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Giriko scowled as he made his way down the hall. Mosquito was in front of him, and suddenly he had the urge to squish the puny man into the ground. But Lady Arachne wouldn't LIKE that now would she? No, she never let him do ANYTHING fun. Just once he'd like to play football with the tiny man's head and kick him across the room.
Lady Arachne had called him and Mosquito down to her room to talk to her about a new mission she's assigning them. Apparently she's looking for someone, someone important at least. Not that it really mattered to Giriko; it was probably just another pawn. They entered her room silently – well, Mosquito did. Giriko slammed the door behind him and leaned against it. The other ignored him and knelt before his Lady Arachne.
Arachne showed no emotion as she sat atop her throne of webs. Her eyes cast down on her most loyal servant and the… rebellious one.
"Lady Arachne," Mosquito said, "What is it you need of us?"
"Why must you be so fucking polite?" Giriko scowled. Mosquito glared at the man as Giriko stepped away from the door. "You God damn bug."
"Silence your tongue in the eyes of Lady Arachne."
"Make me, old man. You wanna go?"
"Just watch-" Mosquito began to speak, but was interrupted by a small cough from the woman he so very much adored. "My apologies, Lady Arachne."
"It is alright, Mosquito. Giriko, stop you're yapping. You're giving me a headache." The woman, Arachne, smiled at the fuming man below her. "You must be calmer for the mission I am assigning you."
Giriko's brows furrowed at her statement. Lady Arachne usually didn't care about his attitude, nevertheless for some stupid, insignificant mission. What the hell could make her so… nit-picky about his attitude? He didn't do anything wrong. Well, he didn't do anything different. Maybe Lady Arachne was going through one of those weird, woman hormone things. Headaches – Giriko scoffed at the word – Lady Arachne never had headaches.
"So what's this mission about anyways?" Giriko asked, not that he was too curious.
"I have a child I want you to find."
"A child?" Both men stared curiously at Arachne. "Why would you need some child?"
"It's not just any child," Arachne said, with almost a bored tone in her voice, "This is a child from my womb specifically."
What the hell? Giriko stared, dumbfounded, at Lady Arachne. This lady had a baby? Who the fuck did she bang?
"Lady Arachne," Mosquito chimed, "I don't mean to intrude on your privacy, but why is your child not with you now? And why are you searching for them at this point in time?"
The woman's face turned to a frown for a small second, (Ah, so she does have emotions, Giriko thought) then turned back to being expressionless. "That is a rather long explanation, but I guess some of it is required for your retrieval.
"Since you two are not witches, I know you will not understand some of our ways. I gave birth to twins a little more than seventeen years ago. In our culture, twins are the worst curse laid upon a mother. Usually, when twins are in the womb, one will consume the other's soul, and the curse would be gone. In my case, however, I gave birth to both a boy and a girl, both seemingly healthy, but their powers are split in half because of their curse.
"I was ashamed, and of course it was the fathers fault. I killed him right off. He dared to curse me with two useless children. The nerve of him. The babies were taken by our Doctor, and he was supposed to get rid of them both. But he did not, and both children are still alive.
"I want you to only bring back one," Arachne further explained, "Take the strongest of the two and have them consume the other's soul. Then bring them back to me. They will be a strong addition to our organization. One of my colleagues has told me that the twins were last seen in Hallows Village, a small town just a while north of here."
"Ahh~CHOO!"
The boy across the field looked up worriedly at his sister. "Haruki-Chan, are you alright?"
The girl, just getting over a cold, smiled at her older brother. "I'm fine! I'm almost done planting the new carrot seeds. Can we go into town after? Please?"
"Not today," the boy, Setsuna, glanced up at the sky. "It's gonna rain tonight. Might as well go home to Papa. He'll be worried if we're out in a storm." He crossed over to his sister. "Besides, we don't want to keep the dogs waiting. They get restless when they don't see their precious little Haruki-Chan."
Haruki smiled at the thought of the "dogs" at home. The girl's pet wolf gave birth to six little pups, and all of them were madly affectionate with her. She quickly buried the last of her carrot seeds and jumped up to meet her brother's height.
"I'll race ya!" She squealed, and then broke off into a run. As she ran farther down the field, she noticed the lack of noise behind her. She paused once to look back, only for the boy to zoom past her, riding on a broomstick. "Setsuna! No fair!"
"You never said I couldn't fly!"
"You know what I meant! Baka!" The girl scowled and broke off into a faster sprint, almost catching up with her counterpart ahead of her. When they arrived home, neither child had broken into a sweat, and they both still had enough energy to play for days on end.
Giriko packed his bag slowly, without attitude, very much unlike himself. He replayed what Lady Arachne had told him in his head over and over again. For some reason he felt… sorry for the two unknown children. Did Lady Arachne even name them before she threw them away like trash? How much weaker can these kids be if their twins?
I'll never understand witches and their fucking weird ass customs, Giriko thought. Why should he care anyways? One of these kids is going to be used as a pawn for Arachne, and will die soon anyways. Why should he care about what happens to them?
Giriko paused. He almost had an answer to that question. Pity? Shaking his head, Giriko scowled and grabbed a bottle of Whisky from his desk. Tomorrow he would choose which of the two twins died.
So tonight, he drank.
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