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"Dialog".
Inner thoughts*.
(flashback).
[Goddess aka the system].
-Pokemon-.
Chapter 81.
Danmachi, In Hestia's Familia Mansion's backyard.
Hestia stood in the backyard of what is known, as her Familia's home, a Mansion built by one of her dearest Children, someone she loves and misses very dearly, not just him, but his entire family as well, Hestia often spends time imagining all the adventures he must be having while wishing she could see him again.
The places he's seen and the people he has met, just what's sort of wonderful things has Rean and his family witness and experiences? that's a question that's often in Hestia's mind causing her to find herself lost in thought often, it is a given now that she often tries to think about Rean and his family after all.
It something that always brings a smile to her face to think about, however, lately, things have gotten out of control for her and her Children that live with her, Bell, Haruhime, Lili, Daphne, Cassandra, Welf, Mikoto and to everyone's surprise, Ais.
Boy, was that a surprise for everyone in Orario, Hestia still chuckles and has a laugh whenever she remembers Loki's face when Ais asked to be allowed to change Familias.
According to Ais, Loki had been annoying ever since Tione and Tiona disappeared, she had been nagging Ais none stop about how they were able to get rid of their Falna from Loki and where they had gone to.
Ais of course, refused to say anything and tried to ignore her patron Goddess, but when Loki demanded Ais to get away from her boyfriend Bell, well... Ais reacted rather coldly to her and asked to be removed from Loki's Familia.
Loki of course backpedaled and panicked, but even though she apologized and begged, Ais was not changing her mind, in the end, Loki was forced to let Ais go thanks to the fact that she was reminded of what happened to Freya when she tried messing with the Hestia Familia.
Ais being on a relationship with Bell, made her a part of the Hestia Familia by association, so no one wanted to provoke them, not even when Rean, his family and his Pokémon were no where to be seen.
So, Loki was forced to let Ais go, the leaders of the Loki Familia in the other hand, were very happy for Ais, ever since she began to hang out with the Hestia Familia and began a relationship with Bell, has made Ais change a lot over time.
She smiles more, she talks to everyone more often, she's just far more open with her emotions lately and that made everyone that was her friend and cared for her, very happy, well, except Loki, she became quite depressed and angry at the same time.
To add insult to injure, Ais wasted no time in requesting to join the Hestia Familia, everyone in the Hestia Familia accepted her with open arms and ever since, Ais has been living in the Masion and enjoying her time with Bell and the rest of his little Harem.
But things have begun to become troublesome lately, Ishtar decided to try to take Freya's place in Orario's ladder of political power, the problem? no one ever took her seriously.
Not only did Ishtar's Familia not compared to what Freya's used to be, but what her Familia did for money and the things they get involved with, weren't exactly something the other big Familias wanted to get involved with.
Labeled as too weak and problematic, Ishtar was denied her self believed spot in the hiarchy of Orario and was mocked for even trying to get such a position, this of course, enraged Ishtar and now, she was trying force everyone get what she wanted or at least she tried to.
But as everyone said before, her Familia is too weak, sure, they had big numbers, but most were not even Level 4 so no one was really worried about her, which pushed and enraged Ishtar even more, to the point, that she decided to go through a plan she had prepared a long time ago.
One she was planning to use against Freya, but now, she wanted to use it on all of Orario, so ignoring the danger and being quite stupid for making the decision in the first place, Ishtar demanded Haruhime back.
Ishtar had heard that Rean, his family and his Pokémon were gone, no one had seen them in a very long time and this emboldened Ishtar into messing with the Hestia Familia, something no one dared to do so far.
Of course, she wasn't succeeding, by now, everyone in the Hestia Familia were high leveled, all thanks to Rean's training and gifts.
So Ishtar found herself being pushed back and even confronted by everyone in the Hestia Familia, with Bell being Level 6 and Ais Level 7 now, well, no matter how many members of her Familia Ishtar has, she'll never be able to get anything from the Hestia Familia.
The fact that everyone else in the Hestia Familia was Level 5 was also a big deterrent to Ishtar's plans to get Haruhime back, but Ishtar is crafty, needing Haruhime to activate the Killing Stone, she decided to involved the one person Haruhime never wanted to see again, her father.
The men demanded Haruhime back, Haruhime being the kind and sweet girl that she is, she decided to at least speak with her father and try to convince him not to get involved, so she agreed to see him, only to fall to a trap made by her father, who poisoned her into a short sleep and thus taking her back to Ishtar.
