The path to a chained heart (EDITING)

How to Enjoy a Proper Meal - 15

For the three weirdos... especially Himari, walking away from a cave like there wasn't an angry daemon trying to kill them was simple. Either that or they were oblivious enough to forget. Kinda hard to tell when it came to them. Steadily, the drips and hisses of the acid gnawed holes in the ground behind them, but they weren't just ready to look back at it. Himari was humming a soft tune, which was of a lullaby she was rather fond of. Or it was the only one she actually remembered.

"Rise like the golden sun and wake up smiling. Sleep like the precious shining moon. Watch yourself grab it with your tiny little hands. Interested in the cycle of the sun and moon~" from humming, Himari turned to singing from humming. From the little bits that she remembered of her parents, she always remembered her mother and father singing this lullaby, which was always able to soothe her when she cried as a baby. To make sure she never forgot, she wrote it down in a journal she kept safe in her pocket (except for the fact it was now torn to shreds). She reminded herself to make a new one, with a lock this time, paranoid that she'd forget.

"Himari, is that the song you wrote in your old diary?" Homare inquired. She sighed. Next time, she would need a better way to keep her journal from them. 

"Why did you sneak into my room in the first place you treacherous little snake!" Himari's tone of voice changed to a low and murderous one. 

"Ma'am! Asahi made me do it!" He squeaked, pointing his finger at the whistling Asahi. Himari glared dangerously at the two of them.

"Gee, can you not take a joke stupid Miss princess?!" Asahi casually muttered the last word under his breath. Homare was sure this time that it was better to walk off  than face the middle of the wrath of his two friends.

"Oh yeah?! Who do you think you're calling princess you stupid pinocchio? Idiots like you don't even care about privacy? Who the hell reads other people's diar- journals?!" Himari retorted yelling in his face.

"Everyone! That's the whole point of a journal! To snoo- read them!" Asahi yelled back. 

This made Homare think back. "What did Mizuki do... what did Mizuki do..." he mumbled, "Oh, this is the one!" He muttered thinking back to the spell Mizuki taught him if the two were on a rampage again.

"If I'm not here, who knows what trouble those two'll get into! Remember to use this spell to stop them!" Mizuki chuckled.

"Prevent all wrath from being unleashed! Freeze!" Homare cast the spell, and Asahi and Himari froze. For about a few seconds, which was enough for him to go up to the both of them and hit them hard on their arms. It was easy enough when Mizuki was there, but it got kind of annoying when it repeatedly happened.

"Stop. Fighting." Was all Homare said and they listened.

After that, things turned to what was thought as peaceful to them and the two dangerous friends stopped fighting. Homare breathed in and out deeply sighing in relief. Another reason he wanted the fighting to end quickly was due to the fact that he had a question he was meaning to ask Himari for quite a while. But he forgot a few times, which made the exhausting process of waiting even longer.

"There's a question I've been meaning to ask," Homare started, making it seem a little important when he paced back and forth, looking like he was in deep thought, "how have we not starved to death yet?" He looked up displaying the most sincere look that Himari couldn't tell if he was joking. 

Himari paled and tried to answer the question as best as she could. "Well, um, basically... didn't I already tell you this ages ago?! We're in our soul form, meaning we won't die by starvation, but the corruption of the evil presences living here. That's reminded me! I lost track of time! Ah, who cares, we'll know if we're close to death anyway." 

"But we can still eat, right?" Himari had no idea what he was trying to say. "I was thinking we could see what those fish taste like - they look different to those black piranhas. In fact, they look tasty!" 

At this point, Himari looked like she was going to faint and end up falling in the giant pit her bizarre friend was pointing at. One day, that probably would happen to her. RIP: HIMARI DIED THANKS TO HER FRIENDS' STUPIDITY. ESPECIALLY ASAHI, HIMARI THOUGHT YOU WERE PLAIN ANNOYING. WE WILL REMEMBER HER FRIGHTENED MEMORIES. She smiled in thought, making a fitting grave for herself (not that she was actually going to blame them, though). 

Homare climbed down and examined the fish. They looked quite a bit like salmon. 

"Asahi, why don't you use your fire magic so we can eat this?"

"No way in hell, Homare." Asahi replied casually.

"Yeah, we don't even know if the stuff here is dangerous to eat or something." She pulled Homare away from the fish and they walked back towards the next daemon they could sense. 

"What about this?" Homare pointed again at a plant sticking out of the roof of the tunnel. Himari tried her best to ignore him. The journey was basically just - 'what about this' or 'look at this' with the slight case of 'you two are mean'. Even Asahi had to now try and ignore him. Boy, they never knew Homare could actually be that frustrating to reason with. 

"Ooh, look - water! I don't know how long it's been before I drank it!" Homare ran over to drink it, but the two both tugged on the neck of his clothes, dragging him back a little.

"Curse you Homare."

"Idiot, that water's been poisoned."

"Guess that wasn't a good idea, thanks for stopping me." Homare chuckled nervously and rubbed his head slightly. "Now can you please let go of me?"

"With pleasure." They simultaneously replied pushing him forward. To them, it seemed like Homare had gone utterly crazy. To him, it seemed normal considering Himari's double personalities.