Chapter 3

"Mama?" I called out. "Mama where are you!?"

As soon as I woke up, mama suddenly had me search for some food since she was hungry. This was really weird due to ever since I first met mama she hadn't eaten anything claiming that the way she sustained herself was vastly different from me. Which was surprising because mama is really big even with her wings folded so I thought that she ate a lot.

However, I will do everything for mama.

She took care of me when no one did.

She played with me when all of the kids hated me.

She also taught me a lot of things!

So I will always do anything for mama to make her happy!

I will never do anything to make mama angry at me!

So I did my best in hunting animals for mama to eat. I was excited. Because this will be the first time me and mama would share a meal together! Before it was always just me eating while mama just watched or sleep. So I hunted with everything I got.

But when I returned she wasn't there.

She was gone.

"MAMA!" I shouted loud in order to have my voice travel through the forest. "MAMA!"

I don't have any idea for how long I was screaming for mama again and again in this lonely forest. But I received no answers. The only thing I saw where animals scurrying away from me probably because of my loud voice.

It took a whole day of my running from one part of the forest to the next screaming my lungs out for me to stop.

Helpless.

Lonely.

"...Mama." I cried.

But no matter how much time has passed. It was just me in this dark and silent forest. Mama didn't show up, leaving me to cry all alone in this tranquil forest.

"Eina-nee?"

Belle called out with a soft tone.

She kept her eyes close as she felt that opening her eyes would increase the intensity of the headache she was currently experiencing.

Though she couldn't really see without opening her eyes, she was relaxed due to the fact that she could tell that she was currently in bed in Eina's place. This was because of her strong sense of smell thus it made it possible for Belle to familiarize the place via its scent. Thus with just using her sense of smell, she could tell she was in a familiar and safe place.

"I'm right here." Eina called out softly.

Belle shakily raised her left hand in the air which was gently grabbed by Eina whom began to caressed it fondly.

"Are you ok?" Eina asked worried.

"I'm fine." Belle answered. "I just don't know what happened."

The last thing Belle could remember was that arrogant wolf's words. She could remember the pain dealt to her by that annoying wolf and the pain she dealt to the annoying wolf.

Perhaps sensing the troubled thoughts of the girl, Eina reached over and pressed a hand on Belle's forehead and began to gently massage her temple.

"What are you thinking of?" Eina asked.

"Just that rude wolfie." Belle answered with a frown gracing her features. "I was just eating since that beautiful elf-neesan gave me food. Then that wolfie entered and saw me and started to be a meanie to me."

Though she was a bit troubled by the actions of Bete, Eina found the sight of Belle Cranel grumbling insanely adorable. Her pout only served to multiply her cuteness factor by several folds. It took everything she had to hold herself back on hugging the daylights out of the cute girl.

Eina instead told everything that happened. Which was after Belle knocked out Bete Loga out, she turned her sights on the other members of the Loki Familia. In her blind rage, she thought that they were there to hurt her too. So she rushed towards them intending to attack, but was constricted by the amazoness twins. Though they tried talking her out of her rage, Belle wasn't listening and tried to escape their grasps, which consequently resulted in her getting knocked out by familia captain, Finn.

As Eina finished her story, she could Belle bare her fangs in pure annoyance. This troubles the half-elf greatly.

Belle already has a distaste for adventurers, especially those belonging in big familias. The events with the Loki Familia would only serve to fuel her distaste further. Despite the girl going about her days minding her own business, she was just really unlucky in attracting attention towards herself.

Eina could somewhat understand why that was.

Belle was different.

She didn't know exactly why that was. But Belle just really was different. She was insanely adorable of couse, but that alone wouldn't attract too much attention would it?

Scratch that.

A lot of attention would be gain just from that actually. Orario is a huge place with a vasy variety of people of different race and characteristics. And with that comes people with different tastes, preferences, and(though Eina laments it)fetishes.

But surely that wasn't the sole reason.

Ein was suddenly brought out of her train of thoughts by a sudden rumbling sound. She turned towards Belle whom was still laying on the bed and saw she was grabbing her stomach with her two hands as if she was trying to hide it while her cheeks erupt a reddish tint.

