Freya was looking out her tower, down at the dungeon where she was watching Bell in his cursed form tear apart monsters as if he was level 2 in the upper floors.

Her hand clenched her wine glass so hard it shattered into a million pieces, breaking her skin and making her bleed, not that she seemed to notice.

Behind her Ottar and Allen looked at her in shock and horror upon seeing their goddess injure herself, they quickly raced over to her but froze when they saw her eyes.

They were swimming with nothing but pure seething rage.

"How dare he.." she said as she clenched her fist making the glass go deeper Into her hand.

"Goddess please stop so we can heal you" said Ottar in worry seeing his goddess hurt herself.

"Goddess tell us what we can do to make you happy, you name and we'll all take care of it" said Allen.

Freya didn't hear them as her godly powers were barely restrained, it took what little self control she had left to prevent that.

"He cursed the one I claimed as mine!" She said as her teeth gritted against each other "he WILL PAY!".

Ottar and Allen didn't know who she was talking about, but they wanted to hurt whoever it was.

"Allen" she said with barely contained anger.

His head immediately bowed to her as he dropped to a knee "Yes my goddess?" He didn't care what she requested, he will do it without hesitation.

"You still have that grimoire correct?" She said.

"Yes my goddess!" He said.

"Bring it to the Hostess of fertility and give it to Syr" she said.

"It'll be done my goddess" he said before he shot off to do as she ordered, he wasn't going to disappoint her.

"Ottar" she said still trying to reign in her rage at the god who cursed her Bell.

"Yes my goddess?" He said bowing his head.

"Go down to the dungeon and protect Bell from any adventurers" she said.

"I will do as you command, but may I ask whats going on?" He said.

Freya took a deep breath and began to pull the glass shards from her hand, before she spoke "a certain God cursed Bell with something that makes him nothing more than a..... monster...".

She fell silent as her eyes went back and she saw him dash towards a group of war shadows and tear them apart like nothing.

"You don't have to do anything, just protect him from any adventurers and if he turns back and is unconscious, bring him to the guild hospital" she said as she finished pulling out the glass from her hand.

"Wouldn't it be better to bring him here?" Said Ottar.

Freya herself agreed to this, but she knew it wouldn't be the smartest idea "no, if anyone were to find out, it'd bring to many suspicious eyes on us, plus he'd freak out and lastly the guild would be asking us lots of questions".

"I understand, do you know where he is so I may do as ordered?" Ottar said.

"Floor 7".

"I will protect him with my life, my goddess... but before I leave, may I please get one of the mages to heal you.. I can't leave in good conscience, knowing you are hurt" Ottar said.

"You may" she said with her anger finally becoming more manageable.

Ottar let out a sigh of relief and left to get Hedin to heal her. But as he was walking, he cleaned his fists as veins appeared on his arms and he gritted his teeth in anger.

"Who ever made my goddess this angry that she hurt herself.. will die by my hands" he growled out as it looked like steam exited his mouth from his sheer rage.

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3 hours passed inside the dungeon and thankfully for Bell he reverted back to a human before most of the adventurers arrived in the dungeon, plus unknown to him, Ottar was keeping them away by forcing large amounts of monsters to head towards them.

With Bell his eyes slowly opened and he realized where he was, he was in the dungeon and most of his clothes were damaged beyond repair besides his badly damaged coat and what was left of his armor. Thankfully his short sword was still with him yet it was broken, but the thing that shocked him was that his pouch was filled to the brim with magic stones and monster cores along with drops.

His eyes then went to all the injuries he got from his transformed state and safe to say, they hurt badly and he didn't have any health potions, just his medicine.

"I.... I transformed.." he said in horror realizing that his emotions got the better of him.

He couldn't remember almost anything in his cursed state, but one thing he did remember was that he seemingly picked up the drops as if even in that state, it knew he needed them.

"That's one good thing at least.." he said while hating himself with nothing but pure hatred.

A wave of pain shot through him as his muscles buldged and his body threatened to transform again, giving his weakened mental state and he hasn't taken his medicine.

Quickly reaching for his pouch, he grabbed two vials and drank them as fast as they could.

The effect was immediate and just like, whatever day it was with Syr, his body went back to normal.

"I... need to do something about this... I also hope I didn't hurt anyone.." he thought as he slowly stood up and began his slow walk to the surface.

Not far away Ottar watched this and smiled a tiny bit, his goddess will be happy to hear he is alright.

Just then both of them heard a scream and Ottar watched as Bell sprinted off in that direction with reckless abandon.

"I need to watch over him until he makes it to the surface" Ottar said following from a distance.

Bell ran down the tunnels, heading towards the scream and he finally arrived at the source, he froze in horror, disgust and finally rage.

