Chapter 14: Two Sides of the Moon I: The Quiet Ninja

The pearly gates of the Lunar Palace opens up at a slow pace, but they are so large that it doesn't take very long for enough of a gap to be opened up for Riku and Kairi to head on inside. Within the palace isn't as bright as it was on the outside, but it was very vast and empty. The white, sleek pillars sparkled and the floors were lined with pure platinum tiles. There were many hallways on the sides of the entrance room, but the only hallway that was important was the one at the very end of the room with the golden arch over it's doorway.

Once the two were inside the palace all the way, the gate slammed shut behind them, shaking the ground below their feet and making them turn back to see that they were stuck inside of this place…Likely until Lunis was defeated. "So there was a palace the moon the whole time…" Kairi commented as she turned back around, but Riku remarked quietly "I don't think that's the case. I imagine Lunis brought this palace here from another moon…Likely the one close to whatever planet the Elemental Overlord, Dark King and Auris lived on."

Riku then slowly began to walk towards the other side of the hallway with Kairi close beside him, and she commented while gesturing her right hand out "Don't you think this palace seems unnecessarily large? There's nothing inside of here but pearl walls and ivory pillars…" Riku stated in turn "It could be possible someone else used to live here before Lunis took the place over. Or maybe the large size is to accommodate for any possible visitors like other gods or goddesses…Just because Lunis and Solaris are High Deities doesn't mean that they don't speak to other deities lower than them."

Kairi paused for a moment and asked "Ok, fine…But now I have to ask, do you even know where to find Lunis in this palace? We don't have time to be searching around." Riku pointed forward at the golden arched doorway and said quickly "I have no doubts that we'll find Lunis through that door somewhere. I may not be able to sense him directly, but there's no mistaking the slight tremor of his fingers tapping against the arm of a throne chair."

Riku then continued moving on ahead after acknowledging Kairi's inquiry, and she followed behind while commenting "Are you ready to fight Lunis then? We didn't get to fight Solaris back there, so it's not we have direct experience combating one of these High Deities." Riku lowered his eyelids slightly and stood in place, swinging his right arm out to stop Kairi from going any further as some Vortexians began to spawn out of the ground close to the golden arched doorway.

The first set of Vortexians shared the same body-type as the Blacksmiths and the Laser Bladers, but they had silver foggy katanas held out from the ends of their arms. The edges of their body were dark grey, and they had blue foggy eyes. These Vortexian Samurais were joined by another set riding on glowing foggy yellow crescents meant to represent the moon, and the bodies of these Vortexians were shaped like feminine humans with some foggy green "cloths" wrapped around their bodies. These were Vortexian Lunar Sirens, and they had the ability to cast magic as they snapped their fingers and infused the blades of the Vortexian Samurais with a veil of silver light.

The Samurais pointed their blades at Riku and Kairi, and Riku drew his blade and focused on it to change into Light Form, remarking as he did so "I'm done wasting time on these Vortexians…Lets get through them quickly, and then I'll answer that question." Kairi switched into her Angel Drive form and nodded her head, and then the two charged at the Vortexians. Needless to say, it didn't take very long for them to cut them down with their blades, as the Anti-Genesis Theorem could only do so much against the raw strength the two possessed.

When the Vortexians were down for the count, Riku and Kairi returned back to normal and proceeded onward, with Riku commenting thusly "…The way I see it, I could tell a bit what Solaris' strength was. He hadn't yet used all of his power against Alex, but he was up to 50% when Lunis told him to stop. I imagine to keep a good balance between the two, Lunis and Solaris have nearly the same level of power. So we should be able to beat Lunis…But just to be safe, I'll start off in my Light Form. You know to use your Angel Drive in turn, right?" Kairi nodded her head in agreement of that plan, but then lowered her head slightly and appeared a bit melancholic.

Riku wasn't paying any attention to that as they got close to the golden arched doorway, and Kairi thought to herself "…I need to get this over with before we fight Lunis. Can't fight well together if I'm holding something against Riku…" Kairi lifted her head up, swung her arms out and remarked "Riku, I want to get something off my chest first." Riku stopped close to the doorway and turned himself around in an instant, raising his eyebrows up slightly and putting on a curious expression.

