The training of Medea

[T/N: Again, double-sized chapter.]

After talking with Demeter for a while, Athena left immediately.

And she left without doing anything exceptional.

Jason had originally thought she was going to grab him and ask something.

For example, why did he let her plans go to waste again... Of course, neither of the times Jason was responsible for what happened but explaining to one Goddess that another Goddess is responsible for her failure would not have been easy, nor good for his health.

And what about Athena's original plan of saving Jason from Demeter?

Well, now that Jason has learned Hecate's purpose of letting him stay here, he obviously wouldn't leave here without completing it.

And on the other side, Athena also noticed that it would be meaningless for her to stay here any longer, as Jason no longer needs her help.

Athena is the goddess of wisdom, and she has secretly mentored the growth of an uncountable number of heroes.

So even though Athena doesn't want to admit it, this time her plans for Jason have failed again!

But Athena is not in a hurry about this...

'Although I am a little unwilling, and I want to rub his face, step on him, spoil him...'

'But, who am I? I am Athena, the elegant and wise Goddess of Wisdom, how could I do this...'

So Athena decided to wait as she knows that there will be many opportunities in the future!

After all, Athena has already investigated Jason's origin and history, so she knows why he was sent to Chiron in the first place and that sooner or later, he will be dealing with the matter of Iolcos's throne.

So, after Athena left and Medea joined him in his stay at Demeter's temple, his days gradually became calm and steady.

And after journeying around for months, Jason finally had the chance to enjoy the rare tranquility.

After, getting up in the morning, feed the Pegasus, then learn potion making with Medea.

In the afternoon, take care of the special medicine field that Demeter has specially created for them, then again learn potion-making.

As for serving Demeter... actually, for the lack of better words, now Demeter is one serving him...

And like this, one month passed.

One-sixth of the half a year agreement has passed in a way Jason hasn't expected.

And Jason is very satisfied with this life.

Although, he feels that there are two small troubles, Demeter and Medea.

Still, Jason isn't bothered too much by Demeter's case, since it is like she is just applying her maternal aura on Jason and Medea, that she has no one to vent on due to Persephone's absence.

And even then, most of the time, Jason has managed to dodge it by using innocent Medea as a shield.

But in Medea's case...

At night, in the potion-making room.

"Well, brother Jason, can I sleep with you tonight?" While feeling a headache approaching, Jason looked at Medea, who is watching him with a hopeful gaze.

Jason wants to refuse, but he has never expected that after being together with him for a whole month, even innocent Medea has learned a few tricks from Jason to make him satisfy her request.

'If I do not fulfill this requirement of hers, then she will not teach me tomorrow!'

"Okay, but the premise is that tonight, you will cooperate with me to successfully prepare an intermediate-level transformation potion!"

"Sure, no problem!"

Jason helplessly looked at Medea, who has happily agreed to his condition with a dazzling smile on her face, then felt: 'It is getting increasingly difficult to deal with her.'

'And isn't Medea getting more and more clingy...'

As a matter of fact, it would be false to say that Jason isn't feeling guilty about repeatedly rejecting and trying to stay away from an innocent and cute little girl, who is even willing to question the actions of God just for knowing his well being...

But being aware of fact that she is Medea... Jason is also really unable to feel happiness!

In brief, regarding Medea, Jason's mood is quite tangled.

And it was while dealing with this that Medea got the idea of sleeping together with him, Jason can't even blame others.

Because of the idea of ​​​​'training' Medea, when Jason was teaching Medea about the concept of elder brothers being like a father and one should not have romantic feelings towards them, Medea did not pay attention to anything else, but when Jason casually mentioned that even sleeping together shouldn't be a problem, she remembered it by heart.

As for Jason's repeated emphasis on the point that brothers and sisters must never get married...

"Believe me, Brother Jason... Don't worry, you will definitely be able to learn it by tonight because the potion you have made yesterday was actually quite close."

"...I think, my dear good sister, you wouldn't have deliberately hidden some points, would you? You also know that I have learned the primary transformation potion in only three days, and it has almost been a month since I began learning the intermediate level!"

"Because Brother Jason, I really want to teach you longer... cough, no, I mean, it's because intermediate level potions themselves are difficult to make."

Jason blankly looked at Medea, who has turned her eyes away from him.

At the same time, Jason is also very helpless in his heart.

'Where did my innocent Medea go; who just a month ago was willing to follow my every word and never contradict or bicker with me?'

'Why is it recently been getting harder and harder to coax her?!'

So, after more than two hours of work, under Medea's almost hands-on teaching, Jason finally prepared an intermediate-level transformation potion.

As a matter of fact, learning the intermediate-level transformation potion in just one month is actually quite fast.

However, ordinary people will not have an almost infinite amount of medicinal materials given to Jason by Demeter as well as the teaching of Medea, who is nothing less than a genius in this.

Medea is indeed quite talented in this regard and whatever she has learned from Hecate, she remembers almost everything and can infer other things from it.

Otherwise, Hecate's daily routine for Medea's teaching would not have been just assigning her homework.

On the contrary, Jason really doesn't have much talent in this regard.

Jason's talent is not on the side of complex complementary spells and potions, instead, it is on the side of the battle and leadership.

"This intermediate-level transformation potion is almost the limit of the materials used. If brother Jason wants to make an advanced-level potion, you need to learn the corresponding magic, and also get the blood of a few specific monsters. However, as an advantage, unless the corresponding antidote is used, once a highest-level transformation potion is used, it can never be undone."

