All the commotion that accompanied Urraca's arrival in the temple turned into an astounded silence after she said those words.
The Pontifex was the first to recover, a few moments later.
"D-Defeated? How could it be defeated, with the Goddess back?"
In his panic he didn't even notice that he wasn't in a place with enough secrecy to speak about the Goddess having disappeared.
Urraca had already learned about it, but hearing it from the lips of the Pontifex himself simply drove home the reality of the fact.
But the one most astonished by the fact is Yumegami Nakata, the hero who had been tasked to join the crusade as soon as she mastered her new abilities
From what the goddess said, she expected the war to be a long one, on which the fate of the world hinged.
To find that it simply ended like that, so soon after her arrival, and in a crushing defeat… She felt like the whole purpose of bringing her here all the way from Earth had been meaningless.
