Chapter 201 - The Island

While his hand still held Light's, the two made their way in the villa as Light showed him everything she did.

Ethan previously believed that finding the way out would be long, but not really complicated, and that's where he was wrong.

Even if he was somehow getting used to bigger houses since he started living 'on his own', in his life he never had the privilege of living in big houses, so he still felt it was a bit weird such a big villa would be his and Light's from now on...

'It truly appears to be as similar as I designed it.'

The actual building had small differences, but the overall structure was exactly the same he had drawn a few weeks before, and it made him feel somewhat proud, although Light did the whole 'dirty job'.

"I'm still feeling it's massive, even if I was the one who decided on its size...maybe I had a bit underestimated how big really this villa could've been from the draw alone"

He felt quite bad for leaving everything in Light's hands since she was supposed to find some time for herself to rest, but as she told him the overall buildings required more time than expected to make, she didn't really have much time to do so.

"You should've just rested after an amount of time as I told you. I actually don't care if you don't need it or if you could go on for years or whatever, I just can't see you as a machine or as you call it 'Ancestor God'"

He knew judging from appearance and personality alone was wrong, but he felt truly a bad person in seeing her as a machine, and since it wasn't really urgent, there was no need to speed things up so much.

His words actually destabilized her even more, as she could understand he was worried about her.

"I rested once in a while even if there was no need for me to do so. You can't see me as such, but I am some kind of Ancestor God, so there's no need to worry about me..."

She looked away as she didn't want to meet his gaze while Ethan nodded. He knew there was no need to worry, yet he tightened the grip on her hand.

"If I reason like that, then only because you're some kind of unmatchable being then I shouldn't worry about anything because there is nothing you shouldn't be able to resolve... I maybe wasn't clear with my previous statement, but that's just wrong to me. I want to see you taking time for yourself, to see you finding some interest and develop it, I want to know you're fine not because I will return here to talk and have fun with you when I can, but because you like the way you're living your life. Assuming everything will be fine just because of a foolish reason will bring us to the starting point."

He was slowly growing from his previous mistakes. Even if next to him was a being who could defeat him in one hit, raise mountains with a mere finger or running hundreds of kilometers in seconds, he wanted to see her truly enjoying her life, it was the least he could do for someone he loved, and on top of that, it was Qienta's daughter, the person closest to his own benefactor, so there was no way he could let her go away with foolish thoughts.

Ethan's words once again struck deeply within Light. She thought it was fine because he told her to rest, so the fact she rested once in a while convinced her she could rest assured, but now she once again felt like a stupid. He now told her he wanted to see her enjoying her life, and that he wished for her to grow some kind of interest while here instead of only waiting for him to return like a machine.

In the end, Light felt she also understood why she was so attracted to Ethan. She not only was weak to physical contact. She was weak to Ethan's presence around her.

These leading thoughts made her heart skip a bit. She could see now why her own hand was sweating, it wasn't only because she was weak to physical contact. She now understood if someone else touched her, the result would probably be incredibly different.

'Is this what mother told me about Ethan...?'

Qienta talked to Light about Ethan's uniqueness. But she couldn't help but frown at that. What was so special that even her own mother had to acknowledge, that's what she thought a few weeks ago, but in that mere amount of time, the reply to that question was already clearer than before.

'Is it because of this feeling?'

She was totally inexperienced with feelings and love in general. But she saw humans and other races. Light underestimated the power of their emotions at first, she believed such things wouldn't bother her at all, yet now she was holding hands with Ethan, questioning herself about what if her feeling could be considered as love.

But her thoughts were cut by Ethan who sighed upon seeing she was deep in thought.

"...Though I'm happy if you're able to have fun when you're with me."

He wanted her to understand clearly. Strange misunderstandings were the last of his worries right now.

Returning to reality, Light flinched at his words. Now that she understood her feelings deeply than before, she could feel as if magic was enveloping his words. Although she wanted to reply to him she will try to do as he wished, since she understood it was also healthier in that way, her not-yet-confirmed 'love' made the words struck in her throat, but that wasn't enough to completely stop her.

