"Tsk, why am I even doing this in the first place"
On the surface, on one of many roofs standing, is complaining Dwight Fillan after a nock of an arrow as he lowers his front hair. Rather than a complain, he feels more of melancholic and guilt
Because no more than 500 meters from afar in the cobblestone street, lies a young woman wearing an Adventurer's Guild uniform...
Blood gushes out of her gut as her whole body started twitching, dying in cold, alone and without witness.
Not knowing who or what hits her, she just realize that she's dying when flashes of memories played through her eyes...With tears trickling off, she died with eyes wide awake.
Her long curly dark hair is now dyed by a crimson color of her own blood, with her eye of uncouth, now changed into nothingness...
Dwight lowers his head, faintly apologized then sprinted away without looking back.
The girl he killed is one of evilus' rat in Guild Adventurer's flank, or so according to Agwin. He is somewhat doubtful and refuses the idea, but he couldn't say no to his boss as Dwight felt sorry for a girl he just killed.
Jumping from one roof to another thereafter, Dwight uses his [Keen Eyes] to see each and identified every person according to Agwin's description. There's an Evilus in a certain familia and some are even Orario's City Guard. So, he, one by one killed them without remorse. Well, he had, after killing them, that is...
And after a while...
"Dwight!!!" someone called him. With breath ragged and somewhat worried.
"Ow hey capt'n, what happened?" Dwight questioned.
"Cernunnos-sama, I can't find her!"
"Hah! How? I saw her a couple of hours ago! Not even in our [Val Camonica]?" Dwight asks frantically.
For the record, Val Camonica is their territory. Named after Cernunnos' palace at Tenkai.
"Yes! She should be! But I couldn't see her anywhere!" the captain of Cernunnos Familia exclaimed rather frantically.
His co-familia along with their current captain, run to where he is currently located...more like, they were trying to find him all along. After all, he is just like Agwin to Astraea. That even the current captain wants to step down just for him, but Dwight rejected the idea to avoid internal conflict.
"What to do, I hadn't yet to finish my mission!" Dwight mutters.
He wanted to switch his priority but this mission of his 'Boss' is absolute and for the Orario's future as a whole, so he didn't have much of a choice, rather, following Agwin's order is the toppest priority.
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"Cernunnos...it is you, correct?"
The goddess, although not as beautiful as Astraea-sama nor Artemis had a devastating charm and cuteness with her small figure. That, if you didn't look at her eyes like that of a cat, piercing glare full of hatred yet gloom and looking-rejected...
I can't help but ask myself...what is she doing in a place like this?
Well, she's the one who enters my field of vision after I killed some Evilus' fodder.
"I see, so it was the Demi Ymir who welcomed me here!" So she said to me whose still using the skin of that scary dwarf, Mia Grand.
"What are you doing, in this place? I'm sure this is not your home ground, ain't it?" I asks.
I wanted to know...
I am eager to know why the hell she's here of all places! Even with the use of my clone to figure out the identity of higher-ups Evilus members, I didn't find even a trace of her there!
Because, to interact with their affiliated god, only higher ranking evilus cultists could have had the chance to interact with them...but then, why...why is this deity in here!? Of all places!? Why inside the dungeon!? And of all gods! Why is this woman!?
I want to deny it.
I don't want to believe it!
"Its obvious, right? I am here because I'm one of the Evilus deity!" So she claimed!
I heard her pretty clearly but I keep on denying her claim!
I wanted to tear my heart and ears apart after hearing her ominous vindictive claim!
Am I daydreaming!?
Or is this a nightmare!?
Is this still the reality!? If so, of all gods, why her!?
"From your reaction, you seemed to know me than I know you Demi Ymir" She sneer faintly, "Or should I say---child of Astraea?" And even exposes me, making me twitch out of stupor!
"You! Why are you here! And, how did you--!?" So I claimed, frustration and anxiety increases in each passing second of seeing her! Of having an eye contact with her!
And this time, I can't breath! This deity...she is rather ominous!
I later realize the reality. Fate sure is cruel, reality is indeed cruel...the reality that she is without a doubt, an enemy that stands before me! The enemy that needs to be eliminated.
