Saint Seiya, but Athena who disobeys?

"Are you leaving?" Brunhilde's handsome face showed a complicated expression. "I was planning to have a celebration banquet after the competition, but it seems I won't be able to invite you. However, before that, I still want to fulfill the promise between the Valkyrie and the Warrior."

Valkyries and warriors, that's what divine artifacts are made from.

If we disregard Seiya, humanity has virtually no chance of defeating the gods. Therefore, from the very beginning, Valkyrie's elder sister, Brunhilde, joined forces with Shakyamuni to carry out a plan: Shakyamuni would activate the Lotus Rebirth, allowing Valkyrie to become the most suitable weapon for warriors in the form of a divine artifact.

"Seiya, please choose a Valkyrie who is worthy of you as your partner. Our hidden ability as Valkyries is to forge ourselves into a weapon that is compatible with our partner." Valkyrie Brunhilde stepped aside, and her twelve sisters behind her looked up at the god-slayer before them.

“While we have the right to choose, it seems my sisters all favor you,” Brunhilde smiled, for this also proved that Seiya was indeed a hero worthy of human attention. “And what is your choice?”

In Norse mythology, the many Valkyries represent different aspects of war; they are personifications of all aspects of war.

Skargard symbolizes the moment of the axe (armed), Alvit symbolizes the protection of the army, Sigurdlifa symbolizes the gift of victory, Gray symbolizes noise, Landigris symbolizes the destruction of the shield, Regilleve symbolizes a sacred site, Horest is trembling and roaring, Herok is the collector of weapons, and Slud is the strong. Rasgres is the destroyer of plans, Jeroruel is the one charging with a spear, and Gendal is the holder of magic.

But for him, the Valkyries forged from divine artifacts were probably no different from souvenirs given away at tourist attractions. Of course, some were exceptionally effective, such as Herok, Slud, and Rasgrith, whose concepts of war were still very useful.

"Does that include you too?" Seiya looked at Brunhilde in the center.

Chapter 108: Red Beyond Reality

Seeing Seiya staring at her, Brunhilde instinctively stammered, "I...I am also very willing to follow Lord Seiya, but before that, I have an unfinished mission."

Seiya smiled but said nothing more. Instead, he casually pointed at one of the Valkyries who was lost in thought, transforming her into a radiant glow that enveloped him. Then, looking down at the sea of ​​clouds, he leaped into the air.

Inside that magnificent white temple supported by white marble columns, he appeared like a gentle breeze beside a girl dressed in a white robe and wearing an olive wreath.

"It's Pegasus, are you leaving?" Little Athena, with a chicken leg still stuffed in her mouth, looked at the subordinate god who should have belonged to her.

"Yes, that's why I came here specifically to say goodbye." Seiya smiled and patted Athena's smooth hair. "Seeing that you're still so energetic makes me feel relieved."

"Have a safe journey, Pegasus. If you have any troubles, remember to come back and find me." Little Athena hugged Seiya goodbye with her oil-stained hands, feeling a little embarrassed.

"Similarly, if you encounter any difficulties, remember to call my name. No matter where I am, I will hear your call."

The power of the strong wind was engulfing his entire body, and he vaguely seemed to hear the voice of Little Athena and Brunhilde.

However, these voices were quickly forgotten by the wind. "I am the strongest, and the one who holds all victory in my hands. Call my name, and you will never be defeated. I am the obstacle breaker, the strongest and most victorious guardian! Strong wind that guides travelers, I command you, bring me to those who need help!" Seiya once again exclaimed the words brought by the strong wind.

Once again stepping outside the world, the will of the Saints is swaying like a violent pendulum.

In countless dazzling worlds, there are still voices that resonate with him, but Seiya, who was already prepared, uses the connection of the Pegasus Cloth to transform himself into a powerful wind that transcends the multiverse and the concept of space, and arrives at his own stage.

—In the Sanctuary, an owl soars into the sky.

The goddess, who was sleeping, suddenly opened her eyes. Not only her, but almost the entire world could see this scene by simply opening a window.

