Chapter 274: It's Time

Ruka POV

"Well, nothing to say?" Alban asked, "I thought you 2 were nicer than that."

He asked Colin to leave us 3 for a while, and now it's just us 3.

"Well, it's not like I missed you that much, I've lived with you for centuries before we separated, and at this point, the only thing that's connecting us is our childhood and that we're related."

"As charming as ever." he chuckled, "And Leilah, I'll try not to ask much about your whereabouts, but you could have at least made contact with me and told me about you finally choosing a champion."

"I did." Leilah replied, "I know you more than enough that you'd already have secretly met with the heroes after they were summoned just so you can see if there's any sighting of me, I left a message with one of them."

"Who? And what did you say?"

"I think it was a guy named Sam, I told him in his dreams that when he arrives in a new world, he is to inform a powerful white-haired man that his sister has found the one. But I think that the demon lord, the previous one, killed him, it was supposed to only be 3, but whatever."

"Oh so, it's as if you've never sent me a message."

"Exactly."

"So there wasn't a need for you to tell me that."

"I know, but I did."

Alban just sighs and turned to me.

"Well, little sis, how are you dealing with your makeup product? And why do you have a wedding ring? Who did you marry?" he asked

"It's selling well, and as for this ring, blame Dad, it just flew and attached itself to me and the other white-haired guy I know."

"Did you meet him?"

"Only a memory fragment that was imbued to a metal dragon, Leilah talked with him a bit, as for our actual mom, Leilah talked with her a bit a couple weeks ago."

"Really? Where is she?"

"The other side."

"I see...I had a suspicion about it, but...well, it's been too long for me to care. If you 2 don't mind, would you like to come back with me for a bit, we need a lot of time to properly catch up, at this rate, Perseus and Colin will be forced to fight each other, and I'd rather have a few great moments before we meet as enemies."

"Sorry, we've got a couple of things to tinker on for now, it will take a couple of days for that, and a few weeks for our next mission, and last but not least, we'll be away for at least a month or 2."

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Perseus POV

After a while, the 2 roses came back and we teleported home. And you wanna know what's great? It's that I can use teleport now, and I got more than enough mana for it.

I then went to hole up in the cave where Ruka used to be located, Lilith cast several enchantments on the place so that what we were doing can't be detected, one of which is where I now have to learn how to do enchanting the old Jerah fashion way, which is just using this book artifact of his and merging it with me so that I have automatic knowledge on how to do it.

The time-traveling device kinda resembles the ultimatrix in a way, a gauntlet-like mechanical band around my wrist, black in color, and got a stupid clock on it. TO activate it, we need a person with a lot of mana and with knowledge of enchanting.

I would activate it, and when the time portal or whatever comes up, I'll take it off and give it back for them to bring it back.

"It'll take a few days, so you guys can rest or just make sure no one comes close, I'll be secluded here for a while."

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Ruka POV

"Maple, why are you sulking?"

I came back home for some rest, Maple, Ivy, and Asher was the only one home while the rest was out doing something, probably shopping.

"She's embarrassed when she was seen with hundreds of kissing marks on her neck, and the culprit is now out without a chance for her to punish him." Asher answered.

"What kind of punishment? The ordinary kind or the one that Lilith likes."

"The execution kind? I don't know." he shrugged.

"What are you up to?"

"If you're going to attempt to get close to me out of guilt, you don't need to, I understand why you're uncomfortable, I wouldn't want to see me either."

"You talk just like your father."

"I know, really runs in the blood."

"Is depression included?"

"Yes, I'm good at both receiving them and giving them."

"Huh, you might not be so bad."

I turned to Maple, and her dynamic with her future daughter is totally different, Ivy is sitting between her lap and reading a storybook while Maple was pouting. I talked with Asher a bit here and there, every now and then, but I wouldn't say that we're relatively good.

Lilith almost ignores her son entirely, I tried getting her to talk with him, I understand her feeling, but I'm not a monster, I have to sympathize with these 'kids' a little, they're far away from home, a little acknowledgment here and there won't hurt.

I question how good of a parent both me and Lilith are in the future, we both don't particularly like having children since both of us dread the idea of bearing a child and going through labor.

"Don't question my existence too much." he said, "I thought coming back in time would be fun, but it's pretty boring, y'all don't have TV or my little pony, must be dull."

"What? You have a pony?"

"No, there's a show called 'my little pony', we got them on these discs, I won't say who forced me into it, but it ain't that bad. There was this show that dad really like as well, one about a triangle-headed boy and a rectangular-head guy with a really cool pet with a fedora."

"Are you sure that being raised by us didn't make you lose your marbles? How can someone have a triangular-shaped head?"

"You'll understand, you wanna play cards?"