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"Sorry to keep you waiting." Hakai looked to his left, noticing a frail senior man dressed in a black suit.
"It is fine, young lord, this way." He gestured for Hakai to lead the way as he would follow behind.
"So, where are you taking me?" Hakai asked, searching inside his bag. "Man, I'm still hungry!" He shouted inside his mind, noticing how this body needed even more food than the last.
"Milady wishes an audience with you." The old man told Hakai as he instructed him to turn. "To the right, young lord." The two turned and kept walking down a massive green corridor.
"Hmm, I see."
"Here, let me get the door for you." The older gentleman finally appeared ahead of Hakai, reaching for the handle.
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"A yard! Wow, it's like farmland!" His eyes sparkled.
"It is a farm, young lord." The old man corrected Hakai.
"Hakai!" Inari waved at him, trying to catch his attention.
"Hmm, thank you, gramps!" Hakai strolled in, walking towards Inari while admiring the beautiful farm.
"Woah, it's beautiful! It just shows how much you take care of it." Hakai complimented Inari on her hard work to keep up the place.
"I'm flattered, thank you. I take care of it personally, and it takes time." Inari held a basket of flowers, wearing a beautiful flower-checkered sundress.
"Alone?" Hakai asked.
"Hmm, it's, after all, my baby." Inari smiled.
"You're amazing. I couldn't personally tend to such a massive place." Hakai smiled while placing his left hand into his pocket while scratching his cheek with his right hand.
"Have this!" Inari pulled the most beautiful rose out of the bunch from the basket and handed it to him with a slight blush.
"For me?" Hakai smiled, pointing to himself. "Thank you!" He laughed, grabbing the rose out of her hand gently.
"This a pact of alliance between me and you, Hakai God." She smiled, slowly uttering with carefulness.
"Hmm, Inari-San, wanna be my friend?" He smiled at her asking her to be his friend while placing the flower between his ear.
"Huh? Wah? I mean, like, sure!"
Inari finally made a friend with another deity.
"He is kindhearted." Her eyes sparkled at the idea of finally achieving her lifelong dream of making a friend.
Silence fell as the couple smiled at one another.
"Have you opened the fruits of the mission I gifted you?" She asked him, breaking away the silence and tension.
"Not yet. I was planning to do that today."
"Well, what better time?" She told him, heading to her stone flower garden with a built-in waterfall to pick out a few more flowers.
"You're right." Hakai finally reached into his bag and pulled out the two scrolls.
"Let's see..." He muttered, opening the first one.
Shine!
Light shone out of it as the item manifested a physical form. A wrist-beaded rosary appeared in his hands. Each bead had an engraving of the sun, and immediately, it caught Hakai's attention. "Hey, Inari-San, this belongs-"
"It belongs to Amaterasu Omikami. Protection Rosary of the Sun." Inari continued the sentence for him. "This isn't for you. Time to pass it on to Mai. You know that not everyone will join or accept your offer, keep her safe, Hakai No Kami."
"Ah, I see." Hakai held onto the rosary as if it would escape from his grasp. Then, reaching back, he placed the rosary in his bag and took out the second scroll.
"How'd you get a hold of the rosary?" Hakai asked her, wanting to catch up on how she received the rosary.
"Four decades ago, a miserable fight against Hades unfolded in central Kyoto. I was inches away from his demising blade. But then, Amaterasu's appearance was like the sun descending upon the earth. Her hand reached onto mine, sliding the rosary on my wrist. A thin layer of a translucent dome engulfed me whole. It was like a bubble that allowed no attacks out and in." She told her story as Hakai unfolded the scroll, releasing a similar light to the last one, and an item manifested a physical form.
"An orb?" Hakai asked, holding a green orb engraved with a strange symbol.
"Yes, but precisely it is a teleportation orb that will bring you back to this yard." She informed him of its use.
"No swords? Nothing else?" He asked her, a little down about his rewards.
"Not today. It takes time to produce swords, ya know!" Inari hissed back at him.
He looked down in the dumps while holding the orb, teary-eyed.
"I went ahead and informed Tennyo about the mission. You should receive a call shortly after leaving." She crossed her arms, with the basket still in her hand, heading inside again.
"Thanks, Inari-San, you have gone to lengths and beyond for me!" Hakai bowed his head, smiling with appreciation.
"Don't mention it, ya con. I will see you off myself." She blushed behind her back.
"Hmm!"
***
"Uh-huh!" Hachiman sighed, standing atop a floating mansion's ground. His mind was racing, Hakai was all he could think about, but suddenly the time warp in this dimension caught up to him. "How long has it been? Half a day here, maybe?" He questioned as he finally realized a critical issue he needed to address previously. "Oh no..."
He slapped his cheeks with his hands. "I completely forgot to tell Hakai about the setback with absorbing and fully draining the Positive Energy reservoir!" He paced in circles, worried; he bit his thumb's nail. "A three-day delay, and if he tries to absorb any more, his body will overheat and collapse from the exhaustion of using such dangerous power!" Hachiman, despite his intuition, had no idea what Hakai was up to or if he even figured that out on his own.
"My Humble Lord, I come with news." An angelic being appeared from the glimmering light in front of Hachiman.
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"Well, tis a pleasure to know you. Be well, Hakai." Inari stretched a smile, hiding behind her indescribable feelings.
"Thanks for everything, Inari-San. I will pay you back one day!" Hakai readied himself for an enormous leap. He was precisely aiming to head back into Tokyo.
"Don't mention it. You were truly not the Hakai Kami I heard stories of." This encounter had now established a clear and clean image of the new Hakai. Hakai fulfilled her need for friends, one like her. Throughout his stay in the kingdom, he never discriminated against her regarding their ways of living and accent. He was unlike the others who viewed themselves as royalty and her a glutton on a farm.
"Oh, your accent, people, and ways of living are a rarity, a treasure of indescribable beauty! Never be afraid to show who you are, be proud, and take pride in yourself, Inari-San" Hakai looked back at her with a cheeky smile, one Inari would describe as a "heart snatcher."
"Ya scam, will ya quit yer games!" She pointed her index finger at him while shouting, flustered.
"N-No, I'm serious!" Hakai couldn't help himself but chuckle. Which, in turn, made Inari tear up and laugh.
After the pair's laughter, the guard behind her never shook or moved a muscle in her defense.
"Well, Goodbye, my new friend." Inari smiled at him softly, teary-eyed and all. She was indeed a goddess.
"More like, see you later!" Hakai blasted away, sending shockwaves that rocked Inari's sundress back and forth.
"Oh, Inari-San, I love youuuu!" Hakai shouted mid-air. Thankfully, but regretfully, Inari happened to catch it.
"Wah-wah-What!!" She blushed like crazy while all the emotion overwrote her cute little brain!
"Inari-Sama!?" Yuri cried while holding onto Inari. "Damn you! Hakaishin!!" Yuri's sense of restraint snapped, wanting to kill Hakai.