"Swaying in the wind~~~ In a world of dull light~~~ We choose now to believe in justice~~~"

Bell and Haruhime were fascinated to hear Lefiya sing while they walked. The others could only agree too that Lefiya really had a beautiful singing voice, maybe because she was an elf.

The song was pretty long, it took her about four and a half minutes to finish it.

"I´d reach for it~~~ Justice is within my graaaasp~~~"

She smiled when she came to the end, even when a small tear ran down her right cheek.

"""""Oooooh!""""""

The others applauded.

"Lefiya Viridis, I have to agree with the others, you really have a beautiful singing voice."

"Th-Thank you Lord Miach."

"Not as beautiful as my Nahza´s voice of course.~~"

Nahza got red and snuggled up to Miach while they walked.

Lena crossed her hands behind her hand while she walked. "I never heard this song before."

Lefiya smiled. "It´s basically the hymn of my familia now. But it had a different meaning before."

"Oh?"

"Someone that was a friend of my familia and a very dear friend of Ms. Ryu lost her life in the dark times."

Miach made a sad and grim face. "You mean Ardee Varma, right?"

"You knew her, Lord Miach?"

"Yes, she was such a good child..."

Lefiya continued. "Ms. Ryu had a hard time to deal with Ms. Ardee´s death. So she later sat down and created this song, to always remember her friend. It also helped Ms. Shakti a bit, later my whole familia sang it together, even Lady Astrea. Even the younger members like me learned it, we will always honor what happened during the dark times and hold the names of the dead high up. Ms. Ardee´s name is spoken in the same sentence as that of our three deceased members."

Bell smiled a bit sad. "So it is as beautiful as it is sad."

"Yes, but we like to sing it now and then. Ms. Ryu´s voice is the most beautiful of us all. We will never forget the sacrifice of the fallen, but we remember how they lived, not how they died. Their memory drives us further."

Haruhime smiled and wrapped one of her tail tips around Lefiya´s right wrist.

The group currently traveled to the north-east of Orario. Their goal was a small village close to a giant lake, between the Beol mountains and the Alfs Royal mountains. It would take them two days, since they weren´t running and carriages currently didn´t drive into this direction.

They had their weapons and light armors with them, sometimes monsters appeared in the lands too, but they were weaker than those in the dungeon. And there was always a chance for bandits. Not that any bandit would have a chance against most members of the group.

Miach walked in the middle, just to be safe. Nahza wore light travel clothes too, for the first time she didn´t have any sleeves on, nor gloves. So both of her arms were bare, even the metal one! Most of the others didn´t know about it, but Kaguya came to the shop now and then, using her metal arm to touch things or pick them up. She had talked a lot to Nahza, flexed with her metal arm, said there was nothing to be ashamed off. There was a difference in Nahza´s metal arm and Kaguya´s. Kaguya´s was much more expensive, because of that it looked like her natural arm had, but made of silver. Nahza´s wasn´t so fine, it looked more bulky.

Miach had already promised Nahza that when they would make enough money to pay Dian Cecht back and even more after that, he would get her a new arm that was as beautiful as her natural one. Not only that promise, but something that Kaguya also told her gave her more courage. The person that had invented the ink that Kaguya used to decorate her arm currently worked on a new form of ink that wouldn´t wash off, one that looked like the skincolor of the person.

So if Nahza would get a new arm and let it cover with the special ink, most people wouldn´t see much of a difference.

And since she let her arm and shoulders free, the others saw for the first time where her natural arm ended and the metal one began, a bit below her shoulder. When she had raised her arm, Bell saw that her armpit was bare, a side effect of the operation, the hair there never grew back, which didn´t bother Nahza one bit.

They had enough food for the trip, Lily, Luan and Ouka each had a big backpack. At first Chigusa had to carry the backpack, but Ouka insisted on taking it. He said since they weren´t in the dungeon there was no way he would burden her like that. Chigusa thought this was really charming and she told him that. She decided to make an important step during the trip. Mikoto was the same, she looked at Takemikazuchi not in a way that a follower would do to her god, nor like a daughter to her father figure.

