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Honestly... Evilus was so cartoonishly evil for evil's sake that even when I butchered them I couldn't even see them as human, especially with how they covered up their entire bodies in the white hooded cloaks, I just treated them as monsters I wasn't going to bother getting their monster stones out of. So even as their blood boiled into steam off meteor armor, my mind and consciousness were clear of angst for killing these rabid animals.

"Where the hell do I find a fox girl in the red light district." I snarled kicking what I hoped was a Pallum Evilus member through a wall and pitched a grenade into his head to finish him off as the room he was kicked into was painted with his remains.

"Sir the exotic girls are at the back right section of the Red Light District in the wealthiest sector." An amazon nervously said as I looked scary as fuck with crimson mist from the blood boiling off my armor.

I smiled at the amazon who paled at my helmeted visage swinging to her. "Oh lovely well go north from here I cleared a path so Evilus members will likely be thinner in that direction or just hide here as that should be the last Evilus member," I said and the girl said she would hide here so I shrugged and as I exited the building I place a couple of stone blocks in front of it so no one could enter the door through the front door.

"Jake, what the hell are you doing here?" I heard someone shout and I saw Tiona armed with her dual-bladed weapon striding through the wreckage of a collapsed building I shrugged in answer to her question.

"I am here to aggressively adopt a fox, but I just need to find her." I said before smiling. "She is supposed to be at the core of the Red Light District and those Evilus pukes will probably be super concentrated there wanna come to help me clear it out?" I asked and Tiona wore a bloodthirsty grin as she nodded.

"Oh yeah, that would be awesome. I haven't gotten to fight with you since we made that tunnel into the dungeon and Aiz and I want to do that again as the sheer number of the enhanced monsters made us get some good Excellia." Tiona said happily as she spun her Urga in the air to get ready to kill some more Evilus trash.

With Tiona's help, I was able to use my magic weapons and my Minishark to slaughter our way through the throngs of Evilus members with Tiona keeping the Evilus members off my back, and as we reached the core of the Red Light district and I saw Orario's backbone of strength was at war with Evilus.

Aiz Wallenstein was fighting a sword fight against a voluptuous woman with red hair along with a man with silver hair, while Finne was fighting that psychotic woman with pink hair with a cursed sword... It seemed that everyone that was at level five in Orario including a couple dozen people I didn't even know of was locked in combat with Evilus people that seemed to match their numbers and levels if not exceed the native people of Orario.

"Aizu I am coming!" Tiona yelled as she cratered the ground she was standing on with the force she used to leap across the alleyway we used to enter the central area of the red light district not far from Ishtar's tower.

I took one view of the battle that was shattering buildings with all those high-level adventures and shook my head. "Nope fuck that," I said primly as I spun on my heel and kept on my way towards the right side of the red light district in search of my fox girl.

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Five minutes later I was laying limp on the ground after one of the Evilus members caught me by surprise when they had a short chant suicide magic to go along with their alchemical bombs so my armor rating got destroyed but either way I killed the Evilus member and prevented them from killing the people that were hiding in this whore house but as I dissipated my helmet into my inventory and took out a health potion to mend up my ribs I had the potion stolen out of my hands by a smooth and thin hand.

"Sir your ribs are in terrible condition and I heard them break when you landed so don't move please." I heard a gentle woman's voice speak and I looked up painfully as the woman carefully brought the potion in her hands to my mouth I choked on the mushroom-tasting potion as blond hair trailed over my face with fox ears and green eyes looking down at me as Haruhime Sanjouno gave me a lap pillow to help me drink the potion after saving her life from a suicide bomber.

'Is it wrong to fall in love with a fox girl priestess after saving her life, and her nursing you back to health.' I thought jokingly to mentally push down the pain of my ribs unfucking themselves and healing with the potion so I could sit up with a groan.

"Hey... you are a slave aren't you?" I said frowning as I looked at the adamantine collar around her neck. Granted Orario had outlawed slavery but outlawing things in this city with petulant and evil gods was never a guaranteed thing.

I knew I couldn't just say. 'Hey Haruhime, you are the best waifu in the world please come with me so I can take advantage of your cheats and do my best to seduce you... No, I needed to play dumb to her circumstances though it was a bit scummy though it was undoubtedly for the best for her.

"Ah I am not much of a slave but my life is bound to the Ishtar-" Before she could say anything I poked the adamantine collar bound and welded around her neck, and it broke apart into motes of light as it instantly disappeared around her neck and entered my inventory and for a moment Haruhime froze.

