spartan ancestor

Mount Olympus is full of greenery in spring.

The Temple of Beauty is surrounded by holy olive trees, and the carvings from the hands of Vulcan make this temple beautiful.

But in this temple, a heinous thing is happening.

"Hmm! Help!" Cupid struggled in the sack, "You rude gods of the underworld! How dare you break into the house in broad daylight and even try to kidnap me!"

Thanatos tied the mouth of the sack coldly: "Your mother told you to, shut up, and honestly go to the underworld with us."

"Nonsense!" Cupid yelled in disbelief in the sack, "My mother likes me, so she wouldn't say that, let me go!"

"Be quiet, you can ask your mother this question yourself later." Thanatos lifted the arching sack, threw it behind his back, and slipped out of Mount Olympus with Hypnos .

The process was quite smooth, and I encountered a few gods by chance, but they were knocked down by Hypnos' light blow.

Cupid's call for help went from being energetic at the beginning to being weak.

When he stepped into the portal of the underworld, the sack was completely silent, and his heart dangled behind Thanatos's back like death.

Hyacinthus knew nothing of Brother Death's actions.

He is discussing the function and details of the prosthesis with Hephaestus: "... If it is just a rigid iron pillar, what is the difference from a crutch? You can't make a prosthesis that can run and jump like a living person's leg. prosthetics?"

"Hey! You just said that you are not allowed to use divine power!" Hephaestus threw away the pen, "How could such a prosthetic be made without divine power?"

Yacintos argued hard: "Then how can human's real legs be alive and kicking? Isn't it also using divine power?"

"Oh!"

A sack was thrown in front of Jacintos, interrupting the argument.

Cupid let out a mournful cry from inside: "Oh..."

"..." Jacintos looked down at the sack for a while, "What is this?"

"Labor, Yashin," Thanatos untied the sack courteously, "Aphrodite said that Cupid's short stature is just a fake, in fact, he has long been a teenager, and he can be a slave... feel free to work Leave it to him!"

Aphrodite also ran out from behind the desk eagerly: "Dear Cupid, I miss you so much."

I miss you working for me.

She pushed her son, who was about to be hit hard, in front of Jacintos, and even asked actively: "Do you want to take his godhead away too? In case he is not good."

"???" Cupid's eyes almost popped out of their sockets.

"..." Jacintos was speechless.

This was totally out of his plan.

Although he was a little happy to have one more slave... whom he could entrust with official duties, Jinlei was not under his control, and the godhood was not something he could just accept.

Jacintos could only vaguely say, "Forget it, he's just a child."

Hyacinthus' tight-fitting mask allows Cupid to keep his mind functioning.

Without the current interference of beauty, Cupid was more shocked by the behavior of his mother and Brother Death than happy to see Hyacinthus.

He couldn't help but grabbed the bow and arrow: "I don't think you have learned your lesson! I'm not easy to mess with—"

Hyacinthus raised his arm, and grasped Cupid's golden arrow with ease.

Before Cupid showed a stunned expression, he took a long leg, bent down and handed over Cupid's bow and arrows: "Confiscated, these are all given to..."

Hyacinthus originally wanted to say that Hades would take care of it, but halfway through his speech, his attention was attracted by the feeling of touching the arrow of Cupid.

It was an indescribable feeling, Yacintos twirled the arrow shaft with his fingertips.

It was as if in the arrow of the god of love, there was something faintly connected to him, which made his heart move slightly.

But the golden light on the arrow shaft flowed slightly, and this strange feeling quickly disappeared.

Is it an illusion?Hyacinthus frowned slightly, and continued without changing his expression: "...Give it to Hades for safekeeping. Before you finish your official duties, if you want a bow and arrow, apply to Hades."

He casually stuffed the bow and arrow basket into Hades' arms.

"..." Cupid's eyes widened in disbelief, and anger quickly occupied his face, "Presumptuous! How dare you—"

"Clap."

Under the eyes of everyone, a drop of golden tears suddenly fell from under the mask.

In panic, time seemed to be stretched infinitely.

