Hello everyone, thak you for soo much for again for enjoying my story, also thank you for enduring my irregular updating.

Anyway, I wanted to share some piece of information about how I wrote this fanfiction:

Before I release a chapter, I'm always looking out to write it around 5-10 Chapters ahead, which means that as of now, the 'raw materials' for the next chapters are already written by me, the only thing missing is the correction of grammatical errors and other story details I sometimes add if they fit.

Please enjoy and again, sorry for the delay.

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Is it wrong to seek answers?

Chapter 31: The Dia Familia's Return home party

OUTSIDE – ORARIO - EVENING

After Noct put his picture inside his new suit, they got out. Hestia, Noct, Bell, and Lily, who waited outside already, entered in the already present carriage, which brought them towards the Dia Familia home.

Like Hestia, Lily also wore a dress. In the carriage were only two benches. After a small argument between the two girls, they decided that the two boys and two girls each sit on one bench together.

Noct hoped that they would stop arguing, but far from it: they argued who wore the better dress and other stuff, which became annoying for both boys up to a certain point.

(OPENING: Sawano Hiroyuki nZK: Mizuki – e of s)

IVY MANOR – DIA FAMILIA HQ – EVENING

After they came out, they went for the entrance, which was guarded by two male bodyguards.

In front of the entrance, a catgirl with Yellow eyes and dark brown hair was staying, ready for receiving visitors, but right now, she seemed to read something, probably a guest list, on some clipboard.

The catgirl noticed someone coming, "Name ? " she asked in a rather unfriendly tone, but Noct didn't care as much since she might be busy or something alike.

"Hestia Familia." Hestia said while holding the invitation, ready to show it.

This made the Cat Girl look towards them. She saw the long-haired Goddes, along with two of her children. At first, she looked towards Bell.

" 'little Rookie' Bell Cranel …? "

"y-yes" Bell nodded. The Catgirl now turned towards the pallum girl.

„Lily ? … " the catgirl asked again.

"yes" answered the female pallum.

Now her gaze was on Noct, who was quite handsome for the Catgirl.

"and Noct Gar ? " she asked.

"that's right" Noct answered, „and you ?" Noct asked since he clearly felt the strong energy coming from her, meaning that she's most likely an adventurer.

This surprised not only the Catgirl but also Bell and Hestia.

"Sorry, my bad, my name is Gita Meyers, also known as 'Krypto factor' " Gita introduced herself but felt awkward pronouncing her alias since she has no idea what 'Krypto factor' actually means, or if it meant anything at all.

" " " Krypto factor ?" " " the arrived guests said in unison, especially Lily, wondered why such a clearly strong adventurer had such a strange name, even Noct wondered if those words were actually real words in this world.

Gita new it has to be some kind of special term from information science. Gita also remembered that her Goddess said it's a unique name for her, but she expected something more fitting for a Lvl. 4 adventurers like her.

Just because she herself is an information dealer doesn't mean she knows all special terms of information science.

'no normal God or goddesses allows such complicated terms for aliases expect our Goddess' Gita thought annoyed.

" Are you one of Dia's children ? "

" yes, since the original receptionist fell ill, lady Dia ordered me on the last second to take his part, which is the reason I'm struggling right now remembering all guest's names." Gia explained.

After Hestia gave Gita their Invitation as proof, Gita lifted her hand, signalizing for two more persons, two familiar girls, to come closer, "Prima, Gina, as you may know, this is the Hestia Familia, you remember what Goddess said when they appear ?"

"yes, " Prima said Girl answered before looking towards their current guests, Gina then started talking with their Guests „good evening, Hestia Familia, Goddess Dia told us you're considered VIP Guests, so please follow us"

"VIP? " Hestia asked, which wondered Bell, Lily, and Noct as well.

As they entered the Manor, they could see the ornamented ceiling, which clearly had a floristic design. While for Hestia, Lily and Bell were it unusual seeing such luxury, for Noct it was the exact opposite. It felt quite nostalgic entering a mansion like that. No wonder since Noct himself is actually a prince himself.

"If you carry articles of value along, you can give it to us, we can put them inside a safe."

"well, I don't carry anything of value, what about you guys? "

"no, " said Lily, „no, " said Bell „nothing, " said Noct.

"me too, but say, Prima and Gina, you know you don't have to be formal with us, right ?"

"Since we're working for tonight, we're committed to being formal with our Guests"

"now that you mention it, are here more VIPs ? " Noct asked out of curiosity since he wondered who the other VIPs might be.

"not that we're aware of, to be honest, that's something only Gita knows since she has the guest list" Prima explained

"I see ... " Noct wondered if he wasn't hearing things.

