Chapter 19

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The Mistake of X-Laws

Mary was hummed by herself while waiting for Hao to return from his date with the girl, she and her two friends, Kanna and Macchi was looking into the pictures they managed to capture in the forest, then a bang reached their ears, making them to turned to see Hao walked to his room looking limped. Kanna stood up right away, Macchi and Mary followed and together they went to Hao's room, from the edge of her eye, Mary saw Luchist also walked over to Hao's room.

"Hao-sama?" Kanna asked as they entered the room, "How is your date?" she asked casually, but Mary recognize the excitement in her voice, it's nothing surprised her since Mary herself and Macchi feels excited.

Hao turned to face them, his eyes get a bit dazed, "It's good." He answered softly, "She is a bit like The Goddess of Death though." He sighed and flopped to the bed, "She gave me a speech before".

"What speech, Hao-sama?" Luchist asked as he walked to stand beside Hao.

Hao fell silent for a moment, his eyes still looked dazed, " . . . About . . . about humans and Shamans are not different." He answered quietly, then he sat up, "You all, what do you think if I said I won't kill anyone again?" he asked seriously.

Mary and the others taken aback by this, but then Luchist smiled, "I said that I will still follow you, because you are already like my own son." He said calmly, "I support your decision, Hao-sama".

Kanna closed the door and walked over to Hao, "I, Mary and Macchi were saved by you, we will support you whatever your decision is." She said seriously, Mary and Macchi nodded, "How did she manage to changed you in one day, Hao-sama?" she asked in curiosity.

Hao slipped down to the floor, get the hint, they all sat on the floor formed a circle, "Before we go for dinner, I saw something that for the first time in my life made me felt frightened." He started, the others gulped, to make Hao felt frightened is definitely scary because it nearly impossible to make him frightened, "As I said, she is like The Goddess of Death, I saw her fighting because we were attacked by her Clan's enemy before. I saw her move, she was beautiful, gorgeous, but dangerous, she didn't kill her opponents though, but when she turned, I saw something in her eyes that said that even my power would me useless if she want to kill me, even though she became like that simply because her enemies made her like that. Then her adopted Mother came, she said that if I want to know more about Shouyo and didn't get my memories wiped of that fight and conversation, I had to give her my oath. I gave her my oath so I can't tell you anything about it in detail, you had to asked her yourself." He take a breath, "Then we had dinner since it's night time in Japan, she gave me the speech about Shamans are also human, that Shamans also use cars, air conditioners like humans, the different is only that Shamans can see Spirits while humans can't, but some Shamans also ignorance about Nature".

Luchist's eyes widened, "What was your response?" he asked.

"I couldn't say a word." Hao stated calmly, causing the others to jaw-dropped, for Hao to unable to make a retort is also as impossible as making him frightened, "Then she asked what make me hate humans so much, what humans did to me to make me hate them. She said that hates come from anger or fear, fear because not understand and anger from pain, so she asked what humans did to causing me pain, she is the first one to be able to guessed that." He smiled softly, "And she is the first one to make me told her about my past, then I asked about her. She told me that she lost her memories before 5, then her new Clan treat her badly because of what she was, but she didn't hate them like how I would if I in her place, she tried her best to be accepted instead of hating them. She told me that from the one they hate the most, she become the one they love and respect the most, because their hate came from fear, she make that fear disappeared".

Mary smiled, "She know hardship and pain, so she can't just stay still knowing that Hao-sama is hurting." She commented quietly, "If it's her, I'm sure Hao-sama would be happy in this life, you love her, right?" she grinned when Hao's face become red, "Love is a very strong power, Love can changed people, that's why Hao-sama listened to her, because Hao-sama love her, or else, Hao-sama would simply kill her just because she is opposing Hao-sama, just like in the past. But Hao-sama feels Love once again, so Mary said that it's a good thing, Mary also love Hao-sama so Mary want Hao-sama to be happy".

"I'm back." Shouyo said as she entered the house, everyone was standing there, wanting to know the story even though it passed midnight.

"How is your date?" Luna asked with a smirk, "Don't tell me you actually enjoyed your date?".

Shouyo pouted, but her cheeks feels hot, "Yes, I ended up enjoying it." She said slowly, "I managed to make him tell me what causing him to be like that".

