God of the Sea (2)
God of the Sea (2)
[This feeling is...]
"Hey. Hey!"
[Love. I see. This heart that came like a wave, it must be the fate called love.]
"Snap out of it, you asshole!"
[Ah, to think I would find true love in such a barren dimension! Wait for me. Right now... kheoheok!]
"Right now, my ass! You're blinded by lust. Snap out of it, you asshole!!"
I smacked the back of Poseidon's head, who was blinded by lust and about to dash off.
Perhaps he really was blinded, because even though I swung my arm quite openly, he couldn't even dodge it.
Still, Poseidon, hit by a kick that had quite a bit of force behind it, slammed into the water's surface and sank.
To be honest, the moment I noticed Poseidon targeting Shin Su-ah, I didn't feel very good.
It's not like I like Shin Su-ah or anything.
The relationship between me and Shin Su-ah definitely started as a business transaction.
But I think it has developed into something like a close friendship by now.
But then this guy—who's old, has many wives, many children, and causes a lot of trouble—was targeting that friend of mine, hiding his base desires under the name of love.
"Sigh. And I thought this would go smoothly."
I don't think a guy blinded by lust will easily give up on Shin Su-ah just because he got smacked in the back of the head.
That's even more true when I think about the myths I heard from Yoo Da-eun.
The gods of Olympus giving up their desires over something like this?
If they did, half the incidents that broke out in that world would have disappeared.
And as if to prove my point, the sea bubbled, and Poseidon popped out with an extremely angry expression.
He reappeared from the sea, no longer in the state of just having a white cloth wrapped around his waist like a moment ago.
I don't know where he got it, but he was wearing blue and gold armor that covered his entire body except for his face.
He was wearing armor with fin-like decorations.
I can feel a special magic power from his armor.
It's not on the level of the trident he's been holding from the start, but that probably isn't ordinary armor either.
[Dragon. Do you dare think of interfering with my love?]
"Interfere? To begin with, that girl is like my subordinate. Take that dirty gaze off my subordinate. If you don't want to die."
[Is that so. Since ancient times, dragons have often shown the aspect of guardians protecting beautiful and precious treasures. If you block me, I will simply do my best to eliminate you to obtain the treasure (Shin Su-ah).]
"You can say anything. Let's see you try."
I stood my ground without taking a single step back against Poseidon, who raised his trident and was clearly threatening me.
A murderous aura, enough that it wouldn't be strange if we lunged at each other at any moment, was directed at one another.
Just then, several magic powers entered my detection range, cutting through the sea in the distance.
When I turned my head toward where the magic was detected, I saw a warship approaching this way.
'Linnea?'
And Linnea was among them.
Linnea, who seemed to have used magic, was standing on the deck, hiding her presence.
Beside her was Park Gwang, whom I had encountered as soon as I arrived in Busan.
"Father-!!"
[Hmm?]
"What did you say?"
As the ship approached, Park Gwang, who was standing on the deck, said something unexpected.
Father, he said.
Didn't I hear from Baek Yeon that he didn't have any biological parents?
But why is he suddenly calling Poseidon 'Father'?
Poseidon's aura, having heard Park Gwang's voice, subsided a notch.
Poseidon, having calmed the fighting spirit and murderous intent that seemed ready to clash at any moment, turned his body to face Park Gwang.
[My son. What brings you here?]
"He's really his son?"
Up until Park Gwang mentioned 'Father', I thought he might have gone crazy, but the moment the word 'son' came directly out of Poseidon's mouth, the situation changed.
I thought he was suspicious, but to think he was Poseidon's son.
No, more than that.
"You have a son, yet you're targeting my subordinate?"
[Ahem. What does love have to do with having a son?]
"Then tell me honestly. If you have a son, that means you have a wife, right?"
[Ah, is that what you meant. That child is indeed my son, but not my biological son. He is a son I adopted.]
"Is that so? Then you don't have a wife?"
[Th... ahem. Let's move on from this topic.]
"Hey. Why can't you answer? Do you have a wife or not?"
[Why should I tell you that?]
"This asshole, looking at his reaction, he might not have one on Earth, but he definitely has a wife in that other world."
[Ahem! Kheo-khem!!]
Poseidon, unable to even answer properly as if I'd hit the nail on the head.
I knew it from the moment he started acting with his lower half, but to act like this even with a wife.
These mythological bastards really do have their brains in their lower halves.
While Poseidon and I were having a private conversation, Park Gwang, who had approached on the ship across the sea that had calmed down due to the power of Poseidon's trident, asked.
