This was it, wasn’t it!?

  That circle of hatred, revenge, retribution…

  What could she do to stop it!? Earth didn’t have spiritual essence, and it was terrible, could spiritual essence really achieve absolutely nothing in helping prevent this circle from continuing here as well!?

  Well, there was that secondary conscious that she had tried on a few people…

  But really, was that all this could do…Because that still doesn’t really get rid of this bsted circle!

  Matilda knew that it wasn’t the time to think about this, well not at this exact moment anyway but it was all connected, wasn’t it?

  If she could at least make this circle appear a little less, wouldn’t that mean that the spiritual essence would st longer?

  Then, what could she do then? If she killed this wretched man, Green Haven would have all right to detach themselves and more. If she killed him here and now, then the beginning of this era’s Golden Haven started with bloodshed!

  It just couldn’t be done…Matilda had to try and hold in her anger and keep that arsehole, douchebag of a human being alive…Whether he deserved it or not!

  And just that thought was enough to make her even more angry!

  “Let him go, An!” Matilda gritted out.

  An felt such anger and rage towards the emperor…But to see Matilda and to hear what she had just stated…He suddenly became more worried.

  Not only did he want to keep his spiritual essence, but…She was so angry…Extremely angry!

  “If anyone has a right to kill this man, it would be either Katherine or I. So do not touch him!” Matilda stated angrily.

  She had been alright, she had been enduring…It was ok this morning, before they made this such a problem!

  But had she been the idiot to think that perhaps they could have all just ignored what he had done!?

  Yes…She had been the idiot!

  I am the world’s greatest idiot!

  Walking up to the Green Haven Emperor, Matilda lost a part of herself that she had maybe gained back.

  The time that she had taken to get over and adapt to what had happened.

  She had thought herself good at adapting! But it had taken her twenty years to accept what this man had done and finally go back to being somewhat normal!

  The Green Haven Emperor, now being let go, put his own hand to his throat and angrily looked around.

  He wanted to use his status as much as possible, to get out of this mess but as he looked around, to see everyone look at two girls that looked alike, the Green Haven Emperor frowned.

  Matilda walked closer towards him and made him kneel, not even really sure if she had been the one to have done it…Or how…

  “I healed your dantian, I healed your general. I was nearly killed by your empress, more than once! I was schemed against, oh…And don’t forget…You killed us!”

  The Green Haven Emperor started to shake his head vigorously, “No…No!”

  Moving her neck around, almost like it was holding her back from going ‘all out’, Matilda suddenly put her hand out to his head and the crowd went quiet.

  It wasn’t like being blocked caused too much pain, if any, but Matilda didn’t ‘block’ the dantian of the emperor. Taking in his spiritual essence, Matilda then went one step further and completely removed his dantian, so that he was just a very normal person now. So normal that if he was transported to earth, they’d only see him as old!

  “What…What have you done!?” Of course, he didn’t want to sit there and do nothing but he…Now he can’t do anything!

  “I know a judge and witnesses are needed to make this true and sound but the punishment of killing us…”

  “We can be your witnesses. All of us.”

  Nods were done but Matilda did not see them, “No, the fact that we are now once again alive, somewhat takes away the fact that he had indeed killed us. What we have most definitely lost though…Are those twenty years.”

  “I disagree, even I lost, but I wasn’t killed!” An stated.

  Matilda turned to him, “Then who would you be now? Band Two or An!?”

  An went quiet for a moment, “It’s not enough!”

  Matilda shouted back, “Oh, then what is enough! You have Katherine now! You have a child already starting to grow! How could you have obtained that without having gone through the misfortune of losing Band Two in the first pce!”

  An once again went silent, even losing his momentum to continue to fight, “…What?”

  Katherine was looking at her too, although she was just blinking and bnking out.

  Matilda finally showed a smile, nodding at them, “It’s still very small! But you have conceived! Katherine’s pregnant”

  When Matilda stated that the fetus was indeed ‘very small’ it was that small that not many doctors would even know yet by feeling her pulse. But it was obvious to someone who could zoom in so much that an ‘egg’ dividing itself into itty bitty bits was seen…

  Almost like the fight and reason why the pregnancy was brought up was forgotten, An turned to Katherine and couldn’t help but smile.

  One other person knew how much he had wanted this. Ever since An had found Katherine to being Band Two again, he had finally wanted his first child to be born.

  It seems Katherine changing her fate and becoming a woman had indeed worked out!

  Had she known that An would be so happy with having a family with her!?

  Well, it was a double whammy, because she was obviously happy herself!

  Matilda was sure though that if Band Two had come back as a male, they would have just adopted. The love that they had wasn’t based on gender, even though tely it may have looked like it but…They had been both males for a long time and loved each other, they just weren’t in the right kind of position to state their minds to one another.

