Within the exposed void, two beings filtered across the emptiness, like two joyous butterflies dancing within an endless plain.
One of them, a male of beauty, was struggling hard to grasp onto the other, an elegant goddess, whom was thoughtlessly avoiding contact with the former.
And such a stalement continued, until the goddess decided to utter a single a word. A word that brought a halt to their little 'dance', a word that was followed by a statement.
"Why...?" At the same time, she thoughtlessly inquired, a soft whisper. But Elaide was able to hear her clearly, and paused mid air. "What..? What are you saying, after clearly–"
"Why... are you angry?" She cut off his words and continued with her own question. "Is it because if I... No, if Mirai truly died, you would have lost the chance to absorb her potential for yourself?"
She suppressed the anger rising from the remnants of the real Mirai's will, and questioned as the new Mirai. As someone that had to live with these suppressed emotions for centuries.
After all, what Elaide thought was true. The real Mirai was gone, and she was replaced by a soul from a completely different world. Hence his anger was justified... but only, and only if it was borne out of concern.
"Huh..? What are you babbling–"
"Please, your highness." Mirai cut off his words by her own words again, taking a deep breathe to regulate the anger within her. "Please give me a response. A proper response. Why are you angry, when you clearly discarded–"
"SHUT UP!!"
Boom!!
Elaide was the one to distupte her words this time, with a shout containing bellowing waves of power, and an authority far above the reaches of beings still bound by the workings of Reality.
An authority at the peak of Reality.
"...."
But Mirai kept quiet, as the authority stretched out towards her, and gently shackled parts of her limbs, and her neck. This authority manifested as golden chains, that made it hard for her to let out another word.
"You don't know nothing. You know nothing at all!!" Elaide continued his outburst, as the authority he let out kept increasing, rising and rising above his being. "You beings think you can come into our lives as you see fit, just because you have the capabilities to do so? Damn you, and your twisted perception!!"
"Have you ever wondered... have you ever thought about the consequences of your actions? Of the beings being affected because of your actions?! Do you even register a bit of guilt within your hearts when you view us as nothing but mere puppets?!"
BOOOM!!
The waves of power and obscure authority kept increasing, as it pushed away at the void, exposing more and more of the outer void. A place were Universes, Multiverses or even Cosmos would evaporate with the gentlest touch from it.
Elaide felt the emotions suppressed millenia back, explode out at this moment. "Your mere appearance alone forces us to do everything we have to do, just to survive. Going against our own emotions, our own aspirations, our own values, just to minimize how many people you affect with your twisted values!!"
His words resonated throughout the outer void, feeding it his boundless and suppressed emotions. Guilt, anger, sadness, despair, and many more emotions still rising.
He felt overwhelmed, and thus he let loose.
"...."
Yet Mirai remained standing, as the emotions within her eyes dulled down. Only anger remained. Suppressed danger that could shake the void itself when unleashed.
"...Your highness, Elaide, pardon my disrespect, but I repeat... Why are you angry?" She continued with her inquiry, as her words were also laced with the authority at the peak of Reality.
The authority... of the Rules of Reality.
Peng~!!
This released authority, caused the chains gently sorounding her limbs and her neck, to shatter one by one, releasing her from the grasp of Reality itself, as she slowly floated towards his visage. "...Why are you angry, when it should be her, who is angry?"
"And yes, you have experienced oppression, manipulation, abuse of power, and most likely more. I understand your anger, but... have you loved someone so much, you made them the center of your everything, only for them to use you at the end?" She inquired.
At this point, it was hard to tell who was speaking between the two Mirai's, but neither stood before the other. Both were looking for answers, and a way out of this emotional predicament.
"What... what are you saying? Who in this world, and age of gods, is stupid enough to make someone else the center of their world..? Which idiot out there–"
"It's her, your highness. The one you consider cosseted and coddled, the one you consider stupid... Mirai Avis. She gave you her everything, and yet what did you do in return?" Mirai once more cut through Elaide's words with her own, leaving him shocked.
