King of Underworld - Chapter 108



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Hades, the god of justice – (1)

When we returned to the underworld with Persephone, there were many gods looking at the parchment, rubbing their tired eyes.

That look on my face must be resentful that I’m the only one resting outside.

“Hades… I’ve been wandering around the underworld a lot lately…”

“I have a lot of paperwork to process.”

The Goddess Styx hands you a stack of papers.

Yes, yes. I know what I have to do.

“If you had come back late, Thanatos would have run away again.”

“Again?”

“Actually, I also felt the urge to put it down.”

The god Hypnos avoids my gaze and shakes his head.

For a while, he sat down and expertly turned the pages of parchment and made payments with his quill.

Thanks to you all for always going here and there, everyone is having a hard time.

But then one document with the official seal of Olympus caught my eye.

Since he was a guest at Eros’ wedding, he probably didn’t talk about work.

As I looked down at it for a moment, the goddess Lethe revealed the identity of the document.

“…That’s it. It’s a formal document from Dike, the goddess of justice on Olympus, stating that she wishes to move to the underworld.”

“I didn’t see you at Eros’ wedding earlier…”

“Why would the Goddess of Justice come down here instead of being on Olympus?”

“You’re not just going to be dispatched, you’re going to settle down here?”

“Um… maybe.”

The gods who had exchanged opinions looked at me and muttered.

“Could it be the fifth (wife?)?”

“no.”

Dike.

The goddess of justice, born from Zeus and Themis.

As one of the Horai, goddesses of the seasons, she is the sister of Eunomia, who governs order, and Eirene, who governs peace.

Just as my nickname is Pluto, her other names are also Astraea and Iustitia.

“It seems like he couldn’t come to Eros’ wedding earlier because something happened.”

“What should I do about that? I would welcome it if another god came to the afterlife…”

“Yes. I’m not sure why he was trying to move to the afterlife. He may have had a fight with another god…”

Dike, the goddess of justice, is a very busy deity.

Justice is a fundamental concept that is included in almost everything. It is one of the axes that constitutes civilization and order.

Aren’t they still roaming the earth, judging the wicked and establishing justice?

“Please call me to the afterlife first. I will have to talk to her and then decide.”

“Yes. Then I will send a letter to Olympus.”

Why would Dickey volunteer for a difficult job? The worst place to work that everyone avoids is the underworld.

Do you really think it’s unfair to let us suffer here?

…Surely that can’t be true.

* * *

So I looked at Dicke, who was on one knee in the audience room.

Golden hair, indicating that I am the daughter of Zeus, and strong divine powers inherited from Themis, my aunt and wife of Zeus.

A beautiful appearance, but a strong tone of voice that doesn’t match it.

This high-ranking deity, who appears to be just below the Twelve Olympians…

“…Put the sword and scales aside for a moment. Just leave them floating in the air.”

“That can’t be, Grandfather! If these things are separated from my body even for a moment, justice will not be served…”

He was holding scales and a sword while kneeling.

“I told you I look uncomfortable. And why are you covering your eyes?”

“I will explain the reason from now on. It is related to the reason why I want to stay in the afterlife.”

The eyes of the Goddess of Justice had the power to see through injustice.

To track down and judge all injustice and establish justice. But… why are they blindfolded?

Dickey began to tell the story.

“As the goddess of justice, I traveled the world to judge injustice. I saw mortals commit many evil deeds. Some, like Sisyphus, tried to defy death. Some, like Tantalus, trembled. And some, like Zeus, my father and king of the gods, ran wild.”

“There was definitely someone like that. I think it was Salmoneus, the brother of Sisyphus.”

Salmoneus.

Salmoneus, the brother of Sisyphus who tried to defy death, founded his own kingdom in Elis and became its king.

He was a great man of means who gathered people with his bare hands, gained power, and eventually became king…

“Hahaha! I am the god Zeus!”

“Your Majesty…? What do you mean…”

After becoming king, he became obsessed with power, calling himself Zeus and starting to commit all sorts of antics.

Let’s take a look at his misdeeds one by one.

“Anything Zeus can do, I can do too! Look at this! Hahaha!”

“Your Majesty… Your Majesty!”

“Look! This is the thunder of Zeus!”