For everyone present it was more than obvious how Mikoto felt for Takemikazuchi.

They chatted about this and that while they walked, at some point they changed who carried the backpacks.

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A few hours after they left Orario, they noticed a figure walking roughly into their direction. It was a lone man, he stopped every few meters, looked into various directions, then he continued his way.

When they came closer, they saw that he had short, green hair and threee katanas hanging at his right hip.

"Kuso..."

Bell noticed how the Takemikazuchi familia and Haruhime reacted to that word.

"Sore wa ittai dono hōkō ni aru nodeshou ka? ..."

It was the far eastern language, as far as Bell could tell.

Their group was about to pass him, but Takemikazuchi stopped.

"Hōkō ni tsuite tasuke ga hitsuyōdesu ka, wakamono?"

The man reacted to Takemikazuchi´s words.

"Ā, yatto watashi no kotoba o rikai shite kureru hito ga arawareta."

The wargod nodded.

"Nani o sagashiteimasu ka?"

The man seemed to explain something to Takemikazuchi for a while. All members of the group that understood the far eastern language looked confused in the end.

Takemikazuchi pointed in the direction of Babel and explained something to the young man in a few sentences.

The man nodded, then he went into a different direction...

Takemikazuchi shouted and pointed at the tower again, the man nodded and finally went in the direction of Babel.

Bell and Lefiya leaned to Haruhime.

"What was that about?"

"It looked like the young man was lost and didn´t know the direction. He said something about looking for his friends, his crew and captain. Something about a ship, so Lord Takemikazuchi explained to him in which direction Melen is."

"But why did he went into the wrong direction then first?"

"I don´t know, maybe he has a bad sense of direction?"

"Hm.."

Lefiya´s ears twitched slightly. "There are all kinds of people in this world."

It was a very polite way to say "strange people"...

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They stopped close to a small river when evening came.

Thankfully no one had problems to walk for such a long time. Gods had more natural stamina than mortals, but for the normal god in Orario, this would be exhausting. Thankfully Takemikazuchi was a war god, but he and Miach both had a similar advantage.

They were poor!

And because of that, both had to walk much every day, to help their children earn money! Thanks to the power of poverty, both were able to walk for very long distances!

"So, time to set up camp."

All of them had already talked about the various tasks. A few went to collect wood, some water, others set up the tents and other stuff.

With so many people it was easy and fast done, even when their children told them to rest, the two gods did their part too.

Mikoto, Haruhime and Lefiya would make dinner, with help of Chigusa and Nahza, who would cut and peel the vegetables. Lena didn´t really have any talent when it came to cooking, but she watched them. Her wish was it to make something good for Bete one day and of course for their future children, she absolutely believed she would give birth to his children!

The men offered their help too, but were declined. Apparently during making dinner, they wanted to have a girls talk. Since Lily wasn´t that interested in the topic love and romance for now, she took care of the camp and made sure that the men stayed away from the women, so they could talk in peace.

At least Lena could help with the girls talk. Haruhime, Lefiya, Nahza and Lena encouraged Chigusa and Mikoto to dare to do the next step. Lena argued it would be time, since they would meet the number one womanizer in heaven and on earth, this had to be a sign!

Haruhime encouraged them the most. She wanted her two friends to be happy and she thought Chigusa and Ouka looked perfect together, as would be Takemikazuchi and Mikoto.

The fox girl even got so daring to whisper into Mikoto´s ear. "I know that you read all these romantic Kunoichi novels...don´t you want to be like them?"

"Fueh?! How do you know th-th-that?!"

"Ehe, I saw them when I helped you clean up your room."

"Mmmmmh..."

Lena looked from one far eastern girl to the next.