It was a huge, full moon, shrouded in a pinkish mist. Along with the mist came darkness of the same color as the night sky, which gradually eroded the moonlight until it was completely swallowed by the deeper darkness.

This is not a good omen, because it means that something extremely terrifying is about to happen.

The goddess, holding a gleaming golden staff, strode to the terrace. Suddenly, she gazed westward, where two auras that evoked a sense of nostalgia rose.

"Is it you?" Her pupils narrowed to a single point.

—Europe, Italy, mountains and plains.

The sun was about to set, leaving only a beautiful twilight in the west, with a thick fog covering the mountains and plains. Even the priest's vision was shrouded in fog, with only a deathly silence.

The world was silent, and the forest was filled with the refreshing scent of grass and trees. Suddenly, the white puppy at his feet let out a howl, turned its head to the west, and fiercely revealed a mouthful of white teeth.

Before the young pastor could even realize what was happening, he saw a blur of darkness flash past his eyes and then fall heavily to the ground.

"Oh, that was close! You almost died, you know that?" A reproachful voice rang out from the mist.

It was a man dressed in silver-red armor, surrounded by what seemed to be a gentle blue breeze. He looked at the man in black-red armor lying at the priest's feet, grabbed his hair as if to ask him something, but found that he was no longer alive.

"Hey, did I go too far?" Seiya scratched his head.

Seiya wasn't sure if it was his fault, but he encountered this situation right after landing and was a little careless.

Although it was a dark night, the starlight still illuminated Seiya's path.

Seiya clenched his fist, feeling much better than expected. He wasn't in the same weakened state he was in when he arrived at the Valkyrie End world; he was in quite good shape. His gaze then fell upon the priest carrying a sketchbook.

"Thank you, but he..." The priest dusted himself off and stood up, looking at the man lying on the ground with some concern.

“It’s nothing, he just overslept a little.” Seiya looked at the priest in front of him. “Why are you out in the middle of nowhere so late at night?”

Late at night, in the woods, on a drawing board, a priest... Hey friend, there's something about your outfit that doesn't quite match.

The pastor was also a little surprised. He looked at Seiya with a shy smile and said, "Because it has been raining a lot lately, I was a little worried about the condition of the upstream dam. Alan said that there have been suspicious people appearing in the vicinity recently. I was really worried, so I came to come and take a look."

Seiya looked at the white puppy wagging its tail at his feet. For some reason, looking at it made him feel a little happy. He picked up the puppy and looked at the priest in front of him, "Where is the dam? I'll take you there."

For Seiya, a distance of more than ten kilometers is just a matter of a moment.

Seiya tucked the priest under his arm, completely ignoring the priest's calls, which came out in a girlish voice. The two of them sped through the mountains and forests, across the towns, and in a moment appeared before the dam.

The dam was indeed showing signs of breaching, and Seiya felt he had come to the right place. However, with a thought, the cracks in the dam healed rapidly at a visible speed, while the accumulating water flowed automatically from both sides of the forest into the nearby rivers and lakes.

After doing all this, he finally looked at the young pastor in front of him.

Beneath the black intern's robe was a slightly slender figure, about the same age as herself, with a drawing board hanging on her back and a black handbag.

Just as Seiya was looking at him, the other man was also looking at Seiya. At that moment, the light of the setting sun pierced through the mist that shrouded the mountains and plains behind him, falling on Seiya and making his eyes light up.

"Please wait a moment, I've been trying to create a red like your eyes, could you please be my model for a moment!"

"My eyes are red?" Seiya looked at the young priest carrying a drawing board with a hint of pity. "Are you mistaken about something?"

"No, it's just that humans can only perceive a limited range of colors. The colors that humans can recognize are merely illusions created by the refraction of light. In other words, they are false colors, not real colors."

"False colors and real colors?" A slightly familiar voice echoed in Seiya's ears.

The young priest gazed into Seiya's eyes with a rather gentle tone, "But you, your brown pupils, when the light of the setting sun shines through them, appear a more vibrant and dazzling red than any other red."

