Chapter Forty-Eight: Another Poison Scheme
"No! I don't agree—"
With the palace, Hera's bedroom, after hearing the news of the wedding, the goddess of disputes began to cry and make a fuss:
"Why did the great god approve the marriage of the two of them? Kamod is mine, and I don't approve of him marrying another god...... Mother...... Mother, you're going to help me......"
After crying for a while, tears covered Alice's face, and she was so suffocated by the golden mask on her face that she pulled it off, threw the tears that had saved the mask to the ground, and blew her nose twice.
Hera looked at Alice's scarred and tear-stained face, and felt her heart pounding, and she put her hands on her chest and exhaled deeply, but she didn't blame her for her recklessness too much.
"Oh you......"
Sighing lightly, Hera complained to Alice with an aggrieved expression:
"Do you think I'm willing to do that thankless drudgery? When it's done, the great god thinks I should do it; if I can't do it, I'm really in the hands of that little slut of Karet! Hey, it's clear that she hurt you and me with her evil art first, but I want to curry favor with the enemy, and waste all my heart and energy to prepare for her marriage! What kind of thing is this!"
Alice put away her grief, and when she saw that Hera was unhappy, she sobbed and asked:
"That'...... Is that ...... Forget it?"
"Forget it, it's not that cheap!"
Hera said fiercely, then squinted at Alice and sneered:
"Well, the big deal is still going to be done for her, just using the big wedding of Kareta to buy the hearts of the gods. I want them to know that the blessed goddess is kind-hearted, regardless of past suspicions...... However, we can also make some small moves behind our backs to make the accident on the wedding day ...... Looks...... God doesn't know, ghosts don't know......"
"Wonderful!"
Alice was overjoyed when she heard this, and clapped her hands again and again:
"Mother, you are still facing me!"
"Alright, put on your mask, I'll get goosebumps all over your face just as soon as I see you!"
Hera glanced at her Alice's features and quickly withdrew her gaze, completely undisguised as disgusted.
"Got it, got it, Al Doesn't know what you command, Alice is willing to serve you. ”
The goddess of disputes turned her sorrow into joy, put on her mask again, covered her terrifying facial features, and approached Hera, the goddess of blessings. The two goddesses only lowered their voices and muttered better......
——
Human World, Beijing, China –
In an afternoon at a street café, José and Nana sit opposite each other and chat. Today, Queen Betherphone made a special trip from Australia to visit her big brother Jose.
After the battle to clear the Dark Temple of another dimension, Jose was embarrassed by the god Olympus, and was saved by the Hades couple at a critical moment, so that he could avoid death. He was then brought back to the human realm in an attempt to restore the lives of ordinary people.
Unfortunately, due to the previous scandal between "him" and Lachio celebrities was spread by the media, which almost shocked the whole of Europe, coupled with the credit evaluation of his mentor Professor Eugene, Jose was finally expelled from the University of Athens as a graduate student.
Jose was dismissive of the gains.
For him, who has personally experienced the brutal war and witnessed countless lives fleeting, Jose believes that any setbacks, gains and losses in his life are insignificant. Because, at least I'm still alive -
Jose really doesn't have the ability to rely on his own narrative to convince everyone that the "he" who did the nonsense before is not him.
He believed that the truth that he was invaded by demons and thus impersonated himself to do evil was best buried in his heart for a long time. When he dies one day, it is best to let that secret be buried in the ground for a long time with his death.
Jose often dreams of the fierce battle between the gods of another dimension, and there is also the beautiful and kind Carreta in his dreams, and the senior Demos who resolutely chooses to destroy himself for the sake of his beloved. Every now and then, José would cry and wake up from his dreams. For a long time, he even had to rely on some sedative and hypnotic drugs to maintain the most basic sleep.
Nana, also known as the Queen of the Underworld, would visit Jose in China whenever she had time, drink tea with him, and chat. Of course, it took two or three minutes to cross the ocean from Australia to the capital of China without planes or rockets, which was a piece of cake for a god of the Titans.
"Brother Jose, you have to pay attention to your body. I feel that when I see you this time, your mental state doesn't seem to be as good as it was a while ago. ”
At the end of the booth by the window, Nana sat down not long ago, took a sip of mocha and focused her attention on Jose, and couldn't help but start to express concern about his physical condition.
I haven't seen him for more than half a month, and Jose has gradually lost weight again, and his casual clothes look loose and wrinkled when he wears them, completely losing his heroic and upright posture.
His energetic face now does not need to be deliberately reshaped, and it has become the most popular star awl face at the moment, and he has a sickly face.
Jose just smiled gratefully at her, and there was an indescribable depression hidden in his facial features.
"It's nothing, Nana, don't worry! I'm in good health. It's just that I've been taking a correspondence graphic design course recently, and I'm going to go out and find something to do after a while. ”
"Huh, you're looking for a job?"
Betherphone was a little surprised, and soon, a sad look was reflected in her bright girlish face:
"It's all our Titan Protoss, it's us who got you involved in that strife, causing you to lose everything, and you have a great future......
"I didn't lose everything!"
