At breakfast, it was Mikoto and Haruhime's turn today. Her traditional Far Eastern dishes were always delicious and exotic. Though unlike the usual, Haruhime and Mikoto did not so much as utter a single word and worked in harmonious silence. The same seemed to be the case to the rest of the Familia.

I can feel their gazes averting between me and Haruhime's back as she was working. Welf was looking at me with a smirk on his face, I can imagine him giving me a big brotherly thumbs up and pat on the back just from his expression alone. Lili's gaze was… complicated. I can almost feel like what resembled hostile intents from her. I wiped a cold sweat on my forehead, as I turned towards the Goddess.

She was staring at me with a burning passion, I can almost see the fire burning in her eyes. Like a predator ready to leap at its prey and devour at its flesh. I looked down at the table in an attempt to escape her wrath. I was sure that the longer I looked, the more likely she'd have literally leaped and tore me asunder.

"Ah, s-sorry"

"N-no it's fine. Fine. Yes. It's fine."

Haruhime let slipped a bowl on the counter, momentarily stopped Mikoto's handy chopping work and broke the uneasy silence in the dining room. However, it seemed that the shock on Mikoto had only lessened ever slightly from this morning's incident.

After what seemed like an eternity of silenced torture, the preparations were complete and food was on the table. However, I can still feel Lili's hostile intents and the Goddess' fiery gaze upon me, as I tried to make myself as small and unnoticeable as possible. Haruhime sat down next to me.

Gaaahhh that did not help.

I can feel their hostile intents and wrathful gaze doubled, now directed at our general direction alone. Haruhime retained a deep blush on her face throughout this morning. The uneasiness only allowed me to slowly reach for a small plate in an attempt to grab for food. As I did so-

"So, Bell, is there anything that you want to tell us about?"

My arm stopped midway. Hug in the air awkwardly, I can feel my outreached hand trembled. The Goddess broke the silence herself with a voice filled with a fearful tone.

I am done for.

"Um, not-nothing particularly…"

"Is that so? We were just wondering where Haruhime had spent the night at. You wouldn't know anything about that would you, Bell?"

"Um…"

If there was a god or goddess of cold sweat, I'm sure I was blessed by such an entity. Haruhime and I both looked down at the table. That is, until-

"Hestia-sama, um, Bell and I've decided, we'd b-be t-t-together."

Haruhime stepped in gallantly. She said so as she slowly fumbled her stomach and caressed it slightly. At this point, every person around the table had their jaws dropped and their eyes as wide as they could.

"…"

"Noooooooooo. Bell. My Bell. What did you do, Bell?"

"D-don't tell me…"

"Lili is both furious, and disappointed, Mr. Bell"

"I didn't expect that from you, Bell…"

The Goddess started crying and weeping, her head hit the table as hard as she could. Mikoto looked like she was about to collapse from another massive shock. Lili was just as she said. Welf was looking at me with a complicated expression. Just then, I realized as well what it all meant-

Crap.

My eyes were spinning. My face grew pale. Unable to contain it, my head grew red hot from the thought.

I shouldn't have done something so reckless.

How am I going to fix this?

What am I supposed to do?

Am I ready for it?

What about my adventuring days?

But most important of all…

How do you even raise a baby!?

"I-I'm sorry. I didn't think about it clearly before we…"

"Noooooooooo"

As I tried to explain myself, the Goddess screamed and wept at the top of her lungs before I could finish. She hit her head on the table again.

In contrary to our suffering and conflicts, Haruhime sitting next to me, was smiling, staring down at her stomach. She seemed to be in a totally different world than ours.

"Bell you traitor. You cheater!"

As she said those words. The Goddess broke into the hallway and disappeared. Lili followed suit and left the table as well. Mikoto frantically looked back and forth between Lili and the Goddess, before she silently left. Welf patted me on the back and gave me the look as if to say "You can do it!" and went towards the Forge. The only persons left here are me and Haruhime.

"Um, it'd be a waste if we don't eat…"

"Y-yes, you're right."

We ate our breakfast. I wanted to spend some time with Haruhime, but I decided that I needed…information. So I told her I'd be back and left her shortly after.

But who could I ask?

Welf? I doubt he has any experience with kids.

Lili? I doubt that'd work.

The Goddess is out of the question.

Hmm…

After pondering on this matter for a while, I decided to go to Hermes Familia. As irritating as it is, Hermes seems to be someone who would know what an ideal man should do. I stopped at the front entrance, a guard approached and looked at me suspiciously.

"What business do you have here, Little Rookie?"

"I'd like to see Lord Hermes"

"Hermes-sama is not accepting visitors at the moment"

His response was fast. Leaving no doubts or suspicions in his answer. Slightly annoyed, I was about to turn and leave when-

"Oi little Bell"

Aisha came out of the front entrance and stopped me in my track.

"What brought you here? Wait, Is it me? Have you finally decided?"

Aisha winked at me while licking her lips, while making sure to puff out her chest, as if to emphasize her two voluptuous melons.

"Um, no, I was actually here for Lord Her-"

Wait, maybe this is perfect.

Aisha must have had experience in these sorts of things.

"Say, Aisha, can we talk somewhere else?"

"Ooh lead the way young rabbit, we can have at it anywhere you'd like hehe"

Ignoring her flirts and teases, I led her some distance away from the guard and began my round of interrogation.

"Say, Aisha, what do you know about, um, b-babies?"

"…"

"Huh?"

Dumbstruck, Aisha stood with her foot planted solidly as a rock, without a single movement.

"Haruhime and I, um, sort of k-kissed, so…"

"…"

"I was hoping you c-could, um, share some advice…"

"…"

"…"

"…Hah?"

"…?"

"Ahahahahaha, you're even more hopeless than I thought. Hahahahaha."

"W-what's so funny?"

Aisha continued to laugh, unable to hold back her tears of laughter, she seemed more savage and barbaric than I thought, the way she does it in her normal attire.

"…Hah…hah. You two, are hopeless"

She was having trouble breathing and talking whilst laughing.

"T-this is not a joke!"

I rebuked. Though it might as well have went one ear and out the other.

"You had me for a moment there, I thought you'd have actually go and done it, reckless conqueror! Ahahaha"

Aisha seemed to have caught onto my confused stares. Her laughter gradually died down, she took a moment to breathe.

"Bell, have you not had any knowledge about baby-making?"

"Huh?"

Of course not. I lived with Gramps alone in an unknown village beyond a mountain. That goes without saying.

"Bell, you do realize that kissing does not make a baby, yes?"

"I-it doesn't?"

Relief spread across my face, as I eased my heavy pounding heart that's been at it nonstop since morning.

"No. You see, how you'd actually go and make a baby is-"

I spent that entire rest of the morning with Aisha explaining to me what, or how a baby is made, Aisha seemed to enjoy and emphasized at the part where you'd go in and out, so much so that she'd did a live demonstration with her body against an invisible imaginary person, she even went as far as demonstrating a weird seductive groan at the end. I wanted to bury myself and roll away.

No sorry, I do not know who this person is.

Yes, believe me.

She grabbed and forced me here.

It drew a lot of weird gazes from bystanders and people on the street, I can only response by putting my hands to cover my face in shame. Hoping no one would recognize me.