[Young Snake...!!]
Earth.
The holy gods and subordinate gods gathered at Lee Geon’s house were holding a strategy meeting.
It was for no other reason.
[Good heavens, what kind of insane holy god bastard enters the country like that!]
[He didn’t even register as a holy god, and I was uneasy from the moment he went to the immigration point...!]
[Young Snake, if you do such a thing, you’ll even receive penalties...!]
[Of all places, in that A-area...!]
The Virgo subordinate gods couldn’t keep still, and the Leo subordinate gods seemed to agree, plunging into a mental breakdown.
[Indeed, the divine realm’s penalties are perilous.]
[And if it’s the A-area, isn’t that within the sphere of Olympus’s influence?]
[That place is teeming with dangerous 5-star gods...]
But the Virgo subordinate gods screamed in a different sense.
[Kyaaak! If it’s the A-area, of all places, it’s where the dimension of pleasure is!!]
[If you receive a penalty, you’ll be utterly devoured by goddesses!!]
[Young Snake’s purity is in danger!!]
At the Virgo subordinate gods’ shrieks, the Leo subordinate gods’ veins bulged.
[Hey, Virgo!!! You worry about something like that?!!!]
[Kyaaaak!!]
But soon, the Leo subordinate gods let out groans.
After all, unlike other gods, weren’t they the ones who had personally witnessed and endured Lee Geon’s temper?
They said Lee Geon had illegally entered and committed terrorism, but honestly, it would be a blessing if it ended there.
‘Please, just don’t lay a hand on the great holy gods!’
Deep down, they wanted to chase him to the divine realm immediately, but entering would probably take time.
‘Though all the holy gods are there, the subordinate gods have crossed dimensions and come directly to Earth.’
So in this situation, the only ones to trust were the holy gods in the divine realm!
But the Leo holy god seemed to be asleep, not answering, so they only felt anxious.
Well, no matter how you looked at it, it could be good.
Although they had lost track of Lee Geon after the immigration checkpoint, the holy gods didn’t seem to make much of it.
“Even so, if anything happens to Lee Geon, word will come straight to the holy gods.”
“Right, we... no, I’ll let you know, so you uncles don’t have to worry.”
But it was just then.
“Um... young master?”
“!”
Lee Jae-won, who had come visiting Lee Geon’s house, smiled brightly at Cheon Seong-jae.
His seemingly gentle expression was oddly terrifying.
As expected.
“Young master. Where is Miss Yuha right now?”
“!!”
Cheon Seong-jae flinched, which was rare for him.
And at Lee Jae-won’s words, Stephen, Kevin, and Gote narrowed their brows.
“Huh? Now that I think about it, we haven’t seen her for days.”
“There’s no way she’d miss being here to see Lee Geon.”
Cheon Seong-jae flinched even more.
But Lee Jae-won smiled pleasantly at Cheon Seong-jae.
“Didn’t the young lady clearly say she was with the young master and the madam? But when I asked the madam today, she said she hadn’t come there...”
Cheon Seong-jae averted his gaze.
“Ah, well that... Noona went for a part-time job. To Siberia to pick coffee beans...”
Lee Jae-won tightly grabbed Cheon Seong-jae’s shoulders.
“Young master? Coffee doesn’t grow in cold places.”
“...Th-then South America...”
“Young master???”
At Lee Jae-won’s furious smile, Cheon Seong-jae finally burst out wailing.
“Waaaah! Actually, Noona followed Uncle to the divine realm!!!”
Everyone was shocked at his cry.
“Wait, what? She went to the divine realm?! A human?”
[Goodness, what kind of place do you think it is!]
“Did Lee Geon knowingly take her along?”
“Ah, no. Without Uncle knowing, secretly...”
People seemed even more shocked.
“No, how could she follow without Lee Geon knowing?”
“Ehh, that’s a secret...”
“Young master?”
At Lee Jae-won’s smile, Cheon Seong-jae immediately broke out in a cold sweat.
“Th-that... well actually...”
