Getting home after a long day of work, Hestia wanted to take a shower and sleep as soon as possible.

Her mind was a mess; General Armstrong had told her to get ready for becoming part of the family, while she hadn’t found any hints about where the brain body was hidden.

Seeing a white paper on her bed, she was surprised; her apartment had many defenses that she had put on. How did someone break in without her notice?

Reading the paper, many emotions rose at the same time.

A small device is under your bed; it can teleport you to the base of the Starblaze squad.

Or come and visit me. A better offer is on the table.

"What..." Hestia checked under her bed; a red teleportation device like a phone was waiting for her.

Her finger wanted to push the button, yet a feeling stopped her. For the first time, she thought about what would happen if she went to Mars.

"They will send me to the frontlines; I can survive that, but..." Her current life was different; everyone respected her at work, with her name known among all the humans on earth.

Putting the device in her pocket, she teleported to the snowy mountain, but there was no one.

Using her magic, she found a teleport to the depths of the ocean. Mimicking the same directions, she found herself in a small cave with a blood angel sitting on the ground.

"It’s so hot..." Looking around, she saw the reason for the temperature: they were in the middle of a lava pool.

Ray said nothing; not a drop of sweat came out of his body. Compared to Mercury, his current situation was a joke.

"So, if I don’t like your offer, I will push this button." She took out the device and put her finger on it.

With an emotionless voice, Ray started to talk: "I can make you join the Starblaize squad as part of Cindi the engineer of Mars’s personal faction." Ray had already made preparations with Cindi; she clearly would welcome such a talent on her team.

Hestia had heard many things about that name; most of them were how a neptonic kid she was. "She never fights anything... If I become part of her team, I can live the rest of my life in my comfy apartment on Mars."

"But in exchange, we want you to become a cyborg. I guarantee you won’t become one; all you have to do is let your brain open itself to your body, and the rest will be done on its own." Ray deliberately used the word we; Cindi had called her plan the most stupid thing she had ever heard.

"At least she didn’t stop me; there is hope." Ray thought to herself, if he told her that he wanted to hide a piece of fear and hunger inside of her body, she would have pushed the button at that moment.

Hestia’s mind started to connect the dots in his words. She yelled after a minute, "You want to put a piece of a fucking devil inside my body..."

"It had no danger to you; I will make sure of it."

"What the hell even is your goal?"

Ray tried his best to not sound like a crazy person. "The devil will take over the brain; the king of silence will fight it because it is a fragment of another devil. Meanwhile, I will have my time alone with General Armstrong."

"Are you gay?"

"What?"

"Then why are you saying it like that?"

Ray sighed. "It had no danger for you at all, so what is your answer?"

"How are you going to put that thing inside my body without it consuming me?" Hestia put the device back in her pocket; the offer was tempting. She didn’t know about the end result, but her part had no danger.

"It might sound rude, but first we need my body fluid inside of your body. I will work on that; it’s not part of your body, so it won’t hurt you."

Hestia’s face turns red; she has never had a one-time thing with anyone, let alone in such a situation. Even for her to have to have sex with her girlfriend, it took them years. Looking at the blood angel, he was normal in most aspects, but still, those muscles were a thing.

"I must think about it."

Ray saw the mixed feelings in her face. "Unfortunately time is what we lack; there is a lot of work to be done, and I will make sure for it to be enjoyable for you."

"Thirty minutes."

"Feel free."

Ray continued his model of how the events would have unfolded in his head; with his knowledge about fear and hunger, it would go after the most tasty meal, that being king of silence.

That left Ray with an immortal with beast magic. General Armstrong could kill him in an instant in a close combat fight, but Ray had his own ways to fight too.

The upside of this way was that he couldn’t use the artifact anymore. If he had set a timer on that thing for after his death, it would go after the nearest immortal.

Many more things were needed behind the scenes that Ray had to take care of.

"Ok, but just once." Hestia said with a shaky voice, "I also have never been with a man either..."

Ray, for the first time, checked her body; her clothes covered most of her skin, but her tiny waist and neck plus the thighs were enough for Ray.

Ray moved behind her; she had her guard still up. Touching her cheeks from behind, Ray planted a small kiss on her neck.

"Wait... We are doing it here?" Hestia turned her head around to be an inch away from Ray’s face.

Her eyes were like a pair of jades as they looked at Ray without blinking. Ray could feel how shy she was about it. "Yeah." Ray held her waist in his arms as he pushed his lips on her.