This is a is it wrong to pick up girls in a dungeon fanfiction only.
Other franchises will be included.
As I stood there waiting for the replay I could certainly feel the angry glare of a few women, but I promised Hephaestus I would do this, so having no other alternative I accepted my fate, if she refuses and I ended up getting beaten up so be it, I kept my promise to the woman I love.
She was quietly shaking as apparently, she heard what I said and suddenly froze up, but that didn't last long before she jumped with such force she slammed against my body as she screamed yes at the top of her lungs. I honestly have seen people win contests with less enthusiasm than this. It was pretty damn embarrassing truth be told.
As this was decided and I was able to move again since I had been in what I would call a bone-crushing hug, honestly I never expected this from Hestia but apparently, she was so happy with what I said she couldn't help herself and ended up doing this, which in turn caused me to fall backward and end up hitting my head against a wall.
The truth is that one of my most negative aspects or the one most people complain is that I got a thick skull, well apparently this ended up saving me from suffering a concussion, so not so negative when you look at it like that. Hephaestus is considered ugly by some but those are idiots, I have seen her as naked as the day she was born, and there is not a single inch of her body that could be considered ugly, her temper is something to fear but not ugly.
As I finally got up from the floor and looked at Hestia she was still blushing, Mirha was glaring daggers at Hestia, Lily was actually resting my head against her lap of all places while she was sitting on a pew. I sometimes forget that this place used to be used for religious sermons and other ceremonies. Welf however was laughing her ass off, apparently she either found this too funny or she was laughing out of sheer rage I sure hell can't tell the difference.
"Ladies, please calm down, you know as well as I do that Hephaestus arranged for each one of you to be allowed to join the harem she is forming, and why, so don't think I don't already know this. If anything after everything I just learned I am more disappointed that my own lover asked me to ask her best friend out as the first person that I take out on a date after she decided to form this harem, without even asking me, mind you."
Hestia laughed and she smiled at me and the others, "Technically I am the goddess of your Familia, so it is only natural that I would be the first of these women to get to go on a date with you, I am the Olympic Goddess of virginity however, so I might not have as much experience when it comes to dating so I would appreciate a little patience, as for what will happen, simple, you need plenty of sleep to be fully rested for our date, so no, Lily can sleep on the sofa by my bed, I will share the bed with Mihra if only to let you rest, and Welf, she has a bed in her workshop, let her sleep there."
Mirha was quick to mention that she should, in fact, sleep in the same room as I do, to make sure to take care of me in case that tackle that she called a hug caused me any lasting injury. That was shut down by both Welf and Lily saying that the only reason she wants to sleep on the same bed as I do is that she would try to have her way with me, she might not be the one that is going to go on a date the next day, but Lily accused of trying to sleep with me skipping all the romance and getting to the rutting.
Mirha's only complaint was that she actually had more of a romance than most of the women present at this particular moment, it is not her fault that I couldn't put two and two together and never once realized that we had been dating for so many days that it basically became something we scheduled. But instead of her finally getting to enjoy being with the man she loves, some jackass blacksmith has her way with him just as Lily said it would happen.
She looked at me and she let out a sigh, "Do I want to sleep with Bell? Do I want to feel what is like to make love? Do I yearn for the feeling where we are so close that we actually become almost one in orgasmic bliss? Hell yes, I do. However as much as I hate it I wouldn't want to do something that could end up hurting him or make him feel like I was taking advantage of the situation, so trust me, I will not sleep with him, and my only focus will be that he is perfectly healthy and does not injure himself."
Lily said this was like what happened with Crozzo all over again, if that is the case why not simply switch it then, Mirha can sleep on the bumpy, rickety, coach where she will feel springs poke and prick her while she is trying to sleep, that is one busted up old couch, and Lily could stay in the same room as Bell, to make sure nothing bad happens to him due to his possible head injury.
That is an argument that is taking us nowhere and fast, "Or you could let me stand up, I could, in fact, go to another place to sleep, say the Hostess of Fertility, I am sure Mama Mia would let me sleep in one of the rooms they have for staff that need to stay overnight, and I could get some much-needed sleep without any of you trying to rip each other to pieces. Cause the way you lot are glaring at each other is not telling me that you lot are in favor of solving things without the use of violence."