"So... wanna join my Familia? We have cookies and I will give you head pats?" I offered goofily as Haruhime gingerly touched her pale neck that had obviously been covered by the collar and had changed the color of her skin like when people wear a caste on a leg or arm for a couple of months.

My abrupt removal of her cursed collar and stupid-as-hell method of asking Haruhime to join my Familia completely stunned her. So I decided that as she was so stunned that I should keep up the nonsense and just drown her in a tidal wave of nonsense until her mind shut down and she would just nod in agreement.

"You said your name is Haruhime right? Well as a hero, Record Breaker myself... Yeah anyway, I am kidnapping you so you can meet back up with your old friends in the Takamikasuchi Familia after joining my Familia." I said shamelessly as I picked up Haruhime in a bridal carry and kicked the sliding door aside as I went into the back little porch area.

"Uhm Jake I deeply appreciate your actions but the Ishtar Familia is going to give you trouble and I don't want to bring you trouble," Haruhime said softly but she didn't struggle in my arms as I leaped a dozen feet into the air to jump atop one of the nearby buildings.

To Haruhime's words, I just paused and took in the burning Red Light District, and then as though in a divine message a massive pillar of golden light pierced through the sky on the edge of the red light district and Haruhime inhaled greatly as her hand went to her semi-exposed cleavage as she hissed. "Ishtar's Falna. I don't have it anymore." She whispered grimacing and I doubted that having the divine framework that boosted your soul to demigod levels torn apart would feel great at all.

"Ahem see Haruhime. As you literally said Ishtar was going to be an issue, she died and got sent back to Tenkai... I didn't think you will ever see such a blunt sign from a higher power that you should come with me." I said smiling with Haruhime snickering at my words and then rolling her eye's as she relaxed in my arms.

"Fine, my dashing hero, take away the used whore and fall to fates machinations," Haruhime whispered so lightly that I could barely hear her but I was a level two that had superhuman senses and could make out her words but those words only made my own eyes.

Sure she was a whore in name but she was still a virgin in all senses of the word, due to her senses being overwhelmed and making her faint at the mere sight of a man's collar bone to say nothing of seeing more of a man.

"Yeah... Anyway, let me teleport us back home." I said popping my magic mirror into my hand and I held it awkwardly so I could look into it with Haruhime still my arms.

But before I could look into the mirror I heard a cough behind me and my entire body froze as a maleficent weight of power hung on my shoulder with my neck popping under the pressure as I slowly turned to the side as a hand with an adamantine grip gently grasped my shoulder and I realized I was beyond fucked.

"How may I help you, big sister?" I asked respectfully as the silver-haired beauty with her eyes closed held my shoulder in a tight grip.

Alfia, The Silence snorted and I felt her grip on my arm loosen as she smiled ever so slightly as her other hand slowly came up and patted me on my head.

"Good boy... Calling me aunty or something to do with being any form of older address would have led me to send you flying out of Orario with a sound wave." Alfia said sweetly as her hand patted my blond hair into place as she almost maternally sorted out my hair as I stood stock still due to her arm that had locked my shoulder in place. "So... I hear you are the lover of Bell Cranel? Materia is looking for her but with her being in the dungeon I couldn't let her go into there." Alfia said conversationally and my mind stalled and broke as hundreds of questions ran through it.

'Like I knew the dungeon could bring people back to life if they died within it and thus Alfia could be brought back. But how in the hell did Materia, Bell's mother get brought back to life?' I thought desperately but either way, I silently nodded to Alfia as I could feel she was above Ottar in strength and unless I summoned the Wall of Flesh right here in the middle of Orario I had no boss monster that could buy me more than a couple seconds.

Haruhime herself was stock still in silence as she barely was capable of shaking silently under the weighty gaze of the 'Demon of Talent' Alfia.

"Yes, I am the lover of Bell Cranel." I said simply confirming her question but I made sure to not stutter or show weakness despite both of us knowing she was far beyond my strength.

Alfia at my words smiled chuckling softly as her hand holding my shoulder squeezed softly making me grimace at a reminder of her strength as something above level seven as I knew being reincarnated by the Dungeon gave the person greater strength then they had in life to say nothing of how they could also eat dungeon monster cores to gain even further strength regardless of the Falna.

