[Chapter:19][Yo, I’m back]

*ding*

The girls paused as they heard the notification ring within their minds.

They looked at each other for a moment before taking their smartphones out and glancing at the screen.

"The objective to learn a supernatural power…"

"Completed?"

Just then, the space inside the ORC building's living room shattered, and I reappeared inside.

"Yo, I'm back…wait, where's everyone?"

The door opened and the girls rushed in to find me looking around.

"Oh, there you all are."

As I looked at them, though, others came in from behind them.

"Oh? Looks like lots of things happened…What'd I miss?"

"…"

The girls gave me a reproachful look.

What did I do?

. . . . . .

. . . . . .

"So my power up caused a lot of trouble huh?"

I scratched the back of my head before shrugging lightly.

"Well, it won't affect you, will it?", I asked Rias, who shook her head while glancing at the green haired man and his companion, the black haired loli who was forcefully cuddling with Sona-chan.

"No, it won't."

The green haired man, who I recognised as Satan Beelzebub, Ajuka-kun, nodded.

"The other factions only know of extremely powerful friends that the heiress of Gremory has, and that the source of the incident might be connected to Great Red since it had shown itself. Not to mention, Zeus was also…"

Ajuka-kun paused, probably not knowing what to say to describe what had occurred.

"Eaten up?"

"…yes.", he nodded with a wry smile to Irene-chan's words.

"Heh, serves him right, the pervert."

Although the stories about Zeus shouldn't be present in the world of 'Fairy Tail', it isn't hard for her to search for his information in this internet age. Simply googling their name, which she had done, would give one more details about a famous person or mythological figure than observing them for years would.

Needless to say, after those ignorant of his deeds got to know what kind of a God he was, the girls unanimously felt it was a pity they couldn't give the guy a kick to his balls before he was gobbled up.

Serafall-chan raised her hand as she asked, as though a student asking a doubt to her teacher, "So that means this incident ends here, right? I'm free to play with So-tan, right?"

"Well, I suppose…"

He couldn't finish his words, however, before…

*crack*

"…"

"…"

"Poor space-chan, getting broken so many times today."

Kaguya-chan sighed as she swept a tear off the corner of her eye.

*crack* *crack!* *CRACK!*

Space splintered apart and out came a doll-like figure who had a huge, and I mean HUGE cloth bag on her back. She dropped it as she entered the room, which caused the floor reinforced with several magic circles to tremble ever so lightly.

There should be, like, thousands of books in there. And that's if she didn't compress the space inside.

"Work done."

Ophis-chan looked at me with hopeful eyes, making me smile as I subconsciously raised my hand to rub her head.

"Good job. Here's your reward."

I brought out a plate full of the freshest and most delicious batch of cookies I had made, making her eyes sparkle as she quickly sat beside me and took one before munching on it.

"…"

"???"

Turning away from the adorable creature, with one of my hands still patting her head which was surprisingly nice to rub, I look at the shocked and speechless expressions of those present.

Oh, Sona-chan had sent her peerage away, by the way.

"What's the matter?"

"…is that who I think it is?"

Tsunade looked at Ophis-chan's attire and probably recognised her.

"Yes, this is Ophis-chan. Ophis-chan, say hi."

Ophis-chan stopped munching and looked at them.

"Hi.", she said in her usual monotone voice, raising her hand, before setting it back down and going back to nibbling her cookie.

Cute.

"…"

"She appeared when you all were out having your girls' time.", I said before anyone asked, "We had a deal, she gets me books about magic and I give her cookies."

Speaking of cookies, I looked at Koneko-chan.

"Here, I took some of your sweets so this is compensation, Koneko-chan."

I handed her a bag of cookies, but she didn't take it as Ophis-chan glared at the bag the moment I handed it out.

"Ophis-chan, it's a good thing to share, you know?"

Surprisingly, Kaguya-chan speaks up.

"That's right, sharing is a good thing, Ophis-chan."

Tsunade speaks right after while the rest remain silent. Guess they're still a little scared of her huh?

Ophis-chan directed her gaze towards the two girls, then towards the bag of cookies in my outstretched hand, then looked at me.

"Well, why don't you take this cookie…", I say as I hand her a new cookie, "..and give it to her?"

She looked at me as though I had said something unthinkable, but stared at the hand holding out the cookie for several seconds before taking it.

*nod*

She nodded at me, then got off the sofa we were seated in and trotted towards Koneko-chan, who tensed up with someone who could probably kill her with a sneeze approaching her.

"Cookie."

She held the cookie to her lips, and Koneko-chan looked conflicted before parting her lips and taking a bite.

*crunch*

Ophis-chan continued holding the cookie till Koneko-chan ate it entirely, before trotting back to me and holding her hand out.

"Cookie."

"Here you are."

I smiled as I placed a cookie in her hand, and she walked back to Koneko-chan and placed it in her hand.

"Me.", she said as she pointed at her mouth. Koneko-chan blinked before putting the cookie to Ophis-chan's mouth, which she opened and took a bite.

"…"

The rest of the people could only stare at this scene with weird and dumbfounded expressions while I couldn't help but nod my head in satisfaction.

"…why do you look like a father feeling proud of his daughter's growth?"

Hm? Whatever do you mean? I don't know what you're talking about at all…