Two adventurers had a woman pinned to the ground, she had long flowing red hair, a pair of wolf ears on top of her head and yellow eyes. She wore the standard guild uniform, that was barely on her body, given it was shredded from the two adventurers with the Apollo Familia crest.

Bell fully saw her face and remembered her from when he first came to Orario and registered with the guild.

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Flashback

Bell was heading to the guild to register as a adventurer, he soon found the building his goddess told him about and he entered it and looked around.

"Wow.." he said as he continued to walk around and began to head for one of the desks that said guild registration.

As he walked, he arrived at the desk and found a beautiful woman with a long mane of red hair and a pair of wolf ears on top of her head.

Rose finished up with her paperwork and looked at the clock and saw that she still had a hour till lunch time, so she still had to work.

"Um excuse me?".

She looked up and saw a boy no older thank maybe 15 or 16 before her, he had slightly long messy white hair and bright red eyes. She'd never admit it out loud but compared to every adventurer that's proposed to her, he was the best looking, but that of course was only for her to know or else someone might do something stupid.

"I'm assuming your here to register" she said looking at him.

"Y-yes, I recently joined a Familia and now need to register so I can go into the dungeon" he said while scratching his cheek.

Rose nodded her head and told him to follow her.

They both walked to one of the private rooms so that adventurers level and stats couldn't be scene by rival ones and for simple privacy.

Once they entered, she looked at him and spoke "sit" she said to the nervice boy.

Then Rose took her sweet time gathering what she knew would be the required paperwork for the newcomer, an action she did to test the teen's composure and silently gauged just how well he managed being under pressure.

Every 30 seconds to a minute she glanced back, and each time the teen was sweating and looking even more nervous, showinghe isnt used to this, this was a little funny to her to see. She then sat across him on the opposite chair, then placed the necessary paperwork on the table for him, while keeping the question portion on her clipboard.

"Let's start properly, my name is Rose Fannett and I'm one of the many Guild employees in charge of adventurer's paperwork among other duties; however, I am also an advisor to new adventurers."

Bell nodded his head, his fears eased slightly, and his demeanor did a complete 180 as soon as the first mention of the word 'adventurer's left her mouth. He leaned forward to give her his full attention.

"He looks like a bunny..." Rose shook her head, dispelling that though and swiftly took the pen clipped to her breast pocket and let it rest over the first form, "What is your full name?"

"My name is Bell Cranel, nice to meet you, Ms Fannett" he said as nicely as he could.

Rose cordially nodded, but did note that he seemed a bit cuter "Age?"

"15."

"Race?"

"Human."

"Birthplace?"

"Ah..." Bell scratched his cheek in embarrassment, "Uh, I'm not sure. I've lived my whole life in Aynor village, northeast of Orario."

Rose raised an eyebrow at his pause, but nodded, nonetheless.

"Family members?"

"........ none...".

When she heard that, a twinge of guilt hit her feeling bad that she said that.

"And now he looks like a kicked bunny...'

Taking a deep breath to recompose herself giving now she felt guilty, she continued.

"I apologize if the questions feel too personal, but we are required to know all these pieces of information for safety measures, and future uses."

Bell steeled his resolve and nodded, "It's okay Ms Fannett, you don't need to apologize. I've already come to terms with it, please let's continue."

Rose felt compelled to pat his head like she would a bunny, but obviously didn't.

"Current residence?"

"I live in a abandoned church in the eastern district with my goddess" he said with a chuckle.

"Do you have any experience with Adventuring? Or anything else like farming, hunting, fishing, black smithing?" Said Rose.

"Umm.. I do have experience farming, hunting and fishing.. for Adventuring... well I did kill a goblin one time about a year ago" he said while scratching his cheek in embarrassment.

That actually made Rose freeze and look at him, it was almost unheard of, for people to kill monsters without a blessing from a God. It did make him slightly more interesting and her to want to know him a bit more now, which her werewolf side agreed with.

It took a moment to stop her smile from forming or the fact that the bunny puffed his chest a little, her tail subconsciously started to wag a little, but she quickly stopped it.

"It's very rare for people to kill monsters without a blessing so I must congratulate you on that" she said writing some stuff down on her clipboard "now onto familias, which one did you join?".

"Oh it was the Hestia Familia" said Bell, happily.

Her eyes looked at him again and she couldn't help but think of him as a cute bunny all over again and had to fight the urge to reach over and pat his head.

"Now onto the final question" she said a bit quickly to push those feelings down and the fact her werewolf side was seeing him a slightly new light "why do you want to he a adventurer?".

Bell was silent before he spoke "well... for as long as I can remember, I always wanted to be a hero.. that's why I'm here in Orario.. I want to be strong enough to save anyone in need and protect them like any hero would". Then Bell's gaze connected with Rose's gaze, and an Raging inferno of determination radiating from the boy that made her belive his very next words "And maybe... Somewhere down the road... I wish to be the Hero that will protect my future family from anything that would threaten them" Bell finished shyly, cheeks reddening after he said that.