"I won't bother saying anything about hurting her as she is strong and talented enough to be only below your own talents having leveled up in less than a month... Nor will I bother with nonsense about you being worthy of her as she is a young adult capable of fighting in the dungeon and making her own choices. But don't get between her and my little sister Materia or we will have issues Jake Barriss." She warned me as she took a step back from me.

"Now go ahead and take your new pet back home. And welcome to the family Jake Bariss... We shall show this lower world of Genkai what the personification of Talent is and take over this entire plane of existence." Alfia said proudly as she walked away with her potent magic causally keeping soot and smoke away from her form as she walked back into the flames filling the Redlight District.

And you know what... Anyone who gets in her way can just bemoan their fate. 'Canon is fucked and I have no idea how to feel about that.' I thought wryly as I finally looked into the magic mirror and with a swirl of spatial magic I was teleported back home, and the moment I landed back in my room, I collapsed into the bed with Haruhime landing on my chest with a grunt at the impact. But she said nothing as her hands tightened in my clothes as she panted at the simple bodily reaction of escaping from death.

"She was scary," Harhuime stated and I trailed my hand up from her back to gently pet her golden fox ears as I just stared at the ceiling.

For a few moments I just stared at the false night sky above me as my mind ran through that whole encounter and as much as I was happy for Alfia not giving me issues with Bell. But that whole showing the world the personification of talent in the 'family' and taking of Genkai sounded like it was going to be a pain in the ass. "At least if you marry me, she will be your sister-in-law." I joked and Haruhime looked up at me with horror seemingly at the thought of sharing a Christmas dinner with the scary as-hell Alfia.

Aug 28, 2023Add bookmark#1,147"So you really do have a Beastkin fetish huh?" Seshat pointed out as I brought Haruhime out of my room and into the living room and I face palmed at how Hestia just nodded at Seshat's words and threw me a look of blame.

"Hmph, you are being a playboy." Hestia spat and I just rolled my eyes.

"Don't talk too big Hestia or I may try to NTR Bell from you into my own Familia." I retorted making Seshat cackle and the hearth goddess pale with her mouth flapping open and closed as apparently, my words came out as true.

"Anyway," I said changing the subject as I pulled Haruhime in front of me. "I picked up this lovely Haruhime after her goddess was sent back to Tenkai due to Evilus burning down the Redlight District," I explained with Seshat and Hestia's eyebrows rising up in worry.

"Wait who was her goddess?" Seshat asked with a frown.

"Ishtar," I said flatly and Seshat gave me a look that only said. 'Are you fucking kidding me?' But I nodded to show I was serious so Seshat just groaned running her hands through her black hair.

"Huh, so the queen bitch was sent back to Tenkai..." Then in unison, Seshat and Hestia both loudly groaned as a commiserating look of despair came across their faces.

Hestia and Seshat both shared a look and at our confused looks Seshat spoke with a clear expression of annoyance. "Sure Ishtar was the queen bitch of Orario but she was a jealous queen bitch and kept to herself in the Redlight district for the most part. But now with the queen of whores executed, the other Goddesses of Love and Beauty will be gunning to take over the prime location to fuel their domains."

As she said that, I recalled how when I first went to the guild to find a Familia and was told by Misha how the Kama/Mara Familia was recruiting and I wondered what kind of goddess of love she was. As all the love goddesses of Danmachi were very different in how they used and were controlled by that domain.

"Ugh... Aphrodite, Kama, and the others are going to make a mess." Hestia grimaced and I wanted to scream at the oncoming thots with Charm nonsense that was inevitably going to cause trouble as they attempted to claw their way to power in Orario's meat grinder.

"And with Evilus causing issues it's almost certain those psychos are going to try to kill those Familias that try to climb the ranks or just arrive into Orario." Seshat agreed as she grunted at the sheer effort of getting up from her plush couch to approach Haruhime. "Alright, girly I am your new goddess Seshat, worship me for I am mighty blah blah... Yeah, I am slapping my tramp stamp on you, so don't cause Jake any issues as he is a bleeding heart with a dick that has bigger ambitions than his body can handle." Seshat said bluntly as she expertly pulled her hands across Haruhime's waist and before the Renard could react Seshat pulled open the rope that tied together Haruhime's kimono.

"Eep!" Haruhime gasped as she wrapped her hands around her chest as her kimono got pulled off and I realized that Haruhime went the traditional way in wearing a Kimono... So she was nude underneath it.

I turned a bit and focused on Hestia who was frowning at Seshat's treatment as Seshat manhandled the shy Renard so she could put a Falna on her I spoke to Hestia to try to break the awkward silence. "So is Bell still in the dungeon or something?" I asked and Hestia blinked and shook her head as she refocused on me.

