Perseus POV
"Wait, why'd you call us here?" Ruka asked
"Um 2 others came with me, one is yours and the other is well, mother Maple's." he shrugged
Ruka then start laughing a bit maniacally and grabbed my shoulder.
"He's lying, right?" She asked "Besides, we just ate frog legs, you can't be scared of frogs."
"That's cuz those legs are cooked and dead, but real live frogs make me anxious, slimy, poisonous, and bulgy eyes...yeah, I have an irrational fear of frogs."
Ruka then just fainted onto me while Maple approached a sofa and sat down as well while hyperventilating. I then placed Ruka on the sofa while I take all of this in.
I will currently not explain my fear of frogs because another matter takes a more important priority.
"So, um...why are you meeting your parents in the past? Shouldn't you know the butterfly effect? I didn't die in the future and you're here cuz you miss me, right?"
"Uh, you sent me." he then handed me a letter "The other 2 tagged along without permission. I don't know what's in the letter, but it's a way for you to help send us back."
I then opened it to read the letter that was sent to me from me, weird sentence, I know.
'Hey me, so my, ours, I don't know how to put it in a sentence. But yeah, God has a relic that can travel through time and I'm not gonna go into details about it, and Cain wants it, why? I won't tell you cuz it'll ruin the suspense and anticipation for the novel. So aim for the top 3, Dawn told you to get the ring of moonlight which is valued the least amongst the prizes for the top 10 or top 4 by the chief's instruction. Aim for the Star orb of mana instead, it's the 3rd place prize that year, Orion should have an instruction letter that will help you use it when the time comes.
'The 3 are currently stuck there as the relic do not have enough mana to power it, the orb has the ability to power it up and will be useful in helping you travel back to our original world. They can meet our parents and tell them their identity, who their mothers are, and the existence of time magic, but nothing else, they're not allowed to explain anything, and the rest is up to you, I'll give you permission to handle our kids however you want. You can ask them for help if you want too, good luck and please hide all the alcohol in that goddamn house before the 3 empty them.'
Crap, so they have to live with us here till the end of the main tournament, Orion then handed me a couple other letters with different labels. The one I read just now was labeled 'introduction', so fuck, Cain wants to kill God cuz he wants to use some time-traveling device that my...'son' possess.
So my children came from the future...and based on the fact that I am allowed to ask them for help means that there's a future situation where I need the help of my own future child who's standing in front of me as an 8-star mage. And the fact that my future self had to send him here, it must mean something.
But damn, just when I thought my life can't get anymore confusing...Ruka fainted, Maple is now nervously chewing on a cookie and I can see her contemplating whether to get drunk as well, it's really hard to accept all this.
"So where's the other 2?"
"Resting, but you can meet them tomorrow, I already know where your hotel is." he answered
Orion then approaches Lilith and takes the alcohol bottle away from her.
"This is like your 11th bottle? Why are you barely flushed and how are you not going to the restroom yet?" he asked
"I'm a goddess, I can only be truly drunk if I want to. Besides, I don't need to relieve myself, oh no, if I marry him and become mortal, I will need to pee and poop, don't I? This is not a good day for me." Lilith then got a whisky bottle from a nearby cabinet and start drinking it which Orion took away as well "This seriously can't be happening to me."
"Wait, you being a goddess wasn't just some joke?"
"What? Why would anyone joke about that?" Lilith looked incredibly offended
"I don't know, people call their spouses by different titles all the time, princess, queen, goddess...etc."
"Right, if anyone doesn't mind, I'm gonna go back to the hotel and get some sleep, so I can think properly tomorrow, this situation is something that only happens in novels and isn't something I'd expect to happen ever, uh...Orion, get your siblings and meet me at the hotel tomorrow afternoon, and please, empty hide every alcoholic drink in the house."
Lilith teleported me and Maple back home right after, Ruka needed some company away from me, so she'll stay with Lilith for the night. Leilah asked me what was wrong, but I told her to wait till I wake up in the morning, Maple cast a barrier around our rooms and just slept next to Leilah who is now forced to sleep between her younger sister and me.
Buddy seems concerned about me as well, but he didn't really question it as he just snuggles next to me and sleeps peacefully.
*****
It's a lot to take in, even after I woke up, I thought it was all just a dream, but when I see Maple sleeping next to Leilah, it made sense. The goddesses don't need sleep, but they do it to pass time sometimes since they have already seen most things and sometimes want to rest up even though it doesn't really benefit them apart from making time go faster for them.
"What's going on?" Leilah asked once we all got up in the morning "Was it that mentally straining after you invaded the holy knight's mind?"
"I'm fine." I replied and gave her a quick kiss "You're not gonna believe what happened though."
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