"What's goin' on here? What the hell happened here?"
"Didn't you hear the report? I found the Fiends' base."
"I know that much, but what's that got to do with these piles of monster corpses?"
"The leader of those cockroach-like things opened a massive Gate to escape. The reason the area looks like this is because I took care of the monsters that came out of the Gate before they could run away."
Park Gwang was clearly looking at Poseidon when he asked, but since Poseidon only arrived after the situation was mostly over and wouldn't know, I explained instead.
"Whoa, you took care of all these tons of monsters all by yourself?"
Park Gwang marveled, looking at the countless corpses scattered around.
After kindly answering all the questions he asked to satisfy his curiosity, I asked him a question in return.
There's a lot I need to hear from him.
"Why do you call Poseidon 'Father'? I heard you were adopted, but when did you end up under this guy?"
"That's, well..."
[Wait. I will tell you about that instead.]
Just as Park Gwang, who finally realized what he had said, was about to tell the truth with a somewhat serious face, Poseidon blocked his path and said he would tell it instead.
And the words that came out of his mouth were so unbelievable that I wondered, 'Did Poseidon really do that?'
[My first meeting with that child was on a night when a fierce storm was raging.]
Park Gwang was barely holding onto the bow of a small fishing boat that was swaying back and forth, caught in a fierce storm, to the point where it wouldn't have been strange if it capsized at any moment.
A storm was just a matter on the sea surface, so it didn't matter to Poseidon, who was recovering his strength under the sea, but that day, for some reason, Poseidon, who was feeling sentimental and had come up to the surface to face the storm head-on, discovered Park Gwang.
Originally, whether in the Olympus world or on Earth, people dying after being swept up in a storm at sea was common, so the usual Poseidon wouldn't have cared.
But the current Poseidon was in a sentimental state.
Quite some time had passed since he had left all his wives and children in the Olympus world and crossed over as if he were being chased out alone, recovering his strength.
"What? Wives?"
[Ahem! Th-that, let's move on for now.]
Poseidon turned his head to avoid my gaze and continued.
Anyway, he said he was suffering from homesickness and longing for his family at that time.
Then he happened to discover Park Gwang.
Park Gwang's fishing boat, which was in a situation where it wouldn't be strange if he died at any moment no matter how much he had awakened his magic power, eventually capsized, and for some reason, Poseidon saved him and took him to his dwelling.
And he said he took care of him until he woke up.
When Park Gwang, who had been unconscious for a while, woke up again.
"Where is this? No... who, who am I?"
He showed confusion in his memory due to the shock of hitting his head on the fishing boat and falling into the sea.
Poseidon, who was agonizing over what to do with Park Gwang, who didn't even know his name or where he came from, came to an unexpected conclusion.
[Your name is Pelagos. The child of the great God of the Sea, Poseidon, Pelagos.]
Poseidon, who had arbitrarily made Park Gwang his child and even given him the name Pelagos, treated him like a real child from then on.
He gathered precious things from the sea and fed them to him, and even watched over him as he directly handled magic power.
And he even taught him the power to control the sea, which was like Poseidon's own authority.
At the time, Poseidon also said he taught him sincerely due to the family love he felt for the first time in a while.
A month like that.
Park Gwang, who had become unbelievably stronger compared to the beginning, regained his memory quite by chance.
The recovery of his memory came suddenly while he was learning the operation of magic power from Poseidon as always.
Amidst the memories pouring down like a waterfall, Park Gwang felt a family love he had never felt before.
The adults he had met so far only looked at Park Gwang's talent and magic power and only thought about using him, but Poseidon bestowed unconditional love upon him despite having power that made comparing it to Park Gwang's meaningless.
Park Gwang, who confessed the things that had happened to him so far truthfully in response.
After honest conversations were exchanged, Poseidon and Park Gwang truly became family.
But that time did not last long.
Poseidon, who had recovered from his homesickness, had to recover his strength to return to Olympus, and to do that, he had to go down to the deep sea.
Park Gwang thought it wouldn't matter if he didn't return like this, but since it was awkward to keep staying where Poseidon wasn't, he decided to return to Korea after a little over a month.
And Park Gwang, who returned to Korea across the calm sea with Poseidon's consideration, shook off the temptations of guilds and corporations, joined the Association, and reached the present.
Hearing the bond between Poseidon and Park Gwang, I muttered without realizing it.
"What the hell, why is it so normal?"
For a family story, it's not very 'Olympian', is it?