"Hm...I know four far eastern girls by now...and it looks like all of you are secretely hidden perverts..."

"""Nah?!"""

"I mean...Haru-Haru is a secret pervert, I know that. With all that rubbing at Lefiya and Bell..."

"Th-That´s just because I´m a beast person! N-Nahza does that too with Lord Miach!"

Nahza nodded, not one bit ashamed. "I have to make sure that my smell is on Miach, so the other women will stay away."

This was actually pretty common for beast folk, but no one ever talked about this openly. Especially those like Chientropes, Werewolves and Renards did that.

Lena continued. "Yeah, but you also get quite...let´s call it cuddly very often."

"Th-That was...j-just..."

The amazon grinend wide. "See?"

Then her eyes wandered to Chigusa. "And you...I mean you act all shy and so...but you have your eyes on such a hunk of a man, you surely know what you want."

"I-It isn´t like that..."

Now Lena looked at Mikoto and grinned wide. "And you apparently read perverted books..."

"I-I do most likely not!"

"A Kunoichi´s debt...rings a bell?"

"Mmmmmh!"

"Being a broke Hero is tough..."

"B-Be quiet!"

"Night duty..."

"Aaaaah! I can´t hear youuuu!" Mikoto covered her ears.

Then Lena shrugged her shoulders. "And I don´t even want to start with the Vice-Captain of the Astrea familia."

This was hard to swallow for Haruhime, Mikoto and Chigusa, they saw themself as pure maidens...

Lefiya shook her head. "You amazons are all the same...the only exceptions I ever met where Iska and Ms. Tiona from the Loki familia."

Lena shrugged her shoulders. "We amazons are just like that."

Lefiya suddenly put an arm around Haruhime and pulled her a bit closer. "And if you call my beloved a pervert one more time, I will personally beat you up."

Haruhime blushed when she heard that, but her tails moved from happiness.

"Hoooo?! You think you would stand a chance?"

"I can lvl up to four."

"Oh...ahm...never mind then...ahaha..."

That meant Lefiya was a whole level above Lena and even when she wasn´t a frontline fighter, she trained a lot in that direction. Her dream was to become what Bell called a "Battle Mage".

So that she could protect her friends and loved ones at any time.

"Heh, never saw an elf act so openly when it came to love."

"So? I think this much is just fine."

"Hm..."

Lena leaned closer to Lefiya and whispered. "Can I have a talk with you later? It´s important."

"Hm, as long as you aren´t planning to play a prank, making jokes or talk lewd, fine."

The amazon nodded.

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The men seemed to try to beat each other when it came to praise the women for the food, how incredible the taste was. But that was to be expected, they had poured all their love into it.

After the dinner was over, it was time to for the women to take a bath, the men had done it before. Thankfully Mikoto bought a special magic item with her, a few special rods that they could stick into the water. These rods glew slightly, purified the water and would make it a bit warmer. As a bathing expert, it was no surprise that she had these.

This evening would mark a special step in Lefiya´s and Haruhime´s relationship. They would bath together for the first time. There was a huge difference in seeing one of the others naked compared to each other. That was why both would face away from each other, with the others between them.

Mikoto had to admit it was quite cute to see her friend act so flustered and how she did her best not to look into Lefiya´s direction. But the experience of the so called naked bonding was nice for both, it felt as if they made a step forward. When they were about to get out, Lena stopped Lefiya.

The others went ahead, while both remained in the still warm water, Mikoto´s special bathing items really came in handy.

"You said you wanted to talk about something important."

"I did. I will come straight to the point. You know about Haru-Haru´s past, right?"

Lefiya nodded. "She told me everything, also why she was crying that one day when she came out of the home of the Ganesha familia."

"Does this bother you?"

Lefiya´s face darkened slightly. "If I knew about this before, I would´ve joined whoever destroyed that filthy place and do my best to save her."

"I mean does it bother you what she was?"

