Long Awaited Reunion
Heian Ciemnosc and his Master stood a few tens of meters from Milyy, who looked around, content to see the garden she grew up with become lively again. Meanwhile, the other two were already dressed when Heian Ciemnosc looked at Calisneia and suddenly stared without saying anything. Calisneia exited her pensive state and glanced at him. Her eyebrows slightly sank in confusion, but she could only ask in a whisper. "Heian Ciemnosc, what is?"
Rustle, thud… “Master, what are you gonna do now?” Heian Ciemnosc suddenly acted. He moved forwards and hugged his Master’s waist. She didn’t pull away even though one tiny movement from her would be enough to destroy his physical body as a whole. Her body arched towards him, and she felt his body’s defined muscles rub against her. However, Calisneia lifted her right eyebrow as she looked up at him and flatly answered. “Why are you still calling me Master?”
“Uh- I-...” Heian Ciemnosc tried to say something… but didn’t know what! His words were self-cut, and he became speechless after he realized it. Calisneia looked at him, interested. Her eyebrows danced upwards a little as she held his dark coat’s collar and smiled faintly. She parted her lips as her eyes turned soft, but Heian Ciemnosc’s words reached her ears before she could notice and redeemed himself quickly.
“Because I still see you as my Master, Master.” Heian Ciemnosc held onto Calisneia’s lower back and waist and wasn’t shy to place his hands on her seemingly delicate, womanly back. “You’ve given me endless knowledge, at least to the previous Heian Ciemnosc. The one who came here from an experience that made him not want to see the world. But now, that kid is a young man. And even now, he still believes you have endless knowledge for him.”
“Master, I’m no stupid person, so how can I not see through some of your disguise?” Heian Ciemnosc’s pale face grew closer to the porcelain face. Calisneia’s typically serious visage and quiet expression slightly tilted her head to the right, but the pale white golden eyes locked onto his countenance. “Even if I didn’t see it before. As long as my Master showed me how I could save her in such a wondrous way, and she was willing to despite her experience and beauty. Then, I am willing.”
“... Willing of what?” Calisneia tilted her head to the right, this time a lot, and asked him. She didn’t know, or maybe she did and was just messing with Heian Ciemnosc’s ‘inexperienced’ brain, but she looked damn cute. Heian Ciemnosc was left speechless again, but he continued after a mild pause. “Be my wife, of course.”
“Ah, that… Milyy will accompany you, and I still have my duties to follow. I can’t just go with you, Heian Ciemnosc. You’re my disciple, and I will never deny my doors to you. Don’t think any further about wasting time with wedding ceremonies. You’ve saved my life, and while that was my initial impulse to take you as my disciple, you have changed my view of yourself. No matter what you set your goals on, you should be realistic first. Right now, you don’t need me as your woman.” Calisneia said, with her pale white golden eyes looking casual but mesmerizing.
“...” Heian Ciemnosc was astounded. He was rejected… just like that! He looked at his Master’s face. It was serious. She wasn’t joking, of course. Heian Ciemnosc’s eyebrows twitched, sinking and knitting but rapidly ceasing and relaxing. Just as he felt Calisneia’s hands on him about to give up and her lips pressed together lightly, he spoke again. This time, his voice was inherently determined. “Calisneia, don’t you want to be my wife? I won’t push Milyy away. I’ve already vowed to protect her, even if she doesn’t need me.”
“But I’m not talking about others, just you and me,” Heian Ciemnosc shamelessly said. However, Calisneia’s eyes became a little intense as she heard his words, and her eyes couldn’t help but slowly drop to his neck, as it kept moving and her ears kept hearing. “I’m not letting you go either. Now that my Master is healthy and safe, I wish she could be honest and live however she wants, but with me by her side. If it’s power that I lack, then I’ll achieve more power.”
“If it’s more status, then I’ll rule over anything as long as you accept me, your disciple, as your man. Forever. Once we’re joined by nature, not even the so-called extinction will take you away from me. Be good now, and accept. Because when I become stronger, and you have no choice but to nod at my repeated request, I will remember you weren’t so good to me at the beginning.” Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes looked at his Master without ripples, seamlessly uttering his words that should otherwise denigrate a person’s honor and trust.
Yet, all Calisneia did was look at her disciple with her pale golden eyes melting a little more with each word and softening after each phrase. Calisneia’s nostrils exhaled a few long breaths as her eyes slowly recomposed after Heian Ciemnosc finished his remarks. The world seemed to themselves, but Calisneia’s heart still wanted to make him wait until he was strong enough, when she could finally dedicate her heart to an individual rising star that wouldn’t die early…
“Your words... I like them. Remember them. When we marry, if you don’t say each word to the letter. I won’t be with you. I’ll simply die alone in an empty place somewhere in the world.” Calisneia’s words struck Heian Ciemnosc’s heart like she couldn’t have imagined before speaking them. Her pupils constricted a little when she heard his beating heart and the energy fluctuations inside his body.
