"What do you an 'adopted you'?" Scáthach questioned, Raikou listened along with rapt attention.
"Just exactly as it sounds." I replied. "Apparently, she adopts all the Campione and takes them as her Step-Children. For so reason, they don't really rember her all that much due to the process. She was very nice to so I wanted to say goodbye before we left."
"Master....." Raikou quietly tugged on my sleeve.
"Hey." I realized I touched sothing sensitive for her. Reaching my hand out I cupped her cheek. "Please don't misunderstand. You're invaluable to and no one can take that away. She's not a replacent, nor is she going to steal any kind of position from you. You're mine, Raikou. You're my Raikou and my Servant, and I never want to give you up."
She made a little noise of happiness, and her cheeks turned a little red. "Ah, you're making your mother so happy." She looked down in embarrassnt.
Thank whatever Gods that she wasn't still under the effects of Mad Enhancent, or I'd never bring her around Pandora. Well, one of the things she desired was complete acceptance; I suppose I wanted to make sure she knew where I stood. Even if I said it before, sotis so people needed it to be repeated from ti to ti.
"Hmm, I was worried that you were stretching yourself too thin by grabbing so many won to your side. Not giving any of them the attention they deserved. But I see I am rely worried for no true reason. " Scáthach walked up and locked her arm with Raikou's, making raise an eyebrow at the closeness they had apparently ford. "Make no mistake, If you had not properly relayed such words, I would have given you a thorough beating. I refuse to be the woman of a horn dog who cannot look after the ones he had already stolen sothing precious from."
Raikou looked so happy to have Scáthach acting like a sort of friend to her. I don't know if they truly bonded in these past few days, but it was at least a step in the right direction. I think Scáthach also wanted to perhaps reach out herself. The loneliness she suffered in life had certainly done her no favors.
"He's gotten very good at his honeyed words, has he not?" Scáthach looked at Raikou.
"Hmm, he sure has. We should be wary of any more approaching won, lest they also fall to his seductive words." Raikou nodded, seemingly adopting an amused smile that was mimicked by my teacher.
"An endeavor that may beyond my far from insignificant abilities." Scáthach pursed her lips. "Would killing a God be an easier labor, I wonder?"
"Ara, I'm sure if you just exude that bloodlust of yours, no one will dare approach."
"Fuuu, or we can just keep you around." Scáthach snorted. "With these large udders of yours, who would think to usurp your position, hmm?"
"Yes, I'm sure jealousy is a powerful deterrent~"
"You think this Scáthach is jealous!?" Scáthach puffed up her own chest. "Shall we have my Student pick his target of desire?" She let go and instead went to drape herself over my arm. "Tell , my student, for whom do your eyes linger on the most?"
"Master, your mother wants your attention~" Raikou grabbed my other arm. "Tell this old hag who you really prefer." She took my other side.
I glanced at both of them who held a gaze of expectancy.
"This is a trap." I said without any hesitation.
They both started giggling at my expense.
"He has learned well." Scáthach grinned.
"My Son has good sense." She pushed her cheek against mine.
They were teasing . Gods, they were practically acting like sisters at this point. "See how I give you both a spanking later."
"How bold of you, my student. Is that a promise?" Scáthach laughed, unperturbed.
"Be gentle on your mother~" Raikou smiled brightly.
I could only shake my head at their antics. Words couldn't describe how happy it made that they were both getting along like this. "Shall we head over? I do want to go ho soon." I really miss my other girls as well.
"Lets go et your Goddess." Scáthach's expression turned neutral.
"Yes, let's go et your new 'Mother'." Raikou said dryly.
I guess she's still...annoyed, for lack of a better word. Though as it was not the product of her cursed mindset, I didn't dwell on it. People were allowed to have their own opinions, their own dislikes and what-not.
With another thought, I opened a portal to the place I had Calculated before. The strange place, the room I had been in, had changed slightly.
I saw the familiar Goddess. She was laying on the ground as she lazily watched a TV playing infront of her, and a bowl of snacks she was munching from.
There was silence as she stopped what she was doing, staring at us incredulously.
"Hi Mom, I'm back." I stated.
"AHHH!" She threw the bowl at .
I blinked as it bounced off my Aura.
There was silence for another mont.
"Are you going to throw your shoe again...?"
"N-no, who would do sothing like that!?" She quickly jumped to her feet.
"Maybe a Loli Godde—"
A shoe smacked in the face, sohow bypassing my Aura.
"I'm a Mature and Beautiful Goddess!" She huffed before she settled down. Her eyes road all over us, as if inspecting us individually. "....As happy I am to see you again."
"You have questions?"
"Yes. First question." She cleared her throat. "WHAT!?"
"Second question?
"Second question." She nodded. "WHAT!?"
"I think I can guess your third question." I snorted.
"Explain!" She appeared infront of , eyes practically bugging out of her head.
"Introductions first?" I offered.
She looked at my companions around. "Introductions!" She quickly repeated. "I've never had any other proper guests before! It's usually so stupid God that cos to try and make trouble or one of my Children! What am I supposed to do!? Oh no, it's all a ss!" She started to whine, and imdiately ran around the room throwing stuff every which way to make it look tidier. She moved like a whirlwind, and soon the place looked much cleaner when she jumped back infront of us. "Welco to my nice, clean ho! I am Pandora, the All-Giving Mother."
I noticed Scáthach and Raikou glance at each other.
