After the exhilarating battle ended.
It was now night.
The hypocritical respectable woman and the badly-dressed impish daughter challenged the Great Demon King several times, all ending in failure, and both raised white flags, declaring surrender.
After a group of girls learned about this, they simply held a Wives' Post-Battle Tea Party in the courtyard.
Two eager Virgin Goddesses tried to sneak closer to eavesdrop, but Alise immediately turned into a Disciplinary Committee member, using their still-intact chastity as a reason, severely "bullying" them and ruthlessly chasing them away.
Hestia cried and made a scene, even throwing a tantrum on the ground, Astrea couldn't bear to watch and reluctantly pulled her away to find Demeter.
Hmph, don't think you're the only ones with a clique!
The Goddess of Justice felt a sense of crisis she hadn't experienced in a long time.
Contractors could also vaguely sense each other's connections.
This time, after Rhode returned, she was shocked to discover that he had actually contracted seven more Goddesses!
Seven! A full seven!
Even she, gentle and tolerant as she was, couldn't help but want to beat Rhode up!
It was like, she had carefully nurtured a child, watching it grow little by little, planning to naturally enter a deeper relationship one day, but in the blink of an eye, the other party was abducted by seven aggressive blondes!
The first part was about taking the fruits, the middle part was about lingering regret, and the last part was forgotten.
In short, this was absolutely intolerable!
She was the first Goddess to meet Rhode, she absolutely couldn't end up as a 'loser' like the characters in the light novels that Xiaochun and the others brought back!
It was time to form a Goddess Alliance and engage in a fierce struggle with these children!
"If possible, I really want to lock Master in the basement for his entire life~"
After chasing away the Goddesses, Kaguya, who had battled Rhode all day, rubbed her sore waist and said something a little frightening.
Laila, who was leaning in Metria's arms, unable to stand, her legs still trembling, retorted unceremoniously.
"Leaving aside whether you even have the ability to do that, if you really did, you'd probably be besieged by everyone the next day."
Metria's face was still as red as a ripe apple at this moment.
Heaven knew how shocked she was when she woke up and saw that one-against-two battle scene!
—I... I seem to have woken up at the wrong time?
The most absurd thing was, after she stared blankly for a long time and muttered this, that idiot finally came to his senses, even showing a gentle smile and extending his hand to issue an invitation for a group battle match.
—No, you woke up at just the right time.
Metria was so embarrassed that she fainted again on the spot.
However, recalling this matter now, her mind couldn't help but wander with various thoughts.
What if she and Alfia were with Rhode....
"No, no, no!"
Metria hugged Laila tightly, shaking her head vigorously, and shouted with a red face.
"Uh... Ugh! Don't squeeze me! I'm really full right now! Metria!"
"Ugh... Anyway, it's just no!"
"Idiot, what the hell are you saying 'no' to!!!"
Watching Laila frantically try to stop Metria, Kaguya showed a look of enjoying the show.
Finally, someone was going to experience the pain she felt back then.
However...
Kaguya's gaze softened considerably, and a genuine smile played on her lips.
It truly was nostalgic...
The enthusiastic Amazon girl, Lina, was wrapping her arm around the shoulder of the cute Pallum, Meili, beside her, smirking mischievously.
"So, even though you little ones are cute, trying to take on Rhode alone will end tragically, so do you want to team up with me?"
Meili shook her beautiful purple long hair, feeling completely dizzy.
Her light blue eyes were spinning with mosquito coils, and she was flushed from her neck to her ear tips.
"I, I..."
"Hoorah!"
Ilta delivered a knight's flying kick, sending Lina flying on the spot, and angrily scolded her.
"You idiot! Don't talk about such forbidden topics to a minor!"
Lina rubbed the rapidly swelling bump on her head, wincing in pain, tears welling up.
"I'm sorry, but I really can't tell if a Pallum is an adult or not!"
"Ultimately, it's the fault of the one who brought this child here!"
In the corner, the Dog-person girl Naza was trembling, hugging her tail.
"Ugh... who, who knew you guys would discuss such explosive things when you got together!"
"Isn't this supposed to be a proper girls' tea party?"
Noin took a sip of her black tea and shook her head helplessly.
"We agreed this was a wives' discussion, why bring these newbies?"
Leyana, without looking up from the book in her hands, said,
"Do you think we didn't warn them? It's just because they were too curious."
Noin glanced around at the girls who were secretly listening intently.
When they saw Noin's gaze, they quickly turned their heads away, pretending, "Oh, I wasn't listening at all."
