Rumor

The father and his child are currently on their way to the Hostess Of Fertility because he had to pay for the food yesterday night, he just did a dine and dash. While it wasn't his intention to do the deed, he was too distressed to think calmly at that time.

Bell was prepared for a scolding, he is aware of the consequences of his action, so he won't hold a grudge if the owner of the pub slap him on the face or something, because it's completely his fault.

Aria is aware of the action of her father, he did tell them about this issue, if the owner of the said pub hurt him, she won't hesitate to protect him, she doesn't care about the consequences after that, the important thing is her father must be protected from harm.

"Otou-sama, don't be afraid! If the owner of the pub attempts to harm you, I will stop them from doing so!" Aria reassured her father that there he won't be harmed as long as he's beside her.

"A-aria..you don't have to do that, it's completely my fault, so I should face the consequences rather than run away from it." He is weak, he had to admit that but he wasn't a coward, he promised himself that he won't be a coward anymore.

"No promises Otou-sama, but I'll do my best." Aria doesn't like making promises that she couldn't fulfill.

"Alright..but please refrain yourself." Bell wasn't so sure how to address Aria, who is his daughter with Ais from the future, so he decided just to call her by her name without any extra, he couldn't bring himself to call her daughter, mainly because it would be extremely weird for him to do so, imagine calling a girl who is at least a few years old than you 'daughter'.

He stopped thinking about it, then they finally arrived at the entrance of the pub, it would be a lie to say he wasn't nervous, because he is, however, if he doesn't do anything it would make things worse, then he went inside the pub along with Aria.

After that, he talked with the employees of the shop, and the owner. He sighs in relief that nothing serious happened, they forgive him because Syr told them that they shouldn't be mad at him which they did.

Bell was grateful to her, even though they just met yesterday, he knew that Syr is a good person, she gave him breakfast even though the taste is… bland.

But regardless, it filled his stomach, now that his issue was solved without extra violence, the attention of Mia, the owner of the pub, and its waitress Syr, Ryuu, Chole, Anya, and Lunoire was into Aria.

They look at her with great interest, at first they thought that she was the Sword Princess, because of how similar they are, but when Aria and Bell explain that she wasn't Ais, they were quite surprised by the information.

But that doesn't stop their interest in Aria, who looked exactly like Ais at first they didn't quite believe it until Aria talked with various expressions that the Sword Princess is incapable of doing.

Thus they confirmed and believe that Aria isn't Ais.

"Hey, are you the Sword Princess long lost twin or something?" Anya curiously asked.

She wasn't the only person who thought the same thing, while Aria wanted to say that Ais is her mother that's why they looked the same, she refrained herself from spilling the beans.

"No, but she's a relative of mine."

"Ohhhhhh…." All of the waitresses, excluding Ryuu, said the word.

Bell decided to end their conversation because he didn't want to bother them as they are currently at work.

"Everyone, we'll have to go now, sorry for the bother!" Bell bowed.

Mia waved her hand toward them. "So you understand, now both of you get your asses out of here!"

After that they left, Mia and the others had complicated expressions hanging on their faces.

Then Ryuu broke the silence. "That person is strong….my instinct is screaming to avoid having conflict with her."

Anya nodded while wiping the sweat on her forehead, her survival instinct was telling her to avoid offending Aria because it's telling her she would die instantly if Aria were to attack her.

It was the same for the rest, the only reason why they could remain calm is that Aria wasn't hostile to any of them, but they didn't let their guard down from the moment they noticed how dangerous she was.

"Just who is she really..? A strong beautiful individual such as her wouldn't have remained unknown...how suspicious…" Chole said.

"Suspicious or not, you can't do anything about it." Lunoire was right, they can't do anything about it.

"Alright brats, stop chattering and start working!"

"Haii!" Everyone said.

Then Syr who was listening to their conversation before, she thought. 'Interesting...just who is this Aria?'

(A/N: Since it's going to be revealed sooner or later anyway, just so you know Syr is Freya in disguise.)

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Outside the Hostess Of Fertility,

"Wow, I didn't think I'd see Aunt Ryuu and Aunt Anya dressed as a maid!" Aria giggled.

"Eh? You know them?" Bell asked in surprise.

"Of course! I was surprised to see some familiar faces! I should have known that it's the Hostess Of Fertility, even Mama Mia is younger, how strange really! To see everyone I know looks younger!" Aria was having the time of her.

"Oh...by the way I seem to have noticed that you call them aunt, why is that?" Bell got curious.

"Do you really want to know?" Aria asked.

"U-um Yeah?" He wondered why she reacted like that, however little did he know that he stepped on a landmine.

"I call them aunt because they're you're wives, so naturally I'd call them aunt." Aria in a calm tone.

Hearing that, Bell almost got choked by his own saliva, which was impossible. His face became crimson, his head was steaming like literally.

"Eh..? Ehhh?!!"

Bell screamed at the information that he got from Aria!

"Why are you surprised? Otou-sama, you're a sinful man that had multiple wives in the future, honestly I don't know how you managed to do it, but I won't ask." Then Aria thought. 'I won't ask, but I'll personally see it with my very own eyes!'

It took Bell a while to digest the information, but he couldn't calm down no matter what that's because who would?

Knowing that you will have not one, multiple wives in the future is shocking. Originally he thought that he only had one wife and it's Ais Wallenstein, he was very happy knowing that but, he wasn't sure.

"Otou-sama, ignore the minor details! Let's go to the guild, I still have to register as an adventurer again." If this was the future version of her father, she wouldn't dare to drag him around, but because this was the younger version of her father and he was too cute for his own good, she could do this.

