AN: Yo Happy Halloween everyone (^.^) For a treat 2 chapter today lol.
()=MC inner thoughts
{}=MC 4th wall break thoughts
[AN:]=AN: Atleast for now
' '=Unique names [AN: IE Spell names, system names so on]
<>= System stuff
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[Still 3rd Person POV]
But it was unnecessary as she noticed he had begun to panic a bit when her mood changed. Hephaestus sighed remembering how time, and time again others had seen her eye only to be disgusted, or feared it. All but her best friend Hestia that is.
"Are you sure that is what you wish to ask Clay? You should know what is underneath isn't something interesting or pretty. It will most likely disgust you." She gazed into his eyes searching for some clue as to why he would want to do this.
"Please Hephaestus. I am sure, and I may even surprise you... Someday." Clay knew in every version he had seen, that the other Gods despised her eye greatly. And only Hestia did not have any fear, or disgust for her.
As she saw that he didn't waver, it once again caused her to release a sigh. With a brief hesitation she removed her eye-patch, while keeping her eyes closed.
Once the patch was removed Clay could fully see what was underneath it. Around her eye was charred black, with deep dark crimson cracks, as though it was a log from a fire.
He quickly discussed with Sage for ways to cure it. The best that was available to him now was to buy the spell 'Cleanse'. It should be able to cure any curse, disease, or magical negative effect, but it would depend on his strength. For something of this level he would have to be atleast level 3 or higher.
During this time that Clay was lost in thought talking with Sage. Hephaestus slowly opened her eyes to see his reaction as she hadn't heard any screaming, or yelling.
"You... You aren't afraid of my eye? Is... Isn't it disgusting to see?"She asked in a very soft voice, that if Clay had been any further away he doubted her would have heard.
"To me that is nothing more that a dumb question. Yes you eye IS different, but it doesn't change who you are. Why would I be afraid of my Goddesses best friend? Or of someone just because of there appearance?" Clay says after being brought from his talks with Sage.
This is also how Clay really felt, as even in the OG Hephaestus showed herself to be a caring, and kind person. Even in any version she always was shown to be so. She even made something worth 200M just because her friend asked her to. Yes this is real life so things are different, but peoples Fate lead to most being similar in many ways with very few exceptions from what he had seen.
Hephaestus was greatly shocked, as she did not sense any falsities in his words, and could tell from his tone he was offended not by her eye, but that she though he would be.
Silence fell as she re-evaluated him and begun to truly examine his features a bit closer, noticing he was fairly handsome. Before quickly turning away trying to clam her wild thoughts.
[MC POV]
"Clay-Kun was this what you were really after from the start?"Hestia asked with a VERY chilling tone, with a piercing stare.
I slowly turned to her giving a helpless smile saying."Kind of? Hey it's not MY fault there is a beautiful women that is hurting that I want to help."..... (SHIT!!! Think FAST!)
"Oh? I see so you are after Hephaestus as well it seems? I wonder what the others would say about this?" She says with a dangerous smile...
I can only quickly reply."Hey! Do you really think I wouldn't tell them? They ARE my wives I have no secrets from them."
Oh? I found that Hestia statue again... Now is my chance... I quickly sneak over to her and pat her head while hugging her. I say"Don't worry MY Hestia. I am sure you know I'm interested in you just as much." (Good job me. Overload her .exe this should work for now...)
Our moment is stopped by a new baleful voice from behind me again..."I see so NOT only are you after me, but your also after Hestia it seems?" Hephaestus says looking at me with a fixed glare...{FUCK is there a Def-con -1???}
"Um... Yes? What do you want from me? Your both gorgeous women, and I know I can make both of you happy given time and a chance..." I can only reply truthfully, as anything else will cause things to be ruined.
~*Silence*~
After a time Hestia seems to have pasted out from embarrassment/thoughts? There is steam coming out her ears, with a bright red face...{Haha a steamed tomato...} I quickly lay her down on the couch, then take a look over at Heph...
Look its a Hephaestus statue. I can't help but walk over to her, and blow a hot breath near her ear... She spazzes out flinging her arms around, before collapsing in her chair... {HAHA they are SO fun to tease!!!}
All this did earn me a lecture from the two of them after they snapped out of it... {WORTH IT!} Plus I used this time to talk more with Sage... So there are other options, but they are either more SP, will take longer, aren't as useful, or are a onetime use thing.
