《Transient Fire Works》Epilogue to Chapter 27: A meeting with Moirae
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While Jin was sleeping on the bed, Mammon and Farrah woke up when morning came to discuss why Mammon did not take things farther. The two sat on the bed facing each other and would sometimes look over to see if he was still sleeping.
“Miss Mammon. Why didn’t you… Just do it with him if you liked him so much?”
“BECAUSE Farrah.” Mammon glanced over at the sleeping Belphegor on her bed. “I like him too much to do that.”
“Oh…” Farrah was surprised to hear such an innocent answer despite Mammon’s status.
Mammon used her index finger and trace along the line of Belphegor’s cheek bone. ‘*Sigh* So cute…’ Whatever Mammon wanted in the past, she would use almost any method to get it no matter how dark. She limited her methods to the morals Belphegor integrated into her long ago. The only person that was an exception in her heart was Belphegor. Mammon sighed in her heart. “You know Belphegor… I could’ve had myself grind my rump against your face and genitalia to seduce you even farther. I could’ve sucked you till your eyes roll back and your body go limp. I could’ve done many things. I could even make both myself and Farrah give you a… pazuri to bring you on the furthest edge of foreplay pleasure till you beg for release. The only thing I could not do is to make you love me the same way I do you.”
“? You love him Miss Mammon?” Farrah had a slight worry in her heart. It was also because she too liked Belphegor.
“Yes Farrah. Just as much as you do, I loved him for a long time. I loved him six years ago when he first took me as his captive and as an accomplice. I loved him even when he left me alone in the underworld six years ago. To this day, I love him even now and more than all my past lovers.” Mammon weakly smiled. “I don’t even mind if he has multiple lovers either. If, one day, I could hear those three words from his lips, and if he really do mean it from the bottom of his heart, then I would forever be by his side no matter how bad. Because I know more about him than anyone else would.”
“D-Doess that mean?”
“Yep. I don’t even mind if Belphegor take you as his wife either. In fact, I like you as well Farrah. Just like a sister. Buuuut don’t think you’ll be his main wife.” Mammon wickedly answered Farrah.
“Oh I won’t.” Farrah happily smiles. She bent down near Belphegor to give him a warm hug and pulled his face to her bosom. “As long as he does not abandon either of us, I don’t care what position I am in. If he can love more than one and has the ability to make more than one person around him happy, then I’m fine with being the second wife.”
“Aww… That is so sweet…” Mammon was half delighted to hear such sweet words. “Now get off of him and get the store ready.”
Remember, Mammon was half delighted. Mammon was still a woman. She could still be jealous of other women being next to the one she loves.
Farrah made a pouted face and puts Jin back down.
Mammon waited till Farrah was outside of the room. “… I know you are waiting at the door Farrah!”
“!!! Sorry! I’ll go now!” and so Farrah ran to prepare for the day. ‘Does sister Mammon have physic abilities? It is almost terrifying.’
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“Heh… I cultivated my woman’s intuition long ago Farrah. You are far too inexperience to eavesdrop on me. ^.^. Even Belphegor could see that a mile away”
Mammon, who was still on the bed, took Belphegor in her arms and held him close. ‘I still can’t get enough of you. Even if you are a kid now.’
Truthfully, Belphegor was already awake by the time Mammon was touching his cheek bone. He was just waiting for the right time to wake up and leave. ‘*Sigh* Sorry Mammon.’
Back inside Jin’s mind…
Lucian and the others were laughing to death. Well, they already are dead. But they all reached levels beyond the normal saint.
Lucian cried out, ‘Oh goodness. This is funny. I could’ve sworn Farrah would’ve given Jin the lap dance of his life if not Mammon sucking him dry.’
‘… He should’ve tried to be more daring…’ Ban spoke outwardly.
Cyan cracked his neck and rotated three-sixty degrees. ‘Well, it looks like the fun is about to be over. The ten of us have to get our avatars back inside.’
‘… I’ll head back first then. See you guys later.’ The red ruler turned around and was about to go back. ‘!!! Who are you!?’
A figure covered with fogs of all colors appeared before the entire group.
‘Good to see everyone is enjoying themselves.’ The figure smiled at Lucian.
‘!!!? A higher plane being? No… wait… a god?’ Lucian focused his eyes to see beyond the fog. ‘No, to be more specific, goddess of fate Moirae! Why are you here?’ Lucian was startled because he did not expect a god to show up in Jin’s mind space.
‘Oh calm down Lucian. I’m here just seeing an old friend. After all, you are the one who made the heaven’s decree possible for Jin to come back. ’ The figure smirked.
‘….. So what if I did? That was the deal between me and the heavens. It still does not explain why you are here.’
