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Hahaha! Screw You Zeus! As I Sisyphus Escaped Your Absurd Punishment!!

As I rolled up the boulder again, I let out a sigh. I asked myself, is this a punishment for all the intelliagnce? I escaped death twice. How? I trapped Thanatos with his stupid chain, asking him to show how the chains fit. He puts the chains on, and I ditched him, leaving the death god chained in the black pit. What an foolish man, a god been trick by me, an mere human. I was back from living, Ares heard about Thanatos being chained means no one will die in the battles he free Thanatos back. As I was about to die, I asked my wife to throw my body at the shore. So Here I am again in the Underworld. But they can't stop me, As I the sisyphus first king of Ephyra (now known as Corinth) will never be stop. I approached Persephone Queen Of The Underworld. I persuaded her that my wife disrespected my body, by not giving me a proper burial. Persephone granted me the permission to go back to the land of living. To punish my wife, but in one condition, after I punish my wife I will return here again. Of course I am not a man of word, I didn't do a thing about my promise that I said to her. Now, I have two successful escaped of death by tricking the gods.

But Hermes The Messanger Of Gods dragged me back to Hades. And so, Here I am rolling a huge boulder up the steep hill, and watching it fall again, and push it back to the top, and watch it rolled back down for enternity. All I can say this is a fucking absurd. Sometimes I ask myself 'Do I get bored?' My answer is no, At least I have something do to my life. I imagine myself as happy, that's all.

A few thousand years has passed, as I am still rolling up the boulder. Suddenly I think of a plan, if no one watch me roll this huge boulder, then its a perfect opportunities to escape.

And so, I stop and leave the boulder alone, and walk away from this filthy Underworld.

Hades, heard what I just done, he let Hermes to let Zeus know, that Sisyphus trick death once again, but they are too late to punish me again. Because I was sailing towards the east..

As I was at the boat sailing towards the east..

The port of the greece becoming farther, and farther. I look at it one last moment, and I throw a middle finger and shouted. "Fuck You Zeus! As I Sisyphus Escaped Your Absurd Punishment!!"

All the people on deck was so shock, that I insulted Zeus, without getting afraid towards him, Zeus The God of Gods? Pfft.. Why would I fear him? I already trick death the third time, even I escaped his absurd punishment.. I am a free man not a slave of them anymore, is all I can say..

And so, I leave the Greece to head what ever east will give for me and provide for me...

A few days of sailing, I our ship just got out the Nile River now were on the middle of the Indian Ocean, suddenly the weather become bad.. The clear sky turned into gray and dark sky. The clear weather begun to rain, the calming wave suddenly turned aggressively.

I went up the deck to see what the hell is happening..

Suddenly I looked at the sky, I heard a deeply man voice, he sound anger. He said. "You Sisyphus will suffer from what you have done!!"

And so, it was Zeus..

I Suddenly shouted back at him..

"I am not scared Zeus!! I escaped your ways to punish me!! Even if you punish me again I will just escape it again!!"
And so, thunders strike the side of our ship, waters coming inside, all the people started panicking.

And Zeus said. "Look what you have down Sisyphus, people in this ship will die for your own selfishness."

I said back to him. "Its not my fucking fault!! If you didn't punished me now, and let me out the hook, this will not happened!!"

"I see." Zeus said.

I said to the people. "Look at the mighty of Gods!! He will punish you for my sins!! Are you not angry towards him!!! He only wants me!! But he want to punish you also with death!!"

Suddenly one of the people on deck ask me. "What we will do then?!?"

I smiled at them and said. "Don't worry people." I shouted back to Zeus. "Oi!! Zeus I will face what punishment you will do to me! Let off this people go!!!" Suddenly a thunder strike the ship again, I fell into the sea and I passed out from the shocked of the thunder hits close to me.

And so, I hit the water..

All I can see is darkest.. I asked myself. Am I dead already? But I heard some birds and I can hear the ocean. I opened my eyes, and a clear blue sky has welcomed me..

"I-I survived?" I said to myself I was laying in the beach alone.

I don't know where I am now..

Suddenly a both men approached me, and offered to help me.

They both carry my tired and exhausted body inside of their hut.

"What happened to you?" He asked me with concern..

I still confused that I lived..

"O-Oh, the ship I was on board got strike with lighting and made a hole on the board." I said to him.

Suddenly they both pray.

"Thank you Sumiyoshi sanjin, thank you Susanoo-no-Mikoto, and thank you Ryūjin, Mitsuhanome, that you saved this man from drowning." They both said.

I was confused why are they saying this weird names.. Out of curiosity I asked them. "Umm, who is this people you just said?"

One of them said to me. "Oh they're are the kami's that represents water."

I asked to them. "Kami?"

The other man said to me. "Kami means gods. There's a different Kami's here. For example me, Ebisu or Kotoshiro-nushi-no-kami. I am a god of fishermen and luck. I am one of the Seven Gods of Fortune. So, your lucky that you came acrossed me." He introduced the other guy too. "This is Hoderi, Hoderi no mikoto. He was a deity of the bounty of the sea and enchanted fisherman."
"Nice to meet you." Hoderi said to me.

I asked them if they related to each other. "Are you both siblings?"
Ebisu said. "No, no, were just friend, and this hut we made, we made this because we like fishing a lot we have a same passion towards fishing."

"I see.." I said

Suddenly Hoderi asked my name. "And you what's your name, and where did you come from?"