While being dragged by his daughter, he was internally screaming instead of his mind. 'You call that a 'minor' detail?! I thought I abandoned my harem dream after falling in love with Ais-san! But my future daughter is telling me that I had multiple wives! Just what will happen to me in the future!'

He had countless questions to ask, but for now, he decided to ignore them.

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Adventurer Guild,

Like what happened a few hours ago, many we're looking at Aira, because of how she's so similar to Ais the Sword Princess.

Unlike a few hours, they didn't mistake her like the Sword Princess, however, they gave her a nickname, it was the Sword Princess Lost Twin Sister.

Aria wanted to ignore it, but she couldn't mainly because of the sister part, Ais wasn't her sister, she's more than that she's the one who bore her.

But regardless, despite it bothered her she didn't say anything.

Bell went to the counter and greeted Eina, his dungeon adviser.

"Eina-san! Good morning!"

Eina heard Bell's familiar voice, she saw him and smiled. "Bell-kun, good morning. So what brings you here this time? Is it about Ais Wallenstein information again?"

She smiled teasingly like she expected Bell's face to turn crimson. She knows that Bell is a shy person, she couldn't help but tease him sometimes.

"N-no! Of course, it's not!" Bell quickly denied this situation was the worst, knowing that his supposed daughter in the future is listening to their conversation!

Then he slowly looked behind him, and he saw the smug expression of Aria, he closed his eyes and thought. 'I wanna die.'

Eina finally noticed Aria's presence.

"Ah, Aria-san, did you perhaps come here with Bell-kun?"

"Yes, thanks to you I have found Bell, thank you if it wasn't for you I would have no idea where or when I could find him." Aria was truly grateful toward Eina, she owes her a favor if she asks something she would do her best to fulfill it.

"No problem, it's my job to help." Eina smiled, it made her happy knowing that she helped someone.

"Even if it's your job, I still have to thank you. I owe you a favor, just ask me anything I'll help you fulfill it."

"No, no! It's fine, it's no big deal!" Eina denied her favor.

"No, I insist, so better think about what you want me to do for you." Aria said with a determined tone, she won't accept 'no' as the answer.

Leaving Eina no choice, she sighs and replies. "Alright, then I'll think about it, so I assume that you're here to register as an adventurer right?"

"That's right, so what should tell me what procedure I should do?" Aria asked, she wasn't sure about the procedure at the present time, it might be different from what she knew of.

Eina gave her a professional smile and replied. "Then please follow me, you're going to fill out a form."

"That's it?" Aria was a bit surprised honestly, she only needed to fill a form to be an adventurer? Back in her time, they have to do a physical examination before making them approving them as an adventurer, the physical examination had its reason, in fact , it's very important it was to check if the said individual had some skills to survive because if they fail to pass a certain criteria, the guild won't accept them as an adventurer, it was for their own good, it was better than dying somewhere inside the dungeon.

"Yes, that's it." Eina nodded.

"Alright then, wait for me to finish Oto- I mean Bell to finish then we'll go together inside the dungeon!" Aria almost called him Otou-sama.

After that Aria followed Eina inside the guild office and started filling a form. It didn't take her more than a few minutes to finish and she was now legally an adventurer.

Both Aria and Bell went to the Dungeon directly, now that they left, inside the guild office, Eina had a look of disbelief on her face, she couldn't believe what she just saw, looking at the form in her hand.

Name: Aria Cranel

Race: Human

Sex: Female

Age: 16

Level: 7

Why do you want to go inside the dungeon?

Answer: To help someone important to me.

And other similar questions.

Eina, of course, didn't believe Aria's level at first, it was natural, she thought that it was some sort of mistake but Aria said that it isn't a mistake, they argue for a moment and it ends up Aria showing her Falna to Eina.

After she saw her status, the half-elf was stunned to the point that she became petrified, then after Aria showed the proof that she wasn't lying about her level, she left Eina who was still in the state of shock.

A full minute later, she snapped back from reality and regained her composure, she quickly took action!

"I have to report this immediately! This is major news! To think Orario had another level 7 aside from The King and 'that' person ...." After that she took the form along with her and went to the guild head office.

And sometime after that the youngest level 7 in Orario was born.

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Twilight Manor,

Tiona, Tione, Lefiya, Ais, and Riveria we're talking about some sort of topic until it leads to something, the person who started this new topic is none other than the Amazoness Tiona!

"Hey, hey Ais have you heard? There was someone who looked exactly like you! Many thought that she was your twin sister or something! It was hilarious!"

Ais became interested in this piece of information, this was the first time that she heard of this.

"Someone...who looks like me..?"

"Yes! Although I haven't confirmed it yet since what I heard was just a rumor, I have never seen this person who looked like you." Tiona cheerfully said.

"Eh! This is the first time I heard of this! Someone who looked like Ais? If that rumor is true then I'd like to meet that person too! It would certainly be interesting! Riveria, you heard of this right?" Tione asked the high elf beside her.

"I did hear rumors about that person who looked like Ais, but even I do not know if it's true or not, tomorrow I'll confirm whether this rumor is true or not," Riveria said.

Then she thought. 'If this rumor is true then..there's a possibility that this person may be related to.Ais…'

But given the true identity of Ais, it's unlikely to be the case, but still, she couldn't help but hope, she wanted to help Ais as much as she can, if that person in the rumor really is related to Ais, maybe she can stop Ais from taking revenge to the One Eyed Black Dragon.

"Ehhh?! Why not confirm it now?" Tiona complained.

"We still have things to do so, not today Tiona," Riveria put a strict expression, making Tiona stop whatever she's planning.

(End-)

It's shorter than the last but hey at least it's 2.3k words!