Cheon Seong-jae recalled the events from a while ago. Before Lee Geon had left for the divine realm, he had stopped those trying to follow and said,
‘I’ll bring Dad. It’s dangerous, so you wait here. Absolutely do not follow, absolutely.’
But Noona apparently couldn’t accept that.
In the end, it was Cheon Seong-jae who helped her.
And the brilliant scheme was none other than Pixiu.
‘Since Uncle took all the subordinate gods, I figured he wouldn’t know if she was inside Pixiu’s mouth.’
Well, when he secretly called the piggy bank (Pixiu) with food and forcibly stuffed Noona in, it was quite a struggle.
And upon hearing the story, the holy gods and subordinate gods gaped.
To do that to a subordinate god of all things...!
But at that, the Virgo subordinate gods seemed to catch on to something.
[Ah! Then Young Snake. Could it be you illegally entered because of that?]
[That’s right! At the immigration checkpoint, they’d inspect everything down to each subordinate god!]
[Oh oh, as expected of the Snake Lord! You noticed midway and entered illegally to avoid getting caught!]
But Lee Jae-won looked serious.
‘No, there’s no way he did it for that reason.’
It was then.
“By the way, now that I think about it, not only Hugo’s daughter, but Scorpion isn’t reachable either...”
At Kevin’s words, Gote laughed.
“Ahh, come on. That person is probably in Canada. Already these days, strange believers outside the 13 Zodiacs are appearing, causing all sorts of trouble, right?”
“True. There’s no way she’d pull something like Yuha.”
No. That person is dangerous too.
Lee Jae-won held his face.
In the end, he sighed, resigning himself to telling the Sagittarius holy god about this.
If it’s the solemn Sagittarius holy god, he would surely rein those two in properly.
“Well, I expected it to some extent, but I didn’t think she’d actually follow. Miss Hayley also likes Lee Geon. They say Miss Yuha even proposed to Lee Geon the moment she saw him...”
“It’s hereditary, I guess. Her dad was like that too.”
“What? Her dad?! What do you mean?”
“Well, the young lady might be a fangirl, but...”
“What do you mean, I’m asking!”
At that, Cheon Seong-jae recalled his noona’s words. It was right after she had first met Lee Geon.
‘Don’t worry, I have no intention of pointlessly bothering Uncle either.’
But didn’t she declare that following as a fan is free, and burn with fandom passion?
Well, no matter how you looked at it, that was fine.
In the kitchen while bringing out refreshments, someone was trembling.
Divine realm goddesses will devour... Hayley isn’t seen... Yuha chased after Lee Geon...
Hayley likes Lee Geon... proposed the moment she saw him...
Yeon-woo flickered her eyes nervously and vanished somewhere.
* * *
BANG!
After knocking down the subordinate gods pursuing Lee Geon, Yuha let out a sigh.
Was this Hades’ detached palace?
When Lee Geon first summoned Pixiu, she had slipped out of its mouth.
Since among the divine rank skills there were warp and stealth skills anyway, moving without Lee Geon knowing wasn’t difficult.
And after escaping like that.
Kidnapping Persephone (?) and secretly following Lee Geon using the stealth skill, then even dealing with the subordinate gods targeting Lee Geon for a long time.
“Hoo. Is it over now?”
Yuha, who had defeated the enemies, caught her breath.
Unlike monsters, gods were quite difficult to hunt.
But the pigeon-headed official who was actually lying there, coughing, gnashed his teeth and reached out his hand.
“You human wench...! How on earth did you infiltrate! No, before that, what grudge do you have to attack us...”
“Ah. There was still one left.”
Cheon Yuha raised a harpoon-like spear.
But right at that moment.
“Yuha!!”
At the familiar voice, Cheon Yuha flinched in surprise and immediately readied to run.
But.
“Yuha, stick right there! If you run, I won’t sign your figurine!”
At Lee Geon’s shout, the Scorching Snake Lord looked at his nephew as if dumbfounded.
“Nephew, how old do you think that kid is...”
But Cheon Yuha, who had been about to flee, immediately sat down neatly and waited.
And she stretched out her hand, her eyes sparkling as if asking him to hurry.
