Chapter 32: Horses

~Third POV~

As Tatsumi has gotten his reward he returned to his own world as he now appears in his room again as he smiles returning home.

The next thing he does next was opening up his [Dark Space] Echidna and Beatrice looks at his room as he welcomes them into his home.

At that moment was when the rest of the members have signed on.

[Ding! Ruby, Toga, Erza, and MamaGreed have entered the chat!]

Soon enough everyone now signs on welcoming Tatsumi on his return as Echidna and Beatrice settle themselves.

Ruby: Tatsumi! Welcome back to the world we saw what you were doing!

Toga: Yeah you damn crazy bastard going through the [Mist of Elimination] and transforming into a badass dragon armor! You're a mad lad!

Erza: I agree what you did was insane and crazy but I'm glad that you return home and brought along a new member as well it's a pleasure to meet you Echidna.

MamaGreed: MamaGreed? Is that my name that needs to be heard of this place ;<…

Tatsumi: Not really you can change your name once you touched the nickname yours.

MamaGreed: I see so this is the group chat I have heard of it's a pleasure to meet you three I hope you lead me well.

Toga: Although I am wary of you Echidna no offense if Tatsumi puts trust in you to join I guess I can only accept his choice.

Ruby: Yeah, no offense Echidna when we first saw you for the first time, I was pretty scared of you with that smile it was very scary :<…

Echidna looks at the screen as she smiles at this kindly and types down her response to Ruby to reassure the girl.

MamaGreed: Have no fear I won't do anything like that again since helping my original world lead me to that path, but I still want to help people with my knowledge and this time around be sane so don't worry child.

The rest of the members looks at Echidna and were surprised about her attitude but soon smiles at this since they knew she was someone to be trusted as they began to reply in their locations.

Ruby: Yeah if you are not going to do anything like that then I can agree to help you as well Echidna also I apologize for being scared.

Toga: Same here since clearly, you are different from the original, so no harm done.

Erza: Agreed seeing and reading from the source is one thing but seeing the genuine person is a way to tell that they are being true.

Echidna: Ok that name change is done with and also thank you for your words of encouragement I hope to be of help.

Tatsumi seeing Echidna bow to them smirks as he summons out the bed, he sto- borrow from the Rosswaal mansion he questions the members as to why they never answered him before during the mission.

Tatsumi: Say Ruby said earlier that you saw me before how come you guys haven't answered me before when I was on the job?

Erza reading the message sends in her response in a thoughtful tone.

Erza: Honestly, I think you needed patience and concentration to do your mission and to my surprise, you did this in under 5 or 6 days to complete I congratulate you on your hard-fought battle against the whale and Gluttony I myself would have a hard time to face against by myself and the whale.

Tatsumi: I see it more on the lines that I don't have to worry about you right?

Erza: Of course, whenever I'm on the job I tend to keep my mind focus on the task at hand and get it done.

Tatsumi: Really? Well, it certainly helps out at times when focusing so I can't complain about it much.

Ruby reading Tatsumi's question reply to him with a thoughtful tone with an excuse of her own.

Ruby: For me, I would've supported you from afar but when you started to attack the Witch Cultist without remorse, I won't lie that I was afraid to see any more of what you did but…

Ruby closes her eyes in her room remembering the point of view of Tatsumi when he hunted down the crazy belief people showing no remorse made her fear him but at the same time when she the cultist doing horrendous and terrible torture to people, she was conflicted about the idea of good and evil.

Ruby: I know that killing is natural to you Tatsumi, but I can see how that is necessary for it to happen, and learning the world of Re: Zero it's just I couldn't stomach it so that was my reason for why I couldn't contact you much.

Tatsumi: Trust me I understand as well I didn't want to kill unless necessary, but those people willingly chose to become like this they believed what they were doing what they wanted they never consider consequences so there was no need for cancer like that to exist.

Echidna: I have witnessed the deeds as well Ruby it's in human or any living being nature that they can kill when they want I have witnessed humanity malice and madness as I was a part of it myself anyone can become the worst of people when they want too. It's not the matter of right or wrong to kill it's just how we justify our actions is how we live through with our choices.

Ruby reading this was surprised at this but thinks to herself about Echidna's words as she couldn't respond to it till she finally does.

Ruby: !!!

Ruby: I… I see…

Tatsumi: Listen Ruby don't worry so much only when you're in a tough situation when you can make the call but otherwise there is nothing wrong to let your enemies live it's just to make sure they can't harm others again is all.