I do have some stuff that MIGHT fix her eye, but only temporarily and only the look at that. As I do have modern medicine squirreled away... {But they would really only cover it if even that.}
See the 'Cleanse' spell SHOULD also add some holy options to my next job choices hehe... Plus it has NO real cap, it's as strong as I am. Hey it will be SUPER handy later in some other worlds... {I mean like 80% ish have SOME type of curse/disease, or something... You know?}
AND it only costs 1,500 SP to get... So almost there... I'm at 950 right now so... After an hour I regain my freedom... {What? So what if I COULD just leave... I'm not going to piss them off more...I know Hestia would tell on me to the girls if I did...}
I don't bring up having a way to fix Heph's eye yet, as I don't HAVE a way yet... The lowest onetime use that would work is 1250...{Only reason the spell is so cheap is cause its strength is based of myself...} God level curses ain't cheap to fix...
I did look through the 'Missions' again, but most are crap I am NOT doing... Like ones to start a war there is one for EACH familia... Yeah I'm not starting that crap. IF it happens I'll take the mission, but not before.
Also it's only for ones I have met in someway.{Passing by someone seems to count too.} Others are meh like get X mount of valis so on, but I only can get 2 more... I want to save one for Artemis I'm hoping there is one to save her or something... So I really only have one left... I'm really hoping for a good H.M.
And no fixing Heph's eye isn't on there... 'Missions seem to be stuff like "Normal" ish objectives in a sense, and I guess healing a Goddess's cursed eye doesn't count as normal... MEH!!!
We spend a bit more time talking about stuff before we head out. I do sneak a quick peck on Heph's cheek as we leave haha... This earned me a glare from Hestia, but meh worth it... I gave her a peck on the cheek too shortly after we started to walk hehe...
The statue was back but this time I just waited for her to unfreeze... Too much teasing gets you in trouble... And I didn't want to crash her .exe like before hehe...
It does seem we'll have to have a talk later. I'm sure she will calm down her possessiveness more with some time. It's not like in the OG, but it is still there which is fine for some to be there.
BUT it's still a bit too much she glared at Heph most of the time after I called them both gorgeous... I'm sure the girls already know about it... And she isn't like that with them so...
We arrive back at Hostess. Hestia goes straight to lazing on the bed. I talk with Saya, and Kyoko about how it went... They were very ahem happy about how it ended... (I CAN SEE you two exchanging looks!!!)
With a sigh I go to finish writing the 2nd Grimoire for the girls this one was requested to be 'Arcane Mark' by them, as this way they can mark their way back, and forth in the dungeon.
The girls came back shortly later with another nice hall of 130,000, they didn't go all the way to the 10th floor, but mostly the 7-8th floors. No new wings thought sadly.
After another glorious bath with everyone hehe... Yuriko tagged teamed me with Rika during the bath hehe... But we were caught causing Hestia.exe to HARD crash haha... The others seeing this jumped in too hehe...
Hestia wouldn't look anyone in the eye before bed... {WORTH IT!!!} Still no Mark though... {My will to resist her only lasted a few days leave me alone...}
The girls were satisfied with the bath fun... Except for the orange duo Rei, and Miku they atleast waited til later in the night though, Yuriko joined as well...(Does that make the 3 of them an orange sherbet?){Yuriko has really become a nympho hehe...}
In the morning everyone goes their own ways/groups. The training will start the day after tomorrow at Heph's. All the girls are just staying in today really...
Since I'm alone today I do let the girls know I'll check out the red-light district. I got a few raised eyebrows, but they knew I wasn't going for anything they had to offer.
After wondering around a bit I finally find an entrance to it.{What? The city is HUGE!} I walk through the streets for awhile getting a number of cat calls, or ahem offers...
I think I found where Haruhime was in the OG... It's hard to be sure there are a couple that are similar, but this one has the red walls inside, so should be it?
Looking I don't see her though sadly. Well it IS the first time I'm here so it's not like I would run into her right aw..a.y.. Out of the corner of my eye in the alley next to it I see a flash of red, and yellow...
"This bitch fainted again!!! She is so useless!" As I come into the alley I hear a thug looking man complain as he walks toward someone while holding a bucket of water...
"Hey there my man, looks like your having trouble there." I call out to him as I slowly come closer.
He whips around to face me yelling."Who are you? And what do you want?"
"Oh. I was just passing by, and heard you shouting about something. So I came to take a look as I was curious."I reply offhandedly.
He nods, before snapping back at me."You still didn't tell me your name!"
