I woke up at midnight and decided to take a walk to clear my head; I was still kind of confused about how I would go about purging the remaining four kingdoms of corruption. My problem would be deciding whether or not to abandon my morals to make this quest of mine easier.
I left my tent and the first thing I saw was a tree sliced in half, and Rin's scythe embedded in the part of the tree still up. I grabbed the scythe and left the camp, I went toward the stream Rin was floating over earlier. I jumped over the small stream and went deeper into the woods. I kept walking until daybreak and decided to turn around and head back to camp .As I was walking back I noticed something that I didn't notice while I was walking earlier, It was a pure white boulder that was a good sitting size, above it hung a sign that read: never give up. I rotated the sign and found writing on the back that read: abandon hope. When I rotated the sign the boulder changed color to jet black.
I had too much on my mind, so I put the sign back the way I found it and started walking away when suddenly time stopped, everything went gray just like it did before. I looked around hoping that this wasn't caused by Rin because of how angry she was going to be with me. When I looked around it wasn't Rin who I saw, it was a female who looked like Rin. She looked like Rin's twins there were only two exceptions: this woman had ocean colored blue eyes and her clothing was just like Rin's except all white. I raised Rin's scythe and was ready to kill this woman if need be.
The woman approached me very quickly and said," Put my sister's scythe down Hiro before you hurt yourself." She put her hand on my cheek and I felt an instant calm come over me.
I tried to yell but her touch kept me calm and collected, "Who are you? And why do you know my name?"
" I am Hiroko the goddess of life and queen of gods, as for why I know your name it is relatively simple: every god and goddess knows your name now because of that little stunt you pulled yesterday." She put her hand on mine and lowered the scythe.
" Um well I better get back to camp Rin will be waiting for me," I backed away from her slowly and broke out in a sprint.
Hiroko instantly appeared in front of me and continued speaking.
"Wear this locket around your wrist Hiro, this will keep the world balanced. You up until now have tipped the balance in favor of my sister giving her more power than usual but now that you work for me it will balance everything out."
"Yes mas… mast… Hiroko," my usual rebellion and anger seem to be suppressed; I didn't know what to do.
I walked back to camp with Hiroko following closely behind me. When we got to camp Rin was sitting on the stump and I could see the fire in her eyes, she was angry. When Hiroko appeared from behind me she went from angry to pissed off.
"What the hell are you doing here? Hiro why did you bring my sister here? Hiroko why are you with my Hiro? I want answers now!" She stomped over to us and pushed me out of the way and went in her sister's face.
" I am here with Hiro for my own reasons sister and he did not bring me here. I followed him after we finished discussing his stunt, or rather the stunt you two pulled." Hiroko remained calm and pointed at Rin and myself.
"Just get out and leave us alone!"
"Sister neither one of us have control over the other so I can be here if I please, and I should remind you that you are in no position to be giving orders fraternizing with a mortal even falling in love with him, you are so pathetic."
"I am not in love with Hiro! He is my pet and should I remind you he is no mortal since his family gave him to us before they died remember?"
"Sister that was not to be repeated remember? He was not to find out anything from 7 years ago."
I kept my calm and thought this through and concluded that the girls could not tell me anything. I had to find out from other people by any means necessary.
"Excuse me girls, I understand that neither of you can tell me anything so stop arguing and listen up. I have decided that if I want my goals to be accomplished I am going to have to throw away my morals. That means as of now I don't care who it is, if anyone gets in my way they will suffer the wrath of my divine judgment. They will die"
I looked at both girls one final time before going back to my tent. Rin had a love-struck look on her face, Hiroko looked disappointed.
I can't be bothered with girls or emotions right now. All I care about right now is getting revenge.