17 CHAPTER 17: Illusions? So thats what you think Hero... (1/2)
As Zeran was feeling that he can't control his body in the trance, he just let it flow, such as letting the water flow in the river. The only thing he could do was to observe what's happening in some kind of first person point of view. Soon enough, Zeran spoke to the Ru in front of him in a terrifying manner unknowingly,
”Ah...yes I'm back...Ru...or should I say...”
”Evil Goddess Ruhime...”.
His right hand brought out a radiant silver knife suddenly, unbeknownst his own will. Ru's welcoming smile was replaced with a scared look upon her face that somehow didn't show anything about the dark/evil Goddess but instead, a concerned and shocked lover that had witnessed her partner had gone deranged in the swelling abyss. Later on, she responds with her terrified and surprised voice,
”Wha-what are you talking about?!”
”What are you going to do with that?!”
”I'm not the Evil Goddess...please believe me Lyon!”.
While she held unto the light brown-haired Zeran's hand and pleaded with all her heart with falling crystal tears from her face to convince him yet, the the only response she got was a forceful swing that flung her inside the room, that depicted the utter denial to her plea. More than that, since he was feeling pissed-off with her, he exclaims with great defiance and burning hatred,
”STOP CALLING ME THAT!”
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”DIE!”.
His expression was letting out dire flames of wrath such as a driven-to-kill face. The atmosphere was like it was engulfed in dark miasma yet, Ru wasn't the one releasing it but, the crazed-off light brown haired Zeran. As for Ru, having lost her affectionate lover and changed into a demonic killer, she expresses with her crying heart and soul terrified for her dear life,
”N-NOOOO!”.
She ran inside her home as she was scared of him though, she tripped over and fell clumsily. While, she noticed that she can't move her cold feet, she crawled her way out with her shaking arms to escape from being killed by her former lover but, her fate had already been sealed. Having found an opportunity, he stabbed Ru from behind that penetrated through her left chest, crushing her dear life totally. That let her deep blood to leak out from her chest and mouth, painting the floor in crimson red. Her life flashed before her eyes. The wrathful Zeran wasn't fazed by the death he himself had done to her. Rather, he looked as if he was grateful that he totally killed her and said with a relieved look,
”Good thing...I haven't married her yet...”
”Nor BONDED with her too...”
”So long...lady Ruhime...”
”The evil Goddess...”.
Ru's dead and shocked eyes left out a crimson blood tear that depicted her deep sadness and broken heart, even if she was already dead. The only thing that was worse than being betrayed is getting killed by your loved one. Afterwards, the dense miasma in the atmosphere dispersed. He calls unto someone with his loud voice,
”I'VE DONE WHAT YOU SAID...”
”HOLY GODDESS ANGEHIME...SO GIVE ME MY REWARD...”
”AND AWAY FROM THIS TRICKSTER!”.
Soon, the air became still and a holy aura was shrouded around the room, in which it was the opposite feeling from before. An intense ball of holy golden light emerged in front of him and a divine goddess-like voice spoke from it, that reverberated around the place,
”Very well...”.
Suddenly, the light shone so strong that even blinded the real Zeran. A little while later, he noticed that he can move his own body and the color of his hair was back to being blonde, although he saw the whole place devoid of any light again, as it was shrouded in the endless darkness. His face wasn't angered like the one he had felt from the trance, rather his face was leaving out great pity and sorrowness for the treacherous thing that had happened to Ru there, that made him to feel sorry for her in his thoughts,
(”I guess...that must've been Ru's memory...”)
(”Ru...I never thought you had a rough life going through...”).
Suddenly, he had second thoughts, since he noticed that there might be other reasons for that vision to happen. He held his chin. His face was no longer leaving out pity but, a very convinced one, as he had puzzled thoughts and feeble-minded interpretations about it,
(”Or...she's just trying to get me to pity her...and be even merciful...with all these ILLUSIONS!”)
