Chapter 444: Temporary God

Perseus POV

"Ok, why do these mannequins look like some discount cyclops?"

"Can't make them too attractive." Anna replied

"Why? Cuz you'll be falling for them?"

"Hey, I have a lot of standards.

"Right, and I'm somehow the perfect guy."

"I don't just find everyone attractive, they need to be at least loyal, average height, have average intelligence, slightly above average humor and wealth, and...well, they have to have good looks."

"I'm not loyal. I'm aiming for 5 wives."

"Yeah, but you're a millionaire. You can afford to have 5 wives, heck, 10 if you really wanted to."

"Maybe I can be like those girls you like."

"What girls?"

She then cleared her throat.

"Watashi wa kawaiI desu ka oniichan?" she said in a cutesy voice

First of all, I've never been more disappointed in the author, heck, his Japanese teacher will give him the disgusted Tanjiro face once he sees that all his teachings are being used for things like this. 

Why me? Why must I suffer such an embarrassment?

|I just ran through the Japanese reading exam with a breeze, so I feel good, but I definitely failed at one of my other subjects, so I am now showing off a simple sentence while taking out my frustrations and embarrassing you.|

"Back to the 2 vessels, when can I fight and kill them, they're quite weak right now."

"Well, the mana infusion and all the other processes, mix in with the fact that we're only sleeping 5 hours a day, I'd say...4 days."

"Why don't you sleep more? I don't mind waiting a tiny bit longer."

"Don't worry, the goddess' blessing is very useful." She shrugged, "Anyway, you should also rest up, these vessels may be brittle, and we may have removed the majority of the powers of Pride and Wrath, but they still are going to retain some of it as they need to awaken their full potential, your fight will not be easy."

*****

"Lilith, yo, can you...what the hell are you doing? Why are you stealing my jackets? And why is this room so cold?"

Sure enough, the cause was Isfrid's orb, it's emanating a lot of icy wind that was very controlled within our room, it was so cold that not even the enchantments could keep you warm, you couldn't really put it in your spatial storage, but Lilith should keep it in check, why is it going crazy now?

"I gave the power to your pal or whatever." she said while shivering, "But he rejected, saying something about not being worthy, the pope and the rest of the priests are convincing him."

"What does that have to do with this? Give it to the pope."

"Yeah, the power apparently got a consciousness of its own, didn't think the pope was worthy, froze his blood vessels right as the power touched him, almost died, and now it's angry and asking for that pal of yours."

"I can like take that ball and shove it into him forcefully."

"Uhh...what?"

"Like I can pin him down and make sure that he can't reject it."

"Might want to rephrase that, but please do, it's cold."

"Get Maple, she's a bit lonely lately, or ask your mom, she's very...well, she's quite warm...wait..."

Winter god...and there's one more candidate that no one have thought about, if he's worthy...we'll be fucking overpowered, I can use him temporarily until Terrence is ready to use it.

*****

Vincent POV

Damn it.

"Where's the stupid prince?!"

"Here!" Rosa replied as she handed me the guy with the guilty expression, "I only called Rown, I promised, his lines are always untraceable and encrypted, all I told him was that I'm alive and I made him swear an oath to only tell my brother while-"

"Even if he proceeds his plans as if you're gone, the relief will still be visible, you dumbass! Ugh, it really is cheaper for Perseus to kill you, damn him being the older brother, all you had to do was stay still!"

"Look, I'm gr-"

"Shut up! Do you know what being a representative means?! It means that you have to die! Perseus spared you, we're looking after you and treating you as one of our own, the least you can do is follow one simple instruction!"

"Uh, Dad...I mean, Perseus...Dad...he's coming." Rosa reported

Sure enough, after just a couple of seconds, he found us, and based on the guilty expression of the prince and from how we were holding him, he could already quickly tell what happened, but he then got the communication crystal from the prince to make sure that our location stayed secret. I know that Edward at least used caution and tried his best to help make the call untraceable from his end as well...but we can't be sure.

This brat...I've met him once in the past...to think that we're meeting each other again...it's quite a reunion, if I knew that this would happen, I wouldn't say those cheesy lines, but too late now.

Now I'm the younger one, took a bit to get used to it, but...it is what it is now, the Vince part of me didn't mind being the younger one since he very much appreciated Perseus' presence, the guy rarely home, and when he is, the guy never cared about us being adopted at all. His parents as well...it has truly been a blessing, especially compared to our past life, this life is way too good.

"Ok, we're good, but please Edward, next time, don't pull shit like this again, my village is at stake here." Perseus warned

"Your village? Are you taking on the mantle of chief now?"

"Vince, please shut the fuck up."

"Hey, he may be your brother, and you may be commoners, but you still shouldn't use vulgar words, you'll set a bad example." Edward advised

"Can I slap him?" Rosa asked

"Go ahead." Perseus and I answered at the same time, to which she obliged.

"Oops." She then put her hands to cover her mouth, "I think I knocked him out."

"She's your daughter alright, got both yours and Leilah's trait."

He then turned to ruffle buddy's fur a bit before donning on a serious expression.

"Hey, how would you like to be a temporary god?" he asked