Reunited

Misunderstandings

Scaramouche's POV:

"Shinedown!" with that, the victor has been decided. I was always prepared to accept my death but why do I feel a sense of pain, knowing that it'll be her puppet who will be killing me? Why do I feel like I want to see her again even in my last moments on this dreaded world?

Tears spilled from my eyes with each step she took, her cold gaze staring at me with a lack of emotions, almost as if she wouldn't hesitate to kill me. For some reason, I was hoping that she would spare me-that she wouldn't kill me despite knowing that she saw me as a threat to her people and a useless puppet. 

"Please..." I begged, hoping that she would at least show some sort of pity or guilt for me. But she didn't. After all, she was a puppet who was perfect in the eyes of my creator while I wasn't. She was one who couldn't feel human emotions but I could. She was worthy to my mother but I wasn't. 

Drawing her blade, she ignored my pleas as she continued to walk towards me, each step she took meant my death approaching.

I close my eyes ready for the moment that I would be disappear from this world, that my existence would be gone. In the end, I couldn't even fulfil my purpose to be in this world so why should I exist?

"Ku...Kunikuzushi...?" she mumbled, with a slightly softer tone. A tinge of emotion in her voice could be heard.

Huh? She didn't kill me?

Raiden's POV

It was him... the puppet who was supposed to store my gnosis...Except... why did he have a look terrified? And what was he doing in Tenshukaku? Wasn't he bound to live a happy life after I freed him? And why did he resemble her so much?

The sight of him only reminded me of Makoto. It reminded me of the days she would cry whenever she would witness the death of her people. 

"Ku...Kunikuzushi!" I said, dropping my blade onto the ground before running to hug him. Never had I expected that this was how we would get reunited. 

For some reason, his eyes were filled with pain and horror, almost as if he were pleading with me to spare him, that he couldn't believe that I would be killing him. It reminded me of his first few days in this world, back when he was still my puppet.

Tears spilled from my eyes as I went to hug him. What could have happened to him after I set him free? I was hoping that he would reciprocate the hug but he did not. Instead, it seemed that he was trying to push me away... but why?

"YOU ABANDONED ME! YOU WERE THE CAUSE OF MY SUFFERINGS! You saw me as a worthless, useless and stupid puppet who was only meant to be discarded, DIDN'T YOU?" he yelled, with a tone that had both agony and pain mixed with the words he spoke out loud. "If only I didn't have this feeling called human emotions, YOU WOULD'VE SEEN ME AS PERFECT! YOU WOULDN'T HAVE ABANDONED ME!" 

He started breathing heavily as he continued with a slightly softer tone, " I only wanted to be of purpose to you...! I only wanted to help you achieve your goal! I even became a god just for you to see that I am worthy of being your puppet. That you would accept me...I..."

He choked on his tears as he continued sobbing and mumbling. Seeing him in this state made my heart shatter into a million pieces. How could I have not expected this outcome...? I thought he would have grown  to become a much more happier person, having been freed from his responsibilities. But he saw my means as a sign of telling him that he was only a useless child. 

I was careless... perhaps this was part of my price to pay for the mistake I made 500 years ago. I could not help but feel an overwhelming feeling in my chest. Almost as if it were making my heart sink. Was this what humans call guilt?

I gulped, as tears started streaming down my eyes, I looked at the child, who I had created, before me. "I...I'm so sorry you had to go through all this because of me. I thought by letting you go into this world, I was letting you have your own freedom where you didn't have to be my puppet. That you did not have to bear the responsibilities of being my puppet. I'm so sorry.. I was too careless... too distracted with my goal of eternity, too distracted with her death that I had overlooked how you would view the situation...I was selfish...I...

"SAVE IT!" his expression turned from one filled with sadness to anger. "IF YOU HAD WANTED TO GIVE ME FREEDOM, YOU COULD'VE AT LEAST JUST GIVEN ME A NEW PURPOSE! INSTEAD, YOU ABANDONED ME AND LEFT ME ALONE WITHOUT ANYBODY! WITHOUT EXPLAINING TO ME WHY!  YOU LEFT ME ALONE IN THIS WRETCHED WORLD TO FEND FOR MYSELF!  DID YOU THINK THAT JUST A FEW SORRYS WOULD CHANGE THIS FACT?!"

"I...I despise you..."