Orario Febuary 13 Year XXXX.
Time - 10:30 PM.
Every single person inside this huge hall were busy preparing for the biggest event for their special person. Adventurers from different Familias as well as some Guild employees and bar employees were helping them design the room and plan the even for the day.
Especially a certain group of girls led by a cat girl and an elf.
"Everyone, I won't stop you if you want to give him and say your bottled up feelings for him. We might be in a relationship right now but that doesn't mean I can stop anyone who wants their love to reach the person they have feelings for." The cat girl said calmly with a genuine smile on her face.
"Thank you Aki, it really means a lot to us that you are so open about this kind of topic... Or do you feel so confident that Bell will never leave you? If the latter is correct then prepare yourself, who know someone might grab his heart unexpectedly especially when tomorrow comes." The high elf spoke with a single eye closed and a slight smirk.
"He might be a damn womanizer but I don't think just a simple beautiful dress would change his affection Riveria-sama." The young elf said in all honesty.
"Yes, Lefiya-sama is right. I also wanted to thank you all for your effort to sneak us all unnoticed here, my companions and I will forever remember this special day you allowed us to be with him in the surface." The siren smiled.
"Please don't mention it, Miss Ray, everyone in this even is a very important person to him so it's not surprising that we will invite you all as well." The guild employee placed a hand on the siren's back.
"By the way, since it's also Valentines Day tomorrow, should we give him a chocolate? But seeing as there are more than 10 people who wants to give him chocolate, won't he get a bad stomach after this?" The far eastern samurai pondered.
"Nyow that I think about it, nyou're right nya..." Another cat girl said.
"Mikoto-san, Chloe-san I didn't expect to see you here especially you Mikoto-san, I thought the person of your affection is Takemikazuchi-sama." The glasses wearing princess asked.
"Aren't you the same? Also, giving chocolate in valentines doesn't have to imply romance, some people gives chocolate out of gratitude like me." The short haired fencer commented.
"Oh you're right... I'm so sorry..." The light blue haired girl said with a blush.
"I hope you don't mind me here, I know that I'm already too old for this but I still want to express my gratitude to him as a comrade." The fair lady entered the conversation.
"You? Old? Then that would make me a fossil Shakti." The high elf said and the two of them started to giggle.
The girls then started to plan out who would go first and last in tomorrow's event but they were interrupted when the door slammed open revealing the panting Saint.
"We have a problem, some ingredients that we need to finish some desserts are missing, also some of our cooks messed up the cake and they are now in panick on what to do." The silver haired nurse explained to the girls before the far eastern beauty steped forward.
"It looks like I won't be able to join the planning, please do forgive me everyone but I think I'm needed in the kitchen right now." She said with a bow before she went out.
"I hope everything will be fine when tomorrow comes." The orange haired elf sighed.
(Same day, Morning).
Today was a weird day for Bell.
Astrea went out in the morning and said she won't be back until tomorrow because of some task that Ouranus asked her to do.
This doesn't seem too out of normal except the fact that when he came to the guild and asked the pig of an elf about her goddess, he said that he never saw her.
But since he can't do anything about it, he just shrugged it off and went to the counter to look for Eina, as he was planning on going to dungeon.
But to his surprise, Eina took an early day off. A thing that she has never done before.
With nothing to do in guild, he decided to just go to dungeon but before that, go to the pub and maybe have some breakfast if they are open for the morning but when he arrived.
"Closed for today and tomorrow!?" He exclaimed before sighing in disappointment after glancing at the whole pub but before he could leave, he heard the sound of cooking.
"Is that...? Nah, maybe just one of the houses nearby..." Dismissing the sound he heard earlier, he just went to one of the food stalls that sells food at this time and luckily, he found a food that he likes.
"Eyy!! Bell Cranel, how are you doin'!? I've got some hot meat bun here! I'll give you a discount for the largest size!" The old man grinned as he handed the young man 2 pieces.
"Thank you, how much is this?"
"Ah, just 600 Valis for you!"
