The Story of Asclepius - (2)

"Very well done. Next time, I’ll see you on Olympus."
"...?!"

Squeal...

Goddess Artemis gently stroked the fur of the revived boar, then departed with her sacred beast. Although carrying out the goddess’s command and escaping divine punishment was a favorable outcome, Asclepius couldn’t feel entirely at ease.

Unlike breathing life back into someone who had only recently lost it, this time, the boar he treated had been clearly and definitively dead... Whether he had the potential to become a god of medicine or not, wasn’t this certainly something that would anger Lord …