"I am Scáthach." My teacher simply introduced.
"Scáthach who isn't Scáthach." Pandora repeated. "Strange, strange. Who are you really?" She narrowed her eyes.
"I'm this fool's woman." She jabbed her thumb towards , ignoring the obvious aning in her words.
"Kyah!" Pandora let out a small squeal, erasing the tension she previously introduced. "Call mother!"
Scáthach blinked at how easily Pandora changed her attitude. "What a strange Goddess you are."
"I'm the best Goddess!" She puffed up proudly before turning back to Raikou, waiting expectantly.
"I am Minamoto-no-Raikou. I'm Master's Mother." She looked rather smug at her declaration.
"She's also my woman." I added.
"Ah, my son is so sweet." She smiled brightly. "Mother is also your woman." She repeated.
It was Pandora's turn to give a blank look. "I don't even know where to being with that." She pursed her lips. "However.....grandbabies! I'm going to have so many!" She threw her hands up excitedly.
"C-children!?" Raikou blurted out. "My son wants to have children with !?" She seed to go off in her own little world.
I actually think I blushed at that. And I believed Scáthach noticed because the corners of her lips curled up.
"Fufu, Wilhelm, my precious student. Could it be that you wish to have bare your children?" She looked towards with clear humor in her eyes. "Do you wish to impregnate this Scáthach, hmm?" She moved her mouth close to my ear, and spoke with a whisper. "Do you desire to see with a large and round belly?"
I just groaned at her teasing, covering my face. "Having you all et was a terrible idea."
I never really had the proper talk about children with any of my girls except ridia, and that wasn't really a 'full' talk. For so reason it was making flustered now that it was brought up.
Pandora started giggling to herself. "I like them." She seed to approve. "Not like those stuffy old fogies from the Realm of Immortality. I don't know where they ca from, but your mother approves!"
"You really can't tell what they are?" I questioned. I was curious about how much insight a Goddess would have.
"Hmm." She gave them another look over. "They both have Divinity, which is strange because they are neither Campione nor Gods. I can understand where it cos from for both of them, yet they don't appear to be match what I know. They are also not normal humans, and now that I look closely, they don't seem to be properly living. It's frighteningly close to how us Gods exist, yet at the sa ti, extrely different."
"Not bad." Scáthach nodded. "For being able to gleam such information, your insight is comndable. However..." She turned to . "Is it wise to discuss such things here?"
"Well...." I scratched my cheek.
"No being in this world can peer into my realm right now. I made sure of that as soon as you three entered." She waived Scáthach off. "If you're speaking about telling things, I won't pry." She gave a small smile. "Your mother will wait for you to tell her when you're ready."
"You are a strange Goddess." Scáthach muttered.
"I'll take that as a complint." Pandora smiled brightly. "However, I will need to know how you entered here. It's not sothing even a God can accomplish unless so drastic asures were taken under so intricate circumstances."
"Magic."
"...."
She smacked on the head.
"Owww!?" I rubbed my head where she bopped .
"I saw nothing." Raikou humd.
"You deserved that." Scáthach said dryly. "If she didn't do it, I would have."
"Yeah yeah." I huffed. "To be more specific, I have a very.....unique Magic available to that allows so control and operation over Dinsions and Space. There are very few places I can't actually go to."
Pandora was silent as she apparently mulled over my words. "It's how you entered the Netherworld before." She muttered. "I see." She nodded to herself. "Tell , are you able to enter the Realm of Immortality?"
"...Technically? I can if I wanted to."
"Never go there." She quickly followed up. "Promise you will never enter the Realm of Immortality." She grabbed my shirt and looked at intently.
"I promise." I said without any fanfare. "I never had the intention of doing so anyways."
"Good." She nodded. "I fear what would happen to you if you went there. The Gods would tear you apart and there's nothing I could do."
Yeah, I wouldn't want to fight every God in existence at the sa ti...
"Why are you such an enigma?" Pandora got right in my face. "I can't understand your origins at all, nor that of your companions. It's both infuriating and interesting. I've never been so clueless before, it's a new experience."
"I'll explain properly at another point." I said quietly.
"I suppose that's the best I can get. I can't expect you to trust so soon after just eting ." She sighed. "Thank you for telling this much at least."
I couldn't help but reach out and hug her.
"Hehe, my son ca back ho and gave a hug. This is the best day."
"Is it okay if I co back in the future?" I asked. "I have....other girls I want to introduce you to." Is It weird that I already felt a connection to her?
I am really a sucker for this kind of thing. Especially when she holds no kind of deceit in her actions.
Pandora let out a laugh. "More? My, you are such a Casanova." She gave my chest a little poke. "And I can't forbid you from coming." She gave an exaggerated little shrug. Though I felt it was accompanied by a 'wink wink' kind of feeling. "But if you happened to drop by, I would be extrely happy."
"Of course, he will return." Raikou confird. "A son should not be away from their Mother for too long." She nodded to herself.
And I had to do a double take as she practically did a 180 on her previous feelings. Was it the comnt about children that won her over? Well, it was pretty hard to dislike Pandora, she ca off as very sincere and genuine.
"You understand!" Pandora flew over, grabbing Raikou's hands. "As expected of my Daughter-in-law."
"Mother!" Raikou was practically giddy in response.
Scáthach turned to . "You surround yourself with strange people."
"....I can't deny that."
"But it's nice." She added.
"I wouldn't trade it for anything."
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