Chapter:34 “A Goddess’s Curiosity” - Is it wrong for a Godslayer to Have a harem goddesses

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He shook his head. If anything, it had only left him with more questions. If she'd known what he was, then clearly she had had some part to play in his sudden arrival in Orario, though he doubted she could've orchestrated the whole thing. It disturbed him that he'd been dragged into some strange, unknown third-party's schemes yet again.

"So you'll be going back in again some time soon, I suppose," Mama Mia said, the beginnings of a frown starting to appear on her face.

"Sorry," he said. "But I have to." Given a choice, he'd rather not skimp on his work, but he couldn't leave this matter alone. "Have you ever been to the Fifty-ninth Floor, Mama Mia?" According to the Loki Familia, Aiz had some strange connection to the tamer, and she'd been told to meet her on that particular Floor to answer questions of her own.

"No, I haven't." Mama Mia said, her voice becoming a tad more serious. "But past the Fiftieth Floor and the Dungeon becomes a very dangerous place. Even the most seasoned adventurers will be overwhelmed if they let down their guard. Though..." she nudged her head to where the Loki Familia, including their goddess, were sitting at, their eyes blatantly glued to him. "From the rumors I've been hearing all day, you shouldn't have a problem there."

Godou didn't know whether to groan or be thankful. On one hand, Finn, Shakti, and the rest had agreed to keep whatever they'd seen a secret but the rest of the Floor had still seen enough to know that there was someone in Orario who had some really unorthodox and powerful abilities. On the other hand, if Finn knew, there wasn't a shred of doubt in his mind that Loki knew, and the goddess was now ogling him like he was a chunk of meat.

"Rumors," he said. "That's all they are."

"Sure," Mama Mia said, then she laughed and walked away.

Unfortunately, her exit must have given Loki her cue to make an entrance, because the red-haired goddess slid into the seat next to him and batted her eyelashes at him shamelessly.

"No," he said immediately.

"No, what?" she asked, her voice sounding too innocent as she feigned confusion.

"I'm not joining your Familia."

"I'm not here for that," the girl, adopting a triumphant look when Godou couldn't keep his surprise in.

He narrowed his eyes for a second.

Loki beamed at him. "I want to thank you! Surely, you wouldn't say no to that?"

He blinked. "What for?" he asked, starting to almost feel suspicious.

"For protecting Aiz! Finn said you protected her from the tamer. Aiz is my favorite, and if I lost her, I would be really upset."

The goddess was all smiles for now, but Godou could see the flicker of insecurity in her eyes. She meant every word, even if she pretended to put up a jovial front. Honestly, that little part of the day was something he'd almost forgotten.

"It was nothing." Godou shrugged. "I was just passing by and I saw her in trouble, that's all."

"Passing by?" Loki raised an eyebrow. "You don't just 'pass by' the Eighteenth Floor of the Dungeon. What were you doing there in the first place?"

Godou gave her a look. "Are you here to thank me or interrogate me?"

She smiled. "Why can't I do both? I've still got a lot more questions."

Godou frowned. He wished he could get drunk.

"Godou." Loki's voice turned soft. "Have you ever heard of a God called Verethragna?"

It was a good thing that Godou prepared himself beforehand, or might have spat beer all over Loki's face. Acting natural, he casually said, "can't say I have. Why? Is he causing trouble in Orario?"

"No," Loki said, and Godou internally heaved a sigh of relief when she found nothing amiss. "He's a God of Victory. The last I checked, he was still in Heaven."

"Oh. Then what's he got anything to do with all this?"

"He's got a pet Boar. He can use his Arcana to summon it and it will flatten everything in its path."

Godou gulped. He hadn't expected this. The gods here were so different from those in his old world that he never expected that their Authorities and their Arcana to overlap.

He immediately straightened when he saw her coy look. "I'm not Verethragna," he declared flatly. The last thing he wanted was to be associated with that haughty battlemaniac.

Loki burst into laughter. "You should've seen your face! Come on Godou, did you honestly think I mistook you for a God?"

Now Godou felt a little bit stupid.

"But I am curious though, to know where you gained such an ability. The similarity it bears with a God's Arcana is quite disturbing. Is it a magic spell?"

"I'd rather not say," Godou said frankly.

"You know that trying to keep it a secret is only going to make me want to dig more, right?" Loki said mischievously.

"Dig all you want. You won't find anything," Godou said confidently. The answer was not in this world, after all.

"I suppose the same goes for the rest of your powers? The mini-hurricane? The talking sword?"

Godou kept quiet, fully aware that Loki was just trying to bait out more information from him.

"You're no fun," Loki said, pouting. She took a swig from the mug in her hand, throwing a glance at his half-filled one. "Hurry up and finish that. I want to buy you a drink as a thank you for helping Aiz."

Taking a small sip, Godou shook his head. "You don't have to, really. Besides, I can't get drunk, so there's no point."

"Can't get drunk?" Loki said skeptically. "I hear that a lot, but..." she trailed off, looking at a bunch of obviously inebriated adventurers chortling at a nearby table.

"I really can't," Godou insisted. It was true. Even poisons didn't really work very well on his body.

"Does it have something to do with you being a...what did Finn call it...Campione?"

Loki had thrown out the word casually, but Godou had had half a mind to clamp over her mouth with his hands the moment she uttered the word.

"Please don't call me that," Godou said quite seriously. It felt disturbing when a God said it.

"Sorry," Loki said sheepishly. "Finn asked me if I knew what it meant, but I've never heard of the term in my life which, mind you, is almost as old as time itself."

Godou wasn't surprised. A mortal killing a God was something he'd assumed had never happened in this world, and he certainly didn't want to be the first person to try.

"I have to introduce you to the wine Souma makes one day," Loki said, more to herself than to him, signalling a chance to end the conversation.

Taking the opportunity to change the topic, Godou threw out a question that he'd been pondering about for a while. "Loki, what's Heaven like?"

Loki looked up and tilted her head. "What do you mean? For mortals or for Gods?"

He thought about it. "Gods."

Loki made a repulsed face. "Icky."

Godou blinked.

"Do you know in our natural states, Gods don't have bodies?" She made a scattering motion with her hands. "We're kind of like...all over the place, like a cloud of thought. In that sense, I guess it's because we're immortal. Our real bodies are actually just corporeal forms our consciousness conjures up to collect most of our essence into one place. But even then..." She shuddered. "I never realized how convenient it is to have a real body. I feel so..." She poked her a finger into her belly. "Alive."

Godou laughed. "So this body is all flesh and blood?"

She nodded. "Yeah. It's a mortal body, so it can't actually fit all our power inside, otherwise it would just spontaneously combust. Only our consciousness is stuck here. Our raw magical power is stuck somewhere else, I'm not sure where, but we can access it and draw on it, but then this body might get destroyed and I'd have to return to Heaven."

"Do Gods ever fight in Heaven?" he asked.

Loki rolled her eyes. "All the time. I like it here. It's peaceful and quiet. No God wants to raise trouble and get sent back to Heaven. And I say-" she suddenly stopped talking, narrowing her eyes until they became thin lines. "Hey! Aren't I supposed to be interrogating you?"

Godou grinned. "Well it's too late. You've lost your chance."

The goddess put her hands to her hips. "One more question."

"Fine."

The goddess clasped his hands using hers, and flashed him a most charming smile that only accentuated her pretty facial features. For a moment, Godou felt his breath hitch up in his throat. It figured that even the mortal bodies of gods would be divinely beautiful.

oin my Familia?"

"No," Godou said, trying to resist a smile. Some things never changed.

Unfortunately, some already had.