Jose looked a little pleased:
"Don't I still have you, and my family? Compared to those who have passed away, at least I am still alive, I can still sit here drinking tea and listening to music, and I can also walk leisurely on the street, enjoying the warm sunshine......"
He glanced into the goblet and suddenly changed his tone:
"Nana...... Senior, I mean his soul...... Are you alright?"
In the previous meetings, Jose had already asked from Betherphone about the ins and outs of the soul contract and the contract conversion, so he knew that now the spirit of the dark god was sunk in the nineteenth layer of hell in the underworld "Infernal" to be punished.
Betsephone stretched out her arm from across from the other side, took José's hand on the side of the table, and admonished:
"Don't worry, he's fine. Secretly tell you that the Hades seems to be iron-blooded and ruthless, but in fact, he has personally traveled to the Infernal Hell to protect the dark god many times behind his back. So, stop worrying about others, stretch your body and mind, and do your own thing more than anything else!"
Jose shook his head abruptly, stirring the fruit shake in his cup with a straw.
"You don't understand my feelings, Nana. You don't understand how much I regret it now. In the past, my senior was alive and helped me a lot in academics, but then I actually turned against him because of Karete. I hated and cursed him every day since, until that holy war saw him sacrifice himself for Kareta. It turned out that I was a self-righteous idiot and a selfish ghost. Compared to my seniors, my love for Carreta is nothing at all. I never really did anything for her, but put her in danger again and again. I finally know why Carreta chose the senior, he is indeed worthy of trust, worthy of Carrete's love......"
"Alright, big brother Jose, it's all over......"
Betherphone interrupts José just in time, she doesn't want him to be in grief again because he reminisces about the past.
She thought that if she didn't interrupt him again, she wondered if he would sit and blame himself until dawn tomorrow.
"I've said it all, your body is the most important thing now, stop thinking nonsense......"
Besephone's heart ached, and she was about to say kind words to this good-natured man, when she suddenly felt that the atmosphere was wrong.
"Do you want to do something for the Kareta Messenger?"
A familiar and somewhat unfamiliar voice rang out from behind Jose, and the wall behind him emitted a blinding glow of its own.
A woman dressed as a human feminine and covered in a gold mask crossed the wall from the other side of the light, followed by two burly male thugs.
"It's ...... What's going on......"
José also noticed something was wrong, and looked back in surprise, and he was surprised to find that as the three of them approached the table, time seemed to stand still, and everything in the café was frozen in motion.
"Damn!"
Betsephone quietly shed a string of cold sweat, judging by the source of divine power emanating from the other party, there was no doubt that the person who came must be Alice, the goddess of disputes of Olympus.
Sure enough, the Holy Mountain still refuses to let go of Big Brother Jose......
Thinking of this, Besephone jumped up from her soft seat and stared at the three guys from near and far.
"Nana, what's wrong?"
José realized that danger was looming on their side, so he also stood up and walked over to Betherphone. Without saying a word, Besephone directly spread her arms and protected Jose behind her.
Betsephone didn't dare to turn back easily, for fear that she would expose a flaw, and the other party would immediately strike first. While she was wary of the moves, which might be made at any time, she turned her back to Jose and said without looking back:
"Don't worry about Big Brother Jose, you follow me in a while, and I'll take you away. ”
Although her mouth is full of guarantees, there is not much bottom in Bessephone's heart at this moment. After all, her combat power is limited, and the Hades is not around, so she begins to worry that she may not be Alice's opponent.
"Goddess of Disputes, what are you doing in the human world!?"
Before Alice could speak, Betherphone preemptively asked, her tone stiff.
"Your Highness, we meet again. ”
Alice, the goddess of disputes, walked up to Bethany and stopped and nodded politely to her. Her head moved up and down, and a cold light swept over the hard mask on her face.
"I came from the Holy Mountain to meet with the Prince of Troy and ask him for help......
"Find ...... Looking for me?"
José was surprised and screamed behind Betherphone.
"Don't interject!"
Betherphone reprimanded Jose angrily, her sly gaze still on Alice's side.
She was very strange at this time about the origin of the mask on the face of the goddess, but the current situation did not allow her to ask more questions, it was still important to protect Brother Jose!
"There's no Trojan prince here, Jose is Jose! You Olympus are truly ruthless, and as a god, you won't let go of even an unarmed human!"
"Don't get me wrong, Your Highness. The prince is a human who has saved his life from the gods, so I will not harm him and be an enemy of Hades. This time I came only on my own behalf, taking advantage of the opportunity to go to the human world to purchase supplies and prepare for the wedding of the Messenger of Karete......"
"What-"
The exclamation in unison forcibly suppressed the second half of Alice's voice.
Originally, she wanted to express that she would take advantage of this purchase opportunity to come to China in person to ask the prince to help her, but now she had to stop.
At this moment, Alice saw the same expressions on the faces of Betherphone and Jose, both of them with wide eyes and mouth half-open, revealing indescribable shock.
Behind the mask, Alice smiled smugly, but silently. Because she knew that it would take two more sentences, and the target in front of her would be obediently hooked......