Chapter 109: The Darkness of the Torrent Rain

But you, your brown pupils, when the rays of the setting sun shine through them, reveal a red more vibrant and dazzling than any other red. Pegasus.

—No, completely wrong.

A burst of consciousness surged through Seiya's mind like lightning. The lines were all too familiar, and the Saint Seiya suddenly realized a crucial issue.

It is the world of Saint Seiya, that's for sure. I have come to the world of Saint Seiya.

But this voice, this line... isn't from the main storyline's SS.

Then a voice from the distant past reached his ears, as if a deep night breeze connected Seiya's thoughts with unseen time. Behind the darkness, someone was speaking in his ear.

The voice said, "Pegasus. I firmly believe that one day everyone, whether rich people in town or children like us in an orphanage, will be able to understand each other."

Humanity's strength lies in its ability to reach out to those struggling in the depths of misery.

In an instant, it was as if lightning had struck Seiya's mind, and a scene unfolded before his eyes like a mist blown away by the wind. It was a sunny afternoon, in front of a simple stone house, where he and the boy who aspired to be a painter were sitting inside, making a promise to each other that after becoming Saints, they would come back to finish their unfinished paintings.

This promise will last for both of them and become an indelible scar on this era.

As the pain traveled from his body to his brain, as life and that hand slowly withdrew from his chest, Seiya looked down at the young priest with long black hair in front of him. He gently put his head on the priest's shoulder, but then cruelly pierced through his chest with his hand.

"Your name?" Seiya looked at the long-haired black priest in front of him.

“Aaron, your best friend Aaron.” The black-haired priest gently patted Seiya’s back. “Just think of it as a nightmare, Pegasus. When you wake up again, whether you are rich or poor, you will be able to understand each other fairly and kindly.”

Of course, the way to achieve mutual understanding is through death.

Give everyone an equal right to die.

Night fell, and thunder roared. Along with the lightning came dark, iron-like clouds.

“It wouldn’t be good if the rain got the painting wet.” Aaron withdrew his hand from the chest of the lifeless Pegasus. The blood stained with his best friend’s blood, that unparalleled red, brought a smile to Aaron’s face. He then gently wiped the blood onto the unfinished painting. “What do you think of this painting?” Aaron turned his head back.

"Beautiful, incomparably beautiful. No matter how sinful a person is, seeing this painting will make them repent for their sins and shed tears from the bottom of their heart. Such a magical painting."

The respondent was a woman in a black dress who descended with lightning. Although she was commenting on the painting, her gaze remained tenderly and adoringly fixed on Aaron before her.

Aaron carefully put the painting away. His most important task upon returning to his homeland was to kill Pegasus, his former human friend, and another close friend, Sasha. As for towns and villages, rich and poor, good and bad, friend and foe, all would be granted the most equal favor.

“Let’s go, Pandora. The most important thing has been done,” Aaron said, gazing at the world below the mountain. “Now it’s time to build our new world.”

Pandora always complied with Aaron's requests. She followed behind him, heading down the mountain.

But just then, a strong wind howled from behind. As if pushing open the door to another world, the strong wind brought with it an ancient and solemn power.

Lightning flashed across the sky once more, its platinum-gold radiance illuminating the dark earth for a fleeting moment.

"Don't be so presumptuous. Did I give you permission to leave, Aaron!"

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At this moment, the Saint Seiya warriors who were walking through the forest suddenly stopped.

They were originally ordered to investigate Hades, the god of the underworld, who might have been resurrected in this place. Although they have not yet seen Hades' true face, the endless stream of Specters has already revealed that the goddess's intuition is true.

A new holy war is about to begin, and Hades, the god of the underworld, has truly been resurrected!

But it was at this moment that they gazed at the lightning that tore through the dark night, its brilliance illuminating the earth for a fleeting instant.

"This cosmos, Shion, you felt it, didn't you?" Libra Saint Dohko, who was leading the team this time, lowered the brim of his hat.

"Yes, a radiance similar to Sisyphus's, but the aura is so powerful, could it be him?" Aries Saint Shion sensed even more information.

