CHAPTER 30: The Lost Zeran

After sometime, Zeran had flown into a trance again. It seemed he was already fond of these trance travelling. Though, his emotions says otherwise, since he was seeing his Goddess Ru and Goddess Ange were at Ange's holy white sanctuary. They were sitting and having a meeting with each other at the round table. More than that, they were having tea on their sides although, Ru had coffee on her teacup instead. Ru was carrying the Zeran plush doll wreathed around her slim arms. Ange took a sip of her tea and she said trying to interest Ru,

"Heard of the rumors?".

Ru replies,

"Yeah...another person will come to our world...".

Ange wore a smile of deep interest. She took a sip of her cup again. She revealed her blonde foxy ears and tail, such as she was also a demi-fox Goddess same as Ru but, Ange was the light counterpart instead. She said more, as her ears twitched, pointing unto Ru,

"Not just ANY person...but one of those Isekai CHAIN heroes...they're called..."

"And that...hero plush doll you're holding...is his very image...".

Ru wasn't happy, as she heard Ange's words filled with eagerness. Instead, she was filled with grave depression in her look since, she's about to experience another scarring experience, as she had with the other heroes from before, making her to sigh with a heavy look on her face,

"Sigh...I see...".

She hugged her Zeran plush doll tight, feeling the burden of disparity will return soon enough. Ange didn't mind Ru's feelings, since she doesn't care for the dark Goddess Ru's personal life. Ange stood up. She said with utter coldness and seriousness,

"You'll know what to do...dark Goddess Ru...".

Ru responds,

"Alright I get it...Ange...".

Ange left her own place, since she doesn't want to feel Ru's immense negativity and contagious depression in the air. In fact Ange was stranged by Ru's gradual change. Before, Ru was ambitious in her schemes to test the heroes and the world but, now she looked-like she was losing interest in accomplishing her duties as a dark Goddess, making Ange to look confused and frustrated. Since, Ru wasn't doing her duties very well, turning Ange to lose her merits aswell, such as the analogy of no darkness no light and vice-versa, without the light of reverence to the hero, no reward for the light Goddess. While Ru was the only one left at the sanctuary, she masked a smile but, it was filled with grave sadness, such as tears would fall out any moment, as she was looking at her Zeran plush doll and she says,

"I guess I'll need to suffer again..."

"Time to be killed again..."

"But I don't know what kind of scheme that'll test him..."

"I feel like this is such a chore now...".

As Zeran was witnessing the ever sorrowful Ru, he seemed he wanted to embrace her and make her feel good, that someone's been looking out for her, despite that every normal human would fear her for being the dark Goddess who spreads terror and chaos. Sadly, he already knew 'tis but just a dream of her past memory, making him to feel curious what's inside her shell too.

A little while later, his cloudy trance took a sudden stop. Thereon, as his real vision opened up, he was lying down, hearing and feeling the calm waters of the subterranean spring from before, illuminating in its most mystical way as possible yet, there were no lavender butterflies fluttering around. More than that, he noticed that his eyes were seeing his Goddess Ru and his head was on her soft lap for some unusual reason. He thought that he was dreaming again and he must wake up from his total slumber but, his senses felt it was all too real. Ru noticed that Zeran had awoken from his deep sleep, so she greets him with over the top happiness with a hint of sexyness,

"Good morning...my dear oh dear Zeran?".

He asks,

"Ru?".

Ru replies but, filled with great reverence for herself, in which it wasn't her usual way of talking,

"Yes yes...the one and only thy dark Goddess Ruhime of the HIMENEA WORLD".

Though, he noticed that Ru was acting way too much even for her standards, so his thoughts noticed that there was something wrong, since he already knew that she was already captured by Fae and Nassus from before,

("Okay...her way of talking...is kinda different...even if it's weird...").

