#chapter 389

Chapter 389: Fine waves

and finally

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[A very long time ago, we have received a certain revelation from the ‘three sisters of fate’.]

“….A revelation?”

[It said, ‘A successor to the darkest night who will end the most ancient Myth, will appear.’]

Meanwhile, she continued on. [I was initially furious after hearing that oracle.]

…..Furious?

[Because, I possess the ‘Fable that can’t have children’.]

I had no idea that Persephone had such a backstory. Could it be that the reason why she had no children until now was because of that?

Persephone lightly brushed my hair back.

[At first, I waited, wondering if it was possible. Maybe, I’d be blessed with a miracle. Maybe, we’d be blessed with a beautiful child who’d remember our stories. Even if only the darkness, hellish landscape, and prisons existed here, we were confident of raising our child better than any of the 12 gods of <Olympus> as long as given a chance. To teach our child the ways of understanding the darkness of other beings, to tell him the kind of Hell that others could never sympathise with, and to show him the merciless prison punishing the evil that tramples on the righteousness of the universe.]

“…”

[For many hundreds of years, I lived on in that delusion.]

The ends of her fingers were trembling ever so slightly.

Persephone managed to sigh softly and continued on. [Hades and I forced our way past many things for a very long time. We knew that we couldn’t have children, but we were never unhappy. Even if the <Underworld> would come to an end in our generation and no one would remember the Fables we had lived through – we are different from the 12 gods, that we’re different from those parents who forcibly passed on their Fables to their children. That we are complete as just us.]

“…”

[But then, one day, you made your appearance.]

Persephone’s eyes were now looking at me.

[Actually, he was the first one to discover you.]

[He said that he started watching your history from when you managed to survive in the subway. At first, I could hardly believe that there was a child like you. Because I believed that such Fables were over in this world. I can still remember his excited voice when he talked about you.]

[We watched a small Fable that grew up all alone fighting against the world itself. We watched, as you challenged the mighty Constellations, faced off against the Outer God, and while resisting against Dokkaebis’ scenarios…. managing to amass five Fables to be reborn as a small Constellation among the stars.]

[That was when we first began thinking about this – that we wanted to become your parents.]

I barely managed to swallow back a certain something trying to well up. I felt that I could just about understand the truth of the affection Persephone had shown me all this time…. Just a tiny little bit.

Both Hades and I do not wish for you to end up as the ‘King of the Underworld’. We also do not wish for you to be bound to us, and do not wish for the lives we’ve lived, our history, to become the rules that you must abide by. No, all you need to do is to advance forward towards the end of all scenarios, like you’ve been doing all along.]

“But, I…. I am the Underworld’s….”