[Cain — LV3]
[Strength: I0 → F301]
[Endurance: I0 → F343]
[Dexterity: I0 → F378]
[Agility: I0 → F361]
[Magic: I0 → F314]
[Development Abilities: Swordsman H, Magic I]
[Magic: Current Propulsion, State of Selflessness]
[Skills: Unification, Mind's Eye, Song of Courage, Flesh Mimicry, Super Speed Regeneration, Blood Evolution]
[Flesh Mimicry: Able to freely manipulate flesh and blood, transforming them into different forms.]
[Super Speed Regeneration: Healing speed is greatly increased. Injuries can recover rapidly.]
[Blood Evolution: By sharing one's own blood with others, it can alter their physical bodies, strengthening them and giving them a certain probability of awakening special abilities.]
Hmm... how should this be explained.
Looking at the status sheet before her that practically spelled out the word "mutation", Hestia fell into thought for a moment before handing it to the black haired youth standing beside her.
"Cain, you've awakened a new skill."
"Yeah, I noticed."
"You discovered it yourself?"
"No. My body mutated."
"I see."
This strange exchange echoed quietly through the room.
Anyone who did not know the context might think Hestia and Cain were communicating in some strange coded language.
"My my. Children of the lower world truly are fascinating."
"You went out for a single day of adventure and came back practically a different species."
Hestia staggered slightly as she left the room, swaying like someone who had drunk fake wine, sighing with emotion.
"Was the impact really this big this time?"
Cain scratched his head, his expression slightly complicated.
Actually, before coming to Hestia, he had already prepared himself to reveal part of his secret.
After all, the Demon King Potion was completely different from the abilities he had gained before. It changed a person from the inside out.
But Hestia seemed to have sensed something from his expression and simply left immediately after finishing the status update.
"I feel a little bad about that."
Letting out a sigh, Cain tossed the paper into the brazier nearby, burning away the evidence.
Since Hestia had no intention of asking, he might as well pretend nothing had happened. That arrangement suited him perfectly.
Removing the bandages wrapped around his arms, Cain casually swung them several times, creating faint waves of force in the air.
Compared with the increase in his physical attributes, the greatest change brought by the Demon King Potion was his regeneration.
Earlier that morning, during his sparring session with Ottar, his arms had been pushed to a half crippled condition. Even if Heith had used healing magic on him, he would have needed several days of rest to recover.
But after gaining Super Speed Regeneration, his arms had completely recovered within just a few breaths.
"Looks like I will have to skip work."
Cain had originally planned to stay at the restaurant for several days, but he immediately changed his plan.
Tomorrow he would head back to the Freya Familia.
With his current strength, if he wanted to gain proper training inside the Dungeon, he would need to go at least to the Deep Floors.
Setting aside the danger, the round trip alone would take three or four days.
Instead of wasting time traveling, it was far more efficient to continue sparring with Ottar.
...
After briefly testing the effects of Super Speed Regeneration and Flesh Mimicry, night had already fallen.
Perhaps due to the shock earlier, Hestia had not returned after leaving the room.
Instead, a Renard girl quietly knocked on the door before slipping into Cain's room.
"Haruhime, is something the matter?"
"Lord Cain, your arms were injured earlier. This humble one thought you might require a maidservant to assist you."
Haruhime, wearing fox patterned pajamas and holding a pillow, walked naturally to the bed and placed it down.
"Please do not hesitate to command this humble one. If Lord Cain needs any assistance, you may speak freely."
"Then warm the bed."
Cain pointed at the bed.
"Hestia is not here tonight, so I will leave the bed warming duty to you."
"Y yes!"
Haruhime's cheeks immediately flushed red.
Although Cain's words were quite shocking, she had already mentally prepared herself before coming here.
Remembering the advice Aisha had given her half an hour earlier, Haruhime slowly raised her hands to the collar of her pajamas.
With a soft rustling sound, the fox patterned hooded pajamas slipped to the floor.
Under the gentle moonlight, the girl whose skin seemed to glow faintly white slid under the blanket. After wriggling slightly, she poked her head out and looked at Cain.
"Lord Cain, the bed is warm now."
"?"
Who exactly taught you to warm a bed like that?
Cain thought about it for a moment, then raised his hand toward his own collar.
He had always believed strongly in equality between men and women.
Since Haruhime had already given him such a "benefit", he naturally needed to return the favor.
...
"Oh no, I came back a little late."
Hestia pushed open the iron gate in front of her.
Still shaken by the shock she had received while updating Cain's Falna earlier, she had gone to visit Hephaestus.
It had been a long time since they last met, so the two goddesses chatted endlessly. By the time Hestia realized how much time had passed, night had already arrived.
Skipping cheerfully toward the annex, Hestia quickly reached the second floor.
But at that moment she suddenly noticed a small figure standing quietly in the corridor nearby.
"Lili? What are you doing here?"
"Huh?"