Her own eyes widened and before she knew it, she smiled at him and looked at him warmly with her cheeks gaining a barely noticeable blush "I wish you luck then Bell".

Flashback End.

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"Hahahaha you could've avoided all of this if you just accepted me" said the human adventurer with a dark grin, while behind him his human friend was keeping an eye out.

Rose began to cry as she saw him beginning to fumble and remove his pants to have his way with her. But before she could accept her fate, she heard a cry of pain

"Augh!" The human companion, received a horrible slash across his torso, before he was kicked across the dungeon into one of the many passages.

The adventurer stood up and was about to grab his weapon, when his hand was cut off and Bell grabbed his face and for a moment his cursed activated making his muscles buldge in size and strength.

A loud crash was heard as the adventurer was smashed into the wall so hard it left an indent of him.

Rose looked up towards a panting and very bloody Bell who was very injured, he slowly turned towards her and walked up to her and held out his hand to her and spoke 3 simple words that made her heart skip a beat.

"Are you ok?" He said looking at her with a warm smile, regardless of his injuries and holding his hand out to her.

Without meaning to, she began to cry again and she threw her arms around him breaking down.

Bell smiled and hugged her while rubbing her back, telling her she was safe.

It took a couple minutes but Rose finally got done crying and let him him, but was caught off guard when he took off his jacket and draped it over her, it was thankfully just big enough to not expose anything.

"I'm sorry it's dirty and torn, but I thought it'd be better if you at least had something to cover you up" he said.

"Thank you" she quietly said.

"Now we should probably get to the surface to report what happened and to get you out of here before monsters arrive" said Bell.

She just nodded her head, refusing to let him go.

Before they could move, they heard foot steps and turned to Ottar the captain of the Freya Familia standing before them.

"O-ottar.." Rose said in shock at seeing him.

He looked at the two before his eyes went to the two unconscious adventurers "I saw what happened and I shall report it to the guild, my goddess will not be happy at hearing what they tried to do".

Rose thanked him again and Bell looked at him and bowed his head "Thank you Ottar-sama".

"No need to thank me, I'm simply doing my job, now let's go, I'll drag them and escort you to the surface so you two won't he attacked" he said grabbing both of them by the feet. He then began to drag them not caring That their faces were being dragged across the hard rough, jagged surface of the floor.

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Meanwhile with Hestia she was standing outside of her home staring at the ground waiting for Bell to come back home, he's been gone all night, which is unlike him.

"Oh Bell... where are you.." she said to herself.

"Good morning Hestia" said a voice she's gotten very familiar with over the last couple months.

Turning around she saw Hermes walking towards her with a paper bag that was full of vials of Bells medicine.

"Morning Hermes, you here for your weekly delivery?" She said with a smile.

"Yup, Miach made the latest batch for ya and I'm here to deliver" he said handing her the bag.

"Thank you" she said taking it and pulled out her purse to pay him, but was stopped.

"Consider this one on the house, also don't worry, Bell should be home soon with some company" he said before turning and walking away.

"Huh? Why!?" She yelled out at him.

"Don't worry about it" he said laughing.

"Darn you Hermes and your need to be vague" she pouted, before she headed back inside to put Bells medicine away.

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Back at the guild, tensions were extremely high given the crime that was committed.

Two adventurers kidnapping and attempted rape of a high ranking guild member.

Eina rubbed her temple's as she looked up at Ottar, she already questioned Rose, but now had to question him "did you see or hear anything else?".

"No that is all, also inform the Apollo Familia that they will have to pay compensation for both that woman and that adventurer or else" said Ottar pausing for a moment "my goddess won't be happy unless at least that Is to happen".

She just nodded her head, that was the lightest sentence, but from what he and Rose said... those adventurers will be hung and the Apollo Familia will owe a massive amount of money.

Ottar turned and left, heading back to the tower of Babel.

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In the medical wing of the guild, Bell watched the doctor leave, as he put on a pair of spare clothing.

Behind him was Rose who watched him and wanted to thank him more for what he did, he saved her from two would be rapists.

"Ok and done.. now I just need to drop off all my magic stones and stuff" he said standing up, but was immediately engulfed in another hug from Rose, with her head buried into his shoulder given she was almost eye level with him "M-ms Rose?".

"Just let me hold you a bit longer" she said.

Bell smiled and turned around and hugged her, while gently stroking her back, when he did this he saw her tail start to wag showing she liked it.

They held each other a couple more minutes and she looked up at him "Bell... thank you so much for saving me.. if you didn't then...".

