Reborn in Mushoku Tensei with Unique Skill Great Sage

(Author's Note: Hope we can complete one week update spree of this fic, last time I tried my Marvel fic, I couldn't get in the mood to write more than 4 chapters of that, sorry for that and I will see if I can upload the remaining chapters this week)

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3rd Pov

A few weeks have passed by since the death of the Rudeus persona of Arthur, After his clone dissipated, Arthur decided to retain his memories as Rudeus, there were two reasons for this, Although he was actually Rudeus in a way, he wasn't. He left Paul and Zenith just after he was born due to the courtesy of his skills leaving a clone whose personality was left to Great Sage now Minerva to control.

The way she did it was by recreating the child personality of Arthur, or how he was in his childhood in that clone, and she occasionally controlled it. When Arthur explained his desire to retain his memories of the clone acting as his Rudeus persona, Minerva tried persuading him how it was completely useless to him, as she was the one who controlled it, and it might be detrimental for him.

But he insisted on getting the memories, the reason was simple, he wanted to do it for his mother Zenith. After all in her eyes, he had died as of now, and he knew how much pain she was in currently. He was a hypocrite, and he himself knew that, but he wanted to erase the pain of Zenith after stealing her from Paul. Thus once he had her within his wraps, he would reveal to her how he was his son, and just twist the story he had told to Maria and others.

This will do two things, firstly the relationship between the two will become stronger, and it will ensure that no problem happens in the future. Let's say one day he will get strong to revive anyone, heck it wouldn't take him long to achieve that level of powers, and once he gets stronger, obviously the strength of his wives will get stronger as well, and they will become doing Divine acts like resurrecting someone, so will Zenith won't think of resurrecting his son.

Heck if he managed to make her a Goudere for him, then the chances of her wanting to resurrect Rudy would be abysmally low, however, he didn't want to take any chance. Not to mention how he will not get the unique feeling of Zenith being different from his other women if he doesn't recognize her as his mother.

(A/N: Man his priorities, all the reasons he may have stated till now might be extras to his real reason 😂)

Thus, Minerva helplessly gave him the memories of his Rudeus clone, which is ironic thinking that he is, in reality, Rudy himself. So after he assimilated the memories of Rudeus, not many changes occurred in his mentality than his recognizing Zenith as his mother as he got more of a first-person film, and he just hated Paul more.

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" Zenith, please eat something", said Paul distressed looking at Zenith who still had a sad look on her face, As her eyes turned towards him, they showed intense anger and hatred which made Paul feel a chill on his back. Even after several weeks, Zenith hadn't become a bit warmer towards Paul, except for the fact she hadn't tried to kill him again.

She said in a cold voice," Leave the food, and get out bastard", Paul hurriedly nodded hearing her, and leaving the food on the bed he quickly left the room. Once he closed the door, he sighed sadly reminiscing about his days with Zenith before, and how she behaved towards him. With her lovely smile that always adorned her face, he clenched his fists promising to return their relationship back to what it was before.

He knew what kind of woman Zenith was, and even if it took a lot of time, she would forgive him after their second child was born, thinking that he left the place. Meanwhile, Zenith slowly ate the food, which can be said to be quite tasty made with great patience by Paul, but not a bit of happiness was on her face.

The face of his dead son kept haunting her through the past weeks, she just wished she could have the strength to kill the bastard that killed her beloved son, her own husband, Paul. But she knew she neither had the strength nor the will to do so, now. The reason was simple, she was pregnant, and she didn't want to kill her innocent unborn child, by injuring herself.

That's why she also ate the food in front of her and didn't give up on eating, as she knew it could kill her unborn child. In her despair, only her unborn child was her hope and the reason to continue living. Otherwise, she had tried her best to kill Paul, even at the cost of her own life, or if she couldn't she would have chosen to die starving.

She had already decided that she would wait till her next child was born, and then leave her bastard husband forever which was clearly contrary to Paul's plan who just didn't understand how irreversible things had become for him. She slowly ate the food, and suddenly her eyes fell on her spoon, it was reflecting her sorrowful face.

Her face had lost the glimmer and shine it had just a few weeks ago, Suddenly she recalled one of the pleasant memories with her son, and she broke in tears. She quickly kept the food away and started crying unknown to her bastard husband who had a happy smile on his face, thinking everything would surely become as he wanted. It showed clearly that all the remorse and guilt he had for killing his son had almost vanished.

Hours passed by, and it was afternoon. Suddenly a luxurious chariot stopped in front of the Greyart residence surprising Paul who heard the noises of the horses. Since it was afternoon, and there wasn't a special occasion, no one was around to see the carriage other than Paul and Zenith who peeked from the window.

Paul quickly came with anticipation and nervousness, as he thought that it should be one of the members of his party, and he wasn't wrong as a certain Beast woman came out of the carriage, this time wearing less revealing clothes. Paul's eyes almost bulged out seeing the current Ghislaine, the tone of her skin had become a bit lighter, her hair had become fairer and soft, her curves were sexier, and how she didn't wear an eyepatch and didn't have scars made her sexier than before.

