One week later.

With the home built, they needed to furnish the home.

"Let’s see... hmm, some beds and futons, drawers, tables, chairs... so much stuff." said Cirrus.

"We can help with that," said Aomi. "Akeru, tell the villagers!"

They slowly but surely started to fill the home enough to actually call it home. After it was well furnished everyone left leaving three people in the home.

 

The time for Cirrus's punishment had come at last as he and Ai sit in a room with Artemis.

"So um... What is it gonna be, Lady Artemis."

"She is building her resolve to say it, Cirrus." Ai said next to Cirrus.

"Hmm…I had so much time, yet it's still hard to say…" Artemis was fidgeting a bit.

This was a first seeing Artemis being so nervous.

"Oh, Aphrodite gave me this!" She went and got an incense pot with a clam and a pearl on it, Aphrodite’s Familia emblem. "She said this helps with stress!" Ai lights it, and a pleasant fragrance soothes their nerves.

"Haaa…that’s a bit better, so for your punishment, Cirrus!" Artemis said, standing before him. "Is that you have to take responsibility and marry me!" Her face was flushed red. "So be my Orion!!"

"…."

‘….’

A silence fell on the room as Cirrus really tried to process this.

'???????????????' His brain was firing off on all cylinders.

'Artemis, marriage!?!? That...that—Hm??'

To Cirrus, Artemis and marriage were two things he didn't think would be in the same sentence. An anomaly. Of course, her and Orion's accounts were the closest to his situation, despite being lightyears apart. No matter how you cut it, Orion always dies in the end and gets placed in the heavens as a constellation.

'D-does this mean I'm going to get killed by a scorpion!? No, no if anything, Artemis is-oh yeah, she already shot me.'

He was in a pickle. To be with Artemis is to be her Orion, and to be Orion is to be killed by the divine. To Cirrus, this was effectively a massive death flag.

"A-Ai did you know of…" Cirrus turned to see Ai looking away, but she nodded. "And you, Lady Artemis, why did you decide on this to be my punishment?"

"Since you adore Ai here, I figured out what better way to severely punish you than to marry me, Orion!"

‘And also because I love you!! and the other moon gods won’t try and punish you first!! Wait? Wait?? Was I always so open???’

The scent of the incense changes ever so slightly.

"I... understand." Cirrus made a conflicted expression. "That... that does hurt me."

"!!"

Both Artemis and Ai flinched a bit at Cirrus’s expression.

"B-but Cirrus!" said Ai. "Me, Aphrodite, and Nox discussed it with Artemis on the punishment, and we managed to lighten it!"

"Lighten it?" Cirrus' mind raced with what could possibly make this punishment lighter? "How?"

"Well, I'm sure Ai can say it." Artemis said looking at Ai.

Cirrus turned to look at Ai as she puffed her chest up. A smile appeared on her face.

"Since what you did was an accident!" Ai's smile grew ear to ear. "I will be your second wife!!" she proclaimed.

"Eh?"

‘Eh?’

Cirrus turned his head, really trying to process the information, but he felt his mind slow down a bit.

A pleasant scent lingered in the air.

'Mmm? Why is my head getting fuzzy? What is that smell in the—"

"Y-yes!" said Artemis, cutting off Cirrus's thinking. "Seeing as you did it to stop a magic attack that was used to slay the Leviathan, I cannot hold it against you, so I find it fair that you at least get to stay with your beloved." Artemis then kneels as well. "So I hope you can share with me a fraction of the love you have with Ai."

Cirrus tries to recollect his time with Artemis. He can say he did like her, but her myth did keep him away, as he had thought Artemis was asexual. After all, in most of her myths, she was the one to kill Orion after he tried to get with her friends, and the notion of her and Orion being tragic lovers was played up over the years, as the theme of being tragic lovers made it more popular among the people.

The scent changes again, so slightly that no one notices that it's now a more sweet smell. The three within the room mental falculities were starting to notably get more shrewd.

'There is no getting around this. This is a deal I really can't refuse. If I reject her she will just keep bothering and hunting me till I eventually accept. She is Artemis. Of all goddess', I'm sure if there was a yandere of the Olympic Pantheon, Artemis could easily fit it... I don't want that, I don't want relationship drama. But she does care for mortals, I still remember when she joined the fray when I fought the Nuckelavee, but her just forcing her way into a relationship is...'