"Nope! She just got back a bit ago and should be in the bath." Hestia told me and I blew out a bit of air as I nodded and Hestia rose an eyebrow at my reaction. "Why is something wrong?" Hestia asked with some concern for me.

I nodded slowly before shrugging as honestly I had no idea what Alfia's grand plan was but just letting Bell walk into that cluster fuck without knowing anything was not going to go well, so I decided to explain a bit.

"Yeah, I am not sure honestly. Somehow Bell's crazy aunt who demands to be called an older sister because she hates the idea of being called old got resurrected by the dungeon." I said drily and Hestia's face twisted at my words with Seshat looking over at me with some true concern which made sense with how her Egyptian pantheon was so into how the dead should be at rest and whatnot.

"The best part is 'Who' her aunt is..." I said as I sighed before speaking wryly. "Yeah her dear aunt is 'The Silence', Alfia, and apparently her mother also got resurrected somehow despite her not dying in the dungeon at all." I said frowning at the end as it truly made no damned sense to me.

Like plenty of people in canon got resurrected after dying in the dungeon. Literally every Xeno was the soul of a monster who decided to say fuck you to the dungeon after dying too many times and got tired of being used as cannon fodder. And there were a number of Evilus members that died during the old days and even just people that died to the dungeon monsters that got resurrected by the dungeon as a Creature like Filvis. But that didn't explain how Meteria, Bell's mother got resurrected at all?

Hestia went pale at hearing how Bell's ever so slightly deranged Aunt/'Big Sister' was looking for Bell with her nervously giggling. "Haha. So does she know where we live?" She asked weakly and I deadpanned at her.

"Hestia..." I said slowly as though I was speaking to someone about to learn they had cancer or just telling them some horrible news. "We live in a massive fucking dildo covered in lava... The whole world knows where we live." I said dryly and Hestia tilted back in forth in place before her eyes rolled up into the back of her head and her tits smashed into my face as I hurriedly bent over to catch the goddess who collapsed backwards in a dead faint.

Hestia although she fainted somewhat, she was still conscious enough to remember how her over dramatic fainting spell resulted in her being pushed into my face as I kept her from cracking her head open on the tile floor of the living room.

So she quickly made herself scarce as she blushed heavily while I left her to be so I could focus on Haruhime. "That's an impressive spell but in reality, we shouldn't really use it unless we are fighting something we cannot defeat at all,." I said as Seshat explained how Haruhime's spell would cut down the Excellia we would get after using it for a good while to allow the Falna to heal from being forcefully boosted to the next level without the needed high-quality Excellia needed to make up the framework of the foundation of a person's next level.

So I took out an elemental staff and passed it to her. "Just focus on walking the supporting mage path in the back while I fight up closer and Bell takes care of the mid-range stuff." I said patting Haruhime between her golden ears.

"But everyone wants to use my spell!" Haruhime almost whispered but I rolled my eyes as I lifted Haruhime's chin so she wouldn't just stare at the ground.

"Haruhime..." I said slowly as I smiled wryly. "I mass produce high-quality Excellia with my summoned bosses. The last thing I want is for my Falna to need to recover and slow down my growth. Our Familia's will only need your level boosting spell at the most grave of moments like fighting higher level adventures as we are very good at defending ourselves in the dungeon." I said grinning as I thought that we more like bullied the dungeon with the impossible-to-bypass bunkers we would build in the dungeon.

Though that cheat won't really amount to much when the later monsters like in the Water City floors can summon and manipulate the endless amount of water on the floors and using that water they could fill up our bunkers and drown us... That would be a terrible way to go.

"So don't worry Haruhime. We will not rely on you for your cheat spell. Instead, we will rely on you as a fellow compatriot within the dungeon that fights beside us." I said strongly and she nervously giggled looking shy as for so long her level boosting spell was all she was seen as.

Then Haruhime cutely stared into my eyes as she tried to find some courage and she asked with some steel in her spine. "So I will be able to make my own fate?"

I patted her head again before I let go of her as I spoke. "Sure why not... But you are behind us so you will need to work hard." I said grinning and Haruhime bravely nodded her head like she was trying to psyche herself up, to begin with.