‘I just said that I was seeing and old friend. What’s the harm in that Lucian?’
‘You better not pull any games. If you do, I’ll-’
‘Oh stop it with the threats. You and I both know you were weakened by the war in the heavens with the 81 paragons of light so you can’t do squat to me. So sit down and shut up and go to sleep or take a long rest. Jin has at least one hundred other people watching his backs.’
Lucian’s back emanated a grand aura that contains the powers from both heaven and hell.
‘*Psh* Are you done yet?’ the god of fate snorted. The god of fate lifted her hand and waved it in mid-air.
*BOOM!*
A grand shockwave burst forth and sent Lucian to his knees.
Ren, seeing that harm was brought to Lucian, growled in a low voice. ‘F*cken transvestite!’
Ren’s qi surged within his body causing both his eyes to turn dichromatic of green and blue. The qi energy gathered next to Ren and solidified itself to become his weapon. ‘Get the f*ck out!’ Ren’s body became illusionary and appeared right next to the goddess of fate with his axe ready to behead her.
The goddess of fate only smiled and allowed the axe to hit her. When the axe came into contact with the goddess of fate’s skin, the axe shattered to pieces. ‘The grand cleaver! The battle axe that was said to wound not only paragon of lights’ bodies but all the way down to their souls as well! Now this is a good surprise! But it is such a shame that both the weapon and its master is not in full condition. If it was, it might’ve nicked me.’
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Ren couldn’t believe his eyes. His cleaver just broke when it touched the goddess’ skin. ‘!!! Since that is how you want to play, I’ll bring out my entire arsenal!’
‘STOP REN!’ Ban’s voice exploded. His body vanished and reappears right next to Ren and was holding him by the right arm. ‘If you went any further, the she-he might’ve taken your arms if not more.’
Ren looked back at the goddess of fate. He saw that she was holding a sword and it was only a few millimeters away from his chest.
The Assmilator was also serious and held thousands of far ranged projectiles in the air. Each and every one of the weapons had the potential to destroy a sector of heaven. ‘Remove that blade now. Before I blow you a few new orifices.’
The goddess of fate retracted her blade. ‘Oh? That was a nice decision. You clearly used spatial movement to get to your friend in time but it did cost you a lot of qi didn’t it? Also, put the toys away Assimilator. Those are the only things you can use because you can’t bring out your full power here.’
Ban’s suit expanded and exploded. *Woosh*
Ban was no longer wearing his funny suit. He took it off whenever he was getting serious. The qi inside his body also caused his eyes to also turn dichromatic. Before the goddess of fate, there stands a man with more malice than any of the kings that resides in any of the hells. His left eye shone with a powerful sunset color and his right eye radiated with a pitch black darkness. ‘ENOUGH! TELL ME WHAT YOU REALLY WANT OR ELSE WE ALL WILL KICK YOUR ASS! EVEN IF WE ALL ARE IN A WEAKENED STATE, IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT WE CAN’T DEFEAT ONE SMALL GOD LIKE YOU!’
“*PFFT* Do you have no shame? Ganging up on a girl like this?’ Moirae snorted.
Ban’s face was ugly to behold. ‘F*ck you! You’re no woman! I also won’t have any mercy to anyone who harms Ren or Lucian. I don’t need help kicking your ass and you know it! We can bring it down to the space beyond hell. There, the loser will have to pay more than their life!’
His words sent chills down the goddess of fate’s spine. ‘Oh geez. You guys are all so… scary when it comes to me huh?’
‘Naturally. *Humph*’ Ren snorted.
‘Do you still hate me for killing your girl? It was already written in the book of death. Why blame me?’ The goddess tried to act innocent.
‘You mean you wrote her name in when you saw how happy she was.’
‘Oh please Ren. I was drunk. Can’t gods and goddesses get drunk every once in a while?’
‘Gods and goddess don’t get drunk easily! Anyone above saint level will need to intake a lot more alcohol than even the most experienced alcoholic!’ Ren furiously snarled when he heard the poor excuse.
Moirae rolled her eyes. ‘… Fine. Sorry. But the real reason why I am here is just to tell Lucian this.’
She paced herself slowly towards Lucian to say her words directly into his ears so that he can hear each word with clarity. ‘Even if you guys have the power over the beginning and middle parts of his fate. But I still preside over his ending. Jin’s fate is to burn out by the end of his journey. No matter what little details you change, he cannot advert his tragedy!’
‘!!! Die!’ Lucian summoned a colossal ten meter tall white shadow in the form of a hand from behind his back and slammed it onto the goddess of fate. Lucian’s eyes narrowed and opened up the white shadow hand to see that the white shadow he sent did not catch or devour anything.