Bell bowed thankfully as the man nearly gave him a 50 percent discount this early in the morning.
After having a bite, he decided to walk a little slower than usual while eating and glancing around the main road that leads towards the Plaza.
"It sure is peaceful now here isn't it?" He smiled gently as he saw the kids running around and greeting adventurers that just came out of the dungeon.
After the battle against the remnants of Evilus, Bell had little much to do since there are no major crimes that are being commited since then. Ganesha Familia was more than enough to handle them and even Loki Familia now were much more relaxed and focused on dungeon exploration since there is no more threat against Orario as of now.
He continued to walk towards the Plaza before spotting a very familiar short blue hair, a trait that he saw almost every day when he was still working undercover for the guild and his goddess.
"Shakti-san!" Seeing no harm in it, he decided to call out to her but did not expect her reaction when she saw him.
"Eh-!? Bell!? What are you doing here this early!?" A rare flustered expression appeared on her bright features as she took a step back.
"Uh... I'm actually headed towards the dungeon and was about to ask you if you want to go down with me..." Bell explained.
"Ah. I see, but I'm sorry that I have to turn you down for today, you see. Ganesha-sama gave me an important task, I was just lost in thought earlier." With a small bow of her head she left him and proceeded to go to the west main road.
"Well, it looks like I'm going to go alone today just like when Hestia and I just started our familia... I wonder if she think I'm still angry at her...?"
Bell went down to the dungeon and reached the middle floors with ease as the monsters from these levels posed no threat against him and his new powers.
"It really feels amazing, unlike before, my power feels borrowed and I felt that the strength behind my slashes did not come from my own strength but now, I feel like the Falna and I became one."
Bell reached the 17th floor where he saw a group of adventurers fighting the Goliath to proceed to the 18th floor. He then spotted a familiar face with a scar, Mord now a level 3 after participating in the battle against the Evilus.
"Everyone, do you need a hand!?" He shouted to the group who smiled at him and nodded.
"Just some distraction, let us deal the finishing blow little rookie!" Mord replied.
Bell nodded and ran towards the giant's face before kicking it and breaking it'd nose.
After that, the floor boss stopped it's attacks and reached out to it's now bent nose before screaming in anger.
Bell continued to distract it from cutting it's fingers to punching it's knees breaking them in the process before he got called out.
"Oy!! We're done!! Thanks a bunch boy!!" One of the members of Vanguard said.
Bell moved out of the way to let the mages to the work of finishing the monster rex. After casting their magic, everyone covered their eyes when a huge flash of light landed on the titan.
WOOSH.
The floor boss vanished leaving it's large magic crystal on the ground as the party that took it down celebrated.
Bell just smiled at the scene before proceeding to go down.
From there, nothing major had happened, he went down until the 37th floor where he entered the colleseum and destroyed every monster he could see. After that, he decided to end it and sprinted out to go home early.
With his new found speed, it only took him an hour and a half to reach the surface and see the sunset.
"Ah. Bell-kun! You just came at the perfect time!!" The orange haired god cheered as he placed his right hand around his shoulders.
"I wanna ask you something and I want to hear your honest answer." Hermes smiled playfully and looked back to Take, Miach and Loki who were accompanying him earlier.
"You see, we were having a bet right now on how many chocolates will you get this valentines day. Do you know exactly how many you would receive tomorrow?"
"Chocolate? Now that I think about it, Aki-san said she won't be able to spend time with me tomorrow because she was tasked to map a certain floor with Riveria-san and Alicia-san. She said that they might take the whole day so I will probably not receive one from her. In short, I don't think I'll get one." The rabbit said plainly which made Hermes scowl in disappointment.
The god tried to argue that he will receive many because of some girls who clearly likes him but he just dismissed it before leaving Hermes alone with the other gods.
Ending the day alone, Bell decided to just read some books that Astrea has before sleeping for the day.
Febuary 14.
The day of the Valentines arrived and Bell just woke up.
