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"Eh?" Lili's head shot up at his words and the tiny cloaked girl went just as wide eyed as her first child.
"Yup." Hestia confirmed.
"Like right now, I can go up to level two even though I've not even been an adventurer for two weeks yet?" he asked for confirmation.
"You can," Hestia confirmed, holding her emotion back, "If you want, I can do it right now." she offered.
"…Not even two weeks….the previous record holder took an entire year." Lili mumbled in absolute shock. Her gaze looked almost blank, as if her brain just stopped working at what she heard.
Caelan stared at the sheet of paper in his hands for a moment, saying nothing at her offer, before promptly, grinning, "Nah, I think I'll hold off for now, I can still raise my stats higher." he denied her offer to level up.
"You don't want to level up?" Lili's eyes regained the light of a working brain and she practically shot to her feet, "But, you'd be beating out the Sword Princess's record fifty times over, you'd be making history!"
Such was the craziness of his words. Any other child would be in a rush to level up. Especially for that renown he'd gain.
"Sure, but my stat foundation is more important," Caelan shrugged off her words, "Besides, I'll still get all that fame even if I hold off for an extra week to raise my stats some more."
Lili bit her lip, "But…levelling up gives way more benefits than just increasing stats. If you level up now you'll practically increase in ability three times over, maybe more from what I've heard." she protested.
"She's not wrong," Hestia pointed out, if only to get him to consider his options, "If you level up right now, you'd probably be able to throw around an average level three."
While he'd be stronger in the long run from holding off, the instant increase of strength he could gain right here and now, would make him safer from anyone targeting him.
Levelling up right now, would make him untouchable to ninety percent of the Familia's in Orario that could make a claim for him.
"And if I hold off for another week, when I level up I'll probably be able to throw around a top tier level three," Caelan refuted with a laugh, "Here Lili, take a look, you'll understand why I'm holding off for a bit if you see my status." he stood up from the made and bed his way over to hand the sheet of paper over to Lilil.
"…Mr. Caelan, you shouldn't just go showing off your status willy nilly like that," the short pallum girl admonished him with a sigh, "People can use it against you."
"She's right you know." Hestia pointed out drily. What was the point of her locking his status if he was just going to show it off anyway?
Well, not that she tried to stop him anyway.
"It's fine, I trust you." he waved off their concerns.
'So much for not going after a harem.' Hestia rolled her eyes. He might not have been aware of it, but from seeing the Falna, she was privy to all the times he'd checked out Lili, staring at her chest and backside whenever she bent over in that robe today.
Well, the little speech he gave Lili to convince her was all but confirmation of that anyway, 'What was with that anyway, so corny and dramatic!' she muffled a snort.
Lili stared at Caelan for a few moments, taking in his words, before she seemingly sighed in defeat and looked down at the status sheet he'd handed her.
"...…EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!?" she screamed, eyes flying wide open with shock that blew her earlier shock out of the water.
See now that was the typical reaction she was expecting to anyone seeing Caelan's status.
It was mind boggling after all, be literally broke the scales.
"What's wrong?" Caelan asked the pallum girl.
"What do you mean what's wrong Mr. Caelan? This is insane!" the girl, who until a moment ago was quiet and demure exploded, "You called me special earlier, but the difference between my status and this is like the difference between a goblin and…and a Goliath or something!"
"I am pretty amazing," he agreed, "And you are special. I'm just the best and the one who's gonna be the strongest. My skill is a cheat like that."
The wind was taken directly from Lili's sails at his words and the girl sighed, collapsing on her backside, "…No wonder you aren't afraid of the Soma Familia at all," the pallum girl mused aloud, "Looking at this, Lili can't understand why you'd want her at all. Once your name gets out, everyone will be trying to get an in with you."
Hestia winced lightly at the broken tone the girls voice took on. Not that she didn't understand. If she had to make a comparison, it would be like comparing the state of her Familia before Caelan joined…to…as much as she loathed to admit it, Loki's Familia.
Caelan wasn't normal, and he couldn't at all be compared to a pallum girl who was at the bottom of a low level Familia.
She could scarcely imagine the crushing despair that the young pallum felt. And the defeated, dismayed look in her eyes explained it all for anyone to see if they cared to look.
"Because I want you, as simple as that." Caelan replied crouching down to pat her on the head, making her blink. It was quite amazing to see the dark look in her eyes be cleared with a simple statement of less than ten words.
It was such a greedy and arrogant statement too.
But it worked.
'Still corny though.' she snorted. She bet he thought he sounded cool when he made his little speech to her earlier. He'd probably relish in some of those cringy nicknames that got awarded to others when they levelled up by the gods.
She could just seeing him proudly introducing himself as the 'Galaxy Greed Fist' or something.
'I must never allow this to happen.' Hestia's eyes widened at the thought. Never, she could never let he precious Caelan get saddled with such a stupid nickname!
"Alright, enough of this heavy stuff!" Hestia declared, putting a stop to the dramatic tension in the room, "I was promised a massage, and by Loki's flat itty bitty chest I'll get one!"