Chapter 23
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'Italic with single quote stands telepathic voice'
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"Quote stands for dialogue"
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"You are all fools!" Yohmei roared, "He will kill you in the end! He is only using you!" A snap sound can be heard and before someone can guessed who is it, Opacho kicked Yohmei with her Oversoul.
"Hao-sama won't do something like that!" Opacho yelled before she cried, Hao get panicked and lifted her immediately, embracing the little girl and patting her back lightly.
"Don't cry, don't cry." Hao murmured softly and while everyone busy watching the crying little girl and trying their best to calm her, another snap sound rang. This time though, a cold air engulfed them, freezing everyone in the room.
"Yohmei." Shouyo's cold voice full of anger and authority, "How dare you make her cry?" They turned to find Shouyo's eyes turned sea blue like Mai, "I always dislike arrogant people, they thinks of other people so lowly, thinking that they can ordered people as they want, ignoring the others opinion and become angry if someone trying to let them know if they are wrong." She looked at the old man with cold eyes that matching Anna's coldness, and it felt more biting when the little water fairy sitting on her shoulder and looked angry, "7 years ago, someone I know was so arrogant, because his arrogant personality, he thought that he should be the Leader instead of my Mother. So, he hired a rogue to kill me, let's just say that this rogue managed to slashed my back, my Mother got really angry and killed the man that very night." The room grew colder, "Do you know? You are an arrogant bastard, a pathetic excuse of human being. First, you tried to kill your own grandsons at birth, then you nearly killed your second grandson, and now you want to get rid of your first grandson?".
"Oh no." Hao mumbled as his face paled, "Yo-chan, calm down, remember that my Mother said to control your temper." He tried to calm the raging Vampire but to no avail, the air grew colder and colder.
"I said I will remember her advise, but it's hard for me to keep myself from snapped out if someone making a child cry in front of my eyes while that person is just a bastard like him." Shouyo answered tonelessly, "Remember this old man." She continued as she stared coldly at the now paled Yohmei, "Don't you dare to harm us, Hao has changed, don't you dare to say the opposite, he won't kill anymore, end of the problem." She closed her eyes and the temperature back to normal, but the sudden change make them shuddered, "I will tolerate this for this time only, the next time you harm us, physically or mentally, I might follow my Mother way and kill you".
Shouyo sat back down and started eating, Hao sighed in relief and flopped to the chair, followed by the others, "I thought you will be The Goddess of Death again." He said in shaky voice.
"Whatever you have in mind, I nearly make them true, if only it's not because I dislike to kill very much, I might get rid of him already, he pissed me off so much." Shouyo said as she munched her food, "How is Opacho?".
"Opacho is fine." Opacho answered timidly, "The old man get so scared, so he won't bad-mouthing Hao-sama anymore, so don't get mad, you are scary if you are mad".
"Wait until you see Mai get mad, you will frozen for a whole day before suffering her extremely long speech about how to be a good person and to remember your mistake to make sure you won't repeat the same mistake." Shouyo answered casually, her tone back to normal and her expression calm, as if she didn't just scaring the hell out of everyone, the only evident is her eyes still blue "I got frozen once when I was small, not because I make her mad, but because she found I need to be cooled down after I let my temper unchecked and beat the whole Yakuza gang for hurting a child".
Shouyo looked up to Yohmei, "Want to make me beat you to pulp? If you want, just try to attack one of us." She said calmly, "I still sparing you because you are my grandfather, but if you attack, I won't be so merciful." She stand up, "I will go to calm myself for a bit, Zenki, Kouki, watch the old man and the man, if they attack, pinned them to the ground until morning." The two shikigamis appeared and standby by the wall behind Keiko, then Shouyo left the room silently.
"What was she mean by her grandfather?" Mikihisa asked to break the silence after the girl left.
"If you want to know, ask her yourself" Keiko said in the same bad mood as Shouyo, "But wait until her anger died down. Great, you are success in making the kindest person among us angry, and you make me angry too." She looked at Hao, "Just ignore what your grandfather said, he is just too stubborn".
"Is that from me?" Hao asked with a grin, "Seeing that the first to change my mind is only her, that's mean I'm stubborn too, is there more in the family that inherited my stubborness?".
"It might be me." Keiko answered with a grin, "Strange that you are my son now." Her grin widened and she started eating.
"Ryu, you put too many sugar again." Horo Horo complained as he eat his food.
"Not me." Ryu protested, "Luna said that all of us to easy to anger, so she said we should eat something sweet".
"What?" Lyserg asked in surprise, "Luna, if it's so, you should make dessert and not adding sugar to food, I will help you with dessert tomorrow, I'm good at baking".
"Great!" Luna claps her hands, "That's great, I remember Mai complained that Shouyo stole the Orange Pie every time she make one".
