Chapter 333 – 332. Lull (1)
I expected that Hestia would intervene.
She is a goddess who wishes for family well-being and peace. Her realm overlaps with Hera, but since she is the goddess who protects the hearth, she predicted what would happen in the future because of this and thought she would intervene here.
Anyway, even though it was an arranged marriage, she is my wife, and I’m not so crazy that I don’t even listen to what my wife says.
“Okay, I’ll wait. If there’s anything I can say that’s worth waiting for.”
“…That cheeky-“
“Persephone, you keep your mouth shut.”
Of all the words that came out of Hestia’s mouth, these were probably the harshest.
And only then did Persephone close her mouth. In chronological order, she is Persephone’s aunt and great-aunt.
Why does that happen?
The genealogy of all gods is like that.
She is the sister of Zeus and the sister of Demeter.
Anyway, she’s pretty good so she doesn’t use harsh words often.
Her personality is gentle, and she is kind and kind.
What is more important is that she has absolutely no interest in anything other than protecting her true domain and the people beneath her, her own followers and Phrygians.
…
Usually, the more influence her divinity and authority have on humans, the more she is placed in the position of the 12th ruler, and her nephew, Dionysus.
It’s because of you that I ruined my mood, so take responsibility!
Even though she handed over her position to him and only had the title of Goddess of the Hearth, she had considerable authority.
Even in real mythology, he is the only god who has not had any accidents.
Because the meaning of the embers is warmth, shelter, and hope for a haven, she, as well as her priests and temples, are the only ones in this world who take in orphans, run orphanages, and take in children who have lost their parents and abandoned children. I mean, I went there.
Since this is the nature of the god above, neither the believers nor the priests were the only ones who did not oppose me.
Instead, he came to me and expressed his condolences.
To be exact, it was three days after Hestia had arranged her arranged marriage with me.
-I’m very sorry about what happened to Dunbringer. Prince Clark.
-…What about that one?
-I belong to the Church of Vesta (Hestia). Your family was the family that provided a lot of support in Dunbringer, especially in Magia.
It did.
Worldwide.
I sponsored and went to an orphanage on the continent.
Well, it felt really strange to see that behavior back then.
The only blasphemer, god-slayer.
A denomination that doesn’t call you a monster.
This is so precious.
Even though I am usually harsh with priests, it is difficult to do so when it comes out like this.
No, in the first place, they are Phrygia’s only conscience.
-As I heard, Young master also-
_It’s okay. I just walked around with people I knew.
-…Okay. However, good intentions in action must be respected.
-Even if it’s just a pretense?
Hypocrisy in action, and good faith in inaction.
Which of the two is better?
Said the priest.
Many children were saved through that.
-There are many children who were saved because of that pretense. Children will do more good deeds. And, since you are trusted by Master Vesta, there is no way you could have helped them with evil intentions.
It’s shitty to not have even one parent, but how terrible are orphans who were abandoned at birth?
It just feels like that.
In the first place, I learned all about magic, and as my father said, who told me to learn more about the world rather than focusing on magic, it was a good experience in many ways.
Well, anyway, she was a priest, a believer, and most of the orphans who were born in Phrygia were taken in and raised by the Church of Vesta, and that is why she is the good deity of all people of Phrygia.
Although she is somewhat mischievous, she has no malice and is driven solely by good intentions.
In any case, I respect her authority and await her intervention and words.
Persephone grits her teeth at me, but of course Hestia asks me.
“Clarke, is there anything you want from Persephone?”
“Just that dog…No- I don’t even want to face that one?“
He tries to spit out her swear words, but since Hestia is interceding anyway, he barely holds back her swear words out of respect for her.
Of course, this is my truth.
Persephone doesn’t even want to face her.
If she sees it, she gets so angry and annoyed that she wants to break that head off.
“Then, if Demeter pays additional compensation, will the anger be appeased?”
“It depends on what you give. I’ll tell you in advance that I don’t need anything related to my status, and all I want is material things. If you don’t want to give me something worth researching or anything like that, then I can just forgo this transaction.”