Thanatos didn't even have time to scream "We're still there", the gold thread burst out from the falling tears, and wrapped Cupid in the blink of an eye.

"—Hoo! Hoo!" Thanatos gasped twice, lowered his head suddenly, and groped his body for a while, "I, am I okay? My godhead is still there?"

Hypnos was also groping for the same item, and after confirming that the Godhead of the Sleeping God was still firmly in his chest, he suddenly breathed a sigh of relief: "That's great..."

They thought that Jacintos' tears would attack indiscriminately, but they didn't expect to let them go. Could it be that their hard work these days finally touched Jacintos' heart of stone?

Not only Brother Sleeping God, but also the God of Beauty, Hades, etc. present also changed their complexions.

Unlike the Thanatos brothers, they were the direct experiencers of the trauma. The moment Aphrodite saw the golden tears, her legs almost went limp, and she fell to her knees—their godheads had just returned partly. Don't work so hard for so many days, once you return to before liberation!

"..." Jacintos blinked his eyes.

He didn't know that the golden tears would fall suddenly, but it was impossible to show his timidity. He pretended to raise his hand and touched his chest: "Why is this kid so fierce? He stared at me, I feel wronged."

"..." Hearing this, you feel wronged! !

The gods present roared in their hearts almost at the same time, but with Cupid's lessons learned, they were lucky enough to survive, and no one wanted to have trouble with Hyacinthus at this time.

Several people raised their hands and stroked their chests with lingering fear, in the joy of remaining alive after the catastrophe.Full of fright, there was nowhere to vent it, so they had to turn their brains into a brainstorm, aiming at Cupid who made them experience the fright: "Good boy, how dare you make Yashin feel wronged? - Good boy, you have grown taller???"

Hephaestus yelled the most angrily, and the scene of calling Hyacinthus "Daddy" when he lost his memory is still vivid in his memory.

He hated Cupid, a cheap son who almost made him lose face again, and was angry why he lost his godhead and degenerated into a child, but Cupid turned into a teenager?

It doesn't matter, let's talk about it after a beating anyway!

Hephaestus rushed up first, and even Aphrodite rushed up behind, wiping away tears: "You brat! You almost hurt me again!"

Cupid was spat out by the golden cocoon in a daze, and before he could understand what was going on, it seemed that his godhead had disappeared, so he was surrounded by a group of people, and he was beaten violently with his hood covered and his face screaming: "I want to die!" call my mother—”

Cupid covered his left eye and looked at the angry Aphrodite: "...I, I'm going to call my father!!"

Hephaestus was poked in the foot: "Shout, you shout, if you dare to call Ares down, I dare to let Yashin keep him here forever! See if he will beat you!"

Yacintos pretended to persuade the fight: "Oh, stop fighting, oh."

He said worried words, and he had already sat on the recliner by the window, and started to eat leisurely with the nut basket in his arms. His eyes glanced casually, and he met the eyes of Mingta who opened his mouth sluggishly: "...cough."

He sat up, keeping his face somewhat.

Mingta said in a daze: "He, Godhead, I..." After a moment of incoherence, Mingta finally blesses his soul at this moment and comprehends the truth, "Could it be that these children are really changed by the deity?! You, as long as you are a drop tears..."

No wonder!No wonder, before she stopped the carriage and said so many outrageous things, Thanatos and Hypnos only cared about whether Hyacinths was angry, wronged, and wanted to cry.

Mingta's eyes sluggishly fell on Hades, who was watching from the sidelines: Therefore, the reason why His Majesty Hades became like this, with incomplete godhood, is not "playing a big game of chess" at all-even His Majesty Pluto can't match the elegance. A tear from Cintos?

In the center of the storm under siege, Cupid hadn't realized the seriousness of the problem, so he stuck his neck stubbornly: "Fight! You can kill me! Hmph, as long as I have a breath, you all wait for me! I want to fight!" Let you fall in love with the stinkiest mud on the roadside!"

