妻子的谎言

Gasp!

Sato unawares opened his eyes; he found that he was laying on the ground, surrounded by white nothingness. Once he sat upright he noticed he was back in the angel's sanctuary.

Sato took a sigh of ease as he stared at the empty throne a few feet away from him, "D..did die?" He raised a question.

"Negative, Hikari forcefully pulled you here."

As the voice resounded in his ear, Sato peeked to his left to see Aril seated beside him. She was in her human form and putting on the same clothes she had on the last time she was in that form.

"Aril?" Sato muttered, he immediately grabbed hold of her hands before he pulled her close, "Aril, the guy in the hat… you saw him too right… right…!".

Sato yelled, hysteria written on his face as he looked Aril in the eye. When he saw that Aril didn't give a reply, he let go of her arm as a weak chuckle left his mouth.

"Am I going crazy?" Sato thought to himself with his eyes fixated on the ground.

"A hunter is currently in possession of your body… they have a special talent for hiding their presence so I wasn't able to detect them, but after analyzing the situation that is the only explanation I could come up with." Aril revealed.

"Hunter, what is that?" Sato asked.

"Not what, who… The hunters are quite known in the God realm to be mischievous." Hikari spoke, as she appeared out of thin air and sat on her throne.

"And it's in possession of my body?..."

"Mind." She corrected, "They play with their prey's mind, truly disturbing creatures." Hikari uttered with her hand resting on her forehead as she sighed.

Sato stood from the ground and proceeded a bit nearer to Hikari, "Did you know this was going to happen?" He asked, carrying a profound expression on his face as he stared at her.

Hikari smiled in response to Sato's question before she crossed her legs, "The fact that I can see certain futures doesn't mean I get to see every tiny detail." She reacted, "The three events I told you were the only future I saw, a hunter using you as it's plaything wasn't one of them".

"If that's the case, then how do I get this hunter thing out of my brain, those illusions I keep seeing…".

"Those illusions aren't illusions." Hikari chimed in.

"What do you mean?" Sato asked.

"Hunters mess with the minds of their prey, and at the same time it reveals to them the bad possible future." Aril explained.

"She's right." Hikari uttered, "You'd be stupid to take the Hunter's visions as mere illusions".

The thought of his people dying began to ring in his head. Sato looked to Hikari and walked closer before slamming his hand on the throne's armrest.

Hikari was a bit startled as she moved her head back a bit with her face a bit red, "You want to do this now?" She asked.

"Building a village in the witch's forest to protect its source, meeting the Duke of Nervek to seal eyes, defeating the demon lord so he wouldn't use the whole kingdom as sacrifice…" Sato voiced out, "You told me all this and I believed them with no questions asked".

"If there is a future where my people die then I beg of you… tell me how to prevent it!" Sato exclaimed as he moved his face closer.

Hikari smiled, "What am I going to do with you? I'm not even your guardian angel and yet you want me to help." She alluded.

"I'm sorry… but I really need to know this." Sato didn't back down from his request, he wanted to make the illusions as far away from reality as possible.

"Okay, fine, I'll tell you." Hikari accepted.

"Thank you." Sato uttered before he ambled away from the throne.

Clearing her throat, Hikari began to explain to Sato her steps for him to avoid his people turning into a bloodbath.

While this was happening at the angel's sanctuary, back at Rizaha, Benihime, and Akeno were trying to forcefully send out the Hunter from Sato's body.

Akeno sat down on a chair right beside the bed where Sato was lying unconscious. Divanchi and Benihime were standing at the side of the room, watching Akeno perform her magic.

There was a blue magic orb, orbiting around Sato's body while Akeno held his hand with her eyes closed.

"How long is this going to take?" Divanchi asked.

"This is the first time I've seen her do magic like this… ahh, she really is full of surprise." Benihime replied with a serious tone.

All of a sudden, Akeno began hollering in pain, "Kill me … please I beg of you!" She repeated

Benihime thought of going in to break the magic, but Akeno already informed them not to interfere before she started.

What Akeno was doing was reliving the last few seconds of what Sato went through so she'll be able to connect with the Hunter.

Tears fell from her eyes as saliva leaked from her mouth; A few minutes later, Akeno jetted from her seat and went crashing to the wall.

"Akeno!" Benihime called out before she ran to her side. "Are you Okay?" She assisted Akeno to her feet.

"Thank you." Akeno uttered with a faint smile on her face before she looked at Sato, "The Hunter is really…. persistent".

"So… did you do it?." Divanchi asked as she stood beside Sato with her hand resting on his head.

Akeno stood up right before walking toward Sato's bed and picking up her hand fan that had dropped when she went flying against the wall.

She spread open the fan and placed it in front of her lower face before she spoke, "The hunter is very strong…but not to worry, I don't plan to give up that easily".

"Perfect, then get on with it." Divanchi said.

Akeno went back to sit on the chair, she reluctantly held Sato's hand which immediately made the orb glow.

"Okay, let's try this again." She muttered before she closed her eyes to begin her magic.