Danmachi: The Heroes Tournament

Chapter 25 The Outcast

it was Bell's turn to face a Minotaur at level 1 again since every god wanted to see it first hand like Freya and the Loki familia did, along with Lily did. Bell was given the exact same equipment as last time, even the same armor and weapon's and this time Satoshi watched to see if Bell would need help since she was just as strong.
Satoshi:"be careful Bell, this doesn't count for point's, but still"
Bell:"I did it once, I could do it again"
Satoshi:"I know you promised my late father to have more backbone, but your starting to sound like Capaneus now"
Satoshi's thought's:" it's actually scary, but you got this in the bag"
Capaneus:"hey, what's wrong with that"
Bell:"a few things I can name at the top of my head"
Capaneus:"HEY, come here you little"
Capaneus then started to headlock Bell and made him tap out with some Zeus familia member's laughing at this.
Enyo:"even after all these year's, those guy's haven't changed much from before, have they"
Mero:"their kid's for now, but soon, they won't have these moment's as often as they like, we got old pretty soon"
Enyo:"I have no idea what you're talking about... I'm 15 at heart"
Enyo was in denial she was in her 30's and this only made the other's sad for her.
Mero and Zerif:"that's so sad"
then the match began and as expected, Bell won, and with the same strategy, he used with the  Minotaur that he fought on the 10th floor. the event had a few people stop antagonizing the Hestia familia as thing's seemed to steadily pass by and as it was nearly over, a few kids walked up to Wiene and asked her if she could show them her wing's, she agreed and then she smiled as more people were accepting her.
in the east reagon in the House of Steel, a few students were in trouble, you see, all the houses have certain requirement's in order for one to graduate or advance to the next level, however, the houses have different graduation rate's, and furthermore, the rate is less than 35 percent at best in the House of Life Energy, which is the easy house to study under, however, the House of Steel has a graduation rate of less than 12 percent, and the toughest house, the House of Fire, has a graduation rate of less than 1 percent. the House of Steel had it's final exam's done for those in danger of failing, and only 2 got expelled in the finals.
Zeb:"come on, give us another chance, we won't do that bad next time"
Mike:"yeah...we're giving it everything we got and-"
Lee:"if you have been giving it your all this entire time, then we can clearly see you have not progressed for the past 2 year's, you spent about 16 year's here from when you were 5, and yet, you constantly get into fight's, try to sneak into the woman's bathhouse, and room's, and worst of all, you attack outsider's in fun and sport with hardly the capability to fight back...usind cheap tacktic's and assaults to give you an advantage, you 2 are disgraces to this house"
Zeb:"but we can become strong, we will be the best"
Mochizuki:" you 2 were given 3 chance's, and you wasted them, leave and never return, unless you want to work as shrine keeper's(these people clean and maintain a building like a maid or a butler)"
the 2 left and were furious, they got out of sight from the overseers and started to break and smash stuff around them, the 2 were furious and then they found other flunk out's who they got together with and then after Zeb challenged the leader, he won and was the new leader of this group and then used his power to his liking.
Zeb:"hahahaha, now this is more like it, who say's we need their stupid "discipline" or "patience" when we can just do anything we want and I think I know exactly what we should do"
Mike:"and what's that Zeb"
Zeb:"prove we could take our own fate in our own hand's, let's see how that outsider who took away my woman would fend against me now, I'm coming you, you little snot-punked brat"
the rouge Ninja then made their way to Oranio and they were going to go with all nighter's in the first 2 day's and rest for one and repeat, this would probably get them there in about a 10 day's and the Hestia familia in the meantime have no idea while they were helping a lady move her thing's into her new home.
Bell:"hey Lily, can you help me with this"
Lily:"sure, now careful, give it to me steadily"
Freya:"Bell, I hardly noticed you there... what are you doing"
Bell:"Oh hello goddess Freya, I am helping this old lady with moving into her new home"
Maria:"Hello, I am Maria Golitina, I use to teach kid's in the capital city, but I went here for the sight of Adventurer's and to settle down"
Ottar:"settle down, you mean the building's and price there are more expensive"
Bell:"in the capital, it's almost 45 times the amount of money to rent a room to stay the night then it is here"
the entire group and the people standing by listening were all severely surprised and Bell nearly fell to the ground from the top of the lady's moving carriage, and Sanjouno dropped a crate as well, but Wiene caught it with her wing's just in time.
Maria:"I must say, seeing a monster that is civil is something I would have never believed if I didn't see it for myself"
Wiene:"you're not scared or feel hate toward's me"
Maria:"I don't judge people by their look's, but by their action's, and you my dear have your heart in the right place, live long enough, and you realise that the world is more complicated then anyone would realize, and you need to pay extra close attention to people to understand them"
Wiene began to cry and hugged her in joy, after a while the Hestia familia was finished helping her, and as Maria was going to pay them for there work, Bell refused the money but was just happy to help.
Freya:"I can never understand how you can help someone, and not get anything and be fine with it, about anybody you meet is after some kind of reward with their action's"
Bell:"I help people who looked troubled, and who need my strength, it's a habit I can't say I'm ashamed of, but it has got me into trouble a lot"
Bell's thought's:"especially making it hard on Capaneus for needing to bail me out of trouble I cause...though he seem's happy I'm causing these to be honest"
Wiene then stopped and looked sad, she thought of all the trouble she caused Bell and his friend's, then Bell smiled and told her.
Bell:"and every time I help someone in need, I make a new friend that I treasure with all my heart, I would never abandon someone who needs my help...monster or not"
Wiene:"thank's Bell, you really are too kind"
Wiene's face turned purple(which was the equivalent of blushing for her), and he continued walking with her friend's.
Lily:"ok let's go, we can get something from a stand if we're careful"
then as they went the man saw Wiene as he made the food, but he didn't mind and served them what they ordered. then Bell and Gaianda were in the Freya familia house and asked Freya about their parent's.
Freya:"aww yes, my she was amazing, only spending 14 year's here and was still under the age of 17, she made her way to second in command, I did offer her the leadership role after Mia left, but she got married, knocked up and left"
Bell:"was she really that strong"
Freya:"she was a level 7 before Ottar was even close to level 6, what I wouldn't give to see her again...although, she had a few bad qualities with her, to say the least"
Gaianda:"bad qualities...like what, over-obsessive drinking, or a cocky personality"
Freya:"well...she was alway's helping other familia's despite my say not to help them, and when we drove out the Zeus familia, she refused to participate at all because she thought it was wrong, and even tried to stop us and the Loki familia from doing so, that was how we nearly lost to the Zeus familia"
Ottar:"and she has a nasty gambling habit, was a nasty drunk, and worst of all, she had an obsession with cute, small thing's, she would give up everything to pet kid beast children and spent load's of money on them...though I heard that was fixed when she had you 2"
Freya:"maybe she wanted kid's that entire time and didn't realize it"
Bell:"I see...but what about her should we know as well"
this will take a while, and in the meantime, Capaneus is readying for the next event tomorrow, for this event involved him.