Chapter 986: A Little Side Quest
As expected, the next couple of hours went by pretty peacefully. Except, there came a visitor whom Rael hadn’t exactly invited.
That visitor came in the form of a particular old pervert who looked just like Renoir. Rather, it really was Renoir. Rael’s eyes weren’t deceiving him this time.
But for some reason, this guy was very mad. Why? Rael was sure that he had not placed any traps filled with dogshit out in front, so could it be some other kind of misunderstanding?
He didn’t think too much about it until Renoir stepped in front of him and glared fiercely. “My wife’s pregnant.”
“I swear I didn’t do it,” Rael replied, tilting his head, only for Renoir’s brows to twitch in disbelief.
“What are you talking about? No! It’s the condom you gave me. It was torn. Why would you give me torn condoms?”
Rael furrowed his brows. “Lad, I don’t mean to be rude, but in the span of the trillion years you’ve been away from your wife, did you not learn how to pull out?”
Those words were like thunder striking through Renoir’s mind, as he went ahead and tried his best not to kill Rael on the spot. After all, Rael knew very well which buttons he was pushing, and he knew even more just how little Renoir cared about Rael’s safety at this point, so of course, a punch soon came Rael’s way, which he nimbly dodged.
However, that slight bit of nimbleness was far more than Renoir expected, as when he left Rael, he wasn’t this strong. Alas, since he didn’t want to get his ass beat at this exact moment, he decided to call a truce.
“Tsk… What was all that about? Do we have a problem?”
Before Rael could answer, Nyx chimed in from the side:
“Ah, someone cut a hole in every condom in existence. It wasn’t Rael’s fault. He didn’t know. But hey, abortion is still an option, isn’t it?”
Renoir’s brow twitched. “We’re not doing that. Also, why was there a barrier surrounding this place? It took me a few minutes to break through it.”
“Ah… I thought that was a mosquito. No wonder…” Rael sighed. “Anyways, what do you want me to do? Do you want me to go apologize to your wife for you making her pregnant? Dumbass…”
But it was perfect. Mainly because Rael had seen something like this happening due to what Nyx had said. And as it also happened, he had made sure to reach out to Melissa a few days ago.
She wasn’t doing much aside from hanging out with the Colorless Goddess. In terms of strength, he had also realized that she was far stronger than what he had given her credit for. In fact, he was sure she could take on the Beast and most likely win.
Renoir, on the other hand, would probably one-shot her. Still, since Rael so kindly reached out to her, before they knew it, another figure stepped out from the room off to the side, and when Renoir subconsciously turned toward it, he froze.
It was none other than Melissa. Except she was much more mature than he had remembered, and if that wasn’t enough, she was also far more powerful. Even though she was nowhere near as strong as him, he was positive that if the two of them were to fight, they would actually injure one another considerably.
But from the plain look in her eyes, he assumed there weren’t any hateful thoughts. Hey, if anything, she might not even know who he was. After all, with his powers, he made sure she didn’t know anything and thought of Rael as the original.
However…
“Ah, right. I made sure to restore her memories as they should be. Not to mention, I also went ahead and gave her a bit of a boost in her powers, so be warned,” Rael said.
The boost in power was nothing crazy. Only 100% Mastery Law of Time, which he realized he could just place into anyone’s body without them even noticing. She noticed though, since he did kind of tell her.
And now that she was face to face with Renoir, she had a lot of things on her mind, and not all of them were very pleasant things.
“Brother, it’s been a while,” Melissa said with a warm smile. “I was a bit worried, since in the several eons we were apart, you didn’t bother to visit me even once. In fact, you went ahead and erased my memories. For a second, I thought you might’ve meant it, but it was a joke, right?”
Of course, she wasn’t an idiot, and she was just playing with him at this point, making her next words sting even more:
“Or maybe not. I never expected much from you to begin with. But whatever you do moving forward, just know that if you ever go near my mind again, I’m going to kill you in the most painful way imaginable. It’s a promise, brother.”
“…” Renoir stared at her for a moment, then let out a sigh. He really did have nothing to tell her, and if that wasn’t enough, he felt like Rael had also mentioned how he had planned on dodging her forever too.
Alas, there were just problem after problem with this guy, and in the end, Rael wished that these guys would just resolve it here and now.
But since Gaia decided to go on a pirate road trip with the others, leaving behind only Nyx, there weren’t any actual trusted adults here who could calm others down in case a problem were to arise.
After all, the only other people who lived in this house were out working. As for Yggdrasil’s Melissa and Altros, Nyx had chosen not to wake them up yet, planning to do so after dealing with the issue in front of them.
However, the issue seemed to be a bit more severe than either of them thought.