"Hey there Athena... Looking forward to dinner?" I ask her trying to defuse the situation quickly. She lowers the book a bit and looks at me, then at the plate that was set in front of her, and then at everyone else that is sitting around with us (The Shinobi). She then shrugs and bites into the small pile of mashed potatoes on her plate.
Is... Is this going to be it? Does she just... not care? Well! If she won't let it bother her then I won't let it bother me either! So while she is enjoying her book and eating I relax and start talking to everyone that is here and see what all happened. Each head of the different teams told me what happened, Garrus apparently went and learned everything that the blacksmith knew quickly apparently, well he apparently recorded him and whenever he would ask a question he was just trying to make sure that everything was accurate, but thanks to that he now knows how to work with most of the common and uncommon metals. He knows some of the Rare metals methods but none of the Legendary, so not too bad of a start all things considered and it seems like he is going to teach everyone the methods tomorrow so he requires more raw ores of these metals so I gave the money to Tsunade to Deal with.
I then talked to Orochimaru and it seemed that he squeezed the poor alchemist for everything that he was worth regarding information, but he still wishes for more knowledge on the subject. He even told me he may have found a breakthrough on the Elixir that would allow for people to take it even more. This shocked me but he said that he was missing a very important piece to stabilize it and he hoped that one of the ingredients in this dimension would help with that. I then told him that there should be a library in the city and that he can take a look with me when I go to pick up Athena's books. He seemed very happy about it and readily agreed.
I then looked at Tsunade and raised an eyebrow to wait for her to tell me what happened. It seems that they walked all split up and managed to cover the whole city in less than 4 hours, they each also filled out a small notebook of various things and what the average price of these things are. It seems that everything here is cheaper than it should be due to the dungeon being so deadly. There is only a few Familia capable of reaching the permanent safe zone on the 15th floor and even fewer still that can actually make it to the 22nd floor. She even told me that the lowest anyone has gone was the 25th floor and they had been down there for months so the whole troop was considered dead.
I was quite shocked to hear about this, but before I could recover she asked me for permission to get various products from the Shinobi world to sell here. After making sure that it wasn't anything too amazing, just foodstuffs and some cheap disposable weapons like I thought would be useful here. There were even some scrolls that she wanted to sell and since they were able to be used with just tearing them and didn't really have anything too dangerous on them, in fact there was one scroll that she wanted to sell that had a campsite for 3 packed into it, so I gave her permission since I'm sure adventurers would love those.
Now it was time for the three teams, well it wasn't too complicated actually. I just told them that what we just did they would be doing on their own every day for around 2 hours, well except for the weekend. I wanted everyone to be able to relax at least a bit over the weekend since the Dungeon is pretty terrifying. Hell, I would have been so screwed stamina wise if it wasn't for my regeneration ability and that was 6 hours, I can't imagine making these poor bastards go through a day or 2 long trip let alone a 4 hour long one.
After we all finished our dinner it seemed that everyone wanted to go back and be with their families in the Crossroads, so I let everyone go and got to work putting seals everywhere. The only people who stayed were Darkness, Tsunade, Esdeath, and Shiro. I can guess the three of them, but Esdeath is the odd one out. I just ignored them as they all worked together cleaning up, it seems Shiro was sparking up a conversation with Athena so I started sweating a bit hoping that she doesn't say something that will go and make everything crumble down. No, have faith in Shiro, if anyone will fuck it up, I know it will be me somehow. Haha, it's sad because it's true.
Alright, well I've gone and put down some near permanent seals down, this way only those that I don't posses enmity towards me or, well anyone that I put on the white list. I also made it so that only those that have seals on their hands or are touching those with a seal can enter, that way if we have a guest they can enter. However if the guest has enmity then, and I'm not quite sure how I pulled this off myself, but if someone enters with enmity then they will immediately teleport to a cell that I have created. Oh and so that I don't accidentally let them starve I asked the system to inform me whenever there was someone there so I could deal with it.
Hm, that covers a hostage situation and a robber. Let's see... strengthening the manor? Yeah I don't see why not. I can reinforce the ground so that Earthquakes or what not shouldn't affect it, I can also do that with the various parts of the wall that have stone, I could also replace all the wood in the walls with more durable wood. Yup, I stomp my foot and control my chakra to do all the changes I had thought of, I also made all the old wood into scraps and put it in the pile of burnable wood for those that work the forge to use.