"No. I love her for who she is. It´s not that she was there by her own choice. And I only talk to you because you are her friend and did your best to protect her. Every other amazon that was at that place and didn´t help her should be careful around me."

Lena felt actually a bit nervous, Lefiya was dead serious.

"I´m glad that Haru-Haru found such nice people in you and Bell. But my reason to talk to you is something else, something you might not be aware of."

"And what would that be?"

"Mmmh...how do I say this the best way... Okay, I get it. Please let me finish first, even when you get agitated by what you will hear now."

"Okay?..."

"You know, Haru-Haru might seem cheerful, happy with you two and many more things. But she is actually deeply afraid of men. I will speak clearly to you. Haru-Haru tried to kill herself in the past. After what she thought was the first time that a man took her, even when she was unconcious, she cried so much, showered for hours...then she tried to hang herself in her room."

Lefiya´s eyes widened in shock and horror.

"Aisha was there to look after her. When she walked into Haru-Haru´s room, she saw her standing on a chair, tying the rope into a sling, crying heavily. Aisha dashed towards her, cut the rope with her hand and caught Haru-Haru. She cried in Aisha´s arms for hours. We couldn´t bring ourselves to tell her what really happened, that Aisha took care of the customer after she fainted. Before you ask why, and I understand that you´re pretty angry, we knew Ishtar wouldn´t let her go. So if it didn´t happen in this night, it might´ve happened in another night. Also, Aisha and I were pretty hard hearted during the beginning, we´re amazons after all."

Lefiya´s glare could almost kill people.

"It wasn´t the only time that Haru-Haru tried to end things for herself... Aisha and I kept an eye on her, whenever she had to entertain a customer, one of us listened behind the door. In the moment she passed out, which happened every single time, we went in and led the customer away. Aisha, me or one of the girls took care of the customer. There was only one that still tried to do it, even after Haru-Haru fainted. Aisha beat him up and in the end killed him. Since she was suffering so much, Aisha basically became her big sister and I her friend. Believe it or not, Haru-Haru still believes in Santa. Every year Aisha secretely snuck a present into Haru-Haru´s room. She cried when it happened for the first time, saying she was so glad that Santa still believed that she was a good girl. Aisha did that every year, it cheered Haru-Haru up a lot. But never mentioned that or Aisha will hunt me down too."

Lena took a deep breath.

"My point is, due to the quest you did with that unicorn and her talk with Aisha afterwards, she found out that she is still untouched and a proper virgin. That no man ever saw her naked. But even when it never really happened, Haru-Haru is still traumatized and afraid of men, afraid of their genitals and sex. I know you aren´t at this point in your relationship and normally it wouldn´t have anything to do with me. But while Haru-Haru won´t have much of a problem with you, when you´re gentle with her, she is freaking out whenever she sees more than a bit of naked skin of Bell. I don´t want to imagine what happens when she sees him naked one day, because Bell is by no means small, I have seen him."

Lefiya growled. "You don´t need to tell me that detail..."

"Sorry, force of habit. What my point is, you are Haru-Haru´s girlfriend, her lover. When you three intend to cross the line, it will be mostly up to you to help her. To show her that love can be something wonderful and that sex is actually something really nice and feels good."

"Mh."

"I don´t intend to stick my nose into your business, just wanted to tell you what´s wrong with Haru-Haru. If she sees Bell´s dick for the first time, she might start to scream and cry... And if he intends to put it into her, she might start to shake, freak out and probably faint."

"The Pleasure Quarter really traumatized her..."

Lena nodded.

"Thank you for telling me this...but..."

"You don´t know how, right?"

Lefiya nodded, to discuss such a topic wasn´t really pleasant, especially since she was an elf.

"In the Pleasure Quarter we had experience with traumatized girls. Will you listen to me for a while? There are a few things that I know how to handle someone like her."

"Alright, tell me."

"But it will need a lot of work from especially you."

"That is fine with me."

