Me, Hydra

But even so, more than twenty years still left some marks on the woman's forehead.

Shaking his head, Quintus asked, confused and serious.

"Mother, do you remember that you adopted a baby girl before you gave birth to me?"

On hearing this, Callisto was visibly startled for a moment, then nodded his head and laughed somewhat bitterly, "Of course I remember, at that time I was still the Nimph Fairy, and the goddess of hunting Artemis patrolling the night sky was always me driving. When I passed by the kingdom of Athos, I happened to see an abandoned baby girl, and I was a little upset for a moment, then I secretly nurtured her with grizzly bear's milk, then because of this incident of Zeus, I had no choice but to leave that little guy... I don't know how that little guy is doing now! ......."

As he said that, Callisto sighed helplessly with a bone-deep sadness in his breath. After all, just a five or six year old girl, in the middle of such a dangerous jungle....

"Most likely something bad has happened to him, right? By the way, why are you in the mood to ask about it? You've always been uninterested in such things, haven't you~"

At the words, Quintus swallowed. Then shook his head somewhat sullenly.

"A girl came to me...said she was the same baby girl who was abandoned in the valley around the kingdom of Athos in the first place..."

"Huh?"

Callisto's mouth grew wide in some surprise, and then among the figures that moved away from Quintus, Atalanta walked in somewhat hesitantly with Luna's bow in her hand.

"You are?"

Seeing Atalanta's figure, Callisto was hesitant for a moment, but the teal hair felt very familiar to Callisto, and the Vaulted Moon Sag in Atalanta's hand, whose divinity had become incomparably thinner, awakened Callisto's long-sealed memories.

"You're that baby girl? ...Little Atalanta?!"

The moment she heard Callisto say "little Atalanta", Atalanta couldn't suppress her feelings anymore and rushed to Callisto's embrace.

Looking at Atalanta, who suddenly hugged her and started crying, Callisto was at a loss for what to do for a while.

Ever since he had arrived in Sparta, Callisto had been suppressing his feelings for no other reason. The damage that Zeus had caused to Callisto was unspeakable, and Hera's vicious words from the beginning still echoed in Callisto's ears, and because of this, ever since arriving in Sparta, Callisto had begun to shut down his feelings and put all of his heart and soul into Quintus.

No matter what, Quintus was his own child, even though he hated Zeus from the depths of his soul and spurned him. But Quintus was still his own child from his own birth.

Nothing to do with good or evil, simply out of motherhood.

But somehow, now that he suddenly had an additional daughter, though only an adopted one, it still made Callisto unsure whether to be happy or sad for a moment.

Wordlessly holding Atalanta in his arms, Callisto gently stroked Atalanta's hair.

"Have these years been good...the years I've been away...how have you been?"

Atalanta's lips rose in a smile at the words.

"It's good, really good... It's just as good as a dream right now..."

While looking at the two women in front of him, Quintus, on the other hand, leaned against the door frame speechlessly.

For no other reason, his own mother's adoption of this woman should have been before she became pregnant, in other words....

Yourself may have to have an extra sister....

"I hope this sister of mine doesn't know the evil things Zeus has done yet, or else..."

As he thought to himself, Quintus looked at Atalanta, who was clearly in a state of extreme mother-love in front of him, and shook his head helplessly.

........

Tickets~~~

Volume I: Text - 51 - Conversation

Looking at Atalanta, who was having a combined training session with the kind of bow in her hands in front of her, Quintus stammered, "That what... Sister... Sister..."

Glancing at Quintus beside her, Atalanta shrugged her shoulders.

"You can just call me by my first name if it feels like a detour, Atalanta."

At the words, Quintus nodded, and anyway, it was uncomfortable for Quintus to have an additional sister somehow.

Just as Quintus was about to say something, Atalanta continued, "About Zeus, is mother all right now?"

"Eh...you know all about it?"

Hearing Quintus' words, Atalanta gritted her teeth. Eyes straight ahead, breath steady, body bouncing straight, although not saying anything, because of the power, the wooden bow in Atalanta's hand began to creak.

"Shoo--thud!"

The bow flew out from Atalanta's hand, and the great kinetic energy caused the bow to pierce through the wooden target a hundred meters away.

The bow and arrow in her hand even turned into two halves in the instant the shot was finished due to the reaction of power.

Swallowing her saliva, Atalanta's action caused Quintus, who was on the side, to pick his eyelids.

The bow in Atalanta's hand was not an ordinary crossbow, but an ironwood bow made of Crete hemlock wood, to pull it into a full moon required at least four stones of sinew strength, in Sparta, one stone was equal to fifty kilograms, and Atalanta directly pulled the bow off, which meant that Atalanta's sinew strength was at least 400 kilograms away....

"Is this woman a monster...?"

As she was thinking, Atalanta re-curved her bow and spoke indifferently.

"No need to hide it, I saw all the evil that bastard Zeus did to my mother in the Great Library of Sparta..."

"No way, I've been to the Great Library of Sparta, and all the stuff about that motley crew of Olympians is on the lower level, where no one is allowed in!"

With an indifferent glance at Quintus beside her, Atalanta said sullenly, "It was the administrator who sent me there, and who told me the location of the books."

At the words, Quintus frowned.

Although he didn't have much contact with Socrates, Quintus could still sense that Socrates wasn't the kind of person who liked to have fun for nothing. The Great Library of Sparta was built by Hydra herself, and relying on the Earth Goddess Grid, Hydra could quickly convey messages in the middle of the territory.

"Is that so..." as he thought, Quintus shook his head. Then he said, "Since Hydra-sama has already told you the truth of the matter, there's no need for me to hide it."

Mulling over the words to use, Quintus spoke up and said.

"Because of what happened to Zeus, my mother has been avoiding her past. To be honest, I didn't want your presence in the beginning, and even on the way to bring you here I wanted to get rid of you. I was afraid that my mother would be reminded of the sad past because of your presence. Luckily mother wasn't like that, I was training with the army in Sparta and was rarely able to spend time with her except when I was resting. I hope you can take care of our mother while I'm gone..."

"You don't need to say such things."

Hearing Atalanta's words, the self-involved Quintus shrugged his shoulders.

Mother was very happy because of Atalanta's arrival, and her entire body was like a few years younger. Presumably, mother should be cooking bear paws now, right? The grizzly bear paws from the previous year's hunt were sealed in a jar, stuffed with fried rice and lime sealed. Counting the days, it is now ready to be taken out, the cleanly furred bear paws are coated with fresh honey, the onions and ginger are placed in a large sauce and simmered over a gentle fire for two or three hours. This is Quetus rather the best of memories.

It was, by the way, because Callisto had often conducted hunts, or else Quintus might now be a member of Sparta engaged in clerical work....

Shaking his head, Quintus snapped back from his imagination of the food.

"Is there anything else? I'll be out on patrol if nothing else. The aquatic life in the waters around Sparta seems to have become more aggressive lately."

Upon hearing that, Atalanta shrugged her shoulders.