Hm, it's about 8 now but I still feel awake and have almost everything done. Maybe I should go and fill up the library I have here? Oh I could also send some books to the Castle's Library! I actually haven't stepped into the Library yet, but it is surprisingly spacious. Thinking about it, doesn't it look like the Library from Jojo part 1? It does, just without books. Well whatever I guess. I go and spend 23334 SP on all the books that weren't obnoxiously expensive, now I don't even know what these are and it is pretty likely that there is some cultivation methods in here, and well probably some evil things in here... I should check all these books before I place them shouldn't I? Shit...
Yeah no, fuck this. I've spent an hour going through books, not even really reading them and just skimming them so that there's no situation like the Evil Dead. I just decided to put up all books that Cost 1 SP and that ended up filling up about half of the library, even though this isn't even an eighth of the books I bought... what on earth have I done? This library is by no means small and for it to be already this full, my god. Well I guess Athena will enjoy it right? That's it, I can't handle this, I'm going to go to sleep cuddling Darkness and Tsunade since it's nice and chilly here.
After resolving myself and stepping out of the Library I heard a voice call out to me from behind, "It's interesting that after having one person in my familia, there are suddenly more. Perhaps I remembered incorrectly?" Shit.
I turn around and rub the back of my head, "Haha, how weird that something like that happened huh? But don't they all seem like nice people right so why not just let them stay." SHIELDS TO FULL CAPTAIN DEFLECT THE ATTACK!
She flips a page in her book before continuing, "Hm, yes they do seem quite nice. However I don't like familia, though hearing the plans that you made with them you seem to know what you are doing. This Familia is yours to control so long as you meet my previous requests, I will even act as your representative goddess since it would be awkward for you to deal with the other gods without a god there for you." She saw through me that much? Even though it hasn't even been a day since I brought everyone here.
Shit, I don't know how to retort to it honestly or how to even defend myself, but maybe this is her own way of going and supporting the Familia? Well I just smile, "Haha, sure thing. Can't promise I'll be too good at it but well I'll still help you with what you wanted so thank you Athena?" After hearing me she just turned around and walked into the Library without saying another word.
Please tell me that she doesn't plan on basically living in there now? Hell, did she know what I was doing in there? For all she knew this was just me in there having alone time. Well whatever I want to go and cuddle still, especially after that scare. I think they knew that I wanted to cuddle, or well they wanted to cuddle with me since they knew it was a bit cold here since well, I can't find anyone out and about. Ah, I love my wives so much sometimes~.
I open up the door to the main room and was about to hop on the bed out of happiness but had to stop myself once I saw that Shiro and Esdeath were in the bed as well. I had to stop myself and pointed at the 2, "I feel like there are 2 extra people in this bed and I know I'm not drunk so don't say I'm seeing double." I cross my arms as Everyone on the bed sit up, all with blushing faces.
Tsunade was the first to recover, "Well, Esdeath wanted to make it up to you since, all those years ago, she tried to hurt many of us and in the process hurt you. Well, she reconciled with us, and we know you aren't mad at her either, but she wanted to take her relationship with you further since you... she said since you're such a good guy. Which I think is true too... and one of the reasons I love you too..." I can't be mad at her looking at me with those puppy eyes. I just need to ignore darkness looking at me with a hopeful look on her face.
I sigh and say that I'll accept Esdeaths feelings then. I also told her that next time just tell me, roundabout methods may be cute sometimes but I don't like being surprised in my own room or when I'm about to relax. It makes me gets my hopes up and then instantly gives me more stress than I'd like. After that I point at Shiro, "So what about the Munchkin? Why is she in the bed too then?"
Shiro then speaks up, "I... I wanted to show you my feelings too. I always heard stories about how amazing you were and how one time my mom and dad even saw you go and fight the third Hokage! They even told me that you were the one that helped make all the videogames I played, all the things that I learned, and you even made it so that my mom survived a deathly sickness. If it wasn't for you... I may not exist and everytime that you would go and give a speech or do an event or ask for volunteers to do anything, no matter how dangerous it was, I would go and be the first up. I even graduated and moved up the ranks as fast as I could. I still couldn't get close to you though." She then started crying which made me start feeling bad. "You would even come visit our house all the time when I was growing up which made me try harder and harder to be a good cook so when you came over you'd like me more. At the end, I joined the Anbu to be closer to you and was there for years yet you barely noticed me so I ended up leaving right before I turned 18. (A/N: Can't remember how old she is but I know she's older than Naruto and Itachi(I think)) My last chance to get closer to you was when you showed everyone an entirely different world and that you were going to allow some people to go their!" She was wiping her eyes this whole time and snot was dripping everywhere so I handed her some tissues, also this wasn't cute crying. I've seen cute crying. No this is emotional crying... so I know she's telling the truth.