Before I could continue to seduce my new pet, I heard Bell coming downstairs and I saw her wearing a fluffy robe with her long white hair flowing over her back as she wasn't wearing any kind of ponytail or bindings in order to let her hair breathe. "Oh, Jake you are back already!" Bell said excitedly and then blinked at seeing Haruhime grasp a corner of my shirt. "Soooo. who is she?" Bell asked tilting her head to the side slightly and I chuckled as I pulled Haruhime in front of me.

"This adorable cinnamon roll is Sanjouno Haruhime, the new member of my Seshat Familia." I said proudly as Bell pouted and looked over at Hestia.

"Hestiaaaa!!! Why haven't we gotten any new members, Jake's Familia has four members now, and its even younger than our Familia is!?" Bell whined and Hestia choked as she looked at Bell with a look of shock at her precious child's verbal betrayal and whining.

"Bell Cranel!" She shouted putting on a brave face as she tried to scold Bell for not being me and literally picking up people for her to put a Falna on them.

"Oh, so I just need to bring people for you to put a new Falna on?" Bell asked blinking in surprise and smiling as she clasped her hand in delight as she came to some kind of realization. "Well, then I got someone already! I found a supporter who helped me do some solo dungeon work and she is a nice Prum." Bell said and my eye twitched as I put together that she somehow came across Liliarcu Arde and actually if my timeline is right this was typically about the same time she was supposed to meet the troublesome midget.

Meh honestly I didn't care about Lili as she wasn't going to be in my Familia and if she caused Bell any trouble she would learn real quick not to do so when I find her.

"Uhh yeah anyway," I said cutting off Bell's way too innocent thoughts and mumbled words on how she could go about corrupting her midget supporter into her Familia as Hestia stared at her child in horror and was whispering something about NTR but I firmly ignored her as those thoughts led to madness.

I decided to just rip the band aid off and get it out in the open. "Bell... This is hard to say but your mother and aunt have been brought back to life and they want to meet you." I said with a straight face and Bell's face turned flat and if anything hurt as she looked at me for a second and took a deep breath.

"Jake, I don't even know who and what my mother looks like, let alone my aunt." She said firmly and I nodded as that was fair to say but I shrugged.

"Bell, listen to me and Hestia herself. Your Mother and Aunt have come back to life and I am sure they are the same as you look a lot like your Aunt with the same white hair and a similar facial structure." I said looking to Hestia and she nodded.

"He is telling the truth Bell." Hestia said softly and Bell's face twisted before she took a deep breath.

"So you want me to meet them or something?" She said softly and looking lost and I kinda knew what she was going through as my home situation in my past life was messed up as well.

I nodded as I pulled Bell into my arms before I sighed. "Bell, your mother Materia is fine and not much of an issue for you to meet as she literally died giving birth to you... But your aunt, Alfia, The Silence has a lot of baggage as she did some crazy shit before she originally died as she lost everything when the Hera and Zeus Familia perished fighting the One Eye'd Black Dragon." I explained and Bell went silent as she rested in my arms.

Finally though as Beatrice pulled Haruhime aside to show her around the house and the enclosed property Bell finally spoke when Hestia subtly snuggled up against Bell as well. "I don't mind meeting them I guess..." She muttered weakly and I patted her on her back as I took a breath.

"Well either way I wanted to ask you if you want to come with me to Beor mountains. I need to go mining for some special resources that I cannot get in the dungeon." I finished and Bell grinned looking over at Hestia.

"Alright! Let's go on a vacation as there is supposed to be a massive hot spring due to the volcano's in the Beor mountains!" Bell said excitedly and I nodded while Hestia chuckled and said she would also invite some of her other divine friends like Miach and Takemikazuchi.

With that in stone, I then realized I would need to tell Alfia that we were going on a vacation and that no we weren't fleeing Orario in order to not deal with her.

'Oh god Alfia is going to break my legs.' I mentally groaned as I wondered if I could use Bell as a shield for the inevitable sound wave that was going to yeet me across Genkai.

I was right, Alfia was not at all fucking impressed with my desire to go mining for resources to make the better weapons, armor, and accessories that I needed.

To begin with, finding Alfia wasn't an issue as she made no attempt to hide her presence as she heralded her arrival into Orario by throwing all of Freya's furniture off her balcony when she claimed the love goddesses apartment near the top of the tower of Babel that only gods and goddesses should have been able to have. But apparently, Ouranos decided to make an exception for the new strongest adventurer of Orario.

