My mother's love song

───Also, although Ephimelos was miserable, that was not caused by others.

There is no one to resent, and I can only offer her my pity."

The boy said, "It's just like you're talking about your own business."

The goddess closed her eyes and said calmly: “…You may be right.

If defeating Typhon requires my sacrifice, I don't think I would refuse.

But unfortunately... this is not my destiny."

"Yeah."

The young man let out a long sigh and smiled as if he was relieved and suddenly enlightened.

“I finally understood the source of my bad mood.

Thank you, Sister Eros, I really don’t get along with you.”

Eros sighed: "Yeah... Rod, you have always been an intolerant person."

She stroked Rhodes' hair with an indulgent smile, and the latter spoke quietly.

"If the gods demand your death one day, I will make all of Olympus disappear from the face of the earth."

"I see... Then I will be more careful in the future and try my best not to let this happen again."

As soon as the goddess finished speaking, the boy disappeared into the temple on Mount Olympus.

"Oh my, how should I explain this to my mother?"

Eros sighed with an annoyed look on his face.

……

……

……

Ephimelos, who was swallowed by the Taizu Dragon and took over its consciousness, saw a strange scene.

The person who appeared before Typhon was not the god king Zeus who came for revenge, but a young man.

Standing alone in front of the strongest dragon, Rhodes did not take any action but spoke.

"Do you have a wish?"

"...?"

Who is he talking to?

Not only Ephimelos, but all the Greek gods watching this scene looked confused.

The gods all knew the relationship between Rhodes and Typhon, and they began to panic and riot.

Could it be that Tartarus, the incarnation of Naraku, intends to help the deceived Typhon?

If the two of them join forces, Olympus will be finished!

However, only Ephemeros noticed that the person Rhodes was looking at was him.

Although it was hard to believe, the boy was talking to himself and the fruit that was swallowed into Typhon's stomach.

"What are you talking about?"

Ephimelos asked in a trembling voice.

Rhodes said: "I want to know if you have any wishes.

If you have a wish, it means you are not willing to sacrifice yourself, and I will let Typhon spit you out. "

"!?!?!?"

Even more surprised than Ephimelos were the Greek gods.

"Wait, wait! What is Lord Rhodes talking about? Why is he there?!"

"It took a lot of effort to trick Typhon into swallowing the Fruit of Impermanence! What exactly is Lord Rhodes planning to do?"

"Lady Aphrodite... Where is Lady Aphrodite? Let her discipline her child! Lord Rhodes is messing around again!"

"Excuse me, mother is currently taking care of the injured Lord Zeus and is not on Mount Olympus today."

Eros spoke calmly to the excited gods.

"... Eros! Eros, you can do it too! Hurry up and bring Lord Rhodes back! Stop messing around! Stop it!"

The gods grasped at straws and asked the goddess of love to stop his brother, but Eros tilted his head cutely and spread his hands.

"Oh~ I can't do that. Rod won't listen to me at all... He only listens to his mother."

"Are you kidding me? Why are you so calm? Did you two discuss this?"

"It's not nice to slander me, I have always been on the side of everyone in Olympus.

Although I really want to stop Rod, I am too weak to do anything and he will kill me."

Eros smiled sweetly like a little devil and declared to the gods in a threatening tone.

"If there is anyone among you who is not afraid of death, why not try to stop my brother?"

""

The gods hesitated and fell into endless silence.

In the end, no one except Zeus had the courage to stand before Typhon and Rhodes.

"My own wish..."

Ephimelos looked at the boy.

From his heroic figure, she understood his purpose.

Although Ephimelos understood that he wanted to save himself, it was impossible for him to understand why he did so.

By doing such a ridiculous thing, is he planning to make enemies with all of Greece, the entire Age of Gods, and the entire world?

Suddenly, Ephimelos felt a pain somewhere inside him.

What exactly is this feeling?

What happened to me?

No matter how hard she thought, she couldn't figure out what was causing the pain in her chest.

"I will be eaten by Typhon to fulfill his evil wishes," she said with difficulty.

"That's not your wish, that's your function."

Rhodes approached Ephimelos, who had taken over Typhon's consciousness.

"You should have your own wishes."

"I don't have my own wishes. My only wish is to respond to the wishes of the gods... This is more important than anything else!"

"If you think like that, you will regret it one day."

"……regret?"

Rhode nodded and said, "Over the long years, you will want to curse the gods, and you will begin to curse the world.

Do you think this is okay?"

Ephimelos responded instinctively: "The present is more important than the future...

Even if I feel angry in the future, there will be nothing I can do about it..."

"It's not that there's nothing we can do about it."

Every word Rhodes said was like a sharp knife stabbing into Ephimelos' chest.

"Just decide what you want, you have the power to make it happen.

Even tiny humans can have their own wishes, so why can't you? Why do you have to obey the arrangements of fate without authorization? "

"I am not a human being, just a useless, unwanted anti-desire machine.

No one desires my existence. Now, this moment is my only value!

I will become one with Typhon here, and then receive the seal of the gods!

This is the meaning of my existence, so don’t do it for me.”

"Will you change your mind if someone desires your words?"

Rod interrupted her.

"What……?"

Ephemerus seemed to have heard the most unbelievable words in his life, and the three dragon heads opened their jaws to the limit.

"I said if I want you, can you give up the idea of ​​self-sacrifice and become mine?"

The young man asked Ephimelos with a gentle smile.

"…………Why."

Ephimelos' spirit began to waver violently.

She couldn't understand what kind of value she had when she was never expected to do anything.

"I am an anti-wish machine that only brings about destruction. I am an evil existence..."

"That's perfect. I'm often called the evil god by people... This guy is also a monster I created."

“I have realized my own value…”

"That's a wish that was fulfilled by trampling on your dignity. Don't you feel unwilling?"

The boy's simple words shook Ephimelos to his core.

Although Ephemeros is an anti-wish machine, he also has his own dignity.

Not by doing this kind of thing, not by becoming a sacrifice to a deceitful monster, to realize one's own value!

The gods have never desired me!

Typhon never desired me!

Those are all false lies!

I want to be truly desired by someone, as a "disaster of frustration"!

Ephemerus asked, sobbing.

"Do you really...want...to get me...?"

"Ah."

Rhodes nodded solemnly.

Looking at the boy's extremely serious expression, Ephimelos was overwhelmed by an unprecedented sense of happiness.

"I also..."

she said brokenly.

"I want to become yours, too."

Rhodes smiled and said, "In this case, we must first survive and gain freedom.

Ephimelos, you don't want to be sealed either, do you?"

"Well! I want to live as I please!"

The fruit of impermanence, the voice is filled with supreme joy.

"I want to live, be liberated and be with you!"

"Save me! Set me free quickly! My master!"

"Oh my, what an impatient bad boy."

Rhodes clenched his fists.

This was all he could do to separate Typhon from Ephimelos once and for all.

The boy poured magic power into his fist and then struck Typhon hard on his mountain-like body.