Once Claire and Talia have made their way to the shrine of Mary and seeing that they haven’t seen Lily, Kate, or Kasey, they decided to what for a couple of minutes to see if they were coming or not

It was silent for the first couple of minutes, but Claire started a conversation

“Why is Lily afraid of this shrine and how did this “Mary” kill your mother?” Claire asked

“Well…” Talia said

“Mary is the goddess of Time and Space and maybe a bunch of other stuff,” Talia said

“It was said that Mary was one fo the goddesses that would help others, but that was a lie,” Talia said

“She had many followers, but was diminished over the past years due to this women, my mother”

“She was the one to prove many of Mary’s followers to lost interest in her as she has done many evil things, which was mostly true”

“It was completely proven that she had done many evil things, as she got angry at my mother, this then lead to her death, as she was invited to Mary’s space in which she took us with her”

“Reasons for that was unknown, but when we went to greet Mary, the first thing we immediately saw was the blood exiting out of our mother”

“She was brutally amputated limb by limb, each sever being less and less clean and more and more jagged, starting from her arms to her legs”

“We were also holding her hand during that time, and seeing the arm fall on us, was traumatizing as once she was limbless, she was crying and Mary was laughing as she had fun amputation our mother”

“She was laughing so hysterically, you couldn’t even hear my mother’s cries anymore, but we could still hear it, which then stopped as Mary…” Talia then stops herself from continuing as she started to mourn for her mother

Claire, who understood the situation told her to stop and in which she did, Claire then finally realized why Lily was so afraid to meet Mary again, and just after a couple of minutes after the story, Kate busts in with Lily and Claire in one hand and using her free hand to open the door

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“FINALLY!” Kate said as she collapses

“I can’t believe, I went the wrong way and that Lily didn’t tell me,” Kate said gasping for air

“Then how did you get here?” Claire asked

“I had to run through the entire castle just to find this room” Kate replied

“What the…” Claire said in surprise

“So now that we are all here lets star-” Kate was interrupted by LIly who was screaming to be released and crying at the same time

“You don’t have to worry,” Claire said

“This will be fairly qui-”

“NO,” Lily said without hesitation, “I would rather stay back in Yasu’s room, now LET ME GO!”

Lily was then successful in being released and then started to run away

“Should we get her?” Kate asked Talia

“No, we don’t need her to visit the shine, we just need to pray” Talia replied

“So, what are we waiting for, let’s start to pray,” Kate said as she quickly got in front of the shrine and then clapped her hands together and bowed and started to think hard for her prayers to be answered with Kasey still clung on to her arm, Claire and Talia then quickly joined but didn’t think as hard as Kate did, in hopes of having their prayers answered too

Luckily, Mary knew that they would do this and quickly answered them, bringing Kate, Claire, Talia as well as Kasey into her realm of the white room and revealing herself as the taller, more mature looking goddess, which was given paise by everyone except for Talia, as she vividly remembered the incident as she first saw her

“So what do you guys want,” Mary asked

“We want you to bring Yasu back” Kate immediately replies

“Oh boy, I knew this was going to happen, she murmured

“Were you going to say something?” Claire said

“Oh, no, no, so you want him back, correct?” Mary asked

“Yes!” everyone said in unison

“Then what is my offering,” she asked

This made everyone silent

“So you have no offerings to give, me yet you come here asking for someone back,” Mary said

Kate and Claire’s hopes then decreased as they should have prepared something good for Mary, a god

“Well, if you want to bring his body back, I do have one thing in mind as an offering,” Mary said in a sinister manner

Talia who was the first one to feel this manner quick activated a barrier, but it didn’t work

“My, my, you think you can use magic in the space I made,” she said

“Well, you can’t as you see this space prevents everyone, except me, to use magic” she explained

“And, my intentions aren’t to mass murder people, no, no, I haven’t even murdered anyone yet,” she said in a truthful manner

“Lies” Talia murmured, but Mary ignored her murmuring

“Anyway, let’s start,” she said as she snapped her fingers

Making a bright light that flashed across the room and temporarily blinded everyone, except her

Once every adjusted back to the brightness of the room, they were revealed with a table and some tiles

“Luckily for you, my offer is to play some Mahjong,” she said as she took a sit

As we remembered, there was a commotion, when Yasu started to leave, and that commotion was a fight as Mary has lost many times in a game of mahjong from the 2 other goddesses