“Don’t forget yours, then,” Heian Ciemnosc said, holding her hands like a lovely couple. But then, breaking their moment, just as Calisneia’s eyes shone in the only way a woman would beg the love of their life to at least kiss them, Milyy’s voice sounded beside them for the second time today. “Again? What are you two planning? Why are you so close to each other now? Aaah! Distance! Diiiiistaaaaaaaaance!!”
“...” - “...” Heian Ciemnosc and Calisneia were startled to see Milyy with crossed arms and looking at them like an angery daughter looking at her parents’ lovey-dovey moments in disgust, as every good child does… Milyy was no longer a young girl, and after she went into seclusion and Heian Ciemnosc left for a decade, she had become a grown, young woman.
Her dark-dull orange hair had surely grown. However, when she came into Calisneia’s meditation place, Milyy’s hair was already shortened to up to her ears, appearing emphatically fresh and tomboyish even. Even then, she kept her previous traits and was still quite tall for her age, elegant, proud… and still looked kittenish. Her nonexistent chest remained like so, but her bottom… Even though Ishikyy had grown there as well like a goddess without bizarreness, Milyy did as well, but the latter didn’t require Heian Ciemnosc’s palming…
And now, as Milyy looked at them, Heian Ciemnosc and Calisneia slowly separated, but it wasn’t as if the former didn’t know what had changed in their master-disciple relationship. The situation was just a little bit awkward. However, one thing was certain. Heian Ciemnosc couldn’t sense any ill intention from the little kitty he had left abandoned for over a decade. Milyy just… didn’t ‘mind’ her mother’s sudden encounter with him?
“Well, do none of you speak now?! Really! Ah- Mom, where am I going? I heard you guys loudly speaking just now, so what was that about?” Milyy’s crossed arms and bratty, bothered face only lasted so much before she faced Calisneia, who walked towards her from Heian Ciemnosc, and her eyes glistened after widening. Milyy’s hands held her mother’s left hand and made Calisneia’s expression gentle.
“With him, Little Milyy. The Crimsonbreaking Faction has come to pick my disciple up. He’s leaving the Academy,” Calisneia caressed her daughter’s face. As she gently showed her likeness of her daughter’s new hair, the daughter, in particular, widened her eyes like saucers and firmly denied. “No, no, nooo! Can’t do it! I won’t leave Mother for a man or something. Forget about marrying. I want to study with Mom! Mother, I mean.”
“...” Calisneia tilted her head leftwards a little and rolled her eyes before patting Milyy’s head, saying with an irrefutable face, “I said that you would go with him, so go. You’ve never come out of the Kingdom without my permission. I am now giving you permission to leave the Galaxy, the Universe, and whatever else is necessary to find your path. You can’t expect to find answers without doing something, do you? Or… have I raised you wrongly?”
“No, nope! Of course not! Mom-ther is the best Mother. If anything, it is just your child here who is at fault, nothing else! And him, of course.” Milyy said like a cute little kitten when she spoke to her mother, but vicious and ruthless when she mentioned and looked at Heian Ciemnosc. Calisneia saw the look in her daughter’s eyes and knew she still had to say something else. “I’m giving your hand to my disciple. Trust your mother.”
“You should’ve seen the Faction’s Fleet after you broke through. Behave and listen to your seniors there. You will become a person from the Crimsonbreaking Faction in a few hours, but you will not participate in the daily life of such. If you’re curious, go to Heian Ciemnosc. He will tell you everything he experiences and record images for you to see. If you want to explore a landscape in the Existence, ask Heian Ciemnosc. He will ensure your desires are satisfied.”
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“I do not expect you to love him, but treat him as your husband, and don’t disappoint me. Understood?” Calisneia patted her daughter’s left shoulder as the latter fell silent and no longer tried appeasing her mother. Milyy nodded acquiescently, listening to everything Calisneia said before the latter stepped behind the former, leaving a speechless Heian Ciemnosc and homesick Milyy alone together.
Step, step, step… whoo- thud! “... Milyy,” Heian Ciemnosc spoke after Calisneia truly left them alone. He sighed and extended his right arm to the once-a-young girl who was now a little more distant and seemingly no longer holding some likability from her. However, before he could open his pale red lips for another sentence, he barely felt the laws before him changing before realizing Milyy was moving towards him but felt no ill intent from her.
