History of Blood and Tears of Minos

9

What is the scariest thing about children?

cry?

wrong.

make trouble?

Not right either.The combination of crying and fussing is not as terrible as a child screaming.

When Radamantis grew about one centimeter of hair, Master Pluto secretly informed us that he would prepare for Milo's seventh birthday.The pile of presents Mrs. Pandora bought last time came in handy. Pick out the ones that suit Miro's age, and then distribute them to our Big Three.

"This, this, and this, these are considered as gifts to Milo."

Master Pandora handed me a few big boxes, and I glanced at the top one. It was a roller coaster model, which looked good.I put down the box, pulled out a roll of wrapping paper and asked:

"Is this necessary?"

"Of course it is necessary!"

Lord Pandora put her hands on her hips and scolded me:

"It's better for children to have one or two from each than a dozen from one person. These are from Ladamantis and Aiagos. Help them wrap their presents too."

Why is it always me who suffers?

I was working on my hands, and I remembered what Lord Pandora said before, and asked her in a low voice:

"Then after this birthday, Milo..."

Pandora completely ignored my question, clapped her hands and said:

"Ah, by the way, Lord Thanatos and Lord Hypnos will also come to celebrate Miro's birthday, but Lord Hades said that they will prepare their presents themselves."

"The god of death and the god of sleep also come?"

I muttered like this, thinking that this is such a big show.

"Yeah, Lord Hades called on the two of them not to be absent."

Master Pandora picked up and took out a wine red lapel collar thick wool sweater, and picked up a pair of black flannelette pants, and said to herself intoxicated:

"Hmm... let Milo wear this on his birthday... ah..."

God!Save Lord Pandora!

A few days later, kid Milo celebrated his seventh birthday in the underworld, and Lord Pluto specially held a party for it. All the famous people in the underworld were present, and everyone had a sack of gifts.Milo was wearing the clothes carefully selected by Lord Pandora, sitting on Lord Pluto's lap like a little prince, knocking on the table so excited that he didn't know what to say.

But I suddenly felt a pang of bitterness, that child, I am afraid that he has never had the experience of so many people celebrating his birthday.

The party was very lively, Milo feasted on delicacies from mountains and seas, Death and Sleep brought a giant cake with seven candles on it.

"what--!"

Milo screamed, and my heart was unprepared for the first violent shock.He was so excited that screaming was enough to express his excitement.

"Milo, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you..."

Lord Pandora took the lead in clapping and singing, and our group followed suit, but Aiagos went out of tune.

"Okay, Milo, make a wish."

Lord Pluto wrapped his arms around Milo's waist, and said close to Milo's ear.Mi Luo clasped his hands in front of his chin with a pious face, closed his eyes and wondered what he was thinking, and remained silent for a minute before blowing out the candle impatiently.

"Oh oh oh--"

We cheered and shared Miro's birthday cake, it was delicious.Mi Luo ate cream all over his face, Mr. Pluto wiped it with a napkin while smiling. I was so warmly touched by that scene.

"Milo, this is a gift from my sister, happy birthday!"

Lord Pandora waited for Mi Luo to finish eating, and handed it to him with a big bag in his arms. Mi Luo turned around and asked expectantly:

"Hades, can I take it apart?"

"Well, yes."

There was an unconcealable smile in Lord Pluto's pupils.Milo tore off the packaging in twos and twos, revealing a Winnie the Pooh doll of the same height, with a fat belly protruding forward, and his body was a circle bigger than Milo's.

"what--!"

Kid Milo blushed and screamed, and I thought I was going to have tinnitus.Master Pandora gave me a wink, I hurriedly took out a box, walked up to Mi Luo a little stiffly, and said:

"Uh... this is from my brother, happy birthday!"

Milo took the gift and looked at me twice, then tore open the package, and immediately screamed again:

"what--!"

I was dizzy and looked down, only to realize that what I sent was the scaled down simulated roller coaster model.

"Brother Minos—"

Milo hugged my leg, jumped and screamed, the decibels were so high that I wanted to jump off a building, but Lord Pluto appreciated Miro's every move as if nothing had happened, so I had to force myself to hypnotize myself.

"Ah, Milo, I have a present too—"

Aiagos sneakily took out the gift. The box was not big. Milo opened it and saw that it was a brand new baseball glove, so I heard the high-frequency scream that could shatter glass again:

"what--!"

Everyone went forward to give presents in turn, Milo quickly piled up toys like a wall, and my nerves finally hardened in waves of screaming attacks, like a rhinoceros hide.

"Milo, this is a gift from me!"

The Grim Reaper was carrying a basket covered with a piece of cloth. When Milo removed the cloth, everyone's eyes were straightened——in the basket was a white tiger cub with blue eyes squinting, scratching its little one in the air. paw.

"what--!"

Milo's eyes widened and his voice was almost hoarse. He reached out to pick up the cub, and rubbed his nose against the tiger's forehead.My God, Lord Reaper, no matter how small that animal is, it is still a tiger!Is this a gift for a seven year old?That ferocious beast was quite obedient, lying on Milo's lap and licking its paws, it didn't care whether its owner barked to cause landslides or not.

What Master Sleeping God gave was even more outrageous, it was a dream catcher decorated with feathers and gems.

"Milo,"

The God of Sleep waggled a finger in front of Miro's eyes like a trick, and said:

"Hang it over your bed and it will drive away the bad dreams and keep all the good ones, and—"

"what? What?"

