Hello everyone, and welcome back. I am glad to say that reception has been positive, if sparse so far. So thank you for everyone who was vocal about their thoughts!

To answer some reviews:

- FallenSage: Thank you, I hope I do not disappoint

- Qoheleth: As I DM'd you, it would be bad for a K rating, hence why it is rated T to tolerate vulgar language. I will update the rating accordingly depending on how inspiration takes me, so it is indefined whether it remains T or goes over to M.

Now with that done, happy reading!

"Brother" Damian began as he quickly thought of something to get out of here. "We aren't ready for this fight, we gotta get out of here"

"Well, elaborate then. Where are we and who are these gorgeous women who look like they want to skewer me ass first?" Ben responded, rather weary at the stares of anger he was receiving due to being an intruder.

"Well, we are in Orario, an adventurer city, and we crashlanded right in the Red Light Sector. In short, we are in the whore wing of the city. Brothels and stuff"

"oooohh" Ben sounded before moving himself a step back, back against his brother. "Well, that explains why everyone here is hot. Comes with the job description, I reckon."

"Your ability to make jokes in serious situations is second only to deadpool. Anyway, I think I will teleport us out of here, this is beyond us right now" Damian said, only to take a closer look at Aisha and noticed something that was... off.

She was shorter, had shorter hair, her weapon was different and overall she seemed... younger?

Haruhime was worse, she was quite literally a child. So he figured they landed somewhere in the past and not during the main timeline. This could serve in their favor.

"But first..." he said and used his Ten Rings to conjure telepathy magic, drawing the young Haruhime to himself, then used the rings again to conjure a teleportation circle beneath the now three people. "Now lets get out of here!"

And in a bright flash, they were gone, leaving the district empty of their presence.

Aisha, gnawing at her teeth in anxiety over losing Haruhime, could only think of the consequences that will befall her. "Ishtar will tear me a new one if she finds out... I have to find her, fast" She thought. This Aisha had yet to develop her sisterly bond with Haruhime, the first sacrificial ritual had yet to commence, so right now her only concern was her fear of her goddess and captain. "FIND THEM! THEY COULD NOT HAVE GOTTEN VERY FAR!"

At the STARDUST GARDEN...

Alise and Kaguya were sparring, as was practice on the daily for them. The goal was improvement of reflexes, the gain of reading the opponent, and of course, a few points in their stats.

"Enough for today" Astraea, their Goddess, announced as she clasped her hands together. "You two did wonderfully! I am so proud of you two!"

"It was nothing" Kaguya answered, remaining stoic and calculated in her demeanor. "More importantly, Alise has improved, she finally did not fall for my feints. That shows promise for the future"

"Of course it does! For I am the ever beautiful and skilled captain of the Familia of Justice!" Came Alise's comment, riding her status to the skies as was typical for her, gaining a few chuckles and sighs from her familia members.

Then, suddenly, their instincts flared up and they all surrounded Astraea to shield her. "Something is coming!" Kaguya announced, her usual demeanor gone.

A bright flash erupted a few feet away from them, and after the light died down, they saw two men and a small girl standing before them. They readied themselves, thinking it may be an Evilus attack, only for one of them to collapse suddenly.

"Brother, mind down" Damian said as he was passing out, holding himself by his knees as he slowly hunches forward.

"What the fuck even is that? I am still waiting for exposition!" Ben responded as he caught his brother and held him over his shoulder. "You owe me one you fat fuck, you're heavy"

"Fuck you too, brother" Damian shot back and closed his eyes to rest, the overuse of magic taking him to the land of dreams.

"Anyway..." Ben started and turned his attention towards the women of Astraea Familia. "Some help? I wasn't joking, this dude is actually heavy!"

"Who are you!?" Alise demanded, hand on the grip of her sword, ready to draw it.

"I am Ben, this is my brother Damian, who passed out from what he called 'mind down' and that one-" Ben said as he lifted little Haruhime by the back of her collar. "is apparently Haruhime Sanjouno, or Sanjouno Haruhime, beats me."

"A Sanjouno? Here?" Kaguya spoke, recognizing the name as one of the noble houses of the Far East. She narrowed her eyes slightly. "It has to be, she is a renard. The Sanjouno are all renards, after all. But why is she here?"

"Hell if I kno-" Ben said before suddenly the whole world went grey and everything was frozen. Everything except himself.

