greek gods in new york

07

Athena not only rejected me, but also taunted me.

Although a little discouraged, I'm not surprised.

"My fault, my fault."

Afterwards, Loki in front of the locker smiled and apologized: "I asked you to try it, but you were humiliated."

After he finished speaking, he held out his hand towards me.

"As an apology, let me carry your bag," Rocky said, "and take you to the physics lab?"

"Thank you, but no need."

I sighed: "This is a problem left over from history, how could it be your fault. It wasn't you who instigated my father and Athena to have conflicts back then."

While that's certainly something Loki would do, there's a world of miles between the Aegean civilization and the Viking civilization.

Judging from the relationship between Athena and Ares in the myth, she just said a sarcastic remark, and she didn't intentionally make me unhappy, which is quite decent.

As expected of Athena.

I don't think anyone in their right mind would blame Loki.

But Rocky himself... I don't seem to think so.

He looked at me, inexplicably restrained his smile, and complex emotions appeared in his sea-like deep eyes.

Emotions flashed quickly, and then replaced by a perfect "Aragorn" smile.

"Sure enough, the children of the poor are already in charge of the family." He said.

"..."

I glanced at him.

"Back to the topic," Loki didn't want to get entangled here, he still took my schoolbag, "I'll take chemistry, you'll take physics, we're very close, let's go there together."

"What's the topic?"

"The point is, the key to sending an email to Athena is not whether she agrees or not," Loki said lightly, "You are only a freshman in high school, and you have no contact with her before. It is no wonder that Athena will give you a letter of recommendation."

Also.

I thought for a while, if I were Athena and suddenly received an email from a stranger claiming to be a relative, asking for favors, I would not give them.

In comparison, Athena still chooses to reply to the email, which is already regarded as her self-restraint.

"There are still four years to go," Rocky said again. "During this period, first make a plan for your future course selection, ensure that your GPA is sufficient, and then win two or three national-level awards. Take advantage of the summer vacation to do something useful." A lot of social practice, make your resume look better. As for Athena... write a greeting email every year and holiday, just be sincere and kind. Let me think about it. With your family's economic conditions, even There is no need to give gifts, and Athena will not be rare."

After speaking, he carried my schoolbag back.

"Four years later, if you send your beautiful resume and ask for a letter of recommendation again, it will be hard for her not to give it to you."

I looked up at Loki dumbfounded.

I understand the truth, but I'm only a freshman in high school now!

Loki spoke lightly in a series of words, but I have only seen this kind of campus life arrangement in film and television novels.

It's the same with the bright, elite students who live far away from me.

Like me, a commoner student who studies in a high school near the block and whose family has no money or background, how can I think about what will happen after four years.

I can't even figure out how to write my philosophy class assignment due next week, and I'm thinking about GPA and national competitions?

and……

"you--"

I tried to sort out the logical language: "Have you considered becoming a career planner?"

Loki raised an eyebrow.

"I knew Fernando wouldn't teach you," he said triumphantly, "It's the 21st century, and these old gods still cling to their past glory and dream big dreams—including Zeus. If they really want you Well, I should tell you how to be a qualified human being, instead of thinking about how to restore your former abilities. But Zeus did one thing right, and that is to ask me to come over and help you arrange your studies."

"Although I can't see your class schedule, as far as the courses you have taken these two days...Nicole, you can't just choose simple courses, and your GPA will not be enough. And if you want to go to Harvard, you must choose certain pre-selected courses. Take the course, or the Ivy League won't take you at all.

"However, if you want to take AP classes, you have to take certain prerequisite courses first, and you have to plan the course selection arrangements for the four years of high school. Let me think about it——except for your father and your godfather, most of the participants in the Lazarus project are Professors of religion and anthropology are right to choose courses in the direction of humanities and social sciences.

"In other aspects, the capstone project can't be left behind. The language is not bad. I can read Spanish, and Fernando can guide you. If you want to learn Japanese, I can also find other gods to help. As for participating in national competitions, Let me check the news and make plans."

Loki was eloquent, and as soon as he heard it, he was already prepared.

I don't know anything else, but one thing is clear to me now.

That is, the image of Loki in various movies and novels, including the myth, is not bad.

He was really eloquent, a chatterbox.

Still a chatty chatterbox.

Having said so much, it is nothing more than to prove one point: he came prepared, and I can completely trust him.

No wonder I had to hold Aragorn's face, I cursed in my heart, otherwise he would have deserved a beating.

"The old gods want to restore their former abilities, what about you?"

I asked, "It sounds like you're doing fine without recovering your powers. So, Loki, what do you want from me?"

Loki couldn't help laughing.

He raised his hand, as if he still wanted to grab my shoulder, but this time I reacted in time and took a step away.

After losing his left hand, Loki paused, retracted his arm awkwardly, but didn't say anything about it.

It's just that those eyes with watery eyes, full of love even watching a dog, turned around.

