For My Siblings (3)
For My Siblings (3)
If Cronus is the god of agriculture, then Rhea is the goddess of the earth.
She oversees the land in Gaia's stead; the earth is her domain.
The idea of Cronus, the god of agriculture, sowing his seed in Rhea, who is essentially the earth, inspires various reflections—but it's impossible now.
"Hah, hah, hah."
I made my escape with Rhea.
The hole in the corner of Rhea's chamber, where Gaia once received me like a midwife when I was born, had widened over time until I could slide through it while holding Rhea.
Scraaape.
Still, unlike when I was a child, descending while cradling someone in my arms to keep them from harm—even if that someone was Rhea—was a bit of a strain.
But it's fine.
This level of pain means nothing to a Titan's body.
Crunch!
"Zeus!"
"Hold the beads tight!"
I'm not the one Rhea needs to worry about.
She has to worry about the five colored beads she's clutching to her chest.
Those beads we retrieved after Cronus swallowed them and vomited them back up.
They're definitely my future siblings, starting with Poseidon.
'This is different from what I knew?!'
It diverges heavily from my memories.
From what I remembered as a child, Cronus was supposed to projectile-vomit a rainbow, and the five children who vanished long ago were supposed to come back fully grown.
I couldn't defeat Cronus.
The memories weren't wrong.
I landed a surprise Jupiter Kick, but that alone wasn't enough to bring Cronus down.
'If I'd tried to kill him there, I'd be dead.'
Cronus's power doesn't only come from Cronus himself; it also comes from the scythe he used to mutilate Uranus.
If I hadn't fled into Rhea's chamber, that scythe would have flown through the air on its own and cleanly lopped off my head and my cock.
So, for now, I chose to flee with Rhea and the recovered beads.
I can't do this alone. I need the combined strength of five beings on my level to defeat Cronus.
"Grkk!!"
I could see light ahead.
I pulled Rhea tighter against me and threw myself outside.
Thud!
My feet hit the ground, sending a shudder through my entire body.
The impact was fairly hard, but the ground was like a mire, so the shock was minimal.
"Ah...!"
Rhea seemed to sense the presence beneath us.
"Rhea!"
I gave her a signal, then gently set her down into the swamp where I'd landed.
Rhea tucked the five beads into her clothes, flipped over, and lay flat.
Ruuuuumble.
Black storm clouds began swirling across the sky.
I placed a hand on Rhea's back, patting her gently, and we hid ourselves in the mire that slowly, silently swallowed us whole.
[You coward!! Where are you?!]
Cronus's voice boomed from the sky.
Starting with the sun chariot that pulls the sun across the heavens, the divine beings under Cronus's command blanketed the sky one by one, scattering in all directions.
[Come out! Come out and face me in battle! Where do you think you're fleeing to?!]
KWWAA-BOOM!!
A violet bolt of lightning fell from the sky and struck the earth.
The impact triggered a massive explosion, snapping trees with a crack.
It's only because this is Cronus's territory. If this were foreign soil, outside Greece, the ground would have split in two like the Red Sea.
'I made the right call running away.'
Reckless bravado spoils the plan.
There's a reason "tactical retreat" holds an honored place in every strategic canon. There's a reason the concept of "regrouping and rising again" exists.
'Landing one Groin Kick was enough.'
Right now, all I need to do is flee.
Quietly.
Step. Step.
But.
"Is it here?!"
"Y-yes!"
"!!"
A familiar voice reached us.
I felt Rhea's panicked heartbeat pounding through her back.
"Don't worry. ...Mother."
I patted her back and pulled her closer to me.
"We won't be discovered. That one out there... is someone who came to help us."
Prometheus.
"What are you doing! It's not here! They fled elsewhere!"
The voice of that person rang out.
"B-but if they fled, then surely...!"
"They must have fled into the embrace of the Goddess Gaia! Do you doubt my foresight?! Huff, huff. It's the east! Run east! Now! If we fail to catch them, Lord Cronus's wrath will fall upon us!"
The way he issued orders while gasping for breath was a masterful performance.
Truly, a Titan under Cronus who later secured a seat on Olympus hasn't earned his reputation for nothing.
Perhaps he's less the God of Prophecy and more the God of Tightrope-Walking.
Thanks to him, we were helped once more, and we slowly sank deeper into the earth.
Even if Cronus is the god of agriculture, would he ever notice a secret escape route that Gaia, the earth goddess herself, spent decades crafting?
Never.
Ruuuumble.
"Rhea!"
I scooped Rhea up again.
We were sucked beneath the swamp and dropped into an underground cavern, where a colossal serpent awaited us.
Crunch.
The great serpent swallowed us whole.
But I wasn't worried in the slightest.
Because this, too, was part of the plan.
"Phew. We survived."
"Zeus...? What in the world?"
"A guide sent by Gaia. Take good care of us."
Rumble.
The great serpent replied as if it understood, then began burrowing deeper into the earth.
Its movements looked a bit like it was fleeing in fear of Cronus's wrath, which made me feel somewhat sorry for it, but thanks to this, we grasped the key to overthrowing Cronus.
My siblings.
...Though I still wonder why they're still beads.
* * *
The earth was split asunder, and the sky was cloaked in darkness.
Cronus had lost Rhea!