Cirrus thinks more. He thinks on Artemis and her affections.

'I just wanna be stay with Ai.... Haa~ Fuck. Why did Artemis have to fall in love with me? Why? WHY!?' Cirrus looked at Artemis to see she was keeping a somewhat composed face with a lovely soft flush, but she was making expression he saw on Ai. '... I don't think she would handle the pain of heartbreak.'

Artemis, the famed goddess known for status as a virgin goddess—no thee Virgin Goddess as much as Zeus being a satyriasis. Cirrus wants peace. He doesn't want more trouble. But this situation is one where one has to bite the bullet. Which ever Cirrus picks the path he walks will be one he has to live with and eventually come to enjoy.

He took a deep breath and went through with it with the dedication to not follow in Orion's footsteps and to live as long as he could. Better to have the love of a goddess than the hate of one, in this case there were far more pros than cons.

"Lady... no Artemis," Cirrus said with more confidence. "I accept this punishment on one sole condition."

"And... that is?" she said, looking up to meet his eyes, her face slightly more flush.

"Do not call me Orion. Call me Cirrus." He said, gazing into her eyes. "Do not call me by someone or something else's name, call me by my name if we are to be lovers."

The first step to not dying is to distance himself from Orion as much as he can. From this day forward he had to avoid the sea and any kind of scorpion, also poison and womanizing.

"V-very well, Cirrus!" Artemis said, with starry eyes and a fully blushed face, her lips curling into a big smile.

Thump-thump!!

"Artemis." Cirrus' voice now held a serious tone. "Before we go any further you need to know that I do love Ai more than you."

Artemis heart would have stung if she did not already know this, but it still does to be told in her face. She made a wry smile and nodded.

"I understand, Cirrus. But I hope as we spend time with one another you can see and feel about me as you see and feel about Ai. Even after I force your hand." Artemis fully knows what she did was something she never imagined herself doing, but this was her first time falling in love and she fell hard. "So I am sorry." She bows to Cirrus, fulling kowtowing before him. "Deeply, I am sorry for my selfish wish that disregarded you and Ai's agency."

Deep down Artemis knows that it was because she was a god that Cirrus accepted. That if she was mortal he would have thrown her out the house already. But she is also happy that they were in a relationship but also bitter of having her first romantic relationship be a forced one. The apology she gave was genuine, just imaging the pain of rejection must be similar to what Ai felt and what Cirrus is processing with her actions.

Seeing a goddess such as Artemis kowtow before him, Cirrus truly saw how much Artemis was willing to appeal to him. He knows Artemis was fairly modest in comparison to other gods, in some areas. It not as though his view on Artemis had changed drastically, but this was the first time she acted what he despised of the other gods, their selfishness and disregard for mortal lives. Yet now she bowed before him as if he was a king, pleading for mercy.

Her voice held her feelings, her apology was sincere.

"You can stop kowtowing." He extends his hand and lightly pats her head. "Thank you for understanding."

"!" Artemis felt her heart skip a beat from his touch. This surprised Artemis more than expected. She sat up straight and looked at Cirrus with an even more fluster look. "Y-you should not be thanking me in any sense of the word." She slightly turned her face to hide her flustered expression.

"Hm." He nods. He then turned to Ai. "Ai, will you be my second wife?" He looked at Ai with a happy smile.

A warm smile grew on Ai's face that Artemis was envious of. But she quickly settled the thought and emotion. She already did enough.

Thump-thump!! Thump-thump!!

"Cirrus!!" Ai said, jumping on Cirrus in sheer excitement. Her face completely flustered, happy that he proposed to her, ignoring all that came before.

"Oof! Ai, why are you—!!" Cirrus could see the look in her eyes; he had seen it before.

The sweet scent in the air continued to linger and soak the three in the room. Emotions were now really running high.

"Huff! Huff! Cirrus~♥!"

Thump-thump!! Thump-thump!! Thump-thump!!

"A-Ai—!?"

He could start to feel his own body starting to heat up and his mind starting to narrow down his thoughts even faster. This was not normal.

