July 11.
20:42.
Inside a relatively upscale restaurant near Manhattan Island, New York University.
A four-person table by the window in the corner on the west side of the restaurant.
Heros sat across from Maeve and Starlight, who were dressed in casual clothes. He still looked like an honest man, wearing square-framed glasses with prescriptionless lenses, light-blue jeans, and a long-sleeved white T-shirt.
As for Maeve and Heros's outfits, it would be inaccurate to say they were exactly the same. They were practically indistinguishable.
The only difference was that Maeve carried a small shoulder bag for women. Her jeans and T-shirt were from different brands, and with her bare face, it was hard to believe that Maeve was the Queen Maeve on the big screen.
As for Annie, it was obvious from her makeup that she had dressed up carefully.
Her pale-yellow dress and tied-up ponytail made her look like a refined, Western version of the girl next door.
However.
Even when facing the two most famous women in the universe, Heros still wore an expressionless face and said coldly,
"Speak. What do you want with me?"
"Uh..."
Starlight had not expected Heros to be so difficult to deal with. The words she wanted to say were forcibly shoved back down her throat.
Maeve, however, did not mind Heros's attitude. After a brief silence, she asked,
"Heros, you and I are both demigods of the Greek world. What I want to know is... can a Goddess die from complications during childbirth?
"And...
"What about the other Olympian Gods? Why did they suddenly disappear? Why are there only the two of us left?"
These questions had been festering in Maeve's heart for a long time.
Everything she knew about her mother came from what her father had told her, yet she