  An took Katherine into his hands and spun her around, showing such happiness in such a time when unhappiness had been obtained…

  It was like war, how bodies of both enemies and allies would be seen everywhere, on top of each other even…Like they were equal at least in death. Now, it was happiness being obtained through cruelty…Through hardship…

  I guess Naruto had it pretty right in some respect…How ninja’s having to endure…It’s the same with normal people too…Well it was written by a normal person…After all…Bah, what is fucking normal now!? Earth people…They are like aliens to me now!

  Seeing An go off, like he had accepted things as they are, or whatever he was thinking or feeling at that moment, Matilda turned back to the Green Haven Emperor. “As I said, since we are alive again, we shouldn’t convict him to serve for murder.” There was some noise, but Matilda continued, “Again, we did lose something…Time…And so I have taken his dantian away, he will never be able to use spiritual essence again as punishment.” And since he is so old, he may not st too much longer.

  The Green Haven Emperor had been already using spiritual essence to help with his sight and hearing…That’s why older people were still a lot weaker, because they were always using spiritual essence upon something that the young may not have to worry about.

  “You…You are…” The Green Haven Emperor looked at Matilda with wide eyes.

  Matilda looked back at him, “I am Matilda now.”

  Leaning closer into him, Matilda then whispered, “Sahara thought she could at least trust you with her life, but Matilda will not accept being treated like crap by anyone! So, I suggest you follow me to your room and stay for the meeting. If you choose otherwise, then I will force you to write your st decree, stating that you will live the rest of your life in solitude and make Felix the next emperor!”

  The Green Haven Emperor went quiet…Sadly Matilda could hear his inner ugh start as he thought of making things hard for her and this meeting.

  Again, she leaned forward and whispered, “I can hear your thoughts, father! If you don’t take this seriously, you’ll be wondering in the next moment what the hell happened! So, if you want to stay on that beloved seat, you should do yourself a favor and act properly! Don’t forget that I could, if I wanted too, torture someone to death, only to bring them back and do it again! So…How much do you like pain?”

  Honestly, Matilda thought she wasn’t very good at threatening people. She didn’t want to do it, and she didn’t feel like she should have to because well…Shouldn’t everyone treat everyone else better!? Nicer?

  It was a saying back on earth, something about treating others how you like to be treated…I’m sure I learnt it here too…

  But no, apparently it was a human trait that we treat each other like shit and well threatening is something we do in in spades!

  Will he understand? Because I don’t really know what to do now! I’m…I’m fucking shaking!

  Matilda, who had already stepped away from the Green Haven Emperor, took a deep breath and hid her trembling hands. “If you would please follow me, I will take you to where your guest quarters will be while you are staying here in Golden Haven.”

  With that, Matilda was happy to turn away and start walking. She hoped that looking away from that man and having to concentrate on something else might help her to go back to normal.

  Having said that she didn’t want to take crap from no one and not hold back was a little different to actually doing it! She didn’t regret it, hell no! But…She wasn’t used to forcing her own ways so much, like it’s ‘my way or the highway’…It really wasn’t her style at all! Then, if she didn’t do things this way…Won’t she just become a target again!? But this is what tyrants do! This is how bad people become bad people! They just do whatever they want!

  Focus…Just focus on the very easy job of taking a person to a certain pce and being polite…Right, no specific names need to be known, and I know where I’m going…It is…Fine! It is easy to be…Polite!

  The problem was, after pretending the newest guest was a ‘John Doe’, Matilda could only accept and try to adapt to the next event that wasn’t too far away…That was dinner…

  So far, dinner had been up to the emperor’s and golden heirs to attend a gathering or to just stay in their guest quarters. It had been uneventful and quiet, as not everyone attended and well, each ‘horse’ seemed to be watching other ‘horses’ and the emperors. Inside their quarters there was indeed a wall full of golden letters that would be written about all these things and so, now that everyone has arrived, the official start was now going to happen to find the new Golden Emperor.

  Words on walls changed, as it said it would, and it now stated the first official dinner will be served on a certain time and that small, little job was done! If a few don’t rock up, it was easy to send someone to make sure they knew about it, but they are only allowed to miss three dinners a week, as this was also going to be ‘important work’.

  As far as Matilda was concerned, this meeting was about them, the heirs had to show their talents and whatnot, and the emperor’s had to see it! Spending time, including dinners, was an easy way to mingle and see who people were…And it wasn’t like you had to pull people by the legs to make them come! It was food and drink!

  Even Madeline got out from the shadows and started drinking!

  Come on boys and girls, drink and be merry!

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