Chapter 295 - Bad Sentiments

BOOM!

BANG!

CRASH!

Dust and debris flew everywhere like nebulous clouds, the grits and smoke making most of them choke as they covered their eyes to protect their sight. As Kazehaya Gin instructed earlier, all of them went several meters away from the ongoing lovers' quarrel so they'd be in no danger of being accidentally getting in between the fight and became roadkill.

It was safe to say that after watching this fiasco for a while, with his sister moving as fast as lightning with her kimono flapping against the wind, the electricity surrounding her body, and her phenomenal strength, Suzuki was beyond reasonable doubt convinced that his sister was not a normal human being.

"Their energy could suffocate and choke normal humans, so don't move," Gin told them earlier after setting up the barrier, and both Aki and Chiaki who felt the thick atmosphere followed without question.

However, the 'fight' before them seemed one-sided. At this point, Ara had been trying to catch up to Ryuu who had been dodging her the entire time. Since she stepped out from the destroyed room, she had been attacking her husband randomly and fast. She really looked like someone who was obviously attacking blindly as if she was releasing all the tension in her body. She kicked, she punched and released some bolts of electricity with her little seals but she couldn't even touch a hair on her husband, and just ended up increasing the damage to the place.

On the other hand, the Koutaishidenka moved not only at equal speed, but the movements didn't seem to ruffle him at all. He remained calm the whole time he was being attacked. If not dodging, he caught his wife's fist with his hands, blocking her so she had no choice but to pull or let out another kick to try and hit him again.

"Er… Aren't you going to stop them?"

Aki totally wondered why Gin didn't seem alarmed. The rest of the people in the place all looked worried, but the second-in-command looked as if this fight was something of the norm. Earlier, when Ara first started attacking Ryuu, he had thought that Gin would stop them. He released some of his energy and raised a hand to cast some kind of a seal on the ground.

However, instead of stopping them, the golden deity instead created a type of barrier where he asked them to stay, after telling them to step back so they wouldn't be affected by the tremendous force and energy coming from the fighting couple.

"Why?"

Kazehaya Gin's reply sounded puzzled. It was as if he didn't see the need to interfere in the fight.

"Er… Because someone would get hurt if this continues?" Aki retorted the obvious before indicating the changing landscape. "And so my sister would stop destroying the property?"

Aki's very familiar with the landscaping rates as they had the same professional company take care of the gardens at Denenchofu. However, most of the plants at the Cedar Palace were the most expensive ones and the place was huge so the amount would have been more than ten times. He didn't know about Ara, but he's sweating over just how much he needed to pay for the damages caused by his sister.

Yes, he felt like he had to do it even if Ara's married to Ryuu and was basically a part of the Homura House now.

"Suzuki Ara, who raised you to become a husband-beater, huh?" Aki muttered under his breath as he cried in his heart.

Gin who definitely heard him clearly laughed as he turned to him. "It's alright Big Bro, Ara's just venting her frustration. It will be over soon."

"Venting her frustration?" Chiaki asked with a funny expression as she was still reeling from the events.

Gin nodded. "Yes. I've already told you what happened to her, right? Even if it's logical to say that both sides contributed to the tragic cycle, it's still Alencica who felt the most injustice. She couldn't blame Kresnik and my brother entirely as she had willingly participated in the process of breaking her own soul. She even made Kresnik vow to kill the dark side no matter what happened for we were all sure that the extracted part would definitely be an evil entity. Because of that, regardless of how there were signs that it wasn't the case, it was overlooked for the longest time as we mistook it as the evil part playing tricks to be spared. It was not unheard of anyway."

Czernobog and his minions were masters of deception. It was why when they realized their mistake, it was already too late. Alencica and everyone involved had already suffered a lot. Fanya's curse towards Perun to make his life miserable came true as well. But now, they were hoping to change it, and by doing that, everyone should be free of the burden of hatred, regrets, and guilt in their hearts.

"Ara needs to unleash all the ugly feelings inside of her so she can move on. If she doesn't – if she continues to harbor hatred towards Kresnik and my brother, the two will remain ridden with guilt that would never fade away. Do you think they could be happy living like that? So no, I'm alright with this. As long as it will appease Alencica's soul, then she can destroy the house. I think Ryuu also thinks this way as he wouldn't let Ara do it in the first place, or Ara wouldn't have attacked him either."

"I see…"

With this, Aki seemed to be appeased as well. Although he still didn't feel like it was correct to settle scores this violently, he had to agree that it's better than to continue living while harboring bad sentiments within their hearts.

Sensing that he was still down, Gin smiled at him reassuringly. "Don't worry, even if Ara's very strong physically, she wouldn't really go all out on Ryuu."

"Right," Aki agreed.

Of course.

However, as soon as they said this, light flashed as a huge purple circle appeared on the ground covering a wide area that ended up near where they stood.

"Urgh… What's happening?" Aki asked as soon he saw the symbol appeared. He didn't know what it was, but he had an ominous feeling about it.

Gin, on the other hand, looked apologetic. "Well… that's actually a weaker version of my brother's seal. But it's still very, very nasty," he said nervously.

"I thought you said Ara wouldn't go all out?"

"Well," Gin smiled sheepishly. "I thought so too. But it seems my niece is too pissed off with her husband that she's going all out. But don't worry. Ryuu will be alright. As he'd been doing since they started, he will just continue to avoid Ara's attacks until she's satisfied."

"Well," Aki hesitated but he chose to believe. "If you say so…"

Then again, as soon as he said that, Ara raised her hand and called forth a cocktail of lightning that fused together into a giant bolt, shooting Ryuu where he suddenly remained standing.

He didn't dodge. He accepted the lighting strike without even so much as gathering his energy to have a semblance of resistance.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT!

"WHAT!"

Everyone watched in horror as the Koutaishidenka stiffened upon being struck by the bolt, then doubled over and landed face-first on the ground unconscious.

Gin was aghast. "KRESNIK, YOU IDIOT MASOCHIST PERV!"