Chapter 370 - Custody

WHOOSH

Kazehaya Gin soared in the sky towards the Maki Household. It's been two minutes since he released the energy to warn his twin when he felt uneasy in his system. Frowning, he turned around and almost had a heart attack.

KYAAAAA

A dark buildup of clouds with disseminated flashes of lightning loomed behind him. But the scariest figure was not the storm clouds but rather the man riding it. The silver-haired, white-robed deity with his stormy amethyst eyes was a sight to behold. 

"Brother, why do you look like an avenging god?" he squeaked towards Perun who came near him in no time.

"I am an avenging god," Perun countered breezily as he frowned. "What happened?"

He suppressed his aura so much so he could have the closest existence to a normal human. Because of this, the scope of his hearing and awareness decreased considerably. It's only limited to a few meters from him instead of a whole area.

"We were too late. The people in Yuuka's house have all been infected. Also, the harpy is there," Gin reported but his brother only raised a brow at him.

Gin knew Perun couldn't see the emergency in this situation. After all, they were a lot more powerful than the harpy and the handful of shadow lurkers. But the point was…

"Yuuka went there," Gin told the other.

As expected, Perun's face shifted into a scowl. They hadn't told Maki Yuuka anything as she's a blank soul, and it's not easy to manipulate her memory. Well, Perun could, but Gin was not sure if his brother would want to erase her memory. Nonetheless, if the woman went to her house, she would see things that were beyond something they could pass off as an infection anymore.

She would know about them.

"You're too slow," Perun scolded Gin coldly as he grabbed his brother's scruff as if he were a cat.

"What do you mean slow? I was waiting for you so I didn't go there fast," Gin complained, his golden eyes watering.

He was totally aggrieved but Perun ignored him.

"Which direction?" the King of Heaven demanded as he still held his brother by the back of his shirt.

"There," Gin pointed at the direction, and they vanished almost immediately, leaving only an afterimage in their speed.

When they appeared again, they were atop the Maki House where the spherical barrier was blinking.

"It's unstable," Perun commented.

At this rate, the normal people would find it very strange to see the house and then a vacant lot alternately.

"This is Kuro's. I think he's probably under attack," Gin stated as he struggled to get out of Perun's hold. "I'll go take a look," he continued and was about to descend when his brother clamped his shoulder. "What?"

"Go there," Perun ordered as he pointed at somewhere farther than where they could feel the bulk of the dark energy.

"But –"

"There are two," Perun cut him off before he could protest.

Huh?

"What two?"

Gin could only feel Ozomene and nothing else.

"Ozomene got split in two,"Perun said as he descended towards the left side of the estate. "Go save Aoi. I'll take care of my wife."

Ooooh…

Kazehaya Gin's lips twitched in amusement. His brother refused to even mention it before, but here he was, telling him that he'd take care of his sister-in-law himself.

Oh well…

He thought he'd stop poking Perun's business and just let him be. After all, as the King of Heaven, he had a lot of restrictions that required him to suppress a deity's natural inclination to be selfish. It was enough that he admitted Yuuka's real identity. As to whether he'd tell it to the woman herself or to their daughter, Gin vowed he would not meddle this time.

With this, Gin quickly flew towards the direction Perun pointed at earlier and dropped like a missile upon reaching it.

Woah!

Looking down, Gin reckoned he arrived just in time to save his little brother. Aoi was at the moment getting tossed around by a miniature version of Ozomene and he frowned.

"My babies, is your mama this small?" he asked the harpies within him.

He had only ever seen Ozomene once in the Celestial Plane when she protested so hard after her children abandoned Czernobog for Stribog. The second time he saw her was during the first Immoral War. She and the renegade harpies had joined the Black God's army.

But the Ozomene he remembered was a twenty-foot grey-green harpy, not this midget. He frowned. Gin was a hundred and ninety-two centimeters or six feet and four inches in height. The harpy fighting with Aoi only stood less than a couple of feet over him.

No…

The harpies echoed their answer in his head and Gin suddenly remembered something. He clapped his hands together upon recalling what his brother told him a while ago. Ozomene was not in her original state. She had fused with Fanya, so this version was just a shard.

"Big Brother!" Kazehaya Aoi called out to him in relief.

He looked battered and dirty, but he was still able to grin at the older man.

"You got your buŧŧ kicked so hard, Ao?" Gin teased as he landed next to where Aoi was kicked.

Ozomene was about to conduct a follow-up attack but stopped and stepped far back upon seeing Gin. Her crimson eyes looked wary as she recognized the aura surrounding Gin. When she was finally so sure of who he was, she opened her beak and let out an angry scream.

SQUAAAAAAAAAAAAWRK!

Gin turned to her with a lazy expression. "Awww Ozomene, it's been thousands of years and you're still angry at me?"

As expected, his taunting voice only made her look angrier.

SQUAAAAAAAAAAAAWRK!

"Brother, this harpy looks totally angry at you. What did you do?"Aoi asked. He'd been fighting the elemental for a while now but it only showed such aggression when Gin appeared.

"What do you mean? Shouldn't I be the one angry here?" Gin put on an innocent expression. "I already won the custody battle over the kids, and yet, this baby mama still comes to bother me in my territory."

"What?"

Aoi was dumbfounded.