Mi Luo stretched out his hand to reach the dream catcher, and asked with a flushed face.

"It can answer your questions in a dream~"

Mi Luo was stunned, and with a cry, he rushed forward and snatched the dream catcher and held it in front of his chest, his eyes were shining brightly.I curled my lips in the crowd, thinking to myself whether it is true or not, it is probably Lord Hypnos who took advantage of his position to peek at Milo's dream.

At the end, when everyone had nothing to give away, Milo's gifts were everywhere in the party venue, and the children crawled back into Lord Pluto's arms unsatisfied, and asked out of breath:

"Hades, where's my birthday present?"

Lord Pluto caressed Miro's sweaty forehead with his fingers, stopped behind his ear, and said without hesitation with loving eyes:

"I'll give it to you before going to bed at night."

"Ok!"

Milo nodded happily. I stared at Mr. Hades as if I were a stranger. What does he want to do?Milo is only seven years old!In the next second, I slapped myself hard in my heart. It wasn't Mr. Pluto's problem, it was me thinking about something...

When the party finally ended, I almost collapsed, mechanically watching Mi Luo follow Mr. Pluto into the bedroom, and immediately slumped on the ground.

"God... I can't take it anymore..."

I covered my ears, but the screams kept replaying like recordings, and wandered between the eardrums and palms like echoes, which gave me a splitting headache.

"what happened to you?"

Aiagos came over and patted me on the back, and I said:

"That kid is so good at screaming, my brain hurts."

Aiagos' eyes sank, and then he shouted carelessly:

"Go! Go play cards!"

"Forgive me..."

I was about to refuse, but Radamantis gave me a dull look and said:

"It's rare to be happy, let's go."

They have something to say.I nodded and expressed my sincere respect to Lord Pandora who was cleaning up the mess in the venue, and then the three of them went to Aiagos' bedroom together.

"coming."

As soon as he entered the door, someone greeted him like this.

Lord Thanatos!

I pressed my head, a bit unable to keep up with the situation:

"How is this going?"

Aiagos still acted like that, pulled the chair and sat down, shuffled the cards and said:

"Three missing one, Master Death God came to rescue."

"Ugh……"

I glanced at a few of them, sat opposite Aiagos, and said clearly:

"Do you have something to say?"

Radamantis frowned and took out a cigarette with his eyebrows that hadn't grown yet, took a deep drag, and asked:

"Minos, did Lord Pandora tell you anything?"

I pretended I didn't know anything, and muttered to the cards in my hand:

"Write a book report every day."

"Minos,"

Lord Thanatos spoke:

"Master Pluto is not quite right these few days, and Lord Pandora refuses to say anything."

I hesitated for a second and threw an ace of spades.

"Didn't Lord Pluto be very happy at the party just now?"

"but,"

Master Thanatos squeezed the cards in his hand and sighed:

"Hypnos and I can clearly feel that Mr. Pluto is emotionally unstable and very anxious."

I decided to play dumb to the end:

"What does that mean?"

"Minos!"

Lord Reaper was slightly angry, stood up and slapped the cards on the table flying with his palm, saying:

"This is something that has never happened before! Ever since Hypnos and I followed Lord Pluto, we have never seen Lord Hades's mood so unstable!"

I gritted my teeth and quibbled:

"You don't even know that you are the god of death, I'm just a fighter of the underworld, where would I know."

The air pressure around Lord Thanatos suddenly dropped, and Radamantis smoked fiercely, puffing out smoke and saying:

"Minos, don't lie to us, no matter how stupid we are, we can guess that it has something to do with Milo's child."

"You have the most contact with that child,"

Aiagos' complexion became heavy:

"If you know something, can you let us know."

I was at a loss for words for a while, but the three of them didn't ask any more questions. The atmosphere in the room was depressingly silent. Radamantis finished smoking a cigarette and crushed the cigarette butt on the table.I covered my eyes with one hand and told them the truth:

"Lord Pluto wants to be Milo's patron saint."

Before Radamantis and Aiagos showed any reaction, Lord Thanatos took a deep breath and sat back on the chair.

"Are you serious?"

Ayagos also took the cigarette case and squeezed out a cigarette, but he didn't light it, but just looked at it.

"Humph,"

I put down my palms and looked at them coldly, and said bluntly:

"Based on your ability, you can probably guess it, but you just don't want to admit it, so you have to ask me."

Now they are all dumb, I rubbed my nose, and continued:

"Master Pandora said that after Milo's seventh birthday, Lord Pluto will take him to Mount Olympus."

"That's not a problem..."

Lord Reaper looked very tired, and whispered to himself:

"As long as Lord Pluto thinks about it, none of the gods would dare to really object...but if this is the case..."

Aiagos put down the cigarette in his hand, and asked sadly:

"Will the child die?"

Radamantis suddenly lost his temper and shouted:

"This is the underworld!"

"You don't understand..."

Lord Thanatos slumped on the chair as if exhausted, and clarified the facts to us:

"Master Pluto's power...the so-called patron saint is to project the power of the gods onto the person to be protected...It's not that mortals can't do it, but...Master Pluto represents both destruction and rebirth. Once Milo can't Balancing these two extremes..."

My heart clenched into a ball, and I couldn't help but ask:

"What happens to the kid if he fails?"

Lord Thanatos clenched his fist and spit out four words:

"The soul is scattered."

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