The Purpose of Heading to Athens
“Hey, you there.”
At the sound of someone calling, I opened my eyes. Lifting my head from where I lay sprawled across the field, I saw a merchant caravan passing by.
“If you sleep out here, your mouth will go crooked.”
“Not get eaten by monsters?”
“That too.”
They had spoken up out of concern that I might quietly get eaten and die.
I rose from the ground and looked at them for the kindness they had shown.
“Well, the road’s been too hard. If it’s not too much trouble, would you mind if I joined you?”
The merchants muttered among themselves, then nodded in agreement.
Climbing onto one of the wagons, I found three other sword-wielders already there besides me.
One was a slender woman, another a burly, massive man.
And the last was a short woman with ample breasts.
But none of them stirred my cock in the slightest.
The man was out because reacting would make me gay, and both women were overwhelmingly inferior in looks.
They couldn’t even match the heels of Hera and Hestia, let alone Phylotera from her days.
“What are you staring at?”
“Nothing.”
I smiled brightly and held out my hand.
“Since fate brought us together, how about we introduce ourselves?”
“I don’t talk to people who hide their faces.”
The slender woman snapped sharply and turned away. Embarrassed, I scratched my head and looked to the side.
“I have my reasons.”
“What reasons?”
The big-breasted woman asked back.
I grinned and patted the short woman’s head.
“Kid, go suck on your mom’s tits some more.”
“Want me to feed you mine, you bastard?”
Ah, that would be nice……
No. No. No.
Has my brain melted from too much frequent sex?
I’m a gourmet who fucks goddesses and leaves reviews.
Not some omnivore who grabs common women lying around everywhere.
A goddess hunter should maintain the nobility and dignity befitting a hunter.
“Sorry.”
I apologized politely and sat down.
Silence passed for a while inside the rattling wagon.
“Hey, Alkyones. How much farther to Athens?”
“Ask the merchants, Sophia.”
The slender female warrior called Sophia clicked her tongue, looked out the window, and shouted.
“How much farther?”
“We still have ten more days to go!”
Sophia crossed her arms with a clearly uncomfortable expression. The big-titted swordswoman grabbed Sophia’s wrist and pulled.
“What is it, Themira?”
“What’s the point of fretting like that?”
“Ahaha……”
Well, look at that.
The way they were clinging and rubbing against each other, it looked like they were about to spread a blanket right here and now.
“Are you two dating?”
I asked in a polite tone. Then Themira glared at me with sharp eyes.
“Yeah, so what?”
I’d heard that female homosexuality was shunned in ancient Greece.
It really hit home that this was another world.
Otherwise, this sexist ideology that only favored male homosexuality would have been rampant.
Wait a minute.
Then what about that bastard Zeus?
Fuck, I really did get stuck with a piece of shit.
I habitually cursed Zeus inwardly as usual and crossed my arms. Meanwhile, the burly man, Alkyones, looked at me.
“You seemed to be coming from near Astropolis. Where were you living?”
“The Temple of the Hearth.”
“Hoh……”
Alkyones spoke with interest.
“An orphan from there?”
“Are you insulting me for having no parents right now?”
When I glared wide-eyed, Alkyones flustered and hurriedly waved his hands.
“I-I didn’t mean it that way! I apologize!”
This guy.
More polite than I expected.
Ominously so.
I shrugged my shoulders.
“Well, don’t worry about it too much. I’m already used to it anyway.”
At my words, the expressions of the three sword-wielders looking at me were all peculiar.
“Anyway, I’m also heading to Athens.”
After introducing myself, I looked around at the other three.
“Same for you?”
Each of them nodded.
Sophia looked down at her sword and stroked it.
“My wish is to become a faithful warrior of the Moon Goddess Artemis. For her sake, I want to be reborn as a great warrior worthy of her name.”
No wonder she’s a lesbian.
Serving a goddess just like herself.
If this is another world that even favors lesbians……
That virgin goddess Artemis, that bitch.
Don’t tell me she’s a lesbian too?
Nah, no way.
That would mean I have to fuck a lesbian.
Basically, rape her and corrupt her into a bitch.
My cock is getting hard.
“Hmm? Something’s bulging in your lower half?”
“Just your imagination.”
At Sophia’s words, I waved my hand and turned to the big-titted warrior, Themira.
“What about you?”
Themira raised both hands high and shouted fully.
Her breasts jiggled.