Thump-thump!! Thump-thump!! Thump-thump!! Thump-thump!! Thump-thump!!

"Cirrus…" said Artemis, coming next to him. She wanted in, she wanted to indulge her love.

"A-Artemis t-the incense is—!"

She leaned in and kissed Cirrus passionately. This marked the day Artemis gave her first kiss that wasn't from performing CPR or a kiss on the cheeks or forehead. No. This was a kiss stemming from romantic and passionate love.

Thump-thump!! Thump-thump!! Thump-thump!! Thump-thump!! Thump-thump!! Thump-thump!! Thump-thump!! Thump-thump!!

He could taste and feel the softness and tenderness of her plump lips, and he could even smell the scent in her hair, which was of the forest and clean water. It mixed with Ai’s and the increased smell got Cirrus as if he had gotten his soul drunk from a love goddess’s charm.

‘Ahhhhh~’ This was the final nail in the coffin. His mind was slipping away and turning into a mess of chemicals. ‘Aph... ro… dite.’

His body felt heavy and sluggish as he drowned in pleasure. Ai and Artemis started to fall deeper and deeper as with each exchange of love and removal of clothes, their sanity slowly melted more and more, but when Ai and Cirrus saw Artemis’s naked form.

It was as if they had stepped across the boundary and into the divine. It was as beautiful as nature itself, but her being naked was something he knew a man should never have seen. He had thought Artemis would be cloaked in a wild fury, but no, she looked at him and Ai with eyes and a smile of affection.

For Cirrus in his intoxicated state saw what lay underneath her clothing. A firm and toned body that had the perfect ration of muscle and fat. She had  He knew she was more muscular than the other gods given she still kept up with hunting but seeing her fully exposed he could truly appreciate the work and effort she put in for herself to continue her passion.

For Ai, she had seen her naked many times, but under this new light, she really was like the moon in all of its glory within arm's reach.

The two adventures entered the Divine and will return with a taste of it.

Ai took to her breasts while Cirrus took her lips. Both of them maneuvered their hands around caressing Artemis' body.

"Ahh~♥!" Artemis's gasps out a moan.

She hazily looks up to see Ai had gotten on top of her, pinning her to the floor. She lightly tilts her head to the side to see Ai's tail wagging left and right briskly, she begun to taste her lips now.

"Hmh~♥!"

Artemis could not see Cirrus, but she felt his hands on her thighs. With their assault on her body having calmed somewhat, Artemis could vaguely tell the difference between the two.

Ai's hands were slender with thick skin from her swinging her sword; her tongue wrapped around Artemis's tongue so aggressively, and with how surprisingly long it was, it coiled around her tongue like a snake.

For Cirrus, all those feelings were drowned in by Ai's, but that quickly changed. He dragged her in close to her thighs with his hands; the texture and feeling of his hands were completely foreign when compared to Ai's. Cirrus' hands were warm with thick skin, thicker than Ai's, and strong, broad fingers that dragged her close to him with a force that could easily pin her down and never let her go, yet even that was overridden again by him.

"Ah♥!" Artemis felt something hot and thick touch the place all so many gods wished to go through.

Cirrus moved his hand and put his right hand firmly around Artemis' waist to hold her in place. He put his left on Ai's tail, which she liked a bit of roughness in their alone time, and lifted her, bringing her to his mouth, and then he thrust.

PLAP~♥!

"♥♥♥!!! ♥♥♥!!!"

Artemis was no longer part of the Big Three Virgin Goddesses of Heaven.

The sounds of flesh slapping and the moans of pleasure filled the home as the three lovers indulge in one another into the night.

 

Looking out of a window Aphrodite, Nox, and Rethusa looked towards Ai, Cirrus, and now Artemis’s home and smiled.

"Yup! It worked alright!" Nox said, cutting off her connection to Cirrus.

"Fufufu…"Aphrodite grinned. "There are now only two Virgin Goddesses. No wait, wouldn’t Astraea take her place?" Aphrodite exclaimed joyfully.

"Say how did you bypass a adventurers Immunity?"

"Well my aphrodisiac is special." She smile proudly of her concoction. "After several tests with people who had the Immunity Development Ability I got it down over time with the right stuff."

