Diana's POV:
My human mistress calls me Diana. Not sure where she came up with the name. But it's an honor to help her.
Yukino…..I wonder sometimes why she's so timid when she has such a strong passion for the life and rights of others. She's far more decent than I am. I who have been known throughout the centuries to just leave human scum to their deaths, or even choke the life out of them myself with my many light green tentacle like arms.
I won't lie, though I am fond of Yukino, my mistress, the rest of the human species displeases me.
I don't hate them, like Julia, Miroku, Kiyohime and St. Vlas seem to. Nor am I indifferent to them like Duran and Kagustchuchi are. I just feel…..disappointed in their lack of appreciation of the world they live in.
Yukino is presently is calling the other Himes to check if there are any Orphans around. Really, they worry too much sometimes about our brothers and sisters attacking the school.
Yes, brothers and sisters, you see we Childs and Orphans are actually related.
Surprised? Don't be. Don't forget, the current Childs that have been selected as the Himes protectors such as Gennai, myself and the others were only chosen as their protectors because our mind compatibility matched with the Himes.
In other words, if we weren't compatible with Yukino and the others, then we'd be Orphans, just like the creatures we fight.
Now are you surprised? Our brother and sister Orphans will hopefully, in the future three hundred years from now, will be compatible with the next generation of Hime. The twelve of us have never been compatible with any Hime before this generation, which means that in previous instances we were the Orphans that had to be hunted and controlled.
So I do feel somewhat sorry for the Orphans we're hunting now. After all, we used to be in the position they're in now, so yes, I do feel we're too harsh with our siblings. After all, why do you think non compatible beings are called Orphans? They're seen as lost ones. Rejected children.
I wish sometimes that they would be given mercy and not seen as mere threats. But rules are rules. I will be forced to kill my brothers and sisters, as will I be forced to attack the other Childs in due time when the feared and fated Carnival arrives.
I'm sure the other Himes, like Yukino are all afraid of what may happen.
My troubled thoughts are interrupted when I hear a certain loud person interrupting Yukino's talk on the phone.
It's the one called Haruka Suzushiro. I have to restrain my seaweed like smile. I know very well how much Yukino cares for her. As a result, I care for her. Every Child of a Hime cares a little for the precious one that their Hime mistresses care for their precious ones. I'm no exception.
In a way, I'm almost happy that we can feel emotions similar to human emotions. Most of the other Childs just see it as a liability to have these feelings. The one called St. Vlas and myself don't see it that way.
It makes us similar to humans and less like the animals we're thought to be. Hm, now Yukino's trying to keep Haruka from getting too riled up. Something about scaring the first years with her temper. Heh, I imagine.
I'm not jealous the way St. Vlas, Duran, Yatagarasu, and Harry seem to be jealous of the people that my Hime mistress loves. I have no qualms of Yukino seeing me as nothing more than a beast. Come to think of it, that's really what we are.
As I said, we were the Orphans in previous centuries, so we've done terrible things to humans as the ones we hunt now do. Our punishments to the humans back then were always brutal.
The one that's called Kiyohime in this life would melt her victims with the acid that comes out of her heads. Yes heads, Kiyohime has six of them.
Duran would just eat the humans, Kagutsuchi would incinerate his victims, St. Vlas would crush them in his wings after entrancing them with his illusions.
Even I, as I mentioned before strangled the life out of some humans in the past. I am truly a disgusting creature, born of seaweed, mirrors and power. No human in their right mind would feel proud to see me.
In some ways, it would perhaps be better when everything has been taken care of and I wasn't able to be with Yukino after the Carnival until after she dies. It would be too much for her to deal with for the rest of her life.
She already has so much that she worries about. I myself, being compatible with Yukino understand a little of how she feels, given how I wonder myself how these human children at this academy could be so uninterested in their lives that they'd waste their time whining about life and where they would rather be.
Because Yukino only sees me as a monster, she'll never know that I have feelings similar to hers, so she and I will always be separated in that sense, even after I'm able to watch over her after she dies, however, I'd like to think along with our concern for Haruka that our thoughts on the foolish humans are somewhat joined.