Looking at the trembling goddess, that was about to cry, Calvin's face softened a little but soon returned to normal.
'Must be the effect of her divinity'
Hestia on the other hand tried to keep her lips shut while she trembled on the edge of the bed, looking down trying to hold her tears.
Calvin looked at her with pity for a moment but shrugged it off.
'At some point, someone has to tell her that she's a shitty goddess, right?' he thought turning away from the goddess.
"I…" Hestia spoke in a small voice that could break at any moment.
"You?" he said facing Hestia once again.
"I did it because I know that deep inside you are a good person!" She exclaimed, facing him as tears ran down her face.
Hearing those words Calvin couldn't help but feel confused.
"A good person? I've killed so many people and ruined so many lives, I've committed countless crimes and even then, you say that I am a good person?" he asked highly doubting the goddess's statement.
"Yes… I know that deep inside you've done many great things!" Hestia affirmed.
'Many great things, huh?' he stood there silently reminiscing about his past.
'Let's see what good things I've done…' at that moment he found himself in front of a mirror on the white space that was his mindscape.
"you've been more active lately…" Calvin said to the mirror.
The mirror then showed his entire life in seconds and went slower in some parts of it.
It showed that time when he saved Ella from her fate of drinking a love potion that would make her love her disgusting father, and probably become just a baby-making machine for him.
It then resumed and stopped again.
His time at the walls of Gadvera defending, well… more like forced to defend it from the Ilethan army, saved Baroke from being controlled and choked that bitch to death, or at least that's what he thought at the moment.
The mirror kept running through his life slowing down at moments where he did 'good' until it reached the present and showed the darkness in the other side of the mirror.
'I guess I'm not as bad as I thought' closing his eyes and exiting his mindscape and finding himself in front of Hestia.
'Great, now I feel bad for saying those things' looking at the sobbing goddess.
He sighed getting closer and hugging her.
Feeling his action, at first, she didn't like it, she didn't want his pity, but then she noticed how he really felt bad and was genuinely trying to comfort her.
'You… idiot' she really needed some comfort, reciprocating the hug she stopped holding back and buried her face on his chest while shedding tears.
Calvin just decided to watch silently
At some point, his legs got tired, and laid on the bed while they were still hugging each other.
When she stopped, she looked at Calvin in the eyes and he couldn't help but admire her sapphire-like blue eyes.
"Beautiful" He blurted shocking himself and Hestia in the process.
'Ehh? Why would you say that now?!' The goddess thought, as her heart skipped a beat, and her check burned.
'W-what happened to me?' she had heard those words countless times in heaven, most male gods wanted to bed her just to steal her virginity, and their words always seemed empty and full of lust, but this time, she could feel how it was genuine even though there was still lust in them, but by now she had gotten used to his lustful nature, that time when she saw his soul, she could feel boundless lust inside him, but it wasn't directed at anyone.
Calvin on the other hand was baffled at his statement.
'Does the love potion not work? I'm sure it worked against Ishtar's natural charm, but she wasn't using her divinity at the time…' he was underestimating divinity, divinity seemed to be above everything, above the system, above the love potion, and even though he wouldn't say it out loud, above himself.
'Gods are truly above everything I've known… and what if I could use that power?' resisting the urge to smile like a villain, he looked at the flustered Hestia on top of him.
"Sorry, you've been leaking your divinity for a while now, it was too much for a mortal like me" he said in a joking manner.
Hestia looked at him and said nothing getting up and sitting on his lap, making it look like she was straddling him, but she soon realized the position she was in and sat on the side of the bed with a noticeable blush on her face.
'Wait a minute…' he sat on the edge of the bed besides Hestia that looked away 'she may be a god and all but… she's still a living being, right?' as the veins on his arm turned black.
"Hestia" He spoke breaking the ice that had formed after he called her 'beautiful'.
She turned to face him but her eyes wavered around the room never meeting his.
"You wanted to know my story, right?" he asked.
"Yes…"
"Okay, but first you must do something for me alright?" he said catching the goddess's attention and making her look into his eyes.