Hyacinthus turned his head when he heard the sound, got up and passed by Hades, and pulled out two arrows of Cupid: "Get out of the way."

The Thanatos brothers ran the fastest, and in the blink of an eye there was no one around Cupid, revealing the young Cupid who had been beaten with a black nose and a swollen face.

Cupid wiped away the tears, raised his head, and said with a generous expression on his face: "It's a shame that I was tempted for you, and I specially gave you a lead that won't be tempted. You—— oops! What are you doing! Let me go!"

Cupid was helplessly dragged by the back of the neck by Hyacinthus and dragged all the way to the desk.

Hyacinthus looked at the golden arrow of Cupid in his hand, pierced Cupid's chest, and held Cupid's struggling head: "Look, your lover."

As soon as the golden arrow entered the chest, it turned into a ray of golden light and penetrated into Cupid's chest.

Cupid's struggle stopped uncontrollably, and what he saw in front of him was a mountain of official affairs: "...ah, it's so beautiful."

"..." The gods who were still whispering fell silent for a moment.

I saw Cupid's struggle slowly stop, and then his movements changed from thumping to retreat to thumping to move forward, with a strong desire in his eyes: "Let me go, let me reunite with her!"

Hyacinthus patted Cupid on the head: "Go."

As soon as he let go of his hand, Cupid jumped to the back of the desk, sat upright like a dog who saw a bone, and couldn't wait to pick up the pen, biting the tip of the pen and frowning at the official document, meditating.

"..."

After a long while, Hades moved slowly. For everyone's sake, but also for his own consideration, he tentatively approached Jacintos and raised his hand: "Give me the golden arrow, didn't you mean to give it to me for safekeeping?"

The gods stared nervously at Hyacinthus' hand and held their breath.

Jacintos casually threw the golden arrow to Hades, jokingly said, "Have you seen this Cupid? Who will try to be lazy again."

He just said it casually, with a cold humor that he is best at, but the atmosphere of the scene froze for a second, and everyone quickly returned to their seats in the blink of an eye.

Who dares to listen to this as a joke, Cupid is already like that.

Mingta was also so frightened that his mind went blank, he gulped down his saliva, and was frightened by the sound of his own saliva swallowing, and quickly lowered his head to write quickly.

I'm serious, I'm super serious!

The study was extremely quiet for a moment, only the rustling sound of brush strokes on the paper.

Yacintos pondered for a while whether to clarify the misunderstanding, then thought about it, he really took it seriously to explain, maybe these people made up some irony, deliberately emphasized threats, simply let nature go, turned around and started again. Lie down on the edge of the chair.

While peeling the nuts, Jacintos did not forget to talk to Cupid on the next table: "If you don't understand anything, just ask me..."

"Wang!"

Hyacinthus' words froze: "..."

He slowly turned his head and looked at the source of the sound: "Cupid, what did you just say?"

"Wang!"

This time the voice was clearer, and the source was a little furry head protruding directly from under Cupid's clothes: "Wow!"

Everyone looked up, and Hades frowned: "A dog that is still alive? Thanatos, Hypnos, when you brought the man back, didn't you find that there is still a living thing here?"

Thanatos was shocked: "No?"

Hypnos struggled for a moment, but his sense of responsibility still prevailed temporarily. He put down his pen and walked to Cupid: "I'll send it back—"

"Don't touch my dog!" Cupid slapped Hypnos's hand away, with difficulty withdrawing his eyes that were glued to his official duties, and hugged the pup defensively, "I picked it up, it's a little girl! Don't Touch her with your hand."

Cupid looked at the official affairs on the table tenderly again: "From now on, she will be the crystallization of my love with work."

"..." This child is seriously ill, Hypnos gave Cupid a sympathetic look, but he still wanted to do things impartially, and reached out to hold Cupid's wrist, "No, creatures cannot stay in the underworld. You force it It won't be comfortable staying here. Not every creature is Hyacinthus."

"?" Jacintos raised his eyebrows, why can everything be related to him, he didn't comment on the puppy, okay?

