"It's been a while, Xiaoxiao," After returning from the forest hunt with his son, Kyoya greeted Xiaoxiao whose hand had already ruffled Kuro's hair.
She smiled sweetly at the small hunter, then glanced at Kyoya, "Yes, I have been missing you guys," Xiaoxiao was glad to see everyone.
And now that the incident got solved, the family's mood couldn't be better.
For the past four years, Kyoya and Xaya had been living just with their kids. The other party members were often visiting them, but Kyoya used one of the advice from the foxes people.
The life was so long and his children would soon go on their own adventure. Their lifespan was bound to be long, but childhood was only one.
It was also the easiest to raise kids during this time and fix mistakes such as 'Father is the creator of everything!'.
Kyoya often rubbed his temples when he imagined what could possibly happen in the future if his children still had this belief…
"Where is my Akaro?" Kyoya asked, and his children also glanced at Xiaoxiao. The cat was someone they liked to play with, even though all it did was just run away.
Xiaoxiao shook her head, "She didn't want to come… It's nothing serious, okay?"
Since it was the goddess they were talking about, Kyoya could only ask Akaro personally later on. He just hoped that she rejected the idea of coming with her on the whim as it wasn't like she had to come here every time with Xiaoxiao.
"Aunt Xiaoxiao, did you know? We will help the villagers soon," Kuro said as his father promised to go with him to the village's hunters association.
It was an association naturally created by the world's order as they needed strong people to survive.
The goal was to lessen the threats around the roads and get food for the family.
Kuro wanted to help them and hone his abilities here.
His genuine wish made Xiaoxiao smile sweeter, "We will go together,"
"Yes!" The more, the merrier and Aunt Xiaoxiao was the best aunt in the world, so Kuro was happy she would go with them. He also wanted to show her his work and get more head pats from her warmer hand.
After the family ate the dinner, Xaya went to the bed with Riley and Kuro as both of them felt like going for the afternoon nap.
Now that her daughter's issues got solved, Xaya couldn't stop herself from hugging her daughter. Three of them went for sleep and the wolves became lost in their dreams while hugging each other.
Kyoya and Xiaoxiao became alone in the dining room, "Time lies a little too fast. I remember those two crying out during nights, but now all of them go around, hold their bow and even dare to argue with us…"
"Kyoya, I understand… You can see their growth with naked eye, but in the future, it will be mostly their strength… I don't think they would have much problems with you raising them. I also feel like Kuro's heart is too gentle and he happens to be very liked by older girls in the village."
"Yeah, he is just too cute, right? Haha!"
"Riley also scares a lot of children from what Xaya told me. I think it was due to the small incident, though." Xiaoxiao added.
She could be more intimate with Kyoya now that his children were in another room.
The concept such as harem would be learned in the future and it also would break the family charm if they were to know about it now.
No matter how hard Kyoya would work, it just would break it like that.
And who would speak about harem to three years old brats anyway?
"Since they are your children, what do you plan for their future?" Xiaoxiao asked, knowing a little of the husband's plan.
The husband's time in the lower floors wasn't just spent on his family. As a family head, the husband naturally used to go to work.
But his work was properly maintaining his believers.
He had been spreading his trickster god's cards even before the Naranaska Kingdom's events. There were a lot of people that used the husband's game features on their path, and all of them excelled from the rest of adventures.
His powers didn't disturb other divine energies and the husband used temporary disciple concepts on most of them anyway.
The gods shouldn't see through this and allow him to reap the benefits.
The husband was also using the Death God's abilities to gather the souls and categorize them. There was a small amount of belief here as the adventurers had different views of their gods and were also pretty weak.
But this was still something that the gods would gladly accept.
From all world pillars, The Death God would get a lot of those beliefs.
Unfortunately, Kyoya had just a ticket to one world pillar and he had yet to use it because of other matters.
So for now, Kyoya had been gathering those souls in his inventory and extracting the gathered belief while deciding whether a person deserved the second chance in their life or not.
"You want your children to help you," That was what Xiaoxiao knew.
Kyoya's children would be like direct disciples and work with Kyoya's powers to help him govern those believers and souls. They could be trusted and it also would help them with their own strength.
But Kyoya's powers were versatile and it didn't mean they would become either Trickster or Death God's believers…
"But they can also choose their own path and find divinity… or someone to follow to, right?" Xiaoxiao added and ended her question.
Kyoya smiled, hugged her tighter and said, "It will be all up to them. They can either follow our energies, try to get their own divine concepts or even follow another god. I will be the one to check these gods in the future if so."
"A lot of freedom, haha!" Xiaoxiao laughed, then stroked the husband's hair, "How is the harvesting so far? As your direct disciple that also helps with believers, I humbly request some divine energy too."
"Is it humble? I feel like someone is forcing some energy out instead," Kyoya snickered as Xiaoxiao sat down on his lap and wrapped her arms around his neck.
The progress of the husband's family wasn't that weak at all even if they settled in the lower floors!
There were many things that contributed to that and this was one of these, "It is humble. If I wanted to force it out, then I would do something else. Hmm." Saying so, Xiaoxiao swayed on the husband's lap a little, from side to side.
Kyoya could only widen his smile as he liked that kind of playful and cute side.
Even though Xiaoxiao had matured even more and she looked closer to Akaro's looks, Kyoya still could see a lot of dangerous cuteness that soon sucked out a little divine energy out of him.
"Starting from today, I will have my two adorable wolves meet a lot of their peers. They have to interact more with others, so that they will be able to deal with various people in the future… I think I saw some brats being jealous of my Kuro, so it will be a good lesson too."
"That's childish jealousy, though. I think they are jealous because a lot of girls want to play with him instead."
"Jealousy is still jealousy… After, we will go onto the adventure I guess," For the adventure, a proper team was needed.
So Xiaoxiao knew that this adventure would be brief, but with everyone, so she couldn't help but get excited herself.