-Time to check in on some of our other monster friends for next couple of chaps. This one does get sad and includes abuse, if any of this story gets to be too much please take care of yourself and don't continue reading-

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Dororo- Aldmora

Giroro- Ganrougel

Keroro- Kurse

Tamama- Taiki

Kururu- Krueger

Mois- Molioke

Deep in the woods, many brave hikers could find a small meadow where they would swear they had seen a ghost of a young man who looked like he had starved to death. They would only be able to see it for a moment before it was gone, leaving them with unease and paranoia.

Koyuki leapt through the trees unafraid. She found the meadow easily and glanced around. "Aldmora where are you?"

"I'm right here." Aldmora's soft voice spoke up from a flat rock bathed in golden light from the setting sun. Koyuki stepped closer and watched the light shift away to reveal Aldmora sitting and meditating.

"Oh wow." She gasped with a wide smile. "I couldn't see you through the light. It was like magic. I bet if you play hide and seek you'd be a pro."

"Thank you Koyuki. Although I don't really know how to play that." Aldmora looked away with slight regret.

"I can teach you anything you want to know, but I don't know too much about the modern world either." Koyuki grinned and rubbed her head. She sat on a nearby log and folded her hands in her lap. "Are you ready to go into the next step? It's going to be really hard but you've been doing great this weekend."

"Honestly I don't want to. It's dark... and I don't want to do anything to you." Aldmora kept his eyes away to the ground.

"I understand but it is the only way you're going to really be in control of it and free." Koyuki explained in a soft and caring tone.

Aldmora lifted his sad eyes. "I want to be free."

"I believe you can be. Don't be afraid ok? I'll be here for you." Koyuki gave a warm smile. Aldmora and Koyuki straightened up and closed their eyes. They took a deep breath of the sweet meadow air and let it out slowly.

Aldmora knew what he would have to do next and he decided to let it all out for Koyuki to hear. He knew she would support him. He opened his mind to the darkest memories of his life. "A very long time ago, I was part of my own clan. My family was wealthy and my father was the head of our small village. We were all training to become assassins. I was pretty good for the most part, agile, silent, but I was easily sick."

"My father usually overlooked my thin body even though I knew he wished for a stronger son. He would ignore I was in the room but I didn't mind as long as he wasn't punishing me. The one thing he wouldn't stand for was when I failed my final test. To kill my first target, it was the hardest thing I ever tried to do. I couldn't even stop myself from crying each time I thought about my hands ripping the poor man's life from him. My father made me go after the poor villager every day. Eventually he stopped letting me into the house. He said I couldn't be his son if I couldn't do my one job. He gave me no bed, no shelter, and no food."

"I started sleeping with the cows and drinking the milk when my father wouldn't know. Months passed and I still couldn't kill someone. My father lost his patience and dragged me through the village with my hands and legs strapped together with rope. He broke my ribs and pulled me by my hair. I withstood it because I knew I made him angry. It was my fault. I wanted to show him I wasn't weak my whole life but I failed every standard he held on me. He then threw me against the furnace of the blacksmith and pulled a large unshaped piece of metal from the fire. He held up my head where everyone could see and pressed the searing metal to my face. It melted my skin and I screamed. He forced my mouth shut and melted my lips together."

"No one stopped him, they didn't even look away. In my village you were either an assassin or you weren't anything. You weren't even considered human if you couldn't do your job. I didn't move from that spot for days and soon my own body gave up on me. I failed everything and just wanted to disappear entirely." When Aldmora opened his eyes again he saw Koyuki sobbing softly to herself.

"That's what it is then." Koyuki choked. She wiped her tear stained cheeks. "You felt so much guilt and wanted to disappear so others around you felt it too and eventually disappeared themselves."

"I just shouldn't have existed in the first place." Aldmora coward into himself. His thin arms embracing his shoulders. "I'm useless."

"You're not useless to me. You're my friend." Koyuki quickly hugged Aldmora and held him tight. "You did your best. I know you did and I think you're better than them for not killing that man."

"Do you really think that?" Aldmora whispered. He felt Koyuki tremble around him. Her tears still poured from her eyes, soaking into his shirt.

"I see so much good in you. I want you to see it too." Koyuki whimpered. She felt so terrible having heard his past.

Aldmora could feel tears of his own forming in the corners of his eyes. Here was a human girl genuinely crying and caring about him. Even though that damage was done and he was long dead she wanted the best for him, she wanted to help him. He slowly moved his hands from himself and held onto Koyuki. She didn't flinch or pry him off of her, she only hugged tighter. Aldmora allowed himself to enjoy the contact. He cherished her kindness. "Thank you so much, Koyuki."