Just as Heian Ciemnosc realized this, he felt a body entangling with him, hugging his neck, right arm and shoulder, and waist with its arms and legs, respectively. Milyy hugged him like a monkey, leaving Heian Ciemnosc somewhat startled, but he didn’t push her apart. His hands caressed her trembling back as she sniffled constantly, but just a little. Her nose kept tingling at his left jugular, and her left cheekbone brushed tenderly on the edge corner of his jaw from that side. Her hands pulled him stronger against her body on his back, and her scent invaded him.
‘... Wow.’ Her scent was addictive and was all natural. Heian Ciemnosc was nearly turned into a bee finding the most efficient flower to extract pollen from, and was there with her doors open to let him right into the sweetness. Heian Ciemnosc hugged her a little tighter, and Milyy started giving out soft, gladdened moans and growls from her throat, eliciting him to continue with the moment, and not stop for a moment.
Rustle, rustle. Thud. After a while, Milyy decided it was enough and let go of her hold on the taller, pervertedly handsome Heian Ciemnosc. She looked up at him, somewhat disgruntled and pouty. Heian Ciemnosc was still in his hugging pose when he saw that face and felt his heart aching a little. ‘Awww, was my departure the reason behind this attitude? Well deserved, oh.’
“Mngah, you’re back at last, sniff,” Milyy said, finally speaking her first words towards Heian Ciemnosc after their reunion. She cleaned her nose with a sudden long-sleeved piece of clothing appearing from nowhere, silently starting Heian Ciemnosc. However, she paid it no heed, and waved her hand towards his shoes while saying, “Just a moment. You smell a lot of Mom. Let me- eh? Ah?? Why isn’t it going away? Huh? It’s not supposed to work like that… Nnngghh! Bah! Forget it, I’ll just ignore it… How have you been?”
Heian Ciemnosc watched Milyy try to do something to his body. His senses told him he did reek of his Master, not just in physical odor, but energy fluctuation and Soul. However, Milyy seemed to try getting the physical odor off only but failed to accomplish it. Heian Ciemnosc did feel some sort of ‘movement’ which he couldn’t explain but felt when Milyy tried that. Yet, at the same time, he felt something else around him, like a cubicle, do the same to him, possibly neutralizing Milyy’s actions…
“...” After seeing Milyy change her expressions several times, and finally understanding she was helpless, then looking up at him as he was half a head taller than her, Heian Ciemnosc smiled a little. His grin made the turquoise and hot pink mix that flowed within her pupils and irises a little dazed. Milyy had underestimated Heian Ciemnosc’s handsomeness after not seeing him for a good, long while.
“It’s been many things, I can tell you, as we move to the space station. How about it?” Heian Ciemnosc asked as he offered his left arm like a gentleman. He knew Milyy wasn’t struck by the mere fact Heian Ciemnosc was handsome but that he had matured even when he was already perfect regarding aspects. Seeing him after focused on breaking into the Fifth Step was surely a surprise for her untrained eyes. Even he became a little dizzy if he thought of his physical appearance too much.
“Gyah!” Milyy lunged at his arm and hugged it between her manly, solid, steel-like chest. Her fangs showed, and they were a little sharper and longer than Heian Ciemnosc remembered, but they didn’t harm her gums or other ‘human-ish’ teeth. Her face became cuter, and she showed her eyelids’ thin line when closed. Heian Ciemnosc looked at Milyy as she rubbed her face on his strong arm a little before starting to walk out of the garden. Milyy didn’t say anything else and just held his arm in one sole position as if she had grown impossibly attracted to it.
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At one of the Blackotia Kingdom’s new space stations, larger than the previous. Where the Crimsonbreaking Faction’s Armada was stationed and witnessed the birth of a being from.
After the Crimsonbreaking Faction anchored here, the space station blocked all new visitors or guests and practically imprisoned those already inside. Like this, the space station immediately rejected hundreds of merchant spaceships coming from outside the Galaxy, trying to make connections with the highly esteemed Crimsonbreaking Faction and other fanboys and fangirls.
From the time the Crimsonbreaking Faction entered the Wrath Nihility Academy’s space territory and waited for the time to come, only a dozen vessels moved from the Blackotia Kingdom to the space station. One of them, the last of them all, was an escorted, unique Fighter. That was none other but the Ornament, which was treated like a VIP guest, whereas the Blackotia Kingdom had only seen the other overlording organizations’ visitors or tourists enjoy.