‘Ha ha ha ha! Try as you might Lucian! Even if the angel of light sent the beholder of the heaven’s decree far away, the angel of death will still have to take his orders from the heavens and reap Jin’s soul should Jin fails! Take note! Since you’ve offended me, I’ll be sure to drag your living friend’s soul into the depths of hell and ruin him long after he dies!’
‘Get back here you wh*re!’ Lucian nearly lost his mind hearing the goddess’ prophecy.
‘…As expected of a goddess of fate, she sure is one vengeful b*tch. Ugh…’ Ban sighed out loud and plopped on his ass. ‘Mind the evil b*tch Lucian. She may have the status of a god, but we aren’t normal people either. I doubt she would be able to contend with all of us while we are protecting Jin.’
Ren lets out a sigh of relief now that he confirmed that she left. ‘*Sigh* Well, all we can do now is watch over Jin until the very end. Next time I see that woman, or man, or whatever gender that tranny picks, I’ll rip her three new holes.’
Lucian took a long deep breath to calm himself down. ‘… I hope you guys are right. She is one of the biggest pain if she really does go into action…’
Lucian looks back to Jin who was still resting in Mammon’s arms while pretending to be asleep. ‘Don’t worry Jin. I’ll be sure to bring you to saint level before you die! I won’t let the unfair hands of fate touch you.’ Lucian was on the verge of tears because his recent actions just angered a goddess. For his rash action, Jin was going to pay a heavy price in the future.
Ren laid his hand on Lucian’s shoulder showing. ‘…I know you care a lot about him Lucian. Just take it easy.’
‘… Alright. Thanks Ren.’
‘… *Che* Just because we are weakened and cannot release our full power, it does not mean that we can’t beat her ass.’ Ban grumbled while fixing his panda suit to get back in. ‘All we gotta do is get back to full strength and release our full power. Also, we gotta make sure we are not in Jin’s mind space when we fight her. Then she’ll stop laughing…’
‘Ha ha… I know Ban. She was taking advantage of our unfortunate situations to pick on all of us.’ The Assimilator laughed. ‘I still haven’t brought out the big guns yet.’
Cyan felt a little terrible because he did not do a thing. ‘Well, I’ll be providing more cold qi for Jin until my qi production stabilizes. My qi also creates a natural barrier around him should any danger arises. You guys should also create some kind of protection for him because the goddess of fate is really one big… you know and she will smack all the bad karma onto him all at once. At that point, we might not be able to protect him.’
‘Fate eh… Not the first time I fought against fate…’ The Sinner from the Shadow mutters. ‘I can handle her and change her prophecy easy. But…. Her intentions are still not clear. Why did she say that Jin cannot advert his ending?’
‘Forget it for the moment. Lucian. Go take a long break. I’ll watch over Jin for now. You must be really tired from working too hard. Get some rest.’ Ren suggested.
‘N-no I can still-’ Lucian didn’t want to go to sleep. He was still fearful of the goddess of fate.
Ban’s figure flashed and was suddenly next to Lucian. ‘GO TO SLEEP!’
*Wham!*Boom*Wham!*
Lucian’s body fell and lifelessly drop. Ren caught Lucian in his hand. ‘Why did you do it Ban?’
Ban thought for a moment, looked at Lucian for a while and then finally say, ‘… Revenge for setting me up with forty nine wives.’
Ban’s figure flickered in front of the others. ‘I’ll be watching him now. Keep the guy asleep for the next two weeks.’ And disappeared.
‘… He sure acts docile while he is in the suit. But outside the suit, he is one aggressive and proactive person.’ The Assimilator mutters. ‘Almost forgot that he one of the strongest out of the hundreds of Jin’s past lives.’
Ren waved his hand and a bed was brought forth. He laid Lucian down on the bed and sighed. ‘. . . Alright Ban. Take good care of Jin. We’ll force Lucian to sleep.’
‘I’ll also need to go somewhere as well. We’ll need to prepare ourselves when the time come to face her again.’ The Assimilator said to Ren and then left.
Soon, every other shadowy figures also left without a word.
‘Seems like everyone got their own agenda now.’ Cyan laughed. ‘See you Ren. Take care now.’
The rest of the small avatars flew back into their respective seals
Ren looked around to make sure no one else was near. When he finally confirms that no one was around, he coughs up a lot of blood. ‘*cough*cough*cough*cough* Ugh… That hoe… She gave one last punch before she left laughing in our faces. I knew she had some sort of grudge against me...’
‘Damn. I might not be able to keep my eyes open…’ Ren sat silently by Lucian’s side and he too fell into a deep sleep to recover his strength.
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