Hundreds of thousands of people watching the livestream were stunned for a moment. Soon, every street in Orario was filled with shouts and comments about what they had just seen.
"This is the first time I've seen a god display their power to that extent!"
"Are the other gods as strong as Eiji-sama? With a single punch, he can obliterate mountains in the distance!"
"Ottar was killed in a single punch!"
"Hiss! Eiji-sama is so strong!"
"Is my god that strong too if he doesn't seal his power?"
"That's possible! After all, we don't know how strong the gods' full power is."
"Gosh! Does that mean Goddess Hestia, who used to sell Jagamarukun, is that strong too!?"
"I used to make fun of her height. If she wanted to, she could blow my head off with a single punch, right? Scary!"
Aside from talking about Eiji, many people also began to question the power of the gods and goddesses they knew.
That's normal.
For thousands of years, only a few people in the lower world (in ancient times) had ever witnessed the gods' destructive power firsthand.
Before this, most of them revered the gods simply because they were the only entities capable of bestowing Falna—blessings in the form of power, status, and magical abilities. Without these blessings, the people of the Underworld were merely ordinary beings who wouldn't be able to survive against the monsters inside the Dungeon.
"Forget Eiji, but Hestia? Her punch isn't that hard." Amid the crowd, Aphrodite felt amused. "That short one can only unleash enough holy fire to burn Orario and the surrounding area."
"That sounds terrifying. What about you, Aphrodite? Can you also destroy a city or a region?" Harmonia asked curiously.
Aphrodite was silent for a moment before pretending to cough, "Ahem! As the Goddess of Beauty, my power is my charm. I can brainwash everyone here."
She said that in a soft voice. Otherwise, the people around her might look at her with fear.
Aphrodite thought of herself as a wise and very kind goddess. Her words also avoided the fact that Hestia was stronger than her. However, Harmonia's next question annoyed her.
"Is Eiji among those people?"
"....."
"Sorry, I shouldn't have asked a question whose answer is obvious."
"Harmonia, respect your goddess!"
Aphrodite glared at the orange-haired woman.
Harmonia turned her face to the side and covered her mouth with one hand. She could see her shoulders shaking—she was clearly holding back a laugh!
This woman...
She's been getting bolder in mocking her goddess ever since they left the Seiya Familia's house.
This is Eiji's fault! He rejected her, but accepted Freya and made her lose face in front of Harmonia!
Right now, Hermes has announced that the winner of the battle is the Seiya Familia.
Even though the projection of the Divine Mirror has vanished, Aphrodite can imagine how Freya threw herself at that man.
Her expression turned sour; she was annoyed but also felt bitter.
'Damn it! Eiji, you'll regret rejecting this goddess and choosing a bitch like Freya instead. Hmph!'
Aphrodite thought that even though she was a bitch herself.
Back to the battlefield.
"Ais, thank you for your help." Eiji had withdrawn his shadow soldiers and spoke to the blonde woman in front of him.
"I didn't help much, Eiji. Even without me, you could have defeated the Freya Familia on your own." Ais didn't change her expression, but there was a slight blush on her cheeks when she saw the smile Eiji gave her.
After witnessing Eiji's previous punch, Ais's admiration for him grew even further.
She knew he was a god.
So instead of seeing him as her hero, she now wanted to become strong enough to serve him, because he was her god!
However, what was with her heart beating so fast right now?
Ais didn't know.
"That's true, but your presence motivates me even more, Ais."
"My presence… motivates you?"
What Eiji said confused her, but she was also happy.
Eiji nodded and placed his hand on Ais's shoulder. "Yes, if you weren't here... I actually just would've let my shadow soldiers wipe out the Freya Familia. I'm too lazy to use my own hands and feet."
"That..." Ais didn't know what to say.
Miss System: Tell her you're a slacker, and that you work hard when there are beautiful women around you. In short, you just want to show off.
Eiji: I feel like Miss System is thinking something rude about me. It must just be my imagination.
Shortly after, Eiji told Ais that he would teleport her back to Orario.
Ais didn't agree right away and asked, "What about him?" Eiji said he would meet Freya, who was waiting at the temple, first.
"Can I come with you?"
Ais asked with a pleading look.
How could Eiji possibly refuse?
He was actually happy because Ais acted like a woman who knew her crush was going to meet another woman.
She wanted to accompany him to make sure what they were going to do.
She was jealous.
[Your EQ is so high, our King!]
'You're praising me too much, Leme. I'm a little embarrassed.'
Leme: Really?
Eiji agreed to let Ais come along with him, but before they left. Two members of the Freya Familia approached them.
Among the surviving members of the Freya Familia, their injuries were the least severe.
Is that a coincidence?
"Eiji-sama, please wait!"
