Chapter 114 - Provocation.

I walked toward the stairs and waited for Apollo to approach me. He looked me up and down and then walked away, ignoring me.

As soon as everyone was paying attention to him, he began to give a speech. A speech so "scripted" that it made me a little sleepy. I yawned as I watched the whole thing.

Everyone clapped; I was the only one not doing it. And after his speech, Apollo started to walk through the banquet and talk with some people. I approached him and got in his way.

"Hey, God, what took you so long to show up? Were you, by any chance planning something interesting for this banquet? I'm quite curious." I said in a mocking tone. I had no reason to respect him, even if he was a God.

The members of his familia were quite annoyed but were stopped by Apollo.

"May I know who you are?"

"Are you sure you don't know who I am? You were looking at me. You seemed quite interested in me...I thought you already knew me."

"Ah, you're that new member of Hestia Familia. The fastest monster? Something like that."

"Yes, you're right. But I don't like that nickname. Call me Luan. But what's up, God? Were you planning something?"

"I don't understand what you're implying."

"Come on, don't be so petty." I put my hand on Apollo's shoulder. His expression, which was soft before, turned serious. He looked at me as if he saw me as an enemy. However, his expression softened again.

"You..."

"Take your hand off him!"

But the two members of his familia right behind Apollo didn't look like they would accept my touching their precious God. Seeing things starting to get a little dangerous, I walked away.

The people at the banquet were looking at us and commenting on what I was doing. Hestia seemed quite nervous, but I could see a smile on her face. Bell, on the other hand, looked worried that something more serious would happen.

"Stop it. I don't want to fight."

"You are being disrespectful to the God Apollo!" One of the men spoke up.

"Am I being disrespectful? No, of course not." I smiled debauchedly. "It's just that your God was looking at me in a very disgusting way, you know, so I wanted to see the reason behind it." I shrugged and turned to leave.

I felt something coming, so I activated my body-strengthening ability. Yes, it was him, Hyakinthos Clio. He was the captain and the man most devoted to this damned God. He drew his red-bladed sword and attacked me without a second thought.

As I felt his attack coming, I could avoid it with ease. After that, I grabbed the hand that Clio was using to hold his sword. I looked into his eyes and smiled, then kicked him in the stomach.

Clio flew off and fell to the ground. I smiled at Apollo, and I could see his anger starting to show in his expression. But he controlled himself quite impressively.

"If I were you, I wouldn't use your fire magic here. We could end up destroying this whole place." I said to Clio. I used my imagination and created a giant fireball over my hand.

Everyone was surprised since I had done this without saying anything. Unlike Bell and the other adventurers, who usually said the names of their spells and abilities, I don't need to do this.

Clio spat out some blood and gripped the hilt of his sword tightly. In the anime, he smiled and treated Bell like a child, but now he seemed pretty nervous. Is he afraid?

Before we could continue, however, Apollo raised his hand and stopped Clio.

"That's enough, Clio. Luan, isn't it? All right, I'll remember your name. Now get out of here." His eyes were full of hatred. And honestly, that's the best! Much better than being lusted after by him.

"Goddess, we're leaving. Bell, let's go."

"Oh, right!" Bell looked at Ais before leaving.

I bowed to everyone in the banquet and walked out of there elegantly. It had been fun, but I had hoped for more fun.

'Still, it was pretty cool to challenge a god.' But it's best not to do that often, or things will get a little out of hand. And speaking of gods, what must Freya have thought of that?

I bet she found it quite amusing. She is so beautiful... Why does she have to have such a bad personality?

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"Hey, what was that all about? Why did you talk to Apollo like that?" As soon as we left the banquet, Hestia asked. She seemed a little nervous about what would happen now that I had done all that.

"I don't like him, that's all."

"It's okay not to like him, but you shouldn't have done all that. You wound a member of his Familia."

"That guy attacked me first, didn't he? I just protected myself."

"Still..."

"It's okay, Hestia. Even if he tries to do something, I'll be here."

"..."

"Now, let's go back home. I'm tired and want to get some rest. I will also tell Lili everything that happened at the banquet. I bet she will enjoy it." We returned home, and Lili was sitting on the couch.

She seemed to be looking forward to our arrival. As soon as we entered, she ran toward me and jumped into my lap, ignoring Hestia and Bell.

"You finally came back."

"Were you feeling that lonely? Let's go to the bedroom now because I have something fun to tell you."

"Yey!"

"Ah, Goddess, in case you get notified about what I did, talk to me immediately." I smiled at Hestia and went upstairs with Lili.

This banquet was shorter than I expected.

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