How could Cupid, who had lost his divine power, be better than Sleeping God? After struggling a few times in vain, his wrist was pulled away by Hypnos. With a woof, he jumped out of Cupid's clothes, stumbled a few steps on the ground, grabbed Hyacinthus by the corner of his clothes, and wagged his tail cheerfully at Hyacinthus.

"Hmm..." Yacintos looked at the puppy without moving, "It's none of my business, you decide what to do with it."

The puppy didn't understand Jacintos' hard-hearted words at all. He wagged his tail and jumped with his head up. Toss's waist circled around the tail, and he lay down and did not move his nest.

"..." Hypnos stared at the puppy as if he was facing an enemy, and saw that Hyacinthus was still nibbling nuts leisurely, without any intention of interfering, so he was relieved, turned around and said sternly to Cupid , "Don't mess around, you know that you leave it in the underworld, and it will die soon."

After Hypnos finished talking about the stakes of the matter, he let go of Cupid, turned around and boldly stretched out his hand to the puppy squatting on Hyacinthus' waist.

"--That's not OK!"

Cupid slammed towards him like a meat cannonball. Hypnos was caught off guard for a moment, but was knocked forward and staggered forward. Together with Cupid, he slammed into the couch.

He reacted quite quickly, and he stretched out his hand to support it, but the position of the support was not right, and the palm of his hand happened to be pressed on the small bag hanging on the side of the chair by Jacintos.

In a panic, Hypnos subconsciously mobilized his divine power. With the powerful divine power and the impact brought by the two men, he immediately crushed the contents of the small bag, exuding wine red and sweet juice.

Hyacinthus, who had always wanted to sit on the sidelines, suddenly sat up. Before he could open his mouth, the little pup, who was driven by inertia and rolled onto his lap, stuck out his tongue dizzily and licked the fluff that splashed on its mouth. Pomegranate juice on top.

"——!" Hades also stood up abruptly from behind the table.

"Crack—creak—" A muffled sound of bone deformation came from the pup's body, and then the pain caused by the deformation also came out of the pup's mouth, " Oh... woo... woo woof, woof ow— ow—"

The voice changed from the original milky sound to hoarse and deafening, and the size of the pup swelled from the size of a palm to the height of two people in the blink of an eye. Turned out from under his claws: "Hypnos!"

Hypnos also shouted: "Cupid!"

Cupid was already dumbfounded, the cute teacup puppy suddenly became as huge as the three-headed dog Cerberus, with a ferocious face, and his cracked teeth were as long as his palm, and the smelly saliva dripped from the gap between the teeth, smashing It made him feel cold.

The dog grew not only in size, but also in temper. In the blink of an eye, it opened its mouth and bit through Cupid's desk. Cupid screamed in shock: "Ah!! My love!!"

"Enough!" Hades jumped out from behind the table, picked up Mingta whose head was almost cut off, and stepped back, seeing Mingta's table being scratched into three pieces by the dog's paw, "Where's the sword? Yashin Toss, cut off its head, I said earlier that the Pomegranate cannot touch living beings—"

"Wow!" Mingta held his head, "Why did it stare at me all of a sudden!"

"Maybe you have the aura of Cerberus on you." Hyacinthus hurriedly jumped back, the scimitar emerged from its sheath with a silver blade, "Get out of the way."

As if he had just realized it, Cupid rushed to Hyacinthus: "No! You can't kill it, I brought it in! When I rescued it from the human feet that trampled it, I yelled at it. I swore that I would never abandon it—it came in alive, and I will bring it out alive, and if you want to kill it, as long as it still has a dead soul, I will definitely bring it back to the world!"

"Aren't you being reasonable?!" Thanatos scolded angrily, "It became like this because of your recklessness, and now you are talking about being responsible, what happened just now? Before it became like this? Did Hypnos say that it would die soon after staying in the underworld—"

"Roar—" the giant dog let out a deafening roar, which was no longer like the sound a dog can make.

Hypnos hastily blew divine power to the giant dog, but at this moment the giant dog's body was being occupied by the pure breath of the underworld, and even the power of the sleeping god couldn't squeeze in to grab half an inch of space.