"I mean also sensual work."

"Mh...tell me, I want to help Haru."

Lena nodded and started to talk. Lefiya learned a lot about comforting someone...and about sex...far earlier than she ever intended to. And much more than the basic sexual education she received in the Education district, she was too young when she left her home forest in the past. Also, Lefiya never really thought about it so far, but making love with a Haruhime would be different from sleeping with Bell...not to mention both of them at once. But if it was necessary to help her beloved, she would be thankful and listen to Lena.

Lefiya would do her best to comfort and help Haruhime with her trauma, so that all three of them could find happiness together.

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Since it was still summer, the sun was up for a long time, so even when it was past eight in the evening, it was bright and warm.

Back in Orario a certain red haired woman really enjoyed her reward for her hard work.

"Hah...so good...nothing beats that..."

"Mmmmhhh!"

"Haaaaa-puuuuuh~~~~"

"Don´t breath like that!"

"Haaaaa-puuuuuh~~~~hah...you really smell good, Ryu."

"Don´t smell me like that, Aliiiise!"

Ryu had been deeply touched and was overjoyed when Alise had shown her the small love forest she had planted for them. Astrea gave her the idea to also plant a few bushes outside of the trees, if cut right they would work like a fence, so Ryu and Alise could enjoy some privacy.

At first they sat next to each other on the gras between the young trees, then Alise looked at her in a really special way, Ryu knew what she wanted from her...

So Ryu had slightly leaned back, offering her thighs to Alise...

Alise didn´t wait long, she lay down immediatelly...but not in the way that Ryu expected.

"Aliiise! You´re not supposed to lay face down!"

Alise raised her right hand, made a circle with her index finger and thumb. "It´sh okay Ryu, thish ish a proper way for a lap pillow...haaaah~~~you thighs smell so good~~~~"

"Don´t smell my thighs!"

Even when she was a bit mad and embarrassed, Ryu didn´t try to move Alise´s head away.

"Why not?"

"Eep!"

Alise let her hands wander along Ryu´s bare thighs, gently squeezing and caressing them.

"Hehe...I wonder if it would be okay if I worship them..."The cult of Ryu´s voluptous thighs." That sounds good! But I would be the only member..."

"It sounds lewd!"

"Most likely not. *Smooch*"

Ryu shivered. "D-Don´t kiss my thighs..."

"Hohooo?~~~ Did I find one of your weak spots? *Smooch* *kiss*"

"Mmmh! A-Alise..."

"Hehe~~~ That´s good to know."

Alise continued to hug, kiss and worship Ryu´s thighs.

"Y-You have thighs on your own!"

"That´s not the same, ehehe~~~ Yours are almost divine...and you always show them off so willingly."

"I´m not showing off my thighs!"

Alise´s gently touch let Ryu shiver.

"Hehe~~ But you do. Do you know how hard it is for me to focus in the dungeon when you walk around like that?"

"Mouh, Alise!"

Ryu put her hands over her eyes. "You can´t be so lewd, I´m an elf!"

"And I´m a sinful, sinful, lewd human. Hehehe~~~"

Ryu squeaked when Alise suddenly moved them around, so that she was lying on the ground, with Ryu on top of her.

"A-Alise..."

Alise continued to gently stroked Ryu´s thighs while she leaned her face up to kiss her. She knew exactly where to stop her hand, not going anywhere where it would be too fast for Ryu.

Ryu sat up after a while, her ears and face were completely red.

"Oh.."

"Huh?"

Alise smiled abashed and looked to the side. "Maybe...I got a bit carried away..."

Ryu blinked confused, then she looked down at herself. One of her shoulders was revealed when the dress had slightly slipped down. To have one of her shoulders revealed was the lewdest state Ryu was ever in.

"Eeeek!"

The abashed elf hastily covered herself.

"Sorry, sorry."

"Mouh Alise..."

Alise sat up and looked apologetic. "Can you forgive me?"

