Akira imagined he was going to be bored today he went to the dungeon the day before and cleared up to floor 80 the monster mobs are around level 6 there so it's starting to get fun he thinks the next monster Rex will give him an awesome fight
Akira decided he'll go give Hephaestus the necklace now since he has nothing to do
As he was heading there he managed to catch wind of the monsterphilia and thought everything is pretty backwards plot wise
Akira: Isn't this how Loki familia found out about those violas? That's weird since they already fought the Demi spirit
He didn't care much anyway if those guys try to destroy my things I'll just swing EA at Knossos and destroy it
Akira just got to Hephaestus shop and knocked on the door waited some minutes and then she came out and was surprised to see Akira but welcomed him in anyway
Hephaestus: Akira what are you doing here?
Akira: I actually came because I made something that will help you out a lot
Akira pulled the box with the necklace inside and gave it to her as she took it and opened the box she was really happy with it and immediately put it on as she did her cursed eye started to glow and I handed her a mirror
Hephaestus took off her eye path and saw her regular eye looking back at her
Hephaestus: Is this real?
Hephaestus said this with tears falling from her eyes Akira assured her that it's real and Hephaestus didn't even bother anymore and Jumped straight into his arms and gave him a kiss
Akira was a bit stunned but didn't reject her he was going to ask her out anyway so this is a good thing for him
Hephaestus was happy he didn't pull away and they spent the day by with them spending time with each other and confirming their relationship
Akira thought he's going to go to twighlight manor the next day after training Ais he's going to get a meeting with Finn to throw some clues he's found about evilus and their movements he should appreciate that for sure
After Akira left he suddenly felt a strange whisper in his ears saying to follow he put it in the back of his head for now he's got stuff to do he feels like that's an adventure for another day perhaps he'll go after that weird spirit amalgamation dragon thing gets killed
As he was walking along the road he spotted Ais buying an obscene amount of jagamarukun Akira chuckled and called out
Akira: Hey Ais!
Ais turned and found Akira standing there and ran over before hesitating for a little while before she reluctantly handed him a jagamarukun
Akira thought this was an incredibly wholesome scene and took it from her
Akira: Thank you, you really like these things huh?
Ais: They are my favourite
Akira is still worried about what to do about Aria so he's having trouble with Ais he believes the one eyed black dragon is on the 100th floor so he just has to push some more before reaching there and when he does he can save Ais mother
Akira put this thought away for now and decided to save Ais mother and then ask her out that would be a good surprise and definitely fix her emotions better
Akira: want to go shopping?
Ais nodded and followed along while constantly eating jagamarukuns as they were having fun they were gathering quite the amount of people gossiping about them possibly being on a date but they ignored it..
Akira was just on his way home after dropping Ais back at the twighlight mansion he managed to talk to Finn too and sent him with suspicions towards Dionysus he's starting to put the puzzle together now
As I was going home I suddenly saw Ryuu in her adventure attire jumping on some rooftops so I decided to follow her and figure out what she's doing
While following Akira thought this city is much smaller then he thought just how many people do I accidentally run into while walking around
As he saw Ryuu go into the dungeon he decided to go along and keep her safe she is quite strong especially with the sword he gave but it never hurts to be careful
We ended up on the 18th floor and Ryuu walked way outside the town to a secluded spot before coming to a clearing with lots of graves and Ryuu changed the flowers and clean them before she sat down and started talking about how her life's going to her deceased familia
Towards the end of her talking she started crying so i came out and hugged her as she talked I didn't say anything but I didn't need to
After that Ryuu looked at me and said something that I didn't expect
Ryuu: Can you take me to the deep floors past where anyone has been I'd like to see
Akira: umm I guess I can just for sightseeing though you can't fight just stay close to me okay
Ryuu: Mhmm
Ryuu nodded so it was randomly decided that we'll be going on a spontaneous expedition just the two of us and as we went through the lower floors Ryuu was going a bit crazy I think she might have just wanted to vent a bit
This reminds me I think I'll go find Astraea and bring her over to Orario for a vacation unless she wants to stay for good that might be better for Ryuu then just going to join the Hestia familia
Akira thought to himself this was a great plan little did he know this plan is going to end up with another goddess unceremoniously crashing in his house without the intention to leave…