“The only thing I can give you is a curse Clark!!”
Demeter must have been upset too.
After all, his own child came back from the dead and even got hit on the cheek right before his eyes. How can he be so appalled?
I understand, but I’m just a sucker.
“I guess so. What can it be?”
I want to hit the pad lip, but I hold back.
What would it be like to say such words in front of the goddess who is in charge of family peace and rest?
Because I respect her, I know that this is what she is saying, so her Ilias tsk and clicks her tongue, and Ares just looks at this shit while holding her eyebrows and spits out her words.
“Persephone was the one who did something wrong in the first place. Isn’t that right?”
“I agree with that, but what Persephone gives you doesn’t mean anything to Clark right now, does it?”
“I just wish I didn’t see him. Really. I feel like I’m going to throw up if there’s more here and there.”
They are openly trying to make a dead person come back to life, but the god of death’s eyes are open next to them, and when he says that he will save the person, I hit him on the side and feel that even if he rolls on the ground in pain from hitting his side, I will be less angry than this. Am.
“Then, if Demeter won’t do it, let me do it.”
“…Hestia!!!”
Wow.
If you work, you should be paid, but this is taken away.
If I default on the contract, will I get upset or not?
Of course she doesn’t know that.
If I were to pay the price, what I would suffer would be almost like death.
Knowing that, Hestia explains to Demeter.
“Then what are you going to do? We all agreed to let him be Zeus’s father. You should try to take out your anger on Clark, who is his representative, for doing what you couldn’t even do for Zeus, but unlike Zeus, Clark doesn’t have any regrets towards you. . This is the cold reality, the reality that you cannot see because you are swallowed up by your anger. And… You are not as good as before.The Great FamineEven if you summon it, Clark will easily neutralize your power.”
And-
“And if you do that, your divinity will suffer greatly, and it means nothing.”
Hestia looked at me clearly.
Okay.
As a being who can touch divinity, of course… Very naturally.
This leads to the expulsion of the divinity from Phrygia.
As much as I was fucked by these two mother and daughter, there will be no mercy whatsoever.
“On the contrary, Demeter, Clark suffered tremendously because of what you told him to do, so it is right for you to compensate him for the damage.”
“But my Persephone!”
Tsk.
What would it be like if my father or birth mother felt that way?
It probably really sucked.
In another way, I think I was even more of a mess than I am now.
And Hestia doesn’t seem to want to argue with that, so she leisurely changes the subject to prevent him from saying any more.
“There is much to argue about your misguided love for children, but Clark fought for three days in the realm of Hades to save your daughter. Yes… None other than my [Husband].”
?
This is what I call [Husband] Here.
Not only Ilias, but even Liz reacts to it and becomes wary.
Sometimes she comes in like this.
Above all, I don’t dislike her at all, she is solid in her own way, works hard at her work, and if I had met her first instead of her Ilias, I think I might have loved her more.
“…!”
There is no wife who wouldn’t be angry when her husband was treated like that.
Mira, Liz, Ilias and Withi.
Just by looking at them, you can already get the answer.
“If you think about it, it was Persephone who inflicted such disrespect on my husband, but if we look at the principles, whose fault is more? Should we hold a trial? A trial that would not be good for my daughter at all. With my divinity at stake, I no longer believe in God. If not… Who will lose the most? Whichever way you go, Clark won’t lose, so just calm down your anger, Demeter.”
“..Tell me to calm down my anger?”
“Your daughter almost made me a widow. She tried to.”
Ultimately, it was a failure, but only then did Demeter soften a little.
After all, her husband is just as important as her daughter.
To Demeter, men were like bastards like Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon, and raising her daughter Persephone was the only source of vitality in her life.
“As a result, even this is because Clark has formed an alliance with us, so he kept the contract and brought her in. If it were an alliance and there was no contract, Clark would not have hesitated to give Persephone death if she had done such a thing.”
Yeah, I guess so.
Hestia turned to me as if telling me to speak, and I also held her hand tightly and spoke to Demeter.