Kairi widened her eyes and exclaimed angrily "I'm pissed off at you for attacking my mother! I don't know whether I should really trust you or not after that!" Riku flinched in surprise at Kairi's outburst, but deep down a part of him figured that this was going to happen eventually. Closing his eyelids and hanging his head slightly against his chest, Riku commented "I knew this was coming…And yet despite what you say, there's a part of you that wants to trust me, isn't there?"

Kairi exclaimed while clenching a fist close to her chest and leaning forward "Of course I do! You're Mew's brother…And unlike Alex, I can tell you're a nice person at the very least. So even after it was explained to me, I just can't fathom why you attacked my mother! And until I can truly get over this, I don't think we can work together to stop Lunis." Riku raised his head up and commented "I do admit I was a bit out of line attacking your mother so violently like that. If you want to take your anger out on me, I won't stop you. Punch me with all of your strength if you must."

Shaking her head slightly, Kairi commented "I already did that with your brother. I mean it's a start that you're willing to let me punch you and all…But I want something more. I-I'm just thinking there's something more to your reasons…Something you don't want to tell me." Kairi then glances at Riku and remarks "Or rather, something you don't want your brother to hear." Riku widened his eyes a bit and commented with a slight stutter as he rubbed the back of his head "…You know, you're a lot more perceptive than I've been giving you credit for Kairi."

"I've been trying to be ever since I learned that strength isn't everything. You got to have some wits too." Kairi commented with a bit of a smile on her face, and Riku looked at her confident face and commented "Well then my brother picked the right person to fall in love with…But that's what makes it difficult to tell you this. Promise you won't tell him what I'm about to tell you?" Riku sounded a bit embarrassed about what he was going to reveal, but Kairi just nodded her head immediately to show that the boy could trust her.

"Alright…You see, one of the main reasons I got so angry at Auris is because her actions put my brother's life at risk. It's really strange, honestly…I only knew my brother for barely a day, and yet I just feel this instinct inside of me to protect him with everything I've got. I don't want him to suffer at all, not from that demon inside of him, not from Alex's actions and words…Nothing. But I can't just tell him not to fight, that's not the type of person he is." Riku explained, and Kairi snapped her fingers and commented "It was around the time you were so adamant about stopping Mew from going after Alex that I figured it out, since you're bringing it up."

"I'm surprised you didn't put up more of a fuss, you've known him a little longer than I have from the sounds of things." Riku said afterwards, and after brushing the back of her head back a little Kairi smiled and said "I know. Mew's stubborn, a bit of a nut and he doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut sometimes…But his heart is always in the right place. If he didn't speak up whenever he felt like it, he probably never would've been able to help me through my problems. It's why I can trust him to not succumb to Alex's whims, because that's not the type of person he is."

Riku then folded his arms together and opened his eyelids while asking "And what of the demon in his mind?" Kairi commented while clenching her fist tightly "Mew said…If somehow that demon takes full control of his body, that I am to use the Neo Drive to overpower them and kill Mew." Riku shook his head slightly and said in turn "I'm not going to let that happen. If that demon tries anything, I'll use my powers to purge him from my brother's mind without killing him."

Kairi nodded her head and said "Hehe…Same here. I refuse to believe that the demon can't be purged from Mew's mind." Riku extended his right hand out and asked of Kairi "Then that's what we'll do. We'll work together and protect my brother from harm…We'll all make it through this, and then we can spend time together in peace. And I'll try and make it up to both you and your mother for what I did earlier."

Kairi didn't hesitate to hold her hand out and shake on that, and she said to him a moment later after giving a bit of a wink "I'm holding you to that then Riku. But for now, I'm not going to let my feelings get in the way any longer. We'll stop Lunis together and make sure there's a planet to return to." Riku nodded his head and the two pulled their hands away from each other and looked to the door close to them, slanting their eyebrows as they drew their weapons and entered the room beyond the doorway.

Inside was a wide-open throne room, and now there was a long red carpet leading up to the barely raised throne at the very end. There were a few stained glass windows around the walls that were thin enough to show the depths of space outside, and the starlight mixed with the glass to create a rather beautiful composition of colors. On the throne itself, it was clear from the opposite end of the room that Lunis was sitting there, his arms laid down atop the arms of his chair and his right leg cross atop his left.

With an echoing voice, Lunis remarked to the two quietly "So you finally arrived…" Riku and Kairi sprinted across the red carpet and got a few feet away from the tiny staircase leading up to the throne, swinging their weapons and going into an offensive stance as Lunis lifted a hand up and leaned it against the side of his kabuki mask, commenting in a somewhat bored tone "For a moment, I thought you would've been distracted too long with each other to come and face me."

