Within the Apollo Familia mansion, every mber was suiting up for battle. Since Hestia wouldn't agree with his proposition, Apollo decided to besiege their Familia to either destroy them or force them to accept their challenge. All for the single purpose of obtaining the three rising stars from their Familia.
Just to make sure of their success, he also hired so outside help to attack them. More specifically, those from the Soma Familia, who were very desperate for money and would do almost anything for it.
Of course, Apollo was aware of the heavy sanctions that he may receive from the Guild after doing this, but it was not sothing that he couldn't pay.
Aside from that, he also invited nurous Gods to watch this 'entertainnt' and would ask for so 'compensation' to recoup his potential losses after this.
Within Apollo's study room, his executives were gathered while waiting for their mbers and the Soma Familia to get ready, "We received so intel that said that two of their mbers had left Orario the other day and our targets, along with the new mbers of the Artemis Familia, seem to have stayed in the Dungeon last night, so we can expect weaker resistance from them.", reported Daphne.
Apollo's smile widened, "Great. How about your little plan, Hyakinthos?"
"I sent so of our mbers before daybreak, Apollo-sama. Since their store is their only establishnt, they won't be able to use it if by chance there's an escape route from it. I've also asked the people who have records regarding the basent level of that ruined church and we've been reassured that it isn't connected to anything, so escaping from there is also impossible. They won't be able to escape, Apollo-sama.", replied Hyakinthos.
"Good. You should depart now."
Hyakinthos bowed his head and said, "As you command, my Lord."
But before they could actually leave the door, the window of the room suddenly opened up with a loud bang, allowing the cold wind to co through, "So this was your plan! How dirty, Apollo."
"Hestia!?", exclaid Apollo. Beyond the window, Hestia was staring down at him with her arms crossed, "How did you co from there!? This is the third floor, you know!?"
While sneering at him, Hestia replied, "How? Are you not aware of the existence of ladders? You ought to learn more about the Lower World."
The mocking aura that ca from Hestia instantly pissed Apollo off, "How did you co here anyway!? What you're doing is trespassing!"
"Heh? You complain about trespassing when you're here about to attack my place? Are you really that stupid, you damned punk?"
"What!?" Apollo lost his patience and was about to command his children to catch her when she continued speaking.
"Well, enough of that. I'm actually here to tell you what you wanted to hear from ." Hestia then pointed at his face with a smug expression, "I accept your challenge."
The instant she said that, sothing flew by her left shoulder with an amazing speed and hit Apollo square in the face, creating a loud slap, "Gahh!!!"
That sothing covered Apollo's head with red ink and the splash it created on the wall behind him created a ssage, 'Whatever your rules are, we'll accept! As long as you can bet everything in the na of the Apollo Familia and never set foot in Orario for at least 100 years~!'
While everyone was stunned and Apollo was busy wiping off the ink, Hestia jumped down while shouting, "The War Ga is on! So you guys make sure Apollo won't do anything that will upset our chances of winning or that'll be extrely boring!"
From below, a small maid with purple hair jumped up and caught Hestia midair to slowly cancel her montum, before running towards the front gate to escape, "Apollo~! Don't make these people wait for too long~!"
Soon enough, the Deities that were inside the mansion cheered in unison, "It's finally here!"
Since there weren't any people guarding the gates due to them being busy, Hestia and dusa were able to escape without any problem and returned to their place. When they arrived, both of them saw Kisuke and Artemis standing in front of the supposedly destroyed store.
"Welco back~." Kisuke greeted them.
With a twitching mouth, Hestia asked, "Since when did you rebuild the store?"
"Rebuilt the store? What do you an?", asked Artemis.
"Y-you didn't see the state of the store this morning?"
"Hmm? I helped out with making breakfast and waking up the kids. I ca out not long ago since you were taking your ti to co back down. Did sothing happen?"
Hestia sighed and shook her head, "Haah, it doesn't matter. He already created that giant cavern so a small store shouldn't be a problem. Anyway, we've declared war on the Apollo Familia."
Artemis paused for a mont before replying, "I feel that I should be worried, but I can only feel pity for them."
Putting his fan in front of his face, Kisuke laughed out loud, "A free mansion will be good~! We can't have Claire and Ophis always staying underground."
"I guess you're right about that. We should just use the Denatus, but since you told him that he can make any rule, Apollo would surely go for borderline shalessness."
"It doesn't matter. As long we can kick them out, anything's fine."
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The Denatus to discuss their War Ga was scheduled two days later. During that ti, all sorts of rumors started floating around regarding the Hestia Familia and them being just a group of Level 2s going against a Familia with at least a hundred mbers and multiple of them being Level 3.
Due to this strength difference, many people assud that they'd be skipping the town and those from the Apollo Familia seed to believe the sa thing as their mbers were guarding the gates of the city to prevent them from skipping.
The news regarding what Apollo wanted from the Hestia Familia also spread like wildfire, earning various reactions about it. Most of them were disgusted by it while so took pity on them. Takemikazuchi and Miach, on the other hand, were very worried about them and wanted to lend a hand, at least, to help them at escaping but Hestia just reassured them that there was nothing to worry about.
Apollo was also worried about the Hephaestus and Loki Familia giving so assistance to the Hestia Familia because he received so reports that said that they were 'getting along'. But he put his worries down when he saw no movents from either of them, with the latter even openly celebrating Hestia's misfortune.
After Hestia left for the Denatus, Sona, Aika, Koneko, Akeno, Irina and Serafall finally returned to the surface.
"Uhmm… What's going on?", inquired Sona from Kisuke, who was on his break.
"We're smashing so heads. The Apollo Familia kept bothering you, didn't they? This is your chance to retaliate legally~!"
"…Just how did the situation devolve to this?"
"They ssed with my shop."
"…"
The girls could only silently pray for their opponents.
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