"Give me your hand and don't resist" extending his hand at her.
Hestia looked at him weirdly but felt no ill intentions from him so she took his hand.
To his surprise nothing happened, he didn't feel anything different.
But Hestia knew that it wasn't the case, she could feel something tugging at her divinity and making her arm feel really good.
'Is he trying to take my divinity?' various emotions flashed on her face fear, anger, disappointment but then returned to normal.
'No, I shouldn't judge him yet, as I've yet to do what he said' she then stopped resisting the unknown force and instantly felt how it swirled around her divinity as if trying to just take a small fraction of it.
But it was slow, so slow that she thought this would take weeks to complete.
Calvin was thinking the same but he then remembered how to make this go faster.
He then grabbed her face with his other hand and got even closer to her.
"Don't be afraid, this is part of the process" he said, and before she could articulate anything he pressed his lips on hers catching her off guard.
"Mhu?!" she exclaimed with wide eyes but she could feel her heart hammering on her chest.
'No way, no way, no way!' her brain couldn't comprehend what was happening, Calvin was kissing her, but it wasn't a hungry or lustful kiss, it was a gentle one, but due to her inexperience he was easily dominating her.
And at the same time, she could feel how that force came through her mouth and extracted a bit of her divinity, washing away her powers from it leaving it 'Blank'.
A small ball of light formed on her chest that then slowly moved upwards.
But it was again too slow.
Seeing that Calvin decided to turn it up by a notch, putting his arm around her hip and lifting her off the ground while the other intertwined his fingers with hers.
The sudden movement scared Hestia as her free arm circled his neck
This made the ball of light travel faster and into her throat but it was still too slow.
Suddenly, his tongue gently parted her lips and explored her mouth, her eyes rolled back as she could feel how fireworks went off in her brain, incapable of responding to the new sensation.
Letting go of her hand, he hugged her closer to himself as her now free hand found itself wrapping around his neck.
'Nooo… we're kissing like lovers!!' is all she could think before giving in to the pleasure and accepting the sloppy kiss.
Meanwhile, the ball of light went up to her mouth and traveled through her twisting tongue and into Calvin's, it then made its way down onto his chest where his heart should be and stopped there, letting the darkness in his soul seep inside the light and enveloping it completely.
As this was happening, the 2 continued their kiss for a couple more minutes unbeknownst to them the process had already finished.
They separated their lips leaving a thin bridge of saliva between them.
Their breathing was ragged, more so Hestia's as she didn't have any experience at all.
Her eyes were cloudy as she stared at Calvin's violet eyes with her ocean-blue ones.
With her arms locked around his neck and him hugging her strongly, she could feel something hard pressing against her stomach making her wake up of her stupor and remember her status as a god and not a little girl in love.
"Ha…" calming down and regulating her breath she slowly removed her arms from Calvin.
"Calvin… let go" their faces were so close that they could feel each other's breath.
Hearing her words, he tightened his hug, how could he let such a woman go? She was already within his grasp just one more push and… he would surely regret it.
'Can I call myself a man if I let her go? But then again can I can myself a gentleman if I do not?' that was the question that repeated in Calvin's mind.
"Calvin, we can't, a god and a mortal it's not allowed" she said grabbing his wrists that were locked behind her.
Calvin leaned closer to her, afraid that he might kiss her again, she turned her head away.
"And what if I become a God?" he asked in her ear.
"I guess that wouldn't be frowned upon" she answered not taking the question seriously as there was no way a mortal could become a god without a god's help and she certainly didn't have the power to do so.
"Alright, be sure to remember that for the future" lowering her to the floor and letting go.
"Okay" fixing up her clothes and hair that were all messy after their little interaction.
"Now get out" she ordered.
"Huh?" he muttered, surprised by her words
"Go away, you need to apologize to Ais, right? we'll have a long talk later" she said kicking him out of her room and closing the door.
Calvin stared at the door for a second before looking at the notifications of the system, making a wild grin appear on his face.