"You don’t plan on getting her as well, do you, Lady Aphrodite?" said Rethusa, sitting next to her. "I figured you would want in?"

"I couldn’t see it." Nox said. "Cirrus doesn't see her in a romantic light and I sure as hell Artemis would not want her around for this special moment."

"Right on the money." Aphrodite nodded in agreement with Nox's guess. "I like to see myself in this situation as one who has the reliable big sister energy. I really don’t wanna test my luck with Artemis, I fear what that goddess will do if her special moment is ruined." Aphrodite's mind run wild of the hell Artemis could bring. She turned to look at Rethusa. "I am surprised you helped your goddess to know the pleasures of the flesh. Do you also wish to taste the fruit your goddess forbade for so long?" she said with a grin.

"She already had those feelings, she just couldn’t interpret them given how foreign she is to it, and also, we also wanted to have love in our lives as well. But what did you put in that incense to...  you know? Have Lady Artemis do that?"

"Like I just said, it my little secret blend! A few changes here and there and it worked as a truth agent and a little bit of a aphrodisiac to really push things along! Very impressive if I do say so myself and I do."

"...You know Artemis is going to get you for this right Aphro?" Nox said. "Wouldn't Artemis want her first to be... you know more... vanilla?"

"Let me enjoy my day!! So what if Artemis' first was a three-way! I did the impossible so everyone!!" She looked to everyone in the house. "Let’s celebrate!!!!" she said, getting up and raising a glass. "Celebrate me as Heaven's greatest love goddess!!!"

"Yes!! And let us celebrate Cirrus!! For being the best adventurer in the world for having conquered one of heaven’s former three virgin goddesses!!!" Nox shouted.

"WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

The following afternoon.

"…" Artemis wakes to find herself warmly in the arms of Cirrus and Ai.

'Hm?' She thought as her brain tried to process what happened.

Their warm bodies and the touch of their sweat covered skins bring her slight peace before she remembers what they did. The memories quickly rushed back to her.

"!!" She quickly jolted up and looked around to find she was naked and there was a bloodstain on the tatami mat. Their clothes scattered around them room without care or concern, they were as stained in bodily fluids as their wearers were. She recalled taking Cirrus's in, but the pain was washed away by the euphoria. "Gulp!"

Artemis looked down and gently touched around her abdomen and tried to remember how big Cirrus was.

'W-was he really that big?' She remembered when he took her virginity, if not for the incense she would have felt as if she was gonna be split into two. 'My hips are a bit sore and... I'm a bit fuzzy on the details. Mmm... Was it a few hundred years ago when I damaged my hymen from hunting that monster, jumping ravines, over fallen trees, or was it riding my horse? Mmm... I did so much strenuous stuff... But what could have caused us to just—' She smelled a strong lingering scent and looked to find the pot where the incense came from.

"Aphrodite." She clenched her teeth, she wanted to give the goddess of love a good smack on the head or a arrow in the butt. "I’m going to—!"

She was suddenly dragged backward by Cirrus. his strength even when asleep dragged the goddess back onto the futon.

"Mmm… warm…" He softly muttered holding his new fiancé.

"I-I need to go and—!"

Ai came in closer and hugged Artemis tightly.

"Mmm… soft…"

"Hggg!!!" She blushed heavily as her breasts come against her bareback.

She was trapped by a level eight and a level six. She couldn’t escape.

'Well...' She enjoyed the two big balls of softness that were Ai's breasts on her back. 'It's not too...' And she enjoyed the broad and thickness of Cirrus' chest. 'bad...' She snuggled in as she listened to the soft beats of Ai and Cirrus' heart beats.

In her captivity, she succumbed to the warmth and comfort these two provided and fell asleep again. There will be more days ahead of her, more days to get closer to the ones who are at her sides.

Thump-Thump! Thump-Thump! Thump-Thump!

The sound of Cirrus' heartbeat soothed her even more, along with the gently heartbeat she felt coming from Ai her pushing her breasts against her back. She snuggles in close to those she gave her heart to and sleep. Though how she got her could have been better she was fine with the results and hopefully so to will the ones she forced herself to be part of their love.