Hestia looked at the other women and soon realized that essentially I was simply saying things as I probably saw them, never mind that one literally had my head on her lap while I was unconscious.
"There is actually no need for that, I will simply help finish making the new room that you were building, and have it be another bedroom, you were making it since sometimes we have guests, without knowing you were doing this to prepare for the new additions to the harem, you instinct are something truly amazing Bell. Don't worry I can do this much thanks to all the materials you've been gathering."
Well, that would be true if only for the fact that the room only needs a door, honestly, I finished the construction of at least three more rooms, and something about Hestia sleeping in what could be called the chapel's basement was not sitting well with me. Most of the construction was finished rather quickly, but the fine details such as furniture or doors were not finished because most of it lack the appropriate metal parts, hence it took me longer to create them using a makeshift forge, I could have told my lover but then what sort of surprise would that be for her friend?
As I looked at them I simply told them to go to the wall near the altar and press hard against a section of the wall that has a number written on it, and as they did, the wall began to be pushed back, and almost like it had been a door made from the very wall it was pushed open, they each looked inside and found an empty room, no furniture even a bed, "I was planning on finishing these three rooms if I got more resources from the dungeon, but seeing how now I am responsible for the people in a harem that I am part of, well looks like I have to speed up my plans. The first room was supposed to be Hestia's, the second Lily's, and the third of course for guests. Now that will not be enough so I have to stay up more nights to finish another two rooms, one for Mirha and one for Welf. As to why didn't I add furniture, that is simple, I wanted you to pick what furniture you liked, want the person living in that room to be comfortable after all."
This made everyone so surprised that they never even realized there were hidden rooms behind those walls, immediately they went to check on the other walls to see if they saw any more numbers, and I know they will not, so after I got up I looked at Mirha, and smiled, "So you see there is really no need for you to worry about tiring me out, I did all this in my spare time and didn't feel one-bit tire after I finished making each room. Not my fault that nobody noticed how the chapel had grown in size, so you want to jump in bed with me Mirha, sure, not that anything will happen without the consent of both of us. Since each room has security runes carved into the very walls of this place, it may be a chapel, but if under siege this place is no different than a castle, we are all perfectly safe here."
As I decided to go to bed, I heard someone follow me, I was not expecting that person to be Welf, but seeing that I needed many metal components and parts to make those hidden rooms, it is quite clear that she had questions for me, I got no idea why though, my lover is the goddess of the forge, did she honestly think I spent so much time as her lover without learning a thing or two about blacksmithing?
All in all the questions were more about the Norse Pantheon actually, I was not expecting to have to speak so long about Asgard, and the nine realms with her, but since I needed to sleep I got dressed in my nightwear and laid in bed as I answered her questions, I told her about Loki and my mother, about the many conflicts between the members of my pantheon, or family, and just as I was going to sleep she asked me something I was not expecting, "There is something that doesn't make sense, you are often painted as a large, bearded fat man, who holds his hammer to smash anything that stands in your way, but so far you have been helping many people, some without them even asking."
I looked at her and told her that yes, drinking had caused me to gain a lot of weight, but honestly after a long time with a steady relationship with her goddess, or should I say her mother, I began to be more and more active and thus I lost most of my excess weight, in fact, I could drink as much as I wanted because I always had such a wonderful way to work off the extra weight. Why drink so much? Simple, Asgard may be a wonderful place to many, but it can be rather cold. Every member of the Pantheon drinks, even Loki.
"In fact, it is due to my heavy drinking that I met and made a few friends, for instance, Soma, was an old drinking buddy of mine. Dyonisus can be quite funny when she really gets drunk, but can also be quite a bit to handle if you don't know her, I even joked with them both that we might need to start a bar if only to have a nice place to drink. Little did I know that Soma would take up my idea and start making a business out of it."
I simply closed my eyes and waited for the embrace of Hypnos as some would call it, but unlike most people who have beautiful and peaceful dreams, my dreams are anything but, I saw that something bad was happening Hestia and I were being chased around, and this must be what animals feel when they are being hunted by predators. I saw places that remind me of Orario, and some of them are places where I go often and some are places I have never seen before.
