Bad Guy

It was only the evening of the same day that Kisuke went out of his room with his eyes shining as if he found his new toy.

"Looks like you had your fill." Yoruichi saw his expression and commented.

Kisuke looked at the lazing dark beauty and smiled, "Yup~. Just this amount of data is already worth the trip here." Chuckling, he sat beside her and laid down on her lap, "How is your side?"

"They are all gathering on this island..." Yoruichi combs his hair to get it out of the way.

Kisuke furrowed his brows, "How?"

"No clue. Just a moment they were searching blindly, then an order from each of the current generation suddenly gathered most of their forces and is currently making its way to this island. By tomorrow morning, they would all arrive here." Yoruichi shrugs her shoulder. She tried to trace where their information came from but failed.

"Hmm... I guess these so-called Gods are already trying to get involved... I wonder how much information they shared with these guys?" Kisuke stretches his arms and legs.

"What do you want to do next?"

"Move the Yaegaki family back to Japan early in the morning tomorrow for now. After that, let's see how much info they have on her location. If it's just the general direction, then I want to know how would they pull her out. If it's specific, we'll back off and see how Ana would deal with it."

"You're just going to let her be?" It's Yoruichi's turn to furrow her brows. She already took a liking to the unfortunate beauty and didn't want anything bad to happen to her, 'Seeing her genuinely enjoy every little thing in life makes me want to protect her.'

"I want that 'thing' to manifest and letting her be is the easiest way to achieve it." Kisuke knew what are her thoughts and smiled at her.

"Couldn't you just pull it out of her?"

"I can... But that'll take a very long time and so much effort. Those 'things' are already fused with her soul but from my tests, I hypothesized that it'll temporarily separate from her when it tries to pull her down and that will be our chance to remove it."

"Pull her down you say... Then she would have to die once, huh..."

"I already got that covered~. Preserving her soul should be easy, and why do you think I've been gathering information regarding her body these past few days?"

"To create a new body for her?"

"Correct. Although the same as before, her body would be a Mana construct. If I want to create it with flesh and blood, I would need something that has her complete DNA and integrate it with the new advance Gigai that I'm working on. But as expected... That's impossible." Kisuke sighed. It would be a lot easier if he has her original body part.

"..." Yoruichi stayed silent for a moment before asking, "Do you plan to kill that Goddess if she's really the one who did it?"

"... No." Kisuke sat up, "She's one of the main gods of the Greek Pantheon, and killing her equates to declaring an all-out war with them. We don't want that on top of being pointless."

"Figures..." It's Yoruichi's turn to lay down on his lap.

"And besides, we can't judge her just because we saw one side. We still don't know her side of the story. My guess is that this is related to the Gods' divinity." And just like what she first did, Kisuke combs back her hair.

"Then how are you going to deal with them then?"

"I'll be hiding behind my Hollowfication. I also need to test my abilities in that form, especially the unique effect I got after transforming."

Yoruichi's eyes widened at his words as this is the first time she heard of it and her eyes twinkled, "You have something like that? Show me!"

"You can watch when the time comes, and that's the main reason why I want to mess with them~."

"Unbelievable... No... Should I say as expected of you?"

"Precisely~."

"After that? Even if you're able to hide your identity, you can't keep it forever. Sooner or later, we'll be discovered and by that time, they would come after us."

"I'll create a situation where they would have to strike a deal with me." Kisuke then flashed a bad grin.

Yoruichi's mouth twitches, "... Knowing you... Kidnapping? Hostage? Or is it Poisoning? Which is it?"

"Just what do you think of me?"

"A guy who has an obsession with keeping things under his control and likes to infuriate others"

"..." It's Kisuke turn to remain silent.

"What? I got it right?"

"Two of those..."

"Bad guy..."

"Thank you~."

This time, from the dining area, they heard Cleria's call, "The food is ready!"

Both of them stood up and Kisuke dispelled the basic one-way sound-insulating magic that he put up before he sat down beside Yoruichi, "We're coming~."

They reached the dining table and saw that they are the only ones not sitting. Off to the side, Medusa, who is already wearing a clean white blindfold, abruptly faced Kisuke when she noticed him arrive and Kisuke also unintentionally looked at her. A few seconds, however, she suddenly blushed because she remembered what happened earlier, and thinking about it further, they did something really embarrassing in her opinion. She hurriedly turned away from him.

The husband and wife looked at Kisuke in shock but didn't explain himself as he can feel some hostility manifesting beside him. Kisuke braced himself but didn't put any defensive stance. A split second later, a fist was buried in her stomach, "Gufuu!"

"What did you do!?" From his side, Kisuke heard Yoruichi's menacing voice.

"I didn't do anything... Wait, that's wrong. I didn't do anything risque!" Kisuke raised his hands in surrender.

"I'm asking what you did, not what you didn't." Yoruichi stared down on him.

"Wait! It's a misunderstanding! Your husband didn't really do anything weird to me!" Medusa was stunned at what just happened but immediately recovered and tried to vouch for Kisuke.

Yoruichi then faced Medusa but she didn't change her expression, "I'm listening."

Medusa staggered backward due to the intensity of her gaze but still answered, "Earlier, he asked me to show him my eyes and I did. But I didn't know that someone staring straight to my eyes is that embarrassing. I just recalled what happened earlier when I saw him approach but still felt pretty embarrassing after thinking about it the second time."

"Hmmm..." Yoruichi continued to stare at her and Medusa wanted to buckle from it. After a moment, however, Yoruichi suddenly smiled, "I see. Well, let's eat! I'm hungry."

After hearing that, Kisuke immediately shoots straight up and followed, "Oh~. What do we have here? Such a luxurious lineup! I don't know where to start with." He spoke as if nothing happened and commented on the large amount of food originating from many different countries.

Cleria also recovered from what happened and chose not to dwell on it, "Ehem... It seems that Miss Ana enjoyed the food I made no matter what it is, so I decided to make as much variety as possible for her to try." Cleria explained to Kisuke. He also received the news that the Perseus Clan is gathering their forces on this island and figured that he would ask them to move tomorrow. The Yaegaki family also liked Medusa and noticed how shallow her happiness is so they tried to make something good for her before the inevitable conflict.

"...Thank you..." Medusa tears up a bit because these people who took care of her these past few days treated her like she's part of their family. Escaping from Perseus Clan's pursuit for uncountable years, she developed an instinct that would tell her that the end is near. Her gratefulness couldn't be expressed fully through words but she didn't know what else to do, 'If I can survive this ordeal, I promise I'll return this kindness a hundredfold... Now, this is the second promise I made after that girl took care of me...'