Her Familia immediately knew something had happened and quickly moved to go get Haruhime back, and thus, Hestia found herself in her backyard, worried and scared for her children, they might be powerful and quite hard to bring down, but Ishtar is crafty and very dangerous on her own right.
So Hestia couldn't help but worry about her children, it was at times like these, that she wishes that Rean was here with them still, "you always know what to do... Rean, where are you?".
Hestia looked at the gift Rean had given her, a necklace made of out of a Rainbow Wing, an artifact that allows her to tap into her Divinity without any worries of being punished, she couldn't help but smile at the gift given to her by Rean.
But this gift also made her missed him and his family even more, "I hope everything works out well... Bell and the others are strong and smart, but Ishtar is a cunning Goddess, I just can't help but worry".
Suddenly, there was a burst of energy that came from a spot nearby, Hestia squeaked in surprise when the burst of energy pushed her back a bit, but everything soon calmed down, however it seems that whatever was happening wasn't over yet.
For the very area around where the Burst of energy originated from, cracked like glass and then shattered revealing some sort of long tunnel, Hestia stared inside the tunnel in shock and watched as darkness and lights of all colors could be seen around the tunnel, "what's going on? is this a trap from Ishtar?".
Hestia tensed up at the idea of Ishtar having done this somehow, but before she could do or say anything else, a shadow began to walk it's way through the tunnel and towards her.
Hestia of course panicked, but as she was getting ready to fight, she suddenly felt something she hasn't felt in quite a while, "this feeling... it's my Falna! could it be!?"
Hestia's eyes opened wide as the Shadow stepped out of the tunnel, but she soon smiled and tears began to drop from her eyes when she caught sight of who had arrived, the little Goddess immediately ran forward to meet and greet the Shadow, happy and very excited as well.
Seems like things will be getting exciting once again and she couldn't wait to see what her beloved child was doing back in this world.
Meanwhile, in Orario, Red Distric.
Bell and his fellow Familia members were making their way towards Ishtar's Familia headquarters, though they were being slowed down by the many members of the Ishtar Familia.
Normally, Adventurers of this level wouldn't pose a problem to them, but with this number of foes and the fact that most are Amazons, made things quite difficult for everyone.
But everyone was fighting fiercely and without any mercy, just the way Rean taught them how to handle enemies, however, things were a bit precarious at the moment, they need to rescue Haruhime as soon as possible.
No one really knows what Ishtar is planning, but because an Artifact as dangerous as the Killing Stone is, is involved, they needed to get Haruhime away from Ishtar as fast as possible, so everyone was being rather pressured to get to Ishtar's headquarters.
Bell ducked from a high kick from a member of the Ishtar Familia and spun around the attack, he soon moved to the side of his enemy and stabbed her right between the ribs, the Amazon who tried to kick his head off, gasped in pain, but Bell didn't waste anytime and finished her off by channeling Magical fire through the Hestia Blade.
The Amazon didn't even have time do or say anything before she was engulfed in flames and blasted away from Bell, who looked around and watched as the rest of his Familia fought enemy after enemy.
Bell then moved to the side and avoided a Spear that was thrown at him from a roof nearby, having dodged the attack Bell quickly raised a hand and fired a concentrated Orb of fire, so powerful and focused, that the flames had become purplish red.
The Amazon who tried to kill Bell with a Spear only had time to widen her eyes before the FireBolt crashed against her and violently exploded, nothing of the Amazon was left after such powerful magical attack, but Bell was not worried about that right now.
Not when Haruhime, one of his girlfriends is danger right now, with a worried frown on his face, Bell took off running and continued to move forward as fast as he could while killing off anyone who tried to get in his way.
His friends, girlfriends and fellow members of his Familia quickly followed their Captain as they made their way through the Redlight district and towards the Ishtar's Familia headquarters.
After fighting hoards of Ishtar Familia members, Bell and the others of the Hestia Familia arrived to the front of Ishtar's Familia headquarters, however, an unpleasant surprise awaited them there, Phryne Jamil, Captain of the Ishtar Familia was waiting for them along with another big number of enemies.
Bell frowned and walked foward as Phryne grinned at him, "didn't think you people were stupid enough to come here for that filthy fox! but now that your here, I can have my fun with all the men of this Familia!".
Welf and Bell recoiled in disgust as Phryne gave them a dirty look, this woman was so vile and ugly, that the mere thought of getting touched by her, made Welf and Bell want to vomit.
