(MC POV)
I ended up patting Cai Hong the whole night and only returned her to bed after she fell asleep in my arms.
When I took her back to the room, I found all of my disciples all curled up and fast asleep in bed. Well, most of them at least.
Tsuki and Elaria were halfway falling out of their beds and Brendan somehow had fallen to the floor in front of his bed so I had to carry them back into their own respective beds. Coincidentally, all of them were located furthest from the door for some reason. Not sure if that has anything to do with why they weren't in bed like everyone else?.
Diao Chan also tried to pull me into her own bed when I tried to cover her with her blanket that had dropped to the floor, most likely having some dream about me. I gave her a deep kiss which seemed to satisfy her before I slipped myself free from her.
Everyone that I tried to tuck in after her also seemed to want to pull me in so I just kissed them too. How weird that all of them seemed to be having the same dreams.
The next morning, I found Eris waiting for me in my courtyard with a big smile on her face.
"You're doing this as one person? I'd have thought you would be splitting yourself into four."
"Ummm… It's just for now… We have yet to decide if we are going as one or splitting into four… Though the prospect of just having one so that Master would be concentrating all your attention on us is quite tempting…" She admitted sheepishly.
I guess I can understand her reasoning so I just left it at that, the only thing was that I noticed my other disciples seemed to be quite distracted today.
"Did something happen yesterday?" I asked.
She tilted her head at me, "Eh? Why do you ask, Master?"
"Ummm… Is it just me or does everyone seem to be on edge?"
Eris followed my line of sight to see my disciples moving around restlessly, some of them even peeking in our direction before looking away.
"We… Do not know…" Eris replied in Laverna's voice.
Hmm… Why do I have a feeling that she knows but just doesn't want to say it?
Oh well, I suppose if it was important, they would have told me anyway so maybe it's nothing important.
What's more important is where I would be bringing Eris for our date?
"Is there somewhere you would like to go?" I asked them.
Eris considered for a while before her face brightened up, "Oh! Me! Me! We shoulda' gone sumwhere' dat' we can do lots of fun things!"
Her face immediately scrunched up right after saying that, "That's… Everything…"
"Oh then do yer' have a better idea?!"
"... No…"
"Then at least aye'm trying!"
I chuckled and patted her head, "No need to rush, you can just tell me what you want to do and I'll search for a suitable place for us to go so don't worry about just throwing out usggestions."
Eris thought for a while, "Unnn… In that case, could I ask if it's possible for us to go to a World… Where we're heroes?"
"Hmmm? What do you mean by that?"
Bait took over the explanation excitedly, "Oh! You know, Master? Those hero stories where dey' go on a journey to kill some big bad guy or sumthin'! Dat's fun, isn't it? We can go beat up everyone!"
Oh, those hero journey types of Worlds I see, I wonder if there's a universe with a setting like this between my disciples and I?
Omniscience?
…
Oh wow, there actually are quite a few of them with just Eris as well.
Let's pick the most interesting one and… Alright, this one looks good… Oh, this one isn't that bad either, so maybe I can take some parts of this… Oh and that one too… Just a little bit of that one as well and done!
Now the next question…
"How far into the journey do you want to appear?" I asked.
Eris adopted a far off look in her eyes which told me that she's most likely having an internal discussion with her other selves at the moment.
It only took about a second before she redirected her gaze back to me, "Forgive us Master. This one humbly requests that we be allowed to appear somewhere in the final legs of our journey."
"Oh? Going straight for the ending are we?"
"We have figured that we would not have the time to do a full journey on this date alone, so we would like to at least experience the conclusion before deciding if we would do this again from the start the next time."
Hmm… I'd have thought that starting from the middle would be better but if this was what they have decided on, then I guess I'll just have to make it happen.
I created the World as they had requested before reaching out my hand to them, prompting my G.o.ddess of Paths to grab my hand without hesitation.
With a thought, the two of us vanished from where we had been standing in my courtyard to be transported to the new World I made.
When my vision cleared up, I found myself lying down and looking up at what appears to be the interior of a tent of sorts.
I slowly pushed myself up from my bedroll until I felt something squishy in my hand.
"Ahh… Master~ So early in the morning too~" Eris moaned, giggle that my hand just so happened to push against her chest.
Before I could say anything, our tent's flap was pushed open and Bait poked her head into the tent, "Hey!! Not fair!! Why do ya' get to sleep with Master and aye' hafta' use another tent just ta'--"
She did not get to finish her sentence as another hand reached in and literally pushed her face aside to allow Denna to appear.
"Master, this one humbly reports that breakfast is prepared."
"Hey! You did that on purpose, you!! Do you have a death wish?!"
"This one humbly reminds you that whether you have breakfast or not is up to this one, so please don't make so much noise in the morning."
Eris giggled, "So this is what it's like when we have been on the road together for so long. How nice~"
Huh… Looks like Eris and her other personalities weren't affected by the sudden influx of memories in their heads. I guess having to share a mental s.p.a.ce with three other versions of yourself helps with organising your own thoughts and memories better?
That's another interesting thing I learned today.
Now let's go and get ourselves a demon lord!