I woke up the next day while feeling two people at either side of me, with their bodies partially on top of mine, I opened my eyes to see it was exactly who I expected, Welf, and Mirha with another one sleeping by my feet, honestly Lily is lucky I didn't end up kicking her off the bed when I was asleep.
The dream made me feel concerned and as such I decided to do something about it, make plans within plans, a backup plan if you will to try and make what I saw less painful, I got out of bed without anyone noticing and got dressed and as I walked to the exit of the chapel I heard a voice telling me to be in the plaza by noon and not to dare to be late. I knew exactly who that was and without turning back I told Hestia I would not keep her waiting as I walked out of the chapel.
I knew I had to figure where would be a place that would allow us to have a very nice date, pleasant sights, and surroundings while keeping the place hard to reach, the second thing I needed was food and drink that was both delicious and would last long enough for us to eat the food while still good. I am not worried about the weight of it, since I could carry it quite easily.
As I reached the restaurant I heard something rather interesting about young couples sneaking around into one of the observation towers, that the city hard use to keep an eye out for possible invaders. Well, some of the people said that the sight is quite romantic with the view of the city with such a dreamy look illuminated by the stars. For the food there really was only one thing they could prepare and that was sandwiches, but the thing is that currently they were getting ready for a lot of customers that came to the restaurant around this time of the day, they were often busy when businesses give this time to employees for their lunch break.
Seeing no alternative I decided to help prepare the food that these customers would come and devour if I was given enough ingredients to prepare the food and sandwiches that I wanted. I figured that as the food cooked I could prepare the sandwiches, and make the juice, between everything I was doing.
Hestia at this time decided that if she was going off on a date, she needed to be presentable and that means she wanted to be so clean her skin shines and wash her hair to make it as attractive as possible, there was only one place in the city that would let her do that, and that was the baths that the city built for the goddesses's needs. As she went in and got undressed she grabbed a towel and went to the bathing area, she first scrubbed herself clean and then after a nice washing of her hair, she went into the bathing area while humming a happy little tune.
"Well first you haven't been in this place for some time, and now I find it quite odd that you seem to be an awful lot more cheerful than I would be if I only had one Familia member, so what brought this change and why did you finally decide to come here?"
Hestia looked at the person who said this and couldn't believe she would ask that, "Well if it isn't big sister Demeter, why am I making sure I smell nice and taking this bath? Oh, that is simple, I am going on a date with a child from my Familia, a human child." That was probably the worse thing she could have said surrounded by so many goddesses, she knew that as soon as she said that these women would not let her go without telling her all the juicy gossip, some of these goddesses gossip more than bored housewives.
She suddenly heard someone wolf whistle to which she quickly was to mention that she didn't need to hear that from Amaterasu of all people, and no Artemis and Athena don't know anything about the person whom she very much loves. Hestia without knowing it was digging herself even deeper in trouble. "Oh how scandalous, details Hestia, details." Hearing this she had no other alternative but to tell them everything she could about Bell and his amazing achievements, hoping that would make it clear that he is not someone to mess with. Too bad for Hestia since it actually had the opposite effect, as she walked out of the bathing area and decided that she needed to get ready for her date, without her knowing all the goddesses that were in the bathing area decided to go and meet the man who made the Olympic Goddess of Virginity fall for him.
She didn't dress in any scandalous or revealing, in fact, she dressed in what some people would call rather tame-looking civilian clothes. a short shirt, blouse, and sandals, I couldn't help but smile when I saw her, I mean wow, she actually looked beautiful wearing stuff most women would only wear on their day off. Sort of reminded me of what Eina wore when she went with me to buy some armor.
As I stepped closer to her I smiled, "You look beautiful, don't worry about anything, I have everything ready, shall we get going?" As soon as I did I heard someone giggling when I turned around to see who said that everything went dark and for some reason, I got the feeling that my face is buried between two massive tits, cause I swear I could hear the person's heart go like she has been chased by a minotaur, and considering what happened to me, indeed I have quite a bit of experience with that. It doesn't help the fact that the minotaur that had been chasing me was Mirha way back when we first met in the dungeon.
