The Lord of Death and The Queen of Ice

Chapter 8 : Unexpected Twist of Fate

Almost Three Years Ago.

Forest near The North Mountain, Kingdom of Arendelle, July 21, 1875

With the round moon and twinkling lights of thousands stars shinning in the night sky, Michiro along with a tall handsome man with bulky muscular body, white long hair tied in small ponytail, and pair of sharp maroon eyes. It was his fellow Pillar and demon slayer, the Sound Pillar Tengen Uzui and the two of them were running around the thick wide woods in their search for a demon that were lurking around on there and victimizing most of the human especially travellers that were passing on there.

"Where are you oni?! The God of Festival is here to end your unflamboyant life!" Tengen shouted boastfully with a wide confident grin on his face, causing for Michiro to huff rolled his eyes on annoyance.

He was completely irratated to be paired up with the white haired man for a mission yet he had no choice since could not brought himself to defy Oyakata-sama's order on him and it was a special request since he is the only Pillar and demon slayer who is familiar and had a vast knowledge of the continent of Europe and the countries on it. Even though Tengen was a shinobi and was trained how to deal with different circumstances, Europe was a different place compare to Asia specifically Japan and he should keep an eye on him from getting himself into troubles.

"Tengen, don't shout. The demons might hear you and it may run away. He know that he was dealing with Two Pillar's right now." Michiro uttered in cold stoic manner.

"Well, he should be really afraid of us after all! We are the Pillars of the Demon Slayer Corps! The strongest among the corps who are ready to exterminate their drab existence in the face of the earth!" Tengen replied on loud cocky manner as he brought his gaze on Michiro, making him shook his head in disbelief, internally debating whether he would gonna tied him up from head to toe and thrown in the nearest river or he would gonna kicked his ass off from his sight.

"By the way, did you hear that today is the coronation of the new queen of this kingdom? I heard she is flamboyantly beautiful and hot. It's a shame I never got a glimpse of her or her sister." Tengen uttered in cheerful friendly manner, looking at Michiro.

"You know what's more shameful on here? That you are still keep looking for a woman even though you are already had three wives." Michiro uttered in cold stoic manner without taking his eyes off from their track, causing for Tengen to laugh loudly as he was completely get to use of the raven haired man's serious demeanor.

"Hey Michiro, I'm not interested on royalties at all since I know how irritating and demanding they are and I want to see them, not for myself but for you. You are getting older. Well, you are the immortal manslayer but I think you need to have a woman for yourself brother. You never know, the New Queen of Arendelle will fall for you. You are a flashy one after all." Tengen uttered. Being his fellow Pillar, the white haired man knew that Michiro was the legendary 'Lord of Death'.

Hearing the words that his fellow Pillar had said, Michiro simply sharpened his gaze on him on annoyance with the expression on his face turned into much colder one as he had no intention of having a woman himself, let alone to have some sort of queen as he did not have any time to waste on it and he did not want to have some at all, knowing that getting closer and falling in love was like drinking a medicine and poison, can relieve the pain at first yet would only slowly destroy your very existence until nothing left at the end.

Taking noticed of snowflakes falling, Tengen brought his gaze on the sky that were slowly being covered with clouds with his brows furrowed in bewilderment and disbelief.

"Snow? In the middle of July? I don't know that winter begin in July here at Arendelle." Tengen uttered, causing for Michiro to snapped back into the reality and brought his gaze on the night sky as snowflakes fell further from it, eyes widened in shock and confusion. Having a sight of his reaction, the white haired man immediately grasp his thought which caused for his feature to turn into serious one.