The next moment, he sniffed a scent from Ru in a very unnoticeable way. The scent that he had sensed wasn't the same as Ru's luscious and aromatic scent that would soothe anyone's feelings from before. Instead, the scent he had sniffed coming from the Ru near his presence was filled with grave terror that'd give-off chilling goosebumps to anyone, it's as if the very stench was the death's door seeped in decaying black roses, dooming and scarring anyone into their utter demise of a putrid rotten forbidden fruit. She's as if she wasn't a virgin anymore, dulling him even more. Ru held Zeran's forehead and she said,

"I have a favor to ask..."

"My charming Zeran...".

Though, her touch wasn't filled with any kind of normal warmth, as her touch was filled with coldness, turning Zeran to notice that she wasn't the real Ru that he would love to be with. He stood up immediately and walked away. Ru asked him what's wrong. His eyes turned cold and he says with an icy stare at Ru, pointing his finger, since he was truly suspicious of her,

"Tell me...who are you...you aren't the real Ru..."

"Since Ru calls me by my new nickname...Zera..."

"And your very SCENT isn't like her pure and luscious scent of a virgin..."

"Instead your very scent is SIMILAR to FAE's putrid scent when she cheated on me...showing me how she got intimate with her other lovers...or even...worse...".

The air became tense and time was still. Ru closed her eyes. Soon enough, she grinned out a demonic smile, though it wasn't oozing of sexyness and flirtiness of the real Ru. Rather, the smile of Ru in Zeran's presence was filled with dangerous vibes that'd scar anyone's soul that was somehow similar to Queen Fae's but, even scarier. Then, Ru says,

"So you have seen through my illusion...".

She snapped her fingers. Thereupon, Ru was shrouded by shining black lights and glittery white dark spheres, turning her to change her very appearance. Her lavander hair was dyed into the color silvery white similar to Fae's but, longer. Her sinister foxy looks were replaced by an intimidating look of a tempting fallen angel eager for destruction and divine desecration. The arabian swimsuit-like outfit was changed into a long gown. Her long gown was seeped into the distorted blend of holy white and inked in dark abyss. Her gloves were even shocking to look at, due to the fading of white into the void of black aswell as her stockings. Her very form wasn't the daring dark Goddess Ru anymore yet, the distorted light Goddess Ira who's passionate of despair and chaos instead. Soon, she cracked out her sarcastic voice, praising him for his utter feat,

"I must say...that ability of yours is kinda handy..."

"Very well done hero..."

"Thee have proven yourself worthy of my respect..."

"Thy name's light Goddess Ira...of UNLIMATIA WORLD!"

"And yes...I'm the very mother of your former wife Fae but, I'm FAR BETTER than my own precious daughter..."

"If you want, you might want to have a TASTE of me first-hand soon...".

Goddess Ira was posing unto him like she was trying to appease Zeran's carnal desire, emphasizing her breasts of amazing volume and steamin' lustful look, such as she was a b*tch mother in-heat who wanted to devour her former son-in-law or something, since her daughter had lost interest in him. Now he totally knew where Fae got her extreme intimate passion from. Though, she noticed that Angehime came into the place, so Ira said with a frown and she stopped acting like a tempting sl*t,

"Sadly Angehime wants to talk to you about something..."

"So that'll have to wait...".

Thereon, Ange's presence was revealed from the shadows, in which it was ironic for a light Goddess to appear in such a way. Ange was wearing her glasses again and she was masking a serious look. More than that, she was carrying a modern pistol. She gave him the pistol. As Ange expected, Zeran was shocked, so she tells him,

"This is just a FLARE GUN..."

"Just signal that flare gun on the location that I'll tell you later on...".

Zeran replies feeling hopeful,

"Then will you release RU?!".

Ange sighed and told him with a grave look on her face,

"Sadly I can't do that...because...this is her punishment...".

He recalled what Ange said, while he was holding his chin down with a suspicious look on his face,

"Punishment...I see...".

Ange noticed that he wasn't happy, as he heard her words regarding the state of Ru, so Ange held his hand with great care, gave him a smile of eager interest and let out her words filled with great content,

"Instead, your reward will be..."

"You'll be revered as the HERO again..."

