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章節 431: Unknown Future

" " "We're home!" " " Sona, Aika, and Koneko simultaneously shouted when they entered the mansion along with Yoruichi.

Kisuke, Kuroka, Medusa, and Hestia were already waiting while having some tea in the living room ever since they heard about the strange and sudden quest they received from a very suspicious individual.

When the four entered the living room, the first one to jump on them was Kuroka as she pounced on Koneko first, "Welcome back, nya~! Are you alright!? Did you get hurt anywhere!?" Kuroka inspected Koneko from head to toe and seeing that nothing was wrong with her nor with the other two, she sighed in relief.

"Kuroka-neesama... We're fine, but we're also tired." Koneko replied as she snuggled into Kuroka's arm.

Medusa went to the kitchen so that she could prepare some more tea and snacks for those who just came home.

"Uhmm, could you please tell me now what just happened?" Hestia asked after everyone finished their greetings.

Sona nodded and started telling everyone what exactly happened. The group already decided that they would tell everything that happened in this world to Hestia except for a few exceptions like the incident with the mutated Balor and the 50th Floor's Juggernaut.

Hestia kept her brows furrowed, her eyes closed, and nodding every now and then while listening to their story. But everyone who was watching had to stop themselves from laughing as it was painfully obvious that she didn't understand most of it despite acting like she already saw through Sona's story.

'I should ask Yoruichi to teach her how to do a poker face so that she wouldn't reveal everything with just her expression.' Kisuke thought as he contemplated the decision to let Hestia in on these secrets, "Ehem, have you noticed anything else?"

Although Kisuke was interested in Olivas's 'resurrection', he didn't have enough materials to investigate and draw a conclusion from it. But he could at least tell that these plant-type monsters, human-monster hybrid, and the mysterious 'her' belonged to the other 'player' in the Dungeon.

"Hmm... This Olivas called those suicide bombers as the remnant of Evilus. Aside from that, cages containing these Violas were also spotted in the pantry." Sona answered.

"Cages?"

"Yes. There were iron cages. The same as the ones used in the MonsterPhilia to contain monsters."

'The fact that these monsters appeared on the surface, then it means that someone is smuggling them in. But the only ones capable of doing this without other's detection is the Guild or the Ganesha Familia with the help of the Guild.' While thinking about this point, Kisuke received a signal from Yoruichi which wasn't noticed by anyone but him. "Then regarding the 'invitation' to the 59th floor by this so-called Revis, the Loki Familia will probably arrange an expedition to get to the bottom of this. What will you do?" But instead of facing towards her direction, Kisuke immediately continued their topic, 'She knows something, huh.' Kisuke thought.

Sona nodded, "I also thought that it would be the case." She looked to the other two before facing Kisuke again, "Can we go too?"

Kisuke smiled and immediately answered, "Sure~. But we first have to work out the schedule and discuss it with the Loki Familia. The Loki Familia would take at least a week to prepare for the expedition due to their recent loss of equipment and Riveria-san would be coming here every two days from now on."

"We'll work it out with Riveria-san." Sona happily replied.

Kisuke stood up, "Then I'll leave that to you. I'll go back to my lab first to finish my own preparation. It should be done after 4 days."

Sona knew that when Kisuke said his 'own' preparation, it's actually for everyone. She jumped in his arms and hugged him tightly, "Thank you for your hard work."

Patting her head, Kisuke replied, "It's a fun and interesting job, so I don't mind getting tired over it. Besides, now that my girls decided to write their own story, I have to do my best to support you from behind, of course without interfering too much."

"We'll never let you down." Sona softly muttered.

Kisuke smiled wryly and separated from Sona, "Sit down first. All of you too."

Everyone except for Yoruichi became confused, however, Sona still followed him and sat down on the couch with the rest.

"Now then, let me just say a few things." After feigning a cough and when everyone's attention was on him, Kisuke continued, "This may sound egoistic, but I won't pretend to not notice how you girls feel about me."

As he said this, Kisuke received some sneers, "Ehem... But this isn't about that." Then he put on a serious expression, "It's about how you think of this relationship. I know that you'd put your everything on the line so that you won't let the others down, but hear me out. Please don't ever think that this is all about us."