Riku quickly and bluntly remarked "You gave us plenty of time to work with Lunis. We still have roughly an hour until the Earth collides with the layer of ice you set up." Lunis remarked in an accusing tone "Are you saying that I purposely gave you time to spare? No, that's just how everything lined up." As Lunis tapped his fingers against the side of his mask, Riku widened his eyes a bit and could've sworn he heard a faint and nervous heartbeat coming from Lunis, which led to him commenting "Well forgive me if I don't believe you."

Lunis pulled his fingers away from his mask and quietly said "It's not a matter of whether you believe me or not." Lunis then lifted his body up slightly and pushed himself off of the throne, flipping himself a few times high up in the air before landing on his feet, kneeling down slightly and raising his right hand up behind his head before summoning a yellow crescent bladed dagger into his grasp. Once he stands upright he holds the dagger backhanded behind his body and raised a hand close to the front of his mask, remarking as he stood upright and leaned back slightly "It's a matter of our fight here today. Are you ready?"

"Drop the ice layer around the planet first. How can we trust you to not suddenly make the ice crush the Earth?" Kairi commented, and Lunis lowered her eyebrows through the mask angrily and said "I'm not someone swayed towards brutality and destruction like my brother unfortunately ended up as. I'm just going with what father wanted me to do. If you want to free your planet, you'll have to defeat me in battle, and I won't be holding back like my brother did against the Phoenix of Destruction."

"Before we fight, there's one last thing I want to ask you, Lunis." Riku commented, and with a brief sigh of annoyance Lunis commented while keeping his pose "Ask away then." Riku then lowered his arms to show a lack of aggression at the moment and inquired "Why did you let Rayquaza go like that? I'd think that all things considered, that wouldn't be something you'd do."

Lunis commented quickly "…Hmph, I'm not going to dignify that with a response. Anything else you wish to waste time speaking about…? After all, it's your world at stake here. I, on the other hand, have nothing to lose here by fighting you both." Riku raised his arm up and pointed his blade at Lunis, telling him bluntly as he once again swore to hearing the irregular heartbeat coming from his chest "Once more, I doubt your words. But you're right, we're both fighting for the planet we call our home…"

As Riku focused on his blade and went into Light Form, Kairi activated her Angel Drive and changed as well, and Riku exclaimed to Lunis "And we're not going to hold anything back!" Lunis raised his eyebrows slightly and then said bluntly "And yet you fight me in that form. Do you presume me to be that weak? Let us hope neither of you regret this decision…As I use this lunar kunai of mine to put an end to your resistance against my father."

Lunis leans forward slightly and holds his arms beside his body and then sprints forward, disappearing and reappeared in a millisecond between Riku and Kairi with his arms swung out in both directions. He turns himself around and has the inner part of his kunai pointed at Riku's neck ready to slice, but the kunai glows for a moment and another one appears in the grasp of Lunis' other hand ready to slice Kairi's neck from the back.

Riku quickly raised his katana to block the kunai, but the push from Lunis' swing came dangerously close to putting the blade to Riku's face. Kairi meanwhile sensed Lunis' movements and properly put a barrier of hard aura on the back of her neck to protect herself. Lunis pulled his arms inward and flipped backwards, throwing his kunai out of his hands and at his foes. Lunis then lands on the ground and whips his hands out quickly, creating two threads of silver light to grab the kunai by the handles and pulling them back into his grasp quickly.

Riku swings his sword forward and sends a wave of light at Lunis, who flips to the side to get out of the way as the energy travels up the staircase and slices through the throne. Kairi sprints forward and follows-up on Riku's efforts by brandishing her rapier out rapidly, but Lunis swings his arms out in front of him rapidly while in the middle of his flip to hit Kairi's attacks with both of his kunai, deflecting all but one blow which manages to slip by and slightly cut underneath the plate on Lunis' right shoulder.

Lunis lands on the ground and notes the trickle of blood for a moment before swinging his arms out rapidly in front of him, cutting the air with silver and golden sparkling slashes that are all blocked by Kairi's rapier. But then Lunis spins around and kicks forward past the right of the rapier's blade to hit Kairi in the chin and knock her back, but then Riku is given a chance to try and attack Lunis from behind by drawing his katana from his hilt and going in for a powerful slash.