… Arriving at the space station, Heian Ciemnosc immediately watched the people he knew waiting there for him. In the first line of defense, his CO Team, as a whole, and members from the Saberbone Diabolical Club were present. Heian Ciemnosc barely walked 3 steps towards them, alone, when a wild Arla came over and hugged him dearly.
“Wuuuuh!” Arla cried out as Frank, Clarke, and Yon clapped and laughed from the distance… just a little. Her hands wrapped around his neck and below it. She closed her eyes as her eyebrows knitted deeply, and her words came as she delicately held Heian Ciemnosc’s neck, and her feet dropped to the floor. There were only a few hundred outsiders watching, a line towards the hangars the Armada arrived at.
“You’re leaving us, I still can’t believe! It’s been so many yeaaaars~! It’s… sigh, just remember this is your home, okay?” Arla said, placing her forehead on his and closing her eyes to silently mutter. “Even if we move, for whatever critical situation… Do know our doors are always open, okay? Don’t you dare think about forgetting us, or we’ll feel it when we all become Gods and Goddesses, and you’ll be beaten!... Okay?”
“Alright,” Heian Ciemnosc smirked softly and grabbed Arla’s shoulder as they looked at each other. She placed her left ear on his chest and barely heard a heartbeat as Heian Ciemnosc caressed the back of her head. After a few seconds more, she departed his body and walked back to stand behind Frank. Heian Ciemnosc walked to them while the CO Team waited their turn like the good little dogs he built.
“Heian Ciemnosc, check your Universal Conveyance in a while. You might look at a bunch of baby pictures.” Yon came over with her red hair, battle-lusted filled face, and slim and tall body to hug him. Heian Ciemnosc tilted his head to the left after hearing those words and accepted her hug, embracing her lower back as he was nearly an entire head taller than her. Clarke rapidly joined the hug from behind his woman and patted Heian Ciemnosc’s shoulder.
“Ouch… ahem, haha. Good luck out there. Don’t think space battles are as fun as they are in the air or ground. Especially for cannon fodder. The bigger the enemy, the more easily they can destroy you. This is especially true for the Carriers. If you see a Mothership, rival, or enemy, just run. Okay?” Clarke said from the bottom of his heart. Heian Ciemnosc smiled politely and slowly nodded. Yon rubbed her forehead on Heian Ciemnosc’s before patting his cheeks as if he were a child.
Heian Ciemnosc rolled his eyes and waved goodbye to them while Yon smiled as if she had won over the world as he went to his CO Team. His COs were smiling and waving at him while the team members respectfully looked at him and bowed. Heian Ciemnosc walked directly to Gloria and flicked her chin upwards. She scrunched her face and shook her head cutely, nothing like the times they met for the first time.
Heian Ciemnosc then walked to Violet and the powerful trio. He looked at Violet and then at the entire CO Team, with its few thousand new members present, each one at least in the Neutrality realm. His darkest eyes landed on Violet again, who kindly smiled at him, and he said to his COs. “Although I am now leaving, the CO Team will keep running. I now name Violet as the Team Leader and Fengli as the Vice leader. Esteban, any word?”
“If I had any, boss, I would’ve been beaten on the floor already. No, Fengli’s management is far better than mine. Hell, even lil’ Gloria is better than me. I’m just good at fighting, so let me fight for them.” Esteban immediately said, not losing another second to give the big girls their place in the new CO Team. Gloria raised her arms in protest, sharply shouting, “Oi, I’m not little! Stop that already!! Moouh!”
“Hahahaha…” The COs and team members laughed, bringing the poor, innocent lamb a flushed face. Heian Ciemnosc grinned while watching them, then turned to look at Violet again, only to feel her arms around him and her face against the side of his face. After Violet caressed the back of his head and short pitchest-blackest hair, he let him for the other girls to hug. Gloria even came and hugged him from the side while the others took their turns. And Sakura’s wifeys also hugged him.
“Sigh,” Heian Ciemnosc sighed after he finished bidding farewell to his COs and said for the last time before walking past them towards a seemingly lonely figure. “Although I’m going, your job and life here still continue. Gloria will become the second assassin team’s leader once you’ve become a Third Step Team. You will become a potent, valuable asset to the Wrath Nihility Academy then. Its military prowess will be exponentially increased. Do well for me, as I won’t be able to do anything for the Academy personally until a long time later.”
“I’ll leave it to you, guys…”
Step, step, step, step.
“... … … …” The Concealed Ornament Team watched as their founder and Leader left them to struggle with the world’s upcoming events.
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Let It Rain's note: I just realized that the kitty and the dragon share 2 y's in their name, :_O .