Calvin opened his swollen eyes feeling like he had slept a long time.
He found himself looking at a familiar ceiling, he tried moving but a wave of pain rushed through his entire body and accumulated on his chest and right arm.
Glancing to the side, he saw his chest and right arm covered in bandages bringing him flashbacks of his fight with Ais.
Regaining the sense of touch on his body, he felt someone breathing down his neck, glancing to the other side he saw Hestia hugging his left side.
She had dark spots under her eyes, presumably from lack of sleep.
touched by her actions he moved his left arm and caressed her head, ignoring the sharp pain that came with every movement "Were you taking care of me?"
Feeling his touch, Hestia's eyes parted open, showing her tired azure eyes that shone once she saw him "You're awake! How do you feel?"
He sat on the bed while grimacing at the pain. "Like shit, how long was I out?"
Hestia sat on the bed beside him. "You've been sleeping for a week"
Calvin widened his eyes. "A week?! Damm…" he had sub estimated the side effects of [Divinity].
"Yeah" She looked at him tenderly. "We were really worried" lifting her hand and caressing the right side of his face, which had a slight cut that didn't seem to be healing anytime soon.
A slight sense of guilt grew in him as he noticed Hestia's tired sleepless eyes, and disheveled hair. He lifted his good hand and caressed her cheek just like she was doing to him. "Sorry…" his tone was warm and gentle.
They stared at each other in silence, and their hands began to pull on one another's faces, bringing them closer together.
Suddenly, Hestia kneeled on the bed, giving her the high ground, and moved her hand from his cheek to behind his head and brought Him closer, hugging his head to her chest, her face reddening slightly. "I'm just glad you are okay"
However, Calvin did not notice her blush, he was busy indulging in the feeling of the goddess's breast on his face, his good hand creeping towards her behind, but before he could do anything, his hand was pinched.
Hestia frowned slightly, thinking about how their relationship had gotten a bit deeper, but it got more physical as well. She then let go of his head and sat on the bed once again, her blush slowly disappearing.
Calvin looked at her amused, but decided to not push his luck any further, after all, he didn't want to drown the seed he had planted. "Anyway, what happened while I was unconscious?"
"I went like this…
>>>> One week before<<<<
Hestia was in the mansion resting on the living room's couch like she always did.
The only ones in the mansion were her, Learner, and Wiene. Bell and the team had left for the Dungeon a few hours before.
*Knock* *Knock*
Suddenly, the door was knocked, she got up sluggishly and she went to see who it was "Ugh…"
*Click*
Opening the door, she found a little bunny on her doorstep "Is this a prank-"
Suddenly, the bunny spoke. "Hestia-sama, Miach-sama is requesting your immediate presence in his shop"
She raised an eyebrow. 'What could Miach want?'
The bunny noticed her confusion. "It's about Calvin, he's gravely injured" he let that information sink in before continuing. "I suggest you bring a Healer with you as well"
Hestia widened her eyes before she went to bring Learner from Calvin's room, Wiene coming with her too.
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As they reached Miach's shop that doubled as his home. They ran face to face with Loki, Riveria, and Finn.
Hestia and Loki looked at each other with hostility, but they didn't let their rivalry get in the way of the situation, nodding at each other in the process and entering Miach's shop.
Entering the shop, they were greeted by a nervous Cassandra, a former member of the Apollo Familia, "P-please follow me" Leading them to the back of the shop.
Hestia and Loki noticed how they were also following a trail of blood, panic gripping their hearth for a second.
Reaching the place, it was a white room, with various herbs and bottles and in the middle were 2 stretchers.
On the right was Ais; her armor was heavily damaged and there were some bruises on her along with a cut on her left cheek that kept bleeding.
And on the left was Calvin; He also had purple bruises all over his body, his right forearm was destroyed, he had a cut on his right cheek, and a small part of his right ear was missing.
Miach was tending Calvin, a job that seemed difficult when one looked at the table between the 2 stretchers, the rightmost side having a stack of glass bottles, while the left side had only a dozen.
The goddesses went to their respective member's sides and examined them, Hestia telling Wiene to wait outside.
Miach poured another bottle of red liquid down Calvin's throat, slightly reducing the bruising on his body but doing nothing to his arm "It's not working" he had already poured more than a dozen potions on his arm and it showed no signs of healing.
Hestia looked at Miach, before glancing a Calvin, her worry becoming apparent by the sudden shine of her eyes, she looked away, perturbed by the exposed muscle and bone in Calvin's arm.
Meanwhile, Learner stood beside Miach examining Calvin's arm, her hand starting to glow a deep green color. "Heal"
Miach widened his eyes, even if he wasn't the best god in magic, he was still a god, surprised by how pure Learner's magic was, but quickly got over it, clasping Learner's wrist "Wait, you can't just heal him, you need to go muscle by muscle, healing the surface won't do anything"
Learner glared at Miach, her hostility leaking from her mouth "Let go."
Miach felt a drop of cold sweat run down the side of his face, he had never been treated with so much hostility, deciding to not anger her any further he let go of her hand.
Her nails grew in size, and she began using her fingers as surgical tweezers, connecting his tendons, and muscles, but she saw how there were still some parts that were healing at an abysmally slow rate. 'that's abnormal'
She thought about mixing Bent with Healing magic to speed up the process but decided against it 'Past iterations of Bent-Magic mixture have been overly destructive' she couldn't think about what could happen, what if Calvin started mutating uncontrollably?
She didn't know if Healing magic's seemingly out of nowhere tissue creation and Bent's speeding of cell division went hand in hand with one another.
Thus, she left those spaces that she couldn't completely heal untouched, she wanted to experiment more with magic before doing anything risky.
She then continued healing Calvin's arm finishing by putting the skin back together, leaving some crack-like red markings on the surface of his arm.
Meanwhile, Miach and Hestia looked at Learner with widened eyes, amazed at Learner's precise movements.
Learner shook off the blood on her hands as if it didn't stick to her skin at all, she looked a lot calmer now "Done" she turned to Miach. "Can we take him home now?"
Taking him out of his stupor, Miach saw no problem in them leaving "Huh? Y-yeah"
Hearing Miach's words, Riveria spoke to Learner. "Wait! How did you do that?" she, as a great mage, also noticed how powerful Learner's magic was.
Learner raised an eyebrow at the stupid question, why would she even answer that?
Seeing her reaction Riveria decided to leave that for later "Never mind, I was wondering if you could heal Curses" she pointed at Ais's cheek from where a small stream of blood was constantly running down.
Learner looked at the cut, and realized that it was the same curse that had afflicted Calvin not too long ago "Easy"
She approached Ais with her hand glowing white and dispelled the curse "Done"
Riveria examined the white glow but couldn't grasp anything from it, she turned to Learner with a slight bow "Thank you"
Learner nodded in silence before lifting Calvin's body from the stretcher with wind magic and walking off, bringing Calvin with her, Hestia following right after.
"Wait a minute!" Loki exclaimed "I've yet to know what the hell happened to these two!"
Hestia looked at Loki in the 'eyes' clearly pissed at her attitude, after all, the one with the worst injuries was Calvin "Loki… it's better if we wait for them to wake up first" she then turned around and went out.
Seeing how angry Hestia was, Loki decided to shut her mouth.
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"… And then we came home, and took care of you until now" Hestia finished her story.