"Sorry for the interruption, boy" Came the familiar tone of God, who suddenly walked out from behind Astraea out of nowhere. "I forgot something when I dropped you in here. Your Lore. You can't just run around saying you are from a different world, so I handcrafted a backstory for you and your brother"

"Oh neat. Hit me with it" Ben spoke, completely ignoring the fact that God just froze time to converse.

"You and him are experiments, artificial humans created by salvaging the DNA of Albert Waldstein and Celdia Ljos Alf. Fittingly, since Celdia was of Elven descend, your brother will develop pointy elf ears once he wakes up. Now, for dramatic effect, I will insert the necessary memories into you and also modify your inner belief so that the gods will pick this up as the truth when you or your brother speak of it."

"Holup, what did you-" Ben was about to ask, but God appeared before him out of nowhere and tapped his forehead. Then, everything went black.

"Ugh, my head..." Damian voiced as he began to wake up. He then suddenly registered softness all over and shot up, seeing that he was laying in a bed with covers over his form. He rose his eyebrow slightly before he registered he wasn't alone. "Where am I?"

"The Stardust Garden, Home of-"

"The Astraea Familia" Damian finished. Since he knew everything needed to be known about the world, it was not foreign information to him. "Good, then I came to the right place. The girl, Haruhime, where is she?"

"Lunching, if you are wondering" Astraea answered him before she got up, her gorgeous form swaying lightly with each step, unintentionally making a rather sexy wave with her hips. "Now, I have questions for you."

"And I intend on answering, so go ahead. But first, where is my brother?"

"In the bed next to yours to your right"

Damian looked over to his right side and, indeed, he found his brother laying in that bed. "Good, then I have no objections to answering your questions." He said and turned his eyes back to the brunette goddess.

"First, who are you?"

Damian's mind was flooded with foreign information, information courtesy of God who supplied them a backstory for within the world. "Damian, and my brother is named Ben. We are... escaped experiments created by Evilus"

Astraea's eyes narrow slightly as she hears that. "Experiments? Evilus? Explain to me in detail, because Evilus should be no more since just under 2 years"

"That's the thing, they are not. Remnants here and there survived as small cells hiding in the Dungeon, spearheaded by the Rudra and Ikelos Familia. Rudra makes the disturbances and Ikelos ensures finances by smuggling monsters to the surface through other entrances. Thanatos is still around too, overseeing their little pet projects, and me and my brother were one of those."

"Projects? What was it they did to you?"

"Not to us. Us. Our bodies were not born, they were grown in a laboratory" Ben suddenly said as he began to wake up as well, rubbing his forehead due to a migraine from all the information given. "Somehow, they got their hands on the buried leftovers of both Albert Waldstein and Celdia Ljos Alf and used their DNA to clone us. We brothers are lab grown artificial humans"

Astraea was shocked beyond belief. Her divine intuitition showed that there was no lie, even though it should not be possible. So to her, somehow, it has to be possible after all. "I see... so you two... are the second coming of legends?"

"Heh, if only" Damian responded and stretched himself. "Look, Astraea, we have a few things we want to ask of you, but first, we need a favor. Haruhime, the girl we brought, was illegally trafficked to Orario via an underground slave market. Ishtar bought her because Haruhime has special magic. She can give other adventurers temporary level ups and Ishtar wanted to use the Killing Stone ritual to share her power with all the Berbera, with the end goal of attacking Freya. We stopped a civil war, so you will come forth with that favor, understood?"

Astraea's eyes narrow once more. If true, then they really did a big service to the city, preventing hundreds if not thousands from suffering the aftermath and collateral of a civil war between two Goddesses of Love, Beauty, War and Fertility. Even if Freya were to win, she'd have suffered tremendous losses and would have lost her grasp on the top position. This would have created a disasterous power-vacuum that many familias would try to monopolize, so it was essentially not one, but two civil wars they stopped. But again, only if true. "Very well, what is your favor?"

"We want your Falna" Damian spoke, his eyes serious and void of any room for anything other than the utmost dedication to his declaration.

"We need strength, and if my brother is right about you, then you are the best person to ask this" Ben chimed in.

"You heard him, Astraea. We won't join the familia, but we will help in city patrols and safety measures, but we need a Falna, and we want yours."

Astraea did not know how to respond right away. It was a policy that she does not take male members within the Familia, but she owes them enough to reconsider. "I... must consult my members about this. Until then, rest and recover your strength" The Goddess voiced before she promptly left the room, leaving the two alone.

"So, about that exposition, brother..."

"UUUUGH FINE! Listen up, Ben" Damian said and began to explain everything he knew.