One of them was Heith.
And the other was Horn; she looked at Eiji with a complicated expression.
Ais frowned and kept a wary eye on the two women. She gripped the hilt of her sword just in case.
Eiji casually asked, "Who are you two?"
"I'm Heith, and the woman next to me…"
Horn interrupted the pink-haired woman with a frown, "I'm Horn."
Did Eiji really not know who she was?
Her hairstyle was different and her clothes were different too, but her face clearly resembled the woman he had fucked!
She was Syr Flova.
Eiji glanced at Horn with amusement, then quickly shifted his gaze to Heith. Because her clothes were in tatters, he could see her cleavage and her slender stomach.
This woman is as beautiful as Syr—I mean, Horn.
And in the original story, Eiji remembered that Heith was one of the women who liked Bell. But because of her loyalty to her goddess, she never competed for him.
As for how Bell felt about Heith? Needless to say. As the protagonist of the Fake Harem series, he certainly isn't interested in other women, and is only obsessed with one woman's butt (Ais).
"What do you want to talk to me about?" Eiji had plans for the two women in front of him, but he wasn't in a hurry and wanted to know what they wanted.
He might be able to use this opportunity to get them in his pocket.
Miss System: Do you think they're Pokémon? Where are your Poké Balls?
Heith suddenly bent over at a 45-degree angle; her rather large breasts swayed with the movement. "Eiji-sama, please let me continue to follow Freya-sama! If you agree, I... I'll also serve you in any way, including in bed!"
Her ears turned red as she said the last part.
Horn also bowed and said, "I also want to continue following Freya-sama and don't mind serving you as well, Eiji-sama."
Eiji held back a smirk and a laugh. He knew Heith was very loyal to Freya, and the same went for Horn. But the latter seemed to have said that because she had an idea about him.
The proof could be seen in their respective positive levels.
[Heith: 71 (Admiring your power and liking your appearance, she thinks it wouldn't be so bad if she had to serve you in order to follow her goddess.)]
[Horn: 99 (Ever since you took her virginity, she's fallen in love with you, and her feelings have continued to grow until she's become as obsessed with you like her goddess.)]
Women's actions can be deceiving, but these numbers aren't!
'Who are you trying to fool with your act, Syr? Oh no, should I call you Horn? You want to serve me just to keep following Freya? You didn't mention that you also want to taste my cock again.'
Eiji said, "Yare-yare."
"...?" Ais was confused about what the two women in front of her wanted. I mean, regarding the last part of what they said.
She wasn't happy either, and felt a little regret that she hadn't killed Horn earlier.
Artoria didn't just teach Ais her sword skills; she also taught her to kill people on the battlefield who might become her enemies.
Unfortunately, Ais was still too naive.
She didn't even know Horn had slept with her god.
"Freya is truly lucky to have two women like you as members of her familia. Alright, for her sake... I'll make an exception for the two of you."
Eiji said without a hint of shame.
Miss System rolled her eyes, and Leme burst out laughing.
Heith and Horn were happy that Eiji didn't turn them down. After learning that Eiji was going to meet Freya, they wanted to follow him.
Eiji didn't refuse, and that's why a few moments later—
"Eiji! I'm glad you're okay, hmm?"
Seeing Eiji enter the shrine, Freya ran toward him and wanted to hug him, but she froze when she saw the women she recognized following him.
There was confusion on her beautiful face.
"I understand why Ais came here with you too. But Eiji, why did you bring Heith and Horn too?"
Heith and Horn's lips twitched.
They were a little sad because Freya didn't seem very happy about their arrival.
"It's for you, Freya."
"For me?"
Freya was confused.
Eiji naturally wrapped his arm around Freya's white, soft shoulder before saying, "In the end, I wasn't cruel enough to make you leave all your familia members behind. So, I made an exception for Heith and Horn. Are you happy?"
"I..."
Freya actually wanted to ask why, out of all the members of her familia, Eiji had only made an exception for Heith and Horn. Of course, she suspected he did it simply because they were the two most beautiful women in her familia.
Even if it was Heith and Horn, she wasn't happy and didn't want to share the man she liked with them.
But seeing Eiji's smile and gentle gaze, Freya swallowed the words she was thinking and forced a smile.
"I'm happy, of course."
For his sake, she had to compromise and be willing to be cuckolded by two members of her own familia.
The male gods out there might cry if they knew how humble Freya was right now.
They were so jealous of Eiji, but they also wanted to be his disciples.
How could he casually add two women to his harem and not get a single slap in the face!?
That's truly amazing!
"I knew you'd be happy, Freya."
When Eiji said that, the sunlight streaming in through the temple's gaping ceiling illuminated his face, making his handsomeness reach an even more extreme level.
