Chapter 299: Two choices,one obvious decision.
"You're right, Adonis could never hate you..."
Victor snapped his fingers, and an ice throne appeared. He sat on the ice throne and looked at Persephone.
"He despised you."
"...." Her expression didn't change, she obviously didn't believe Victor.
"He preferred Aphrodite."
And that was true. Of the two women, if Adonis were to choose, he would prefer Aphrodite. In fact, this was a choice made by his own subconscious, this was the effect of the influence that the Goddess of Love and Sex had on beings.
"..." Persephone's brow twitched visibly.
Victor's smile grew a little; 'Looks like their rivalry hasn't been extinguished yet... I'll use this.'
"As I said earlier, I inherited everything from Adonis. There is no person in the world who understands him more than I do. After all, he has become part of me now." Victor rested his head on his hand.
"Now that we've met, let's talk? I will tell you about Adonis, and in return, you will tell me about yourself."
"...?" She looked at Victor strangely:
"Why do you want to know about me?"
"I'm just curious, after all, you are the first goddess I've ever met, and I never thought goddesses were so beautiful." He lied as easily as he breathed.
One of the influences of Adonis' memories.
"..." A smile appeared on Persephone's face, but it quickly disappeared, and the same indifferent look that contained hate was still present on the woman's face.
'Cheap praise seems to work on this goddess.' Victor laughed internally, but his face didn't change on the outside.
And he also noticed something.
'This woman's hatred for me is like the hatred of someone who has lost their important 'object' that they had wanted so much for so many years.'
If you put it more simply, it was like a rich woman who wanted a limited-edition cell phone, and someone else got that cell phone before her.
'...As expected, to her, Adonis was something more like a trophy. She didn't love him, she just wanted him because of what he represented.'
The most handsome man, the man Aphrodite liked...
Yes, sure. Maybe there was some feeling involved, but it definitely wasn't love. If Victor could guess what those feelings were…
'Possession, sexual desire, and the feeling of winning a prize, something close to pride?'
Adonis was a high-quality, limited-edition product, and because of that, she was obsessed with him.
But what would happen if this woman found a better and rarer product than Adonis?
What kind of reaction would this woman have?
The answer was obvious.
She would forget about him... Her obsession would be exchanged for this new higher quality product.
That was the kind of beings that the Greek gods were.
It was by this understanding that Hades did not interfere with his wife's activities, even though she was cheating on him. After all, he knew that Persephone would use Adonis for a few thousand years, and when she got tired of him, she would throw him away.
"You absorbed the existence of Adonis. You must know about me."
'Of course, I know what kind of insignificant being you are.' Victor felt like rolling his eyes.
"That's true, but I've never had a chance to talk to a Goddess before, especially a Goddess that held the title of Queen." He purposefully displayed a curious and interested expression as he looked at every part of Persephone's body.
"..." The smile appeared again on Persephone's face since she could feel that he wasn't looking at her body with lewd desires like other men but with curiosity and interest.
This time, she didn't even bother to hide that she liked the compliment.
"So, what is your decision?"
"...Fine," She was still annoyed that he'd hit her in the face, but she could ignore that, considering she wasn't in her real body.
She was not a mindless Goddess. She was an understandable Goddess. She could ignore a slap in the face and his expression that was like he was looking at a dump.
'After all, he was doing it so I wouldn't underestimate him.' She understood that when a strong being was underestimated, they didn't like it very much. She knew because she was the same way.
And she was also curious about Victor's existence, and as he didn't go mad after absorbing several souls, she'd never seen a mortal like that before.
Not to mention that his soul was gigantic compared to any mortal, and even her.
And the most important reason.
'If he absorbed Adonis, does that mean Adonis is in front of me now? Just looking different, and... Stronger.' She swallowed a little internally as she stared into Victor's face.
He was so beautiful, he was so perfect.
'Tsk, Aphrodite is a bitch, but she knows how to do things...' She opened her eyes wide when she noticed something.
'Adonis died, that means that bitch can't be with him either, that's obvious...'
Adonis, the most handsome mortal, has disappeared.
Wrong... He was replaced.
'Adonis was absorbed by this man. Doesn't that just mean that this man inherited his legacy? The legacy of the most handsome man...? gulp. Is the most handsome man right in front of me now?' Slowly the Goddess's desire for possession began to change target.
"..We're going to talk." Her eyes gleamed with a little interest.
She could feel that he was more special than Adonis, and knowing that fact made her body shudder.
"But before that, remove these corpses, and this sun and that giant being."
"Okay." He snapped his finger, and the giant being and the corpses disappeared.
"..." She looked at the sun.
"You forgot the sun... That light is irritating."
"If the sun isn't there, I won't be able to see you." He flashed a neutral smile that caused a small reaction in Persephone.
"...Oh." Persephone snapped her finger, and then the world changed, and they were in a pretty lavish sort of castle, and that castle was pretty lit up.
"You can remove it now."
"...." Victor flashed a small smile, and with the touch of his finger on his throne, the sun disappeared from existence, and everything turned to darkness outside, except for the castle.
Seeing that the annoying light faded and Persephone's mood got a little better, she was still hateful and angry at Victor, but it was much lower than in the beginning.
She had more curiosity and interest now.
She walked up in front of Victor, and a golden throne with black and red designs appeared in front of her.
When she sat on the throne, she spoke:
"Let's talk."
...
Victor spent some time talking to the Goddess. They didn't talk about anything important, it was just about trivial things like what the Goddess liked, what kind of people she hated, etc.
The Goddess tried to talk to Victor and learn more about him, but as an old man experienced in negotiation, he dodged the questions easily and asked something in return that caught the Goddess's attention.