"...Why would she clearly do that, when we live in a world where we practically use each other to survive even a day longer? Why would she–"
"Love, perhaps. I don't know." She once more did the same, now standing right before him, their bodies only being centimeters apart. "But in such a world, wouldn't it be better to rely on one another? Wouldn't it be fair to repay kindness with kindness, malice with malice, gratitude for gratitude? Yet... why not love for love?"
"...."
Elaide remained shocked and silent, as her words practically made sense, yet at the same time, they did not. Like a logically written out theory never put to the test.
"She loved you, your highness. She gave you her everything. Literally. She adored you. She changed for you. She no longer put herself at the center of the world, but put you there instead. All of hers, was yours, but all yours... remained yours." She continued.
"...."
The anger bottled up within her subsiding with every sentence. As if the remnant of the previous Mirai, came to terms with her new circumstances, with the present Mirai. "I repeat, she loved you, your highness... And all we required, was a bit of love back. No, perhaps not even that. Even your attention was enough..."
"Yet... all we obtained in return, was to be used when you obtained all that you required from us. When you were devouring all of our being. You crippled us, made us to be far below even an ant. You abandoned us, treating us lower than even a slave."
"..."
Elaide still remained silent, yet now in greater shock.
But Mirai ignored that. "For three hundred years, we were left to our own devices, with no strength, no pride, no dignity, nothing. Not even an existence, as to the world, we were long dead."
"No, that... that isn't–"
"Even if we breathed in the essence of life daily, we were just a dead husk within. A trophy of your success–"
"No!! That's not–"
"You deserve to be angry, but so do we–"
"THAT'S NOT IT. I HAD MY REASONS TO DO WHAT I DID. ITS NOT LIKE I REVELED IN ALL THE THINGS THAT I DID–" The two of them cut in between each other's words, forcing the conversation to go nowhere.
Until Elaide burst out once more, as his power erupted out like a supernova, forcefully pushing away at his soroundings.
Yet like the outer void that was slowly healing around him, Mirai remained standing. But at this moment, a switch was flipped within her, as the subsiding rage unexpectedly erupted out, disrupting his outburst once more.
This was no longer just from the previous Mira, but even from the current Mirai. Unlike her predecessor, she was not one to stand by when being abused. She was never one!!
"Reasons?! You speak of reasons as if that justifies your actions. It doesn't!! And just like the beings that you resent, that come and use you like puppets, you did the same to us, Elaide!! You're no different from them, you're a part of them!!" She clenched her fists as she roared out at him, raising her tone as well.
"NO!! No!! That's... That's not it, I say!!" Elaide roared back at her, grabbing onto her collars and pulling her closer to him with a deathening glare. But Mirai was fearless.
"Then what is it, Elaide? What. Is. It?! Reasons? Is that all that it took for you to throw away the one person, willing to tread through hell for you, huh?"
"Sh–Shut up!!"
"No!! You shut up!! Listen to us for once, Elade. So what if you had a greater purpose in mind?! So what if you had reasons behind your actions?! Did... Did those reasons take into consideration our feelings?! DID THEY, ELAIDE?!" She roared out, her voice breaking out into two muddled tones.
But the man too... was stubborn. No, that was wrong. She too, was a bit stubborn.
"YOU WON'T UNDERSTAND..!!"
"...WHY AM I SUPPOSED TO UNDERSTAND SOEMONE THAT DOESN'T WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE MY LOVE FOR HIM?!"
BOOOM!!
Their voices, containing the authority of the Rules of Reality, completely shattered the area of thr First Skies, and the exposed void for a fifteen thousand mile range, revealing only the dangerous essence of the outer void.
They were brings of great power.
Yet irregardless of the power each of them held, deep down, they were two broken individuals, who could not understand each other, or come to a consensus towards their individual circumstances.
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