"Mh...okay..."

Ryu didn´t move back when Alise kissed her again. Life wasn´t so bad after all. On this evening, a cult was born inside the Astrea familia. The cult of "Ryu´s voluptous thighs", with Alise as the high priestess...and the only member...maybe two if one would also count the object of her worship.

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When night came, all went to sleep, out there they wouldn´t need a night guard. Since there was no light in their camp, it would be hard to spot it from afar. Also the senses of the adventurers were fine enough to react quickly.

That night, Haruhime found herself hugged from both sides. After Lefiya came back to the camp after her long talk with Lena, she became really affectionate, hugged Haruhime more than one time. And she swore to destroy everything and everyone that would dare to cause Haruhime any harm.

Haruhime felt really protected and loved, with Bell snuggling up to her from behind and Lefiya from the front. At some point in the night, Haruhime turned around in their arms, so that Bell hugged her from the front. And later...however they managed to do it, Bell ended in the middle, sleeping on his back, while both used his chest to rest their cheeks on. In nine out of ten nights they ended sleeping like that.

When Lena woke up in the night to pick some flowers, she smiled when she saw Haruhime, Lefiya and Bell sleeping like that. Then she got a bit disappointed when she looked at Daphne and Cassandra. They slept next to each other but didn´t hug in their sleep.

I still believe they have hots for each other! I´m ninety percent sure there is something going on between them!

When she came back, Lena lay down again, hugged her "Bete-Pillow" and went back to sleep.

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"O-Ouka?"

"Hm?"

"C-Can I talk to you for a moment?"

"Sure."

Ouka looked a bit confused, but followed Chigusa away from the camp. Every woman present in the camp could guess that Chigusa´s heart was jumping heavily in her chest. She had gathered all her courage, since she got up as one of the first, she saw how Haruhime, Bell and Lefiya slept together, how happy Bell looked. And of course Bell was happy, having two soft bodies snuggled up to him felt really good!

Mikoto looked quickly back and forth between Takemikazuchi, Chigusa and Ouka, Nahza, who was leaning against Miach, enjoying his presence. Her breath was going really fast, even went a bit faster, it looked like her eyes were whirling around.

"L-L-L-Lord Takemikazuchi!"

"Yes, Mikoto?"

"C-C-Can I t-t-talk to you tooo?!"

He smiled in his very gentle way. "Of course."

"Hauuuu..."

Mikoto went in the direction of the river and Takemikazuchi followed her.

Haruhime´s eyes went wide, that both of her friends gathered all their courage and got so daring!

Lena sighed. "Dear gods finally... Seeing them so fidgety all the time was getting on my nerves."

"C-Confessing your love isn´t that easy, Lena!"

"Of course it is Haru-Haru! And you two there, get it done too already!"

"Huh?" Cassandra blinked confused.

Daphne looked a bit agitated. "Will you give it a rest already?! Cassandra and I aren´t a couple!"

Cassandra nodded. "That´s right. She is my best friend, there is nothing more."

"Hmm...I don´t believe you! I bet you secretely become all Yuri Yuri, just like Haruhime and Lef-!"

Lena stopped and shivered a bit when she saw the glare from Lefiya.

"That´s enough now, Lena! You shouldn´t talk about the love life of other people!" Even Haruhime looked a bit agitated.

Miach chuckled slightly. "Please have mercy with her. Lena is an amazon, she probably can´t help it."

"Haaah! Lord Miach! I knew you would understand me!"

Lena was about to jump into Miach´s direction to hug him, but Nahza bared her teeth, growled, her ears and tail went stiff. Nahza would protect what was hers. Miach wasn´t just her god anymore, nor her lover. She was a Chientrope, so after a very special night a week ago, Miach was now also her mate!

The others didn´t know about this night, but they had noticed just how affectionate Nahza recently got.

Their talk got interrupted when they suddenly heard a happy scream...from the direction of the river. It was Mikoto´s scream.

