*Semi Edited*

The day of the festival

"Right everyone ready?" I said while looking over all the members of my familia. Everyone had a day off since I was a very benevolent God. Well according to the familia members. It was more of a whim, if I'm going to a festival I can't let people work while I do so.

"Yes!" they said in unison. Honestly I kinda want to reward them for just that. I mean how much do you need to train to be able to say that in unison. It might feel simple however that's a lot of training. It's the small things that nobody notices that counts in my book.

The only bad thing about this expedition was that every single one wanted to follow me. It felt like a kindergarten. I mean it would be ridiculous to do so. 31 people walking down the street all just following their god. Kinda like what puppies would do. Thankfully Sky the best right hand that ever was managed to make them disperse in their own directions. Of course she was also the only one of the two people that will actually be with me. I believe that was her underlying objective under all that squabble about how it would be bad for the familias image and all that.

Emma as I promised her was also with me. However I had not managed to get it out of her head that this was not a date! I had eventually given up on trying to persuade her since it wasn't giving any results. I looked at her, she was skipping while holding my right hand. Which was something that I had initially refused however after her pleading I finally gave in. Besides she looks like a kid anyways so nobody will think it's too strange.

That however was not the problem. Sky. Sky was the problem. For whatever reason she decided that she was entitled to hold my left hand as the familia captain. This time I was pleading towards her that this, this is bad for our image. However my arguments landed on ears that would not take no for an answer. Hello? Absolute loyalty where are you? Follow my orders woman!

This resulted in a ridiculous situation. I was holding hands with a small girl skipping while Sky was holding the left. She glared at any person that came too close making them quickly back off. To say that it was awkward was an understatment. We got a lot of funny looks.

I tried to make myself as small as possible. It was fruitless however as I was around 7 foot. One of the cons with being tall. We managed to get to a café after a bit of the torture. Sadly I believe I was the only person that felt it was torture as both Sky and Emma seemed even happier than before. Sighing I told the waitress that I wanted water to drink. Sky ordered the same as me while Emma wanted a cheesecake and some lemonade.

As we got our orders a certain god entered the shop. It was Hephaestus.

"Oh my what a coincidence" She said in a clearly fake voice. I mean I saw her peeping on us while I was holding hands with Sky and Emma. Jealousy was clearly radiating from her. Honestly I thought that if I tried I could probably catch it in my hand.

A thing that I had noticed under my time here in this world was that girls fall way to easily in love. I mean back in my world you needed to bring them to dinner and slowly develop a relationship. Here however all you needed to do was compliment them on anything and boom she's in love with you.

I felt like I was a harem protagonist for some shitty anime show. Hmm, the name would probably be something stupid and long like Is it wrong to pick up girls in Orario? Or something similar I suppose. Well however that may be I need to atleast pay attention to Hephaestus. Perhaps I should tell her that I have no interest in any relationship at the moment. Yeah that's a good idea.

"Is it okay if I sit down?" Hephaestus asked.

I nodded and gestured towards the chair right next to Emma. She however decided that she would sit right next to me. That earned her a glare from Sky on my left while Hephaestus seemed to smirk.

"Are you enjoying the festival?"

"Yeah I think so. It has just started and it already feels like I already have been through a rollercoaster of emotions."

"Rollercoaster?" She asked quizzically.

"Don't worry about it" I told her

"Perhaps I could accompany you three? I know a lot of good stands around here" she said sweetly.

"Look Hephaestus I am not currently looking for a relationship. I hope you can respect that." I didn't really know what to expect from those words. But I sure as hell did not expect her not to even bat an eyelid. She responded curtly with pointing towards Sky and saying

"So she and you are not in a relationship?"

"Heavens no. She's my child not-" I felt a searing hot glare from my left. I looked back to see Sky angrily pouting towards me.

"She seems like she's not of the same opinion" Commented Hephaestus

As she said that I realised something.

"Wait you were trying to be in a relationship with me even though you believed me and Sky were in one?"

"Yes" she said in a matter of factly tone.

"So what was your plan exactly?" I asked bewildered by the notion

"I don't mind sharing" that sentence alone sent me in a spiral of emotions. Was my theory correct on this being some shitty harem world? This makes so little sense it feels like a dream.

"So are you going to stop now?"

"Nope."

Okay. Truth be told I was stumped. I finally understood the harem protagonists feelings. There is no good answer to this problem! Some atleast pretended to be dense but it's already to late for me to do that!

While I was in my half delirious state they somehow dragged me outside. The whole thing ended with Hephaestus accompanying us anyways. And Sky was practically fuming, I swear I saw steam coming out from her ears. The only one that was having a good time was Emma. Oh to be ignorant and carefree what bliss it truly must be.

I decided on one thing at that moment. After the festival I'm going on a vacation to check out the new portal. Anymore time here and they might enslave me to become a harem protagonist. I'm not allowing that under my watch!