No one knew whether Rhea had escaped or been abducted.
Some speculated that Gaia, the Mother of Life, had taken Rhea away, and Cronus kept invading Gaia's land daily, craving it.
There, he suffered humiliation tangling with Gaia's other children—golems called Gigantes.
Fashioned within Gaia's domain from the very soil stained by Uranus's blood, these Gigas golems barely managed to hold back Cronus's army.
- Rhea must be inside Gaia's temple. I'll just enter, confirm it, and leave.
- How dare you think of setting your filthy feet inside Gaia's temple? Piss off!
The two factions fought fiercely over Rhea's disappearance, and when Cronus himself took to the front lines, the continent was plunged into chaos.
'And yet Rhea is right here.'
"Hic, Lady Rhea..."
Amalthea, having successfully reattached her horn using the adhesive she'd received from Metis, was nursing Rhea in bed, tears streaming down her face.
Relief that they were out of Cronus's territory. Relief that her children had been recovered.
"Yes, Amalthea. Thank you... truly, for raising my son so well. You are... Zeus's other—no, his true mother."
"Hngh...!"
Rhea praised Amalthea, but her smile was bitter.
For just a fleeting moment, I caught her eyes scanning me with a wistful, bittersweet gaze.
'Did I treat her too much like a stranger?'
I understand that it must feel deeply disappointing when the child you carried in your belly, gave birth to, and were separated from as a baby returns as a grown adult, only to treat you like a complete stranger.
'But I have to. I can't call her Mom.'
Rhea is a woman.
A Titan goddess.
Once I defeat Cronus and lock him away in Tartarus, she will become a widow.
'I can't resist a widow.'
Zeus would surely agree.
'I feel like I once heard somewhere that Zeus defeated Cronus and then bedded Rhea.'
So, he bedded her.
Whether that's true or not, knowing Zeus, the possibility that he screwed his own birth mother without a second thought is extremely high.
I'll do the same.
That's why I'm treating her strictly as a woman, not a mother.
'All for the sake of getting in her pants.'
I even bedded my wet nurse, the one who nursed and raised me. So why would I stop at Rhea?
'Don't resist it, Zeus inside me.'
Even if I've decided to ignore the original texts, I must uphold one thing.
The deeds of Zeus.
Every woman Zeus has violated, I must violate as well.
To do otherwise would be an insult to the name of Zeus, and for the sake of Zeus's glorious future, I must take Rhea.
'No wonder Cronus kept Rhea by his side and kept violating her.'
A man who ascends to the throne continues to keep a single woman in his embrace?
It was because that woman was simply too alluring.
The Rhea before me unmistakably possessed the beauty of a young married woman, and I was drunk on that beauty.
So I need to find an opening to strike.
I can thrust and come whenever I want, but I have to eliminate any revulsion Rhea might feel toward me.
'Gaia let me screw her, so you have no excuse.'
Even Gaia transformed into Amalthea and let me screw her.
The parties involved would deny this to their dying breath if it were brought up, and if I let on that I've noticed, Gaia will get embarrassed and stop doing it, so I'm deliberately keeping my mouth shut.
But she probably knows the truth.
She knows I've noticed.
'How wouldn't I notice when the tightness is different.'
The tightness and the hip movements of a pussy that knows men versus one that doesn't are fundamentally different—does she think I wouldn't notice Amalthea's tightness?
But I officially don't know that Gaia transforms into Amalthea and has sex with me.
And Gaia, in turn, believes I haven't noticed her transformation.
We simply pretend not to know and keep having sex.
Even Gaia feels no revulsion toward doing it with me, so Rhea has absolutely zero reason to feel any revulsion toward me.
'Is it the difference between doing it directly versus indirectly?'
Maybe that's it.
At any rate, Gaia is in a situation where she's hiding her identity in a transformed state, whereas Rhea has no reason whatsoever to transform.
'Not good.'
I absolutely must take Rhea.
Only then will my future proceed smoothly.
When it comes to those Zeus invites into his bed, the only exceptions are dick-swinging male bastards. And even among women, he doesn't take them unless they're beauties.
Isn't there some good way?
Just as I was agonizing over this, 'she' appeared on the island of Crete.
"Rhea. And Zeus."
"Lady Gaia."
Gaia appeared.
Not in the form of Amalthea, but in a form nearly identical to Rhea. She entered the cave with graceful steps.
"So. There's no sign of the five children awakening?"
"No..."
Rhea shed tears over the five beads clutched in her arms.
"...There is a way, but Rhea, this is a choice you must make."
Gaia shot me a sidelong glance before standing in front of Rhea.
"There is a method to make the children be reborn."
"I'll do it!"
Rhea answered instantly, without even hearing the method.
"No matter what the method is?"
"Yes! If only I can see those children grow up again...! No, even if I can only see them fully grown!"
"Then there is only one way. You must give birth to them again."
"...What?"
Rhea's expression hardened.
"Zeus. To save your family, you must breathe the vigor of life into them."
"Me?"
"Yes. There is only one way to make children in this state be reborn. ...By placing these beads back into Rhea's womb and infusing the Essence of Life."
"Th-then, surely...!"
"Release your seed inside Rhea, Zeus."
A grandmother's love for her grandchildren truly knows no bounds.