Izumi dodged the golem's punch as she side stepped. She was still being stubborn about using her handicap of using her spear which she barely started to use in this life. She didn't want to us either her kantana unless necessary. The golem pounded the area where she was at earlier. Annoyed Izumi threw her spear at the core in the golem's chest making the golem stop completely.
She sighed as she took a breath since she knew she was rusty from all the years of hiding with her brother and on the run from Flare.
"Guess it's what I get for staying with him. The forbidden skill I used also leaves some nasty side effects for me. But I'm okay with it since it means I no longer have to be connected to brother through that stupid lost art. It did save me back then. But the current me doesn't need to be restrained by him. Nor do I need for him to make decisions on how to live."
Her eyes widen as she saw an army of vampires charge her. She had enter the 2nd stage of the trial grounds. Izumi clicked her tongue as she took out her kantana and started slicing the vampires in half. Even she wouldn't drop her guard in this place, if she did she'd die easily. A scream of pain came from her as she felt a claw go into her back. She cut the arm off and threw the female vampire away as she cut those encircling her.
"We've been trapped for this trial then you come. You're our new prey for us starving vampires."
It took only a second to register what the female said as she was still cutting this early jumping at her. So they're running on instincts due to hunger good to know. She kicked a giant beserker male vampire towards the girl.
Meanwhile......
"Brother what did you do to sister." (Claira)
"There might've been a few times I thought she was going insane so I kinda killed her from doing so." (Ridus)
"That might be where your wrong." (Grace)
"What commander means is even if you and her did share a life together and a body. That was very wrong of you to judge her based on your own beliefs." (Flare)
"Also those four humans listening in come out." (Grace)
"How'd they notice us." (Eve)
Ridus is shocked to see his favorite student and her two body guards. He's surprised to see Shiki undo her invisible spell. He knew his sister taught her (Shiki) on a whim then gave her (Izumi), her (Shiki) centuries of magic diary for her to learn. But he didn't think she'd be able to use a rare spell such as a invisible.
"What did you mean you've been killing her in her other lives." (Shiki)
His eyes widen as he could sense her anger when she asked. He had just admitted that he's Ben killing his sister before she went too far and started a killing spree because her emotions. Then just before that after the conversation with Flare telling Grace the real reason why they had to purge cities. He had told Claria in detail about Aries' life before this one as a human and why he'd kill her.
"Look here I had no choice in the matter. It was either end her quickly or leave her there to suffer. My sister was know for being kind, gentle, caring and like a Saint helping others. I didn't want her to go down the wrong path. I didn't want to see her that way." (Ridus)
"So what your saying is your in the right for being able to judge someone how they live. I'm disgusted that I told her I loved you before. But how a person lives and how they develop is up to them and the environment they were put into. You say that you had to stop her from killing did that mean when she was reborn every time as a different race, you that shared your body yet can only switch when one of you is sleeping. That you had a right to choose who she killed based on your self righteous path that you think your on. Because from what I just heard your just a hypocrite like everyone else." (Shiki)
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He looked down to the ground without knowing how to respond, Claria stared at the moon instead she was shocked at those words.
"Brother if that's what you did then you're in the wrong since the beginning." (Claria)
"That's just pushing her image you had of her from her 1st life on her isn't it." (Shiki)
"Ugh you disgust me more than even the god that I killed that ordered us." (Flare)
"He has no say in what she can nor will become. I can see why when I asked her about you she gave me a stiff smile back then and said your her brother back in one of her past life. Why she sounded so pained." (Grace)
Ridus looked at them confused as why they were blaming him. He just wanted her to never change, to be the kind and caring sister he knew. Yet without him knowing she had stopped talking to him as much over the centuries. Nor had she wasnted to share what she did in her lives as much. She had told him she had lost count of the number of life she had after being reborn on her millionth reincarnation. Aries had stopped counting after that.
"Why would she want to change." (Ridus)
"It was because she felt her own powerlessness in wanting peace and not using her powers in her last life. That was her regret then, from what you told us that life as a human sister didn't use any of her powers. Wanting to live peacefully with the villagers and forgetting her powers until bandits came and killed the village that she loved. You said that you came out and protected the her that was emotionally broken. But of the villagers she cared about. You didn't care about them. You've only cared about yourself and her safety." (Claria)
He was stunned his sister was angry at him for his actions without knowing how he felt right now.
"You're the one that saved her, indeed you did but it would've been better if you saved her parents and the siblings she had in that village. Your blinding priorities were in the wrong then. Now let me ask you this, did sister talk much with you after she reincarnated to this life." (Claira)
"No, she only said a few things. Mostly teasing me or she'd be sarcastic on with her opinion of me." (Ridus)
"I can see why Sensei hated you. You unkowningly do things at your pace. Judging others, you see this world in black and white. Right and wrong. Using your own rules and standards you had set up. If you judge something going too far from what you deem right you get rid of it. Now I know what even though I've only know her since my middle school 2nd year to now the me in 2nd year high school she wouldn't allow me to confess or when I asked her to tell you I liked you she didn't do so." (Shiki)
"Aren't you being hard on Mr. Larc." (Eve)
"But those are his ugly truths isn't it. The guy's dense personality and the ugly truth behind him." (Flare)
"Maybe we were in the wrong to betray Aries back then. But 13th youngest brother your in the wrong much worst than us. Because her life is tied to you back then, she had to depend on you. Though what you did to her also can't be forgiven. We may have not trusted her on her 500th birthday then. She was framed, we followed what the elders wished back then for the consequences. Thinking back on it we were wrong because sister was like a siantess, but she was the one that brought up us siblings in place of our non caring parents. But we were the ones that betrayed her first. Did you know after Dia, (she means Diamond) came to her senses after she turned 300 she killed herself since she couldn't forgive herself for harming our sister." (Claria)
"None of you were thinking back then." (Ridus)
"But sister was still alive back then. Yea but sister had asked you to deliver the letter and the jade pendant that she always had as child did she not." (Claira)
"Meaning you guys thought that she had died." (Eve)
"So you could connect the dots. Yes after a few hundreds of years we were sobered up a bit. Realizing the harsh truth is that the elders of the Phoenix wanted to rid her from the Phoenix island and she had a clean reputation so they framed her. We did the rest of the work for them by going straight to her after hearing that she had killed a noble and his entire family leaving no trace. I'd only we were clear headed then.... we seeked her out by and shooting her on the spot without letting her completely explain. Making our situation with the South witch Sana go bad. The Immortal Yami had cut off all sources of information and trade. Our situation with those two are still bad." (Claira)
"Sana the witch of the south controls all the southern continent how is she connected to sister. Also Yami is from the city of light, the first human immortals are from that land of ice. Those immortals have a ability over ice and when angered you can't do anything about them." (Ridus)
"That's not even the worst of it Flora the flame sorceress that controls the East is sister's best friend. So when she heard what the council of elders did. She torched the council members along with their families. So also destroyed the rules all written for the island. She then massacred those assassins and the whole guilds that were involved with them. As if that didn't appease her, when we tried to make a new council of elders she went on a mass murder spree. Saying it was our faults that sister died." (Claira)
"Ouch how'd sister even befriend those powerhouses." (Ridus)
"You know it's also cause of you that we're in this mess. After her death her children have kept us in check making sure we don't create another mess like sister's." (Claria)