So here I was, with my fucking body embedded into a wall as Bell fretted over me and a thin woman who looked a lot like Bell with green eyes instead, was scolding the unrepentant Alfia for blasting me into a wall. Truly the best first impression I could make to my 'mother-in-law'

"I just told him not even half a day ago that our family would be coming together finally and his very next conversation piece, is. 'let's run off across the land to go watch you mine a couple of miles into the ground and just stand around?' I would rather just directly take you all into the dungeon and at least watch you all grow stronger." Alfia said bluntly shutting down Materia who pouted.

Materia was the spitting image of Bell's feminine form but thinner with a soft appearance that made you want to protect her and her bright green eyes brought so much life to her face that it reminded me of how Bell's ruby eyes would light up when she got excited about something.

"Ok... Maybe that's true but I need to get to the dragon vase floors to get lava-themed items." I groaned and Alfia snorted as she eyed me as I stood up but seeing me get back up she smiled.

"At least your durability is pretty decent. That sound wave would have killed the new mediocre level three's of this generation." Alfia said with her closed eyes tightening in distaste at how pathetic this generation had become with how everyone chased their level-ups rather than maxing out their stats.

"Either way, with you mining almost straight down to the different floors and myself killing the hordes of dungeon monsters that spawn, we can reach there in less than six hours and get back even sooner as you place those tracks and such." She said bluntly and my face twisted as I wondered if we were in fact going to beat the Loki Familia down to those floors as they were still working their way down there the normal way.

"Uhmmm Aunty?" Bell spoke up and the metal chalice Alfia was drinking out of, loudly squealed and shattered under her superhuman strength. Alfia slowly looked at the rabbit who cowered behind me at the cold expression that Alfia wore even with her eyes still closed.

"Never call me Aunty... I am not old, so call me big sister." She said with zero infection in her tone and both of us nodded instantly as Materia giggled.

"Uhm Bell could you spend today with me while 'Big Sister' and Jake go into the dungeon?" Materia asked hopefully and for a moment there was silence before Bell nodded with a small smile but that went away as she glared at Alfia fiercely with the eyes of a rabbit trying to intimidate a lion into bowing its head.

"Alfia I understand you want Jake to grow strong as well, but I won't forgive you if you let him die in the dungeon for some kind of test!" Bell said strongly and Alfia just rolled her eyes.

"I won't allow your betrothed to be, die before making an honest woman out of you... Either way, let's get going, your noise is being too loud." Alfia retorted before she spoke to Materia. "Stay here with Bell and don't leave, I will be back by tonight for dinner." She said that like going down to the Dragon Vase was no damned big deal.

Then Alfia casually walked to the end of the apartment across its plush carpentry onto the balcony and with a flex of her heeled feet I saw her hop atop the banister. "Come on Jake, I refuse to take the elevator." She said smiling as she somehow 'saw' my not-all-too-happy expression at the tiny ants on the ground thousands of feet below me that were the people entering the tower of Babel to enter the dungeon.

But as Alfia did something magical to stop her drop as she all but slammed into the ground I literally unleashed my inner fucking Merry Poppins as I hurtled down towards the earth and as I came closer I used the Terraria, umbrella to cancel out all my momentum in a couple of seconds so as I gently glided down to the ground with my shoes barely scrapping the group Alfia looked at my landing and then at her own that shattered the tiles of the ground surrounding the Tower of Babel.

"That was... The most homosexual thing I have seen in my life. Please don't catch yourself the next time you think to break your fall with a rain umbrella." Alfia said with her face twitching as she obviously held in her own smile at my shameless smile at having landed without wasting magic or even causing damage to my surroundings.

"Don't make me tattle to Bell about you being mean. I already can tell that she inherited her puppy eyes and pouting from her mother." I joked and Alfia actually shuddered with her heterochromia eyes opening up to take me in.

"You could actually withstand a version of the Materia pout that could make even that bitch Hera cave into doing whatever she wanted?" She demanded with her hands on my shoulders in a flash and I blinked before realizing it must have that mega pout Bell sometimes used when I teased her by kissing her forehead instead of her lips or played a game and teased her by being over affectionate with one of my summons while she was sitting next to me.

Either way, I broke the ice with Alfia and I realized as Alfia walked into the dungeon being whatever she was... Yeah, she was hilariously overpowered as she smacked goblins, kobolds, and other monsters' heads. Not into pasting or knocking them off with the force just ripping the flesh away.

No Alfia had reached a level of physical power that her blows actually made whatever she struck explode into a blood mist and that realization made me realize how far above merely physically she was of me. To say nothing of how she was a mage that could already level Orario.