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He built a bridge out of steel and drove a brass carriage across it, imitating the sound of thunder.

At the same time…

“This is lightning! Hahahaha!”

Wheeze-

“Ugh… eww!”

“Your Majesty has gone mad!”

“How dare they go mad against Zeus! Let them all be put to death!”

He threw torches at the people and said that these were thunderbolts from Zeus.

Naturally, the news of this crazy human’s misdeeds reached Olympus,

Zeus dropped one of the weakest and lightest lightning bolts on him to show him what a real lightning bolt was.

In this way, the kingdom of Salmoneus was completely evaporated… and countless humans came to the underworld.

“Salmoneus is now being punished by driving a chariot in Tartarus for eternity.”

“I also heard about that man’s punishment. But…”

The Goddess of Justice pursed her lips and spoke to me.

“Except for Salmoneus, none of the other humans had committed a crime worthy of being struck by lightning. Even for my father, I thought it was an excessive punishment! It was a punishment that tipped my scales too far. Of course, there should be punishment for blasphemy, but it was too much to kill even the humans who served him as king… But that’s not all! Or what happened when Apollo killed Orion…”

I also took that into consideration and gave convenience to the other humans in the afterlife, except for Salmoneus.

Because I couldn’t harshly judge those who were only guilty of being involved.

She lists all the evil deeds and sins of the gods one after another. As she speaks, her divine power is released in small amounts as if her anger is exploding.

Well, it must be frustrating for the goddess of justice to have to stand by and watch injustice.

Well, I see what you mean by coming here.

“….Dozens of such incidents… Also…”

“I get what you mean, Dickey.”

“I have more to tell you…”

“You want to stay in the afterlife because you want to receive my protection.”

* * *

Dike, the goddess of justice, is not one of the twelve Olympian gods.

Justice has never been very effective in this world.

As the daughter of Zeus, the king of gods, and Themis, a Titan, she possessed great power, but that was all.

Whenever we wanted to punish other gods who went against justice, we had to look into their backgrounds.

“Lord Poseidon?!”

“Dike. Even if my son played a little with humans…”

“What’s wrong with God punishing humans a little? You’re a god too, and you’re talking like Uncle Hades…”

“Artemis…”

“Wait a minute, that’s a beast of mine. I heard it’s eaten a few mortals…”

“Dionysus…”

Dike’s eyes had a powerful power to see through injustice.

She blindfolded herself.

If you can’t do anything when you see injustice, what good are your eyes?

Dike’s sword had the power to judge all injustice,

She always had to hesitate before swinging her sword.

What good is this sword, when it is swung with hesitation for justice?

Dike was clearly the god of justice,

Those who were stronger than her were above justice, one axis of order.

The agitated voice coming out of Dickey’s mouth suddenly stopped.

She raised her head and looked up at me. The emotions she showed were pleading, yearning, and earnestness.

“Yes. You guessed correctly. Grandfather… Hades is called the god of mercy.”

“……”

“Of the many Olympian gods, there are not many whose scales are tilted in the right direction. And not even this many…”

I looked at the scales in Dick’s hand. They were tilted steeply to one side.

The weight of good on one side, evil on the other.

It is a scale that weighs right and wrong.

Even Zeus, the goddess’s relic, must face his karma.

“I started to think that my place was not Olympus, but the underworld. I just couldn’t bear to open my eyes and look at Olympus…”

“……”

“Just as Nike, the goddess of victory, follows Athena, so the gods who govern higher concepts also have gods who govern lower concepts.”

“I know that too. If that’s the case…”

“Although he is already called the god of mercy by humans, in my view, Hades is the most just god.”

So Ares, the god of war, leads Deimos, who means defeat, and Phobos, who means fear…

Just as Athena, the goddess of war, leads Nike, the goddess of victory…

“I, Dike, the goddess of justice, ask to follow in the footsteps of the lord of the underworld and the god of fairness.”

A divine message filled with divine power echoed throughout the audience room.

A resolution and declaration that is less serious than the Oath of the River Styx, but is based on the divinity of a god.

What Dickey is saying now is…

It is no different from asking that I be acknowledged as the god of fairness and that the god of justice be accepted as a subordinate concept.

The underworld and wealth, not only do you want mercy, but you also want to become a god of justice?

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