THE ADVENTURER OF EDEN
4.14 "Aniki"

Guildtown, at this time.

The incident of Anna's murder shocked everyone. 4 the receptionist stabbed Anna together, and what they did was masterminded by a person named "King of the Imps, Baros" who was an "Abyss creature"

Baros disguises himself as a human named Theo and kills Shiki. But his goal turns to killing Anna, the woman who is thought to be a fairy.

Now that Anna was dead, despite having killed the Baros, deep sorrow and pain were evident to the Adventurers.

"Vira-san, report. The state of the 4 receptionists is starting to improve! They'll probably wake up tomorrow, and then what are we gonna do?"

An adventurer reported to Vira about it. Vira knew the circumstances of her four precious friends later on. Their mentality would definitely be chaotic, especially after hearing those who "killed" Anna.

"I'll be there watching. If they're awake, I should be the first person they see." replied Vira.

"Then? How's Warren doing?"

"Warren suffered quite a serious injury and he would probably be very sad considering he was..."

"That's right, I'll take care of everything now." Vira nodded, she moved from where she was sitting.

Vira will do some work. Silva entrusted the Adventurers Guild to him as long as he went to the capital. Vira knew it was going to be a tough time.

Vira sees Dion on top of a damaged building. Vira knows how to regret Dion after failing to protect Anna and solve yesterday's problems.

Dion even said "If Shiki were here, Anna wouldn't have died." Vira agreed to what Dion said, but the envy of him being the second strongest in the Guild also made him feel useless.

(Dion will recover quickly. I think tonight I need to cheer him up.) thought Vira's smile.

"However about Shiki... What are you gonna do to him, chief? I can imagine what his reaction was to hear that..." Vira is worried about Shiki, his mentality must be very broken.

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Capital, Thousand Star Castle.

Shiki heard what Silva said. Yui and Alicia glared in shock, Shiki's reaction was silent as chairman Silva spoke to him;

"I have failed to become the Guild Leader. I lost one of my most important friends. Letting the enemy do-"

Shiki attacks Silva with both knives, Yui and Alicia startled, yelling at Shiki. "Damnec!" "Govie!"

Shiki swung his knife, but Silva was protected by a barrier. Silva shot the barrier at Shiki until it bounced against the wall.

"Take me off... Goddamnit!" Shiki's shout could not move, his hands and feet were locked on the wall by Silva's magic.

Alicia saw Silva's magic for the first time. "What magic is that?! It was as if Shiki was locked away by magical energy!"

"Manna Creation, that's my special magic name" Silva said. "Magic cultivates magical energy into various forms, such as weapons and so on. This is the strongest magic in the Northern Continent."

Alicia just found out there's that special magic. Magical energy is shaped like air, will not follow the container like a liquid because there is no physical form. But Silva can cultivate magical energy into physical form, and that's his "Manna Creation" magic.

"Say Shiki, do you want to avenge Anna's death? What do you want to do about it? Kill everyone in NARAKU? Killing Dark Lord Balor?" silva asked Shiki.

"Yes! I'll kill them all! No matter who, not even the one who failed to protect Anna will be forgiven!" Shiki shouted again full of annoyance.

"I love Anna! But I can't protect him! I shouldn't trust anyone... I should've protected him...!"

(Movie.) Alicia and Yui's faces became down hearing that.

Silva knew Shiki's love for Anna was so great, and this child gave up all the pain of hearing Anna's death. Her regret could not protect her, even though Anna had decided to abandon their feelings for each other.

But Silva remembered Anna's earlier remark, the fairy lady had already guessed NARAKU would come to kill her sooner or later. Silva can't guess what fairy Anna really is, but if she makes Shiki blind love like this to her, Silva suspects they have fond memories of the past.

"Shiki, you suck at love" said Silva, then patted Yui and Alicia on the shoulder.

"Daughter of Alicia, Princess Yui, I leave the rest to you" Silva said. They both look shocked, but just shut up.

Silva moved away from there and Shiki looked at him in annoyance. "Layla will laugh at you if she sees her son looking weak just out of love! Ahhaha..."

