I've Possessed Persephone (9 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 6
What the hell is this nonsense again.
Hades’ eyes lost their focus.
My sanity slapped me across the face and stormed out of the house.
“Kyaa! What do we do!”
But whatever Hydra was thinking after seeing his expression, she grabbed both her cheeks and started bouncing excitedly.
“It’s true!”
No, what exactly is true?
Do snakes have such vivid delusions?
She didn’t twist her body like a typical snake to gauge her boss’s mood, but to Hades, it was just embarrassing.
It felt like just yesterday her heads were growling with metallic rasps after being cut off, yet here she was making the face of a kid in first love—it was hard to follow the conversation.
Is this what raising a child feels like? Hades pressed his index finger to his lips.
“Please just shut your mouth. It’s not something worth making such a fuss over.”
“Understood, I’ll keep quiet. I absolutely won’t tell Thanatos. Or Nyx either!”
Hydra grinned so wide it looked like the corners of her mouth might split. She cupped her hand to her ear.
“Instead, tell only me. Who is this person?”
“…….”
“Ah, if you’re worried I might mishear, just write Her Majesty the Queen’s honorable name on this paper! I’ll serve with all my heart and soul!”
I’m really going to lose it.
‘She’s even less trustworthy than Hermes.’
At a glance, the moment Hydra left the room, her misunderstanding would spread like wildfire.
Hades rubbed his brow and grabbed the tip of Hydra’s reed pen.
“No, honeymoon house or marriage or whatever… none of that. Calm down. Whatever you’re imagining isn’t going to happen.”
“Huh? Why not?”
“Why not? Because I’m not getting married, so there’s no honeymoon house either.”
“Why aren’t you getting married?”
“…….”
Ah, did I really have to start explaining from there?
Hades glanced at Hydra’s deeply disappointed face, then let out a heavy sigh.
“The guest who’s supposedly coming soon isn’t my lover, and certainly not someone I’m marrying. They’re literally just a guest. Don’t ask for details.”
“Hmm…….”
Hydra’s eyes were filled with suspicion, but Hades waved his hand as if to say that was enough.
She scratched her head with the end of the reed stalk.
“Then… we need to remodel the palace for the unspecified number of guests who’ll come to the underworld in the future? That acquaintance is just coming as the first guest.”
“Yeah.”
“Got it, understood.”
As if she’d never been disappointed, Hydra calmly lowered her gaze.
“I’ll ask the others about the remodeling. What about the decorations?”
“The underworld tends to be dim, so making it bright would probably be better.”
“Then I’ll pay special attention to lanterns and braziers… Covering the stone walls with fabric would be good too. We can drape some of the silk that recently came from the eastern continent. I’ll go with bright, warm colors.”
“Yeah. White, yellow, red—those should be fine.”
Hades pictured the guest room in his mind and added,
“Add some flowers too. Like wreaths.”
“Yes, yes.”
“What about furniture like tables?”
“I’ll use birch wood for those. I’ll cut it while keeping the grain beautiful. Trust me.”
As Hydra winked one eye, Hades’ gaze turned to the paper.
‘Colors mainly white, yellow, red. Plus braziers, lanterns, silk, flower vases, wreath decorations, tapestries, carpets, chairs, tables, and….’
While scanning the list she’d written, Hades pointed to the empty space at the very bottom of the paper.
“We need one more thing.”
“Yes? What is it?”
“Bedding.”
Hydra’s reed pen paused.
Hades tilted his head slightly. He asked her in a puzzled tone,
“Why’d you stop?”
Hydra froze for a moment as if flustered, then quickly lifted the corners of her mouth.
“Ah, no, I got it.”
Then she muttered as if whispering,
“Right… the guest would need it too.”
Hydra sharpened the reed pen by rubbing it against the stone wall and nodded vigorously.
“I’ve heard that humans, especially the stubborn ones, have something similar. They call in bards or jesters? I’m not sure if that’s the same as what Hades mentioned, though.”
“…What?”
“Then I’ll be off! I’ll be quick!”
Before Hades could even question her, Hydra’s legs headed toward the office exit.
Quite fast, unlike a snake sluggishly crawling on the ground.
It was practically an escape. The desperate struggle of an overworked employee who wanted nothing more than to breathe fresh outside air.
Hades’ hand, having lost his aide, lingered in the air.
Bedding and pillows.
And bards and jesters.
‘What on earth do those have to do with each other?’
A chill of foreboding ran down Hades’ spine.
* * *
Hydra fidgeted with the edge of the papyrus. Her eyes wandered upward while reviewing the list, then narrowed as they reached the very end.
At the bottom of the list…
[Friend]“Why would a guest room need a friend…?”
Instead of “bedding,” the word “friend” was written.
Snakes don’t have good hearing.
Unfortunately, Hydra the water serpent wasn’t blessed with sharp ears either…
Hydra groaned and racked her brain, but no matter how much she thought, she couldn’t figure out why her lord had specifically mentioned the word “friend.”
She passed through the Asphodel Meadows where the dead resided and reached the banks of the Phlegethon, where hot lava flowed.
【Hydra.】
A familiar voice called her name right by her ear.
“Damn it, you scared me!”
Hydra jumped in place as if stabbed by a spear. Startled, she reflexively bent her knee to kick the other’s shin.
But the other’s body swiftly moved above Hydra’s head.
Her gaze flew toward the one who had called her name.
The god of death—Thanatos—was looking down at her.
Hydra swung her clenched fists wildly. She shouted,
“Why call me so close and make a scene! I thought my neck was going to fall off again!”
