[Greek mythology] Born to be arrogant

"Where did you learn this method of lighting a fire with crystals and the sun?"

A pair of powerful hands tightly grasped her shoulders, and Apollo's almost gnashing of teeth sounded in her ear.

"You—where did you learn it?!"

Eight years of exile, Tempe Valley.

He watched as Diana smiled and held up a crystal, aiming at the sun.The sunlight gathers into bundles under the crystal, gradually igniting the dead branches.He was shocked, but Diana smiled and said: You can do it too.

At that time, he had been denounced by Zeus as a human being without any divine power.

He held the clear crystal and ignited the dead branch. Diana hugged his arm and looked at him, smiling and bending her eyebrows.

That piece of crystal is still placed in the Temple of the Sun, beside his pillow, accompanying him through long night after night.

Princess Thessaly, who was pressed tightly in front of him, blinked, and an imperceptible gloom flashed in those beautiful glass-colored pupils that were almost exactly the same as Diana's.

"I'm……"

He narrowed his golden eyes slightly, and his eyes wandered over her fragile neck, thinking about where to start, so as to crush her neatly.

"...I learned it from Her Majesty Diana."

Diana?

Her Majesty Diana?

From Diana? !

Apollo almost lost control of his mind, twisting her jaw, forcing her to look at him, trying to find even a trace of lying from those clean and bright eyes.

However, no.

Those eyes were clear, clear and calm.

She said word by word: "I learned it from His Highness Diana. Including the night of the Sun God ceremony, it was also Her Highness Diana who taught me word by word in my mind, so I..."

Apollo could no longer hear any sound, and those two sentences kept circling in his mind.

"I learned it from Her Majesty Diana."

"His Royal Highness Diana taught me word by word in my mind."

He suddenly had the urge to cry.

He wanted to reprimand her, want to crush her, and wanted to find traces of Diana's existence from every tiny corner of her.Even if there is only a slight trace, a little bit of hope.

Like a traveler walking alone in the dark night, longing for the faint light like a firefly.

Diana...

Apollo hugged her tightly almost out of composure, his cold but silvery long hair fell into the palm of his hand, and there was a hint of faint blue in his brilliant golden pupils.

He heard her say softly:

"His Royal Highness is so absent from duty, is it really... okay?"

Diana never thought that Apollo would lose his composure like this.

He rushed down from the sky track in panic and anger, like a fiery golden fire, engulfing her to an unknown distance.The flooded Nile River has turned into a distant coastline in the sky, and Ramses' almost crazy roar can be vaguely heard: "The sun god priest Nefertari has summoned the gods to descend, and I——I am the unique king of Egypt!"

What a pharaoh who is good at handling the situation.Diana smiled slightly, withdrew her attention, and tentatively hugged Apollo gently.

Apollo didn't move.

She continued to lie without blinking: "I was born to hear a beautiful and gentle voice tell me that she is the god who holds the moon on the holy mountain of Olympus, but she is too tired and needs to be in my body." sleeping..."

Apollo gradually raised his head, his golden eyes were faintly red: "Sleeping?"

"Yes, sleeping." Diana nodded affirmatively, and continued to lie, "She would wake up occasionally and teach me some... some strange things..."

Apollo looked at her motionlessly as if under a spell, with a little surprise and indescribable fear in his eyes.

Gradually, he burst into tears from laughter.

"what……"

"Colonis, I know you're lying, I know you're lying..."

Apollo stretched out a finger, and lightly tapped Diana's lips, "But, I love every word you say. Koronis, from now on, you don't need to tell me the truth , just need to lie to me over and over again like now..."

Like a lone traveler in the desert, his thirst has reached its limit, knowing that there is a glass of poisoned wine in front of him, but he still swallows it.

If she could succeed in deceiving him... Diana was still...always...

Apollo suddenly picked her up, flew up to the highest dome, and landed steadily in the golden chariot. Six violent golden Pegasus horses were still moving steadily on the sky track, and a colorful bird tilted its head. Look at him, continue to sing the so-called hymn.

...Then, he will bestow upon her the supreme glory in the human world.

Diana was terrified.

At first, she tried to use this method to guide Apollo to gradually believe that she would recover from the body of this human princess and make him feel better.However, Apollo said to her like drinking poison to quench his thirst: he loves her so much.

Lies, lies.

He was sure that she was lying, and that Diana had completely disappeared into the world...

"Kronis." Apollo embraced her from behind, held the rein, and closed his eyes gently, "His Royal Highness, what else did she say?"