MAIN HALL-IVY MANOR – DIA FAMILIA HQ – EVENING

After they went along the Corridor, they saw a rather large Hall, were many Guests were already enjoying the party.

They realized that about half of them were demi-humans, most of them being light-skinned Elves, also a few of them being dark-skinned too, but strangely, the dark-skinned Elves seemed to avoid the light-skinned Elves for some reason.

" " excuse us " " both girls said before leaving, but instead for the corridor where they came from, they went for one of the large stairs, leading to the upper floor.

Hestia, Bell, and Noct went towards the other Guests, hoping to see anyone familiar, but they couldn't see anyone.

"Good evening" they've heard someone else introducing towards then.

As they turned, they saw a girl with green eyes, brown hair, horns on her head and strange-looking ears like that of a cow, a beautiful beige dress and, as Noct and Bell realized, large breasts. Overall, Noct also realized that she has to be from a race he didn't encounter before.

"and you are? " Hestia asked annoyingly, not because of the Girl herself, but because she sensed how both her children were staring towards her.

" Oh, my bad, my name is Iris Bennett from the Dia Familia." Iris introduced herself

'Iris' Noct thought while remembering about Gladio's younger sister, 'how she doing right now I wonder' Noct wondered.

" Ohh, now I remember you, " Hestia said, forgetting where her children were staring.

"you know her, Goddess ?" Bell asked his goddess while looking towards her.

"yes, the last Denatus, you've leveled up to Lvl. 5, right ?" Hestia asked

"that's right" Iris confirmed.

"yes, and we thought about your new alias, it was my suggestion, which has been agreed by everyone, even Dia herself." Hestia happily announced, "I hope you're not mad now"

"no, no of course not, actually, I'm very happy with that new alias." Iris agreed with a smile.

Hestia saw that Iris was telling the truth, and she also seemed very honest as a whole.

"What name did you give her, miss Hestia? " Lily asked out of with a bored but concerned expression, worryingly wondering what stupid alias Hestia has given to this young woman, even though this young woman has now the attention of Bell.

"you say them please, " Hestia said before grinning, ready to hear it from Iris.

" 'saloon smasher' " Iris said happily

" " 'saloon smasher'? " " Both Noct and Bell asked, now wondering if more Members of the Dia Familia had such 'unusual' aliases

"hehe, " Hestia said proudly with a grinning on her face, feeling proud of finally meeting the first-class adventurer she gave the new alias.

Now Hestia remembered the last Donatus. During the naming ceremony, it was common for Adventurers of strong families receiving 'prideful' Aliases while adventurers of weak families received 'awkward' Aliases.

But with Dia, it was different. Despite her Familia becoming one of the strongest in Orario, she didn't mind that her Children got 'awkward' Aliases.

Compare to Loki, who was very 'sensitive', as Hestia described it, about her Children's aliases, Dia didn't mind if her Children's Aliases were 'prideful' or 'awkward'.

Dia's only condition was that her children's aliases have to be unique and fitting for them.

That's why nearly all gods especially enjoy suggesting Aliases for Dia's children. But even Dia was sometimes getting upset if the alias isn't 'fitting or awkward enough' for instance. But even in such cases, she's willing to be convinced.

This was the case with Emma's first Alias, which was 'candy crush'. Dia, which familia even back then was already powerful, refused that name at first because Emma loves candies and other sweets, and this alias could imply the complete opposite.

It was Hermes, who convinced Dia, that 'candy crush' could also imply that Emma is a 'cute candy' who 'crushes her enemies'. With that statement, Dia seemed satisfied, agreeing with that alias, which made all gods shout in happiness at the Denatus back then.

Hestia also remembered that Dia would never let one of her children be called 'little Rookie' since it was to 'random' as she explained to Hestia.

Every God and Goddess in Orario knows that for Dia, uniqueness, and fitting is above everything, no matter if 'prideful' or 'awkward'.

"Goddess? " Bell called her, since Hestia, smiling for some reason, seemed not to hear him.

"w-what? Oh right, my bad, I am the proud Goddess Hestia" she introduced herself this time towards Iris, „and this is my Children Bell Cranel, the supporter Lily and our newbie, Noct Gar"

"ah, so you must be 'little Rookie', right? " Iris asked Bell with a warm face.

"y-yes" Bell just said, also feeling warm and happy for some reason unknown to him, which annoyed Lily and Hestia of course.

Iris then looked towards Noct, whom she thought to be handsome.

"and you're the one who challenged 'King', right? " she asked also with a happy smile.

"that's right, seems everyone knows it already." Noct confirmed, also with a slightly happy expression on his face.

"I heard it in Rivira when we returned from our expedition." Iris confirmed.

"you were there? " Noct asked, surprised that she also was part of the expedition.