"Oho?" Eina couldn't help but shift her expression into a playful smirk. Her convoluted thoughts from earlier now forgotten. "Is somebody hungry?" Eina teased.

Belle didn't give out a respond opting just to turn her head away from Eina's direction as she felt her cheeks heat up more.

"Oh?" Eina continued with her teasing. "Then I guess you don't need anything?"

Eina began to stand up and try to appear as if she was about leave just to tease Belle and it worked splendidly as Belle reached out and grabbed Eina's sleeve.

"...Eine-nee." Belle called out with a whimper.

Eina tried her best not to coo at the adorable tone the girl was using in calling her. Despite her best effort to resist turning around to face the girl, she couldn't help herself as the girl let out another whimper. So when she turned around she was met with a sight that melted her heart.

Belle Cranel was pouting!

"I'm hungry." Belle said with her pout. "Can we eat?"

Gods it should be illegal for one girl to be this adorable! Eina thought.

With sharp intake of breath, Eina rushed over to hug the girl tightly.

"How could I say no now!?" Eina shouted.

"Yay!"

"Do you have any excuses?" Loki asked.

Her gaze was currently directed downwards on the Bete Loga whom was laying on the floor comically beat up and tied down with several thick ropes.

In truth, Loki wanted to scold her child on the same day he attacked white-haired girl but the werewolf was down for the count for the entire night. So they waited the day after to deal out the punishment.

The trickster goddess wanted to recruit the girl into her familia after finding out that she was adorable. What was once just some sort of a goddess' fancy now turned into a desire. After seeing the elusive Bell Cranel, she was captivated.

Cute yes, but had a bite that was sharp as blades. Adorable, yet shrouded in mystery as to what her origin was.

Loki was curious. There was something really different about the girl. A feeling or sensation that set her apart from the other civilians and adventurers within the city of Orario.

But what was it?

She wasn't certain, but she had an intuition that the girl's mystery is akin to that of Ais. Her origin must different from regular people and the goddess was dying to unearth what it was.

Her desire was burning!

"He says he has no excuses." Tione said with a frown. She along with her sister Tiona was tasked to punish Bete in front of Loki and tie him up. "I guess he just went up straight stupid."

"What did you say!?" Bete growled.

"Tiona." Tione called her sister.

"Alright!" Tiona smiled, walked up to the tied Bete and swiftly brought down her fist to the wolf's head.

"GAh!" Bete grimaced. "The hell!?"

Loki propped her elbows on the table and rested her chin on her hands as she looked at her familia top three children.

Finn was scratching the back of his head as he stood on Loki's right side with a small smile on his face. Riveria on the other hand had her arms crossed and was frowning deeply as she looked at Bete as if she was looking at scattered trash on the floor. Gareth merely observe everything as he brought a drink with him.

"So what should we do now?" Finn asked as he turned to Loki. "We do still need to prepare for our next expedition and I hate to not sugarcoat it, but we are currently in the red in terms of our budget."

"We really do need to get on that." Gareth followed up. "But I can tell that Loki right here won't really let this one go so easily."

Finn actually agreed with the dwarf. While he did want to get organize the necessities for their upcoming expedition, he did truly understand why their goddess was caught up with the mysterious white haired girl.

There was just something about the girl that is eye catching. Something that sets her aside from other adventurers. She didn't seem to be a pallum which was slightly unfortunate for Finn.

"Apologize to the girl." Riveria suddenly spoke garnering the attention of everyone present in the room. "I have no desire to make the public's opinion of us to be the kind of familia that condones such displeasing actions."

"Ha!?" Bete scowled at the high elf. "Why the hell do I need to apologize to som-"

Bete's sentence was cut off by Loki standing up all of a sudden. The goddess walked around the desk and then to Bete.

"Apologize." Loki said quietly.

"Why sh-"

Bete felt a sudden chill as he looked up and saw the expression written on Loki's face.

The goddess was livid.

A sight that was rarely seen even by her own familia children.

Loki and Bete stared at each other in complete silence for half a minute before the werewolf broke the silence by releasing a deep sigh.