But his excitement immediately died down when he remembered that not only was today valentines day but also his birthday.
And both his goddess and girlfriend are nowhere to be seen.
He decided to start the day as if it's just any other day since he have no one beside him to celebrate his birthday.
He brushed his teeth and then proceeded to cook breakfast for himself before leaving their home and walk around the town.
"Bell?" Alise called out to him before manifesting beside him.
"Alise-san, hello." He smiled gently to his partner which she reciprocated with her own before scowling to Bell.
"I can't believe you never considered me as someone who you can spend your birthday with Bell, I'm angry." The scarlet girl pouted cutely which made Bell laugh lightly and poke at her puffed cheeks.
"I'm sorry Alise-san, I forgot about you for a second." Bell continued to play with her cheeks as they walk down the road.
Alise who couldn't resist Bell finally smiled again and hugged him tightly. This made the boy blush with her sudden action but immediately regained his composure when the fire spirit greeted him.
"Happy birthday Bell. I wish you happiness and long life." The girl smiled affectionately before returning inside his sword.
Bell whispred his thanks to the sword in his belt before walking down the road again with his mood lifted up.
"Bell."
Looking around, Bell saw nothing but felt a familiar presence behind him. His hunch was then revealed to be right when Asfi undid the effect of her magic item to reveal her in a very cute dress.
"Bell, can you come with me for a second?" The alchemist asked.
"Yes, what can I do for you?"
"I actually want to give you something but before that, will you please come with me? Someone wants to talk to you." Her seriousness made Bell unable to ask who's the one looking for him so he and Alise just trailed behind her with pestering her on who's looking for her partner.
"Ne! A N D R O M E D A! Who's looking for him?? Tell us!"
"No means no, also. Bell before we enter that place, can I have Alise and your sword for a while? I need to talk to her first." Asfi continued to walk without looking back to him.
"Y-Yes.." This only made the boy nervous as he's not aware on the surprise that's waiting for him.
After a while, they arrived at a very familiar place for Alise, a place where she used to walk every day before she turned into a spirit.
"I think I get the idea." She mumbled to herself as the building that she and Asfi knew came into view.
"Bell, wait here. Give her the sword and also don't worry, nothing bad will happen alright?" She assured the rabbit hero who nodded to her.
A few good minutes passed and Asfi came out of the said building.
But while waiting for the glasses wearing princess to comeback, he saw something that gave him somewhat of a hint on what this place it.
"Sorry to make you wait, I left Alise inside but we will now go in as well. Are you ready?" The seriousness from earlier was now gone, gentle smile graced her face as she gestured him to follow her.
Bell noticed that not only did Asfi changed into a dress but she was also a little excited.
This made him smile and look forward to whatever it is.
"Please open the door Bell."
Bell did as he was ordered to and...
POOF.
""Happy birthday and Happy valentines Bell!!!""
Everyone he knew. His old Familia members, his former and current goddess, Shakti and Ganesha, Takemikazuchi Familia, Hephaestus and Tsubaki as well as the higher ups of the Loki Familia and their goddess who's already holding a mug of beer and Alise. [xxxxx] was also present beside the girls from the pub, Freya and surprisingly Ottarl who's left arm was now missing due to the previous fight and finally, Wiene and the Xenos.
But somehow, the person Bell was looking forward to meet is not there.
If his mood went down after noticing that, he never made it show in his face because it would be very rude to everyone who went out of their way to decorate the place and cook tons of food.
"Ah!!" Bell gasped in realization. "So the mission was a lie all along!! The reason goddess is gone is to prepare this party for me!!" He exclaimed as tears of joy start to build up from the corner of his ruby eyes.
"That's right, we also wanted to inform Alise but because of her circumstances, we couldn't. But as you can see, all of the person that have helped you and you helped are here as well as those whom you've fought with side by side. We are here to celebrate this special day for you." The goddess beamed at her only child.
"Do you have anything to say? Or question as to where is "She" Bell?" Welf smirked.