"I..I can understand what you're saying. My mother wanted me..to leave my life in the best way I could..but that doesn't mean I should only focus on you..."

'Even if I wouldn't mind'

She didn't utter the last sentence, as that was too embarrassing for it to be said openly, but she still had her cheeks red in embarrassment, as she understood this feeling was stranger than she thought.

Nodding at her words, Ethan was satisfied with the answer. He knew changing the mind of a person who from her existence believed she was merely a tool to be used whenever there was a need to wasn't easy, but he would try to let her go of these habits with time, instead of confusing her, more or less how he dealt with Lefiya.

"That's enough for now. Understanding you are free to live your own life is all that I wanted, you can take things slowly and learn what you like and don't like with due time."

He said so as he asked her to lead him over the other buildings in the island while Light, couldn't refrain her thoughts.

'...If I confess to him I'm feeling in this way towards him he may think my vision is blurred from the fact I was assigned by my mother to take care of him.'

Although confused, Light was still a mastermind, a Goddess who should have a high level of intellect.

Light understood he was now seeing her more similar as a human being than ever, and that made her really happy, but her feelings could pretty much be just her having experienced only this kind of thing, only following his tale all along, but now she knew this feeling wasn't natural.

She came to love him because he cared about her like only her mother would be able to. She understood the man in front of her was special to her not because of the task assigned by her mother, but properly because his merely presence lit up the fire of her life, letting her feel truly alive, even if probably running or flying around the entirety of Ethan's domain wouldn't give her that same feeling.

'If I want him to take me seriously in that regard, then I must do as he suggested'

She would honestly try to find something she liked to do, for example using her divinity to create big buildings, even if she did so because of Ethan's wish of making a home together, she honestly enjoyed doing that, so she believed it was a good point to start with.

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After the discussion between the two came to an end with both sides having achieved what they wanted, Light showed him around the island. Compared to last time, the difference was enormous to Ethan.

'There may be a need of a real street here...it would look so good.'

Even if all the buildings were close to each other, Ethan saw in his mind an image of the island full of streets with different areas, but the fact was there was no need for a city if only two habitants resided in it, so it was impossible to make this image of his a reality, and he knew that as well.

Sighing, he concentrated on what they had right now. He remembered he personally designed the library. He wanted different areas for different kinds of books, but if he did that the total of the shelves would be way too much, so Ethan chose to order the books alphabetically, while the bookshelves of each letter would then have its own category. Not only it saved space, it was also faster to find the book you wanted with this separation.

For the training area instead, he didn't have any suggestion to give Light. It was an area that would only serve as training space, the only thing Ethan would need were targets. He asked Light if it was possible to buy special targets able to emulate the strength of different adventurers.

If he had some kind of special technique, Ethan wanted to use it on a target he knew wouldn't go down after a single hit, for example a level 4 or 5, and to his p.l.e.a.s.u.r.e she confirmed it was indeed possible to 'set' targets with more SP based on how much strength the target had to emulate.

Though some adventurers may have special skills, so the target's strength was only a rough evaluation of his strength. It was better if he sparred with someone like Tiona and Riveria, who knew the adventurer's average strength way better than him.

But that wasn't the only use he had in mind of the training 'building'. After time, he believed if there was some kind of special skill he wanted to test, he had a space where he wouldn't need to be afraid of using his full power, since not only the building was very resistant from its very composition, Light also worked around the properties of the building after each completation, so it was easy to guess for him it would be impossible even for his most powerful skill in the future to destroy the building now in front of him...

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(Alternate Titles: "Light understood once and for all..she loves him? Well it's a yes and a no. Although she loves him she's still hesitating over it, because at that moment she wouldn't be able to say it was only because he was him that she came to love him, and she wants to achieve that before properly confessing her feelings...","Finally a tour of the island!", "After training and library, there's one last thing left!")

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