The female members of the Hestia Familia immediately stepped foward and formed a protective perimeter around them, the way Phryne was staring at both of the men in the Hestia made the woman feel protective of their friends.
Especially Ais and Lili, who their boyfriend, Bell looked very much disturbed right now, Phryne didn't seem to care nor even notice the way everyone was sending her looks of disgust, she was so delusional, that she really believed herself to be gorgeous and that Bell and Welf were lucky to be allowed to touch her.
But putting aside the Human speaking Toad that is Phryne, the fact that she was the highest level member of the Ishtar Familia and was ready to battle, made things difficult for the Hestia Familia.
Bell frowned in worry and took a look around, himself, Ais and maybe Mikoto, were the only ones that could fight off Phryne, which left the others to deal with the enormous amounts of Ishtar Familia members trying to prevent them from getting into their headquarters.
Things were getting difficult and without knowing where Haruhime is in the headquarters, they couldn't just start blasting things out of their way, "... this is a problem, Phryne is one thing but the rest of the Ishtar Familia are going to slow us down too much".
Lili walked up to Bell's side and nodded, "we can't waste too much time who knows what Ishtar and Haruhime's father are doing to her right now".
Ais who was standing on the other side of Bell tilted her head, "... I can take care of Phryne...".
Bell nodded but then looked around the Ishtar Familia Headquarters, "I know, but she's not the only issue we have, the rest of the Ishtar Familia are laying in wait all over the place.
Hestia-sama warned us about Ishtar's cunning and that she might have a some sort of plan for us, if we're going inside her headquarters, we have to be very careful and keep our eyes open for any traps".
Phryne grinned having heard Bell and then mockingly shook her head at Bell, "your pretty sharp, it's no wonder your the Captain of the Hestia Familia, though I got to say, that other guy was way more handsome! too bad he's not here, I would have loved the chance to play with him!"
Bell immediately realized who Phryne was referring too and the fact that she thought she could do anything to Rean, was very funny to him, in fact, he chuckled and shook his head, "you? play with Rean?... please, you don't know what you're talking about.
Rean is not someone you can play with, he stands above anyone in this world and as members of the same Familia as him, your going to have to go through to us first before you can get to Rean!".
Phryne just snorted and cackled, "you? go through you? please! you can't handle a woman like me! your just a ki-".
"Roooooar!".
A loud and terrifying roar cut off Phryne in the middle of her rant and shook the area, causing the members of the Ishtar Familia to stop what they were doing and cover their ears in shock and pain, Phryne herself jumped and panicked upon hearing the roar.
But she soon stood straight and looked up, only for her eyes to widen in fear as a massive purple scaled Dragon was flying down towards her at high speed, the Dragon noticed her looking straight at him and roared one more time towards her.
This time however, the whole area shook and trembled from the power behind the Dragon's roar, however, despite the Ishtar Familia panicking, the Hestia Familia had a different reaction upon seeing the massive Purple Dragon.
Inside the Ishtar Familia headquarters, a sad and chained Haruhime looked on as her father celebrated with Ishtar and planned what to do with her soon, using the Killing Stone to have access to her Skill, killing her in the process, was just the beginning of their plans for Orario.
Once Ishtar establishes her Familia as the strongest and becomes feared, she'll move things around to increase her wealth and be able to get the strongest of Adventurers, just like Freya used to do.
Her father would be getting a piece of the riches as well which is why he had helped her getting her hands on Haruhime, all of this just broke Haruhime's heart though, the poor girl only looked down in sadness as her father and Ishtar celebrated while laughing.
Until a loud roar suddenly shook the area, causing both Ishtar and Haruhime's father to scream and panic, however Haruhime looked up and smiled, a big happy and excited smile, she had recognized that roar and she knew then and there, that she would be fine.
Phryne watched in fear and shock as the massive Purple Dragon landed not to far in front of her and spread his massive wings wide open, the Dragon then roared one more time this roar caused a pressure to fall upon her and the rest of the members of the Ishtar Familia's shoulders.
The Dragon soon stopped roaring and leaned its head down, out of nowhere none other than Hestia popped her head out from the top of the Dragon's head and grinned at Phryne, "Rean! that's Ishtar's Headquarters! that's where Haruhime is being held!".
Phryne's eyes widen upon hearing the Dragon's name, but before she could do or say anything, the Dragon lifted a claw and then swiped down on her and the front of the building known as the Ishtar Familia Headquarters.
