126. That Bloodline, Connected to That Bloodline
126. That Bloodline, Connected to That Bloodline
A few days later
Man-Seducing Heat Attack Phase X
The remaining period until the end of the internship──a single day.
It was a time that amounted to only about one week at most, but to the goddess, it was a whole entire week.
Contrary to the bravado she had shown, vowing to conquer him in just one day
[Even so, that's a bit....]
[..............]
"......I see"
Failure after failure after failure after failure
Ultimately, Athena acknowledged herself and rose from her seat to declare.
"Let's just remove his reason and lock him up!"
A bastard who isn't human should not be treated as a human.
At least in Athena's eyes, Chrono was not a human bastard.
'If he were human, it would have been over ages ago'
She had put in tremendous effort.
She had even set aside the very thought of being a goddess and truly did her absolute best to try to conquer Chrono.
She attempted dates.
She tried launching unique events too.
She even had them spend an entire night together
She even agonized whether to just have her pounce on him outright at night.
"But this guy is some kind of...."
[......Uh..]
A date?
[Getting along?]
[In our own way]
[...........]
Pegasus just would not leave.
[Won't you go watch a movie?]
A unique event?
[Ah, already saw that one....]
[Mai already saw it too]
[..........]
They were ones who had already enjoyed something beyond that, so it had no effect.
[Um excuse me......]
Spending a whole night together?
[Yah, aren't you coming to gang?]
[They said they're not going to a burst lane]
[Ah, I'm carrying!]
[0/3/0 is carrying?]
[I got unfairly targeted!]
[.......Eugh...]
They just did not sleep at all.
[K...rono...!]
So she tried a full-on physical charge, to just pounce without looking back
[Huaah....Huaaaaa...♥♥]
[...This has a kind of onahole feel to it]
[....U...Uwek....!]
The two were already doing it.
To say nothing of Minerva, who was conducting defeated masturbation beyond the door.
"Sure enough, the answer is confinement!"
Athena lost her reason.
She absolutely could not endure this situation without losing her reason.
Chrono constantly evading the goddess's wisdom.
Because this was, in a certain sense, akin to an insult against the divine.
As Athena, who simply could not bring herself to make a declaration of defeat, was on the verge of taking actions a goddess must not take
"A fine thing you're doing."
"!,....Hera...?"
Hera, who appeared within the temple.
As if finding this situation quite laughable, she approached Athena.
"I overlooked it, finding your heart that wishes to connect the love of those two commendable, but crossing the line will be troublesome."
"....Would it truly be a problem anywhere?"
"It wouldn't be a problem, you say."
Indeed, exactly as those words stated
Since they were a pair meant to be connected in the first place, even if she forced them together, there would be no problem.
"...That you think so, is your limit."
"M...uuh...Huuuu..."
She had many things she wanted to say.
But she could not.
For Ultimately, the results proved it.
If she had truly handled the matter as the goddess of wisdom, this situation would have been unfolding nicely according to her will.
But if every single thing that unfolded failed repeatedly, that meant she was wrong.
'A limit....'
Defeated by a human
For the goddess of wisdom, a battle lost in wisdom
As she trembled, clenching her fist at this fact, Hera exhaled once more.
"Every thought you have is visible to me, Athena. Do you think you lost in a contest of wisdom?"
"....I did not lose."
No, she lost.
But she could not admit she lost.
Her pride would not permit it.
"Do not put on airs of pride before me. Does your already unsightly appearance not become even more unsightly?"
".............."
Hera's sharp tone.
This attitude of hers was not unfamiliar.
Ares
The son of Hera.
He had consistently lost in contests against Athena over and over
And above all, as a child born of Zeus's infidelity, there was nothing about him that pleased her heart.
The child born of infidelity tramples upon the child born of proper blood.
For Hera, who had witnessed that scene countless times, how sweet an opportunity such as this moment must have been.
"At least in this aspect, Ares is far superior. For Ares knows the 'human'."
".......Keuk...!"
At least in the 'relations between men and women', it meant it was proven that Ares was one step above Minerva.
"...Did you come, to criticize me?"
Athena quietly suppressed her emotions and turned her eyes toward Hera.
"You hide your emotions and expression to conceal your unsightliness, you say. Do you not know that even that only accentuates the unsightliness?"
".............."
Hera, whose skill at nagging had reached an artistic realm.
A skill that seemed as though she had never once lost a verbal fight anywhere.
As Athena's mentality was gradually reaching its limit, Hera finally brought up the main point.
"Let go of this, Athena."
"....Hera..."
Let go of the child.
Meaning, do not interfere with the apostle she, herself, had designated.
"Aren't those words... a bit too much?"
It was practically an act of trampling the other's authority.
No matter how much it was Hera, she had no right to speak that way toward Athena, who sat upon the seat of the Main Gods.
Thus, as Athena was also gradually raising her divine power and preparing to resist
"How funny. What became of your child when you laid your hand on him?"
"..........."
Once again, a reflection upon reality, upon the results.
Athena bit her lip hard and swallowed, then asked toward Hera.
"Then... what must I do? Please, grant wisdom unto me."
"Wisdom, wisdom, she says. The one called the goddess of wisdom asks another for wisdom."
Is that not a truly amusing thing?
"................"
A sound argument
A truth she could not deny a single bit of
As she finally remained silently with her head bowed, listening, Hera opened her mouth, saying that was enough now.
