Finding Purpose In The Multiverse: Meta Essence Quest Mode

An Angel's Reward

Entry 74:

Linus Ozias POV:

As I told the story, I was barely able to make it through the 50th of the story before she fell asleep. It really goes to show how long One Piece is.

As I look at Yasaka, we place the little fox in her bed before leaving the room.

" You didn't need to do that. You know I could have calmed her down, and you even healed the other Yokai. Why?" Yasaka asks as we enter a balcony overlooking the city.

I pondered this, but really, it just came down to a simple reason: it was personal that little fox, even for only a little while, became a part of my life.

" Your daughter is a treasure. Even on the first day I met her, she has been nothing but kind to an angel's life is to be one that is both worshiped and reviled."

" We are figures of worship but also figures that hold much of the world's hatred as many ask where we are in the roughest points of their life or if we even exist." I place my hands on the bars as the wood creaks slightly due to my weight.

I then look at the nine tails as she stands next to me. "And for one of the few times in my long existence, I found someone that believes not out of worship, not out of duty, but one that just seeks to see the brighter thing than life."

"She is also fun to tease, just like a certain other fox." But as I say this, she lightly slaps me on the back with one of her tails.

The fox then says in mock anger, "For shame, Anakim, are you flirting with a widowed woman?"

I laugh lightly at this as we stare off into the distance. Before, Yasaka says something that surprises me, " My former husband and I never consummated our relationship as it was purely for the clan, and a child can only be formed at a desire and a sacrifice from both parents, a tail from each person."

I then looked on with pause as she continued, " After my daughter was born, she became the light of my life, and soon after, the man I would have become my husband, died in a scuffle between various strays of fallen angels and Devils."

I listened on with vigorous intent as this was not known by myself. " And then you came, a giant and very blunt angel that saved me and the Yokai but my daughter as well."

As she says this, she looks directly at me, and I swear I could see the sun goddess and her brother holding signs that said various things.

I leave that to your guy's imagination.

" And yet the same angel surprises me yet again as he is not only able to gain my daughter's favor but the other yokai as easily as if he had always been there."

I wave this off by saying, " Everyone here has been kind to me, and I shall return their kindness, and your daughter has shown me fun and happiness, and so I shall return in kind." I then continue, " I am not a pure being, Yasaka. I have done many things that I deem deplorable but necessary."

She places a hand on mine as I simply say, " And in the future, I may have to do such things again, and while I understand that shall make me know better than those I fight, it isn't necessary."

The nine tails only chuckles as she states, "Anakim, I am a faction leader, and leaders make hard choices every day, and not all of them are good, so I am not one to judge."

I nod as I know this, but then Yasaka surprises me as she kisses me.

The world itself goes silent, and everything slows as I attempt to comprehend what is happening as we continue.

After a few short minutes that felt like years, we separated as the fox looked hungry, and she then took my hand and teleported us to her quarters as we both took in our individual forms.