Lili, who had been secretly eavesdropping beside the wall, froze in place and turned around in shock.
"G-Goddess Hestia. Why are you here?"
"I went to visit Hephaestus and just came back."
"Ah... I see... By the way, Goddess Hestia, are you hungry? Lili was just about to... um... go get a small midnight snack."
...
The smell of a lie.
Hestia narrowed her eyes.
She could clearly sense that Lili was extremely flustered and deliberately trying to divert her attention.
"Lili, what are you hiding?"
"Th this..."
"Speaking of which, this is Cain's room, right? Why are you here in the middle of the night instead of sleeping?"
"Lili... Lili did not do anything."
"Then why do you look so guilty?"
Hestia's suspicion deepened.
With her ability to detect lies, she could tell that Lili truly had not done anything wrong.
But the girl's nervousness and guilt were far too obvious.
A strange sense of unease slowly rose in Hestia's heart.
Ignoring Lili's attempts to explain, Hestia walked straight toward Cain's room.
"Eh? Goddess Hestia, wait a moment!"
Lili hurried after her, trying to stop her.
But Hestia had already sensed something was wrong. With a push of her small hand, the door opened.
In the next moment, Cain standing in the center of the room while carefully maintaining his weapon came into view.
_|￣|○ ← Cain.
"Huh? Goddess Hestia?!"
Haruhime, who had been completely immersed in her own world, jumped in shock when Hestia suddenly appeared.
As Haruhime instinctively pulled back, Cain lost his target.
The next instant, the fully prepared hidden weapon launched forward, traveling several meters before striking Hestia squarely on the head.
"It's over."
Witnessing this scene that resembled something straight out of a nightmare illustration, Lili covered her ears in despair.
A few seconds later, Hestia's furious roar echoed throughout the sky above Orario.
"What exactly are you two doing!!!"
...
Outrageous. Completely outrageous.
After washing the mysterious hidden weapon from her hair, Hestia returned to the room and glared fiercely at the three people standing in front of her.
"Explain yourselves. What does all of this mean!"
"S-sorry."
Haruhime lowered her head in shame.
"Lili got up to drink water and heard some noise. She went to check the situation and happened to run into Goddess Hestia returning."
Lili also lowered her head guiltily.
Although she had not actually done anything wrong tonight, she had indeed been the first one to sneak away earlier.
Worried that Hestia might sense something suspicious, Lili stared fixedly at the floor and avoided eye contact.
Meanwhile, Hestia was too busy being furious to notice the girl's subtle behavior.
After confirming that Lili was not an accomplice, she turned her gaze toward the real culprit who had ambushed her with a hidden weapon.
"Cain, do you have anything to say for yourself?"
"It is simply human nature."
"???"
Several question marks appeared above Hestia's head.
Looking at the black haired youth who appeared completely justified and showed absolutely no remorse, Hestia puffed up her cheeks angrily.
"What do you mean 'human nature'! I sleep in the same bed with you every day and you have never tried anything with me!"
"Because it is impossible to try anything."
Cain sighed helplessly.
"You are a virgin goddess. Putting aside the kind of public opinion that might arise if something happened between us, simply getting injured would send you back to heaven. That problem alone cannot be solved."
Hestia: "..."
Well... that actually made some sense.
Unlike the free spirited Goddess of Beauty, the activation mechanism of a virgin goddess's divine power was very special.
Without fully understanding the conditions, the two of them getting too close could indeed cause problems.
"No. Even so, it is still not allowed!"
After thinking for a moment and almost being convinced, Hestia suddenly snapped back to her senses.
"The divine power repatriation mechanism is my problem!"
"In any case, romance is forbidden. XXOO is forbidden. You are not allowed to fool around anymore without my permission!"
"Huh? That is way too tyrannical."
Haruhime lifted her head slightly and muttered a small complaint.
"Yes, Goddess Hestia. You should not establish such unreasonable rules based on personal feelings."
Lili also gathered her courage and spoke up.
After all, this was related to her own future life. She had to fight for it.
"Enough! I said no means no!"
Hestia refused to retreat in the face of their protest.
She could compromise on other matters, but when it came to Cain, absolutely not.
When she thought about it carefully, the situation was simply too unfair.
Everyone else could do whatever they wanted with Cain, but she could not participate because of the divine power repatriation mechanism.
Just imagining a future where everyone else rolled around happily on Cain's bed while she had no place there and could only watch miserably from a corner made Hestia want to cry.
"Hestia, calm down."
At that moment Cain stepped forward and gently patted the small goddess on the head.
"Actually, the conclusions I mentioned earlier were only my personal judgment. Whether there would really be a problem is still uncertain."
"How about this. You introduce me to another virgin goddess, and I can conduct an experiment to determine whether it is possible."
"Experiment my foot!"
Hestia immediately slapped Cain's hand away.
She finally understood the real situation.
Lili and Haruhime were not the problem.
The real problem standing here was this shameless guy in front of her.
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