(”Hells! That's what a usual evil/dark Goddess would do...”)
(”But I wanna know it directly coming from her...”).
A little while later, he was no longer in the dark endless trance and regained his full consciousness. He slowly opened his eyes and saw the intense-eyed diva Ru carressing his head with her delicate and warm hand softly, such as letting him a gentle breeze to touch his forehead. He also noticed that his head was on top of Ru's soft and soothing lap, while his whole body was lying down on her bed, as they were back in her own comfy home, in which it made him to feel a mix of comfort and utter disturbance, since his head was on the lap of a sinister Goddess that alot of people would be afraid of but, her aura was a loving and caring Goddess to him at the very moment. Ru noticed that he's already awake, so she felt glad and relieved. Her eyes sparkled in amazing bloom. Her grateful and relaxed smile was expressed on her face, even though she has an intense diva-looking appearance. Later, she tells in a warming welcome to the recovered Zeran,
”Ara♥?”
”Rise and shine dear Zera♪...”.
Zeran replies,
”How are you Ru?”.
As she heard that from him, her ears twitched in a subtle way. Her face was in a little shock and she had butterflies in her stomach since, she wouldn't expect him to say that to her. Making the air to feel unusually warm with fluttering hearts all over, though to not let the tensed air to condense any further, she responds with a calm smile and manner to him, that'd depict a maiden's appearance,
”I'm just fine...”
”More importantly...we got more artifacts now...”.
Zeran scratched his head and sighed very weakly but, he didn't let Ru to notice that, since there was something that was disturbing him in his mind other than those artifacts, especially the vision in the trance he had seen before. It seemed he also had a suspicious look about those artifacts she mentioned, though she didn't mind it that much. A little while later, Ru offered him a slice of strawberry shortcake that was very pleasing to the eyes, as the strawberry was pure, freshly red and the fluffy whipped cream at top looked very well done. Zeran tried to deny her offer and told her that he doesn't want anything at the moment yet, when he saw her brimming eyes and a radiant maiden's smile, he couldn't say no and he blushed with an embarassed face, so he took the offer of eating the slice of cake. As he took one bite, his tensed up feeling was gone and the atmosphere around was steaming in a warm sensation of vanilla. That made him to taste the sweet blend of the succulent strawberry inside his mouth. The blend of the soft whipped cream and firm base of the cake was in perfect harmony in his mouth. His body was wreathed in a soft sensation of both fluff and sweet decadence as he continued to take each bite of the strawberry shortcake while, Ru was feeding him with her gentle hold on the stainless fork. More than that, as she was seeing Zeran eating with a delighted look on his face, her ears were twitching with glee and her appearance was showing a divine smile of immense happiness, hiding her terrifying demonic aura. She went to carress his head again, while she was feeding him the slice of cake, that depicted the two were in a very sweet relationship that would give anyone a sugar rush. Despite the two were seen as the anti-heroes of the said story. As soon as he finished the slice of cake, Zeran felt relieved but, as soon as he saw the silver bread knife on the plate at the desk, his face turned back to a deep curious expression and asks her,
”Listen Ru...I'll be straight here...”.
Ruhime replies back,
”Hm? What is it Zera?”.
He closed his eyes for sometime. He sighed and composed himself with a very serious look. The air of the tingling sugary sensation was now gone into the void. Later, he opened his eyes. He looked at Ru directly and asks several questions straight,
”Why are you so obsessed on retrieving those artifacts?”
”What are you REALLY after here?”
”And why is it that instead of doing EVILLISH things you somehow do GOOD instead?”
”Are you really the evil Goddess or not?!”.
As soon as she heard that, Ru looked flattered with her hand touching her chest that was very lady-like. A little while later she closed her eyes. As she opened her eyes, her intense-looking eyes, menacing grin and terrifying appearance was back, making the dark miasma to leak-out at the place. Soon, she let out a sinister response to him,