King of Underworld - Chapter 144



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The last proposal

After proposing to Styx, Lethe, and Persephone… I went straight to Charon, the boatman of the Acheron River.

He was carrying souls as usual.

“…Lord Caron.”

“Ahem! Hey Hades. I didn’t let that guy pass on purpose. No, that guy was begging with tears streaming down his face, and how desperate he looked, and the lyre playing touched my heart…”

“Lord Caron.”

“As soon as you hear my performance, don’t all the painful memories of the hardships you’ve endured here come flooding back? If you understand my feelings…”

He seemed to be very aware of his own mistake in letting a living human being pass by without his permission.

Before I could even question him, I listened to him string together excuses for a moment.

After a while, Caron, who was looking at my unchanging expression, closed his mouth.

“…you have allowed living beings to cross the Acheron River, so no gods will be stationed on the Acheron River for the next year.”

“Okay…”

Why don’t you try working alone for a year?

Just like before you received support from Olympus, you will have to steer the ship by beating up the unruly human souls one by one.

I’d like to chain him up for a year, but… then there’d be no one to steer the ship.

Caron, who had been observing me for a moment, opened his mouth and spoke to me.

“Ahem. So what happened to that person? With your personality, I think you would have killed him.”

“I didn’t kill him. I’m not such a cold-hearted god…”

“…? What’s going on?”

“I can’t show myself merciless when I’m proposing to Persephone, or rather, Kore. I don’t want to be disliked by my mistress either.”

The boatman’s eyes widened as he listened to me. Why was he so surprised?

“What! Are you finally getting married?”

“Yes. I proposed. Not only to Kore, but to other goddesses as well.”

“You’re the first to propose? What kind of whims could the most impregnable god in the divine realm have? I’d rather believe Thanatos’s idle talk…”

“…increase it to 2 years?”

Caron closed his mouth again and turned his head.

Ugh… You do this often.

* * *

After finishing the conversation with Charon, I headed to Mente for the last time.

Although Mente herself is a lesser god of mortal nymph origin.

I always said that I wanted to be accepted as a concubine, but I didn’t want to do that.

It is absolutely unacceptable to discriminate against just one person and cause conflict.

After all, there isn’t just one goddess that you can spend your whole life with…

Mente clearly said… that he went to this world to meet his friends.

In that case, it would be near Mount Etna where Typhon’s body is sealed.

Suddenly.

“Hades! We’re in trouble! Typhon’s body is running wild again on Mount Etna…!”

“Mente?!”

As I was heading towards Mount Etna, where Mente was presumed to be, she suddenly ran in.

He ran so quickly that his hair was disheveled and he was out of breath.

“I was resting after meeting up with my friends for the first time in a long time, when a pillar of fire rose from the top of Mount Etna and an earthquake occurred…!”

Typhon is on the loose. The one that was quiet for a while is starting to go wild.

Was it a whisper from Gaia, foretelling her impending defeat? Or was it just a periodic fit?

The crater is spewing lava.

“…I’ll go right now.”

“Me. I’ll go with you! I don’t have time to check if my friends are okay…”

* * *

Just in case, I took Quine with me and headed towards Mount Etna, and as expected, I could see Typhon’s body moving around as Mente had said.

Flames were gushing out from the crater at the top of the mountain… and thick black smoke covered the area.

Gurrrrrr…

Nearby animals, sensing an impending disaster, fled in all directions, and nymphs living in plants and springs hid in fear.

The ground shakes so violently that it feels like Typhon’s body is wreaking havoc…

“Hades?”

A goddess with a serious expression on her face and her hands on the ground looked back.

Was Demeter, the goddess of the earth, also here?

“Demeter. Are you here too?”

“The nymphs were begging me. I happened to be nearby, so I came running.”

“So, what did you find out? Someone deliberately tampered with Typhon…”

“I don’t know. If the Earth Mother whispered something, I have no way of knowing. The Gigas are stuck on the plains, and the Titans are all being punished or are under your realm, the Underworld…”

Kookookookook…

Well, then you haven’t found anything. Still, it’s fortunate that Demeter found it quickly.

The earth is forced to bend by her power, pressuring Typhon.

“Mente. Should I not go see your friends, the nymphs?”

“Oh! Okay. I’ll be back quickly!”

As Mente got down from his chariot and quickly left, Demeter, who had been touching the earth, opened her mouth.

In a somewhat cold voice.

“What is that lowly god? Surely he wouldn’t be the one to touch that goddess before leaving my daughter behind?”

“I have already proposed to Kore.”