With insane reaction times, Lunis stamps his foot on the ground and leans sideways towards Riku, swinging his kunai out in such a way that he flips the way he grips it and hooks Riku's katana from below, holding it in place while throwing the kunai in his other hand to the ground. He then swung his right foot up to grab the handle of the kunai out of mid-air between his toes and started to leap off of the ground with the other foot, using the curve in the kunai to hit Kairi's rapier as she tried to stab Lunis from behind.

The way Lunis attacked the blade sent a jolt through Kairi's hand that made her let go of her rapier and have it get thrown into the air. Lunis then continues on with the leap by pulling his other kunai away from Riku's katana and flying over his body, landing down quickly behind him as the boy swings himself around to prepare and match Lunis' next attack, all the while Riku was left thinking "Lunis' much faster than Solaris…." Riku swings his katana outward, but Lunis crosses the two kunai and blocks the katana at the tip.

Then Lunis swings his arms in an arc until they were behind him, the two kunai flashing as he did so. It didn't take long for more kunai to appear along the arc Lunis swung his arms across, all of them spinning around and floating in the air bereft of gravity. Lunis then leaps back and commands all the kunai he just spawned to fly right at Riku in an attempt to attack him from all sides. Riku lets go of his katana and spins it around his body to try and deflect all the kunai, but a couple slip through and slice right through his armor to draw blood cleanly out of his skin.

But the kunai disappear after they make their pass at Riku, which only puzzled the boy for the time being. Kairi meanwhile has leapt into the air and grabbed her rapier, coating the blade in light aura before dropping straight down towards Lunis' current position. Lunis pulls himself back by skidding along the ground as Kairi slams the ground with her rapier and releases a series of light pillars around the edge of a circle of aura she creates below her feet. However, as Lunis was pulling himself back Riku ran through the side of Kairi's aura pillars and swung his katana to gather some of the light up into his blade.

He threw the light out into the form of an overwhelming wave of energy as he swung his katana out in front of his body. Lunis held his right arm firmly in front of his face and with a slight grunt created a barely visible an rectangular barrier in front of his body that takes on the energies Riku sent his way and absorbs them. When Riku has done launching his attack Lunis punches the barrier with the back of his right hand and sends the energy it absorbed straight out, now having converted it into a silver energy as pure as the surface of the moon.

Riku plunges through the energy and takes whatever damage on his wings and body necessary to allow him to get to Lunis, where he then stabs his katana into the barrier to shatter it and nick a cut into the right side of his mask as he leans out of the way. The very tip of the blade also got Lunis' cheek and drew blood, along with cutting away some of his hairs. Lunis then raised his right hand up and grabbed Riku's left one by the elbow, remarking as he stared him right in the face "Taking hits for the sake of hurting your opponent…Like I haven't seen that before. But there's a flaw in your plan…"

Riku suddenly felt a pain in his chest as a kunai blade poked out through the other side of his body. Shaking for a bit as the blade is pulled out of his body, Riku glances over his shoulder and sees another Lunis standing behind him with a bloody kunai in his right hand held close to his face. Before he can figure out what was going on here, Riku quickly swung his katana out beside himself and unleashed a massive burst of light, basically forcing both Lunis' to back off or take the hit.

Riku then spread his wings and backflipped over the second Lunis to land close to Kairi, who looked a bit surprised as she looked at both Lunis'. "I-I've heard about this technique before…" Kairi remarked as one of the Lunis' charged at her and leaped into the air, spinning around and performing a couple of kicks at Kairi's chest to force her to raise her rapier in defense, then this Lunis was thrown a kunai by the other to then swing straight down at Kairi's face, aiming close to her forehead. But the precision mattered little as Kairi created a shield of aura to deflect the kunai off of her head.

But Lunis swung his right hand out to grab the kunai and drop out of the sky, slamming the kunai against the ground and unleashing a brief bolt of silver energy that strikes Kairi's right arm and paralyzes it, making her drop her rapier once more. The other Lunis sprints across the ground and casually swings his right arm out to grab the rapier, positioning himself behind Kairi and thrusting the rapier forward to try and stab Kairi in the back of her body, all of this happening in the span of three seconds. Riku is able to react to all this and get his katana in the path of the rapier just in time by throwing it out of his hand, then he covers Kairi by going to the Lunis behind her and punching him across his left cheek with a light-infused punch from his gauntlet.