"yes, all first-class adventurers went along, even some of our second class adventurers. The only strong ones, who remained were Gita, Emma and her party" Iris explained

"I see … , not that you mentioned it, are Emma and her comrades here too"

"yes, but right now, If I'm not mistaken, she's supervising the kitchen, looking out if there's enough supply or something like that, we're gonna have many guests tonight"

Noct looked around, "is it just me, or are we the only Familia here, not that I complain."

"right now? Yes" a familiar male voice could be heard.

Noct turned his head, seeing it were Ravus, Goddess Dia, Lucia, Leo, and another female he hasn't met before, who finally appeared.

Compare to before, Ravus was also dressed rather formally.

While he wore a usual while formal trousers and a black colored shirt, his waistcoat was very unusual:

while on his right side (or left side by Ravus's POW) the waistcoat was stripped in black and white color, the left (right by Ravus' POW) it had some, as Noct would say, a 'holographic pattern design'.

The same 'holographic pattern design' was also visible on Ravus's tie. Ravus also wore a rather luxurious looking watch on his right arm.***

But for Noct, the most striking thing about Ravus was his left arm. It looked like a normal arm like he never lost it.

Dia, as well as the other females, wore beautiful dresses as Hestia and lily did.

Leo also wore a suit, but not as striking as Ravus.

"good evening, Dia and Ravus" Hestia greeted while Iris joined her Goddess.

"good evening also to you three, I'm glad you came." Dia then turned her head towards the still unknown female, "I think you didn't meet Karen here, right." Dia said while then looking again towards Hestia while the called girl came closer to them.

"good evening Hestia Familia, my name is Karen Morris, also known as 'davy distance' " Karen introduced herself. Compare to Gita, Lily recognized her and also that Karen is currently also at Lvl. 4, like Gita, Leo, and Emma.

Noct also felt their energies, which meant that they were all well-experienced adventurers.

"nice suit, Noct" Ravus commented, "did you perhaps bought it today "

"yes, you could say that" was Noct's answer, before he looked toward Ravus's suit, "yours is also not bad, how did you get that strange design, " Noct asked while referring to the 'holographic pattern design'.

Ravus smiled, "well, thanks to Lucia's parents, I had more possibilities I guess, right ? " he said while looking to Lucia.

Lucia then looked towards Noct, "I hope you enjoy that attire you wear for the dungeon, Noct" Lucia asked him.

Noct looked towards Lucia as well, "Yes, I took it the first time I saw it, I'm surprised you remember it, since you and your parents surely make much more incredible attires, right ?" Noct commented since he remembered that his adventurer's suit has been made by 'Ramirez-craft', which was one of the many subsidiaries of the 'Wareed-Holding', which the Dia Familia and this wealthy family owns.

"I'm indeed an adventurer, but sometimes I still make fashion concepts, which I give to my parents and siblings, who refine them. And I immediately saw that the design of your dungeon attire is also based on one of my concepts."

"In this case, I have to give my thanks to you." Noct said while bowing, hoping that this isn't too awkward.

Ravus then suddenly looked towards the entrance, "it seems another famous Familia just appeared." Dia commented while turning around.

Now, as Noct saw that 7 people, also rather powerful, appeared.

The first two were dark-skinned young women, who seemed to be twins or siblings, in any case, the only difference between them, as Noct noticed, was that while one of them had 'visible' breasts, the other had 'not so visible' ones.

They seemed to argue about something while touching their dresses, to which Noct suggested that they weren't entirely happy about it.

In front of them was a blond-haired boy, who seemed to be the strongest of the group. Noct also suggested him to be a pallum like Lily.

Then the other people were 3 female beautiful elves.

While there were two orange-haired teeny elves, one 'normal' orange-haired and the other 'lighter' orange-haired, the adult one had beautiful green hair and green eyes.

But for Noct the most noticeable one was the blond-haired girl with a green dress. For Noct, She seemed like the quiet type because of her emotionless expression. Suddenly, this girl looked towards his direction, what's more, it seemed she was looking straight into Noct's eyes.

For a short moment, Noct thought he sees Luna.

(ENDING: FM-84 - Running In The Night (feat. Ollie Wride))

***the suit Ravus is wearing is identical to that of the Fanart of Ravus in Zerochan by kotnarkot:

just search at google (or other search engine) for "Ravus Nox Fleuret zerochan #2129681 kotnarkot ", then you will see the incredible fanart. In this fanart, you'll see Ravus with an white eyepatch and obviousley missing his left arm, while in my story, nothing of the both is the case.

As for mr. , or ms. 'kotnarkot', please don't sue me for using your incredible fan art as a reference, since I'm not making any money for writing this story XD .

No seriousley, THANK YOU FOR THIS INCREDIBLE FAN ART :D