(A/N: Here is the current pic, and yeah there is a reason why she looks so different, especially her skin which is extremely lighter than before, the reason is simple, the Image generator I use doesn't not knows the meaning of brown skin, even after I typed it clearly in the prompt and typed white skin in the negative prompt)--->

He approached her almost in a daze and asked," Is that you? Ghislaine?!", disgust appeared on Ghislaine's face as she looked at Paul well aware of the fact, that he cheated on Zenith and then how he killed his own son while drunk. She was also secretly happy, that years ago Paul rejected her, otherwise, she would have ended up with a man like him, and have lost the chance to become Arthur's woman.

She was also well aware of the plans of his Master, to make Zenith his woman, and she fully supported him knowing that her best friend would be happier with him, than any man in this world, especially Paul. She also wanted to see the face of this bastard who had destroyed her best friend's life, when he saw, her wife getting fucked by Arthur.

She replied looking at him," Of course it's me bastard, who else it will be?", hearing the familiar voice and her tone coupled with the way she behaved, Paul understood that the woman in front of him was really Ghislaine, and he asked her astounded," B-but how? How do you look like this? Is it work of some makeup or Magic?!".

She snorted and replied," It is the work of a potion, that healed all my injuries and scars", he somewhat believed in that but then asked," But how did you get it? And why is your skin fairer?", she grunted and said controlling her urge to kill the man in front of her," Here, your wife is in trauma from what you have done, and you are here, asking your teammate why the heck she got more beautiful".

Paul understood he had crossed the line and chuckled nervously," I apologize Ghislaine, it's just- You are so different, and more beauti-*ahem*", he said, Ghislaine got more disgusted by the shameless man in front of her. Paul wanted to make the mood better so he decided to divert her attention," Still, why did you rent such a luxurious carriage? It must have cost a hefty sum for you."

A hint of pride appeared in her eyes as she said," It is one of the carriages belonging to my husband", her words stunned Paul, who was quick to catch on the fact that Ghislaine had married, still due to shock and reluctance he asked," You have married?!", his tone annoyed her greatly, and then she said in a mocking tone," Of course, if a bastard like you can get married, why I can't get married?!"

He paused hearing that, as the fact that the woman he considered to be his had married someone else, he had already denied her proposal years ago, yet till now he considered her to be his woman in a way as he had taken her virginity, but now the fact that she had married someone else and had enjoyed her new sexier body, seeped into his mind, making him envious and angry.

' Fuck! What the hell I am thinking?! I have invited her to help Zenith, I will ponder about this later on, for now, Zenith's health is more important ', he thought and then said," I see, anyway, Ghislaine let's go quickly, I am sure that the mood of Zenith will become better after meeting you".

Suddenly the door of the carriage opened again, and a handsome young blonde-haired man came out, he approached Zenith from behind and put his hand on her waist. Paul was stunned and then he glanced at the man surprised, as the man was extremely handsome and had a striking resemblance to him. Of course other than the fact that the man is handsome, Paul ignored how his face was quite similar to him, and especially Zenith.

" Let me introduce to you Paul, this is my husband Arthur", said Ghislaine with pride in her voice, and then snuggled in his arms enjoying the warmth radiating from his body. Paul felt envious seeing this and wanted to beat the man, but when Arthur's sharp eyes fell on him he paused, those eyes scared at him, as it looked that behind those gentle eyes was a storm that wanted to devour everything.

He even felt scared as sweat started oozing out of his body. He gulped down his saliva in instinctual fear and said," H- Hi I am Paul Greyart", he forwarded his hand for a handshake, but Arthur didn't take it, making him feel awkward. Arthur smiled and said," My wife told me how her friend's bastard husband cheated on her and then killed his own son traumatizing her friend, and thus I decided to accompany her".

Paul trembled hearing that, he knew what Arthur had said was correct but he couldn't help but feel angry on hearing that especially since he is Ghislaine's husband, heck if he was given the chance to Zenith, and Ghislaine back then, if Ghislaine was this beautiful he would have definitely chosen her. He looked at Arthur, trying his best to not make an angry look on his face.

" Rudy!!", shouted Zenith as she ran towards Arthur, and taking everyone by surprise she hugged Arthur and started crying," Where were you?! Everyone said you had died!!", she said and hugged him tightly, Paul and Ghislaine stood silent too stunned by the situation, even Arthur was quite surprised by this, ' I see, despite the fact I look different from OG grown up Rudy, you still can recognize me mother ', he thought and then hugged her, letting her cry on his chest.

He quickly comforted him, as if comforting a child," It's okay, mother, everything will be fine", he said and then thought,' Don't worry mother, I will never leave you again'.

He had already decided,' Zenith is Mine '.

To be continued...

(Author's Note: I hope the chapter was good, also here you can see just how much I have improved in my writing skills, I mean I do hope I have improved, right?!

P.S.: Give this fic powerstones, just wanna see how many loyal readers I still have for this fic)