Osirus awoke and got ready for work, he was in a good mood. Dealing with the noble was enough for him… maybe he should thank the samurai later. On his way, he saw his old master in the tavern, maybe it's time for him to ask her a question he wanted to ask her for a long time. He entered, greeted the owner and sat next to her.

"I didn't know that you were a drinker" mused Osirus.

"Just getting some good memories" replied Pugione "The life of the youth, something I would like to live again… and maybe stop one of my biggest mistakes ever"

"What do you mean?"

"Say… how old do I look like?" asked his old master.

"You seem to have around 33 and 36, why the question?" replied Osirus with a confused tone.

"That's how everyone sees me" chuckled Pugione "Have you ever tried to accomplish a dream that many would say impossible to achieve?"

"I don't think so, why?"

"Did I ever tell you the story of the beast who refused to listen to the goddess of the hunt, Artemis?"

"You told it to me and my brother once"

"Do you remember it?"

"Not all the story" replied Osirus nervously "You said that a hunting beast didn't want to harm a wounded stag and got punished"

His old teacher looked at him with serious eyes and said "Do you want the true story?"

"I… euh… I don't understand the meaning"

Pugione sighed before drinking her cup "At the beginning, there was few humans on earth, but a lot of animals. Artemis was always hunting beasts, but eventually felt lonely. She found a young wolf, alone in the forest. She approached the beast, and took it in her hands. They both began to hunt together, and a bond was formed. Even if she swore that she would never marry anyone, she couldn't help it and married the wolf. Zeus, upon hearing that his daughter broke her oath of purity, smitten the wolf and killed him, and to atone of her sin, Artemis needed to kill the child that she was waiting. Artemis refused and ran off, she hid herself in a desert of sand that would be known later as the Sahara, she waited nine months before giving birth to a little girl. But Zeus couldn't approve that the child was alive, he asked his brother, Hades, to send Cerberus to bring them back. After five months of hiding, Artemis ran off to the east, hoping that there would be someone to help her. She was caught by some ghouls in her way, she wasted time and fought them off. She then picked the haste and arrived to China. There, she met a man named Fu Xi. He was standing there, waiting. She approached him and the man turned to her, calling her Shòuliè de rén. When the war between the angels, fallen angels, and the devils broke, her daughter had three years. She went, dressed as a normal traveler and fought alongside Fu Xi and the Chinese gods and immortals. But Zeus recognized her, he intensified his attacks on her, trying to capture her. After five attempts, he succeeded, and brought her back with him. She wasn't worried, because she knew that nothing could happen to her daughter while she's under the protection of Fu Xi. After some years, the little girl decided to leave and to search for her mother. She arrived by boat to the city of Naples, in Italy, and there, she met a young man… named Apollo. She found him charming, funny, handsome… he was the perfect type of man to her. But little she knew, he wasn't as good as she thought he was. She found herself surrounded by soldiers and was brought in front of Zeus. Due to the fact that she possess divine blood in her veins, she couldn't be killed with an easy manner, but Zeus knew that. For years, he prepared an arrow, that should strike the heart of the girl, but there's only one person who can fire it, and that person was Artemis. When she got summoned, she felt happiness filling her heart, but it was short lived when Zeus asked her to kill her own daughter. Artemis didn't wanted to accept to do it, even if she was threatened to the torture in the deepest part of the Tartarus. Instead, she gave her blood and her life to protect her child from Zeus. From that moment, Zeus and the other gods were unable to lay a hand on her. The girl lived, but Zeus was still mad, he decided to curse her to have no child and to live to the end of time, where his brother would take the girl's soul. The girl swore that even if the end of the world would come, she would escape it"

"And what happened to her?" asked Osirus.

"When the end of the world came, she escaped to another world" answered his old master before getting up "I need some times for myself" she then exited the tavern.

Osirus got up and walked to the prison while thinking of the story that his old teacher just told him.

'What was that about?'

{are you that dense?}

'What? Do you know what she was talking about?'

{it is easy to see, do you really not know?}

'It was just a story, right?'

He got no response.

He sat down at his desk and thought hard, there was something else to that story.

.

.

.

.

Something clicked in his head.

He had a strong urge to slam his head on the desk.

'How did I not see that!?'

{I'm disappointed that it took you this long to finally see that}

'I think I may have received too many blows to my head'

{well you are about to get another one}

'Huh?'

*WHACK*

Osirus held his head where he was hit.

"Baka!"

He looked up to see that Evera was the source of his new headache.

She stood on the other side of the desk.

"I was worried for you!"

She grabbed him by the front of his shirt and pulled him up into a kiss.

"I'm happy you came back though"

She walked over to her desk.

'I will never understand'

{and you don't need to}

'I fear it may lead to my death if I try'

XXXXX

Osirus finished his shift and went home, he was hoping to be ambushed by his old master so he could talk to her.

He arrived home and was indeed grabbed from behind.

*sniff*

"Good, you smell fine"

"Is that so, daughter of Artemis?"

He heard her giggle a bit.

"So you did figure it out"

"It explains a lot. Your skills and your sense of smell"

She let him go and they sat on the ground to talk.

"I have a few questions, if you don't mind"

"Sure"

"You are part wolf right?"

"Yes"

"So does that make you a yokai?"

"Not exactly, I am just part wolf"

"Do you have ears and a tail?"

"Well, I can turn into a werewolf"

"Can you show me?"

"I...I don't want to" her face turned pink.

Osirus was struck. 'She blushed…'

"I don't think I have ever seen you blush before, I like it"

He was suddenly forced onto his back with a dagger to his neck.

"You are going to forget you ever saw that"

"H-hai, sensei"

She got up and vanished.

Osirus stood up and just held still in thought.

'Hey Dragarth, I'm a banner Lord, right?'

{yes, you are}

'So where the hell is my banner?'

{*giggle* you have to create one, master}

'Hmm, ok'

He began to picture several designs in his head, he was never good with decisions on creativity.

He decided to go with a shield with a wolf head and crossed swords, he held out his hand and a banner formed in it.

{do you think the samurai will be ok with this?}

'I don't see why she would care'

He planted the banner right in front of his home.

"IYAHH!"

He turned around and saw several large vines coming from the backyard.

'We really need to get Misha some training'

He entered his Stag Knight form and charged into the backyard.