【If I call from far away, you either can’t hear or pretend not to, so what choice do I have.】
“Would anyone want to hear their name from a reaper’s mouth, common sense-wise?”
【This distance is perfect for someone who hears sympathy as “mussel.”】
At Thanatos’ sharp jab, Hydra’s tongue froze.
Everything Thanatos mentioned was true. She really was that hopeless with hearing, so she had no rebuttal.
As Hydra closed her lips, Thanatos’ eyes moved smoothly like a doll’s. His gaze landed on the paper she was holding.
【What’s that now.】
He crossed his arms and scanned the list.
【All these decorations and furniture… Heading out to prepare something new?】
“Yeah. So I need to go up to the surface.”
【Why the preparations.】
“Hades told me to make a guest room. I’m looking for where to get suitable materials.”
Hydra scratched her cheek.
“But he mentioned some weird material along with the others. Want to check it too?”
Her finger pointed to the very bottom, the word “friend.”
“He says we need a friend for the guest room. What could that possibly mean?”
【Friend?】
“Yeah. Friend. Maybe he wants a shade to keep a guest who’d feel uncomfortable in the underworld company?”
Hydra bit her lip in confusion.
At that moment, a fatal suspicion flashed through Thanatos’ mind, who hadn’t thought much of it until then.
The underworld is generally known as a moldy, disgusting place.
Any guest would want to finish their business quickly and leave the ominous place. Giving them a companion for conversation would be pointless.
‘Yet he wants a shade to act as a “friend” for the guest? That Hades?’
No matter how he thought about it, it was strange.
Sensing something odd, Thanatos’ gaze fixed on the list.
‘Now that I think about it, the colors are bothering me.’
White, yellow, red. And wreaths…
‘Aren’t these things used at weddings?’
When getting married, the bride wears a yellow or red veil to ward off evil spirits and misfortune, finishing the look with a wreath.
‘…Maybe what he entrusted to Hydra isn’t a guest room.’
Having reached a somewhat reasonable deduction, Thanatos snapped his fingers.
【About that “friend” you heard.】
“What.”
【Wasn’t it actually “bride”?】
“…….”
【No matter how I look at it, it seems you misheard again.】
Hydra’s face twisted bizarrely. Before she could roar in anger, Thanatos quickly raised his hand like building a dam.
【Think about it, Hydra. You’re the one with a history of hearing sympathy as “mussel.” Mishearing friend as bride isn’t that strange.】
“Hey, no way! That word couldn’t possibly have come up in that situation.”
But Hydra had long ago heard from her lord himself that he wasn’t getting married.
“And how would a bride fit into materials for a guest room, you lunatic! Are we supposed to drag someone’s new bride down to the underworld to decorate the palace?”
Just before Hydra grabbed Thanatos by the collar.
He opened his mouth as if this were his final word.
【…What if Hades lied to you?】
Hydra’s hand twitched for a moment.
She rubbed her throat and snapped back gruffly.
“Why would he lie to me?”
【Don’t take it badly, just think carefully.】
Thanatos continued slowly.
【Unlike you who loves making a fuss, Hades is thoroughly prepared. He would want everything ready for the soon-arriving bride.】
“Besides the guest room—no, honeymoon room—other things too?”
【Yes. For example, a queen’s throne or crown, or perhaps a hall.】
Hydra’s eyes widened.
【If you spread rumors and caused the entire underworld to make a fuss, there wouldn’t be enough time to decorate this barren place. Considering your personality, I think Hades swallowed his tears and lied.】
Uncharacteristically passionate, Thanatos concluded as if stamping a seal.
【Hydra, be honest. Didn’t it feel like the room wasn’t for unspecified guests, but for “someone specific”? And to hide that intention, didn’t Hades act especially negative toward your excitement?】
“…….”
【Plus, if the colors are mainly white, red, and yellow… those are exactly wedding colors. You suspected it a little too, right?】
“Uh…….”
Hydra’s judgment began to blur.
How much time passed?
Hydra, whose ears were as thin as they were poor, nodded.
“Now that I think about it, it really might be true.”
When yandere male lead believes she loves him — but she never did
“How dare you!”
“How dare you make me love you, only to cast me aside as nothing more than a friend?!?
“I will never accept that.”
“I will never let you return to him.”
“Even if I have to burn myself to ashes.”
“Even if I must shatter my purity, my dignity, my very soul.”
“I will never let you escape me!”
This was the first novel that introduced me to the matriarchal genre. I’ve read it three times already!
At first, the male lead despised the female lead. Later, he misunderstood that she liked him, so he condescendingly and reluctantly reciprocated her feelings.
Then, he suddenly discovered that she was kind to everyone in the same way, and there was already someone she cherished in her heart, and that person was not him.
The male lead couldn’t believe it, he became angry and crazy. He was determined to capture her body and heart by any means necessary.
Synopsis:
Want to see how a green tea bitch male lead falls in love with the female lead?
Want to see how he flirtatiously pursues the female lead?
Want to see how he gets slapped in the face repeatedly?
The male lead is a green tea bitch, a poisonous lotus, jealous, ruthless, unscrupulous, with a venomous heart, and he’s also a delusional maniac.
The female lead is righteous, positive energy-filled, kind, a holy mother.
Let’s see how two people with extreme personalities come together~
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Oh my God, poor, pitiful Hades! I hope he finds happiness with Persephone.
Oh, poor Hades! He’s so sweet. Why doesn’t anyone like him? I hope Persephone likes Hades and brings spring into his world.
Poor Hades, how can a little child be hungry? How sweet, how his expression changes upon hearing Persephone speak.