I sigh and pat her head a bit so that she calms down enough to continue, " I was so happy when you accepted me to go and join you on adventures, but... I still felt so apart. So when I got the second invitation to join you to this specific place I jumped at it and knew I had to act fast... but you also had wives to worry about so I asked them both for help and they were so nice to me that I actually thought I'd have a chance. I'm sorry for doing this... I just, I just wanted to at least tell you my feelings..."
I sigh as I stop consoling her for a moment, causing her to look up at me through her slightly teary eyes, I then spoke to her, "You know I'm a lot older than you right? I may be 24 physically but mentally, well I've already lost track but I'm somewhere on my 50's or maybe even more. Shouldn't you go and date someone your age? Now this doesn't mean I don't appreciate your feelings, but I don't want you to have feelings for me just because you look up to me, I think that you should truly care about a person, not just from an ideal level but on a personal level. Like of you look at Tsunade, I love her because she would actually go and help out an Orphanage in her free time, which just goes to show a sliver of her kindness. Darkness is almost exactly the same and as much as she annoys me, she is a very kind person and I love and cherish her very much. As for me accepting Esdeath, well in the past she was actually a very cruel person but for most of the time I've known her she has been trying to make it up to everyone that she has wronged. Do you understand what I'm saying Shiro? This doesn't mean I won't accept you ever, but just keep that in mind in that you should truly care about every part of your partner, both good and bad." I'm no expert on love at all and Shiro is cute, but well I am a lot older than her so if I can I want her to date someone more her age.
She then started crying again after nodding. I didn't know what to do so I told her just for tonight she could sleep with us.. God I'm going to regret this aren't I? I can already feel the heat.
"Hey there Athena... Looking forward to dinner?" I ask her trying to defuse the situation quickly. She lowers the book a bit and looks at me, then at the plate that was set in front of her, and then at everyone else that is sitting around with us (The Shinobi). She then shrugs and bites into the small pile of mashed potatoes on her plate.
Is... Is this going to be it? Does she just... not care? Well! If she won't let it bother her then I won't let it bother me either! So while she is enjoying her book and eating I relax and start talking to everyone that is here and see what all happened. Each head of the different teams told me what happened, Garrus apparently went and learned everything that the blacksmith knew quickly apparently, well he apparently recorded him and whenever he would ask a question he was just trying to make sure that everything was accurate, but thanks to that he now knows how to work with most of the common and uncommon metals. He knows some of the Rare metals methods but none of the Legendary, so not too bad of a start all things considered and it seems like he is going to teach everyone the methods tomorrow so he requires more raw ores of these metals so I gave the money to Tsunade to Deal with.
I then talked to Orochimaru and it seemed that he squeezed the poor alchemist for everything that he was worth regarding information, but he still wishes for more knowledge on the subject. He even told me he may have found a breakthrough on the Elixir that would allow for people to take it even more. This shocked me but he said that he was missing a very important piece to stabilize it and he hoped that one of the ingredients in this dimension would help with that. I then told him that there should be a library in the city and that he can take a look with me when I go to pick up Athena's books. He seemed very happy about it and readily agreed.
I then looked at Tsunade and raised an eyebrow to wait for her to tell me what happened. It seems that they walked all split up and managed to cover the whole city in less than 4 hours, they each also filled out a small notebook of various things and what the average price of these things are. It seems that everything here is cheaper than it should be due to the dungeon being so deadly. There is only a few Familia capable of reaching the permanent safe zone on the 15th floor and even fewer still that can actually make it to the 22nd floor. She even told me that the lowest anyone has gone was the 25th floor and they had been down there for months so the whole troop was considered dead.
