219 A smudge of Truth (1/2)

Currently Ryuu was lounging on a couch as he had nothing to do, and as he was feeling sleepy as such he had closed his eyes off dozing off into 'lala-land', only for his eyes to wide open as he sliced the incoming projectile using his sword.

”My what a waste of a perfectly good apple.”, came a voice full of mirth causing him to turn to see a smiling visage of Antariskh.

Maheswara was already standing behind her as his face reflected displeasure as he spoke to Ryuu in a chiding manner, ”Child why are you so care free?”

Ryuu was taken aback by the sudden change in his voice, ”What do you mean teacher I clearly reacted to the apple…”

Maheswara: ”Be silent, the apple was take from a fruit basket placed on top of the table in front of you, Antariskh used her KI to pluck it from there before she flung it towards you,then you decide to cut it without looking what it was, if she were an enemy you would be dead Ryuu, this is not Ayindril where you can be carefree.”

Antariskh sighed as she placed her hands on top her father trying to calm him down as she spoke, ”Father, please calm down, and don't scold Ryuu like that, we are at fault here for not telling him to be vigilant.”

Veena approached them from behind as she spoke, ”Beloved please listen to our daughter she si right we should have warned Ryuu to be vigilant.”

Maheswara sighed as he spoke, ”You are right”, before his eyes softened as he spoke with Ryuu, ”Child, this place may be our friends jurisdiction but as you have already seen there are strong cultivators who would do whatever it is to kill you just to spite us, so do not let your guard down.”

Ryuu: ”But, there are arrays around this palace erected by 2nd mistress so what…”

Veena sighed as she spoke, ”I do not wish to demean sister Nuwa, but you should know that prevention is better than cure, and why take unnecessary risks, she may be the best Array Master in the entire Universe, but that does not mean that you can let your guard down.”

Ryuu nodded at that as Antariskh spoke, ”As such it has been decided that during our stay here you will always be at least with one of us, so that we can protect you from any harm.”

Ryuu nodded as he spoke, ”I understand but who was that scary crazy lady that tried to kill me are they enemy of yours teacher.”

Veena: ”That is complicated child you ….”

Only to be stopped by Maheswara as he raised his hand indicated her to stop speaking, ”Ryuu what do you know about my son's wife.”

Veena gaped at his husband in disbelief including Antariskh who looked at her father with her eyes filled with worry.

Ryuu was taken aback by such a question as he replied back, ”Not much but from what I was taught by 3rd mistress, Senior Pangu and his Dao Companion Senior Apolonia sacrificed their life and soul to defeat a great evil thus saving the entire Universe nothing more than that.”

Maheswara nodded at that as he spoke with a solemn sigh, ”The crazy woman as you called her name is Megara, her father Menelaos and her mother Neaera were once our very close friends, in fact Megara group up playing together with our children, as they grew up love blossomed between Pangu and Megara she became his fiancée, then a great tragedy struck us a villain painted Pangu in bad light and believing the villain Megara betrayed Pangu breaking off the engagement, causing my son to be heartbroken.”, he took a deep breath as he continued, ”During that period Apoloniya, approached my son healed his broken heart and before long they were in love and they became each other's Dao companion. But by then Megara realized her folly but it was for naught they were happily married by then, and no matter what she or her family did they could not separate them, and Megara's sanity began to slip because of it, and when Pangu passed away she finally lost every shred of sanity, it is a pity her family instead of trying to curb her insanity tried to place blame on others mainly us as such the relation between us is like oil and water.”

Ryuu digested the entire thing as he contemplated the entire thing, as he asked something that was bugging him for some time, ”Teacher I have a question.”

Maheswara raised one of his eyebrows at that as he asked, ”What do wish to know child?”