Chapter2

Kanon sighed as he walked back to his room. Gingerly, he picked at the soft white linen that made up his new cardinal robes. He silently cursed when he almost tripping on it's hem for the umpteen time.

Immediately after the audience, Athena had presented him with his new robes of office. A long white Ionic chiton belted at the wrist with a red and gold trimmed zoster. To Kanon who has worn either training clothes or armour though out most of his life, he felt exposed in this outfit.

The only good he could see in this whole mess was the fact that the audience had been a private one, at least they were kind enough not to break the news in front of the sensitive few-like his brother. Shion had informed him the public announcement is scheduled after the noon meal tomorrow.

This meant, Kanon had till tonight to break the news to his brother. Running a hand through his hair, Kanon cursed the irony of the situation. Years ago, when he landed in Cape Sounion for trying to engineer Saga's lifelong dream of becoming Pope, he vowed he would get revenge on his brother.

Now, it would seem Kanon got his wish for the ultimate revenge on his twin during a point when he is trying to mend bridges with his sibling.

'If this is a kind of punishment for both of us, I must say it is brilliant and worthy of the goddess of strategy' Kanon muttered under his breath.

Even after the revival of the Gold Saints, things remain awkward between the twins. Before this, Kanon had managed to lose himself in his many duties and thus successfully avoided his twin.

Kanon knew he could spare himself an immediate faceoff with his twin as he was given his own room in the Pope palace by Athena shortly after the war. Initially it was to better protect the goddess and as the only Gold Saint at that time, he acted as her head advisor and as the highest ranking saint in Sanctuary ended up handling the daily management of Sanctuary. Saga himself chose to stay in the Gemini temple, coupled with their separate duties the twins haven't spoken in private since Saga's return.

Kanon knew most of it was awkwardness with each other that was keeping them apart since the new duties wasn't exactly challenging to him. The years spent lurking around Sanctuary shadowing his twin, followed by running Poseidon's underwater Palace proved most useful. It was also quickly discovered that while the bronze saints were brilliant in battles, only Shun and (maybe?) Shiryu were any good when it came to human interactions of any kind that did not involve fights.

(After the eighty daily fights fiasco, the threat of an inter-dimensional world tour done wonders for discipline and peace.)

Although his duties lessened with Shion's return, strangely there were still matters that Shion and the goddess prefer to hand to the young Gemini. In hindsight, he should have suspected something was afoot.

Athena had ended the audience with a gentle suggestion. That he tell his twin the news himself.

It would seem nothing escapes his goddess not even the situation with the brothers and Kanon had been oh so careful.

However, with his new rank it was probably better his twin heard it from him than through a public announcement alongside the other Gold Saints.

Which was why, he is now using his cosmos to hide himself as he made his way down from the Pope palace to the Gemini Temple.

It was time to face Saga.