He had a small smile, before it turned Into a frown since he knew where she was going. Taken his hands, he gently cupped her cheeks making her look him in the eyes.

"I did what any hero would do Ms Rose, you needed saving and I came in and saved you" he said as if it was simplest thing in the entire world.

Hearing that, she felt her heart skip a beat and heat come to her cheeks.

"An older woman for your first member in your harem Bell? THAT'S MY BOY!" Said the voice of his grandfather in his head.

"Again thank you Bell and... I'd like to repay you for this" she said while silently cheering that her being a werewolf prevented her from feeling shame when they choose the one they deem a mate. "Would.. you like to go out with me sometime for dinner?".

Bell looked at her and at first wanted to politely decline saying she didn't have to, but then he remembered his grandpa teaching him that it's always best to accept a woman's invitation for food. "Um yeah sure.. so what day would you want to and where?" He asked rubbing the back of his head.

Roses ears perked up and her tail wagged a bit faster "how about tomorrow and we meet in the south west main plaza at 6" she said.

"Sure I'd be happy to, well I'll see you tomorrow then" he was about to leave, when he suddenly felt something warn and soft on his cheek, turning he saw Rose looking at him with a warm blush.

"That's my first part of the thank you" she said before leaving, but with extra sway to her hips.

Bell felt a lump in his throat and swallowed hard at seeing that.

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Arriving home he walked inside the run down church "Goddess I'm home!" He yelled out, expecting to be tackled, but was surprisingly not.

Walking inside he saw that on the table was a note and a bag with his medicine in it.

Picking up the note he began to read it.

'Dear Bell, when you read this I will be at the gods banquet and won't be home for the next 3 days, that being said, I was very worried about you, since you disappeared last night and didn't show up all day today.

That being said.. I talked to Hermes and he said you were ok, so I will take his word, but you owe me for worrying me all day today.

Anyways I wish you the best and you owe me an apology'

Love Hestia.

Bell let out a sigh, he did feel bad for disappearing last night, but after what he heard, he just had to get stronger, to catch up with Ais.

Walking over to the couch he was about to sit, when he stopped and looked at the small box he had with the remains of his broken armor, broken sword and Adventuring clothes.

"I need to so some shopping before I see Rose tomorrow.. thank gods that I plenty of valis" said Bell to himself before he walked off to prepare some food in the tiny broken down kitchen.

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With Hestia, she was at the banquet, stuffing her face with as much food as she could get her hands on. While doing that, she was also looking out for Hephaestus since she had a request for her.

"Why hello Hestia" said Freya walking up to her.

Hestia jumped and almost choked on her food, before turning and seeing Freya "Hello Freya, how can I help you?".

"What? I can't see one of my old friends from heaven?".

She was just met with Hestia watching her closely.

"Well I wanted to talk to you about two things actually" she said while grabbing a glass of wine.

"And whats that?" Hestia asked now slightly curious.

"Well the first being that your child, Bell saved a young woman from two adventurers who wanted to do unspeakable things to her, they also belonged to the Apollo Familia".

Hearing this, Hesitas chest swelled with pride that Bell saved someone, but it then filled with fear at what Apollo might do to them.

"The second being, that I warned Apollo that he has to control his children better and if he tries anything like acusing you, then he'll have to deal with me" said Freya.

"R-really... y-youd help protect me from him..." said said.

"His children tried to take away a woman's innocence" she said with a bit of anger slipping out "and your child prevented that, it's safe to say that I'd have your back for the time being".

Freya was suddenly hugged by Hestia "t-thank you... I promise to pay you back some day" she said.

Freya smiled and patted her back "just keep your child happy and him getting stronger and I'll call us even".

Hestia nodded her head and was about to say something when she saw a familiar face "Hello Loki...".

"Well hello Chibi, I'm surprised you got a nice dress to show up here to a party" said Loki.

"And I'm surprised you you found a dress that fits men given how flat you are" said Hestia.

What proceeded after that was them arguing before Loki grabbed her cheeks and began to pinch them while Hestia kept making jokes about her flat chest.

After a little bit, Loki let her go and started to walk away with tears in her eyes.

"I see you two are getting along still" said Hephaestus walking up to them.

"Hephaestus! I've been looking for you!" Hesita said happily.

"If it's money then no, your not getting a single Valis from me" she said with practiced ease.

"No its not that, it's more of a request, but I'll ask when we are somewhere a bit more private" she said looking at Freya.

"Oh don't mind me, I had to leave anyways, Hephaestus, Hesita it was nice seeing you two again and I hope we see each other again soon" she said walking away.

"Alright so spill, what is it?" Hephaestus said looking at her friend.

Hesita looked at her and took a deep breath before dropping on her knees, with her forehead pressed to the ground "Please make Bell a weapon".