Hello everyone it's time for a new chapter. Last chapter was all about putting the harem together for an official relationship which included Aiz, Hestia, and Lili. Who will be next?

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POV: You

Part 1.

It's been about a week since I started training with Aiz. She said that we could only train till her next expedition which is later today. In this past week Syr has been added to the harem, let's just say that it's a story for another day...that day was something....anyway It's early morning, me and Aiz are in the wall again. After our training, me and her were just relaxing a bit. We sat against the small wall on top of the wall, she sat on my right with her head against my chest.

"(Y/n)?" Aiz says.

"What is it Aiz?"

"Why do so many girls like you?" She flat out asks me.

"I don't have clue exactly why, but protecting them is my number one priority" I tell her.

"Even me?"

"Of course, even though you are a lot stronger than me and can protect your self just fine, when I need to protect you I will" I say.

She turns her head to look at me "I love you (Y/n)" she says with a smile.

"I love you too" I say back.

"I really want to know what Tonia and Tonie have been telling Aiz about relationships because she can say I love you with a smile like she's told me that phrase for years, yet she shows almost no emotion to no one else but me"

"I've been asked out 50 times. Though I declined them all" She says.

"But ironically you asked me"

"If I didn't you probably wouldn't of asked me" She tells me

"Fair point"

"I'll miss you while I'm on my expedition" She tells me as she hugs me and puts her head in my chest.

"I'll miss you too Aiz"

"Promise me you won't die while I'm gone"

"I promise you I won't die period" I tell her "The same goes for you as well Aiz"

"I won't let anything happen to me (Y/n)"

"I know you won't Aiz" I say.

She leans up to my face and gives me a gentle kiss with her soft lips that haven't been touched by anyone but me. This was our 2nd kiss and was blissful since both could enjoy the simple kiss, It felt magical in a way.
She pulls away and we both open our eyes. She gives me a smile and stands up. I stand up as well and she grabs her sword.

"Hey Aiz, there's something I want to give you" I say to her.

"What is it?" She replied.

"Well..." I then pulled out a small silver band out of my pocket "I know it's nothing really of value but I wanted to give you this ring so that when your in the dungeon, everytime you look at it you can think of me and the others" I say.

She takes the ring and puts it on her left middle finger. She smiles once again before kissing me on the cheek

"I need to go back to my familia, I'll see you soon (Y/n)" Aiz says before walking off.

As I grabbed my small bag and when I touched it a sense of danger coming close ran through me, but not close as in distance but as in time.

I got off the wall and started walking towards the Hostess of Feetility with that sense of danger lingering inside my mind. I was going to get my lunch from Syr before heading home to get Lili so we can head into the dungeon. I got to the Hostess of Fertility and opened the door.

"(Y/n) your here!" I hear Syr say with panic in her voice.

"Yeah, why wouldn't I be here? I came to get my lunch" I replied.

She runs up to me and takes my left arm and hugs it "I want you" She tells me forwardly. She then starts pulling me.

"Don't you think we're moving too quick, like extremely quick" I tell her.

I then see what she was actually talking about. She had pulled me into the kitchen where the sink was and here was an entire mountain of dishes inside the sink .

"That's what you want me for!" I say.

Syr nods before trying to act cute "Can you please do them for me (Y/n)?"

"What happened?" I asked while crossing my arms.

"Well... I kinda slacked off during wor- I mean break. Your lunch will be ready for you when your finished" Syr then goes off to do something. I sigh before starting the dishes.

"First thing she wants me to do as her boyfriend is do the dishes for her" I sigh.

"This is too much, it's going to take you too long" I hear Ryuu say as she walks up next to me "Let me help" Me and Ryuu started to do the dishes together "So you and Syr are together?"

"Yeah, though it's more of a harem" I say.

"A harem? It looks like girls see the good qualities in you" She replied.

"The good qualities? What good qualities?" I question.

"Syr said that, talk about boys stays between girls" she states "She's actually been talking about you a lot the past few days"

"Really? I never thought there was anything that interesting about me except that I'm an adventurer" I say.

"I guess girls say other wise" Ryuu says.

After a moment or two of silence I spoke up "So Ryuu, were you an adventurer before?, I'm just asking due to your sometimes cold personality"

"I was once, that's in the past now. Were you truly wanting to know because you want to level up faster?"
She says.

