Chapter 212: Credibility

Perseus POV

I got home in a very happy mood as I knew the Sheila saga is over. I met with my fox who dropped off a few dozen of badges and crests in front of me, which means he killed the people who were responsible for teleporting Ruka and those who spied on my family's panic reactions.

As I got home, I see Maple having this weird look on her face, the one where she usually uses when she asked her sisters to protect her every time I teased her too much.

"Ah, Perseus, let's go on a date, you still owe me that." Maple requested

"Ok, what's going on? I'm all for going out with pretty women, but you are not Maple, what did you do with the original."

My parents then coughed and cleared their throats to get our attention, they have one of those 'hah, I got you now look'. Vince was pointing at the door and trying to signal for me to run away, but mom Rylee just put her hands on his and put it down.

"You said 'let's go save your sister' after asking Leilah and Lilith to go with you," Maple whispered "I tried my best to convince them otherwise, but it's not working."

"Oh...can you hypnotize them?"

"I may be a goddess, but the rumors of us being able to do anything is false." she complained "Let's just go on a date, we can maybe do it on some island far away and after some time, they'll forget."

"That's a honeymoon, not a date."

I looked over to see my grandparents, Grandpa Laker knows that Maple is a goddess, and now with the suspicion of Lilith being related as well, he taped his own mouth shut, and my other grandparents were trying to convince him to tell us what he knows. Grandpa Wager used their rivalry to insult him and try to taunt him into talking, but so far it's not really working as he's also just sneaking in personal insults.

"No wonder Leilah and Lilith look similar, I've always thought of it as a coincidence, but now it makes sense." Mom Rylee commented

"You know, Maple being so adamant about this makes me also think that she's related to Ruka and Leilah too." Mom Nyra added

"Lilith can be a rose guardian, but I remembered that only 3 of the roses were female, no?"

"Well, maybe the sun goddess gave birth to another child that isn't mentioned in the stories."

"Perseus, explanation on why you have a sexual fetish with pursuing women who are all related to each other?" Mom Rylee asked "Vincent, please don't ask what those words meant, you'll learn when you're older."

"Well, no use in hiding it now." Ruka shrugged "I'll be in my room, I don't wish to be in this conversation, we all know I find him physically attractive and vice versa, so I wouldn't want to be questioned a lot."

She just casually revealed that they're related and went to her room, well just when I thought only grandpa Laker needed to know that I have connections with goddesses, but I blame no one but myself for this.

"You guys mind if we get into a small huddle for a bit?"

"Not at all." My parents said at the same time as Lilith cast this soundproof barrier.

"How much should they know?" Leilah started first "I know that they'll find out eventually, just not this early."

"Yeah, even if they don't, I would have given in and confessed anyway."

"I don't mind telling them." Maple joined in and turned to me "You told me your secret the other day, and I'm willing to do the same."

"What secret?" Lilith asked

"I'm not telling you." Maple responded "It's called a secret for a reason."

Lilith then turned to me which I just responded by doing a zipping motion over my lips which made her roll her eyes in annoyance.

"We tell them we're goddesses and that's it, no other unnecessary information." Lilith sigh

We discussed things a bit, and I felt a small vibration on my belt, I then took out a communication crystal and picked up the call, the voice from the other side was Orion.

"Dad, our trip ended, can we go stay at the village?" Orion asked

"Sure, I can book you great rooms for free since I owned some stakes of some of em."

"What about your second house?" Orion asked "Wait, unless you haven't built it yet."

"Oh, I do have that, yeah, you can stay there, come get the keys from me though. What ended your trip early?"

"Uh, well, we may have accidentally stopped several robbery attempts by accident, so we don't want to mess up the timeline anymore and want to just stay still."

"See you soon then."

"Second house?" Leilah gave me a puzzling look "Do you have some sort of secret family that you're hiding or something?"

"No, I have that one for when I want to move out, it's quite close, like 15 minutes walking distance."

After another short discussion, Lilith stopped the barrier.

"They're...goddesses." Leilah confessed

"Oh, they're just- what?!" my family exclaimed at the same time as Lilith then created a sound barrier over our home so we don't get any noise complaint

"She's the autumn goddess and Lilith must be the infamous demon goddess since the other seasonal gods are described to be males." Grandpa Laker spitted out as he took off the tape from his mouth "Seriously? You're sleeping with the demon goddess?!"

"Impressive, huh."

"A bit yes, if Edward knows about this, you might be banned from the 4 continents."

"Hah, as if they can stop me."

"Wait, you knew who Maple was and oh gods..." Mom Nyra then started to hyperventilate as Buddy got over to her and blew cold air to cool her down "I've fed discounted meat to a goddess...I'm going to hell, aren't I?"

That's her concern?

"How come you believe it so easily?" Lilith asked

"Coming from the mouth of the black rose, no more credibility than that." Grandpa Wager answered