"You...!" Shiki was upset and Silva walked out of the room.

"Calm down, aniki." Yui asks him to calm down.

Shiki is upset, and tries to make a revolt, but realizes she will not be able to. He shouted at Alicia and Yui; "Free me! You two! Don't just stay there!"

"Shut up!" Alicia snapped at him annoyed. "I'm sick of being with you, Shiki. You disgust me."

Alicia goes from there upset, Yui sees her and she knows Alicia is not only upset to see Shiki like this, but sad and her day hurts so much.

"Yui! Do quick! You are my sister! You want to go wherever I go, right?! Free me here!" Shiki Shouts.

Yui took out her katana, the red sword blade "Muramasa" then cut off all the Creations that locked Shiki away.

Shiki managed to get down, but TWOGH! "ANIKI IDIOTS!" Yui kicks Shiki hard until he is thrown into the wall next to her. The walls are broken and Shiki sees Yui in annoyance, however.

A face that held back tears, a face that looked at Shiki with a deep feeling of disappointment. Seeing the younger sister (his lift) like that, made Shiki realize that she was out of control before.

He disappoints Yui who greatly admires him. He looked weak and pitiful in front of his younger sister who was always by his side.

"Yui..." Shiki looked down weakly, then apologized. "I'm sorry."

"Before we arrived at Paradise 10 years ago, our Haruna clan fought with the Asteria Kingdom for an entire year," Yui wiped her tears and story on Shiki.

"It happened when I was a kid, I was only 4 years old when I saw a lot of people in the clan killed. One of the dead was my mother, she died protecting me."

"Dad is very sorry. Mom just died without saying goodbye to dad. Dad couldn't protect him, he looked so pitiful back then, but everyone was justifying it because losing a loved wife was painful."

Shiki was silent, he had heard the story about the Haruna clan war and the Asteria Kingdom in the ocean about a decade ago.

"Annick... That woman is a nobody you are, you just like her and your feelings are never reciprocated by her. She has a husband and children..." Yui says things that Shiki already knows.

"I know...! But Anna is..."

"Then what's with that, stupid!" yui's reply was irritated. "Fuck him your first love! If he dies without marrying you, then he's not your soul mate!"

"Listen, Shiki... You're not the only one who has a first love for someone...! I love you, you are my first love!" Yui shouted while pulling Shiki's collar.

Shiki looked at Yui in shock as well. Yui does not cry, she gets angry while revealing her deep feelings to Shiki.

Shiki knew, Yui sincerely loved him. Yui's feelings for him were no longer as a brother, but as a man.

"Yui..." Shiki smile. "Thank you."

Yui was silent and Shiki's countenance changed. Yui's shout realizes that Shiki has to move on seriously and forget about Anna who has died.

Shiki then hugged Yui. "I'm glad you're always by my side. I'm glad you're my little sister, Yui."

"Yui, you love me. You've always been by my side. So I have a request for you..." Shiki asks Yui for something, a request that surprises Shiki and Alicia who heard everything from outside the guest room earlier;

"Let's get in touch with ****."

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When I lost my mother, my father cried regretfully. We then retreated, defeated by a powerful fleet of Asteria Kingdom ships. Of the 5 ships we brought from the Far East, only one remains.

The Haruna Clan was defeated decisively then, the Asteria Kingdom, no. More precisely the Blackmore Family, attacked us for no apparent reason.

We wanted to go back to Asteria like we did more than 400 years ago. From then on, the Haruna clan's hatred for Blackmore intensified.

But you know, "hate" with "venge" is a bad feeling. The Haruna clan chose to hate, but there was no grudge because it would lead to a relentless war that could have caused the extinction of our clan.

When the mother's body was burned, the father said at the time. "I will not avenge your death. But I promise you I won't let anyone die. I will educate Yui to be the greatest woman in the history of the Haruna clan..."

I'm worried, ever since I was a child, my mother taught me gently. But dad is a hard guy and a little tempramental. Although I was a child, I was worried that my father would be more rude to me.

But the worry is not real. He taught me in my mother's way. He comforted me. She did her best so that I could become the woman who could lead the Haruna clan in the future.