"No not really. I truly wanted to know more about you" I tell her and her cheeks become a very faint pink "I already know that if I want to level up faster I need to work hard, kill strong monsters, and adventure"

"I couldn't of said it any simpler" Ryuu says.

We continued to talk for a bit and next thing we knew we had finished all the dishes. We put the dishes away and it was time for me to go, I need to get home to Lili before they both kill me. I then looked at the clock on the wall.

"It's only 7?, I'm in the clear"

I grab my bag and tried to find Syr for my lunch but to only be stopped by Ryuu.

"(Y/n)"

"Yes Ryuu, what do you need?" I question.

"I heard some rumors last night about some adventurers getting attacked by something unusually dangerous on the early floors, so please be careful and keep your guard up" She tells me.

"I will, thanks for the heads up Ryuu" I say.

"Not a problem" she replied before walking back into the kitchen.

"What we're you talking to Ryuu about?" I hear Syr say from behind me, scaring me half to death.

"Holy fuck, don't do that again Syr" I say abouts I turned to her.

"Sorry" she says trying to be cute about it.

"Ryuu was just giving me a heads up about something odd in the dungeon" I tell her.

"I see, well here you go" She says and hands me my lunch box.

"Thanks Syr" I say with a smile.

She gives me a kiss out of now where and says "Have a good day at work honey"

"Seriously?" I question.

"I've always wanted to say that" She tells me.

"I'll see you later" I say with a wave as I start walking out of the tavern.

"Bye" She said as she waved back.

Once I walked out of the tavern I found Lili sitting on the bench I front of the tavern, ready for work. She then turns and sees me.

"Ready for work?" She asks.

"Yup, ready" I say.

Part. 2

Me and Lili had made it to floor 9. I had basalarge on green supporter while I had hestia knife on my lower back and my back up knife in my belt pouch. I had used my two healing potions on some adventurers on the floor above who were injured. There was something off about the floor, there were no monsters but it felt like something was watching us. I then stopped as I went on high alert.

"Is there something wrong (Y/n)?" Lili ask me.

"Don't tell me you don't feel that, like someone's watching us" I replied.

"I know, this floor is totally giving me the creeps" She says.

"Where's all the monsters, is like there's something bigger here that scared them all away"

We then heard a roar come from behind us, we turned around to see a minotaur. It had red skin and red eyes, about 2 times bigger then a normal one and drug a huge long sword in one hand.

"What the hell"

"Why is there a minotaur on floor 9?" Lili questions with a shaky voice "Let's run (Y/n), it's too dangerous with that long sword"

"No, We have to fight it" I say.

"We can't risk our lives so you can level up faster" Lili states.

"It's not about that. If we don't kill it then just imagine how many people it will kill or severally injure before someone can kill it. Who knows how many people it's killed and injured already. I'd rather risk my life to kill this thing so that it doesn't kill others" I tell her.

"Fine then" She says.

The minotaur lifts the sword and tries to hit us "Watch out!" I shout then grabbed Lili and jumped out of the way. We landed on the hard ground and Lili's Head was hit by a big rock after the minotaur hit a stalagmite that was near us "Lili, You you okay?" I asked as I touch where she was hit.

"I'm fine...go kill that thing" She says then kisses me.

We separate from the kiss "I promise, I will kill it"

I took her pack off of her then laid her against a stalagmite before running in front of the minotaur. I pulled out basalarge off of green supporter and held it in my left hand. I charged at the minotaur with basalarge, I went to slice at its neck but it put the sword up to block it.

"The fuck?"

The minotaur started pushing back at me with his sword. I gripped basalarge with both hands now pushing him back. It then pushes me back with both hands on his word, making me lose balance. Then it brings its sword down on me as I was regaining my balance, I quickly gripped basalarge with both hands and tried to block the attack. The sword broke basalarge almost instantly before hitting green supporter and putting a crack in the gauntlet.

"Thanks for saving my arm Eina"

I dropped the handle of the broken dagger and extended my hand out before using firebolt. The lightning bolt of fire hits the minotaur in the face but doesn't kill it, instead I pissed it off more. Out of nowhere it uses its arm and back hands me hard as hell. I go flying into a wall like a ball being hit by a bat. On impact, all my armor broke off of me. The armor took most of the force on impact, leaving me with no broken bones.