"That's what Fernando taught you," he said with a smile. "The daughter of Ares, the goddaughter of Tezcatlipoca, is indeed a wary wolf cub. It's a pity, Nicole, they shouldn't Bring you back to New York, and you should stay on the U.S.-Mexico border. Maybe growing wild in the Gobi Desert is more suitable for you."

"You're changing the subject."

"I do not have."

Loki tilted his head and stopped walking.

The laboratory for the first year of high school physics class has arrived.

"What I want to do, you will know when you get the notice," he returned the backpack to me, "but before that, let's think about how to—"

"—Admitted to Harvard?"

Not to mention me, even Loki was startled by the sudden voice behind him.

I turned my head in panic, and it was the little Meryl that caught my eye.

"Meryl!"

I slapped my chest wildly: "You scared me to death!"

Meryl adjusted the mirror frame.

Seemingly surprised, she raised her head as if sighing, and met Loki's gaze.

"Wow." Meryl said.

At this time, I am very grateful that Meryl is a home girl with some radio waves.

Meryl and I are neighbors, my family lives in 301 and hers lives in 302.Not only that, Meryl's parents also opened a supermarket in the neighborhood where I lived. It is a polite way to describe growing up together. We have hardly been separated since we were young.

In this way, the "we have known each other for a long time" in Loki's mouth is not valid in front of Meryl.

If I had known such a handsome guy a long time ago, how could she not know?

Yet Meryl didn't care.

As I expected, my Ome didn't suspect this.

She didn't even show any surprise that I had the ability to beat up my classmates within a few days, and that I was rumored to have an affair with a handsome transfer student.

"Ah, Luo... Kainas, let me introduce you," I hurriedly said, "This is Meryl, my good friend. Meryl, this is Kainas Uld, also... …my friend."

"So you know Aragorn," Meryl said, "I should have said it earlier, Nicole."

"Aragorn?"

Loki froze for a moment, not knowing whether it was fake or real.

Then he smiled: "Thank you for the compliment."

I:"……"

Hmm, looks like it's fake.

His eyes turned around Meryl's body, and then he touched his neck: "Meryl's movements are so light that I didn't even hear them."

I gave him a strange look.

I always feel that Loki is implying something.

But Meryl didn't hear it.

She still said in a serious tone: "Although I don't know why Nicole wants to go to Harvard, if you want to go, you should really make a plan now."

She heard everything I talked to Loki just now.

This makes me a little nervous: isn't the part about Athena, Ares, and the old and new gods also——

"When spring comes, there will be a national encyclopedic knowledge contest for middle school students."

Meryl didn't seem to notice it at all, and continued: "You can sign up and try, and Nicole's grades..."

I bowed my head in shame.

I don't know what kind of GPA I need to apply to Harvard University, but it is definitely not enough as far as my current grades are concerned.

Changjie Middle School is not a good school, there are not many freshmen in senior high school, and even so, my grades can only be said to be mediocre.

Compared with me, Meryl's grades are a little better.

She is a typical otaku: she doesn't participate in clubs, she's not good at sports, and she doesn't like socializing.But her academic performance is very good, regardless of arts and sciences, as long as she writes and thinks, she can always get high marks.

So she is fully qualified to teach me.

"Not to mention anything else, your philosophy class homework." Meryl was very helpless, and took out her thesis from her backpack, "I can't help you write it for the same class, the same topic, and it will be rejected by the teacher." I can tell."

"I don't need you to write either."

I whispered, "I'll do it myself!"

Even Catherine won't force Meryl to help with homework, okay?

On the other hand, Loki, who was standing aside, followed Meryl to take out the paper and took a closer look.

His eyes are good: "The topic of the thesis is Nietzsche?"

Meryl: "Well, modernist philosophy."

Loki asked curiously, "Isn't it easy to write?"

Not only is it not easy to write, I shouldn't follow Meryl to choose courses.

She just said that she hoped to choose one or two classes to take together. I took a look at Meryl's course selection list and randomly ordered philosophy courses.

It's all my fault that I overestimated my humanistic quality. It wasn't until I started taking classes that I realized that I had no interest or talent in this area.

"Shouldn't be."

Loki frowned slightly, showing a puzzled look: "Nicole obviously knows an expert who understands Nietzsche."

me?"

I do not know how?

Loki gave me a meaningful look, then touched his neck again.

"I remember Nietzsche had something, some Dionysian theory?"

"Bacchanalia," Meryl responded gravely, "from The Birth of Tragedy, and refers to the passionate, tragic intoxication in the proof of tragedy."

"……what are you guys saying."

A super nerd nerd, an unpredictable old god, can you stop embarrassing me, an ordinary female high school student, here!

"Here we are talking about Dionysus."

Loki looked at me with a smile: "It's Dionysus."

I:"……"

Loki: "I think you should know?"

Superficially Rocky seems to be referring to experts I know who understand Nietzsche.

In fact, I knew he was asking if I knew Dionysus.

Coincidentally, I do know him.