As I was pulled away from where I was, I guess by Hestia, this person I never met before pulled back and tried to place my face right in her cleavage once again, and that is when other women tried to do the exact same thing trying to hug me or flat out kiss me, which was weird in more ways that one. I know for instance more than three of them casually, I met them when I went to visit my lover's home on Mountain Olympus, but for some reason, they don't recognize me and called me either cute or adorable, which they didn't do when we first met.
Seeing where this is going I grabbed Hestia's hand and immediately took off running away from them, trying to put as much distance between us and them, not that it helped since they were doing a very good job of pretending to be a pack of hungry wolves out on a hunt because they were keeping up with me and I was trying my best to use my lightning to speed up my running speed and shorten the time I need to react to something.
I evaded three goddesses who tried to literally pin me down and kept on running only to notice that Hestia for some odd reason was having a hard time keeping up with my speed, so I did the only thing I could, I bent down and as two of the people were trying to catch me I scooped up Hestia in my arms and took off running, while one of them scream that it is not fair that I was doing a princess carry.
It took me running around the city in several directions so fast that I was leaving phantom images of us to misdirect them, but finally, when the sun was finally setting down, I managed to get them to get away from them, and I also managed to get to the place where I wanted to go, "A little more excitement than I thought, but it seems to have that dream really helped me prepare for that, and why was Diana chasing after me, last time I remember she used to hate my guts."
Hestia finally calmed down her breathing and looked at me and told me she had no clue, it's not like some of them didn't meet me before, or at least heard of me since Hephaestus pretty much was quite vocal about her happy romantic life with her Norse lover. "She wouldn't shut up about it, whenever someone made the mistake of asking her why is she in such a good mood, even Aphrodite asked her and they were married at the time. Aries used to mock her that she was simply doing the three R's, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, he only said she was simply using it on her love life. Which gave him more chances to fuck with Aphrodite so he had no reason to complain."
Aside from the fact that this made me feel uncomfortable as all hell, talking about what my lover said or what others said about her during a date with another person, I decided to simply look past it and sat down on the picnic I had managed to set up before I went to meet her at the Plaza. "As wonderful it is to hear that, I suggest that we eat and drink this food before it gets too cold or soggy, I will have you know that these are some of the most sought-after recipes for a packed lunch they sell at the Hostess of Fertility. They are in high demand for those that need to take something with them back to their workplace but have very little time."
She looked at the picnic basket and as she opened it she saw a rainbow of flavors before her very eyes, sandwiches made with many different flavors and fillings all on crisp freshly baked bread, the crispness of the lettuce, the juiciness of the sun-kissed tomatoes, the taste of the cooked piece of chicken, fish or lamb that was in each of the sandwiches, which made her mouth water as she enjoyed the flavors combine into a symphony of culinary delights.
After she finished four of these sandwiches and savored the taste of the freshly squeezed orange juice, as she saw some of the pulp as she served herself a glass, she smiled. I don't go to the Hostess of Fertility often, but I have to agree their cooks do an admirable job at preparing great-tasting food like this. I felt a little hurt that she thought this food came from the restaurant cooks almost immediately, but I guess I can't blame her since she doesn't know I know how to cook thanks to my dear mother spending some time teaching me how. Yes, a female giant took time and thought her son how to prepare food.
I finished my second sandwich when I looked at her with a smile, "Technically we can all have a single meal as long as it is from the specials menu for free once per day, and that is from the breakfast, lunch, and dinner menus. Why would Mama Mia allow this? Simple, I am one of her main investors, and to make matters better I am also the guy she calls to repair the place after something happens, either she loses her patience or a client does something stupid that ends up causing a fight. Last but certainly not least, no the cooks of House of Fertility did not prepare any of the food we are currently eating, in fact, the one that prepared all of it was me."
That is when she put her sandwich back down on a plate and looked at me with this rather shocked look on her face, "I don't see why you are so surprised, my mother often taught me things since her kind value being independent and being able to take care of their own needs, so I learned quite a few things from her, such as cooking, cleaning, sewing, and even remedies for injuries, everything a young warrior would ever want or need to learn."