My Goddess is Good at Pretending

Chapter 383: Reversed ’Parental’ Pressure

Usually, parents would pressure their child to have a baby because they were eager for a grandchild.

However, the current situation became the child pressured the parents to immediately have a child.

Erina crossed her arms and questioned why her father and his wife still didn’t have children to inherit the family and continue the Minamoto Family’s lineage.

"Haha, you say it as if it’s a product. Having a child isn’t something that can just happen. We’re talking about a new life. When the time comes, then it will happen. However, what about you, my daughter? You already have a spouse. You can make a baby yourself. Young man, may I know your name?" Kenji broke in a cold sweat, but he hid it well. He felt depressed and immediately threw the topic to his daughter’s lover.

"Is that how you talk to me? Even though you are my father, I am the head of the family here." Erina furrowed her eyebrows, subconsciously exerting her pressure at such disrespect.

"!!!" Kenji and his wife gasped in surprise because of Erina’s sudden pressure.

"!?" Elysia didn’t know what happened, but she didn’t like seeing Erina being impolite and angry.

She remembered that Erina’s emotions were still unstable. It was fine if it was the cold and elegant Erina, but it was a big no for the impolite and short-tempered Erina. After evolution due to her divine blessing, Erina also needed quiet time to re-arrange one’s thoughts and spiritual sense.

Therefore, she covered Erina’s angry eyes from behind and whispered softly close to Erina’s ear. "Please take a deep breath and exhale slowly. You have become a bit disorganized. Control your emotions as you usually do. Did you know, they tried their best to fulfill your wish. Your father’s wife has actually been pregnant for three weeks, but it seems no one has noticed yet."

Erina did as she was told and held Elysia’s hand. She looked up with a pitiful look, afraid of being scolded. However, she was happy to get the news. Thus, she immediately looked at her stepmother’s belly with an expectant gaze.

"Really?" Kenji was pleasantly surprised. He asked his wife about it.

However, she didn’t know about it until just now. Therefore, she excused herself as she had to check it right away.

A few minutes later, she returned to the main hall with a pregnancy test pen in hand. "This is positive. Finally, we are blessed with a child, dear!"

"That’s wonderful. But, we need to seal the news. Father, you are prohibited from wandering outside the mansion, working, or dealing with other matters. You must focus on taking care of your wife. Yuuko, take good care of your health. I feel a bit tired. I need to rest first." Erina expressed her happiness too, but she really wanted to take a warm bath and rest just with her close friends.

"Yes, thank you, Erina. You have worked hard. Please rest well. We will call the best doctors soon." Yuuko, Erina’s stepmother, expressed her concern.

"No need. I’ll be fine in a few days, but my retirement from WUF’s military is absolute. Don’t spill anything about me, including to our own people." Erina moved her hands just fine, but her legs were still weak.

She stretched out her arms to Elysia as if asking to be carried upstairs because her room was there.

Kenji had many questions in his mind, but his daughter had already been taken upstairs by her lover.

He then looked aside and realized the presence of the breathtaking masked beauty behind his daughter’s lover. This mature beauty held inexplicable yet familiar angelic charm. Her long golden hair sparkled like the warmth of the sun, but he was soon fixated on her mesmerizing golden eyes.

Her pupils seemed to have a familiar mythical-like rune in them, but he soon received a painful twist pinch from his wife.

"Ouch!" Kenji rubbed his arm.

"She is absolutely stunning and looks too beautiful for the world, right?"

"Yes."

"O-oh! You dare eye another lady in front of me, dear? Am I not enough for you?"

Yuuko asked, and Kenji answered reflexively, but it made the jealous lady annoyed. Thus, Kenji received another painful twist pinch. She then left with an annoyed snort.

"Haisshh... Ladies, really. Mio, please spare me a few minutes. I need to ask you a few things." Kenji beckoned to Mio on the stairs to come back down.

"???" Mio looked up, but her lady had already been taken by Elysia. She then returned to the main hall to answer Kenji’s call. "Yes, sir?"

"Tell me about that person’s identity, and how he met Erina? I don’t mean anything else. Whoever can handle my daughter will get my full support, but I’m curious." Kenji rubbed his arm while glancing at his wife’s back.