Phryne was eviscerated and killed in a matter of seconds, her organs and blood splattered all over the place while Rean dug out the front of the Ishtar Familia Headquarters, many members of the Ishtar Familia also died slashed, crushed or blasted away by Rean's simple claw attack.
Hestia smiled as Rean completely destroyed the front of the Headquarters, revealing the rooms inside, she quickly looked around and a second later she found the room where Ishtar, Haruhime's father and Haruhime herself were inside.
Hestia watched as Ishtar stared at her and Rean in disbelief and surprised, while Haruhime's father stared at Rean with wide eyes full of terror, Haruhime smiled at her friends and teared up, "Rean! Hestia-sama!".
Hestia felt Rean moved hus gaze towards Haruhime when he heard her and then watched him smile, for Ishtar and Haruhime's father this was a horrific scene, after all, a massive Dragon giving someone a fang filled grin was not something one wants to see.
But to Haruhime? the sight brought a sense of relief, Rean suddenly grabbed Hestia in his claw and then put her into the room, his massive form then began to glow and shrink, until he revealed himself in his human form to everyone watching him.
Haruhime watched her friend float in the air while looking down towards Ishtar with a frown on his face, the glared he was directing upon Ishtar and her father told her that Rean was not happy with what was happening and that he had come not to talk, but to punish.
As I floated above Ishtar and the blonde Renard that I assume is Haruhime's father, I couldnt help but glare at these two, I honestly believed that with Freya gone, I didn't need to worry about Ishtar... I was wrong of course because the greedy bitch had to come after my Family.
But she'll soon regret that decision, so I soon floated down and landed besides Hestia, my Goddess smiled at me and looked utterly happy, despite the circumstances and what was happening to the Familia in the moment, she was still very much happy that I was back.
Even after I crossed over to this world via my Gate Portal and she was explaining what was happening, she did so with a smile on her face, the fact that she hugged me tightly when she saw me, showed me just how much my Goddess has missed me.
So when I learned of what Ishtar did and was planning, I wasted no time in offering my aid, Hestia immediately agreed and together, we set out to deal with Ishtar once and for all, Hestia suddenly grabbed my arm and gently gave me a tug, "I'll leave everything to you here Rean, I'm going downstairs to let Bell and the others know of what's happening".
I quickly gave Hestia and nod and a smile, "thank you, I won't be long and I'll bring Haruhime back with me, just wait with the others for a bit".
Hestia nodded and quickly ran over to the destroyed side of Ishtar Familia's headquarters, she then jumped off an opening and floated down with a small use of her divinity, something that shocked Ishtar to her core "what!? how is she doing that!? it's forbidden to use our Divinity!".
I sighed, I don't really feel like talking to this woman, but whatever, "a gift from me, I believe she's been careful with it, so as to not let anyone know that she can do that.
But it seems that now that I'm here and we're all leaving this world, she no longer cares, good for her really, but I digress, I came here for Haruhime.
But first, tell me Ishtar... did you really think you could do this? even with me not being here, you didn't think that Bell and the others could have stopped you as easily? your not stupid, so what was your plan?".
Ishtar frowned and stared at me in silence for a few moments, "... I gave you the brat, I have every right to have her back, besides! she's just another Renard, I can get you another one if you want, maybe even more!".
I stared at Ishtar in disgust for a few seconds before shaking my head and looking utterly dissapointed, "you know? I was well aware of your reputation, so when we received Haruhime I was very skeptical about your intentions.
But since you never did anything and didn't even show any sign of plotting, I decided to push you out of my mind... that was obviously a mistake, I should have known better than to let someone like you plot".
I raised a hand and Transformed Cali from her bracelet form into her Tachi form, Ishtar of course flinched back while Haruhime's father squeaked in terror, I casually swung Cali towards Haruhime and sliced the chains on her arms and legs off of her with just the air pressure from her blade.
Haruhime gasped in surprise but soon recovered and ran over to me, she then quickly hid behind me and I turned my head to the side to look at her, "are you okay Haruhime?".
Haruhime nodded but then sadly frowned, "yes... but my friend is being punished for protecting me deeper into the Headquarters... I think my father plans to do something to her".
"your friend? who is it?".
Haruhime perked up and then happily said her friend's name, "Aisha Belka! she's an Amazon who took care of me while I was a member of the Ishtar Familia, she tried to protect me but Phryne hurt her badly and she was taken to be punish even more, Rean! please you have to help her!".