“My wish is to snatch the greatest hero in the world and live well as his wife! Kill all the ones I don’t like!”
Like the primal desire hanging on her chest, she openly revealed her desire.
“I thought you were a lesbian?”
“I’m bisexual!”
“Can you say that with your girlfriend right next to you?”
“I can!”
I glanced at Sophia. She was looking at Themira and smiling awkwardly.
The atmosphere was strange.
“Well, fine.”
I naturally turned to Alkyones and selected him as the next batter. He looked at us silently before opening his mouth.
“I want to become a great warrior who surpasses Heracles.”
Finally, their gazes poured onto me. I looked down at Hestia’s ritual sword.
Unlike the other swords, it was on the short side.
But its sleek, well-honed curve was designed to cut flesh easily.
Hestia is the Goddess of the Hearth and also a goddess of fire. A being who owns part of Hephaestus’s jurisdiction.
That’s why she’s also a goddess of rituals.
The goddess who oversees the sacrifices offered to the gods.
As a ritual knife for offering sacrifices to the fire, one could say there is virtually no finer famous sword than this.
Because it’s a divine artifact.
“There’s a woman I promised in my hometown.”
At those words, the two women let out “Ohhh” of admiration, and Alkyones whistled.
“I promised. To become a strong man, return, and marry her.”
It’s a bit—no, quite different from the truth, but summarizing roughly, one could say that.
“That’s why I must become strong for the sake of the woman waiting in my hometown.”
It felt like I was saying something terribly ominous myself, but I dismissed it as imagination.
And at that moment.
Clunk!
The wagon stopped.
“Huh?”
As I looked around, the other sword-wielders all grabbed their weapons at once.
And with skilled hands, they took combat stances.
“Monsters?”
“Get ready, stranger!”
“It’s Demokres.”
I used an alias just in case.
Out of concern of being spotted by Zeus’s eyes while wandering around.
“Right, Demokres! Get ready! They’re Nepherions!”
Humanoid monsters were attacking the merchants. They smashed goods indiscriminately and tore people apart.
“Aaaargh!”
Merchants were torn in half, spilling blood. Each flailed, struggling to escape the hellscape.
Bang!
I stepped forward one pace. And protected the merchant who had spoken to me earlier.
“Th-thank you……”
“Run! Get out of here!”
I shoved the Nepherion in front with my shield and looked around.
Fifteen of them…… Why are there so many?
Is there a reason for monsters to swarm like this?
Looking around, Sophia and Alkyones were fiercely swinging their swords, cutting down the monsters.
But Themira?
“This should be enough, right? Let’s run.”
Her voice faintly came from over there. I walked in that direction while cutting down monsters.
“That bitch Sophia. I couldn’t stand the sight of her, but she’s finally going to die.”
Saying that, Themira ground her teeth.
“I didn’t like how she acted even though she was my lover! She acted like nothing even when my father died!”
Themira tried to raise her voice but forced it down.
I took another step closer.
“Rather, not dying by my own hand is the last thing I can do for her!”
Thud, thud.
“Luckily I swiped a monster-summoning bell from Aphrodite’s Temple! Now if I just drop this somewhere secretly……”
Slash!
I tore the cloth curtain from which the voice was coming. Themira appeared from inside the overturned wagon.
Her face was shocked.
“De-Demokres?”
For a moment, I almost asked who that was.
Remembering it was my alias, I grinned.
“You were having quite an interesting conversation.”
“What are you doing right now……!”
“Those tits are a waste, you bitch.”
I swung my sword.
The bell in Themira’s grip flew into the air.
“Kyaaaaah!”
As she screamed, she eyed the sword she had dropped on the ground. But I sliced her other wrist in half as well.
Her palm split top and bottom and dangled.
“Aaaaargh!!”
“That’s what you get for greed……”
I snatched the bell from the air and turned around.
Unable to grip their swords, they were horrified at the Nepherions creeping closer.
“De-Demokres! S-save……!”
Crunch! Crack!
Themira was bitten and torn to shreds horribly by the monsters she herself had summoned.
I shook the blood off the tip of my sword.
And raised my shield.
“Come!”
The monsters that had been biting Themira were all sliced under my sword tip.
And so the remaining monsters were all slain by me, Sophia, and Alkyones.
Along with the stupid woman who had summoned them.
Aww, even thinking about it again, those tits are such a waste I could die……