The girl pinned to the floor had her hands held down. Her black hair was tied into twin ponytails, and she wore a pure white ceremonial dress. Her appearance was youthful, her temperament wavering somewhere between that of a young woman and a little girl, yet she possessed an excessively proper beauty—adorable and lovable, without losing her noble, heroic air.
That was right. The one before him was Hestia, the Hearth Goddess who had retired earliest among the Twelve Gods of Olympus in Ancient Greece.
At the same time, she was the first child of the second-generation King of Gods, Cronus, and the divine queen Rhea—the eldest sister of Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus.
Yet compared to those siblings who chased power, this Hearth Goddess was a complete oddity.
Not only had she surrendered her position among the Twelve Gods early on to Dionysus, Zeus's son and the God of Wine, she had even lowered her own status and spent all day mingling with mortals on the surface.
Because she never caused trouble and hated inconvenience, Hestia had gradually become one of the rare shut-ins of the Age of Gods. She avoided trouble whenever possible and practically never got involved.
Whether it was the domestic melodrama of the "model couple," Zeus and Hera, the Olympus crisis brought about by Typhon, King of a Hundred Monsters, or the Trojan War that determined the fate of the Mount of the God of War faction and the Olympus faction... among the countless major and minor events of the Age of Gods in Greece, there were almost never any records concerning this Hearth Goddess.
Back then, as the creator and overseer of humans in Ancient Greece, Samael had been entrusted by Prometheus the Foreseer to secretly watch the interactions between gods and humans