Chapter 144Premium
After proposing to Styx, Lethe, and Persephone... I immediately went to see Charon, the ferryman of the Acheron River. He was, as usual, ferrying souls.
"...Lord Charon."
"Ahem! Look here, Hades. I didn't intentionally let that human pass earlier. No, when that human was pleading with tears streaming down his face, how desperate he looked, and his lyre performance touched my heart..."
"Lord Charon."
"As soon as I heard that performance, didn't all the painful memories of my struggles here come flooding back? If you understand my feelings..."
As if he was well aware of his mistake in letting a living human pass without my permission,
I listened for a while as he rattled off excuses before I could even question him.
After a moment, seeing my unchanging expression, Charon closed his mouth.
"...Since you allowed a living human to cross the Acheron River, there will be no god assigned to the Acheron River for the next year."
"I understand..."...
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