Bloodlight Goddess Ru

The air became still, as Mai's disturbing wrath seeped throughout the place. Ru was surprised that Mai shouted from her lungs out, making Ru to say a suggestion filled with humor,

"Geez Mai...if Nassus was here...he'd hear you and we'd be cooked...".

Sadly, Mai wasn't pleased of Ru's comment, so Mai slapped Ru's cheek very intensely, leaving out Ru's face with a burning slap mark. Zeran was shocked, as he saw Mai slapped his dear beloved Ru. He felt a sudden anger for Mai and he clenched his fist but, he just let it go, since she was still Ru's friend. Not only that, Mai exclaimed with seething rage in her eyes,

"SHUT UP! I hate you!".

Ru was witnessing, Mai's gritting teeth poured with rage. Though, Ru didn't feel angry for Mai's disrespectful manner, instead she just sighed. Then, Ru closed her eyes and said behind Zeran, while she was wearing a calming smile that was devoid of any kind of wrath,

"Zera? Could you leave us for now?".

He didn't ask anymore questions, since he thought, it must be s.e.n.s.i.t.i.v.e girls talk or something. Soon, he replies back in an affirmative way,

"Yeah sure...".

He left the room afterwards. The air became silent, as the room was only filled with two close friends. Zeran sat at sofa and sighed with a tired look on his face, although he was wearing a confident smile, since he believed that Ru can break Mai's hardened shell. Mai shouted her flaming words again but, she was on the verge of crying,

"WHY? WHY DID YOU SAVE ME AGAIN?!"

"WE ARE NO LONGER FRIENDS...SO WHY?!".

Ru held Mai's hand and told her without any ounce of sinistry but instead, Ru was like a close companion who was very much concerned for her dear friend's acheing heart,

"You're still my friend Mai...no matter what...".

"I STOLE YOUR IDEAL HERO FROM YOU, REMEMBER?!"

"AND I JUST GAVE YOU THAT PLUSH DOLL OF HIM IN COMPENSATION...".

The air became frozen as Mai told those harsh words. As Ru heard Mai's alarming statements of hard truths, Ru closed her eyes but, she wasn't angry or anything. Instead, she was deep in her thoughts and made her to feel the puzzle was completed,

("So that's why she gave it to me...").

Soon after, Ru opened her eyes and said in a calm manner,

"Stole? I never thought of you to do that..."

"In fact, it was like I stole him from you..."

"As you arrived here as a non-Goddess...and I should be the one who should be sorry for crushing my friend's love life...".

Mai turned her face away and replied back with an irritated look on her face, although her boiling wrath was gradually cooling down bit by bit,

"NOW YOU GOT HIM..."

She looked at Ru again and said,

"Why did you save a non-Goddess someone like me?".

The atmosphere became heavy like an unmoving piston, as she released another shocking statement. Though, Ru just sighed and told with all of her flowing and soothing emotions, while she was holding Mai's hand very softly,

"Mai...like I said you're still my friend...hells you're my only friend...aside from Zera keeping me company...and Niara is just a cunning business partner..."

"All I could say is that, when I saw you suffering being with Nassus and those deranged heroes from before...I can't help to hate them too..."

"So please don't throw your life away, lady Arseia won't be happy when she sees you..."

"I'm here for you for as a friend...".

As Mai heard Ru's emotional words, Mai's stiffened cover broke again and her fragile heart was revealed once again. Her tears swelled up and started to leak out. Her anger was replaced by a pitiful face of a hurtened maiden. Then, she says to Ru with her tears falling,

"Ru...".

The next moment, Mai hugged Ru very tightly and cried all her heart out. Ru was patting the back of Mai to comfort her dear friend. It seemed Ru and Mai didn't look-like the highly revered Goddesses, instead they looked-like just teenage friends who had a huge conflict with each other. The air turned normal and Zeran was hearing Mai's scandalous cries and he was wearing a determined smile, since he knew that Ru released Mai's pent-up emotions. Thereon, Mai was embracing Ru for a long time until Mai had dried out of her crystal tears. After sometime, Ru went outside and told to Zeran in a complacent manner,

"Mai says she wants to talk to you about something...".

He replies with a questionable face,

"Okay?".