This forced Lunis to let go of the rapier, and as it spins around Kairi swings her arm behind her and grabs onto it, followed by holding it in front of her and swinging it upward to make a pillar of light aura erupt on the Lunis in front of her. Lunis leaps out of the pillar but suffers some slight damage to his armor, and after sliding back a little bit Lunis swings his arms out and flips the kunais in his fingers. The other Lunis recovers from the punch and draws two kunais of his own, spinning them around between his fingers while Riku and Kairi faced each Lunis down, with Riku standing with his left side pointed at Kairi's back.

Kairi bluntly remarks to Lunis "Hey! What's going on here? How are you able to use one of the higher level Aurian Bodily-Style techniques…?!" Riku widened his eyes slightly and glanced at Kairi for a moment before remarking "Wait, this is an Aurian technique?" Lunis paused for a moment and commented "Of course the scion of my dear old friend would recognize this technique."

Insulted by those words, Kairi growled a little and exclaimed suddenly "You don't get to call my mom your friend!" Lunis paused for a moment more and glanced to the side, remarking in a somewhat melancholic tone "You're probably right, I made the conscious decision to help father back then and deserved to be sealed up in that cage alongside my brother. I can never expect Lady Auris to forgive me."

Lunis then looked at Kairi and said while raising a kunai towards her "Unfortunately, I cannot allow you to reach father…So if that means killing you, then so be it. It's not as though I am not used to marking my blades with blood." Riku felt another irregular heartbeat from Lunis as she spoke, but Kairi took the lead in the conversation before him as she gripped her rapier tightly and commented "Yeah, I can see how you can say that…I read about this in history books. Long ago, there used to be a section of Aurians who created their own ninjutsus. They were a heavy inspiration for the Bodily-Style of aura combat…"

Kairi glanced at the second Lunis and remarked "And their greatest technique was the ability to take one's own aura and create a perfect copy of themselves. The copy can interact with the physical world perfectly, mimicking the original's voice down to the pitch and tone, and carrying the same strength as the original. The one flaw though is that it takes a lot of mental strength to create clones, but I guess a High Deity wouldn't have such a restriction, would they?" Kairi confidently smirked as she nonchalantly said that last part.

Lunis comments afterwards "Of course. Where as a regular Aurian can create about two clones, I can create eight, one for every phase of the moon." Riku finally comments on this revelation by mentioning "So the Aurians trained you in their arts?" Lunis explained "Nothing like that…I only learned the body copying technique and a couple more minor techniques that you've already seen me use."

"That being the ability to create multiple weapons from aura and reflecting energy attacks back at others…" Riku commented quickly, and Lunis spun a kunai around in his right hand and remarked "Then we don't need to speak anymore if you've figured that out. But that doesn't mean all of my tricks are out in the open…" Lunis gripped the handle of both kunais tightly and sprinted forward at Kairi, commanding the other Lunis to go after Riku at the same time.

Riku flew forward, kicking up off the ground and attacking the Lunis in front of him with a couple punches, since at the moment he had no idea how to counter these perfect copies. This Lunis took the punches and skipped back along the ground, throwing the kunais in his hands while commenting "Riku, is it? Why do you hesitate to use that other form of yours…The one you just used to slay Chronos?" Riku swung his arms out to deflect the kunai away with from his body and then slanted his eyebrows, commenting quickly "You're not using your full power either. Why are YOU hesitating?"

Riku sprinted forward and tried to throw an uppercut into Lunis' chin, but he pulled back on his head and then took two kunais between his fingers and clawed at the side of Riku's body, once again ripping through his armor and drawing blood from his skin. Riku swung his arm down to cover the scars and pulled back a little as Lunis stated "I'm not hesitating." Lunis makes two more kunais in his other hand and swings all four down like claws, but Riku swings his katana horizontally in front of his face to make the kunai hook around his blade while keeping a calm expression and remarking "I may not be able to sense your energy that well, but there's no mistaking the sound of your heartbeat. Considering what Kairi said, the stress on your heart should have nothing to do with creating these clones."

Lunis pulled his kunai away from the katana and backflipped out of the way, giving Riku a moment to think to himself "The clones must be able to speak via Lunis projecting his thoughts to them…What else can I figure out about them?" Riku quickly glanced over his shoulder and saw Kairi successfully fending off Lunis' multiple kunais by using precisely placed aura blocks, but then he looked back on ahead as the other Lunis landed on the ground.

