episode_0275

“Yes, Sia. Even if you turn into a man, I’ll still beat you up-”

“That…that’s it!!”

I hastily covered Athena’s mouth with my face burning with shame, and Athena, noticing that I was feeling as if I was going to die from shame, stopped talking and raised one eyebrow.

“How do you know my name? No, more than that…how do you know that?”

“You were a man?”

Athena answers after removing my hand.

I was too embarrassed to speak up, so in the end I could only nod shyly.

Then Athena thought for a moment, looked at me thoughtfully, and spoke.

“The goddess told me everything.”

“Huh? A goddess?”

Athena nodded once at my words, gently touched my flushed cheek, and then slowly began to tell me the story.

He said that he went to see the goddess to find me, and that he heard stories about me during the process.

That I originally came from another world. My name in that world. And lastly, that I was a man.

I don’t know why the goddess said such things to Athena, but… I felt like I was going to die from shame.

“Why are you so shy, Sia?”

Athena, who is no longer called Hera but by her former name.

I don’t know why, but every time Athena called me by my original name, my heart would pound loudly in response.

“Is it really that big of a secret that I was a man?”

When Athena asked curiously, I unconsciously raised my voice in embarrassment.

“Of course..! You call that a lie? I’m so embarrassed I could die..!”

“Is there any reason to be embarrassed?”

Athena shrugged her shoulders as if she didn’t understand me.

But I rather did not understand that Athena.

How could I not feel ashamed? When I think about the actions I have taken here over the years as a man, it is not at all strange that I receive looks of disgust.

Although most of it was done semi-forcibly… there were countless other pitiful actions that I would hate to explain in words.

If it were a woman, I wouldn’t have cared much, but if it were a man, wouldn’t it be a different story…?

“Tell me, Sia. Why are you so restless?”

“Ugh..”

I slowly lowered my head and pursed my lips under Athena’s insistent gaze demanding an answer.

“You…don’t you think I’m weird..?”

“What’s weird?”

“Ha.. You were a man once. But isn’t it weird that you act like a woman and stuff?”

Athena opened her eyes wide at my words, then lifted one corner of her mouth and let out a faint laugh as if she found something so funny.

“Wow..you’re really so cute.”

Athena, who was slowly stroking my head while chewing her own lips, continued speaking immediately.

“I said it before..it doesn’t matter if you’re a man or a woman.”

“Ugh..?!”

Athena wrapped both hands around my back and squeezed my buttocks with all her might.

“Even if you were a man, the fact that you would whine under me while receiving my sexual desire would not change.”

“Ah..Athena..!”

My face bursts red again.

Ah… Since when did that kid start talking so rudely?

I couldn’t come to my senses because of the manly story that I couldn’t listen to in my right mind.

“No..I think it might be better if you were to be crushed in the form of a man.”

Athena smacked her lips with her cheeks strangely raised as if she was thinking about something strange.

I pushed her away as the atmosphere became increasingly strange, took a breath, and tried to calm my flushed face as much as possible.

“That’s…stop…let’s talk about this later…”

If I did more, I would be so embarrassed I would die.

“Okay, Hera. Then I’ll just say the last thing.”

Athena walked back to me again, took a step back, and whispered softly with her lips near my ear.

“The Hera I love is none other than you, Hansia. So don’t ever turn away from my love like this again.”

Athena puts a crumpled letter into my hand.

“……”

My mind went blank and I couldn’t give her any answer.

Athena looked at me like that for a moment, then put her hand on her chin as if remembering something and muttered.

“Now that I think about it, there are some things that don’t add up.”

“Huh..?”

As I opened my eyes in wonder, Athena took the letter she had given me back, unfolded it, and began to read it slowly.

“No. It’s a little different from what I heard from the goddess. In the letter, you said that you took Hera’s body and killed her, right? ”

“…..Yeah.”

My heart, which had been excited by the unavoidable truth, suddenly grew cold.

Yes. I was momentarily confused, but I must not forget the truth. I was a sinner who took a girl’s life.

“That’s strange. That’s completely different from what the goddess said?”

“…Huh?”

At Athena’s unexpected words, I looked at her with my eyes wide open.