"Really?" Keiko and Lyserg asked in disbelief, "So fast".

Jun march over to her, "The photos?" she asked with expectant eyes, Shouyo sighed and handed her the camera she gave her before her date.

"Like you wanted, I took so many pictures." Shouyo said tiredly, "Hanagumi and Hao wanted to have the photos too." She grinned when they all gaped in shock, "It seems like I make my own twin fall in love with me".

"And how do you feel?" Jun's eyes glowed in excitement, a wide grin on her face.

Shouyo blushed deeply, "I don't know, maybe?" she answered weakly, "But wouldn't it be an incest if I and Hao ended up together?" she looked at Keiko, her birth mother. She isn't sure what Keiko would reacted to this, but she know for sure that Mai would be accepted whatever it is as long Shouyo is happy.

"It's true, but if you love each other, I wouldn't mind at all, I just want my children to be happy." Keiko said with a smile, "Now, you need to rest, tell us the full story tomorrow".

The next day, Shouyo told them about the date, but not all of the event, only when she and Hao exchange story and enjoying themselves as a couple for one day. When they went to eat at Silva's shop, the X-Laws appeared, "Them again." She heard Ren growled, the rest then started to growled as well, "What do you want?!" he yelled.

"We heard that the girl in the name of Shouyo are dating with Hao, we are here to bring punishment for those who allied themselves with Hao." Marco said looking smug.

"This again." Shouyo sighed and stood up, "Look here, what if we fight at the stadium? If I win, never disturb me with your useless speech of how Hao is bad and need to be punished along with those who are siding with him?" She looked at them with boring eyes, "I will change Hao, so that he won't kill anymore, isn't that enough?".

"That isn't enough, every Evil have to be eliminated from this world." Marco growled, "And don't you ever think that you can win against us by yourself".

Shouyo grinned, "Then why don't you eliminate yourself? You are evil yourself, I have all information about you, during your travel to the Patch Village, you are searching for members that will help you to kill Hao, and when they are refused, you will torture them and kill them, even if they are agreed, you will treat them badly." She said cheerfully, "You are full of malice, there is no sadness or pain to make you hates Hao, you simply want to kill him to make Jeanne a Shaman Queen, I won't show mercy for those who are full of malice".

"What the different with Hao then?" A new voice joined, "I'm Sati from Gandhara, I want to know what do you mean by they are full of malice, isn't Hao the same?" The woman with long grey hair asked.

Shouyo smiled at her, "I have the ability to feels aura, I felt pain, sadness, and loneliness from Hao after his anger and hate, but in X-Laws, I only felt malice and hatred and greed, so I treat them differently." She answered calmly, "If X-Laws is like Hao, then I will try to help them, but they are different, so I can't help them or it would be terrible for me".

Marco growled and pointing his gun at her, "Nonsense, Hao is Evil and we are good, you are siding with Hao, so we will kill you too." He said coldly and shot his gun, his Angel appeared and attacked her immediately.

"Zenki, Kouki." Shouyo called, her shikigamis then appeared and stopped Michael's movement, "I said to fight in the stadium, I don't want other people getting hurt because of our fight".

Marco smirked, "There's no need for that." He said, then Keiko screamed, at first, Shouyo didn't understand, then she felt a sharp pain in her chest and saw a big sword went through her, "Jeanne-sama has given her punishment, you will be dead".

Shouyo gritted her teeth, "Ningen (Humans)." She growled, "Arrogant people like you are what I dislike the most, but you make a great mistake, I have given you a chance to fight me in a fair fight, and you defeated me in unfair fight." She laughed then, she laughed even though her chest hurt by her action and she felt blood in her mouth, "If I die because of this, don't even hope to stay alive, my people will do what you said as 'punishment'. What a stupidity, if you kill me in a fair fight, they will accept that I'm the one to cause my own death, but if I die because of this unfair fight, they won't leave you alone." Her sight get blurred but she managed to caught a glimpse of a long snow white hair, "Bye Marco and X-Laws, we might meet in the Spirit World sooner that I thought".

To be continued . . .

Froim : It seems like I always make Hao or Yoh injured in my story.

Yoh & Hao : Yeah, you always doing it.

Froim : I'm sorry T_T

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