Ruby: …

Ruby: Ok I think I understand why you did what you did thanks.

Tatsumi: No probs.

Echidna: Not a thing to worry about child don't worry about such subjects till the time rises.

Toga listening to the conversation of the chat decided to tell her the reason why she didn't answer till she heard Tatsumi's arrival to his world.

Toga: My reason why I wasn't able to talk much was that… well for personal reasons with my family…

Listening to the text they were surprised by Toga's response as she saw the looks of the members except Echidna being confused.

Toga: Let's just say after a long time of running I finally met my parents again and was detained for a while…

Ruby: What!

Tatsumi: What! +1

Erza: What! +1

Echidna: I'm so lost here?

Toga: Ok let me explain since the beginning I was a suspect of attacking a classmate of mine and long story short when I saw blood I was keeping my Quirk suppressed but once I got a whiff of it I… lost control and drank from him then a classmate saw me have a blissful expression since I was finally able to comply with my urges.

Echidna: Oh! Toga dear that is not a wise idea how long have you been suppressing your urges to not react negatively as it had?

Toga: About I don't know about a year or less before I exploded to taste of blood again…

The rest of the members flinches at this as Toga continues her explanation of her reason.

Toga: As soon as Tatsumi has told me to eat more of a diet to have my Quirk satisfied it made me realize that my mental problems from a lack of nutrients needed made me turn into a bloody vampire girl that I needed to satisfy my urges.

Tatsumi: So… how exactly did you go through the whole scenario?

Toga: Ha ha ha ha… pretty shitty honestly I had to be made in for questioning and answering for my time but otherwise only home arrest once they realized that I was a run away from my home and gave them my reason for my cause is because of my Quirk.

Ruby: Really? Then what happens next as soon as they heard your condition?

Toga looking at Ruby's response smiles warmly at her young huntress in training friend as well as the others showing concern.

Toga: Well they wrote the incident down as child abuse since my parents told me that I needed to keep my urges down when they could've taken me to the doctors instead of overreacting or take me to see a psychiatrist for my mental state.

Tatsumi: Really? Is it really that simple to have ':0

Toga: Ha ha ha! It happens more often than you can imagine once I had my mental state back after eating the necessary nutrients I decided to look up the causes and once I realize that in Japan more than 38% percent of kids need to see a doctor see their physical Quirk needs or a psychiatrist once a child develops a certain problem personality that needs to be fixed.

Tatsumi: Really then are you living with your parents then?

Toga: No more like a close relative of mine in the apartments right next to our neighbors a crazy green hair All Might fanboy and the explosive person nearby. I think I should try to sign up to be a hero.

Ruby: Really! That is so COOL you have my full support on it!

Erza: Becoming a hero is a job for you yes? I do not doubt that you will be a good one with the proper training.

Tatsumi: Wow! A hero huh? In that case, I wish you the best of luck to train although you have [Aura] I think you will do fine.

Tatsumi was surprised to hear that Toga was now living near the main characters but decided to tell her at a later date.

Echidna looking at the conversation is very intriguing to learn new terms being used as she is excited to learn more.

Echidna: Interesting… Japan and Quirks your world is certainly wonderful Toga does your world have Magic Knights or Earth Dragons that take you around?

Toga: Uh… not really but we do have our problems of supervillains and heroes in our world in an everyday life here but we do have a superhero dragon and cars.

Echidna: But does this hero allows you to ride on top of you?

Toga: No not really but we do have horses for that?

Echidna: What are horses?

Tatsumi: Oh boy this is going to be a long day.

Erza: You mean there are no horses in her own world?

Ruby: Well we have horses in Remnant, but she doesn't in her own world?

Tatsumi: The horses in her world are the equivalent of Earth Dragons.

Erza: Ah, thank you for the understanding.

Echidna: You know it's rude to not explain to a young girl what horses are! Do you ride on top of them or they ride you what is a horse!

When Echidna says that the rest of the members laughs at this getting her more confused.

Tatsumi: Ha!

Erza: Ha!

Toga: Oh my god I can't believe she just said that!

Ruby: I don't get it?

Echidna: I feel like they are misinterpreting what I just said yet I should feel embarrassed why?

With that, the rest of the day was explaining to Echidna what a horse and other stuff was before they headed to sleep for the next few days.