She was instantly speechless, covering her forehead weakly.
"Is this really a goddess's Familia? ...It won't end up being a Familia where only the goddess is a virgin, will it?"
Alise tossed her hair and clapped her hands, looking serious.
"More importantly, what we should be discussing now is the most crucial matter concerning the future inheritance of the Familia!"
The newbies' hearts skipped a beat, and they quickly sat up straight, preparing to listen carefully to the senior's speech.
However, the older members continued with their own business, as if they hadn't heard this seemingly alarming statement at all.
Sure enough, Alise's next sentence made the newbies' eyes widen and their faces turn crimson.
"Hehe, that's right! Just as you're thinking, it's pregnancy!"
The newbies collectively shouted in their minds.
"Who would think of such a thing?!"
Daphne's half-eaten biscuit clattered to the ground, and she forced a smile.
"A-Alise-senpai, what... what do you mean?"
"Don't you understand such a complex matter yet? Pregnancy means having children!"
"I didn't mean that! I-I mean... why are we suddenly talking about pregnancy?"
Alise put her hands on her hips as a matter of course, an expression of "you're just too young" on her face.
"Everyone will eventually do 'that' with Rhode, right? If so, isn't it for having children?"
"Could it be... that someone does it purely because they find 'that' enjoyable? There couldn't possibly be such a person!"
Kaguya, Laila, Noin... many girls silently averted their gaze.
Daphne's face instantly turned explosively red.
"S-sooner or later... B-but it doesn't have to jump straight to pregnancy! I-I'm not ready to be a mother yet..."
Even compared to her friend next to her, who was almost burying her head in the ground, she was more outgoing.
But hearing such a thing so suddenly, she was still very shocked.
However, even if Alise's statement was a bit outlandish, none of the girls present questioned the first half of her sentence.
In other words, everyone had actually been mentally prepared for a long time and was perfectly content with it.
Alise wagged her finger smugly.
"You are indeed still too naive, not understanding foresight."
She turned her head to Kaguya.
"Kaguya, how many girls in the Far East Country want to dedicate themselves to Rhode?"
Kaguya bit into a dried persimmon, and under the curious and searching gazes of the girls, she pondered for a moment before slowly replying.
"Although I haven't been in contact with the Far East for a long time, if the policies Rhode left behind are still being implemented there..."
"Then, it's more accurate to say that there are no girls in the entire Far East Country who *don't* want to dedicate themselves to Rhode."
"Eh?!"
"T-that exaggerated?"
"Girls from an entire country? Doesn't that mean hundreds of thousands of people?!"
The newbies' eyes widened, and they exclaimed in disbelief.
Kaguya shrugged and chuckled softly.
"Don't look at me like that, I'm not joking."
Her gaze turned eastward, a complex look flashing in her eyes.
"Before Rhode arrived, decay, rigidity, darkness, mire... no number of words could describe the country at that time."
"The upper echelons indulged in nightly revelry, while the lower classes were destitute."
"Until Rhode appeared, he, like a divine descent, forcefully removed all the rotten branches and leaves, revitalizing the entire country and establishing a national policy where everyone could have enough to eat and wear."
"Rhode's status in the hearts of the people there is absolutely the most supreme existence."
Kaguya withdrew her gaze, looking at the glowing admiration and longing for their Captain in the newbies' eyes, and chuckled teasingly.
"In the center of the Far East Country, just point in any direction."
"As long as Rhode visits, the male head of the household will be ecstatic to offer his beloved wife, cherished daughter, respected elder sister... and even those who are offered will only be so moved and grateful that they cry~"
The tips of the Elf Xifen's ears turned a cute red, and she couldn't help but raise her hand, asking curiously,
"Um... did Lord Rhode ever do that?"
"No, he didn't. After all, he's quite particular. Unless you find him a complete Amazonian country, he might play like that, but such a country probably doesn't exist."
Hearing this, the newbies, instead of being happy that the image of their magnificent and righteous Rhode was preserved, all showed expressions of regret.
Seeing this, Kaguya's mouth twitched slightly.
These newbies, each seemingly pure on the surface, didn't seem so proper on the inside...
After some thought, Kaguya still seriously answered Alise's question.
"If we only consider those who Rhode would find appealing, putting aside the goddesses, there are currently at least three thousand active and five to six thousand reserve members."
"And as time passes, this number will only grow."
The newbies were still shocked by this number, feeling immense pressure and fierce competition.
