Chapter 118 Hestia Pov
Even as Hestia stood there blankly staring at the blushing form her best friend for countless years. She merely had one thought at the moment.
'So, Jake can be a bit petty.' Hestia thought wryly as Hephaestus explained how Jake met and surpassed her expectations in item creation and then she was able to feel the soul forming within herself.
Obviously from Jake stuffing dough into Hephaestus's forge...
No matter if it's a death goddess or one of childbirth or had any other domain, no matter what every goddess can feel the foreign soul forming within themselves and knew intrinsically that it was a brand-new soul not tainted having gone through reincarnation countless times.
Which suited our divine pride as the children would be wholly ours to mold within our womb naturally.
"So let me get this straight... You liked his sword, so much that you decided you would let him bury his meat sword into your forge..." Hestia deadpanned before continuing as Tsubaki the captain of the Hephaestus cackled madly. "Not only that but it was literally the second time you two even met... Hephaestus you need to self-reflect as Freya at least stalked Jake for a couple months before I got Jake to knock her up." She prodded at Hephaestus, but she honestly wasn't mad or even disappointed.
Truthfully, she will love having Hephaestus around more and honestly, she did bear a tiny little grudge against her for basically throwing her out when she came down here to Orario from Tenkai. No even if she was hopelessly mooching off Hephaestus at the time, she should have at least given a warning of some kind before throwing me out on my, as Jake calls it divine tushy.
So even if Jake did this as a way to get snipe back at her for getting Freya pregnant without his consent or awareness...
"Honestly in our Pantheon it's almost a casual greeting for someone to be impregnated so it's no loss. Plus, I can finally take a couple years off to work on my own stuff and not worry about the stupid adventurer's breaking their gear every other month. Hephaestus said shrugging and making Tsubaki pale as she realized most likely she was going to have a great amount of work dropped on her.
Hestia could only nod to Hephaestus's words as back in Tenkai and even here in Genkai when the gods would send spirits and even possess animals to muck a about with the mortals living around. They were never able to get any mortal pregnant other than creating monstrous abominations when some idiots tried to fuck the animals and monsters.
She could never look at Poseiden the same after hearing how he became a horse to mate with a group of wandering monster fishes and made some weird sea horse thing over the course of a single insane orgy...
"So where is Jake now anyways?" Tsubaki asked and then continued with an afterthought. "Also, Hephaestus why did you lie about needing to work instead of cuddling with him?"
Hephaestus rolled her eyes as she snarked. "I may be shameless but even I thought it best to at least inform my best friend that her man impregnated me when even she hasn't done that. Speaking of which, Hestia why weren't you the first pregnant in the first place?"
Woe be to anyone who attempted to force Hestia into anything as the gods who thought they could force themselves upon Hestia back in Tenkai could contest after being burned into nonexistence.
"Just be sure to warn Jake so he isn't caught by surprise as Aphrodite swore publicly that she will steal him from you." Hephaestus said but even she laughed at the thought as although Aphrodite was extremely beautiful even Hephaestus had noticed how all the woman who supposedly laid with Jake had decent sized breasts whereas that goddess was flat as a board.
Hearing those words Hestia could only laugh and her anger dissipated. "Heh more life Jake will take one look at that flat chested Aphrodite and say he needs to tits to play with or something." Hestia snickered as she mentally went over the times Jake played with her breasts and seemed to think it was her best feature.
"Yeah, but Jake is more of an ass man though with how much he spanked mine and mauled it." Hephaestus said proudly with Tsubaki going over to talk to Gyomei in the back hearing the kids talking loudly.
"Hell no he loves breasts the most!" Hestia cried out as although she knew Jake loved her soft and plush bottom he did spend more time playing with said breasts and having her use said breasts to his enjoyment.
"Nope he is all about the butt." Hephaestus grinned while slapping her thigh grinning.
Their argument about whether Jake preferred which part was a long drawn out one and they even considered making a competition out of it to see which one he likes more but the children's noise coming from the backyard made them end the conversation in case it should reach their ears.
"Anyway, were is Jake anyway?" Hephaestus asked curiously as they gingerly drank the fused drinks Jake brought back from Demon Slayer.
Hestia grinned perversely as she snorted. "Oh, I sent him to meet with Demeter and there's some drama with Inari that needs to be ironed out as she is making moves on a Renard Jake has taken in." More like Jake's adoring concubine with how earnestly that Fox sucks up to and worships the ground Jake walks on.
"Oh, that brat is going to hammer than bimbo Demeter isn't he." Hephaestus guffawed as she chugged a small bottle of sake.
"Yup probably after talking to Inari if he already slept with you today." Hestia shrugged as she felt Jake was more likely going to take care of anything unpleasant before he unwinds to something certainly more pleasurable according to what she knew of his personality.
Hephaestus nodded in understand as she giggled obviously slightly drunk." Well, here's to the talks going over smoothly." The forge goddess cheered raising up another bottle of sake.
Hestia met the cheer with her own glass of wine. "Yeah, to good talks. It will be just fine though Jake knows how to deal with people so it will be just fine..."