Watching the scene, the Scorching Snake Lord gaped, and Lee Geon glared.
“Yuha, why are you here? I told you it was dangerous and not to come. Did I or did I not?”
“But since Dad is here, I couldn’t stay still...”
At Yuha’s downcast expression, Lee Geon, who had been about to get angry, sighed.
“Alright. Then don’t go anywhere, and stick close to my side.”
As if she had never been about to cry, Cheon Yuha clung to Lee Geon’s leg like a cicada.
Lee Geon’s veins popped.
“You. Not like this.”
Cheon Yuha pouted.
But regardless, the Scorching Snake Lord, dumbfounded, asked.
“Daughter of my holy god, what on earth have you done?”
“!”
“Most are low-ranking, but how could a human beat down gods?”
Then Yuha tilted her head as if wondering what he meant.
“When I swung this around, they all just ran and collapsed with a piff.”
“What? What kind of nonsense is... AAAARGH!!!”
At the spear Yuha thrust out, the Scorching Snake Lord had a seizure and hid behind Lee Geon.
“You wretch! What in the world are you holding!”
“...What else, the weapon Uncle made for me...”
“AARGH! Never bring it close! Never!”
“...????”
“Snake Lord! What did you make that damn thing out of!”
“What else. The corpse of the monarch I caught before. Maybe that one was...?”
“AARGH!! No wonder the gods freak out and run when you’re holding such a thing!!”
The Unknown Civilization was already the race gods loathed the most.
Not to mention their leader-class monarch, it was beyond comparison.
‘Even the great holy gods avoid monarch-class.’
The relationship of predator and prey. To those who rule dimensions, they were the worst race.
Just with an object soaked in that power, it could weaken the strength of gods or make them faint.
And the monarch Lee Geon had caught before. What Lee Geon caught was a part of it, but anyway, that bastard had also invaded the divine realm and savagely devoured gods. It had burrowed in through a dimensional rift.
In any case, before that shocking incident is even forgotten, to bring something made of that!
But whether the Scorching Snake Lord was anxious or not, Lee Geon was intrigued.
“What the. It looks like the gods dislike monsters even more than I thought?”
“Dislike? They do. In the first place, those items are illegal, no, unthinkable. Especially the monarch class, even great holy gods dis...”
The Scorching Snake Lord, who had been looking at Lee Geon, turned serious.
“Nephew. No.”
“What.”
“You’re smiling. You’re thinking of making items from the monster corpses you’ve collected and secretly distributing them. Absolutely not. Do not do it. Absolutely not. Anyway, that’s not happening!!”
“Oh. Didn’t think that far, thanks for the idea.”
“ARGH!!!”
“Anyway, since you’re here too, I need to go find Taeksu first.”
But Hugo seemed to have left Hades’ embrace, and the problem was that his location was unknown.
‘I guess I should go find that guy first.’
But it was just then.
“Oh, Uncle, this.”
“!”
Yuha held something out.
“When I roughly caught a few at Hades’ detached palace, I picked this up...”
It was a letter she had obtained from the official she had knocked down.
But upon seeing the form of the letter, the Scorching Snake Lord was startled for some reason.
“Let me see.”
“!”
The power enveloping the letter.
It was from a high-ranking holy god in charge of Olympus’s .
And a message stamped with the seal of this high-ranking holy god doesn’t just go to anyone.
As expected, the Scorching Snake Lord immediately tore open the letter forcibly.
Though a high-rank seal was cast on it, he was still a high-ranking holy god of the divine realm, despite appearances.
CRACKLE!
With rough flames, the envelope burned away, and upon reading the contents, the Scorching Snake Lord furrowed his brow.
“The sender is Hades...”
The problem was the recipient receiving the message.
A great holy god.
But upon seeing the contents, the corner of Lee Geon’s mouth lifted.
“Yuha, well done.”
“!”
It couldn’t be helped.
「Great holy god. Thank you for the purchase. I shall inform you of the location to hand over the subordinate god .」
That was Hugo’s location.
Lee Geon glinted his eyes fiercely.