Chapter 149: Uncle

Perseus POV

"Alright, I'll go meet this god."

"Why you?" my sister asked

"You're more level headed, you can get this bi- I mean queen away safely if it is required, I'm stronger anyway, so I can always hold them off somehow."

"Did you just call me a bitch?" Valentina asked "I'm your client, you know."

"I didn't, I corrected myself in time."

"So you tried to?"

"Yes."

"And you admitted to my face?" she continued with this really cute pouting face that almost made me regret not going for her "I'm going to get you back for this."

I'm not the type of guy to lie, I can tell she is contemplating something to retort to my insult but she knows to keep it for later.

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I followed the energy to the source and it seemed like this particular god caught on to me as they are running away, well more like getting further away, I don't know whether they're doing this on purpose or they're actually trying to escape me.

The latter is very unlikely though, I don't see why they would be scared and if they do really want to escape me, they can just go back to their domain or wherever they like without me being able to reach them.

It took a while but I am led to this dark alleyway in a nearby market where I can sense them, 2 gods, despite only sensing one earlier, inside this dark and suspicious door in this dingy old building.

"This is clearly a trap, so I'll be off and come investigate this on another day." I said aloud and turned away.

I walked a good distance and heard this voice calling.

"You seriously wanna die or something?!" A male voice called "You chased me here just so you can leave, I clearly want a private conversation with you alongside one other guy."

I don't recognize this voice, but whatever. I then continued to walk, I said that aloud to like annoy them and it seemed to work.

"How do I know it's not a trap?! I kinda wanna live, so give me a video call, bye!"

I then pretended to tense up my legs in order to run away and this god warped in front of me.

It's this guy about 160cm tall, look to be in his early 40s, he got pointy ears like an elf, reddish colored hair and blue eyes. His facial structure is familiar somehow, but I don't know where I've seen it from. Though based on his clothing, it resembled to what male spirits wear when there's a festival or something, so he's probably a deity from the nature spirit race.

So now there's one guy in front and one at the back of me, both are gods whom I can't escape from.

"Don't worry, over here, no other gods can listen in to our discussion." the guy in front of me assured

"I can't take one guy yet, much less 2 due to my inexperience, please let me go."

"What...?" he gave me a puzzled look and then realized my subtle joke "Eww, you got my daughter pregnant, why would say that?!"

"Daughter? Oh...Valentina." I realized who this is now.

The nature spirits only got 4 deities whom are the gods of the seasons, based on the color of the hair, I'd say he's the god of autumn, I remember his name being quite human, I think it was Branden or something.

Brandenadia, that's it, but I'm gonna call him Branden.

The reason why every few generation have different king or queens is due to the fact that well, these gods mix their powers with those sacred sites in order to make a ruler, but due to being born, like for example, out of a world tree, Valentina is far from a demigod, just a regular spirit whose even more closely related to the gods than her own race who is famous for the feature.

Then reasoning and process is actually quite a bit longer, but I remember the whole thing being in a boring 300 page book explaining how it works.

"What's your name? And what do I owe this pleasure? Plus how did you know she's pregnant?"

"We are also the gods of life, we know a life signature when we see one." Valentina's dad replied

I then turned behind me to see a guy in Japanese clothing, to be specific, a blue yukata, and this guy also does radiate a familiar energy, but I can't place my finger on what it is that made them familiar.

He's about 173 cm tall, looks to be in his mid 50s, has black hair and beard. he also have a katana strapped to his waist.

He's either an actual Shinto god or another god who's wearing Japanese clothing.

"I don't get it with some of you gods, aren't these traditional clothing very hard to move in?"

"There's very rude of you to say, my nephew." The bearded god said "You should be proud of your own tradition, it's in your blood after all."

"Huh?"

"If this before we separated, you would technically be my stepson." He chuckled "From another man whom my sister sired with."

Tsukuyomi? Or Susanoo? Or whatever the hell his name is?

Please don't say that, I know that you gods are weird, but please don't complicate this even further.

"Okay, what do you want? Are you here to kill me for accidently making your daughter pregnant and you're here to help cuz my birth mother left you?"

"That would be fun, but I'm over it." he laughed "We're merely here to help, little nephew. Well he might have the intention to torture you a bit, but I'm here on friendly terms."

So I'm gonna die, fuck.

"You know, so many god characters are being introduced lately, is this some foreshadow to some disastrous event that is coming in the near future?"

"Well not to you, but to your sister." Susanoo or Tsukuyomi said. I'm not knowledgeable about Shinto gods.

"What?!"

"That is one of the reasons we're here." he said as he approached me and placed a hand on my shoulder "Let's discuss further and if you're good, I'll buy you some grilled fish."