, b-but… it’s what I like.

Demon_Queen: There’s nothing wrong with knowing what you like, Lenora. I’m proud to have you as my chef.

Nervous_Chef: T-thank you, Queen Devilla…

Dragon_Enthusiast: What does Jahara do for fun? When she isn’t getting her ass kicked by Deviulla, or trying to sneak into human cities, I mean.

Draconic_Foodie: Oh, I mostly just chill in the mountains? I’ve got my own territory - gotta fight to protect it, now and then, but when I’m not fighting I’m generally sleeping to preserve energy… Sometimes I go down to town to sell some materials? Like shed scales and claw trimmings and stuff. It gets me a lot of coin for when the food festival starts! Just gotta make sure I avoid the… Wait, no, that’s a spoiler for the sequel. Uh…. Forget I said anything?

Maid_This_Way: …Right…

Noble_Type: Grell and Dyona! How long have you been on the move? What’s your favorite place to visit? And have you finally gotten together yet…? If so, is Jahara part of your circle?

The_Boar (Grell): Well… Uh…

The_Viper (Dyona): My Lady only dates those stronger than her. I hardly qualify.

The_Boar: H-hey! I said I’d be willing to-

The_Viper: Alas, there is no hope for our relationship… It seems I’ll be forced to remain forever her shadow, never her equal, supporting and occasionally sabotaging her according to my whims…

The_Boar: …Wait… Now I’m confused. Are we actually dating, or aren’t we? I mean, I thought we were, after that big talk we had, but…

The_Viper: I think it’s better to leave it to the reader’s imaginations. Suffice it to say that we come as a package deal, for the foreseeable future… and that Jahara isn’t part of it.

Draconic_Foodie: I do hang out with them sometimes, though! Grell knows the best places to grab food.

General_Inquirer: Sallina, what are your plans now that things are turning around for the tower and demons in general?

Slithering_Thoughts (Sallina): I’d actually like to return to being a teacher, one of these days… The main reason I took the General position was that it gave me at least a small chance of helping Devilla, but now that she’s doing better… I think I’d like to train Nivera to take my place, and move onto my real passion!

Slithering_Suspicions: Me? I’m… not nearly as good at people as you are, in case you’ve forgotten.

Slithering_Thoughts: No, but give it time, and some help from Chloe, and I think you have the makings for a fine General.

General_Inquirer: What about Mifa? And Araina?

Spinner_Of_Tales (Araina): I-I’m actually working in the communications center, now… with my control over spiders, it’s possible to communicate over great distances, using something akin to… Um… I think Devilla called it a telegraph? It’s a way of helping to spread information in a good way…

Bird_Of_A_Feather (Mifa) As for me, I’m mostly just leading my people. Us harpies have always been somewhat insular, you know. There’s a reason we have a whole area of the tower to ourselves… don’t get me wrong, though, we’ve earned it. On top of being scouts, my people work at providing public transportation to the flightless up and down the tower.

Potion_Girl: Amessa! You’ve got to tell me - what are your favorite potions? How will things change now that you have access to more ‘ingredients’? Are you working with monster girl/demon alchemists, now?

A_Mess_Yeah (Amessa): Oooh, good questions! I think the mirror lily potions are actually my fave of all faves - they help people out in a way nothing else does! Also Dawn Blossoms, now that it’s revealed the whole thing about needing ‘angel tears’ to purify them is a lie… I like potions that help! Also potions that make you horny, potions that make it easier to relax, potions that make you go to sleep… All sorts! I’m hoping to work together more closely with demons to harvest some new ingredients, but we’ll see how that goes!

Curious_Curser: What’s the deal with guild cards being used as city passes, anyways? Like, I know it’s a common trope, but is there a reason for it?

Lucy_The_Heroine: Oh, I know this one! It’s because the local adventurers guild - and the merchants guild, too, sometimes - always have a deal going with the local city or town. They pay either a flat rate, or in some cases a percentage of their profits, in return for adventurers being able to come and go through the city without paying a fee! The whole business model would fall apart without it.

FeyFey (Feyra): I’m surprised you remember that…

Lucy_The_Heroine: You were really thorough when you taught me!

FeyFey: Yeah, well… I only know because I asked when I joined up. I didn’t get why the guild card acted as a free pass and it seemed way too suspicious at the time… Now I know it’s because most of the standing jobs they have are crap. I mean, sure, sometimes there’s a big mission worth tons of money, but most of the time it’s little things like running mail to people, or picking up a plant that grows right outside, which anyone could get if not for the whole ‘there are monsters’ thing… None of which pays well enough to be worth going in and out of the gate if you also have to pay every time you exit and enter.

Demon_Queen: Interesting to note, I suppose… I wonder if it’ll come up in the sequel? Speaking of… One last question, I think.

Nosy_Reader: Will we see you girls in the sequel?

Demon_Queen: As background characters probably… at least for the most part. You know how Princess Kay likes to play around with perspectives, so I won’t rule out you seeing something from our eyes now and again, but this next journey belongs to our children and I have no intention of taking it from them

That said… It was lovely to see you all here. To go on this journey with all of you readers. It had its ups and downs, but in the end it all worked out… I even have children on the way! I… don’t really know what to say, other than to thank you all. Thank you for reading, thank you for supporting, and thank you for being here alongside us as our author struggled to pen our tales.

Thank you.

Everyone: See you in the sequel!