And she quickly forgot the question she was going to ask.
Victor felt awkward talking to the Goddess since he could manipulate the conversation easily, which was very strange.
Isn't she a Goddess of thousands of years? Why is she so…naive? And at the same time, she looked like a crazy bitch?
Was it like she didn't get in touch with anyone, and her personality got twisted from just meeting strange people?
Victor had no idea.
Through Adonis' memories, Victor knew that the Goddess lived in the underworld and had a luxurious life. He remembered that she always boasted to Adonis that the underworld was a good place and that he should go there when he died.
And another thing, the Goddess knew nothing about the current state of Olympus!
Every question that involved Olympus, she always answered, I don't know, I don't care, etc.
Realizing that she would be upset if he just kept asking about Olympus, Victor changed the subject.
But the conversation was not in vain since Victor had a good understanding of the Goddess's personality.
Maybe it was because now they were talking as equals, but he could understand her better than Adonis.
Basically, she was an isolated Goddess. She didn't know anything, and she avoided socializing.
The only people she came into contact with are the dead, Hades, Aphrodite, and her mother, Demeter.
She seemed to be quite close to these two Goddesses, and seemed to know quite a bit about them.
Demeter was unimportant, and he didn't want to know about this woman.
He wanted to know about Aphrodite, but every time Aphrodite's name was brought up in conversation, her mood would go bad, and she would start cursing the Goddess with every possible and creative name she could come up with.
At some point in the conversation, Victor was staring at the Goddess like she was a piece of trash.
She's completely useless... She's an ornamental Queen.
He was disappointed, and his day was ruined.
'Victor think positive. She is still a queen, and she can be useful...' Victor decided to think positive.
Sigh.
He sighed internally.
Honestly, talking to this woman was irritating. Her thoughts, her way of talking, her way of acting, everything was irritating.
As a Goddess, she believed herself to be the center of the world.
As a Queen, she believed that all mortals must obey her.
And if anyone refused to obey, she'd curse those mortals and take their souls for herself.
A completely irrational being.
He felt like he was talking to a spoiled child.
"And in the olympo-." Persephone's voice started to go static.
"Hmm?" Victor looked confused for a few seconds, but then he remembered that this was what happened when he was about to wake up in reality.
'Tsk. The time is over.' She grumbled internally.
But she didn't show it on her face.
'His soul is very strong, and because of that, I can't keep him here for long…' She was slightly annoyed by this fact.
'Well, it doesn't matter, he's still scarred by me. Every time he sleeps, I'll meet him... And when I get back, I can investigate this man. He refused to talk about himself all the time throughout the conversation.' She thought it wasn't such a bad time to end up here.
"I'll see you later." Victor began to feel tired as he slowly began to close his eyes.
"...Yes, we will meet again, Alucard..."
Victor's smile grew a little:
'Of course, we will. I still have scores to settle with you, bitch.' That was Victor's last thought before he woke up.
No matter what she looked like, Victor would still get revenge. Violet's tears wouldn't be in vain.
...
Victor opened his eyes and found himself in another dark place, but this time all of his maids were present.
"Master!?"
He heard the voices of his six Maids.
"How long did I sleep?" That was his biggest concern right now.
"Only for 8 hours." Kaguya spoke.
"I see..." Victor sat up on the floor.
"Any change in my soul?"
"There were some small attacks, but your soul defends itself, I didn't have the opportunity to intervene." Roxanne looked a little sad.
"Don't be sad Roxanne. You did a good job."
"...?" She looked at Victor, confused.
"You are my last line of defense. You are important." Victor didn't lie since, if something went wrong, he could only count on Roxanne to protect his soul.
"...Master..." Before Roxanne could fall into her own world, she heard Roberta.
"Master, are you going to tell us what's going on?" Roberta asked the question that all Maids wanted to ask but didn't have the courage to ask. They were waiting for their Master to tell them what was happening willingly.
"..." Roxanne fixed Roberta with a penetrating gaze, but the woman completely ignored the Dryad.
Victor looked at Roberta for a few seconds while he was thinking about his decision.
But he didn't have much to think about. His Maids were part of him, and he wouldn't let them get away even if they wanted to.
And he was planning on telling them what happened anyway. He just didn't have time to do it because, unlike his wife, who can know what happened just by drinking his blood,
Victor would have to explain from the beginning what happened to all his Maids.
"This is going to take a while. You want to hear the short version or-." He didn't even finish talking, and soon he heard everyone talking.
"The long version."
"..." He displayed a small smile, and soon he began to narrate the events.
…
Inside a room, a woman with long white hair was sleeping, while two women, one with red hair and one with blond hair, were watching her.
"She looks like she's having a nightmare." Ruby commented.
"It would be weird if she wasn't..." Sasha said.
"Her father died, after all, and at the hands of her own husband."
Violet suddenly opens her eyes, "Darling, nooo!" She jolted up in bed and pointed her hand forward as if she was stopping Victor from doing something.
"Violet!?
"...?" Violet looked at the two women.
"...Ruby...Sasha..." She recognized the two women, and slowly the glow of life seemed to return to Violet's gaze.
"You woke up." Ruby initiated the conversation.
Violet looked down. Her head was empty, and she couldn't think of anything, she felt numb.
And waking up having a nightmare was not a good sign either.
"Violet..." Sasha didn't know what to say to her friend.
She'd been through the same thing in the past, but Violet's situation and hers were completely different.
"... What do I do, I... I... I did that to Darling, and... My father..." She was confused, her feelings were conflicting with her obsession, and she couldn't make a decision.
"You have two simple choices from now on." Ruby spoke in a cold tone.