“The goddess clearly said that she put your soul into your dead body. If that’s true, then Hera was already dead, regardless of you.”

“What..what?”

I didn’t quite understand what Athena was saying.

Clearly, the celestial god said that I had taken Hera’s body. That’s why Hera’s soul can never return to this body, and is floating somewhere without a place to go.

But he was already dead?

As Athena said, my mind became confused as the situation did not make sense.

“Is that really Athena..?”

“The goddess said she had something to say to you. Why don’t you say it?”

“….”

Before I knew it, all the shame had disappeared and only confusion remained in my heart. I nodded silently to Athena’s words.

I didn’t understand anything at all.

I felt like I needed to quickly talk to the goddess.

But it really is as Athena said.

If it really wasn’t because of me that Hera disappeared…

Then really…

*

A pure white space that inspires a sense of piety.

The large stone statue in front was modeled after a beautiful woman, and the ornate cross on top of it naturally gave off a sacred feeling.

“Rest in peace, Hera.”

I had been to Iris’s prayer room once before, and now I was lying down with my face on Iris’s lap.

As Iris said, I relaxed my body and closed my eyes, feeling my body gradually becoming more drowsy.

“…But, Hera. What happened between you and Athena?”

“Huh?”

Iris’s faint words brought back my fading consciousness.

“No..I just feel like the atmosphere between the two of them has changed a little for some reason.”

Iris’s words made my body tremble slightly.

Certainly, as she said, for some reason Athena was starting to feel a little bit unfamiliar.

I couldn’t look her in the eye, and every time she came closer to me, my heart would beat faster and my breathing would become ragged.

It must be a face I’ve been seeing all along… why do I feel this way?

“Ah..well..it’s nothing. I was just out of my mind.”

“..Is that so.”

Iris straightened my hair strand by strand.

“..Of course, I gave up the desire to be Hera’s first a long time ago..but I still want you to know that I will always be by Hera’s side.”

“..Iris..”

“Then I will send it to the goddess now.”

After Iris finished speaking briefly, she put her hands together and began to pray devoutly.

And soon, countless pure white lights began to surround me warmly, and my consciousness slowly sank below the surface.

With Iris’s prayer sounding like a lullaby.

I immediately fell into a deep sleep.

…

“..Are you sleeping, Hera?”

New liquid- New liquid-

“..Then just a little bit.”

Sarak-

Shudder-!

Chuuaap-!

“♥♥♥♥♥♥?!?!!?!”

*

With the clear sky as the ceiling and pure white clouds as the floor, this place was a completely different sight from what I had seen in the prayer room.

But since I had been here before, I was not at all flustered and started looking around to find someone. Soon enough, that someone slowly descended from the sky and greeted me.

“…..”

“Goddess.!”

The goddess’ face looked ominous for some reason. Her face crumpled even more at my words.

“Goddess..?”

Her face crumpled even more. I cautiously opened my mouth, thinking it was impossible, and called her out again.

“Uh..Mom..?”

“..You came. My daughter.”

Only then did the goddess slowly open her eyes and answer.

But still, I felt embarrassed by her sunken expression.

“Are you feeling unwell?”

When I asked cautiously, the goddess looked at me calmly, then sat down on the cloud sofa and tapped the seat next to her.

“I have a lot to talk about. Why don’t you sit next to me?”

As I walked over and sat down on the sofa, a soft, fluffy feeling enveloped my butt.

I immediately turned my head to the goddess and spoke in an urgent voice.

“Goddess..No, Mom. What I want to ask is- Eww?!”

My body collapses in an instant.

When I came to, I could see that my body was lying on the goddess’s lap.

“Uh..Mom..?”

“Yeah.. We have a lot to talk about, but before that. There’s definitely something I need to do.”

As I looked up at the goddess’s voice, which for some reason seemed to be filled with anger, the goddess looked down at me with a smile on her face full of veins.

He opened his eyes wide and raised his hands high.

“A bad child…must be disciplined?!”

Taaak-!

“Hiyaang?!”

A high-pitched voice escaped my mouth as I felt a hot pain in my buttocks.

I raised my head anxiously to see what was going on, but all I could see was…

The hand of the goddess rose high again.

Without hesitation, the hand immediately rose back down towards my butt.

Taaak-!