Haruhime smiled. "Ehehe, looks like she got a good answer."

Miach nodded smiling. "Take asked me some things a while ago, about a relationship to a mortal woman."

Haruhime clapped her hands over her mouth. "Really?!"

"Yes, took him a while to understand that Mikoto isn´t a small girl anymore. He said he remembers how they still bathed together not long ago. But apparently that was ten years ago now."

Lena smirked. "Will take them a while to bath together again now."

No one, not even Lena, said anything when Mikoto and Takemikazuchi returned to the camp. The only hint that something happened was Mikoto´s extremely red face...and that fact that their pinkies touched. Chigusa and Ouka returned a while later, these two actually held hands...and it looked like they had kissed.

When her nervous nature went too far, Chigusa actually became a bit daring.

Luan couldn´t stop glancing at Lily again and again, she was aware of that, but while she liked him, her feelings weren´t that far. Plus, Lily was a bit troubled lately, ever since the old couple from the flower shop had visited and congratulated her for the victory in the wargame, at the same time they apologized for how they had kicked her out in the past.

With two more couples now, they packed everything together and went on their way. It was really nice to spend some time like that.

Not one of them could know that...but things didn´t go so smooth in the Stardust Garden back in Orario...

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"Unacceptable! This too! Unacceptable!"

A new tyrant was born in the Stardust Garden. Alfia finally gave in to Alise´s order...pleas...and wore a maid uniform. At first the others tried to enjoy this sight of the fearsome Silence and maybe make a bit fun of her. But Alfia wore this outfit with all the dignity she had. She looked more like a tyrant queen than a maid. Due to her enormous rack, the cleavage she had let Ryu sob. Aura was so frightened by Alfia´s presence that she refused to come out of her room. At first they had planned to let Alfia do house work, clean a bit...but Alfia had clearly different ideas about tidying up than the others.

Alfia had gone to the shelf above the fireplace and stroked it with her right index finger, which was covered in a white glove. She raised her finger and showed everyone the dark trail...dust!

"Unacceptable! There is dust! Dirt! I will not allow my beloved son to get into such a dirty house again! It´s time to clean up!"

Before the others knew it, every member of the familia was busy cleaning the house like it never was before. It wasn't as if the Astrea familia lived in squalor, but anything less than absolute perfection wouldn't satisfy Alfia! Even Astrea joined in, the goddess was happy to see Alfia so lively. And Alfia didn't just stop at the general living quarters, the personal rooms would also be inspected!

At first they tried to refuse, but Alfia beat them with her argument.

"Hoooh? The familia of Justice doesn´t want to clean up their home? You make me into the "head maid" how the captain called it and then won´t let me do my job? Is that how convinced you are about your Justice?"

Most of them got flushed cheeks and jumped to their feet.

"On top of that, you force a very ill woman to do such hard labor while you young girlies all just sit around and grin. Is this how you understand Justice?"

""""Naaaah!""""

Before things could escalate, Astrea started to giggle.

"Alfia is right, we should really clean up again."

"I will check your room too, Goddess of Justice."

Astrea just smiled gently. "I have no problem with that, my child."

"Grr..."

Alfia continued. "I will personally check each room! Every nook and cranny!"

And so she did. Filvis did her best to keep Alfia out of her room, that she shared with her little sister.

"We elves are as clean as one can get! You will not search through our belongings!"

Alfia raised an eyebrow and decided to go as far as necessary. "Your little sister is the girlfriend of my son. So...my future daughter-in-law. I will make sure that she is a good and fine young lady!"

"How dare you imply my cute, adorable little sister isn´t a fine young lady!"

And indeed, Alfia was satisfied with how clean and fine the room of the elven sisters looked. But it wasn´t like that with all rooms. Kaguya´s room was perfectly clean, but she had a few things lying around here and there. And one item in particular caught Alfia´s interest.

