[Equi's POV!]
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It's been a day since the war was over. And looking at all those white threads of fates slowly gaining colours, put a smile on my face as I walked through the market, carrying a bag of groceries in my hands.
"That is not the answer that I wanted to hear."
In a heavy voice, a demon imitated what Neptune said, before slashing down the empty air in front of him.
"Whoaa!!!" X3
And the surrounding angels and demons shouted with ecstasy before one of the angels spoke,
"MoVe. InSecT- Kyaaa."
Mimicking Laplace in a funny voice, he then acted as if he had been cut down by a sword.
"Pft~ Hahahahaha," one of the angels began laughing, before everyone else did the same.
"Haha," a chuckle escaped my mouth as I found that exchange funny, before those Angels and demons heard me and turned to my direction.
"Miss Equi! Would you like to join us?" One of the Angels asked politely, while the demons moved to clear some space. Though, I simply gave out a pressed smile before answering,
"Sorry. Harik and Iris would eat me alive if I kept them hungry anymore. Especially, Harik's lovely wife had woken up, ya know?"
"Tch!" The angels clicked their tongues.
"Lucky bastard!" The demons cursed silently.
I laughed at their behaviour before waving them all goodbye. These days I have come to understand that Raphi, the Angel Fate Weaver, was one of the most beautiful angels there were. And Harik, an ordinary Farmer Angel was able to get her with little to no effort, so it created quite an upheaval for them.
Though given how Harik decided to fall from grace to an unknown land, just to save his wife, even if it meant going against the entire heaven… oooh… how romantic. The story has already spread to many angels and demons, each of them idolising Harik's way of doing things for his wife.
But at the same time, when they saw how beautiful Raphi was, they all clicked their tongues in jalousy before going back to their own work.
"Even we could go that far if my wife was that beautiful," some said, but in the end, everyone knew that what Harik did was something that would be rare among rare. Maybe that was why sir Neptune had brought him under his wing?
Slowly moving towards Neptune's clinic, I saw Iris preparing the stove outside. There was big cooking equipment, and it seemed like Iris had decided to cook not only for us but for quite a number of people.
"Iris. I bought the ingredients but… I don't think it would be enough for… this?" I pointed at the large utensil that was twice the size of Iris.
"Ah! It's not for us. Actually, some of the patients asked me to bring this out. They would cook a celebratory feast for all of us," Iris spoke without really caring much about it. They asked and she did it, that was all there was.
"Didn't they have one celebration last night?" Harik asked as he walked outside with Raphi beside her, her arms locked with her husband. They looked kinda cute together.
"To be precise. They had two," Iris corrected before adding," this is the third one. This time it's the Saintess of Water and her group. The previous ones were um…. I think they were the dark mages and the other one… I forgot."
We all shook our heads before turning to a certain woman carrying a huge amount of fish with her. There were a dozen Guards behind her carrying more sea creatures for the feast.
"Queen Iris! Where should we place them?" The Saintess of Water spoke as she looked at Iris with a huge amount of respect in her eyes, while Iris sighed before speaking,
"Everice. How many times did I ask you to not call me that? I am the Sin of Lust now. Please refer to me as such. And place the fishes in these for now."
Under normal conditions, Iris would have been hiding her identity as much as possible, but here she was freely declaring herself as the Sin of Lust without any problems. And even though it was an odd sight, somehow it felt kind of natural here.
"Kay. As you wish, Queen Iris," Everice chuckled before moving the fishes into huge containers while Harik moved a bit closer to Iris and asked in a low voice,
"Ummm Lust. What's with this Queen business?"
Even I was curious so I moved in closer to listen to it, while grumbling before speaking," I was the Former Queen of the Sea Kingdom. Then stuff happened and I betrayed it before becoming the Sin of Lust. There ya go."
And then she moved inside the clinic without further explaining.
"Hey! Don't you dare 'there ya go' me. Tell me more!" Harik was pretty interested in her story while he called her out. But noticing that she wasn't answering, he just chuckled before turning to see her wife, who had a narrow, focused and threatening gaze at him.
"Isn't this so lovely?" She asked in a cold voice as she moved in closer to him, her face almost touching Harik's, while Harik sweated buckets. He tried to explain but before he could begin, Raphi sighed and spoke,
"We will be going for twice the duration tonight."
"Huh?" Harik was confused for a moment before Raphi's eyes narrowed even more and he gulped and nodded at once. Looking at him nodding like that, Raphi finally smiled, releasing Harik from the tension that was probably more than when he faced Laplace and his generals.
"Tch!"
"Die in hell."
"Lucky bastard."
And the guards of the Saintess cursed at Harik, with jealousy written all over their faces. Some of them glared, while others had tears in their eys for their singleness. Though as Everice continued working, so did they too.
Shaking my head as I laughed a bit, I then looked at Raphi. She smiled at me before speaking,
"We haven't met properly, right? My name is Raphi, the 8th Fate Weaver. You must be Equi, I heard you went toe to toe against Laplace, even injuring him."
There was a bittersweetness in those words. And even though I understand where it was coming from, I simply let it be. She has to sort those feelings for herself. If despite being a Fate Weaver, she is swayed by feelings like that, then that is all she would amount to.
"I am Equi, the Goddess of Balance. Nice to meet you, Raphi," I introduced myself more as a Goddess than as the "Guide of the Fate Weavers" because I still don't see the potential in her to be the one that would save or perhaps destroy the world.
"Let me help you with those," Raphi said as she took the bag of groceries from my hand, while I let her, before all of us entered the Clinic again.
There were a few days till Sir Neptune would return.
'I guess, we can relax here till then before deciding the next path of our journeys,' I thought before getting busy with work as well.