"I am the goddess of the hunt, and also the goddess who can see the truth...I only see you once but I already track your habit. Isn't that right? Friend of my Dwight, Agwin of Astraea?"
"D-damn you!" I unknowingly cursed her,
". . .why. . .did you do this in the first place?! Is that really your true form? your true skin? Are you really an enemy!? is this your love for Dwight only amounted to!?" while ranting, I uncover my mask and slowly, my physique started to changed and return back to original Agawin
"Uhmmhm" She just nodded. "I hated the gods who dwelled in this place looooong before Dwight become the child of mine. I wanted to forget this personal vendetta, I should have to! but I can't! This hatred starts during the reign of the mighty old gods...! bearing it as it keep on increasing in each passing second! In each passing decade! So, do not challenge my determination, friend of Dwight! I am determined to end it here!" So she grin wickedly with roucous voice. Desperate and seemingly hopeless.
"So you're wretched to the bone huh, did you just use him? You only using him did you!?" I can't help but retort with rage.
No, who am I to talk when I was the one who's using Dwight right now? But, I am him in the first place, I am his master to server so this should be fair!
As for my question, Cernunnos just covers her eyes and laughs wickedly. Her fangs and nails started to expand rather slowly, making her face starts to trickle with her own ichor. Simultaneously, every hair of my skin starts standing.
"Hahahhahahaahah, use? Seriously...?"
Then what? What is Dwight to you? I wanted to ask as she continued---
"...You know child of Astraea, if I start using Dwight for my vengeance, he would immediately leave my familia and hated me...this is why I love him the most...He is too pure, and innocent, and caring. But well, because you already encountered me here. I can't hug him anymore...Ahh, Dwight...my child! I want to see him one last time!"
Her ichor and the cut of her face started to form a blinding light like a ticking timed bomb...
"Ahhh, I hope my death here will be the wish I truly wanted...to...achieve!" Her hoarse voice is a bit of cold yet lonely and vexing.
BOOOM-----!
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The 20th floor rumbled as the pillar of white light ascends.
Agwin flew off to who-knows-where during this scene as the explosion is enough to swallow half a district of the Orario.
Cernunnos at the same time, remembers her past...her familia whose the same as the current Loki Familia right now.
Her growing familia who, in the end, mortified by Hera and her familia until they quitted and disappear while some, killed themselves just to desperately gathers excelia inside the dungeon until their inevitable fall...
She's waiting...and waiting, waiting for her sweet revenge but none of it ever happened.
She waited, but in the end, Hera is now gone and never to return. She should be happy that the old lady is now gone for good, but instead, her wrath didn't subside even a little bit, and instead it grows like an endless ivy who poke and squeezes her dying heart for revenge. Ever wanting to destroy the Orario's current pillar itself.
So, she decided. "I'll kill you in Tenkai instead!" She cussed out, cursing Hera...
Calling it childish or insane, Cernunnos is dead-set on killing the said goddess and mutilate her familia. But that won't happen no longer here in Gekai.
Also...
She already had an oath to destroy the whole Orario, so her first goal won't---and never change!
With that, she mutters "Dwight, everyone...find a suitable deity, those who isn't tainted with hatred and jealousy. The real goddess of the hunt, the god who would cherish their child" So she smile after a mutter, until finally luminated in a clad of bright light.
At that exact moment, her pillar of light ascension is the same moment that Dwight tumbled down from the above roof as if he was pulled towards the ground as if exhausted...with gritting teeth and eyes turning in red, he raised his upperbody.
Because. . .
Right now. . .
He is falna-less as he felt as if his body crumbling into pieces.
Hastily vanishing of the said illuminated light, the grace is not there anymore. His heart is currently burning in pain. . .and hatred. . .and loneliness.
His Falna has been locked up automatically the moment Cernunnos ascended back to heaven, is what he realized, and finally, he declared.
"I swear to god! I WILL kill them, Cernunnos-sama, I'll kill whoever bitch that sent you back to heaven!" Dwight is seated with wobbling feet, his heart right now is full of hatred and vengeance. His captain at the same time, wail from behind, looking at the luminous pillar until its last fade of light.
"CERNUNNOS-SAMAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!"
Hearing his captain's hopeless scream, Dwight swore to heaven...