Hi everyone, sorry for the super late chapter, Kuma....

I meant to post much earlier but I lost motivation for this fiction for a bit because I cut off one of the pathway of the story last chapter, Kuma...

A-anyways! Here is the new chapter, Kuma!

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In the broad daylight in front of a pure marble temple known as the temple of Love, the four heroes and an old priest wait for their carriage to arrive. Without the conflict between the demons and humans, the heroes need a new purpose in this world.

Of course, the king might decide to just let them travel this new world of Xadoya since there isn't any war between the two races.

The four heroes chatted idly while waiting.

“So which part of Japan did you two come from? The Goddess did say that the two of you were in the same place when you died.”(Yosai)

Out of the four heroes, Yosai might be the only one who refer to the goddess without any honorifics.

“I actually lived in Hokkaido, but my school went to field trip to Kobe. We were in a mall when a group of extreme radicals invaded and trapped everyone in the mall and held them hostage.”(Kasurou)

Kasurou, a boy around seventeen year old with decent looks and attractive glasses, distorted his face as he remembered what happened.

“That's when I met Matsumoto-kun. We were able to cooperate and take one of the radical’s gun and I was able to shoot a man with the gun. Matsumoto-kun took the gun from the dead man and we fired our weapons toward the other radicals. During the confusion, they managed to shoot toward us and we lost our lives….”(Kasurou)

Kasurou, remembering the bloody scene he had seen with his own two eyes, had tears forming on the side of his eyes. As the tear slowly flood down silently, Shizue took pity on him and took out a handkerchief and wiped his eyes.

“You did the right thing…”(Shizue)

As if all of the emotion he had trapped inside him since the incident, Kasurou started to cry out loudly. 

Even if he did it for the sake of keeping his classmates safe, he was still only seventeen year old boy. The traumatic event should have been too much to handle even for an adult, yet he had not only handle it till now but also took initiative in order to save others.

Teyja might have been still sleepy, but she did not make a wrong choice when it comes to choosing the right people.

Shizue hugged Kasurou similar to how a mother hugs her child. Patting the back of his head, Shizue let Kasurou cry till he is done. Her facial expression is still emotionless, but her eyes turned gentle as a lamb.

“Shizue-chan acts more adult like than any of us here, no?”(Matsumoto)

“Are you alright, Matsumoto-kun? You want through the same experience, haven't you?”(Yosai)

“I'm fine. I feel no pity toward those bastards, they tried to rape my girlfriend before I killed them.”(Matsumoto)

Instead of fear, Matsumoto only felt rage and flame in his heart as he assisted Kasurou with killing the radicals. He was able to save his girlfriend before dying.

“Oh…”(Yosai)

“However, I'm only asking this out of curiosity but are you okay? You been looking kinda angry and your knuckles are tightly balled up.”(Matsumoto)

“Eh? What are you talking about?”(Yosai)

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Looking down at his hands, Yosai realized that his knuckles were pure white from clenching hard. He didn't notice it but he had a feeling of irritation nagging at him.

“Perhaps your jealous?”(Matsumoto)

“Yosai is jealous? Why?”(Shizue)

She was listening into the conversation between the two men and realized the source of Yosai’s jealousy. She started to giggle, and her face lit up brilliantly like a dazzling sunlight.

“Why are you laughing Shizue?!”(Yosai)

“*giggle* Jealous Yosai is cute”(Shizue)

By now Kasurou regained his composure and silently murmured his apology with a red face and got out of Shizue’s embrace.

Shizue hugged Yosai in a way different from how she hugged Kasurou. She buried her own face in Yosai’s chest and snuggled into his arm. Not like the motherly hug she gave Kasurou, Shizue gave Yosai a passion filled hug.

“Wow, Shizue-San is like a mother to me… Wait! Doesn't that make Yosai my father?!”(Kasurou)

“What!? I'm too young to be a father! And you look older than me?!”(Yosai)

With Shizue clinging to him, Yosai already lost the shred of composure he had left and became flustered at Kasurou’s joke.

"Come on Pops, don't be so cold to your son!”(Kasurou)

“Yeah, you shouldn't desert your son.”(Matsumoto)

“Who is your Pops?!”(Yosai)

Kasurou and Matsumoto continued to tease Yosai until the carriage came and Shizue continued to stay in his arms while giggling, while the old priest, who has been left out of the conversation, stayed seated on the step of the temple feeling out of place.

(Author’s note: Ahh~ I'm sorry Ojichan, Kuma! Your just not that important, Kuma…)

The carriage which had enough room to carry around ten passengers came up to the temple with fours horses pulling the carriage.

Yosai helped Shizue climb up and then assisted the old priest before getting into the carriage as well. The other two heroes climbed up swiftly and the horse began to pull the carriage to their destination

“It will take us around three hours to get to the capital great heroes.”(old priest)

“What will we be doing after we meet the king?”(Kasurou)

“Honestly speaking, I do not know.”(old priest)

“We will just have to find out later, right?”(Matsumoto)

"Hah~ I guess…”(Kasurou)

While everyone sat on the hard uncomfortable floor of the carriage, Yosai started to doze off. Shizue, who was sitting right next to him, gently lowered Yosai’s body and let him use her lap as a pillow.

Yosai fell asleep while feeling comfortable while Shizue pat his hair and gave him a loving look.

“So how long have you two been going out for?”(Matsumoto)

After pausing for a moment while the other two heroes stared with eyes full of curiosity, Shizue gave her answer.

“One day, I guess?”(Shizue)

“…”(Matsumoto)

“You guys act like a very good couple, I guess…”(Kasurou)

The rest of the journey was spent silently with Shizue continually petting Yosai.

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Sorry about the short chapter, Kuma...

I will make it longer next week, Kuma?

So don't kill me, Kuma?! Keep those torches and pitchforks to yourselves, Kuma! I said I was sorry, Kuma!