"Hmm. Is this the place?"
On a lonely mountain in the dead of night, a beautiful woman with lovely black hair and striking features suddenly appeared.
The woman was the goddess Nemesis, one of Nyx's children. At her mother Nyx's words during the family meeting, she had come to the forest near the castle to meet the youngest child.
"If I go over there, I should be able to meet him."
Seeing the castle shining brightly within the forest, Nemesis muttered to herself.
"What should I do? How should I go about meeting the youngest...? I'm the one who was chosen to be the first to meet him."
Before coming here, she had remembered the conversation Nyx's children had shared, and that she had come as their representative to meet the youngest. After that, she seriously pondered how she ought to approach him.
"At the very least, I couldn't come empty-handed, so I brought ambrosia... but I don't know whether he'll like it."
As she worried over the youngest whom she had never met before, she stared at the ambrosia in her hand and fell into thought.
"Hmm... perhaps I should have brought other things as well. But I can't think of a suitable gift..."
While Nemesis was thinking she might need to bring other gifts after all,
"My, my. What brings my daughter all the way out here?"
"M-Mother?!"
Nyx, her mother, appeared behind her and spoke to her.
At Nyx's unexpected appearance, Nemesis's face filled with shock and fluster.
"My daughter~ Aren't you going to answer your mother's question?"
When Nemesis was at a loss over Nyx's sudden arrival, Nyx smiled and walked up to her, then drew her into her arms.
"M-Mother... I was just..."
Held in Nyx's embrace, Nemesis barely managed to steady her trembling heart and explain why she had come here.
"Hmm~ I see, my daughter."
After hearing the full story, Nyx looked down at Nemesis in her arms with interest.
"Do you know this, my daughter? Our precious youngest is human and has received no divine blood. And yet he possesses strength equal to, or even greater than, other heroes who inherited divine blood. He fought evenly with that one said to be the son of Zeus, and with only the simplest blessing from Erebus and me, he killed the son of Poseidon."
"That... I knew he had long possessed skill on par with Heracles. But... this is the first I've heard that he killed the son of Poseidon."
"There is no benefit in making it known."
After hearing Nyx speak of the youngest, Nemesis was struck with no small shock at the fact that he had slain a god with nothing more than the simple blessing of her mother and father.
"And! Our youngest is also extremely handsome, has a fine personality, and excels in martial prowess and rulership, so he is admired by many!"
Whether she knew it or not, Nyx kept piling praise upon praise about the youngest to Nemesis.
"...Mother. You really do cherish the youngest very much."
"Of course I do. You, the youngest, and everyone else are all my precious children."
When Nemesis said that, Nyx answered as though it were only natural.
"Still, the youngest is purely of human lineage. He has not a drop of divine blood."
"That is... true."
"So I'm telling you this only because it's you... I intend to make our youngest a god."
"What? D-Do you mean you intend to raise the youngest to godhood?"
"Yes, that's right. Fortunately, his achievements are more than sufficient. What remains now is to fully complete the vessel that is his body. For that reason, I am supporting the youngest as he stands with goddesses and marries them."
".... You're serious."
"Of course I am. So, Nemesis. Would you not come with me to meet the youngest?"
"Pardon? You want me to go with you to see the youngest?"
"Yes. That's right."
"But... I don't have a gift for him...!"
"He does not concern himself much with such things. If it is something you gave him, he will gladly accept it no matter what it is."
"Then..."
"Let's go together, Nemesis. Hmm? Hmm?"
"I... if Mother wants it that way..."
"Thank you so much, Nemesis."
In the end, when Nemesis said she would follow Nyx to meet the youngest, Nyx smiled brightly and reached for both of Nemesis's hands.
"Then let's go at once, Nemesis~"
"M-Mother! Please wait a moment...!"
And so Nyx took Nemesis by the hand and dragged her along, heading for the castle, toward the place where her youngest was waiting.