𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙨―𝐑.𝐎. 𝐱 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫

Twenty Seven

You walked into the nurse's office to see Bella hold an icepack to her head and the nurse putting bandages on her arms. The nurse, Dr Nyer, looked over at me with a stern look on her face.

"What are you doing here?" she asked with a harsh undertone.

"I was wondering if I could speak with Bella for a moment. I need to apologize to her." You explained.

Dr Nyer sent you a dry look that only had one thing about it: don't play dirty. Whatever that meant. You sat on the bed on the opposite side of Bella.

"What are you doing here? To rub it in?" Bella sneered at me.

"Why didn't you tell me about your father?" You asked her.

"My father? My father's Ares."  Bella said.

You knew she was lying. Even with her convincing dialogue and convincing body language, you knew she was lying through her teeth.

"No. Your father is mortal and Ares killed him. His name was Raphael right?" You said revealing that you knew about her true parentage.

Her face paled at the mention of hos name. Bella turned to look at you and you gave her a reassuring smile.

"Why didn't you tell me? I could've helped." You comforted her. Or at the very least, tried to anyway.

"It's not like you'll understand. You didn't see your family murdered in front of you by someone everyone saw as a god. As a good guy. But no, not every good guy is a good guy." Bella sneered.

"I watched my adoptive family all die right in front of me. By a manticore that he sent. And you're going to make him escape his dreaded prison to come here! Where my friends are? Where my family is?" You questioned her.

"We are, but we're only doing it, because the Gods need to die. Just like they've been killing us for thousands of years." Bella told me.

"The gods know what is right for us. They know that we have stupid decisions and they try to have us uphold that stupid decision that turned into one mistake. They know whay they're doing." You told her.

"By killing hundreds of thousands of us! That's not how this world should be anymore."

"They kill those that threaten us. That threaten the world. Which is why Luke Castellean died. He threatened us."

"You really don't understand. He threatened them not us! The gods only care about being high and mighty."

"And you think Akemi and Claudia wanted something different? No! They wanted the power all for themselves! When they got it, they were going to get rid of you. There is no winning for you! For any of you!"

"You're lying. We are winning and we're going to have the last laugh."

"Why? You don't have Rin's blood."

"We don't need it. We have something else. And it was all to throw you off the scent."

"He won't win."

"Why?"

"I won't let him."