Riku moved his katana in front of his body and slowly began to sidestep to the left, and with his eyebrows raised as this Lunis cautiously spun the kunais around his fingers without cutting them Riku thought to himself "If the clones share the same strength as their original…? Then I'd only know if I hurt the real Lunis if the clones lost some of their strength as well. I need to test this real quick…" Riku suddenly swings his right hand out and sends a wave of energy at Lunis, who creates a reflective barrier with a swing of his arms in front of his body.

The energy is absorbed into the barrier, but Riku quickly gets behind Lunis while he was distracted with the barrier and uses the katana not for a lethal attack, but to simply nick Lunis across the side of his body. A light scar is put on this Lunis' skin, but Lunis quickly turns around along with putting the barrier in front of him and releases the energy onto Riku before he can get out of the way. Riku is knocked back with some silver smoke coming out of his body, but he grins a little as he glances to the left and sees that Kairi has got Lunis in a position where he can see that there isn't a scar on that Lunis' body.

Riku then decides to quickly throw the katana into his other hand and swing it outward to send a wave of light at the other Lunis, even though it gives the Lunis he was fighting a chance to run forward and cut through the front of his chest plate with his kunais. The Lunis Kairi is fighting swinging his left hand out to create a barrier to absorb Riku's attack, but then Kairi is able to rapidly thrust her rapier out, forcing Lunis to create two interconnecting kunais in order to have a weapon long enough to block Kairi's attacks.

But then Kairi slips through the defense Lunis set up and manages to get one cut across Lunis' right elbow. From Riku's perspective, he watches as that very same cut appears across the elbow of the Lunis he was fighting, and he comments calmly as both Lunis' widen their eyes in surprise "So I was right." The Lunis Kairi is fighting quickly fires the energy out from the barrier, and the other Lunis leaps back and creates a barrier that absorbs the energy and increases it's strength even more before he turns the barrier and fires it off at Riku in the form of a towering wave of silver energy.

Riku swings his angelic wings out and after coating his blade with all the light he could muster he swings the katana upward and cuts through the silver energy. Riku then exclaimed "Kairi! You might want to get out of the way!" as he focused on the katana with both the energies of light and darkness inside of him flowing into the weapon. He then turned to Lunis as Kairi widened her eyes and quickly leaped back, followed by Riku sprinting forward as the cocoon of both elements wrapped around his body.

Lunis tried to raise a series of interconnected kunais to protect himself, but Riku was too fast for Lunis to react to now and he quickly breaks out of the cocoon in his Chaos Form with his left fist raised up. Riku grit his teeth and threw out a mighty punch coated in a spiraling aura of both elements, but instead of targeting the kunai to break through his defenses Riku instead struck Lunis' mask with everything he's got. The moment the attack connected, a series of black and white sparks erupted out from Riku's knuckles, simultaneously sending a shockwave out across the room that Kairi just had enough time to brace herself against.

Riku's attack manages to quickly crack Lunis' mask and knock him back a good twenty feet, the only reason Lunis had enough strength to land on his feet afterwards being that his mask held back most of the power from Riku's punch. Lunis' heart started beating faster after that as Riku noted, and as smoke sizzled out of Riku's fist he slowly began to stand upright and remarked "Looks like you weren't expecting me to figure that out."

Lunis' mask was so cracked that it couldn't keep itself together and started to crumble apart, and Lunis widened his eyes and in a panic raised a hand to the mask and tried to keep it from falling off. "No no no…!" Lunis remarked, but something seemed off about his voice at this point. He didn't sound anything like he did before, being higher in pitch than it was before. Lunis' efforts couldn't stop the mask from coming apart and falling down around the sides of his hand, leaving only the hand to hide the face at this point.

Lunis' hand slightly trembled for a couple seconds before clenching into a fist that covered the eyes and lips until he decided to pull it away from his face, and immediately upon doing so Riku and Kairi widened their eyes and found they would have to change the way they referred to Lunis from here on out…As behind that mask hid not the face of a man, but that of a woman with silver irises and a noticeable blush in her cheeks. Lunis looked rather pissed off at Riku after this, and in a calm but slightly deep feminine voice she remarked with an irritated gritting of her teeth "U-Unbelievable…That you would rob me of my mask like this…You have no idea how humiliating it is for you to have done this to me, Elemental Overlord Riku."

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