The mont I left the portal, it felt like sothing reached out... across the dinsions to stroke my cheek... It was an eerie yet gentle feeling before the hand seed to slip into my body and caress my heart...
I saw everyone who had finished fighting as the gate began to crumble looking at ...
Yet I couldn't move...
"I've found you~ I will co soon... Rai....Rai...Rai.... wait for , okay?"
Her voice began to repeat my na, like a record or song that was broken and played the sa thing repeatedly as the hand was like a shadow and never stopped moving... before drawing a strange figure... or symbol on my heart and chest...
"I've marked you with my na~ fufufu. Thank you for naming ."
"I am coming." Her voice whispered before it faded from my body... and yet... the mark remained... like a tattoo on my chest, it was a strange symbol like a sun and moon intertwining...
I didn't know what it was... nor what it ant...
After all, I just said she looked like Haruka, so why did it end up like this...
"Rai? It's you, right? Are you okay?" Midori asked with a worried expression, as everyone was exhausted, and the goblins had either run, been massacred, or returned when the gate crumbled.
I wasn't in the right state of mind to respond as the hand grasped my second heart.. this ti, it wasn't a na or rune... sothing... she injected sothing into it...
A sudden intense pain began to fill my body, as one by one, my veins and arteries began to spread this black... volatile energy across my body... even in my werewolf state... I dropped to the ground, unable to hold back the pain...
"Rai!?" Midori yelled my na as Kana and Cassandra ran over to , my body convulsing as my golden fur began to turn black...
It felt like I was burning from the inside out... my heart... it was going to burst...
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" I scread and howled to the sky as the won who knew well watched in horror and despair... sothing was changed... while the burning pain as if soone poured lava and salt into my body... the nature of my transformation and heart changed...
I felt... sothing had been stolen... but sothing greater was given in return...
The mark on my body began to burn before it changed into a black wolf howling at a strange moon shrouded in darkness and a golden wolf howling at the sun intertwining...
"Fufufu... I am coming~ Rai...." The voice laughed with a seductive tone... her voice echoing in my mind before she finally faded... the pain began to ease, and my transformation faded... but my heart was different...
The human heart had been replaced by a black... a powerful black heart that used an energy different to mana... to Anima...
"Rai!" Aki yelled my na and hugged , tears running down her cheeks as my heart was still thumping—the golden blood that Lupera gave ... now... shared my veins with black blood that sparkled with silver dots like small stars... honestly it felt like it symbolised the sun and moon.
Before I could reply... I fell into darkness, and she was waiting for ...
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⁜ Aki/Eternium POV
Why does my beloved brother have that disgusting taint inside his body... I watched as the strange changes in him faded.
Thankfully, in his normal form, the handso blonde brother returned, but as the gate began to collapse, everyone ran away... Only those won who had t their brother rushed to his aid... the man who saved everyone, and they have no idea...
If he didn't fight so hard and help us all recover so fast... right now, the damage would have been far worse...
Sister Athena... Lupera... all of their hosts now enter the dungeon daily to fight, train and retain their divinity because brother pathed that way for us... Once again, we are just using his kindness and efforts...
That's why and Eternia are fighting in secret... so he doesn't know so one day we can tell big brother Rai... he doesn't have to fight alone anymore!
I tried to remove the darkness from my brother's body...
"What is this...!?" I called out as Lupera also pushed forward and placed her hand on his chest... there was a feeling of despair as I saw the tears of big sister Lupera for the first ti... she crumbled into a ball and kept saying...
"Soone has changed it... our bond is twisted... soone had made our love dirty..."
What do I do at tis like these, big sister Athena... please guide ...
Sister Lupera is the most fragile one... she loved her brother so much that her entire divinity was twisted to suit him, her na, and her existence more than any other sister...
Now that bond and her entire life's work before she died...
"Wait...don't move him right now. He is really tired, and I'll take him ho once the people leave."
I had to settle the situation.
There were won I didn't know... but the eyes that this older woman gave my brother were more affectionate and concerned than a normal stranger's.
Sniff!
Ah... this woman has showered, but her body stinks of brother... all over her and inside her is filled with brother... she must be his newest woman?