A completely unknown entity is unleashing an extraordinary inner power, seemingly engaged in a fierce battle with an opponent, while at the foot of the mountain on the other side, everything is engulfed in flames.

Fallen towns, fallen villages, and suffering people—for a moment, the Saints were torn between fulfilling the duty bestowed upon them by the goddess to track down the being who might be Hades, the god of the underworld, and confronting the Specters to rescue the suffering people.

However, compared to the meticulous Aries Shion, Libra Dohko is more passionate.

"Take the silver and bronze and go quickly, I'll go see what's going on!"

Without waiting for Shion's response, Dohko burst into a brilliant golden light and sped towards the turbulent aura in the distance.

The light spread everywhere, and the platinum radiance and purple lightning collided and twisted into a magnificent ball of atomic lightning, surging indiscriminately and indiscriminately in all directions.

"Masaka, how could this be?" Pandora was astonished. Just as she realized what was happening and rushed towards Aaron, the new generation Hades, the human form of Hades, had already waved his hand, and his divine cosmos had blocked all the attacks for him.

Two completely different, even opposite, microcosms collided at this moment, and Aaron's robes swayed, revealing golden edges.

“Pegasus, you shouldn’t have stood up.” Aaron’s gaze was still gentle as he looked at Pegasus, but he was also shocked by the power his best friend had unleashed. “I have already granted you the rest of Hades, you should be sleeping peacefully there.”

"Sleep with you, this kind of fatal wound won't kill me."

Seiya clutched his chest, which had stopped bleeding. The power belonging to Megal, the Cycle of Life and Death, was working diligently to heal his wounds. However, the shattered heart was not fatal to Seiya; what was truly fatal was the image of Hades' death that haunted his chest.

But he disregarded all the injuries he sustained. Seiya sneered, pointing to his head, "If you want to kill me, you should erase the deeper parts of me."

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PS1: The Third World is Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas. Even if you haven't seen Saint Seiya, you can watch it without worry.

PS2: This is a continuation of the side story, which is another parallel universe different from the main world line of SS.

PS3: Regarding the power levels in this story, you can treat it as a secondary interpretation. Teshirogi's storyline is well-written and his performance is outstanding, but the power level setting is... a bit weak.

Chapter 110: Pegasus the Godslayer and Hades, the King of the Underworld

"I see. There's another unknown power within you healing your injuries." Hades, the god of the underworld, revealed a knowing expression. "I'll remember that."

A gust of wind, mixed with black feathers, swept Aaron's body away. "Don't even think about running, Pegasus Meteor—!"

"—Insolent fool! Step back!" Pandora's rebuke rang out at the same time.

The platinum-gold radiance and purple lightning collided once more. Pandora swung her trident, and a carriage pulled by three headless horses appeared before Seiya, carrying Aaron to the void.

Seiya clutched his chest, though his words were eloquent. Aaron's heart-wrenching attack had indeed severely wounded him. However, the physical injuries weren't fatal to Seiya; what was fatal was the Hades power that was trying to force him into eternal slumber.

Mekal's power, the Cycle of Life and Death, is striving to transform this death into life. Mekal, as Baal, the god-king of Canaanite Phoenician faith, has a core myth about the cycle of nature. Baal experiences a dry season and a period of withering each year, and after disasters comes the rainy season, symbolizing revival. Through his power, he can reenact the mythical ability to restore the vitality of nature, making the land fertile and the people prosperous again.

The current situation happens to be a perfect match for my major.

Seiya could foresee that his strength would increase even further once his injuries healed. The best option now was to heal his injuries... However, Seiya gazed into the distance in the direction he had recently traveled.

Perhaps because of the lingering power of Hades in his chest, he could still sense Aaron's presence; he was right there.

"I don't care if your hair is red, green, yellow, black, blonde, white, or if you're a Super Saiyan transformation. I told you, don't even think about running away!"

Seiya gritted his teeth and forced a smile, reaching out a strong blue wind that enveloped his entire body, instantly arming his Pegasus Cloth. He then sped off towards the town.

Shortly after Seiya left, a golden light fell on the edge of the dam where he was fighting Pandora.