After taking the medicine handed over by Jason, then checking it and confirming that there is no problem, Medea returned it to Jason while simultaneously explaining about the higher level potions.

"Basic transformation potions can only be used on ordinary people and ordinary beasts, which means... Intermediate potions should be effective against monsters and demigods, right?"

Jason took the potion, pondered for a while, then looked at Medea in front of him, and asked thoughtfully: "If you use this potion, how long will its effect last on you?"

"Well...it will take around a week to be automatically released from its effects, but it is this short because I have also taken some special potions on a daily basis and have built up some resistance against these types of potions. However, in general, it will take at least a month or even longer for its effects to be undone on its own."

Medea thought for a while and replied truthfully.

"Really... Then, from tomorrow, I will also start learning to make the antidotes of intermediate-level transformation potions, so Medea, how about showing me a few samples of the antidote?"

When Medea heard this, she immediately took out a few pre-prepared antidotes, and upon further request from Jason, she gave them along with a few more transformation potions to him.

While holding the intermediate transformation potion and antidote in his hands, Jason looked at Medea in front of him with a meaningful smile on his face.

*****

So that night...

"Meow?...Meow, meow!"

"Hey, it's really effective on you."

Jason stretched out his hand and pick up Medea from the bed, who is extremely flustered due to turning into a kitten because of Jason secretly using the transforming potion on her.

"It seems that this potion can also work on most heroes... It's a good life-saving skill, stop, stop scratching me, don't worry, I will make you turn back tomorrow, don't you also know I already have the antidote here?"

"But then again... a cat. "

Jason touched the head of Medea, who had turned into a little black kitten, and while comforting her, another girl, with her face full of wildness, popped into his mind.

'I am inexplicably feeling this is more suitable for her... I have also heard from Nymphs that the rumor about me seems to have originated from her mouth?'

'Okay, if I have a chance of seeing her next time, I must teach her a lesson by this! "

"Hiss...Don't bite! Don't bite, I was wrong, it is my fault, I'm sorry, alright?! Okay, I won't create trouble for you, but...if you remain turned into a kitten tonight, I'll make an exception and let you sleep next to me, are you sure you want to change back?"

Medea was surprised upon hearing this, then she struggled in her heart for a while.

But finally, she surrendered.

"It's so easy to do...ahem, let's get started."

'Start?... Start what?'

Medea was confused for a while, but after seeing Jason's expression becoming serious and solemn, then as if thinking of something, her expression immediately changed!

"Why do you think I have used the transformation potion on you?... Do you really think I don't know that during previous times, you have been quietly blocking your hearing with silence magic?"

"Now listen carefully, since I'm your brother, it's okay for you to get close to me, but you need to have some limits on everything."

"As it is said, a good elder brother is like a father, an elder brother cannot be married to, an elder brother cannot be bullied, and an elder brother is the object of respect and admiration for the younger sister..."

These acts can be abbreviated in one crude word: brainwashing!

After all, Jason wasn't just joking when he decided to make Medea his younger sister, he is someone who believes in taking action.

Because, at the end of the day, it's directly related to his very life!

Jason firmly believed in himself that he will eventually be able to use drops of water to grind an iron rod into a needle and his perseverance will pay off in the end.

'Train Medea to be a good sister who only respects and admires me, not a bad sister who wants to marry me!'

While once again renewing the goal in his mind, Jason continued with his... 'training'.

"Meow meow meow!"

While jumping around, Medea spoke in her new language that she will not be sleeping there anymore, she doesn't want to sleep together and asked Jason to give her the antidote.

But Jason obviously ignored her by claiming that he can't understand what he is saying.

'After all, I have finally succeeded this time, so I must advantage of this opportunity because I definitely won't be getting such a good opportunity next time!'

So Medea finally decided to run away from this place.

But, after all, she is a kitten, so as soon as she turned around, she was immediately caught by Jason.

In the end, after some attempts, Medea surrendered and listened to Jason non-stop nagging for more than five hours.

And by the end of it, Medea's eyes were looking dead...

At least in one way, the effect of this was actually quite good.

Because from the next day, she avoided Jason using all kinds of ways and didn't dare to mention sleeping with Jason for the next half a month.

Even the next night, she was afraid that Jason would again come to her and then start teaching her, so ran to sleep with Demeter for the first time, making Demeter quite happy.

But the side effects were also quite big.

Because since then, Medea has been constantly looking for a chance to similarly turn Jason into an animal, but Jason will naturally not give her a chance.

And since knowing that Medea has modified this potion to become effective even by inhaling it, Jason even made a gas mask for himself, just in case she again modified it to make the previously taken antidote become ineffective...

As it is said, those living with thieves become a thief.

After two months, even though, she didn't succeed even once, while trying to trick Jason, Medea's innocence began subsiding visibly under the influence of Jason...

Now, one can only guess, if Hecate learned of this, will she also imprison Jason and 'train' him harshly, even though, she has decided to not interfere between Jason and Medea...

*****

Soon three months passed.

Jason was originally thinking that under the protection of Demeter, he would be able to spend the whole six months in peace.

But completely unexpected by many, during these three months, the Queen of Gods, Hera, finally learned through her own sources that Jason is not in the underworld at the moment.

Rather, Jason is living in the temple of Demeter.