Zeran entered the room and he was seeing that Mai was staring at the window with swarming fireflies, in which they were illuminating mystical violet rays outside. More than that, Mai wasn't angry nor crying with immense tears anymore. Instead, she was wearing a smile that depicted her inner self had calmed down. He felt kinda nervous, since the winds were too soothing and silent around the room. He noticed that there was a chair near the bedridden Mai, so he took a seat. A little while later, Mai inhaled and let out her deep words,

"Zen...I mean Zeran?".

He replies,

"Yes Mai?".

Mai turned to look at him and asked with all her concern for her dear friend,

"Do you truly love Ru?".

"Yes...I really love Ru...".

Mai smiled, as he was passionate upon telling the truth in his eyes and he was holding his c.h.e.s.t tight. Then, she nodded and uttered out her words, while she was pointing her finger unto his forehead, as if she was emphasizing something aided with a proud smile,

"That's good but, if you were to make her cry or cheat on her...I'll stick an arrow unto your idiotic head...".

Zeran replies nervously,

"I-I'll take note of that...".

Though, he was in his thoughts later on,

("Not only that...Ru might chop me into minced meat...first...")

("Or...she might stab that other woman...")

("Oh...the horrors of having a yandere lover...").

Mai's proud smile wore-off. She looked outside the window and saw the swarming violet light bulbs once again. She closed her eyes and sighed. Then, she opened her eyes again and uttered out her additional statements about the recent topic,

"Although, since you're an idiot at making 3rd party love affairs...I won't be worried that much..."

"Just please take care of Ru for me...would you..."

"She's a dear friend to me..."

"Ya know, before Ru actually likes you...when she heard the tales I told her about you...she was quite interested...".

As Zeran heard a glimpse of Mai's Goddess life story before, Zeran was convuluded in his cloudy mind once again,

("I guess when Mai was a Goddess and not yet married to me before...")

("That's what she does, she had girlish talks with Ru, apart from being a meal for those insane heroes and being a Goddess...").

Mai looked at him and continued to tell her story,

"I was planning to let you two meet but...you had already chosen me instead...".

("Well yeah, during that time when I was with you on your world...".)

(I haven't heard of Ru yet...")

("Though I think I saw a glimpse of Ru during that time me and Mai went to Heavenly mall together...or something...")

("And I felt something different...although IT'S NOT LIKE I had a crush on Ru or anything instead, I already had creepy yandere vibes about her, just by looking at her covered outfit...").

Mai looked down and wore a frown, as she told the next part of her story, although she was leaking out her tears again, since she was feeling her guilt had acted up again,

"I guess she was kinda disheartened..."

"That's why I tried to ignore her..."

"Yet...she still sees me as her friend and she's still kinda persistent..."

"This time...she even saved me by teaming up with you...".

The atmosphere was seeped in stagnant waters of silence, making Zeran to feel very tense. Zeran, didn't know how to respond to her life story, so he just says in a complacent friendly manner, while he was rubbing Mai's back, while she was rubbing her tears,

"Yeah...".

Mai's crystal tears were pouring out but, she wasn't crying with her scandalous voice, instead she was releasing her painful emotions in silence since her guilt was acting up. Ru was leaning at the door and she was hearing Mai's soft cries, making Ru to wear a smile that would seem all of their internal conflicts had been solved. Afterwards, Mai had stopped crying and said, while she was looking at him,

"Also could you call Ru now..."

"There is something I need to tell both of you about the light and darkness in this world here...".

As he heard those terms again, he was stressed inside in his thoughts again,

("Light and Darkness...not this sh*tto again...").

He called Ru who was outside. Ru and Zeran entered the bedroom. The swirling air became frozen in crystal fragments, since Mai's face was looking troubled, as she sighed and said to the two of them,

"Time to—".

Suddenly, Arseia appeared out of nowhere and interrupted Mai's statement,

"Yes time to tell you two about what's going on this world's light and darkness...".

Mai, Ru and Zeran were all surprised, as Arseia emerged without prior notice. Ru and Mai were all frozen in deep silence, since a higher Goddess in status came to them, making the two close friends to worry and feel that there was a greater conflict going on. Though, Zeran didn't feel any strange anomaly, so he just asks with a dumbfounded look to his Goddess mother,

"Mom?! Why are you here again?".