Freya, Ais, Heith, and Horn blushed. All the complaints in their hearts vanished, because this man was just too handsome.
Eiji was grateful for his appearance in this life; at least his face still bore the same features as himself in his previous life.
Thanks also to the harem halo!
Harem Halo: (>....<)
Without it, his backyard would have burned down long ago.
There are also many knives embedded in his body, and he might end up just like the protagonist from School Days.
'Miss System, Leme, thank you for accompanying me and helping me this far!'
[Miss System: Why are you suddenly talking like a protagonist who has reached the epilogue? Please don't joke about things like that, host.]
[Leme: Ahahaha! Our king, Leme will always be by your side on your journey to conquer beautiful women!]
Eiji rubbed his nose.
These women seem to always think he's joking when he says things like that.
Freya asked gently, "Is your nose itchy, Eiji? Do you want me to scratch it?"
"No, don't do that out here. I'm worried the other gods might be peeking and get jealous, and want to kill me."
Eiji shook his head; there was no fear on his face.
Freya found it amusing; she had just realized that this man also seemed to like joking around.
I mean, after he showed his power in the previous battle, which god would still dare to provoke him?
In Heaven, there might be gods who would do that because they're arrogant and overconfident in their power.
But in the lower world? She thought her man was the strongest and most feared god. Even the Supreme God like Ouranos showed favoritism toward him.
...
What Freya doesn't know isn't necessarily true.
Speaking of the gods who want to kill Eiji because of the things he's done so far.
After the Seiya Familia's victory over the Freya Familia was announced. Not only did everyone in Orario know about it, but the news also quickly spread to other cities and regions, one of which was Rakia, a military kingdom completely controlled by the Ares Familia.
Located on the western side of the continent, Rakia is known as a highly aggressive nation that loves to start wars with other regions or cities, including the labyrinth city of Orario.
The god of the Ares Familia, Ares, is one of the gods who is madly in love with Freya. Hearing that the woman he loves now belongs to another man, he is not exactly pleased.
I don't know what Ares is like in the original work, but in this book, he is not only known as the God of War, he is also known as a God who once pursued Freya and wanted to make her his own.
In the past, Freya rejected him because she just wanted to be a bitch like the other goddesses of beauty and have her own harem. She certainly didn't want to be faithful to just one person.
Ares could only give up from that point on. But now?
"Eiji Seiya? How strong is he compared to me, the God of War? Freya, you rejected me, but not him?! I can't accept this!"
"It seems I'll have to speed up my preparations to conquer Orario."
Ares, a tall, golden-haired man with a handsome face and the appearance of a gallant warrior, rose from his throne.
He walked toward the palace railing where he could see more than 600,000 of his soldiers consisting of Levels 1, 2, and 3. Since their average level was low, the Rakia military relied more on massive troop numbers than individual power.
Even so, Ares was confident that he could conquer Orario with quantity over quality!
Then, he would kill Eiji and take Freya from him. He could also have the other goddesses in Orario serve him.
If Eiji were here, he'd be surprised—is this clown also in the original work?
He forgot.
Right now, he's busy and probably won't bother dealing with another antagonist for a while.
At the Seiya Familia's house.
"Eiji, how did you manage to make the inside of your closet this big?" Freya asked, admiring the sophisticated and modern-looking devices around her.
They were now inside the modified Doraemon time machine.
A short while ago, Eiji had teleported her and the beautiful women who were with him back to Orario.
Ais was no longer with him because she had to return to the Loki Familia house to let Riveria and the others know that she was okay.
Only Freya, Heith, and Horn had followed him to his familia's home. Of course, Artemis wasn't happy that he was going home with Freya.
However, Eiji assured her that he would turn Freya into a truly good woman.
At that time, neither Artemis nor even Freya understood the meaning behind his words. When invited to Eiji's room, Freya got excited and thought the two of them were going to do lewd things.
However, here they are now.
Eiji seems to have other intentions.
"That's because I'm a skilled mechanic. Forget about that, and get inside that tube."
Eiji pointed to a large glass tube that opened like a door. Inside, there was a circular structure resembling an altar that blended modern technology with a magic circle.
"You want me to go in there? I don't mind, but what for?" Freya was nervous and curious about what Eiji intended to do to her.
Eiji smiled and said, "Freya, do you think I'd hurt you? You're my woman now."
"No, I... I believe you wouldn't do that."
"That's good because that machine will only make you better. Trust me."
Hearing this, Freya didn't doubt what Eiji had said.
If he wanted to hurt her, or even kill her. he wouldn't have to go to the trouble of putting her inside a glass-lined tube.
Still, she was nervous.
Why did she feel like she was being used as a test subject?
But what kind of experiment was this?
Eiji didn't tell her the details, and she didn't dare ask any further.