Another Life As Older Brother

"Osu.. Hello, my reckless Goddess." I greet Hestia which looked at me with a funny expression. "Ageas, what are you doing here?" Hestia shouted at me. Her voice is too loud even made me cover my ears.

"Oh, is that your familia member?" Hephaestus asked Hestia. Hestia nodded while keep glaring at me. "I'm here checking up on you. You looked weird this morning which made me worried. Then arrived at the door, we wait for the right moment after your heart moving speech ended." I said while walking inside the room.

"Just right on time. What weapon are you using?" Hephaestus asked me. "I don't need a weapon." I said straightforward. "Ugh... Ageas-kun. Hephaestus here about to make you a weapon. Can you just said it for us?" Hestia quickly whispered to me.

"Just made one for Bell. He used a knife." I said to Hephaestus. "Ugh... Ageas. Can you please tell me?" Hestia kept asking me.

"Seriously, you really are a reckless Goddess but kind-hearted one." I said toward her. Not many people did this to me, except my parents and my only brother.

"I will say this one more time. I'm okay with what I have now. Even my personal treasure would beat any weapon in this shop but thank you, Hestia. Believe in me, if you are still worried about me. You can ask Hephaestus to looked at my weapon." I said patting her head then the golden ripple appeared and bring out Kanshou and Bakuya.

I throw both of them toward Tsubaki. "Let me hear your assessment on them.". Tsubaki caught both of them and lost her balance before regaining it after a moment.

"This weapon looked well made. Even much more in quality than what I made even though the weight deceived the appearance." Tsubaki said while appraising the blades.

"Not only that, they're living weapons. They had consciousness on them." Hephaestus said and walk toward Tsubaki. "Where did you get them? This is treasures for sure. Sadly, I couldn't appraise more without releasing my divinity." Hephaestus added when looking at Kanshou and Bakuya.

"When did you got this kind of weapon!? Why are you not telling me?" Hestia quickly shouted to me. "What? You never asked." I said defending myself.

Hephaestus threw both of them toward me "Catch!". Then I open Gate of Babylon to store it. "Looked like my job just got easier by half. You got a nice member, Hestia." Hephaestus looked at both of us.

"Now, I will leave both of you to it. I will do what I can to pay for the knife. Just keep it a secret from Bell." I said leaving the room with Tsubaki.

We walk down together since she also about to went home "Tsubaki, when is the Monsterphilia started?" I ask her for information and also to break the silence. "It should be in 4 days." Tsubaki said after counting the days.

"Huf~ So I had around 3 days. Well, it's not like I had to pay when the weapon is ready. Let's just see what I can do. Thank you, Tsubaki!" I said goodbye to Tsubaki while walking home.

"Oi, Bell." I said to Bell which just came home. "Ah, Nii-san. I got this potion from Miach-sama. You should take 1, Nii-san." Bell said while pulling out a potion from his bag. "Keep it for yourself, rather. Listen, I will be away for maybe 3 days starting from tomorrow. Take care of yourself." I said to him.

He kept holding the potion while looking at me "Eh, Nii-san gonna went to dungeon, again? Aren't you pushing yourself too hard?" Bell said with concern.

"Haha... Coming from someone that going every single day. One more thing, please tell Mia-san for me when you visit later. I'm gonna get back to sleep now. I'm tired." I said while walking to my own bed.

Bell watched his brother's back then show more spirit in his eyes. 'I won't lose to you, Nii-san.' He thought in his heart.

The next day, news about the new record holder that being posted yesterday just blow up. Ageas Cranel leveling up to level 2 in just 2 weeks. People that looked at it yesterday quickly spread it left and right which make it blew up the next day.

Bell that woke up earlier than his brother already went to the dungeon early morning with more spirit than usual, not forget he went to Hostess of Fertility to give the news about his brother to Mia.

"That's what he said about his brother but looked like his brother still sleeping. How about it Ryuu? Do you think you can hide your interest from all of us, here?" Mia said while looking at Ryuu. Ryuu only shook her head "It has nothing to do with me." She said while going back to the kitchen.

"Hah~ She's too harsh on herself." Mia sigh looking at Ryuu that behaving passively than couldn't help comparing her with Syr which already made another lunch for Bell. No one knew when she started taking an interest at Ageas except for herself that keep stroking her head where Ageas pat her that day, She always did it when no one is around.

Meanwhile, back at the abandoned church.

I just woke up and no one is around. So I just start eating and went to the dungeon. The city bustling with people like usual, even more maybe with the Monsterphilia drawing near.

Even more so, when I went down the dungeon entrance. With little entertainment in this world, a festival like this always being welcomed with an open arm by the people but here I'm thinking about my familia debt that's coming.

"Let's just do the best that I can afford." I said optimistically while when down. "Hmm?" There I saw 2 adventurers in front of me when I reach floor 8.

"Excuse me, passing by." I said greeting them. To my surprise, it's Ais and Lefiya. "Cranel-san." Ais call to me. "Oh, it's both of you. Well, enjoy your time." I said feeling awkward since I just make a scene a few days back. Lefiya already glared at me with a hating look on her face. Not that I care about her.

I continue my journey stairs by stair and reach Rivira before 1 day passed because monster rex still hasn't respawned yet.

I went down toward the next floor. That's when I knew, I just made a mistake. With me being alone and had no party, Eina won't let me go down to floor 19. Resulting I didn't have the map from floor 19 through 24 and more.

I couldn't go down as fast as I could which now I need to make an imaginary map in my brain to remember my exit. Well, since my goal to look for money. It didn't impact much of my progress and I start killing the monster around while looking for stairs to go down.

With the help from level up, I got skill Luck rank A which is quite high from what Hestia told me. Now, I got more items drop from a monster that I kill.

With this much time, I explore the map around, I could only get to floor 22 using half the amount of time I got. I decide to stay a few more hours before going back to the surface while also killing my way up. That's when I saw something I hate to see.