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CHAPTER 8: Mother
"Yes," Darien answers to the smirking Amor, "We have met her."
"That's right, she nearly killed us last night!" Serena shouts.
Amor smiles: "Heh, sorry about that, but there's nothing I can do about that, you know. She gets it from her mother. But do you know where she is or might be?"
Darien is confused by the innocence and relax nature of how Amor just said that, but he answers: "Last time we saw her, she was going in that direction." Darien points his finger at the direction behind Amor.
"Thank you," Amor bows politely, "See you later!" Amor disappears the same way as Houshite did a little while ago.
Meanwhile Houshite is walking down the streets of Tokyo thinking by herself: "Maybe I should challenge the sailor-girls, since it would be a shame to just let them go like that..." She feels a strong presence behind her, like someone is following her. She swiftly turns around and pulls her sword out. "Dad!" She is surprised, but as quickly jumps toward this man and him with her sword. The man easily blocks the strike with his arm. Houshite puts her sword away looking satisfied.
"So it really is you. What are you doing here?" Houshite asks.
"Well nice to see you too, darling! It's always nice to be greeted by a sword attack. And how have you been?" Amor replies sarcastically. In respond Houshite smiles sarcastically.
"Anyway, I came here to warn you about your mom. She said that..." Amor mimics a woman's voice to the best of his ability, "I trained her to be as good as I was! and this is the way she repays me! I made her a ninja-assassin, goddess, with the ability the slay entire cities within hours! And what has she been doing for the past thousand years? Sleeping! That's what! I better go give the punishment for this." Amor ends his mimicry with an old-lady-like evil laughter. Houshite chuckles.
Houshite always did feel comfortable and relaxed when she was with her father. Ever since she was a child, she'd rather be with her father then her mother.
"Of course I tried to defend you by saying; it's not like you did it on purpose. But you know her, she insisted it was your own fault." Amor continues.
"That's not fair!" Houshite argues.
"Well after that there wasn't much I could do, You should know that by now. It's always death this and hate that and revenge all around, right?" Amor reminds.
Houshite's mother is Dahlia, the Goddess of Death and Hatred. She is mean, ruthless and merciless to everyone, even Houshite.
"You do know that if she heard you talking like that about her she'd definitely try to kill you?" Houshite on her turn reminds Amor.
"Hah, sure! But it couldn't be any more horrible than what she did to you:" Amor says.
When Houshite was little her mother used to her around the world to visit small villages, but that wasn't all. She gave her a sword and said: "This is your training, kill everyone you see without exception, and remember I'll time you." If Houshite wouldn't have been so scared of her mother she would never have done it. When she returned from the city, all covered in the blood of innocent people, traumatized, her mother only said to her you will have to do better next time. That's when Houshite bursted into tears and screamed: "I never want to do this again!" Her mother just laughed: "Stop crying! That's just pathetic and this was only the beginning of your training." After that Dahlia took her daughter to villages, to towns, to cities as training. Houshite times did improve but at the cost of thousands of innocent lives. By the time of her tenth birthday her father had had enough. He sent Houshite somewhere where Dahlia would never find her: the moon of Earth, somewhere safe from violence.
"Thanks for reminding me." Houshite says.
"Sorry, but look at the time, I got to go! See you later, hopefully!" Amor waves goodbye as he is ascends above the clouds. Houshite waves back with a smile, but is still worried about what's to come.