"Regain your status as a king..."

"And also...I'll become your Goddess Bride...".

The air became stagnant. Ira went close to him and she let his shoulder feel her sublime soft Goddess carress once more, trying to tempt him. Then, she tells him, trying to boost his interest even more,

"More than that...I can become your CONCUBBINE aswell..."

"And yes...I'll be a better lover than my own daughter..."

"Two birds in one stone, I could say myself...".

After that, she wrung herself around his arm and shoulders in a very oozing sexy manner, letting her face touch his shoulder blades, such as she was a white serpent tempting his deep desires. Her very action was the same as Fae's but, it was more attractive, as it had a hint of a matured touch of an experienced woman. Her vacant index finger was touching and drawing a heart at Zeran's left chest to amplify more of his carnal interests. The air was filled with a fog of arousing velvet lustful vibes that was emanating from the two so called light Goddesses. Strangely enough, there were abyss black butterflies and golden topaz butterflies fluttering around later on. Though, Zeran didn't look that much pleased for the two light Goddesses' lust-filled generous offers, instead he was having huge suspicions in his thoughts for the two of them,

("Tsk...Now I'm having doubts if I want this woman...")

("And this foreign Goddess too...there is something kinda off about her...other than her scent...")

("She's kinda dangerous...more dangerous than Fae...")

("Even though she's kinda sexy in her actions...")

("Though, Ange said...I'll be reknowned as a hero again...and my life will be back to once it was...and I'll have these two as great bonuses too...letting me have eternal life too...").

Suddenly, he felt some sort of cold spear had struck deep in his heart, as he tried to remember Ru, turning him to have a deep breath,

("But...what about Ru?")

("This feeling...why am I terrified...")

("These two before me are light Goddesses...yet...they're scarier than any dark Goddess...I've confronted with...")

("It feels like...their lights have been...")

("DISTORTED...").

Ira snapped him out of his thoughts by putting her index finger on top of his lip, gesturing some kind of secret between them and she said in a very engaging way filled with mischief,

"Don't tell Nassus about our secret, okay?".

Meanwhile, in another area, during the nightfall outside, clashings of weapons were overheard nearby, echoing the sound of battle that was going on in the middle of the night. Mai was wielding a scimitar. Her scimitar was crescent in shape but, shorter than any longsword or katana yet, longer than any dagger that was used for close-combat. She was using a melee weapon, since she was fighting someone wearing a mask and shrouded with a full-fledged white cloak who has a scythe as her weapon. Not only that, the mystery woman was like a shadowy spectre on her movements, making Mai's main ranged weapon to be useless. Mai stanced herself defensively, anticipating the visaged woman's next strike. Sadly, Mai was becoming exhausted, so she was feeling weak as the battle took longer than she can handle. The next moment, the woman vanished with blinding speed and tried to struck Mai with lots of flurries from above, the front and the sides with amazing grace. Thankfully, Mai was able to parry all of them. Sadly, those attacks took a toll on her stamina and she noticed something peculiar, so she said to the mysterious woman,

"Hah...hah...tell me...why are you here..."

"Reincarnation Goddess Arseia...".

As the cloaked woman removed her mask, the brave mother-like and maiden-like face of Goddess Arseia was revealed, turning Mai's suspicion to be correct. Arseia struck down her scythe unto the loamy ground to cease their battle. Then, Arseia says with grave seriousness in her look,

"I want to talk to you about something...Mai..."

"It's about the cases of Angehime, Ruhime and my son...and that foreign DISTORTED light Goddess...".

As Mai heard those words about the Goddesses and Zeran, she sheathed her scimitar and the searing winds of battle had calmed down. She sighed deeply and responded with an intense eager look on her brave eyes,

"Sigh...alright...I'm listening..."

"If it's about Zen, then I'll do what I can..."

Arseia was pleased, making her to say,

"Glad we had an understanding..."

Though in her thoughts were feeling kinda wishful,

("Maybe...she still loves Zen...but what about you...my son...").