Dancing in the Legendary Sea

*This work is fiction. It has no relation to real history, people, places, or languages.*

Decades after the divine beast Minotauros was slain on Kreta,

there were rumors in the sacred land of ancient Greece, Delos.

Rumors of a beast that would bring chaos to the outside world,

a retainer cursed by the goddess,

that the ‘divine beast of Artemis’ was imprisoned there.

The subject of those rumors, Io, was born with horns on her head.

‘A horned monster should not go out into the world.’

‘Do not meet men from outside.’

‘If you leave the sacred land, you never know when or by whom you might be hunted.’

Perhaps she would live the same life forever like this.

But even a life like stagnant water in a jar can face an anomaly.

A man with a scarred face drifted ashore.

“See for yourself, I’ve come to my senses, so hurry up and get lost.

I killed a person.”

The man known as Orioris—commonly called Orion.

A hunter from Atlantis.

“I’ve changed my mind a little. Let’s leave this damn island after all.

I can’t stand to see you die, even if I die.”

After an inescapable rescue,

when Io woke up, she was already in the middle of the Aegean Sea.

And the master of the sacred land proclaims to the Greek city-states:

“Hunt down the runaway divine beast.

The country that succeeds will gain hegemony over Greece.”