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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Vine
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He skipped school and ran to the karaoke place.
“Excuse me!”
“E-Excuse me, sir!”
The employee tried to stop him, but he ignored him. No one could stop him.
“It’s the other way!”
“…Oh, sorry.”
It had been a while. He followed the employee.
“The drawer… inside the drawer…”
The first drawer. A small, light blue mirror. He looked at his reflection.
“…Hmm.”
It was his face. So, what now?
“Just wait here?”
He stared at the mirror.
“…I’m pretty handsome, huh?”
He’d never really looked at himself in the mirror. He’d glanced occasionally, but never really looked. He checked for any stubble, and his teeth.
[‘Oracle’ has arrived]
[God Ur: Agape. Mirror.]
“Ah.”
Why hadn’t he thought of that? His intelligence was truly declining. He took out Agape and placed it in front of the mirror.
—*Hum!*
The mirror rippled. Agape emitted a pale blue aura, which flowed into the mirror.
[—Ah, ah! Mic test! Testing!]
“Ur-noona!”
He heard a familiar voice from the mirror. Ur-noona’s face appeared in it.
[Chrono…? Is that you, Chrono?]
“It’s me!”
He waved his hand. Ur-noona sighed and reached towards him.
[Chrono, can you put your hand inside the mirror?]
“Like this?”
[…Chrono, you’re supposed to ask ‘are you trying to arrest me?’—Ah! Lady Hephaestus, thank you for everything!]
“…??”
He wasn’t sure what was happening, but he put his hand inside the mirror.
“Oh… oh…!”
The mirror rippled, and his hand went in, fingers, hand, wrist, and then his arm. It felt like he was putting his arm in mud. Something grabbed his hand. It was slender, soft, slightly cool and moist.
“Ur-noona…!”
He pulled. It might not be possible to pull her whole body out since the mirror was small, but he wanted to at least get her hand out.
“I’m coming out!”
Her arm, elbow, wrist, and hand came out, still holding his. Another hand came out, emitting a blue aura. It touched the edge of the mirror, and another hand came out, physically pulling on it.
“Hmm? …Aha!”
The mirror was large enough for a person to come out. Two arms reached out to him. ‘Pull, right?’ He pulled with all his might.
“What’s with all this sand?”
Fine sand came out with her arms. Was she trapped in a sandbox? Then, her blue hair and face emerged.
“Ugh—huff… phew!”
“Noona!”
Ur-noona was breathing heavily. When she shook her head, sand sprayed everywhere.
“Cough! Ugh… I think I got some in my nose…!”
“I’ll get you out!”
“Achoo! Kyuu… Thanks, Chrono…”
Her shoulders, torso, and waist emerged. But her hips seemed to be stuck.
“…Huh?”
“Your hips are wider than your shoulders…?”
“…I didn’t gain weight!”
It was just her birthing hips! Ur-noona infused the mirror with her divine power. Her whole body emerged from the mirror and she took a deep breath.
“Haaa… I thought I was going to be trapped in the Sands of Time and tortured forever…”
“…You’ve been through a lot, noona.”
“Hmm…”
No.
“You were the one who suffered…”
“………..”
She was covered in sand, but she was worried about him.
“Are you okay?”
“…I think you are worse off than I am.”
Go take a shower first. He helped her up.
“Oh my, are you going to wash me?”
“Would you like me to?”
“If you’re offering, wash the innermost parts too~♪”
“Oh…”
That seductive voice. It was the Ur-noona that he knew. ‘I’m feeling things…’
[‘Oracle’ has arrived]
[God Hera: Child, don’t you have something to say to us?]
“Huh?”
An oracle. Ur-noona also saw it and smiled bitterly as she pushed him away.
“Go talk to them. I’ll be right behind you.”
“…Okay.”
He remembered why he’d come.
“Where should I go?”
[‘Oracle’ has arrived]
[God Hera: Come before the mirror. And I shall stand before you.]
An oracle from Hera. The divine power in those words was supposed to be overwhelming, but… ‘Her tone is strange.’ It wasn’t like the oracle that had appeared before him.
‘It was more like…’ He didn’t think too much about it. Even Ares and Athena had sent those strange oracles. How frustrating that must have been.
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Ur-noona’s mirror. She’d stretched it for her to come through, so now it was half the size of a full-body mirror. “Should I put it on the ground?” Since there was no stand, he leaned it against the wall.
[‘Oracle’ has arrived]
[God Hera: Pour your divine power into the mirror.]
“Divine power…”
She probably meant ‘divinity.’
He focused his divinity on the mirror, as if he was using [Holy Weapon]. The mirror rippled, just like when Ur-noona had appeared.
[—Can you hear me? I asked if you can hear me!]
“Yes, I can hear you clearly.”
A voice came from the mirror. A reflection began appearing on the other side of it.
[—This is a first.]
“…Huh?”
Brown hair, brown eyes, small chest, and a narrow waist.
[Nice to meet you, ‘hero’.]
“………..”
He knew it. He knew who that was.
[My name is Hera, Goddess of Family and Queen of the Gods.]
“…….Ah…”
Her tone and demeanor were different.
“…Juno…?”
[Don’t mistake me for my ‘child’.]
“…Lady Hera?”
[Yes.]
My name is Hera, your mother and your patron god.
Hera smiled and looked at him. ‘…Oh!’ Her outer appearance was similar to Juno’s, but the aura was completely different. She felt more mature and seductive than the Juno that he knew.
—Hum!
“Huh?”
The mirror was suddenly rippling. Neither he nor Hera was doing anything.
[—You’ve gone too far, daughter. The child’s true god is here.]
“…I knew it.”
Another figure appeared in the mirror. Sitting on a throne with a bored look on his… face. It was Chronos.
[…You are interfering with a holy oracle? You must be desperate, Chronos.]
[I’m simply correcting a mistake.]
[Is that so? Looks like you are in quite a hurry.]
[Not really. The owner has already been decided.]
“Really, now?”
He silently watched their argument.
[Owner? That’s quite an arrogant thing to say, Chronos. Looks like you haven’t learned your lesson yet.]
[I’m different than before. I understand what it means to be a ‘king’ now.]
[A king without any subjects? Ha!]
[I’m simply reclaiming my rightful place.]
“…Hmm.”
The two goddesses exchanged words.
[You are brainwashing him and still pretending to be a god?]
[I merely granted the child’s wish.]
[And that’s why you added Aphrodite’s power too? How touching.]
[Do as you please. He’s still my child.]
‘…Aphrodite?’
The goddess of beauty?
“Aphrodite…”
It made sense. It was Aphrodite’s power. That’s why men were so easily drawn to her.
That was why Juno had such a high NTR risk. The difference was that Juno had pure love NTR scenes, and Aphrodite’s NTR scenes were just humiliation.
‘Those come in later though.’
Anyway, he wanted to ask Hera one question while the two goddesses were arguing.
“Lady Hera. You called me ‘my child,’ does that mean you are my patron god now?”
[You can serve both Chronos and me. Of course, you can always choose one if you want.]
[Nonsense, Hera. You can’t serve two gods! How dare you suggest such a thing?!]
[But even ‘he’ and I have been worshipped in the same temple many times.]
[That’s because you’re incompetent! I will not tolerate such insolence. …Am I right, my child? The one who bears my name, my blood?]
“…Hmm.”
Chronos was smiling leisurely.
He had been a bit scared at first, but now that Hera had made her intentions clear, he didn’t have anything to worry about. He had a question for Chronos.
“How much did you find out?”
[…Huh?]