"Yet Yui, you're a girl. So you can't be the head of the Haruna clan."

Ah, so. That's obvious. The strong and respected man of many people was the strong candidate of clan head Haruna.

That's why you took us to an island back then. Wild and seemingly uninhabited island. When I first set foot on the island, I felt it was "different" from the other islands.

From my father's words, the island strengthened my feelings back then.

"Truly a paradise, this island reappeared after being destroyed 3 years ago."

"Is anyone still alive? Search everywhere on the island!"

In the search, I went with Dad. I saw a boy living in the jungle of the island. In tattered clothes, he was sitting in front of the bonfire he had made.

The boy looked at me seriously, so I grabbed my father's leg back then and looked back at him.

But my reaction looked very shocked. It was the same reaction when hearing of the mother's death three years ago.

"I can't believe it. It turns out you're still alive! I'm happy!" Dad immediately fell on his knee, and the boy asked; "Who are you?"

"My name is Yamamoto "Tiger" Haruna. From today on, you are my son, and this girl, she will be your little sister."

I was surprised to hear that. I'm sure this boy doesn't want to, where he might just take a stranger for granted...

"All right."

He just takes it.

"I don't know who you are, but... But I'm so happy...!"

She cried.

"I'm glad someone came to me after three years! Finally...! Someone finally came to me...!" He ran and hugged my father. "I'm not alone anymore!"

"HUAAH!"

I was surprised, and so was my dad. This boy survived alone on this empty island for three years.

She must be alone, after losing everyone, she lives alone on this island. It's a really terrible situation.

...

A year, two years and three years passed since the meeting. My brother, Shiki is his name. He is 13 years old and I am 10.

Every member of the Haruna clan begins to teach Shiki to fight. I was impressed, everyone was impressed, Aniki was amazing and strong for a boy her age.

"Great, aniki! You can fight against all the fighters of the Haruna clan! It'll only take a while until you can beat all of them!"

"You're right, Yui. If I were 15 years old, I would have defeated them all, and by then I would have challenged my father and instantly defeated him!" Aniki was so excited at the time.

"If you challenge father and win, I will become the head of the Haruna clan! Haha, that would be awesome!"

"If you become the head of the Haruna clan, that means you have to marry me, aniki."

I said that blushing. Aniki heard that, and looked confused. "You're right. But I always thought of you as my little sister."

"Maybe it will continue until I die! Because to me, having a sister, means having someone important that I have to protect."

I nodded in agreement. "Yes!"

At that time my feelings were just pure "awe" for her. That's why I always follow her path, follow her wherever she goes.

I don't want him out of my sight, I don't want that.

But when he decided to go to be an adventurer, I was very surprised because it was so sudden.

"Sorry, Yui. I know it's sudden, but I'm 17 years old and I'm leaving this island to become an Adventurer in the Asteria Kingdom."

"My biological mother was an adventurer, and so was Tiger's father. So I'll follow in their footsteps and make them proud."

I could only nod, Aniki tried to comfort me and said I would be proud of her later. I believe he can do that, because he's my brother, but...

This upset feeling, I don't want him to stay away...

"Oh, if so, you should get her to marry you, Yui." Dad suggested that to me. "To be honest, it was my intention to make Shiki your foster brother."

"My plan is mature enough and your feelings just grow. But... To become the pair of Haruna clan heads, you must become strong."

"I know." I-i understand. "That's why, father.teach me again to be strong! So that I can stand with Shiki next to her! As a woman he can count on!"

"As a wife who can fight with him...! And he can be proud!"

"Yui..." Dad's surprised. "I think you look more like me than your mother."

He rubbed my head. I know you're a gentle woman, a good wife and I said I wanted to be that way too.

And after learning of being a "strong woman", as well as a "good wife", three years passed and I was also ready to set out to find Aniki to get her to marry me.

It sounds hard, but I love her. First love. My dear brother. The man I admire. I'll be the woman and wife he's proud of, just like a father who's so proud of mom.

"Shiki the Strongest Adventurer." It was an incredible nickname, and I'm sure I can be by his side forever.