Back in Telskyura, a goddess, currently having someone to pleasure her, as she watched the battle, she let out a sigh…
"I wonder, would things have gone differently had I not let him leave? It doesn't matter anymore."
Kali rolled over, shutting off the mirror, and then rolled back, forcing the man down on his back, lifting his legs up, and then she had her way with him.
"I wonder how he'll react after he finds out his letters never reached her… or rather, her letters never reached him."
In her daze, several minutes went by, and the man had softened, much to Kali's dismay.
"I also wonder how long it'll take for him to meet those twins?"
She continued, this time sharing her bed with a woman since they seemed to last longer.
…
In a city, far away, almost as far removed as one could get, a city where the roads were water, and boats took people to and from, or people would use the many bridges interconnecting the whole of the peaceful city, another goddess watched the horrible sights in the mirror.
"How dare you, Erebus. I was enjoying myself. My children and I were having a wonderful expression of mutual love… And your nonsense has put me in a bad mood. I need to touch someone, I need it, I need to be touched too…"
This goddess was Aphrodite, furious about having her orgy interrupted by that nagging feeling of something being terribly wrong… Once she saw the source of the disturbance, she backed up, and sat upon a rather pleasant seat for herself.
"Oh, I can finally think straight again! It feels so good!" She expressed joy from the 'seat' she'd found. "Alright, let's see here. Hmm? That's odd, this young man, is he really dead? His soul is still linked to the body. Is someone interfering? No, we'd see something like that with ease. A grand god's power in Gekai is impossible to miss. Just like Zeus is over in those mountains… I don't sense anyone aiding him… This young man, his soul is strong. Let's see now, what happened earlier… OH MY HE'S STRONG TOO!" She exclaimed, her sexual desires surging to their peak, and then beyond… "Alright back to orgy time!"
…
Huh? What's going on? Everything's this eerie white, like smoke, yet also, not… It's formless, and yet… not shapeless…? Or is it the other way? This is confusing?
"Where am I?"
He uttered those words, and then, 20 figures appeared, and soon 3 more followed after them. Each of them geared to the teeth. Like there was a deadly battle soon to follow, or maybe one that had just been fought. He focused a little more, and the faces of people he'd recognized came into view.
"Huh!? Wait a minute! You're the gods who went back to Tenkai. Does that mean… I…"
There was a rather long pause before.
"DAMN IT! NO!!"
"It's hard to accept, but this is indeed Tenkai. However, you aren't really dead, at least, not yet." The older man of the 3 who'd arrived later said, and then cleared his throat. "You have heard of me from your mother, Hathor, I am Odin."
"Ah, she says you're, the know it all guy?"
"Ahahaha! Well she's not exactly wrong about that!"
"Enough of this waiting around, I want to see this son, of my lover kick some more of Erebus' ass!" Ra eagerly spoke.
Shurry didn't bother hearing them out any longer, instead his eyes fixated on the third figure…
"Grandpa Zeus? What are you doing here? What happened to the others?"
He slowly walked forward towards the figure, confused, and worried.
"Well, I guess you're not the only one to mistake me for my other half. My name is Hades, I am the Grand God in charge of the reincarnation cycle."
"You look, sound, and even smell exactly like grandpa Zeus…"
"We technically are the same being, but that gets confusing for mortals to understand…"
"Are you just in two places at once?"
"Ahahaha! Yeah, we'll go with that one."
"Damn, he got pretty close with that one. Not bad."
A couple of the gods laughed, with a light applause.
"Shurry, there's a few things you need to learn about, but, before we can give you this information there's a host of people who wish to see you. Consider this not a gift, nor a test, this is a reward for punishing Erebus so much in our place."
The scene of white shifted, and soon, so many familiar figures began appearing before him. His eyes tearing up as each one showed up. There were two he couldn't place, and one he never knew.
"AUNTIES! UNCLES!"
"Hey there Shurry, you've grown up quite a bit haven't you." A cheerful voice came from a woman, it was Empress!
"Aunty Empress! I… I missed you!"
Shurry ran up, and gave Empress a hug, forgetting that now he was quite a bit larger than she was… He was taller, and far more muscular.
"Hey now, you're not a little kid anymore-"
"I missed you, all of you."
"How about me? Where's my hug?"
It was Lyca, she spoke in a tone clearly hiding her emotions.
"I missed you too aunty!"
Shurry threw himself into hugging Lyca, like there was no tomorrow. He cried.
"Awe, you're a big softy aren't you?"
"I thought-" Shurry sniffled. "That I'd never see you again."
Lyca cried, everyone was tearing up quite a bit.
"Look at this, I guess you're the big brother now, aren't ya?"
"Alraj…" Shurry stiffened, and sat down, silent.
"Huh? What's wrong, Shurry?"
"I'm sorry, I wasn't fast enough… Had I been just a bit faster, you could have been living with Meteria, and Bell."
Shurry was an absolute mess right now. Shaking as the emotions were so confusing, and overwhelming.
"It's alright Shurry, you have nothing to apologize for. Fact is, I'm grateful you saved Meteria's life that day. You see, it's not because of you that Bell is growing up without me." Alraj smiled, and placed a hand on Shurry's head. "It's thanks to you that Bell is growing up with a mother."
"I- I- I-"
"So thank you, it means a lot." Alraj said, and then continued. "You have something else to say?"
"You all say I'm so strong now, but I wasn't even able to keep my own kid safe from harm before they were born… You're stronger than I am Alraj."
Alraj chuckled for a moment.
"No, you are definitely stronger than I am. Think of it like this, you're taking your revenge. Even against the god that caused it. I could never do that." He shrugged.
"But, even my own mother was able to do it… She died trying her best to protect me from-" His nose started smelling something familiar.
There was a woman, a werewolf, who looked to be roughly similar to Shurry's reflection, just more feminine.
"Do you remember me?"
Shurry's senses, still surprised they worked in Tenkai, were firing on all levels…
"M- Mother?"
"Yep, that's right."
"Is it really you? My- my- my- mommy…"
"That's right. I've been watching over you for a long time now. You've grown a lot, but there's a whole lot more left under the surface, my little alpha, my little Shurry. How I've loved you from afar for so long, and now, I can finally hug you again, I love you."
Shurry, and his mother, held in an embrace that led gods to tears, just watching it happen.