Chapter 254: Mothers

Perseus POV

I have some people to kidnap, that's a mad sentence to start, but that's what I need, well what my future self said I need, I already have quite a few of the requirements, which apparently, his own children, specifically, 2 rose and 2 gods, doesn't matter who.

And the other requirements are mortals who hold the blessing of gods, so they are priests, popes, or whatever, but I know 2 to-be saints who are at Tehios right now, Mark Reddish and Terrence Eriksen, so I arranged an appointment with both of them.

We got to a restaurant where I then asked them whether they were willing to come with me or be kidnapped.

"What?!" Mark exclaimed "That's what you asked me to come for?!"

"Uh yeah, come with me willingly or be kidnapped. It's not that hard to process, I assure you that you'll live with possibly no injuries."

"Sounds exciting, where to?" Terrence asked

"A bit further to the north, and if we're lucky, we can meet Isfrid."

"Isfrid...that's one of my god's names."

"Oh, what's his name now?"

"This month is Bob." he replied with a shrug, "Something about not doing a good job, so he is giving himself a name of lower value."

Bob...what a psycho.

"Wait, why are you so calm about this?" Mark turned to the other future saint

"I'm adopted by royalty, I expect to be kidnapped at some point in my life." Terrence replied

"Expecting and wanting are vastly different things."

"Well, he doesn't look like he has bad intentions, he's even treating us free food."

"That's what kidnappers do, they give out candy and nap you the next minute."

"Hey, I'm not your normal kidnapper, I asked for consent."

"Well, it seems that both of you are properly packed for our trip, so unless you want to be kidnapped unwillingly, I can give you time to pack."

"Pack to where?" Terrence asked

"The black rose's altar or sanctuary, whatever it's called. It's where I found her, I got to solve a moon god-related trial of sorts, it's only dangerous on the way back, I'll drop you off in Eriksen, the capital of the northern continent."

"Oh, let me head back and pack a few extra stuff, that sounds great."

"No!" Mark responded quite fiercely "My goddess may favor you, but she has clearly made the wrong judgment, you clearly have other ulterior motives."

"Man, I thought we were friends, is it the demon form?"

"No, why us 2 specifically, no offense-"

"People say that when they're about to say something mad offensive."

"Then why now? And why is it dangerous, I don't like to risk my life, I have a long life to live."

"Oh, basically, I might anger a god, and you might be killed alongside me since you're associated with me and within range."

"Then, hell n-" I then knocked him out and let Buddy pull him into the shadows "Well Terrence, let's go."

*****

My family and the chief went back first, I had Lilith teleport them home and I then let Ruka teleport the rest of us to the Northern Islands, my 3 children are now with us since this also involves them, and they are to help us with various tasks and see what they can do to help on the moon.

They're quite excited to go to the moon, and they're also quite excited to actually be directly involved for once, Terrence was the most excited, the guy was just having fun interviewing the 2 roses like some sort of journalist.

He asked things like favorite food, favorite sibling, and things like that, he was a bit put off by Lilith being here with us since he's supposedly going to be a part of the heroes' party, but it didn't take long for him to not care.

As for Mark, the guy had to be tied up and searched for tracking artifacts placed on his body before being brought here, he stopped complaining, so we no longer needed to gag him and only need to restrain his body and arms and let him use his own legs to walk.

"And you, Orion Silver, I've never heard of you before." Terrence said as he turned to Orion "You're clearly related, so how are you related, I can sense that you're quite strong, it's strange that I've never heard of you before, and there are reports of Wager."

Orion then turned to me with a look of 'partial truth or complete lie?'.

"I don't mind, he's pretty trustworthy."

And Maple will probably later order him and Mark to not tell it to anyone else, and even if they end up as our enemies, they'll take a goddess's words seriously.' Besides, Terrence seems like a nice guy, he treated us to free food once.

"I'm his son." Orion answered

"Whose son?" Terrence asked

"My dad, Perseus."

"Eh?" He and Mark then turned to me and turn their heads back and forth

"He's 16 and you look at least 3 years older." Mark pointed out

"Dad? Can I explain time Magic to em?" Orion asked

"Sure, I need their help when Cain comes, so explaining that concept should at least earn a bit of their trust since that's his goal."

I've been getting lax with the things I'm revealing, but I need all the help I can get, I don't know how powerful Cain's army is, I don't doubt that he doesn't have a weapon that can incapacitate a god. So these guys will be proper allies to have by my side.

After explaining to them, Mark then took a look at all 3.

"You look similar and yet different." he commented

"We've all got different mothers." Ivy responded

"So who's yours?"

"Um...well...this is awkward."

"I don't judge, I know many nobles who have multiple partners, and as a believer of a peaceful goddess, I learned to not interfere with other people's happiness."

"My mother is well...your goddess."

"Huh?"

"My mother is the autumn goddess."

"I'm about to go insane."