I said to them. "My name is Sisyphus, and I came from West."

Ebisu said. "What a weird name. What did you do from there?"

I said to them. "I am a king of some land in Greece."

They both looked confused as I am, when they heard Greece. "Greece first time hearing it." Said Hoderi.

"Well my back story is not important, what more important right now. Is where I am?" I asked.

Ebisu replied. "Your in Japan."

"J-Japan?" I asked in confused.

Hoderi exampled. "Yeah, a tiny and long island of Japan that located in east, well I know you didn't hear it from your place, but for us also we both first time hearing West Greece."

I don't want to let them know that I anger the gods by tricking them, I don't want them to see me as a bad guy, but a stranger.

Ebisu asked me. "Are you going back there?"

I said to him, with a straight face. "No. I don't have plan to go back there, in the first place, greece is always on wars. I get tired of the sceneries of files of dead body laying on the ground, and meeting in the Underworld."

"We also have the Underworld Called Yomi." Ebisu said to me.

"Really? I thought we only have one, and that is hell." I said.

Hoderi exampled to me the history of Kami's. "At Izumo province, Yomi was sealed When people die, or gods. I heard a story of a man want to rescue his wife inside of the Yomi, but once he arrived he push the boulder aside to go inside, to see his wife, but when he found his wife he shine a light on her, he saw that his wife was a decaying rotting creature but as he saw his own wife, his wife already eaten the hearth of Yomi, means he will never save his own wife. He bolted, which enraged his wife, his wife who sent an army of demons to after him. But as he escaped the underworld he sealed it back the entrance with the a giant boulder, protecting the living world from the world of death. The wife was furious, she cursed his husband, and promised to kill a thousand people a day in revenge. The husband promised to make sure that one thousand five hundreds people would be born a everyday. The husband decided to purity himself, because he was covered with the pollution from the underworld. So, he found a river to perform misogi, or purification. As he washed. From the cloths he removed, from other part of body he washed Kami's was borned here. He washed his left eye, and so Amaterasu-Ōmikami was born the goddess of sun, from his right eye Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto, was borned the goddess of moon. And from washing his nose Susanoo-no-Mikoto was borned, the god of storms."

I was shocked that they have their own history of gods and goddesses like in the west.

Ebisu asked to me. "Time to head back, Sisyphus want to explore the town?"

I agreed without any second thoughts. "Sure why not."

And so, we walked to the town, its different from the east, becaus house there build with stone or clay, while here its pure woods.

Suddenly a person approached us. "Ebisu-sama, your father want to meet you."

Ebisu said. "I see, I go meet him. Sisyphus want to come?"

Again I agreed without any second thoughts. I want to know alot of this island.

And so, we walked to the fancy strange house.

We head inside, I was shocked that they sit in the floor with this strange padding at the floor, and so I sit beside Ebisu.

Suddenly his father asked him about me, and so he explained how I meet him, and arrived here.

But his father said something shocking for Ebisu.

"Are you familiar to the story of Yoki Ebisu?"
"Yeah its pretty common to know it." Ebisu replied.

Suddenly his father said to him. "That story and the husband of the wife.. Is me all along."

Ebisu stand up and raised his voice and said. "W-Why you didn't tell me about it?!"

His father replied. "Because I know you want to see your own mother!"

Ebisu said. "Yeah and that's what I will do right now."
He walked away, and so I followed him.

As were leaving the place, I asked Ebisu. "Where we heading Ebisu?"

"To the Yoki." He said to me.

And so, here we are, me and Hoderi, and Ebisu was looking at the huge boulder.

Hoderi asked. "Are you sure about this Ebisu?"

Ebisu replied. "Yeah, I want to meet my mother."

Hoderi said in worried. "But what if the dead escape?"

I replied to him, reffering to the boulder I pushed back then. "Just move it aside, and just rolled it back once were done to our business."

Suddenly someone talked up the tree, it was a man sitting and chilling at the branch. "Oi, three of you, its dangerous to remove that boulder, I know you know the tales about it." He said.

Hoderi said to the man. "Ōyamatsumi, we will just look for someone, and we will leave after that."

Ōyamatsumi replied. "No means no kids."

Looks like asking permission is not gonna work, then you leave me no choice to manipulate you.

"Ōyamatsumi can I ask something?" I asked him.

"Who are you? And what's that?" He replied to me.

"Sisyphus is my name, and I want to ask, what Kami are you?" I asked him.

"I am the Kami who rules the mountain." He said

All according to my plan.

"So, your a Kami of mountain?" I asked him.

"Yeah, and?" He asked me.

"Why are you procteting this entrance? You're not the guardian of the entrance of Yomi, and why are you stopping us? You don't have any business here. Its not your job to stop us." I said to him.

Suddenly Ebisu whispered beside me. "Oi, are you not scared?"

I whispered back to him. "Why would I? I been dealing some business in the west."

And so Ōyamatsumi said to us. "Hmm, what will you do then?"

I said to him. "I will not do a thing, but the other kami's will do a thing about this, you're stealing the thing they represent as, and your not representing as proctector of this path, your just a protector of the mountai."

He clicked his tongue. "Y-You have a point, if something happen its not my fault but the kami who representing this."

"Deal no problem for us, just let us go and we will never think your here in the first place." I said to him.

And so, I pushed the boulder to the side, and so the three of us went inside with a torch.