“…Really? Of course it should be. Listen carefully, every spring the child loves to run around in the fields, making wreaths of yellow flowers…”

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Near Mount Etna, which was in chaos due to Typhon’s rampage…

For a while, I listened to Demeter tell me about Persephone’s tastes, likes, and all sorts of small talk.

Kugu palace!

It’s a story that doesn’t fit with the scenery where Hephaestus is angry.

My mother-in-law… no, my sister… is telling me about my nephew’s, no, my wife’s, tastes.

“Hades? Are you listening to me correctly? If Kore is sad because of you…”

“…Okay, stop it.”

I really have a lot to worry about.

Well, it’s my daughter’s wedding, so I guess that’s understandable.

* * *

After a while, Typhon’s rampage died down and Mente returned to the chariot and headed off somewhere again.

Mente is chattering away next to me. It seems like he’s happy to see his friends from when he was a nymph after a long time.

“…So. It is said that he prayed to Zeus at that time.”

“Mente. It’s been a while since I’ve seen you this happy.”

“Ah… hehe. The underworld is busier than I thought. It’s been a while since I’ve seen my nymph friends…”

Well, that’s true. But nymphs are beings that exist in nature.

As long as the nature they inhabit is not destroyed, they have a lifespan that is much longer than that of humans.

“Everyone was just as I remembered them. Although some of my friends were gone…”

“hmm.”

“They were dryad friends, so they died because the tree was damaged. But since I am a god belonging to the underworld, I can visit them often whenever I want…”

If she hadn’t met Mente by chance, she might have also come to the afterlife when her lifespan ended.

And I would never remember mint. It was a memory from my past life that came to mind occasionally, but mint… the scent of peppermint was a little more special.

“Mente. Do you know that?”

“yes?”

“The plant you created, called mint. In some human countries, they use a substance extracted from that plant every day to keep their mouths clean.”

“Really, Hades? Humans only chew on fragrant branches and feathers, or use strange powders.”

“Hahaha! It’s a story from such a distant place that even if I told you, you wouldn’t know.”

Mente, her turquoise hair billowing as the tank speeds, makes a dazed expression.

Of course I couldn’t know, it’s a very far place. It’s so far away that even I, the god of the underworld, can’t get there…

“But if there is such a place, my faith will increase a lot! There may be more believers in me than in Hades. Hehe!”

“Of course. You might have had more followers there than Zeus.”

“Huh… Hehe. Really? Then I’m even better than Hades there… Hehe…”

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People all over the country, no, all over the world, used toothpaste with mint every day.

If the current Mente had appeared in my previous life, he might have been greatly praised.

I lightly pinched Mente’s cheek, who was open-mouthed and believing my words as if they were ironclad.

“ouch!”

“There’s a bug in my mouth.”

“Ugh… You weren’t like that before, but you’ve become more playful now.”

Mente looks at me with a pointed expression while caressing his cheek.

Well, is that so? The playfulness has intensified. I don’t think I’ve ever heard that from any of the other goddesses.

Mente is very comfortable.

Is it because of the mint scent that brings back memories of a past life, or is it because when I was a nymph, she was a nymph who didn’t fear me too much and just looked at me as I was?

Even after becoming a goddess and coming to the afterlife, she still helps me in the same way…

Comfortable and kind. It’s like a little sister I know.

That may be exactly what I found so appealing.

Right away.

“They’re all here. Get down.”

“Huh? Lord Hades. Aren’t we supposed to be going back to the underworld?”

“You’ve come to the right place.”

Wheeing-

The place where I stopped the tram and got off with Mente was a plain where a gentle breeze continued to blow.

It was a quiet place, so there were no humans or nymphs.

Only I… The mint field that I secretly had others grow without the Goddess of Mint’s knowledge.

An incredibly refreshing scent enveloped us on the wind.

Mente gets off the tram, looks around, exclaims in admiration, and flips his long hair.

“Wow… This place is full of mint?”

“That’s why I chose this place.”

“yes?”

“I thought this would be the most appropriate place to propose to you.”

…!

He took the bracelet out of his chest and carefully put it on Mente.

A bracelet made of living mint ran up the goddess’s wrist and wrapped gently around it.

“You are the goddess of mint, but it is also a plant that symbolizes me. The flowers that grow here will always face the direction I am.”

“Lord Hades…”

“I love you, Mente. Marry me.”

“Yes… sniffle.”

The scent coming from the menthe that is so close to my lips that it almost touches them,

This time, it wasn’t a refreshing minty feeling… it was an extremely sweet scent.

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