349- Artemis Vs. The Crew

Author: I apologize for the delay in updating chapter. I'm in my last year of university and currently I am writing my graduation thesis and next week I have to discuss it.

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The next day.

After breakfast Emily looked at her father and begged him, "Daddy, I accept Sora as my sister. But on reflection, Sora and I don't need any more brothers and sisters."

Emily and Sora could not find a way to prevent Ethan from having children, so their only option was to convince Ethan not to have more children.

All the girls looked at Emily and some were about to object to what she wanted but Ethan's voice entered their minds, 'Leave this to me.'

Ethan sighed and showed a serious expression, "Can you tell me why?"

Emily answered his question directly with a sad look. "I am afraid that having more sisters will cause you to spend less time with me, or perhaps that you may love them more than you love me."

"I understand your concerns, but I will not prefer one over the other, and I will love you all." Ethan looked at Emily and Sora lovingly but made a serious expression again as he asked another question to Emily, "Now let me ask you another question. Have you thought about how your mothers will feel when you ask me this?"

Emily gripped her dress tightly while biting her lower lip, from the way her father spoke it seemed he didn't agree with her request, "I didn't think about their feelings."

"Emily, you don't understand that because you're young, but let me explain to you what having a child represents in the male-female relationship."

"Creating a life and raising a baby can bring two people closer together. It is something that bonds them forever no matter what." Ethan went on to explain the importance of having a child in a male-female relationship.

"You are the eternal bond between me and Emma, ​​and Sora is the eternal bond between me and Lucy. The rest of the girls would also like to have this bond between me and them."

"Imagine what feelings they would have if they were deprived of this bond." Emily realized that she had tried to deprive them of this bond with her father. As she imagined the grief this would cause, tears began to flow from her eyes.

Ethan hugged her and started patting her gently on the back as she hugged him tightly and tears welled up in her eyes as she apologised, "I'm sorry, I was only thinking of myself. I didn't think not wanting sisters would make my mothers sad."

"It's okay, you didn't know but now you do and you definitely won't make the same mistake." Ethan kissed her forehead and wiped the tears from her eyes with his thumb.

The rest of the girls gathered around Emily and started hugging her while smiling, but that made her cry more because she said something that hurt them but that they showed her love.

After a while Emily wiped the tears from her eyes, "I promise, I will think a thousand times before saying or doing something. I promise, I will not be selfish anymore."

The girls started laughing as they showered Emily with kisses and hugs.

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An hour after breakfast, Emily and Sora went out to play with the tiger while Ethan and crew headed to the training ground.

The training ground is circular with a radius of 120m, completely free of trees or anything else.

Artemis awaits them there with many members of her race, slightly outnumbering the crew.

"Artemis, are you ready?" Ethan looked at the girl who was twice his height.

"We are all ready and waiting for your instructions," Artemis nodded.

"Good!" Ethan turned his back on Artemis and looked at his crew, "Now the training of hell will begin."

"Each one of you will engage in a battle with one of these Valkyries. When you are about to run out of strength or pass out, Emma will heal you and bring you back to your peak state. Then you will start fighting again. This will be repeated until nightfall, when you can rest until the next day."

"I created a technique to divide my focus on several things at the same time so that I can watch all of your battles and during the fight I will telepathically correct some errors in your techniques." Ethan will not only correct their mistakes during the fight, but also teach them advanced haki and other things.

Nami's face turned pale, "Ethan, you're joking right?"

Not only Nami but Nojiko, Carmen, Marianne, Chopper and some other girls also turn pale and anxious after hearing how Ethan is going to train them.

"I'm not joking." After saying this, Ethan looked at the girls seriously, "I don't want to force you to do this training, and this is your only chance to quit. After starting this training, I won't let anyone give up halfway, so make your decision wisely."

"Didn't we decide yesterday to do this training no matter how hard it was? No need to talk about it anymore and let's get started right away." Zora gave a big smile and she was excited to do this training.

After Zora said this all the girls nodded in agreement and even Nami agreed to go through this training even though she was scared.

After everyone agreed to train, Ethan looked at Lucy, "Lucy, you want to include Artemis in the crew, but I will allow it on one condition: you defeat her at least once."

"It's okay with me." Lucy gave a confident smile.

Seeing Lucy's confidence, Ethan smiled and looked at the entire crew, "You might think it looks easy, but right now, even if you unite with all the crew, you won't be able to defeat Artemis."

Lucy and the crew members weren't convinced.

"Let's fight Artemis to find out if it's what you say." Zala sharp spikes sprouted from her body.

All the girls agreed to hold this fight including Artemis.

Ethan: "well, since you guys want to fight this fight, I won't stop you."

"Artemis, show no mercy just because they are my wives." After telling this to her, Ethan orders them to start fighting right away.

Suddenly Hailey stepped forward very quickly and used her spear to try to pierce Artemis' body, but Artemis' right arm moved quickly and she grabbed the spear easily. "You're supposed to come together to attack me and not just rush at me recklessly. What you're doing shows your inexperience."

Hailey tried to pull the spear out of Artemis' hand and back away, but the spear wouldn't budge.

Artemis' leg turned black and without any hesitation kicked Hailey in the stomach.

Hailey quickly used her Armament Haki and Tekkai to strengthen her body, but Artemis' kick was too powerful and penetrated Hailey's defenses. Hailey dealt huge damage and made her fall to the ground in pain, completely losing her ability to move.

"Hmm… I didn't expect you to be this weak." A hint of disappointment appeared in Artemis' eyes. She had expected the God Wives to be much stronger than this.

Artemis threw the spear aside and looked at the rest of the girls, "Cooperate with each other and don't attack alone recklessly, unite your attacks to be more effective."

Artemis spoke as if she was teaching some kids how to fight and telling them something basic, which made some of the girls feel offended.