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"Noah—!"
The moment Noah walked through the door, Hestia lunged at him, wrapping her arms around his waist and burying her face in his stomach as she continuously rubbed against him, tears welling in her eyes as she did.
"You're finally back! If you hadn't come back soon, I would've worried myself to death!"
"Didn't I tell you that I was going to the lower floors and probably wouldn't be back for a while?" Noah could only return Hestia's embrace with a wry smile. "And I told you not to just jump on me and hug me whenever you feel like it. When are you going to break that habit?"
"This isn't a habit! I'd never do this with anyone else!" Hestia lifted her adorable face from Noah's chest and puffed out her cheeks. "This is intimate contact reserved only for you, my first family member and the person closest to me! I wouldn't do this with anyone else!"
In the Heavenly Realm, Hestia was one of the three Goddesses known as Virgin Goddesses.
Just because Hestia looked petite and adorable, and acted rather uninhibited when being intimate with Noah, did not mean she would casually go around hugging people.
In truth, Hestia said she would only directly hug a member of the opposite sex if it was Noah—the kind-hearted person who had taken her in despite not caring about her poverty or lack of possessions, and had even joined her Familia.
Indeed, Noah had never seen Hestia act so intimately with anyone else.
Thus, Noah could only continue smiling wryly as he turned his gaze toward the hall.
There, the person who had