[Vol.2] Quest 188- The Fox & The HuntressOne week later.
With the ho built, they needed to furnish the ho.
"Let’s see... hmm, so beds and futons, drawers, tables, chairs... so much stuff." said Cirrus.
"We can help with that," said Aomi. "Akeru, tell the villagers!"
They slowly but surely started to fill the ho enough to actually call it ho. After it was well furnished everyone left leaving three people in the ho.
The ti for Cirrus's punishnt had co at last as he and Ai sit in a room with Artemis.
"So um... What is it gonna be, Lady Artemis."
"She is building her resolve to say it, Cirrus." Ai said next to Cirrus.
"Hmm…I had so much ti, yet it's still hard to say…" Artemis was fidgeting a bit.
This was a first seeing Artemis being so nervous.
"Oh, Aphrodite gave
this!" She went and got an incense pot with a clam and a pearl on it, Aphrodite’s Familia emblem. "She said this helps with stress!" Ai lights it, and a pleasant fragrance soothes their nerves.
"Haaa…that’s a bit better, so for your punishnt, Cirrus!" Artemis said, standing before him. "Is that you have to take responsibility and marry !" Her face was flushed red. "So be my Orion!!"
"…."
‘….’
A silence fell on the room as Cirrus really tried to process this.
'???????????????' His brain was firing off on all cylinders.
'Artemis, marriage!?!? That...that—Hm??'
To Cirrus, Artemis and marriage were two things he didn't think would be in the sa sentence. An anomaly. Of course, her and Orion's accounts were the closest to his situation, despite being lightyears apart. No matter how you cut it, Orion always dies in the end and gets placed in the heavens as a constellation.
'D-does this an I'm going to get killed by a scorpion!? No, no if anything, Artemis is-oh yeah, she already shot .'
He was in a pickle. To be with Artemis is to be her Orion, and to be Orion is to be killed by the divine. To Cirrus, this was effectively a massive death flag.
"A-Ai did you know of…" Cirrus turned to see Ai looking away, but she nodded. "And you, Lady Artemis, why did you decide on this to be my punishnt?"
"Since you adore Ai here, I figured out what better way to severely punish you than to marry , Orion!"
‘And also because I love you!! and the other moon gods won’t try and punish you first!! Wait? Wait?? Was I always so open???’
The scent of the incense changes ever so slightly.
"I... understand." Cirrus made a conflicted expression. "That... that does hurt ."
"!!"
Both Artemis and Ai flinched a bit at Cirrus’s expression.
"B-but Cirrus!" said Ai.
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