"Well... To be honest I expected to see her with the Loki Familia but I guess she has to finish the quest first..." He smiled solemnly before shaking off his head and returning his usual smile.
"Don't worry, the day is not over yet and I don't think Aki will just forget your birthday. For now let's just sing and celebrate!!"
""YEAH!!!""
"ORE GA GANESHA DA!!!!"
The party started with Bell thanking everyone as they eat. Some even started to give Bell their gifts starting from the smiths.
"Bell, come here. We would like to give you something."
"Hey baby! Don't forget 'bout big ol' me!" The rapper smith emerged from behind Welf and Tsubaki.
"EH!? O ETSU-SAN!?" Bell's jaw dropped when he saw him doing his *Number One Zanpakuto Creator* pose.
"Of course I am! My goddess sent me a letter and said we should make you somethin for your birthday."
"Yeah, this is the first time I've worked with this many smiths just to make a single weapon, not to mention something as small as a kn-BRGHHH!! What's your problem Tsubaki!?"
"Don't spoil it Welfie, anyway, all of us really gave this one our all as a thanks for the peace that we have now."
"Here take it, our greatest crafted weapon." the goddess of forge held a small box with red ribbon.
Bell already knew what this is just by looking at the size of the box but still opened it excitedly.It is a knife that has the same shape as the Hestia knife. the difference is that it doesn't have the hieroglyphs and it's color is white.
But when Bell picked it up and drew it out from the sheath, the silver white blade glowed and the edge suddenly became blood red.
"It doesn't have any special Blessing like your sword or your previous knife but I guarantee that it could slice Balor in half." The red haired goddess smiled.
Bell thanked the four before they left and gave way to the next person.
"Hello, Bell." Goddess Freya greeted him.
"Lady Freya and Ottarl-san, thank you for coming."
"This isn't much, I owe you my life. If not for you, my whole Familia would've been already dead by now." The king slightly nodded.
"We have a present for you, the boys of my Familia might not like you but they still helped me choose a present, I guess they don't want to owe you anything. Ufufu... Ottarl."
"Yes" The Boaz presented a white box with the symbol of the Valkyrie Goddes on top of it.
Bell took the box and slowly opened it, revealing dark red roab with feathers in front of it's shoulders.
"This is a magic item I got at the auction from the guild. This is one of the items that the guild got from the Knossos after the defeat of Evilus. This robe has the same properties as High Elf princess', it has a very high resistance to magic and also conceals one's presence. I think this is a perfect fit for you since you always inflitrate enemy territories." Freya said her goodbye and was escorted out by Ottarl.
Bell then went on with celebrating his birthday with everyone present.
They also made him change into a white and red formal attire, a matching white colored coat, tie and slacks while his inner long sleeved polo was red that matches his shoes.
Everyone clapped when Bell came out wearing this and praised how cool he looked but then, Finn all of a sudden took everyone's attention.
"Okay everyone, I know that we are all enjoying this but this party won't be completed without a dance, am I right?"
Everyone roared in excitement because they will have an opportunity to dance the celebrant himself, not wasting any opportunity, Finn and several mens from the guild pulled out their respective instruments and went to their designated spot.
"As you can see, we have some special girls here who will dance with our birthday boy before everyone else. Alise!"
Bell just noticed that his partner was currently not present, but he didn't have to find her anymore as she appeared with Astrea from the stairs with the other girls.
Alise, Astrea, Asfi, Shakti, Amid, Line, Aiz, Mikoto, Ray, Wiene, Eina, Ryu, [xxxxx, Riveria and finally...
The girl that Bell wanted to spend the day the most.
"Aki-san..."
A/N: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I'll cut this for now!
I'll just tease you guys because if you haven't notice, there is a certain character who's name is censored. I don't want to spoil you guys on the upcoming battle against the Evilus so I'll cut this here. I'll upload the sequel after the fight so just wait for it.
I'm sorry if I have to do this XD
PEACE!!
EDIT: I just fixed some errors