Diana sighed softly, and the lie came out: "His Royal Highness also said that Apollo, who is extremely stubborn, will definitely go crazy. If he is really crazy, you can kick him into the pool behind the Temple of the Moon God." , soak him for three years, calm down."

Apollo muffled a laugh.

Kicking him into the pool behind the Moon God Temple to soak for three years was really something she would do when she was angry.

How long had it been since he had heard such a nostalgic joke?five years?ten years?Or 15 years?

"What else?" Apollo smiled sullenly, still closing his eyes.

Diana continued to gossip: "His Royal Highness Diana also said that if Apollo dares to stay up late again, when she comes back, he will definitely smash all the glazed lamps in his room and destroy all the night pearls."

"anything else……"

"His Royal Highness Diana also said..."

Di An suddenly realized belatedly that she wasn't lying at all.

Isn't this word for word "His Royal Highness Diana still said"?

It's just that she has been repeating her own words all the time.

"...His Royal Highness Diana said, if you drive the chariot with your eyes closed, aren't you afraid that the sun will go out of the sky?"

Apollo gradually opened his eyes, and most of the breath that had been stuck in his chest for a long time dissipated.

Diana stood peacefully in his arms, neither moving nor looking around.

A colorful bird hopped twice, chirped twice at Diana, and turned its head away in disdain.

Diana was furious.

It's been 500 years since we saw each other, this little broken bird is getting more and more angry...

I don't know if its eggs coated with spices taste good when boiled?

Apollo gently brushed her soft long silver hair, looked at the west coast that was already in front of him, and said to her gently for the first time: "Do you want to touch it?"

The little phoenix jumped up with a chirp, flapping its wings angrily in mid-air.

Diana couldn't help laughing.

Every time Apollo tried to get her to pet it, that was the way the little broken bird reacted.

She looked at Xiao Fenghuang with a smile, and the luster like water dripped from her glass-colored pupils.

"Do you want to breathe fire again? Little Phoenix."

——Do you want to breathe fire again?little phoenix.

Apollo ruffled her long hair as if venting his anger.This time, she forgot to add "His Royal Highness Diana said".

After going through so much, he still had some vague expectations in his heart.

Whether it was to deceive him or the gods, as long as she was still by my side, even if she knew she was a fake, it was fine.

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On the west coast, the god attendants untied the bridle and reins for Tianma, and the little phoenix also flew back to its original habitat, lingering on the palm branches, waiting for the arrival of a new round of Nirvana.

Apollo seemed to be very interested tonight, and he even took the initiative to ask her, "Would you like to visit Egypt?"

She was dumbfounded.

Apollo continued: "Don't you want to see your 'results' during the day?"

She was silent for a moment, nodded and said hello.

Apollo habitually wanted to hold her hand, but just before touching her, he turned a corner abruptly, pinched a bunch of silver hair and gently rubbed it, saying, "Let's go to the Nile."

The Nile River at night has receded from the hustle and bustle of the day, leaving only a large mess.Burnt masts, shattered decks, balls of yellow sand piled up on the river bank... She and Apollo walked on the river bank one after the other, leaving four deep rows footprint.

Apollo looked back at her from time to time, his eyes were deep and fiery, but somewhat hollow, as if he was looking at someone through her.

She was helpless and distressed, and wanted to hug him again, but for no reason, she remembered the episode half a month ago, so she had to give up.

For Apollo, the present she is the shadow of Luna, a shadow that can make him deceive himself and struggle to wake up in a nightmare, like drinking poison to quench his thirst.

Even if she said a million times that she was Diana, Apollo would not believe her.

On the contrary, he would personally destroy her because of her "ignorance of good and evil".

Diana sighed slightly.

Exactly... what should I do?

Apollo stopped and turned to look at her: "Why, are you unhappy?"

She shook her head, nodded again, and found a random reason: "Everyone is gone, what's there to see?"

Apollo laughed and wanted to rub the top of her head habitually, but the moment he touched her, he put her long hair behind his ears and said softly, "I will accompany you to Thebes. "

Thebes, the capital of Upper Egypt.

Ramses had just finished a coup d'état, so he must go to Upper Egypt to clean up the mess and take his beautiful Queen Nefertari to accept the worship of everyone.

After Diana said hello, she suddenly remembered that there was another demigod on board today.And that demigod said something strange to her not long ago.

She also stopped and raised her head to ask Apollo: "I have heard a rumor that the Milesian school vowed to insist that 'the origin of the world is water', while the Ionian school insisted that the origin of the world is water, earth, wind and fire. ’, the two schools once had an unpleasant quarrel with each other, and even once quarreled in front of you, didn’t they?”