Inside Athena's Temple, Samael skillfully felt beneath a floor tile before the statue and pulled out two bags of salt-cured olives and dried figs secretly stashed by a certain goddess. Chewing away, he asked,
"By the way, why haven't I seen Anna or Medea? Come to think of it, if they were here, they shouldn't have let you fool around like this, right?"
The Three Goddesses of Mount of the God of War each had their own duties. Athena, goddess of war and wisdom, handled divine wars and mortal affairs; Medusa, the new generation's Mother Goddess, oversaw souls, life, and death; while Themis, Goddess of Justice and judiciary, represented order and mediation.
However, because of the Children of Typhon and Samael, Medusa mostly walked among the mortal world.
Thus, the Underworld's operations were actually handled by Medea, the new goddess of the underworld moon and Witch Goddess. In any case, the framework of ferrymen, the Twin Gods, and the Three Judges was already in place. The first three also had countless ties to that little Witch, so there was no one more suitable for the task.
Later, with the conclusion of the War of the Giants, the Mesopotamian pantheon that settled in Greece—Ereshkigal, Ishtar, and the like—also filled many gaps in the order. After the Gods of Olympus departed, they basically maintained the operation of the newborn Age of Gods in Greece.
He could understand the old acquaintances in the Twelve Zodiac Houses making a fuss with Athena, treating it as a joke between friends reunited after a long separation.
But the Twin Gods of the Underworld and the Three Judges had cooperated in the act, silently whisking Athena away from Fuyuki City. No matter how he looked at it, that was a little negligent and overstepping.
In any case,