42 CHAPTER 42: Our different sides (1/2)

The air became cold but, swirling flames of rage was surrounding the cold place. Zeran held Ru's hand and gripped her tightly. He brought out his hand, as if he was trying to protect his Goddess Ru, while he was glaring at his own mother, since he remembered that his mother tried to kill him before. As for Ru, she felt amazed of Zeran's chivalrous and daring action for her, making her to blush a bit. Soon, he says to Arseia with his searing eyes,

”Are you here to kill me again?!”

”Or even kill all of us here?”.

As he let out those heavy words, the atmosphere became colder and intense vibes had beaten throughout the place. Though, Arseia just closed her eyes and sighed. Then, she opened her eyes again and said like she was shocked mother for some reason, turning the frozen air to cease,

”Geez...settle down Zen...”

”There'll be no bloodshed going on here...”

”And is this how you see your caring mother with all her heart? Geez...”.

The air became giddy. She pointed her finger at him and continues to say,

”I'm here to tell both of you what's really going on between LIGHT GODDESS...ANGEHIME and DARK GODDESS RUHIME...”

”But first...you should ask dark Goddess Ruhime's side of things...”

”So Mai...”.

Arseia stopped pointing at him. Mai nodded, as she understood Arseia's statements. Sooner or later, Mai and Arseia left the room, leaving Zeran and Ru to be in their own space again. The frozen icicles were gone and the burning aura of Zeran was released, as he looked dumbfounded over his mother's words, turning him to scratch his head. Though, Ru already knew what Arseia meant, making her to say in her thoughts,

(”I guess it's time to tell him...”).

Ru twisted herself and went in front of him such as she was a daring ballerina. She was holding both of Zeran's hands, making Zeran to blush, while he was mesmerized by her. Ru looked down and sighed. Then, she said, while she was looking at him direct in the eye,

”I guess this time has come Zera...”.

Zeran was dumbstruck and he says,

”Hm? What do you mean Ru?”.

She let go of his hands and walked a few paces away from him. The whole place became stagnant, as deafening silence seeped into the air through her sudden change of action. Soon, she turned her face to the side, while her golden eyes were glancing at him. Then, she let out her words filled with heavyness of a falling anchor,

”Do you want to know why, I'm making you do this?”.

Zeran replies,

”Eh? Well it's just to get back your precious and treasured artifacts right?”.

As she heard his out of the blue compliments, her face became flustered such as she was a steaming pot poured with flattery. She let her lips touch her fingers like she was an embarassed timid lady in addition to her reaction. Though, her thoughts were already floating in cloud nine and she was kinda feeling turned on,

(”Precious and treasured?!”)

(”Awwww...he does really know how to push my buttons...”)

(”Even in this kind of situation...”).

Zeran tried to tilt his head since, he was noticing that there was something strange about her. Somehow, she didn't want him to notice that she was feeling flustered, so she shrugged-off her sudden reaction and she said with a forced composure,

”Ahem...yet not only that...”

”But it is also due to my ideal of...”.

Then, she twisted herself again. She depicted a pose like she was a grand demon queen proving her grand schemes, while she was holding her chest with a daring proud evil look on her face and said that would strike fear to anyone's eyes,

”IDEAL EVIL EXCHANGE...”.

As she let out those strong words, the atmosphere became still. Zeran was witnessing the true form of the dark Goddess Ru with her floating and swaying tail adding intensity into the air. Though, he wasn't afraid unlike any normal person would react upon hearing the dark Goddess's plan, instead he tried to recall her words, since he was dumbfounded yet again,

”Ideal...evil...exchange?”

”What does that even mean?!”.

She replies,

”It's what you call reaping out the SWELLING darkness and letting out a newer seed of either light or dark to grow...”.

Then, he mumbles in his thoughts,

(”Okay...I kinda understood that...somehow...”).

Though, he had another question that popped out of his mind, since he noticed that it was quite unusual for a dark Goddess to do a light Goddess's duty. Thereon, he asks her with a problematic look,

”But why would a dark Goddess like you do that?”.

She knacked out a sarcastic smile, as she heard his retort. Then, she sat down on her bed and crossed her legs. She plucked out a piece from the bunch of shiny grapes beside her. She looked at the piece of the plucked out grapes such as it was a luxurious pearl to her sight. Afterwards, she said to him with deep interest in her look,

”Let's just say, I want to see another opportunity to grow, whether he/she chooses light or darkness...”

”It may seem it'll only end in an endless cycle but it's not, due to some circumstances we have taken...”

”You see...letting the long darkness swell too much would cause an imbalance unto the world...”

”As you can see with the mayor and that weapons merchant...”

”But that is the role of the Light Goddess to get rid of that right?”.

She sighed and she continued her profused way of explaining,

”Yet instead, she had just turned a blind eye, just to achieve her own ideals using them and letting the darkness from them to swell even further...”

”In which it would cause severe damage on the other innocent lives too...”

”So I had to do it but, in a dark Goddess's way by reaping them out through you, my dear Zera...”.

After Ru was finished with her explanation, she swallowed the the piece of grapes in one whole. As Zeran heard her whole statement, he went in front of her and held her hands. His face looked very much amazed by her statements, making him to say with an excited look on his face and there was a fleeting aura of radiance in his expression,