I was quite shocked to hear about this, but before I could recover she asked me for permission to get various products from the Shinobi world to sell here. After making sure that it wasn't anything too amazing, just foodstuffs and some cheap disposable weapons like I thought would be useful here. There were even some scrolls that she wanted to sell and since they were able to be used with just tearing them and didn't really have anything too dangerous on them, in fact there was one scroll that she wanted to sell that had a campsite for 3 packed into it, so I gave her permission since I'm sure adventurers would love those.
Now it was time for the three teams, well it wasn't too complicated actually. I just told them that what we just did they would be doing on their own every day for around 2 hours, well except for the weekend. I wanted everyone to be able to relax at least a bit over the weekend since the Dungeon is pretty terrifying. Hell, I would have been so screwed stamina wise if it wasn't for my regeneration ability and that was 6 hours, I can't imagine making these poor bastards go through a day or 2 long trip let alone a 4 hour long one.
After we all finished our dinner it seemed that everyone wanted to go back and be with their families in the Crossroads, so I let everyone go and got to work putting seals everywhere. The only people who stayed were Darkness, Tsunade, Esdeath, and Shiro. I can guess the three of them, but Esdeath is the odd one out. I just ignored them as they all worked together cleaning up, it seems Shiro was sparking up a conversation with Athena so I started sweating a bit hoping that she doesn't say something that will go and make everything crumble down. No, have faith in Shiro, if anyone will fuck it up, I know it will be me somehow. Haha, it's sad because it's true.
Alright, well I've gone and put down some near permanent seals down, this way only those that I don't posses enmity towards me or, well anyone that I put on the white list. I also made it so that only those that have seals on their hands or are touching those with a seal can enter, that way if we have a guest they can enter. However if the guest has enmity then, and I'm not quite sure how I pulled this off myself, but if someone enters with enmity then they will immediately teleport to a cell that I have created. Oh and so that I don't accidentally let them starve I asked the system to inform me whenever there was someone there so I could deal with it.
Hm, that covers a hostage situation and a robber. Let's see... strengthening the manor? Yeah I don't see why not. I can reinforce the ground so that Earthquakes or what not shouldn't affect it, I can also do that with the various parts of the wall that have stone, I could also replace all the wood in the walls with more durable wood. Yup, I stomp my foot and control my chakra to do all the changes I had thought of, I also made all the old wood into scraps and put it in the pile of burnable wood for those that work the forge to use.
Hm, it's about 8 now but I still feel awake and have almost everything done. Maybe I should go and fill up the library I have here? Oh I could also send some books to the Castle's Library! I actually haven't stepped into the Library yet, but it is surprisingly spacious. Thinking about it, doesn't it look like the Library from Jojo part 1? It does, just without books. Well whatever I guess. I go and spend 23334 SP on all the books that weren't obnoxiously expensive, now I don't even know what these are and it is pretty likely that there is some cultivation methods in here, and well probably some evil things in here... I should check all these books before I place them shouldn't I? Shit...
Yeah no, fuck this. I've spent an hour going through books, not even really reading them and just skimming them so that there's no situation like the Evil Dead. I just decided to put up all books that Cost 1 SP and that ended up filling up about half of the library, even though this isn't even an eighth of the books I bought... what on earth have I done? This library is by no means small and for it to be already this full, my god. Well I guess Athena will enjoy it right? That's it, I can't handle this, I'm going to go to sleep cuddling Darkness and Tsunade since it's nice and chilly here.
After resolving myself and stepping out of the Library I heard a voice call out to me from behind, "It's interesting that after having one person in my familia, there are suddenly more. Perhaps I remembered incorrectly?" Shit.
I turn around and rub the back of my head, "Haha, how weird that something like that happened huh? But don't they all seem like nice people right so why not just let them stay." SHIELDS TO FULL CAPTAIN DEFLECT THE ATTACK!
She flips a page in her book before continuing, "Hm, yes they do seem quite nice. However I don't like familia, though hearing the plans that you made with them you seem to know what you are doing. This Familia is yours to control so long as you meet my previous requests, I will even act as your representative goddess since it would be awkward for you to deal with the other gods without a god there for you." She saw through me that much? Even though it hasn't even been a day since I brought everyone here.
Shit, I don't know how to retort to it honestly or how to even defend myself, but maybe this is her own way of going and supporting the Familia? Well I just smile, "Haha, sure thing. Can't promise I'll be too good at it but well I'll still help you with what you wanted so thank you Athena?" After hearing me she just turned around and walked into the Library without saying another word.