"My bad. My name is Cloud, and from what I can see the one behind you is a slave right?"I say while looking over the guys shoulder at (YUP it is.) Haruhime laying on the ground seeming to just have awaken.
"What's it to you?"He says with a shrug.
"Well she seems exotic, and seeing you don't really like her how about I buy her from you, but only if the price is REASONABLE as it's just a passing fancy."I calmly say, while doing my best to appear aloof.
Looking passed the guy as he stood there thinking about my offer, Haruhime became pale hearing what I said.
But before she could say anything the guy stated back."Alright 450,000 valis take her or leave."
I took no time, but tried to seem unconcerned as I took out my guild card while having it faced down. {This way he can't see my real name, or familia hehe...}The guy was very eager to complete the deal. It looked like he was afraid I would change my mind.
It only took a few moments to change ownership of her collar to me. I have Sage start to find away to remove it, as if I do so now she will die from the collar's magic.
After I walked over and took Haruhime's hand pulling her along, I did see tears start to fall from her, but I ignored it for now as I had to get out of here quickly before anyone tried to stop us.
Once outside the district I quickly turn to face her, and say."Listen I got you out of there to save you. I will explain more later, but we need to hurry back to the others."
Her emerald eyes start to once again fill with tears. Before she can ask why, I again pull her along. {I really love my Luck this is great!}
While walking I check, and do see a mission 'Own a Slave.'. But don't want to use one of my slots for it... It's only 850 SP... Yes it is a lot but I could get more later with a different mission...{And I COULD just pick it later if I don't find a better one...}
Once back to our room everyone is still there it seems. It's safe to say they were shocked when I brought in Haruhime. I then explain what happened, how I found her, bought her so on.
After Haruhime calmed down some, and understood all that happened. I held back Shizuka from moving as Kyoko asked about her past...{What? If I don't she will go full Oneesan mode...}
Haruhime then started to tell us about herself, after some extra coaching form Hestia {It helps she is a Goddess hehe.} So her story went like this. She grew up as a dignified young lady of a noble family in the 'Far East'. Living in solitude, her home was like a cage and she had no friends.
So she developed a love for reading at a young age, as a way to escape her loneliness. She started to get flustered a bit when she told us her favorites were fairy tales, ones where the hero saves a damsel.
But before she could say more about that she was stopped by Saya. {We could all see she was about to pass out from embarrassment}
After taking some time to collect herself, she continued. At some point, children of the Takemikazuchi Familia, started taking her outside at night to play with them. But sometime later, someone framed her for eating an offering, which angered her father so much that he disowned her.
Once she reached this point she couldn't keep it back, and started to cry... I wanted to comfort her, but I was quickly kicked out by the girls... As Saeko was pushing me out the door she told me they would "Talk" with her, and help her calm down...
{Yup not going to argue that... Girls are the best at understanding other girls...}
It seems she has the same or very similar to OG past as well. Good to know... I was kicked out of the room again...
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AN: Yo
MC did not meet Tsubaki yet he will met her when he starts learning from her.
Also what do you guys think of how I did Hestia ahem seeing somethings? hehe... But she isn't there YET I want to give her a bit more time... I mean she has been "Pure" for millions of years so... But I do get she fell hard for Bell relatively quickly, but again that was over weeks so....
Next MC found Haruhime NICE! lol I did it this way as MC does have 5 times the luck of a normal person so... Meh makes sense to me lol. I plan to have the collar be what makes someone a slave, and MC will get it off... I mean she will be his wife... Also the reason they got away SO easily is again MC luck, as Ishtar familia was off in the dungeon. Or should I say Aisha was hehe... lol (^.^)
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I am planning for Artemis to be a normal mission not a hidden one so there is that. I am kind of planning for most "Extra/Side" stories to BE a mission option. I mean those from movies, spin offs so on, those will show up as missions MC can take. The rest are "Normal" stuff people can/would do. Other then that most "Plot" related stuff won't be a mission... For now... Might make it a add-on if people want it... Also right now H.M. are mostly things that are "BIG" surprises stuff like that.
On Heph's eye again will do it a bit later... Also will do Tsubaki's eye later as well as hers is from a birth defect... ish thing....
~*Spoiler for OG?+Harem+1?*~
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... SO..... If you guys haven't, or don't know about Freya you should look at the Wiki.... SO I will be changing my plan, and most likely adding her... Because OF what she did/ changed to have Bell like her... Told you guys I'ma sucker for sad ish women...[It explains WHY she was super crazy bipolar]