"Don't ever forget the 'you' in 'us'. The reason why I asked you to do anything you want, is so that 'you' could have a world outside of 'us'. If you limit 'yourself', then you'll only find a dead end in the future. No man's knowledge can go beyond his experience"

"Just chill and don't overthink things, after all, we'll be together forever." Kisuke, without waiting for them to respond, left the living room to continue his work. It would be better for them to just think about his words on their own.

Just as Kisuke was about to enter his laboratory, Hestia came running and followed him, "Hmm? Do you need something, Hestia-sama?"

Catching her breath, Hestia faced Kisuke, "Are you sure about this?"

"About what?"

"Letting them go and have their own experiences. It may sound good, but it doesn't always end well. Especially the 'forever' part. You could have just told them that 'you should experience life together'."

Kisuke only gave her a smile, "I don't know what you've seen in your life, Hestia-sama. What you saw may or may not happen to us, but regardless of that, I want everyone to experience what life truly has to offer without limiting themselves. Even if it means that we may go our own separate ways in the future, at least, we got to explore many things."

Kisuke then turned around and went on his way, but before he closed the door of the laboratory, he said, "Between beautiful lies and painful truths, I would always choose the latter any time of the day."

Hestia sighed, but she also couldn't help but smile at the thought of how different he is to others, "Different from other children who're confined in their thoughts and different from Gods who're confined in their own worlds... Whether this is a good or a bad thing, I look forward to the future~."

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Today in Dr. Freud's talkshow

Alexander: Today, author-san left me in awe, since I could never squeeze something like this out of my brain. That was some real deep shit. But, this is what makes this fan-fic so different from others. By the way, is this a milestone of the Hestia road?

28th00: FOR SHAME! We don't lewd Bestia! She's like Ophis! We pamper her, pat her and feed her! They're about the same size too, with the same interest in incredibly scandalous clothing...


章節 432: Inspection?

The next day, Hephaestus arrived after being called over by Kisuke, telling her that they were moving ahead of schedule and that he already finished his preparations.

Hephaestus arrived and was guided by Hestia, with a twitching face, towards a certain big building in their underground hideout.

"Hooh, he built something like this in just a few days? Truly amazing. Did everyone help out to build this or did he hire some people?" Hephaestus asked after seeing it from the distance. Then she looked towards Hestia and was shocked, when she saw Hestia making a very complicated expression, "What's wrong?"

"...It wasn't here last night." Hestia softly muttered.

"...Huh?" Hephaestus thought that she heard it wrong and asked.

"Before I slept last night, this building wasn't here! And apparently, he worked on it alone!" Hestia shouted her frustration as she recalled Kisuke's words this morning, 'Building? I can make a few more like this. Would you like some?'

'This isn't some limited edition Jaggamaru-kun that you can just offer!' She remembered retorting to him.

"H-he did this overnight?"

"No. He said he woke up early and did this."

"..."

The awkward atmosphere was broken by Kisuke, who caused it in the first place, after he suddenly got out of the said building and greeted Hephaestus, "Good morning, Hephaestus-sama~! Is your side good to go?"

Hephaestus chose to not think about it for the moment and focused on their current place for forging these Sacred Gears, "The materials are outside. It should be enough for what we are about to do."

"Thank you very much~." Kisuke then faced Hestia, "Hestia-sama, please let the others take those materials in."

Hestia just simply nodded and went to the dining room where everyone was having breakfast.

"Now then, Hephaestus-sama, please follow me inside. I'm going to show you the equipment that we'll be using and explain to you how these things work."

Hephaestus nodded and followed him inside as she prepared herself, 'He could build something like this easily, so his equipment should be on another level. More so with the fact that he seems to put great importance in these Sacred Gears.'

The tour took half an hour and by the end of it, Hephaestus was completely speechless, 'T-this... Where did his technology come from!? I couldn't even understand the use of half of the equipment that we'll apparently use!'

Shaking her head, Hephaestus partly gave up since she knew that she wouldn't be getting any answers from Kisuke. Even if she could, she had a feeling that it would only make things worse so she saved herself from more headaches, "If I understand it correctly, all of these will speed up the process of forging and most of the time that will be saved is from curing the materials?"

"Yep. So for now, we'll work for two days and rest one day. We should be done by the seventh day." Kisuke replied with a smile.

"Great. We should start." Hephaestus then went towards the entrance and started to arrange the materials that the others brought in.

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Two days later, in the morning, Hephaestus and Kisuke finally left the building, "Well then, I'll see you again tomorrow." Hephaestus bid her farewell.

"I'll lead you outside."