Please tell me that she doesn't plan on basically living in there now? Hell, did she know what I was doing in there? For all she knew this was just me in there having alone time. Well whatever I want to go and cuddle still, especially after that scare. I think they knew that I wanted to cuddle, or well they wanted to cuddle with me since they knew it was a bit cold here since well, I can't find anyone out and about. Ah, I love my wives so much sometimes~.
I open up the door to the main room and was about to hop on the bed out of happiness but had to stop myself once I saw that Shiro and Esdeath were in the bed as well. I had to stop myself and pointed at the 2, "I feel like there are 2 extra people in this bed and I know I'm not drunk so don't say I'm seeing double." I cross my arms as Everyone on the bed sit up, all with blushing faces.
Tsunade was the first to recover, "Well, Esdeath wanted to make it up to you since, all those years ago, she tried to hurt many of us and in the process hurt you. Well, she reconciled with us, and we know you aren't mad at her either, but she wanted to take her relationship with you further since you... she said since you're such a good guy. Which I think is true too... and one of the reasons I love you too..." I can't be mad at her looking at me with those puppy eyes. I just need to ignore darkness looking at me with a hopeful look on her face.
I sigh and say that I'll accept Esdeaths feelings then. I also told her that next time just tell me, roundabout methods may be cute sometimes but I don't like being surprised in my own room or when I'm about to relax. It makes me gets my hopes up and then instantly gives me more stress than I'd like. After that I point at Shiro, "So what about the Munchkin? Why is she in the bed too then?"
Shiro then speaks up, "I... I wanted to show you my feelings too. I always heard stories about how amazing you were and how one time my mom and dad even saw you go and fight the third Hokage! They even told me that you were the one that helped make all the videogames I played, all the things that I learned, and you even made it so that my mom survived a deathly sickness. If it wasn't for you... I may not exist and everytime that you would go and give a speech or do an event or ask for volunteers to do anything, no matter how dangerous it was, I would go and be the first up. I even graduated and moved up the ranks as fast as I could. I still couldn't get close to you though." She then started crying which made me start feeling bad. "You would even come visit our house all the time when I was growing up which made me try harder and harder to be a good cook so when you came over you'd like me more. At the end, I joined the Anbu to be closer to you and was there for years yet you barely noticed me so I ended up leaving right before I turned 18. (A/N: Can't remember how old she is but I know she's older than Naruto and Itachi(I think)) My last chance to get closer to you was when you showed everyone an entirely different world and that you were going to allow some people to go their!" She was wiping her eyes this whole time and snot was dripping everywhere so I handed her some tissues, also this wasn't cute crying. I've seen cute crying. No this is emotional crying... so I know she's telling the truth.
I sigh and pat her head a bit so that she calms down enough to continue, " I was so happy when you accepted me to go and join you on adventures, but... I still felt so apart. So when I got the second invitation to join you to this specific place I jumped at it and knew I had to act fast... but you also had wives to worry about so I asked them both for help and they were so nice to me that I actually thought I'd have a chance. I'm sorry for doing this... I just, I just wanted to at least tell you my feelings..."
I sigh as I stop consoling her for a moment, causing her to look up at me through her slightly teary eyes, I then spoke to her, "You know I'm a lot older than you right? I may be 24 physically but mentally, well I've already lost track but I'm somewhere on my 50's or maybe even more. Shouldn't you go and date someone your age? Now this doesn't mean I don't appreciate your feelings, but I don't want you to have feelings for me just because you look up to me, I think that you should truly care about a person, not just from an ideal level but on a personal level. Like of you look at Tsunade, I love her because she would actually go and help out an Orphanage in her free time, which just goes to show a sliver of her kindness. Darkness is almost exactly the same and as much as she annoys me, she is a very kind person and I love and cherish her very much. As for me accepting Esdeath, well in the past she was actually a very cruel person but for most of the time I've known her she has been trying to make it up to everyone that she has wronged. Do you understand what I'm saying Shiro? This doesn't mean I won't accept you ever, but just keep that in mind in that you should truly care about every part of your partner, both good and bad." I'm no expert on love at all and Shiro is cute, but well I am a lot older than her so if I can I want her to date someone more her age.
She then started crying again after nodding. I didn't know what to do so I told her just for tonight she could sleep with us.. God I'm going to regret this aren't I? I can already feel the heat.