“… I ask you this with the same parental heart. If you can’t tolerate me hurting Persephone, removing her renal core, and dragging her here, then Persephone’s actions of trying to curse my daughter with her sleep of death? “What do you think about it?”
“…That..!”
“Of course, I endured it once and gave him that chance. From the moment he made the nonsense of taking the dead man with him in front of Lord Mortus, in fact, if it weren’t for me, he would have already been killed by Lord Mortus.”
And Mortus agrees with that.
Invasion of territory and violation of rules are punishable by death.
Especially if it is God’s domain.
“Yes. I didn’t kill her because I had to keep her alive according to the terms of the contract. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have wanted to let this bitch who arbitrarily invaded my territory live.”
“…Now, here’s the question, Mortus – how will you handle this matter? Do you want Mr. Clark to shed blood? Or will you leave it to Mr. Clark’s will?”
The final wedge.
Hestia’s question.
Of course, leave Mortus to me.
“I will follow my successor’s choice. Since this is a matter that involves you all from beginning to end, I will respect my successor’s choice.”
I’ve laid out the board so much, but what’s the point if I don’t catch it?
It’s an asshole.
Fortunately for me, nothing happened that caused this woman to do anything crazy.
Okay.
I’m so glad.
There is no need to break the pot since actually touching the environment leads to very annoying results due to the nature of my existence.
“…I will give you the branches and roots of my favorite [Sacred tree].”
“Okay, then.”
At least, it is a sacred tree that contains Demeter’s earthly power.
Later, when Demeter leaves her hand, it is a necessary work so that her power can enrich her land, and since she supports Hector, it is also a necessary item to strengthen Hector.
“…?”
And rather Demeter looks on with her surprised face.
What are you looking at? It’s this woman.
Is it so strange to accept that you have to pay that extra price?
“Why, is it strange that I just take this and quit?”
“…That’s a very miscellaneous thing.”
“Are you planning on giving something like that to Clark just now?”
My sister, who was listening quietly, tried to get angry about it, but-
Done.
That’s enough.
“Research is possible with just one small thing. If you know what kind of person I am“That alone would run out of money, but this is enough.”
You will receive it from Hestia and Ares later.
Persephone…
Well.
It doesn’t matter because I already have enough broken pots.
Well, there are probably other gods besides…
Anyway, the pieces and branches of the sacred tree given by Demeter.
Only after accepting it, which contained Demeter’s power, did I truly apologize to Demeter.
How shitty it must have felt to be beaten by someone else for doing something that, in the minds of her parents, was a bad thing for their child.
So I apologize.
“I apologize for getting angry and hitting on Persephone. I should have left this up to you first, but I didn’t.”
“…What if you didn’t like the punishment I gave you?”
“It’s punishment. Come to think of it, I had to decide on that too.”
“…!”
“It’s okay. Anyway, I’ve resolved my frustration with this, and you can take care of the punishment for being rude and breaking the rules.”
“…Shouldn’t you supervise?”
Hestia also asked about it, but I just smiled and looked at the people here and said.
“If I didn’t screw up, my faith would have already run out anyway, right? Why?”
Why did I do public taxidermy here?
Even if I just dragged the pot out without breaking it and showed everything that happened, it could have dealt a huge blow to the reputation.
It’s just that she’s so upset that she can’t stand it anymore, but now she has almost nothing.
All the power he gained in the underworld was cut off when his new core was removed, and he suffered complete disgrace.
That’s right, I was openly and publicly stuffed, but can Shinsung hold on?
It is only when faith and reverence arise that divinity becomes stronger.
What happens if it disappears?
“…You!!!”
Only then does Demeter realize.
“…Did I tell you? It won’t be a cheap price. Either you die or your divinity is briefly reduced, but… I don’t know how it feels to be downgraded from the Queen of the Underworld to an ordinary god in an instant?”
Hestia didn’t say anything, perhaps because she was prepared for this.
Well, shouldn’t she be thankful that she’s alive even after doing something she deserved?