"Yassin!" Hypnos dodged the claw blade protruding from the giant dog in a bit of embarrassment, "Why are you in a daze?! Everyone's divine power is in your hands!"

"..." Yacintos held the scimitar, stood still, and the attacking movement froze in place.

Amidst the roar of the giant dog, a dusty memory came to mind.

He remembered that it seemed to be such a bright spring day, he was drinking wine in the palace, and there was a thunderous roar from outside the palace, from far to near.

"Do you want more wine?" The maid passed by him, bringing a burst of fragrant wind.

He propped himself up on the bench, motioned to the maid to bring him two more pots, and stared at the direction of the sound: "What is that?"

"Oh, it's the voice of Cerberus." The maid put the amphora in her arms beside him. "It seems that some time ago, some undead made trouble at the gate of hell. My stomach feels uncomfortable. This grunting, it should be pain——but, it happened a few days ago, Cerberus is still not well, I always feel that it should be borrowing How about acting like a baby? The two masters, Death and Sleep, had nothing to do with Cerberus, so they discussed sending Cerberus to the Elysee Palace. Soothe it."

After the maid finished speaking, she turned around holding the jug, and before leaving, she said, "You look beautiful, why do you have to soak in wine all day long? You drink enough for a living person to get drunk all day long." I have died three or four times. Get up early and go out to find a decent job! After death, the days are still long."

In the dream, he seemed to smile a little, and didn't argue with the maid. He just picked up the wine jug and took another sip. Then he followed Cerberus' "acting like a baby" voice with the wine and walked towards the palace gate.

He went by coincidence, and when he looked up, he saw Thanatos and Hypnos talking to the guards at the gate: "...you open the gate, otherwise how can we bring Cerberus in?"

In the dream, he paused slightly, and walked into the next room.

When the guards carried the three-headed dogs, the Reaper Brothers followed, chatting with each other.

A few words were sent to Jacintos' ears along the spring breeze:

"...Have you seen that Spartan before?"

"No. Probably gave up."

"It's time to give up. Every time he came to Elysee to do business, he would stop us and ask if he could leave. Sigh, no matter whether he died because of the West Wind God or on the battlefield, death is death. How can we pay back? What about his life? He insisted on saying that the gods killed him, that the gods intervened in his life and death... To be honest, I might be a little cold when I say this, but there are many such people, and he is not the only one."

"Well, it's good. I hope he has let go of his obsession with Apollo, and don't always fantasize about leaving the underworld. What can he do after leaving? Ask Apollo for an explanation?"

"Yeah, at the very beginning, he thought that Apollo would be so angry that he would beat up the West Wind God before picking him up. How could it be possible? Let's not say that Apollo didn't take him seriously. He was serious. For him, does Apollo dare to rush over without any reason, and stiffen his neck against our majesty? If Apollo enters the underworld, that kid must be tossing and turning in fright three days in advance."

"You said, he is quite pitiful. At least he is a crown prince. He was so let down by Apollo that he could achieve nothing. I heard that this kind of death is quite shameless in their Spartan concept. Don't you?" I found that he seemed to have taken off his cloak before? Probably because he felt ashamed to wear a red cloak to meet people."

Brother Reaper quickly turned around the corridor, and Hyacinthus in his dream leaned against the door, gently shook the amphora hooked on his fingertips, and smiled silently.

He took off his cloak because he really felt unworthy, but it was nonsense to want to leave the underworld for Apollo.

There are many reasons for him to want to leave here, such as unwillingness, shame, self-blame... Only his feelings for Apollo were clearly realized as early as the first month when he came here, and he decisively threw them out of his mind After.

To be able to persist until now, all his power sources come from the dead souls of Sparta.

The month before last, another group of dead souls of Spartan teenagers came to the Elysee Paradise. Their souls still retain the bloodstains of whipping before death, but deeper than the bloodstains are the shame and anger on their faces.