"Thank you Welf Crozo for making that armor"

I pushed myself off the ground and onto my feet, while feeling a slight pain in my back "Holy hell that hurt"

There was some blood coming from my lip and I wipe it off. I grabbed both hestia knife and my back up knife, holding one in each hand. The minotaur roars loud then starts giving me a barrage of swings from the sword which I successfully evade every time.

"He's going to get me sooner or later if I continue to evade"

After the minotaur did another combo of attacks, it then brings it's sword down on me but I side step it before taking my chance to attack. I used my back up knife to cut up its right arm then stabbed it in the neck with hestia knife but that didn't do anything. It threw me over it's shoulder while hestia knife was still stuck in its neck. I stabbed my backup knife into the ground as I landed before rushing towards the minotaur. It had already turned back to me and prepared its sword. It swung the sword sideways and I slid under it before quickly jumping over the minotaur while grabbing hestia knife out of its neck. I landed behind it and before it could turn around I stabbed both knives into the minotaur's back. I repeatedly did combos of stabs and slashed before the minotaur had enough. When I mean 'had enough 'I mean that he was able to back hand me into a stalagmite about 50 feet away.

"Damn it"

My vision had become fuzzy while my hearing had become distorted by a constant ringing in my ears. I could feel a pain on the back of my head. I go and touch the spot where it hurt, I look at that hand and I see that it was painted red.

"(Y/n)!!" I heard someone shout along with rushing footsteps.

Images then started flashing in my mind. Horrible images, all with one thing in common, Death. People with slash's all over their bodies and blood everywhere, adventurers and civilians alike. Then the last image was the worst, it stayed for what felt like hours. Everyone I loved and cared about were dead on the cold ground, covered in blood. Standing above there corpses was the minotaur with the sword.

"I won't let this happen!, I won't let anyone die!!!"

The image burned away and I stood up from the ground. All the pain was gone, and I felt power coursing through me. I wasn't focasing or paying attention to anything but the minotaur. I picked up both of my knives and ran at the minotaur. It swung at me but I blocked the blade with my back up knife. It quickly pulled it away and went in for another swing and I dodged it.

"Firebolt!" I shouted as I threw my backup knife at the minotaur.

My backup knife got covered in fiery lighting from firebolt and flew at the minotaur like an arrow at a rapid pace before hitting the minotaur in the right eye. It roared in pain and I could see the minotaur grip it's sword tighter with one hand. It took my back up knife out of its eye and threw it to the side, breaking it against a wall.

"Your kind just don't like dying now do they" I grunted.

I rushed at it, ready to strike, everyone I attacked it blocked my strike, like it was learning my moves. It blocks another of my stacks but I let his sword slide off of hestia knife. With all the force it was putting onto it's sword, it had become unbalanced. I grabbed it's right arm which it was using to hold the sword and stabbed hestia knife into his wrist.

"Do you sense the Deja vu?" I asked the minotaur before cutting it's hand off.

The sword dropped to the ground and the minotaur stumbled backwards. I quickly grabbed the sword and slashed a deep wound across the minotaur's chest. It roared again before stepping back away from me. Blood from the minotaur was covering me and sprayed across the top of my face. The minotaur got down on all fours like it was going to charge at me, it was going to charge even if it had lost a hand.

I gripped the sword tightly "In the name of Hestia, the Goddess of the Hearth!, I will rid you from the Earth!!"

Me and the minotaur ran towards each other and when we got close enough I swing the sword upwards, catching on its left horn. It pulled the minotaur upwards onto it's feet before breaking it off. I pulled the sword back before plunging it into the minotaur's somach.

"FIREBOLT!!!"

A masive surge of fiery lightning was sent into the minotaur through the sword. Deep red fire shot out of all the wounds I had created on its body, the minotaur was being resilient against it.

"YOU WANT MORE!, FIREBOLT!!!!!!"

Then all I could see was black.

POV: Aiz

Me and my familia were walking down to floor 18 for our expedition. We had just arrived on floor 9 and it was quite quiet except for the sound of metal clashing together.

"Are there 2 adventurers fighting or something?" Tonie questions.

"I doubt it, that wouldn't be able to explain why their are no monsters on this floor so far" Riviera says.

