Chapter 45: Is He Into Crossdressing?

Perseus POV

I climbed up the stairs, at first it was easy, but as I got about a tenth up, the gravity got tougher and tougher, the gravity gets more intense as I got up, at half way, I am already taking several seconds just to get to the next step.

Ruka got up easily since she's a fellow rose, thanks to the dance and my training all these years, I mastered my breathing and strength, but this is just ridiculous. Mortals are required to this test and even if they make it up, they are at her mercy whether she deem them worthy, they can try to like steal the rose, but it won't come off the ground.

The ground at a certain range that the rose is attached to is indestructible too, but I'm apparently the 3rd person to make it here. The first is the moon god and the 2nd was a woman who only stumbled upon here by accident, an explorer who wanted to study the northern islands, but died half way.

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1/4 of the way left and my back in hunched and I can feel my internal organs hurting, and as I proceeded further up, at that point, I was just crawling up with the best of my abilities, even with the help of magic, this is just painful.

It took me about a day and a half till I finally got past the last step where the gravity is normal again, my body just went limp. Ruka helped me and took away some of my burden by putting on the air armor for me to breathe.

"Grab the rose and we can finally leave." Ruka said as she helped me up and walk me to the rose "There's no treasure or anything precious here apart from the altar and your girlfriend."

"I keep telling you, she's not."

At this point, my body was really numb despite the healing, I just grabbed the rose, my hand got pricked by the black rose and pull it from the ground. A swarm of black petals started to swirl around me and explode into black particles that got absorbed into my body.

"Alright Leilah, before you hug me out of excitement, get us back on our planet, we'll come here and I'll explore the moon some other day cuz ain't no way there aren't any treasure up here."

"Well there's one that will get us back to the northern islands and the other is the northern continent." Leilah said as she put on my bag and Ruka got her one on.

"The northern continent please, we're finding an inn and I'm getting a good rest before I can get excited about being the first ever lord of the black rose."

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3rd Person POV

*A couple while back*

"Where is Perseus...? I thought that he'll be in his room." Maple questioned as she scoured through the tree of Paradis.

Later on that night though, she saw Ruka interact with a woman whose feature is very similar to the boy she's very familiar with. White hair, tanned skin, brown eyes...basically him in a beautiful girl form.

"Perseus is into crossdressing?" she is baffled at the scene "I thought he's into women...? Did his parents influence him in a weird way?"

But later, it was even baffling that it confused a goddess of her age, he went to the northern islands and disappeared, and she can't detect where he went to, she went down there to check, but she can't see or detect anything.

She didn't search carefully enough, but she didn't want to stay too long since she's busy overseeing her temples. The longer she knows the boy, the more confusing he becomes...also more bold...

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Perseus POV

"Hey~" Leilah said and poke my cheek when I woke up.

"You're cute close up."

"Does it...tempt you?" she replied and push her hair back behind her ears

"I can feel your sister glaring at my back right now, so no." I got up and stretched a bit.

I got us a room with 2 beds but instead of sharing a bed with her sister, she just chose to share my bed. We haven't really spoke since getting back from the moon, I plan to go back there, ain't no way that the moon god put an altar there only for one rose.

"How long was I asleep?" I asked before Leilah then pulled me back down

"15 hours." she giggled as she hugged me tight "Snuggle with me, it's cold."

"Cold? You were deep inside the moon where there is no sunlight, only cold nothingness."

"Don't be like that, I'm just trying to make a cute scene where the readers will read with envy inside their empty hearts."

I think I can see why I get along with this woman, but...

"I need breakfast, I'm hungry and you are too."

But then Ruka threw me several snack bars.

"Fill up with these for now." she instructed "We'll then travel to the capital and explore there for a bit before, we'll get regular food there, and then we'll raid the marquis household, I already updated my sister on our priorities."

"You're...being useful?"

"Are you seriously going to start a fight while cuddling with my sister?"

"No, I thought that a blue haired goddess like you would just be a crybaby who caused my death several times by forcing me to do things I don't like and then save me afterwards to cancel out every bad thing that happened even though it doesn't since I am still mentally traumatized."

"Is this one of your JoJo reference thing again?" she asked

This uncultured...

"Don't worry, you're actually helpful the past couple years, I was just messing with you. Anyway, let me go Leilah, we can do this once we're home and get introduced to my parents."

"That's quick." Leilah commented "What will you introduce me as?"

"A friend."

"Introduce her as my sister at least." Ruka chimed in

"Sister of the blue rose, has black hair, black eyes and black clothing, gee, what connection am I not getting here? She's totally not the black rose, at least that's what I'm sure off."

"As sarcastic as that was, it sounds fair." she replied "Introduce her as our good friend, or my friend and let her sleep share my bed. Let's go, none of us have been here, so we should have some fun."