"Alright." Bete nodded.

After a few seconds of silence from Loki, her expression turned that to a wide smile. "A'right then!" She clapped her hands. "Tione and Tiona, make sure to be witnesses to this idiot's apology." Loki commanded and nodded. "Now then, this kind of stuff so early in the morning sucks. You guys hafta be hungry right? Let's go eat!"

Without waiting for any response from her children, Loki walked out of the room without missing a beat. To shift from one emotion to the next in such a short amount time. Only one thing was one everyone's mind.

Scary.

Eina was pleased.

She was worried about the mood Belle would be in after last night's altercation with the Loki familia. But any worry she had was washed away by the mere sight of Belle Cranel.

The girl in question was now walking besides Eina while holding her hands firmly as she swung their hands as they walked. The sight was positively adorable making the half-elf smile as they went on their way.

The Hostess of Fertility would be open in about an hour since it was really early in the morning, however Belle was already hungry, so Eina decided to take the girl into another restaurant or cafe.

Now the problem was what to buy for Belle?

The girl grew up in a forest eating anything edible regardless of taste in order to survive, so she wasn't really picky which Eina was thankful for. But she did notice that the girl does have food she prefers to eat more. While the girl would surely eat anything Eina buys for her without a single complaint, Eina wanted to treat the girl to something nice.

"So Belle?" Eina called making the girl look at her.

"Hm?" Belle tilted her head to the side.

Such a cute sight.

"What do you want to eat? Anything you like?" Eina asked willing to indulge the girl's likings for the morning.

Belle scrunched up her eyebrows as she fell into thought. After a minute of silent contemplating, Belle opened up her eyes. "I like everything Eine-nee gives me!" Belle stated with a wide grin.

Eina struggled intensely to contain the squeel that threatened to escape her mouth and clutch her chest with her free hand. Blushing she looked away from Belle while grumbling to herself.

This girl is just so unfair!

In the innermost interior of the guild, lies a platform rising up to several feet above the floor. Atop of this platform were four tall torches position to each corner of the said platform. On the centre lies a throne that resembled more of a monolith or ancient tablet.

This was known as the room of prayers.

Residing in this room of prayers was the god known as Ouranos. A god with the appearance of an aged man with white hair and blue eyes. One of the first gods to descend from the heaven. While the elf Royman was acting as the guild head, it was truthfully Ouranos himself the guild head. Though he was more focused on using his divinity to keep the monsters residing inside the dungeon from coming out to the city of Orario.

Ouranos opened his eyes and turned towards the left and called out. "Fels."

As if one within the shadows, a figure appeared from within the darkness of the room.

The figure wore black robes that seemed to blend completely into darkness which covered the entirety of the figure making it impossible to ascertain its gender nor appearance.

This figure was known as Fels.

"How is she?" Ouranos asked the robed figure.

"As of the current, her status is fine." Fels responded after a short bow. "Though there was some sort of altercation involving her and the Loki familia last night."

Hearing this Ouranos let out a sigh. "As a familia grows stronger and more infuencial, so will their egos." The god shook his head as if trying to rid his mind of this displeasing thought. "Time and time again, this happens more often than not."

"Shall we do something regarding this?" Fels asked.

"There is no need for any actions." Ouranos declined. "I believe Loki will do something about this as it is involving her familia children."

"It appears the girl had caught her interest." Fels explained making the old god sigh again.

"While Loki did change and became calmer ever since she descended, this does trouble me." Ouranos complained. "For now we will do no actions, but continue to observe the girl and guard her. Also pay an additional attention to the Loki familia now as well."

"As you wish." Fels nodded. "She is currently with the half-elf guild receptionist. It appears they are about to go eat breakfast."

"Eina Tulle was it? I'm thankful for her, for looking after the girl and being her guardian." Ouranos stated. "The girl is important. Especially for our plans for the near future." The god closed his eyes as he leaned back onto his throne. "Make sure she is safe. But try to only get involved if she is truly in danger as to not hinder her growth."

"As you wish."

To be Continued.

Afterword.

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