Chapter 369: Choice (3)

"I don't think now's a right time, I love you and everything and I'm dating you with every intention of getting married, but now's not the right time. Even my child with Eliza wasn't on purpose, you know."

"Just think about it, alright?" she requested and got up.

She then turned to me and sat on my lap face to face with her arms around my neck and placing her forehead on mine.

"I don't mind either way, but just think about it." she said "Our child would be so beautiful, girl or boy, they will be smart, talented and definitely lovely."

"Yeah, it'll be from my side though."

"I would have pushed you down right now if we aren't in Tartarus, it's terrible down here." she joked

"...How many do you want?"

"Hmmm." she pondered "I want 11."

"11?! … Are you trying to start a football team or something?"

"Why worry? Me and Eliza are the ones giving birth to them."

"And that's exactly why I worry and besides, I have something to tell you."

I then told her about me and Dabria, how we're currently hiding away our feelings for each other from the others. Nova and Adam probably already know though.

"Wait, so you 2 actually have feelings for each other?" she asked in surprised backing her head away "You weren't joking?"

"Well I was sort of joking at first since I didn't think she would reciprocate my feelings, but like I just told you, if you and Eliza do not approve, I will not follow through with it. So don't worry too much."

"Am I still going to be your favorite?"

"When I'm alone with you, you're my favorite and when I'm alone with Eliza, she's my favorite. But I love you both the same."

"Well we'll discuss this when we're home. So I'll just pretend to not hear about you and Dabria." she sighs "...Eliza wants 12."

"12?! What the hell is wrong with the 2 of you? One wants to start a football team while the other wants to create a new Olympian council!"

"What wrong with wanting that?" she pouted innocently "Besides it's your fault for dating the both of us."

"Are you sure that you're a princess of a kingdom? A sister of a king at that?"

"Well I'm your princess. Is that enough?"

"No, you're my queen."

"I knew I liked you the moment I decided to go for you."

*****

After a while, we gathered in the hallway of my dream world and talk about how to proceed. Eleanor and Albert is currently nowhere to be seen.

-You 2 were staying in there for a long time, you 2 didn't do anything, right?- Diana asked -Because I will not be touching you if you did.-

-No, we wouldn't do anything in this cave, even if it's 'dream world', we're still in a cave, we have standards.-

"What took you 2 so long?" Amora asked

"Oh so I was kind of jealous of Eliza and so we had a conversation on having a child. Since I kind of wanted to have one of my own." Lia answered

"Dad! Pick a better timing!" Amora scolded "The war is upon us!"

"You know, I'm jealous that my own daughter is calling my student dad, while she formally calls me father." Professor Steel grumbled

"I'm sorry, but it's just that...I barely know you, even after all the time we spent together, it's hard for me to call you 'dad', since you didn't technically raise me. It'll be disrespectful towards the person whom I owe my life to many times." Amora apologized

"Please stop putting unrealistic expectations for me. Lia is now going to want a child more now and I'm expected to be a great dad, despite the fact that I spend only half my time at home."

"We know your job, both of us don't mind at all." Lia reassured

"My son, please don't forget to report the birth of your child to us, we'll throw you a celebration in the Crimson Kingdom." Urie joked

I can then see Eleanor approaching us. Cain isn't saying anything nor did he try to avoid any eye contact as he listened to our conversation.

"Though I'm surprised you remember the story of my childhood, Cain. You may not be the worst guy I met after all." Urie laughed

"Well Eleanor, have you calmed down and make a decision?"

"I'll get the blessing." she answered "But just know that whatever this whole war thing is, you better help get me to help out too in the front line."

"Well unfortunately that isn't my decision to make. Albert?"

"Well she seems really persistent so..." he trailed off "Even if you won't allow her, I'll let her fight by my side."

"Why do you have to sound so much like a generic harem dense isekai protagonist?"

"Coming from the womanizer himself, I'm a bit offended."

"I personally wouldn't call him a womanizer, more like a pervert." Aenon commented

"Eh, you're not wrong." Damon shrugged "Pretty spot on."

"You definitely don't know Zach properly. What's inside his head will make me look like an angel in comparison."

"I do. It sometimes haunt me in my sleep when I remember the times you Levens get together to discuss a topic." Diana responded

"Well are we going to continue on our journey or not?" Cain chimed in "The faster we get the fragments, the better. It's part of our deal, remember?"

"Yeah, you help guide us while telling us everything you know about how to get to Eden and we give you death. I remember it. Don't worry, Cain, I'll kill you."

"Then will you swear it on Styx?" he asked "Your soul is a descendant of a Greek demigod, you swearing on it will be a binding oath since you're partly a divine being. Your consequences will be much more severe than the ones the Greek Gods, you will have to die a very painful death."

"Yeah, I won't do that. If they know about my oath, they can just team up against god, kill him and make you mortal. They will then kill you meaning that my oath to be your killer broken, killing me in the process."

"Tch, you're smarter than I thought." he clicked his tongue in annoyance "I thought maybe I'll get a laugh or something if that happens."

"Dude, I'm not that dumb. I'm not Artian royalty."

"Hey! I'm right here!" Eleanor complained

"Oh sorry, let me rephrase that. Dude, I'm not that dumb, I'm not Eleanor!"

"You fucker!"

"...I am a fucker."

-Seriously, that's your joke?- Dabria asked

-I saw the opportunity and I took it. Is that wrong?-

-...No, it's just that you could've come up with a better joke. Like your life, that's a pretty good joke.-

-Wow.-

-Or the author's, but he's more of a mistake than a joke, I don't know what's worse though.-

| Deep breaths, deep breaths. Calm down. You can always delete their existence according to your will. |