Kapitel 84: Hecate is angry!

Grant extrication to Lamia, help her see her former child and the children killed by her, as well as give her a chance of apologizing for her past mistakes.

These are the only things Jason is capable of doing without putting himself in any serious trouble.

So after Lamia's body got quickly swallowed up by the deep blue ghostly flames and then returned to her original appearance before finally disappearing.

Because Jason obviously recognized that these deep ghostly flames are used by Hecate, he looked around and after not finding anyone else, he turned around and looked at Persephone while saying, "Sister Persephone, my teacher, she..."

"She is saying that she doesn't want to pay attention to you...in a short while."

Persephone replied with a chuckle: "So, my lovely brother, do you really think Hecate doesn't care about you becoming Hephaestus's student?"

"Ah..." Jason is obviously surprised by hearing Persephone say this.

"Look, now she doesn't want to appear and see you anymore." Persephone walked over and lightly tapped Jason's head, then said with a smile: "Think by yourself, the next time you see Hecate, how are you going to coax her to be happy?"

"I..." Hearing this, Jason subconsciously wanted to say something, but the next moment, he felt sudden darkness covering him.

Then, when Jason came back to his senses, he found that he has returned from Underworld to the land of the living.

*****

On the other side.

"Hey, Hecate, if you want to hide and don't want to appear, then you can continue doing so."

After Jason left, Persephone unhappily puffed up her cheeks, just like Demeter, and said to Hecate who has just walked out of the shadows: "But why did you send away little Jason, I still wanted to talk to my brother about a lot of things!"

"What's there to talk about, haven't you met him just a few days ago, when he had offered tribute to Artemis?" Hecate, who has just appeared, said this lightly.

Because obviously, there is no way Hecate will ever admit that she didn't want Jason to continue interacting with Persephone when she could only watch from the side while being invisible.

"You're really not feeling embarrassed while saying this!" Persephone continued with slightly widened eyes: " Even on that day, you had taken away little Jason shortly after he finally got free, and I didn't at all get a chance of saying anything to him!"

"And my tribute... no, my tribute, you let him run away again!"

"...Are you really not afraid that Hades will feel jealous because of this?" Hecate looked at Persephone and asked with a helpless tone.

"Rest assured, if he gets jealous, I'll only feel happy; moreover, Hades also likes little Jason and had asked me to come here and help."

Actually, Hades is a God belonging to Underworld but he is neither the 'God of Death' nor the 'Judge of Underworld', he is just the king of the underworld.

And among both humans and gods, Hades has the reputation of being one of the very disciplined, fair, and selfless gods, and at the same is considered to be a very formidable God.

Moreover, although Hades is the King of the Underworld, in fact, he does not really have much real power over Underworld and he has also not strived to get more rights because it is believed that he is not very interested in authority, and is said to work in a quiet low-key manner.

However, in matters related to Jason, Hades has already acted several times.

After all, Jason is now able to freely enter and leave Underworld not only because he is a student of Hecate, but also because Hades has secretly allowed it.

Also, Hades has used his divine power to temper Jason's soul to give Underworld's protection to Jason's soul, so that his soul can never be destroyed unless he is attacked by something on the level of Zeus's divine thunder.

Then, Hades had given his Invisibility Helmet so that Hecate can copy its effect for Jason, and now he had once again acted and had even convinced other Gods of Underworld to allow Lamia to return to the land of the living, although, it was not used.

Therefore, while thinking of all these...

"Accurately speaking, I should be one the getting jealous of Jason!" Persephone purposefully showed an expression of sulking: "I can't even say for sure that he has treated me so well..."

Hearing this, Hecate shook her head while thinking doubtfully in her heart: 'I really don't know what is so good about Jason, how can they spoil him so much...'

Apparently, Hecate doesn't have much self-awareness regarding this.

After all, Hecate had just acted to remove Hera's curse on Lamia...

So, just because Jason unknowingly wished for it, Hecate had removed a curse that even God-King Zeus and King of Sea Poseidon, Lamia's father, hadn't dared to remove.

Because both Zeus and Poseidon don't think that removing the curse on Lamia would be worth provoking the Queen of Gods Hera.

But, for Jason, Hecate has once again taken the initiative to carry the blame on herself.

*****

On the other side, when Jason returned to the land of the living, he discovered that it is already the time of the early morning.

With bright sunlight shining on him, Jason, while feeling a little confused, couldn't help but think in his head: 'Ah, well... Teacher Hecate didn't even appear to see me, it seems she is really angry...'

'But she shouldn't be this angry, right?'

'After all, she obviously hadn't cared much when I began learning from Teacher Chiron."

Just when Jason was thinking about this, Pegasus walked over to Jason, who is sitting on the ground, and bit his hair.

Then, Pegasus gestured for Jason to look at the eagle, who is now sitting on a tree near him.

After seeing this, Jason reacted and quickly got up.

Then, after thinking for a while, finally, Jason said to the eagle: "When Lamia left, she left with a smile, I think... this should be the best ending for her."

After speaking this, inevitably, Jason is feeling a little uneasy.

After all, this ending is something Jason has decided and done according to his own wishes.

Because, as a matter of fact, it was indeed completely possible for Jason to forcefully bring Lamia back to the land of the living.

After all, Persephone had informed Jason that the Gods of Underworld are allowing Lamia to leave.

Because obviously, along with one of the reasons being Jason bringing Lamia to the Underworld, all Underworld Gods have also sensed Hera's curse on Lamia and have consequently guessed who has asked Jason to help Lamia.

But, even then, what Jason had finally done is something he wanted to do, and not what Zeus wanted, although, during the whole time Zeus hadn't expressed his opinion even once.

And this is the reason why, afterward, Jason even took care of not looking at the eagle's face again and was doing what he wanted to do.

However, Jason is well aware of just how unreasonable Gods can be when they want to.

So, at this moment, one person and one eagle began to stare at each other silently, which went on for a long while.

Jason also doesn't think that he needs to explain too much, because he believes that even if he has gone to the Underworld, the 'eagle' in front of him should have already known what he has done there, including him personally ending Lamia's life.

So, finally, after a long speechless staring, the eagle let out a loud screech, then he flapped his wings and flew up to the blue sky.

Seeing this, just when Jason was letting out a sigh of relief while thinking in his heart that this matter is finally over, the eagle flying in the sky screeched again and began circling Jason.

'Does this mean... he wants me to keep following?'

Jason blinked, then looked at Pegasus with a questioning gaze.

After Pegasus nodded in reply, Jason rode on Pegasus and flew into the sky.

High in the sky, the eagle flapped his wings and beckoned Jason to grab the reins given to him by Hephaestus, the Goddess of Smithing.

After Jason grasped the reins, the eagle accelerated and soon turned into a small black spot that is soon about to disappear from the sight of Jason and Tianma.

Seeing this, Jason, who understood the meaning of the eagle, lightly patted Pegasus and said softly, "Brother Pegasus, this time...you can run as fast as you like."

Pegasus nodded and fluttered his wings, after letting out a slightly excited neighing, he turned into a gust of wind to chase after the eagle.

Actually, in the past, Pegasus used to fly slowly to not discomfort Jason.

But now, with the reins personally made by Hephaestus in place, even if he continuously flies like a meteor, it won't bring any discomfort to Jason.

So, at such a speed, the eagle brought Jason to the Caucasus Mountains by the time of noon.

And this Caucasus Mountains is exactly the place where Prometheus, God of Foresight, is hung on a cliff and is being punished by Zeus for stealing flames for the humans.

[T/N: Although I don't upload on weekends, I will try to compensate for the leave, but again, no promises.]