With the plan agreed upon by the patron gods of the School District, Hermes familia was enlisted once again to deliver the news to the Tsugunai.
The School District's teachers began teaching courses to significantly larger classes, all thanks to the influx of students courtesy of Orario. There they taught various courses, though most of it was basic education, a means to get a leg up and a chance to live for themselves.
Several months passed in what felt like the blink of an eye. And Zald's expedition from the dungeon returned. He looked harder, stronger, and beat up quite a bit. For that matter, so did the rest of the party.
"Bell, you did good." Zald spoke with the loving tone of the uncle/father figure he was to Bell, in other words, he was proud beyond pride. "I am proud of you."
"Thank you, Uncle! You did good too!"
"Hmm, you think so?" He smirked, faking his surprise.
"Oh come on Uncle Zald, stop being like that. We all saw you clear the 78th floor on your own." Meda added in retort, walking hand in hand with Bell.
"Awe don't be like that Meda, I was just acting, yes that's right, acting."
Bell started laughing. "Your funny uncle. Let's go home now, mother is going to be surprised at our growth." He smiled, despite the grime that covered him and basically everyone else.
Zald took a breath and relaxed, he looked forward, and smirked. "I wonder if he'll humor me with a match… A good one."
"Uncle, are you sure you want to do that?" Meda asked. "Uncle Shurry is… strong…"
"I know, I want to fight him even still. Despite the fact people often confuse his presence for a god's." He paused and smiled, looking up to the sky. "It's what they're doing now, training hard so they may one day make their own way here, of their own volition. I do hope Lyca forgives me for bedding another woman."
"Aye! You're crazy, you never got with her in the first place. What does she have to be mad about?"
"True…"
Soon the party returned to the Hathor familia home, the home of Astraea, Hathor, Hera, and Zeus familias. Along with the occasional members of Ganesha familia.
"Shurry, I want to spar!" Zald shouted as he entered.
"Good, let's go." Shurry smirked.
A rather intense sparring match began… To the weak it looked completely even. However, to those who knew more, it was obvious that Shurry was undoubtedly the stronger of the two, as he was actively suppressing himself to match Zald's capabilities, as well as improve a little bit himself.
"Yay! Go papa! You can do it!"
"Uncle Zaldy! Give my papa a good fight!"
"That looks fun! Can I play too!!!!!" Skol cheered, looking around for a sparring partner.
"I'll spar with you brother." Hati said with a similar interest in playing.
The kids' fight quickly devolved into nothing more than an average playing session where the four just rolled around competing to see who could get the most mud on them.
A few hours after the sparring fights ended, and Zald was laying on his back, completely exhausted, Zeus was sitting there, waiting for Zald to recover enough to move. It was taking a while because Zald refused to have Shurry heal him this time, so he can fully remember the pain… and then the one goddess who'd been purposely ignored, finally gave up her patient waiting.
"Origin Wolf, how can you just ignore me like this, for so long, I'm a goddess of beauty!" It was Aphrodite, and she was not happy for having waited so long, rather, she feigned her fury, because deep down she liked it, it was a completely new feeling for her.
"Huh? Oh, right, you were here…" Shurry said, pausing mid bite, leaving a slab of meat to hang out of his mouth.
"I've come for your seed!"
"Oh! Oh! Me too! Me too!" Iska shouted, over hearing the demand.
"Huh? Origin Wolf is giving his seed to some woman? Why not me! I have to have it!" Tione shouted in complaint, running over.
"Sister wait, we aren't done with training yet!" Tiona yelled out trying to keep up with her sister, and now Iska too.
Shurry finished eating the meat, and then his expression soured, he leaned forward, and glared. "You really have a lot of nerve, are all goddesses of beauty like this? What gives you the right to claim my seed?"
"I want it. Give it."
"No."
"Yes."
"No."
"Why won't you give it? Don't you want more kids?"
"Yes I do, but I have four wives, each more than willing to give me them. I don't need, nor want anyone else to have my child."
"But, I want it." Aphrodite started using her natural gift of beguiling. "Won't you give it to me?"
Shurry slammed the table with just enough strength to keep it from breaking. "NO!"
"What if I said, I want to see if you're strong enough to impregnate a goddess?"
"I will never give you, nor any other woman, outside of my wives, my seed."
Tione had arrived, sat down to Shurry's right, and just stared at him with big, beady eyes.
"I said no." He all but snarled with anger, then went back to eating.
The next several days were filled with Shurry fending off the amazonesses of the allied familia, after all rumors spread like wild fire. It had spread through the city, and eventually reached a certain goddess' ears.
She puffed her pipe, and looked to the adventurer that had the information, extracted, from him. "Is this rumor true?"
"I do not know my lady. It is only a rumor for now."
She stood and stomped her foot. "All rumors begin with some truth behind them. It doesn't matter, even if he didn't do it, he thought about it in some way. UNACCEPTABLE! How dare he refuse me, yet give it freely to any random woman. We must prepare! Everything! Phryme, start making preparations. We're going to collect his seed one way or another."
"Hehehe, as you wish."
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