"Bell..."
Hestia, who had had Bell stolen from her overnight, sniffled as she got out of bed.
It was daytime now.
Perhaps because she had cried herself to sleep last night, she woke up quite late.
Her Falna was still intact, but Bell had not shown himself.
Even when she went to Freya Familia, the very people who had abducted him,
all she got back was,
"He can't see you right now."
There was nothing else to gain.
"Waaaaah! Bell...!"
"Did you call for me?"
"Hya!? B-Bell!?"
But then,
a miracle happened.
"Does your goddess usually act like that?"
"Haha, yes."
"Bell...!!!"
Hestia clung tightly to Bell.
She must have been very worried...
...
?
"Hey, wait a second. Why hasn't your goddess's memory changed?"
"...Huh?"
"Sniff... Freya's [Charm] doesn't work on me."
"Hmm... then could you also use [Arcanum] to break the [Charm]?"
"It is possible, but the gods can't use [Arcanum]—"
"[Isn't it possible to reproduce something other than [Arcanum]?]"
"...So there was... a way like that."
"Bell, I need to revise the plan."
"How?"
"How else? Your goddess is going to have to use some of her power."
There was an easy way to make Freya let go, aside from using physical force: simply break the [Charm].
According to what I'd heard from Pandora, Hestia was a hidden card prepared in case Freya ever ran wild.
The goddess was now said to have come down from the half-destroyed Babel Tower and was searching for Bell herself.
In other words,
"There isn't a single person who can interfere."
Wood soaked with Hestia's divine blood was placed at each point.
Then,
"I'll take Bell back, Freya."
All that remained was to erase the [Charm].
The goddess whose child had nearly been taken declared it.
"Dios, Aedes Vesta."
You're finished now.
It looked up at the flame that had risen all the way to the sky.
Something similar to the power used by the one who was like a mother.
And then,
"■■■■■■■■■!!!!!"
it began to fly toward the blaze.
The thing gazing at the brilliant flame with its one remaining eye,
"Kruk..."
was, for some reason, full of anticipation.