"And what is this if I may ask?"

She held it up, using a cloth, it had a particular form.

Kaguya shrugged her shoulders. "What? I have needs."

Alfia frowned. "That doesn´t answer my question."

"Eh? How doesn´t that answer your question? Yeah I have one of these, my body has needs, so what?"

"I asked you what this is."

Kaguya blinked a few times. "You really don´t know that, right?"

Alfia remained silent, it was answer enough. Kaguya suddenly smirked.

"Hoh...never thought the fearsome Silence would be that innocent...it´s a toy for women."

"A toy?"

"Yeah, to give you a really "pleasant massage"."

"So a massage rod?"

"In a way, yes. But for your insides?"

"My...what?"

Kaguya grinned like a cat. "It´s a sex toy."

Alfia looked confused. "Sex? You mean the filthy act of breeding to produce children? For what reason would there be a toy for that?"

She let it fall down, Kaguya growled angry and catched it, putting it into it´s box again.

"What do you mean for what reason?!"

"You can´t get pregnant with that thing."

"Ahm yeah I know? It´s just to satisfy me."

Alfia frowned again. "What is the point when you can´t become pregnant? I am aware that some people do that until they day they die, even when they don´t want to create a child. Why would they do that?"

"Are you really asking me why people have sex? Seriously? Because it feels good and to have fun."

"Fun? Why would you have fun like that?"

Kaguya blinked a few times. "Are you...kidding me?"

"Why would I?"

"Are you...serious?"

Alfia looked a bit agitated. "Would you finally answer my question?"

"Are you really telling me you don´t know that sex is very pleasant and people do it often for fun?! Are you really telling me, you, the mighty and fearsome Silence is THAT innocent and pure?! Damn! So yeah this thing is here is a toy that I use to masturbate and pleasure myself, satisfied with the answer?"

"So the purpose of doing this is pleasure? I didn´t know?"

Kaguya looked shocked. "You didn´t know why people would do that?"

"I thought it was a meaningless and pathetic act, done purely to pass time by touching yourself."

"Oh man...I learned something I never wanted to learn... I bet your sister did that t-"

"DON`T YOU DARE TALK ABOUT MY INNOCENT SISTER LIKE THAT! I`LL MURDER YOU!"

The Astrea familia learned something new on that day. At first they heard Alfia laugh when Bell tickled her, now they heard her scream loud for the first time. And they learned that Alfia was really surprisingly innocent and had a pure mind when it came to making love...

Yet they didn´t have much to laugh, since they had to clean every nook and cranny of the house until their tyrant maid was satisfied. Astrea let her do all that was necessary, the goddess was really glad that Lyra and Viana finally cleaned up their workshops... The dark elf nearly started to cry when Alfia destroyed the aphrodisiacs that she had accidentally created, saying that a young woman without a boyfriend shouldn´t have these and that it would reflect badly on the familia of Justice if she sold these.

Ryu would only allow Alfia a glimpse into her room, it was the cleanest room in the house, which was to be expected since Ryu was a clean freak.

In Astrea´s room, there were a few items that weren´t perfectly clean, but they were all gifts of love from Ganesha, so Astrea even released the tiniest bit of arcana, giving herself a true aura of a Goddess for a splitsecond, to tell Alfia she shouldn´t dare to touch these. It was the first time for Astrea´s followers to see their goddess that intimidating.

During all that, Aura shivered in her room, not sure what she should think of this familia.

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Around noon on the third day, the group finally saw the village that would be their goal. Bell got really excited, here he would see his grandfather again for the first time ever since going to Orario! The mood of the group was really good, especially for the two new couples. The women got really curious about the confessions. Mikoto did it in a really shy way, stuttering and stumbling, until Takemikazuchi gently took her hands, explained his feelings for her. When she got her first kiss, she nearly melted. And Chigusa didn´t even have a chance to say it, Ouka did it first.

They looked forward to visit this village.