Angry at the Roman tourists sitting high in the stands admiring their flogging, angry at the fall of Sparta, angry at their own powerlessness.

Hyacinthus in his dream took a deep breath, and drank the wine in the amphora in one gulp, and he placed the black pottery jug heavily on the ledge.

"Huh? Why did you come here to drink? The wind in the courtyard is too strong?" The maid who delivered the wine stood at the door and asked doubtfully, then said reluctantly, "Do you want more wine?"

In the dream, he smiled at the maid. Although he couldn't see his expression clearly, he probably smiled recklessly, otherwise the maid opposite wouldn't have blushed: "No, it's almost done. I have something today. Let’s make an appointment, if it goes well, I probably won’t drink alcohol in the future.”

The maid on the opposite side seemed to say something again, looking at the mouth shape as if asking who he was dating, but the memory began to fade gradually, and in the blink of an eye, Yacintos returned to the messy study.

The poor puppy seemed to have been subdued, lying on the ground dying, and Cupid was crying bitterly in his arms.

Hades was rarely in a panic, holding up a scimitar he had drawn out from nowhere, pointed at Cupid and said coldly: "Get out of the way."

"I don't," Cupid buried his head into the giant dog's nape in fear, and said bravely, "I promised her! I must keep my promise!"

Hyacinthus slowly lowered the hand holding the knife and looked at Cupid for a while: "Where's the arrow?"

The previous chaos had caused two or three connected rooms to be pierced. The soldiers also joined the battle and worked together to knock down the giant dog.

The power of the refined pomegranate is far beyond Jacintos' imagination. No wonder Hades was so reluctant to let him take the pomegranate out of the underworld.

Hephaestus looked carefully at Hyacinthus from the side, and came over after a while: "Sorry, that bag... I did say that it has a defensive effect, but I am not very good at using materials from the underworld. Handy, I never thought that Hypnos' divine power could crush the contents inside."

Hyacinthus glanced at Hades' face and patted Hephaestus on the shoulder: "Find the arrow first."

"..." Hades's lips moved, thinking about Zeus's gaze, but in the end he didn't say anything, just said, "remake a reliable one. Use familiar materials. Tell Hypnos and the others what's missing. .”

Hyacinthus paused in moving the bricks and tiles, and happened to catch a glimpse of gold from the corner of his eyes at the same time. He straightened up, walked to the arrow basket, randomly pulled out a golden arrow, walked back to the giant dog, and poked it into the giant dog. The hairy head of a dog.

"Woo..." The giant dog's head resting on its front legs moved slightly, its eyelids slightly lifted, and it saw Cupid who had fallen beside it.

The beloved owner is hugging her tightly, her face is wet, as if she is crying.

She stuck out her tongue and licked Cupid, and lay peacefully in the distance, the tyranny in her eyes was replaced by a layer of moist and warm emotion.

The enlarged body made this emotional change all the more obvious. The fluffy fur that had blown up docilely fell down, and the tail, which could sweep off beams with a single swipe, swayed cheerfully.

"..." Cupid tensed for a while, then said blankly, "Thank you...she almost died."

Yacintos didn't pay much attention to imitating Mingta's tone of encouraging education, and patted Cupid on the head: "Thank you too, if you didn't insist, you didn't back down when facing Hades, it would have died. But Before doing something next time, think clearly about the consequences and weigh your own abilities, not every time someone can help you clean up the mess."

He stood up, opened the pouch at his waist and looked, most of the pomegranates were crushed due to this unreasonable disaster, and the intact fruit pieces were scattered here and there.

Aphrodite held her heart and sat on the ground with her legs crossed, still in shock. Her gaze fluttered, and she saw Hades and other people from the underworld staring at Cupid unhappily. Cupid slapped the back of the head, and said in a joking tone: "You are really trying to kill me anytime and anywhere, but luckily you have Jacintos to help - thank you? Huh? Call me Grandpa."

Cupid: "???" What's it called?

Jacintos pointed at by Aphrodite also: "??"

What the hell, he has never even seen A-Ka's fruit body, and suddenly he even has a grandson?