"Athena, the very premise was wrong from the beginning."
"Yes...?"
The premise
In the contest
The premise in 'love'
"Where is wisdom in the logic of 'love'?"
".....Ah"
That was it
'Love' and 'wisdom' were distinctly different.
Therefore, no matter how hard Athena mustered all her strength and squeezed out 'wisdom', if it did not fit the lock of love, it would be mercilessly discarded.
In other words
"She is a virgin goddess who is wise but knows not love, so it cannot be helped."
"................."
From the very start, the contest itself was an unwinnable fight.
Not her main profession, but a completely different category of fight.
Because she had tried to forcibly insert that into her own domain and fight, of course the screws were bound to not fit.
"....I, what should I do?"
"Hm?"
"Please, tell me the answer."
"....Hooooh"
Athena, head bowed.
Practically a declaration of surrender.
Hera, with a deep smile on her face, spoke toward Athena.
"Do you truly wish to know the answer?"
"Yes. For my child, I want to do my absolute best."
"Then, very well. I shall tell you the answer, as you wish."
One who neither possesses wisdom nor knows love
One who knows the pleasure of the body but knows not the warmth of the heart
"Go to the one who is more impulsive than anyone, who follows emotion rather than wisdom. In his hands lies the answer regarding your child."
".......Ha"
What those words meant was simple.
'She means go and bow your head to Ares....'
Hera spouting out exactly as she pleased.
She was gradually wanting to overturn the Queen of the Gods and everything else entirely, but to do so, she had too many things to feel sorry for toward Minerva.
"Huuuuu....."
She should have realized from the beginning.
She should not have given wrong advice from the beginning.
But since things had already unfolded thus, it was entirely her share to clean it up.
"Thank you for granting the answer."
One step back to advance two steps forward
Athena bowed her head to Hera in thanks and soon departed for the temple where Ares was.
".... She's gone, right?"
Hera glanced back.
Athena had already exited the temple, and the only one remaining upon the Main God's seat was herself.
Having confirmed that fact for certain, Hera slowly let out a breath
".....Keueup...!"
She held back, and held back
She had been holding it in all this time
"Ppup....Puheup! Pkeuk...!"
But now there was no need to hold back any longer
"Peuhehehe! Keus, Puheus! Ahaha! Ahahahahahahaha!"
Hera laughed.
She could not hold back the laughter.
"That, that, that face of hers, look at that! Peuheup, ah~~~ so good."
The wench who always had a shameless face and tormented her son mercilessly
Because she had ascended to the seat of the Main Gods by the bloodline of Zeus, she could not say anything, but still, hm?
She just wanted to see my son's kid win at least once, was that so hard....
"That...that dream, you are fulfilling it, Chrono"
Hera was exhilarated.
One of her long-held dreams.
She had wanted to see Ares defeat Athena just once, but he was clearly not made of the right stuff, so she gave up.
No matter that he was her son, there was a matter of 'class'...
His innate martial prowess clearly resembled his father, but he had not inherited her wisdom, so he was ignorance itself.
Seeing her son constantly getting beaten about by the child of some insolent adulteress, every moment was merely heartbreaking.
"There is a saying in the mortal realm, is there not. The right person in the right place──was it."
She truly had never imagined that such 'ignorance' would be helpful at this point.
Well, she was not sure if she should truly call it 'ignorance' but...
"What can be done, when the results speak so."
Hera was looking forward to it.
Just how would Ares seize this chance she had given him?
Hoping with all her might that he would scowl in displeasure, and also wishing that Athena's child would connect well with Chrono
".....Peuheus..!"
They say that Hera had a very hard time suppressing
The laughter that kept trying to burst out the entire way back.
....They say you can't deny the bloodline, and in some peculiar aspects they kept being similar
As a digression
"How the relationship developed, you ask?"
"Hera said that you hold the key."
"Mother did... Heum. Then it can't be helped."
Ares twisted her words round and round as if she truly disliked it
"Then, this body shall 'especially'! Share my 'wisdom' with 'you wench' who calls herself the goddess of wisdom but cannot even properly handle your own child's affairs!"
'.......Did I come for nothing?'
Because Ares too was of 'that bloodline' that could not be denied
"You, who know the wisdom of the battlefield, yet ultimately do not know the heat of combat, it took you until now to admit you are but half a coin's worth!"
"...........Hoo"
As expected of one called the war god who rolls around on the battlefield
As could not be denied of that bloodline
With an utterly artistic nagging skill, Athena quietly closed both eyes and muttered.
"As expected...."
Would cutting his Intelligence in half and then kidnapping and confining him have been the answer after all?
Perhaps Dionysus or Aphrodite would have been a better consultation partner, she briefly agonized, then Athena made up her mind.
'Ares is better'
If she asked Dionysus, he would tell her to get him drunk and pounce
If she asked Aphrodite.... her child could end up becoming something akin to a whore
"Perfect and flawless! Strongest unrivaled! Heuheuheuhahahaha! Main God Power! With this, the fact that none surpasses me, Ares, has been proven!"
"Yes.Yes. Your.Words.Are.Right."
Athena, gritting her teeth and going along with Ares.
Contrary to that effort by Athena...
"...I'll become it"
"What?"
"I'll become Chrono's pet!"
".......???"
The relationship between Minerva and Chrono rapidly began to progress.