"..." Mio didn’t know what to say. Her lady’s preference was somewhat different because of the treatment her lady received since childhood.

It was also partly Kenji and the late patriarch’s fault. As for the so-called spouse, it was actually Elysia in disguise, the Goddess they worshipped.

’I’m sorry, my lord.’ Mio muttered in her mind. She would serve her lady for life, but she was also concerned about her lady’s future and desires.

However, she soon remembered that God was actually genderless and could transform into anything imaginable.

Her lady was similar to the shrine maiden or the church priestess who would marry the God they worshiped and serve their God throughout life.

Mio stopped thinking from there because she wasn’t supposed to think that far. As long as her lady was happy, then she would be happy as well.

"Mio?" Kenji waved his hand in front of Mio’s face.

"His name is El, and he--" Mio began to share the information she knew about Elysia’s current disguise as Young Master El from Guardian of Dream.

Kenji then asked about the golden-haired angelic lady who was with El, but Mio didn’t know much about Goddess Ely’s sisters. She could only say that lady was a holy angel.

"I don’t know more than that, sir. If you want to know more, you should ask Lady Erina or them directly." Mio bowed respectfully.

"Holy angel, huh... Alright then, please return to your duty." Kenji sighed and looked up at the blue sky outside the window. He remembered his first wife, Erina’s mother.

She came into his life like a mysterious angel, giving him happiness over his little family. But after their baby was born, she disappeared and never came back. It had been years since then.

"Erina is the only one who has a connection with the Guardian of Dream. They also have angels in their organization, right? I need to do something to ask that holy angel lady." Kenji muttered under his breath before leaving the hall.

A few moments later, Elysia soaked in Erina’s private pool. Elena, Erina, Ai, and Mio were also soaking there. However, it was a fresh cold water pool, not warm water. After all, the temperature was hot outside, and refreshing water was just what they needed.

"Mio, I have treated the last gold mark on your body. I will give you the improved version of your cultivation techniques and methods later. After you reach SS-level, your body should gradually return to normal condition." Elysia treated Mio’s scars and gold marks.

"Thank you for your blessings and help, Your Grace." Mio expressed her gratitude.

"Hum, it’s nothing. Nee, do you know why there is so much dust, smoke, and other air pollution around the western city border? The air quality is so bad over there, but the city is good." Elysia returned to Elena’s side, wondering about the strange situation at the border.

"It is the unlaw and abandoned area. The thick fog is used to deter the monster’s invasion. However, some of the smoke and other pollution is contributed by industrial areas near the border." Mio responded politely.

"Hm, so it’s like that..." Elena nodded in understanding. Those criminals were probably just unlawful random thieves.

"The others get their skin tanned or burned by the sun. You’ve been on the frontlines for so long, but why is your skin tone still as creamy white as a fair lady, Erina?" Ai poked Erina’s skin with her finger, feeling Erina wasn’t much different from five years ago.

"I don’t know why either. My skin tone never changes even though I sunbathe under the sun without sunscreen. I never even go to a beauty treatment salon." Erina was wondering about that too.

"Hmm, your late mother probably had angelic blood. That explains your unusual abilities." Elena observed Erina more closely.

"Uhm, perhaps? I don’t have any recollections about her. But, you are an angel yourself, Lady Elena. Does that make me one of your kin?" Erina bashfully looked up to stare at Elena’s divine golden eyes.

"Hm, maybe... I am Ely’s guardian angel." Elena tapped her cheek.

"Hum, you are a half-angel. We also have several core members with angel blood. They are also eager to meet you. Anyway, Erina, would you like me to return your hair back to its original shiny brown?" Elysia took a handful of Erina’s golden hair and stroked it.

"Uhm, please leave it alone. Oh, right, Ellie. You received some unreadable messages from Linda. You can use my superphone." Erina grabbed her storage pouch by the pool and handed over her superphone to Elysia.

"Is that okay? Your phone may have some private data and business matters that I don’t need to know about." Elysia looked up and down between Erina and the superphone in her hand.

"It’s okay. I’m not keeping secrets from you." Erina waved her hand and dipped her hand into the pool to take Elysia’s beautiful long black hair into her hands. She stroked it gently, while occasionally looking at Elysia, peeking at Linda’s message.

Elysia leaned her arms against the pool coping and opened the message from Linda.