Then a short girl ran up to us, she had blood on her head. It was the girl that was (Y/n)'s supporter, he had introduced me to her a few days ago. I believe her name was Lili. She then looks at me.

"Ms. Wallenstein I need your help, my master risk in danger!" Lili says.

"Lead the way" I say and I follow her.

"Hold on Aiz, wait up!" Tione says as I ran with Lili.

The rest of my familia followed as Lili led the way to (Y/n).

"Does (Y/n) have anything to deal with that clashing of metal were hearing?"

We then hear the sound of something being thrown against a wall. Lili then stops and in front of us was a minotaur wielding a sword. It was red and about twice the size of a normal minotaur. Lili was looking around trying to find (Y/n), she then sees him.

"(Y/n)!!" She shouts as she started running to our right.

I look at where she was running and I see (Y/n), he was sitting up against a stalagmite with no armor and tattered clothes. His right hand was covered in blood.

"Isn't that the tomato dude?" Bete says.

"You mean the one that almost threw a knife at your face?" Tiona questions.

Riviera starts making her way to him and I put my hand on desperate, about to pull it out of its sheath. I looked back to (Y/n) and we all see him sparking. Small bolts of orange lighting sparked all over his body. It was suttle at first with a few bolts here and there but withing seconds it was like he was the center of a lighting storm with bolts all surging over his body. He grabbed his knives and ran at the minotaur before starting to fight it again.

"What just happened to him? Is he using overhaul magic?" Riviera questions.

"That isn't possible, that would require for a god to give him that kind of power, even if it was overhaul magic it would be a glowing aura not sparks" Finn says.

(Y/n) was on par with the minotaur which had some how learned to use a sword. The minotaur had strength on its side while (Y/n) had strength and speed.

"Hey Aiz, your boyfriend is hotter than I remember" Tiona quietly tells me.

"Maybe it's because he's sorta on fire" I told her.

She shook her head "I didn't mean it like that, I meant his appearance" She said as we watched (Y/n) fight "His muscles, chiseled body, and other things"

"I don't think I understand, what does his appearance have to do with temperature?" I say.

"Well talk about it later" Tiona says.

(Y/n) had cut the right hand of the minotaur off and slashed a few deep cuts into the chest of the minotaur with its won sword. The two stood apart from each other, the minotaur was in a charging position while (Y/n) gripped the sword, then he spoke.

"In the name of Hestia, the Goddess of the Hearth!-" He said and I felt something invisible pass through me, I looked at the others and they had felt the same thing, even Lili "-I will rid you from the Earth!!"

He charges at the minotaur and the thencharged at him. He swung the sword upwards, catching it on the minotaurs left horn. It brought the minotaur onto two feet and broke the horn before he stabbed the sword into the minotaur's stomach. He then used firebolt, which shot fire into the minotaur through the sword, making red flames shoot out of the wounds he had inflicted onto the minotaur. It didn't take the minotaur down so he did it again but shot more fire into the minotaur. He had put so much power into the attack that he had made the entire top half of the minotaur explode before the rest of its body dissappeared into a close of white smoke that made it look like it was snowing above him. He had dropped the sword but he just stood there.

"He actually pulled it off" Bete said in disbelief.

"(Y/n)?" Lili called out with no response.

"I think he passed out standing up" Tione says.

"It's mind zero.." I say.

We all started walking up to (Y/n) as he stood there unconcious. As we saw his him shirtless we saw his familia mark on his back, It was the Hearth that is said that goddess Hestia watched and protected.

"Hold up, check his stats" Bete says with curiosity.

Though he wasn't the only one that was curious on what his stats were. Riveria went up to (Y/n) and looked at his back and just stared at his states.

"Riveria!, so what's he got?" Bete says.

Riveria then looks at us "Well, his abilities are all level S"

Everyone was shocked but more or less I wasn't that much, I was more happy for him than anything else.

"Aiz, what's this guy's name?" Finn asks me.

"(Y/n), (Y/n) (L/n)" I say with a small smile "and he's the one I'm in love with"

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Hello everyone this us the end of the chapter. I hope you guys enjoyed the chapter. Sorry for the long waits on the chapter updates. I hope the quality can compensate for that a bit but I still want to apologize. Until next time bye.