Alise couldn't help but click her tongue, then looked at Laila.
"What about the City of Sinners?"
Laila's face showed an unwilling expression, and she sighed.
"Our situation is special there. Although if Rhode were to ask, all women would certainly throw themselves at him, but..."
"Aside from newborns, that place has very few people who meet Rhode's standards of purity."
"Counting them, there are only about five thousand now."
"Only..."
How did those two words get linked to five thousand people?
The newbies almost failed to maintain their expressions.
Alise's expression became extremely serious, and she held up one finger.
"So, let's set it at ten thousand for now!"
"Even if we calculate four times a day for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert, it would take almost seven years for each person to get one turn!"
"This means! If everyone doesn't get pregnant on their first try, the chance of challenging the Great Demon King again in a short time is almost zero!"
The newbies all froze for a moment, then couldn't help but actually start thinking seriously about it.
At first, everyone thought this topic was a bit ridiculous. But with Alise putting it that way, it seemed... there actually was some truth to it!
A strange sense of urgency rose in the girls' hearts.
Aisha crossed her arms over her chest and raised a crucial question.
"I don't doubt Rhode's stamina, but the question is, does he really want children?"
Alise waved her hand grandly, full of heroic spirit.
"That's not important. Whether he wants them or not, it doesn't stop us from being prepared!"
Aisha was rendered speechless on the spot.
Iska leaned against a tree trunk, shaking her head speechlessly.
"That's truly an Alise-style statement..."
Then the girls began to discuss content that made the newbies blush and feel like they were sitting on pins and needles.
Selty pinched her chin, pondered for a moment, then said,
"I seem to have read in some book that after battle, standing on your head seems to increase the chances of success a little."
Maliu, holding a heavy marshmallow in both hands, looked distressed upon hearing this.
"Eh... do I have to stand on my head for a long time afterwards? That's so hard for me."
"Although my stamina is okay, this thing... it blocks my vision, and it's heavy and very inconvenient..."
Most of the girls present fell into a momentary silence.
Then, they tacitly ignored Maliu's statement.
The Elf Xifen, however, seemed to have suffered a great humiliation. She abandoned her respect for her seniors, and indignantly raised a long loaf of bread high, like a brave saintess about to embark on a fierce battlefield!
"My spear has been blunted by the heavy rain, and my warhorse has rusted, but my charge is an Argo-style charge!"
"Enemy named Great Thunder, I will fight you for three hundred rounds! Three hundred rounds!"
After speaking, Xifen was about to raise her "spear" and charge towards Maliu, shouting!
Susia and Xifen, who were nearby, quickly held onto her legs tightly, desperately trying to persuade her.
"Don't do this! Xifen, don't do this!"
"Yeah, calm down! At least don't fight when there are so many people!"
"That's right! It's wise to challenge a great enemy after we've leveled up and gained the power to fight back!"
Seeing the trio of elves openly plotting how to strike a sneak attack, the usually quiet Asta nearby couldn't help but twitch her eyelids.
She sighed with a complex expression.
"Have all the once-in-a-millennium idiots in the Elf race been selected to join us...?"
The red-haired Nalvi was an honest child, out of place among the group of people with peculiar thought processes, and was seriously trying to mediate.
"Everyone, don't fight. The goddesses won't allow it!"
Then, no sooner had she spoken than the bright moon hanging high above Orario suddenly dispersed all the surrounding clouds, casting incredibly dazzling moonlight upon everyone.
The girls couldn't help but cover their eyes with their hands, astonished.
"Strange, is it a full moon today? Was the moon ever this bright before?"
"Tonight's moon is really bright, big, and white."
"Are you sure you're really talking about the moon?"
The moonlight falling on Xifen was like a holy robe, and with the two elves clutching her legs on the ground, it strongly resembled the famous painting 'Liberty Leading the People'.
Xifen herself was stunned for a moment, then her expression immediately changed, her chuunibyou spirit burning fiercely, and she shouted excitedly.
"That's right! This must be Goddess Artemis, who presides over chastity and the moon, acknowledging and blessing me!"
"I will inherit her will and vow to be an enemy to all big perverts in the world!"
As an elder of the Elf race, Selty finally couldn't bear it anymore. She fiercely threw the book in her hand at Xifen's head.
"Idiot! You are now a familiar of Goddess Hestia!"
And so, the banner of freedom, raised in defiance of big perverts, was cruelly broken just as it was unfurled.
After a period of playful bickering, everyone returned to their previous topic.