"I will help." Macchi said cheerfully, "Hao-sama like Strawberry Shortcake very much, so he ended up making them everyday before coming to Japan, and I learned how to make them, they are very good".
Yohmei growled, "Don't ignore me!" he yelled as his anger rising again after passed his fear of the once he thought a human girl that just practically threatened him.
"Shut up!" Kanna, Mary and Macchi yelled together, "We tried to lighten the mood, if you only want to yelled at us, just go away".
Yohmei stomped out of the room, Mikihisa take a short glance at Keiko and left, Keiko sighed in sadness. Then their Oracle Bell beepings, "What?" They blinked and looked at their Oracle Bell, "Shaman Fight start in 3 days, please divide yourself into groups with three Shaman members and report to the Patch Officials before the fight starts, if you not, you will be disqualified." They read out loud.
"Let's decide the group then." Hao suggested, "I knew this already so I have my group decided, I will be with Luchist and Opacho in team Hoshigumi while Kanna, Mary, and Macchi will be in team Hanagumi." They nodded calmly.
"Say, Hao." Lyserg looked at him seriously, "You won't kill anymore, so your goal to eradicate all humans is not needed anymore, why do you still want to be Shaman King?" All of them then looked at him.
Hao smiled, "Well, it's true that Yoh make me understand that not all humans are bad and killing them will only bring harm than good, but I still want to save the Nature, I need the Great Spirit for that, and to change some of humans who are bad into good." He explained, "At least, I hope with me doing so, all of those that had died in my hand will forgive me or it will make me atone for my sins".
"It's sound like a plan to me." Ren agreed, "I also once killed people, but then Anna and Keiko-san stopped me and changed me, well in Anna's case I more scared of her slap so I listened. I agreed that if you once killed and hurting people, you can atone it by helping others and serving life".
Keiko nodded, "Yes, that's right." She said happily, "Oh, and Hao, can you teach Anna, Ren, Horo Horo, Ryu and Lyserg the Chou Senji Ryakketsu? We make too many enemies so early, it would be bad if we got attacked, and they need to get stronger in the fight".
"I will, if they can stand the hard training though, it's not easy to mastering Chou Senji Ryakketsu, even just studying some of the techniques is hard." Hao replied calmly, "Do you think I should teach Yoh too? Even if he is practically a wizard, he is still a Shaman, his Shamanic ability starting to come back to him".
"There's no need for that." Luna answered calmly, "Just teach him how to make Oversoul, I will let him have Amidamaru as his Guardian Spirit beside Mizuno, that would be the best, and for Chou Senji Ryakketsu . . . I would have guessed that he already copied the book and more interested in the spell than Shamanism".
"What about you then?" Ryu asked in surprise, "It's hard to fight using Shikigami only".
Luna smiled, "I will go back to Japan, I actually entered the Shaman Fight to find Yoh's twin under Mai's request, I already found you and you are not evil anymore, there's no need for me to be here, and I have works in Japan." She explained slowly and calmly, "I will tell Yoh later, so don't tell him anything".
Keiko nodded, "I see, I will stay here, but I won't fight, I merely come because I want to meet my children." She smiled, "Now that I have found them, I will only be a supporter".
"Then, it's left Anna, Ryu, Lyserg, Faust, Ren, Horo Horo and Chocolove." Hao concluded, "How will you grouping yourself?".
"Horo Horo and Chocolove with me in team The Ren." Ren said with a confident smirk, "But I will defeat you, Hao, I will be the one to be the Shaman King".
"What the heck is that?!" Horo Horo yelled, "I will be the Shaman King, not you!" he pointed at Ren.
"Why team The Ren? And why you decided? We should discussed it." Chocolove protested weakly, nervous under Ren's glare.
"I'm the stronger one." Ren snapped calmly.
"Then Faust, Lyserg and Ryu will be in team Funbari Onsen." Anna interrupted before Horo Horo yelled again, the three mentioned looked at Anna in surprised, "What? You have some complain?" They shook their head immediately, "Then it's settled".
"Excuse me." Faust opened his mouth finally, "Now that I think about it, we have a rainstorm tonight, do you think Yoh will be alright?".
"Don't worry, he has Mizuno with him and he can teleport, so it's alright." Hao answered nonchalantly, "What I'm worrying if some stupid Shamans decide to mess with him, he might snapped and beat them to pulp." He looked up at them seriously, "When we date a few days ago, I saw him fighting, and that's why I nicknamed him The Goddess of Death, or I should change it to The God of Death now, he is scary and dangerous".
"That scary?" Ren asked as he raised an eyebrow.
Hao chuckled, "Well, even I got frightened to death that time, and you all know that it's impossible to make me scared in the past." He grinned at that incredulous expression, "So, now that the group had been divided, I will started teaching tomorrow morning, be prepared." His grin turn malicious as their face paled, except for Anna.
To be continued . . .
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