"It's fine. I'll just ask Hestia. Besides..." Hephaestus then looked towards some people who were coming over, "It seems that you won't be getting any downtime."

"Hephaestus-sama, Kisuke-san, good morning." Riveria greeted them with Ais, Line, and the rest of the girls behind them.

"Good morning to you too, Nine Hell. As much as I would like to have a good talk with you, I have to go since I still need to do some work at my place. So if you'll please excuse me."

"Please don't mind me, Hephaestus-sama."

Hephaestus nodded and bid her farewell to everyone before leaving with Hestia.

After they left, Riveria faced Kisuke, "I'm sorry for bothering you, but if you have some free time, I'd like to consult something."

"Sure, but for now, let's have a meal." Kisuke invited Riveria, Ais, and Line to a meal. The other girls already had theirs so they were doing some sparring before diving back to the Dungeon.

During the meal, Kisuke and Riveria only talked about some trivial stuff about what was currently happening in Orario while Ais and Line only silently ate their food. While Ais was truly a silent type of person, Line, a clumsy girl, only realized now that she was currently with the top Adventurers of their Familia and couldn't immediately calm down, 'It's a lot different when Loki-sama is here...', was what she thought as she recalled and missed her noisy Goddess.

Once they finished their meal, Kisuke served everyone a cup of tea. Riveria and the two girls thanked Kisuke.

"You're welcome." Kisuke sat down and continued their talk, "Well then, let's go with today's agenda. But before that, how are you feeling, Line-san?"

Line was trying to distract herself and quietly sipped her tea. But when Kisuke suddenly addressed her, she almost spat out her tea, "*Cough* *Cough*, y-yes? Ah, yes! I'm fine! Aside from feeling slightly heavy, everything is going as normal. You asked me not to go to the Dungeon for a while so I practiced my magic and I couldn't find any problem. I also progressed with my magic."

"Is that so? Then you can join the others when they go to the Dungeon later. If you want, you can also join them now with their sparring."

Line was a bit shocked, "Is that fine?"

"Yep. You can go. Those three also enjoy acting like a senpai or something. Every time when they buy some potions, they would act like some 'great teacher' or 'wise senior', teaching a newbie Adventurer some 'tips and tricks'."

Line didn't know how she should react to Kisuke's words, but the chance of sparring with them, especially with 'seniors' of the group, Yoruichi, Kuroka, and Medusa, she wouldn't want to miss out on. Line drank her tea with big gulps and stood up and said, "Please excuse me.", before running off.

Seeing this, Ais was a bit envious. She wanted to know about the secret to their strength and the easiest way to do that, for her, is sparring with said person. She heard from Bete how Yoruichi played around with Olivas, who was a match with him, despite just being a Level 2 and had been curious about it all this time.

Noticing her stare, Kisuke also said, "You can watch them or join them if you want."

Ais' eyes widened as she didn't expect that Kisuke would offer it to her by himself. It must be known that Inter-Familia sparring is very rare as it could reveal the other party's secrets and skills, "Is that fine?"

"Yep, you can go. Besides, you'll get bored with us just talking."

Like Line, Ais also immediately drank her tea and stood up, "Excuse me." Before running off.

"...I'm sorry for their poor manners." Riveria could only apologize.

Laughing out loud, Kisuke just waved his hand, "It's fine, it's fine. It's good that they're pretty energetic. Besides, I'll also teach her some things as I promised. But enough of that. It seems that you have a problem?"

Riveria nodded her head, "Yes. You asked me to also study the books that you gave Line, but I can't emulate what she's doing. I kept failing."

Kisuke furrowed his brows, "You kept failing?"

Riveria nodded again.

The two of them went silent for a few seconds before Kisuke suddenly remembered something and muttered, "...Could it be...?"

"Did you figure something out?" Riveria asked excitedly.

Kisuke nodded and with a serious face, he asked, "Can I touch your ears?"

In response, Riveria couldn't help but back away and look at him like he was a pervert.

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Comment section

Alexander: What a ride. Because I had been busy for a few days, I didn't edit anything. So today I've read through four chapters, from So-tans Bad-Ass scene over soap opera to comedy relief and the beginning of a training session. Only for cliff-kun to leave me hanging for a day with an erofu.

28th00: I was promised something exceeding Ear Waggles. So this is how it's gonna be, huh G0yya?

Goyya: Yes. Another victim.


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