God of the Multiverse: A Shinobi's Destiny

Chapter 34

"Fuck..."

The mental recoil from from being forced into my subconscious plane had left my head throbbing. The sun's rays didn't help as I raised my left hand to block the blinding light.

"Are you alright? You were spraled out unconscious when I happened to be passing by." The gentle and concerned whisper of a woman entered my ears as I finally noticed the softness of the woman's lap under my head.

"I'll be fine, thanks..."

Sitting up to face the woman, my chest tightened as Eto offered a closed eye smile. There was no hatred toward me. The warmth and worry behind her smile are genuine...

Before I left Uzu, you clearly had some disdain for me, disgusted that I was still walking around the earth. Thinking back, I'm sure you hated that I couldn't even remember what I did...

'But I know now. So why is it that you don't have the same hatred for me now as you did back then?'

"Are you okay, Shinku?" Before I realized it, Eto had stood before me, tiptoeing, she reached out her hands barely reaching the sides of my face.

"You've changed from what I remember."

"Changed? Well, I guess you might think so since we never had much interaction in the past, but i can't bring myself to hate you for something you had no control over nor remember." Eto's smile never left as she took a step back.

"..."

Even after hearing her say that, I still feel like shit after the memories of waking up came back to me.

"Even so. Even if this may be late, and your feelings have changed. I'm sorry for the events of the past and the mental anguish I'm sure you had to go through. For the constant reminder of what happened whenever you used to look at me."

Despite whether or not if I'm the recreation of a god. Even if I'm a powerful and ruthless Shinobi. At this moment, I gave short a keirei bow.

"..."

'For Kami's sake!'

Tears rolled down Eto's cheeks as her smile fell, and her eyes trembled.

"E-"

Before I could call out to her, Eto used the flying raijin and disappeared in a flash from the rooftop.

"-to..."

'Yeah. No way she actually forgave me, she only hoped to trick herself into believing so."

With a sigh, I quickly sensed for Akame's chakra signature, located in Shiritama's office. Aware that she would likely be sent out of Uzu later, i used the Flying Raijin Jutsu to leave the rooftop.

Teleporting 'home', I appeared with a silent brush of wind inside the common room and sat down on a zabuton cushion.

"Oh. The piece of shit is back. Too bad Akame's not here to clean it up." Ruri rolled her eyes as she downed a bottle shōchū. Several more bottles were scattered around the table we sat before, her words only slightly slurred as she gave me a death stare.

"Nice to see you as well, kuchikitanai. Dressed as lewdly as ever I see." I smiled as her black night gown like dress drooped off her shoulders and exposed a large amount of cleavage.

"The hell you just say?" Slamming the jade bottle down, shattering it on the table. With an aura that would suffocate many, Ruri glared daggers at me. "You wanna repeat that, gaki!"

"If you weren't such a bitch, men wouldn't always run away from you." Taking a bottle and popping it open I poured myself a bowl, uncaring for the rage fit of the woman before me.