Ah, Aisha, I forgot about her, as far as I know, she's a great person and someone who can be trusted, though now that Hermes is dead, I wonder what she'll do? in Danmachi Canon she joined with the Hermes Familia after Ishtar was killed by Freya.
Still, that doesn't matter, I know she's a good person and Haruhime's friend so of course I'm going to help her, I quickly reached into my pocket and pulled two Ultra Ball out, Haruhime stared at the Ultra Balls in confusion first and then is surprised when I enlarged them.
I'm not surprised she's confused, no one on this world has seen me use a Pokeball before, but I pushed that aside for now and threw both Ultra Balls to the side, the Ultra Balls quickly popped open and in flashes of white light, both Persian and Perrserker appeared.
Ishtar immediately stepped back in fear, she knew full well how powerful and dangerous my Pokémon are, Haruhime smiled and immediately walked over to the Pokémon, "kitties!".
Haruhime wasted no time in petting and giving Persian and Perrserker ear scratches, both Cat Pokémon turned to look at me in confusion and in turn I gave them a nod, "it's fine, she's a close friend".
Persian and Perrserker nodded and let Haruhime do what she wanted, which had her smiling and giving off a few sparkles of happiness, I smiled and then said, "Haruhime take Perrserker and Persian with you to look for your friend and then meet with the other outside, I'll deal with things here".
Haruhime looked up and towards me, she quickly nodded and then stood up, wasting no time she immediately headed towards the door behind Ishtar and her father with Persian and Perrserker following behind her.
As soon as Haruhime reached the door and reached to open it, her father decided to man up and spoke up, "Haruhime, you would go against my words and that of your clan's?".
Haruhime tensed up and gripped the door's handle tightly for a few seconds, but she soon spoke up, "I have no family and no clan, not anymore, I only have my Familia, my boyfriend and friends, your nothing to me now, goodbye!".
Without anything else to say, Haruhime opened the door and walked out of the room with both Persian and Perrserker following behind her, but not before sending a glare towards her father who flinched.
He soon recovered and growled before beginning to yell, "Haruhime! come back here! I'm not done speaking with you, you ungrateful brat! get back he-gack!".
Before Haruhime's father could continue to scream, I appeared behind him and grabbed him by the back of the throat, this caught the high class Renard by surprise resulting in him letting out a chocking sound in surprise.
I however, did not care and just glared at him as I lifted him off the ground, "shut up, your voice annoys me, you heard Haruhime, your nothing to her".
Haruhime's father reached towards his neck and tried to pull my fingers off his neck, but no matter how hard he pulled, he didn't even make them budge a bit, "l-let go! don't you k-know who I am?!".
I couldn't help but sigh in annoyance, as far as I know, Haruhime's father is some kind of province lord from the east, not that it matters to me in the slightest, so I lifted arm and with one quick jab, I plunged Cali right into Haruhime's father's back, her blade soon came out of his chest causing him to cough up blood.
Haruhime's father's eyes widen in disbelief as he stared down towards Cali's blade which was coming out of his chest, he reached over and grabbed the blade as more and more blood began to gush out of his chest and mouth, "n-no... t-this can't be how it ends... I-I argggh!".
Not wanting to hear him speak, anymore I twisted Cali making her blade turn inside his chest and cutting into his hands, this caused Haruhime's father to scream in pain, but I violently pulled the blade out of him and he stopped breathing soon after.
His limp body hunged in my grip as I swung Cali down and cleared all of his blood off her blade, I then threw Haruhime's father's body to the side and turned to look at Ishtar, the Goddess immediately flinched and began to panic, "h-hey, this is just a misunderstanding!".
I frowned and began to walk towards her which only served to make Ishtar more afraid, "please! wait! we can make a deal! you don't have to hurt me! please!".
I however, continued to walk over to Ishtar, but I did have something to say to her before I finished this, "it's funny, in reality, Freya is not even dead I just turned her into a mortal, she's cursed to live powerless for all eternity now.
You on the other hand? I have no need to punish you, your an annoyance and a threat that can't be trusted, so you have to dissappear, it's too bad that you really will die, there will be no going back to Tenkai for you Ishtar".
The revelation of Freya's true fate and the fact that Rean told her that this was her permanent end, made her panicked even more, she begged and tried to convince me to let her go.
But in the end, only her screams of horror and pain echoed throughout the room, as I cut open her body with Cali, her God Killing Power destroyed Ishtar from the inside out and as she screamed in agonizing pain as she was being destroyed, all she could do, was lament her decision to mess with the Hestia Familia.
And done.