Let's get to know her, and make sure she is good for brother...
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⁜ Rai/Iranos IX POV
The world was dark as if the sun had been devoured and the world was dead, empty of all life and the sky was black, filled with countless glistening silver dots like stars...
I felt a presence, a feeling that I was different.
A small girl was sitting on the edge of a broken planet... the core and land crumbling from her re presence.
The universe wasn't ready to accept her.
I knew who she was... as she turned around with a gentle smile, her silver hair blowing in the wind as her black eyes with red pupils stared at , a sense of emptiness that began to fill with nothing but... my existence the mont our gazes locked together.
"Rai~ welco to my domain." Haruka's voice echoed as she waved at , but the planet continued to crumble, and the space began to warp and distort from her re presence...
"Co, sit with ..."
Her voice was filled with sadness as she called out to as if it was her last chance at conversing... I cannot deny there was a feeling of fear, but from the mont I saw her face trapped in that ice and the feeling of solitude that ca from her body.
However... with that face, how could I refuse her? So I sat... on the cold, desolate ground of a dying planet, watching as black shadow monsters were destroying the entire universe before my eyes...
"Rai... this universe cannot accept my existence... I am being rejected and destroyed... Yet you alone... your gentle touch could accept , the mont you touched that ice... you freed from that lonely world of darkness and brought colour into my eyes..."
"For you, our eting may have been monts ago... But Rai... for who lives so far away, our eting was aeons ago, and soon I will finally be there with you. The only existence that can accept my twisted nature."
Ba-Dump...
My chest throbbed... there was sothing a mory that I had hidden even from the other sisters...
"eting in that dungeon, was it the first ti or the second ti?"
Sohow, ti may have been distorted ... was it her power, my divinity, or the unholy fusion the two energies caused?
"Hehe... it was the first, silly—the second ti we t, though, you were different... a little angry and tried to kill . But then... you rembered eting ! Giving a na...
and promised to make a place where we could et once again and my energy would not destroy that place... so I am coming."
"I cannot wait, hehe~ even if this is only a re dream—I am happy to see you the mont I close my eyes—each ti you sleep, I et another Rai... sotis you are a little boy, crying about his mother being sick, or working too hard... other's you complain about how you are ugly... even though you are so beautiful...."
Her words hurt my mind... it was like she could pry open my hidden mories and secrets like a master key...
"Hey... do you know that when you said I looked identical to your first love, I was shocked.... hehe~ it was then I realised everything was fated... we were destined to et and beco like this..."
"Did you like my gift?"
Her gift?
My body trembled slightly as I rembered the burning feeling... as if lava and salt were poured into my body...
"It hurt..."
"I know~ it was painful for too, but now you can protect yourself better... my power won't cause your skin to lt, bubble and rot. I am coming, Rai, and we can be together forever."
Haruka smiled at ... her hand reaching out and touching my face as she kissed my lips, and the planet she sat on completely collapsed into dust as the entire universe was destroyed...
"Hehe ~ my first kiss... finally, it's ti for everything to begin." My consciousness waned as her words beca soft and soothing. It was like she was gushing to sleep.
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"Whaaa!?" I lifted my body, soaked in cold and sticky sweat as the terror of that mont when the universe vanished... but my two hearts raced to feel the soft touch of her lips... like it was real.
Was it a dream? A nightmare?
Looking down at my chest, there was a mark, a tattoo on my chest of a black wolf howling at a strange moon and a golden wolf howling at the sun... intertwining... it was beautiful and filled with divinity...
"Big brother! You're awake!" Aki hugged tightly, her black hair flowing over my bare chest, her hands pressing against the tattoo... "Big brother, who did this?"
The mont she touched my hand, I felt a sense of rejection... but the feeling vanished after I took a deep breath... This energy in the mories of eting her she called it Yoma... the opposite of Anima.
Now I am filled with both Yoma and Anima... each heart beating in sync with the bloodlines perfectly mixed, keeping it in balance or rather... I feel it's changed my body to accept both naturally, like I'm immune to the effects of Yoma.
"Sorry, Aki... it seems your brother let his guard down, and a strange sister-in-law might turn up in the near future..."
"Eh?" She looked at in confusion.
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