Kira watched as Yin had turned around and sprinted back to their shared room,
Turning to the twins, Kira had to ask to try to figure out what exactly they had misunderstood before it escalated further.
"Nox, would you mind explaining to me in what capacity you're utilising the word Chosen?"
however Aether was the one to answer before Nox had a chance to speak up.
"Your Chosen personal servant ofcourse, its quite a honor you've bestowed such a weak mortal, we have had Ascended and lower tier divines fight extremely big fights just for the honor of even being considered for the position."
Kira immediately cringed, It was the exact thing she had been trying to get into the skull of that silly girl that she didn't need her servitude just being a friend would have been enough, but hearing the way Aether spoke made it quite apparent that she had been fighting an uphill battle while trying to drag a boulder, not to mention Yins raw emotional reaction had expressed Yins feelings better to her than words could have possibly described.
seeing Kiras frown Nox thought for a bit.
"I see, this wasn't what you meant when you asked us to pay respect to your mortal.
were you per chance expecting her to accept an equal relationship after sensing your true being?"
sensing Yin coming back Kira decided to step up her personal time as this was a conversation she felt couldn't wait.
"Yes, is it that hard to grasp that I don't want or need servitude from everyone?"
both Aethers and Nox eyes turned soft, this truly proved to them regardless of how mature and skilled she seemed that she was just a child.
"Sorry sister dearest, but your dreams are unrealistic"
Aether said and gave Kira a hug.
Nox looked awkward for a bit but decided to join into the hug.
After both twins had stepped back Nox decided it was probably better to give Kira an explanation.
"It is not an easy lesson to learn, but in short once someone knows the truth of your power, the chances of a seemingly equal relationship with a mortal will be impossible, even lower divine beings.
Mom mentioned you were from the lost realm, when have you ever heard any of your old realms myths mention any humans ever engaging with those they worship as friends or equals?
The truth is simple, the idea won't ever remotely cross Yins mind, the simple idea of not worshipping you to her would he heracy especially considering your direct relation to Inari who they have been worshipping for a long time.
The second she felt your true power every cell in her body likely submitted to you, to her this is simple instinct, especially considering her nature as a spirit beast, it wouldn't be different from any other race that remotely relies on instinct.
The truth is Yins desire is to serve you, she feels this is a great honor and in return of becoming your personal attendant you are officially claiming her as your property and in doing so does she gain your full protection and the status of being Chosen by you, if you were to think this as a hirachy did you just officially make her one of the most highest ranking mortals in this entire realm status wise, and given your power, I can probably change that statement to not one of the highest ranking, but the highest ranking.
being the personal servant of someone as powerful as you also comes with the added benefit of being the most noticed and the one to be most likely to be able to earn a personal favor from you, regardless of that being gifted power or something else.
Don't think that she is only in it for the gain however but realize that she is simply acting like it would be natural for a mortal she knows on an instinctual level that you would never be equal and she accepts that, and unfortunately it is also something you would have to accept."
Kira was listening silently to what Nox was saying, it was obvious she was speaking from experience, and something from her past popped into her mind, it was herself as a young child and she had been asked the question why she didn't want to be a princess just like the other girls.
She had answered the Astonished adult that she would never desire to be royalty, as everything they did would be scrutinised by everyone, and everyone would always be trying to approach them to gain favors, to Kira seeing the Royal weddings, and other events on TV. had seemed stiffling she also at young age had access to plenty of magazines depicting famous people and the newest gossip, and reading some of this had made her mind up then that she never desired to be famous, because you not only would you be surrounded by fake people and individuals trying to scrutinise everything you do.
But your freedom would also be impaired and Kira wanted freedom, being able to blend into the crowd and having individuals approach her because they enjoyed her company. Kira still felt all relationships and friendships had an element of give and take but not to the degree that royalty or famous people had when it was just about money.
"So there was absolutely no possibility to begin with that I could get Yin to treat me as an equal?"
Aether chimed in.
"If you were as you are now and you applied some simple illusions you probably could, however it would only last until she figured out who you truly were.
The second she felt your true power she would have submitted on the spot, the only ones remotely resistant to that would be the human race, they are rather unique that way but they would instead try to use it to increase their own status, I still remember a few oddballs building shrines and statues, and the mere fact that I had interacted with them turned into this huge thing.
While humans can be interesting do I probably prefer demons, they are much more direct about their desires and quite simple.
I kind of suspect that humans don't even know what they want themselves most of the time"
Kira did however easily catch on to what Aether had implied, sure she could have gained Yins friendship but only through literally hiding herself which wouldn't ever be more than an illusion, the aspect made Kira kind of sad.
"I do think you're misunderstanding something though, what we are saying is that you will never have an equal relationship, that doesn't mean you can't have a bond between you or even what resembles the companionship you seem to seek, even amongst humans, are truly equal companionships rare, it is just that the line isn't as clear so they don't always notice it themselves."
Nox added as an afterthought.
Kira was a bit surprised by Nox final words, thinking about it however Kira realized that Nox was right, this helped Kiras mood significantly in regards to accepting the situation, she was still not happy about the aspect of direct servitude and worship, but following the train of thought her mind had immediately gone to a famous super hero comic, where the individuals butler had served as, father figure, mentor, friend and servant all at the same time, even though this example had been fictional had Kira also been able to think of less fictional examples.
Sighing in defeat, she decided that trying to take back what Yin had understood would only cause further misunderstandings and hurt Yin, it was not a defeat Kira was happy to accept, but ultimately there was very little she could do, based on The twins explanations.
Kira could vaguely feel the connection to them through her connection to Chaos, but unlike Chaos and Inari who came naturally to her was it still hard mentally to accept them as sisters, she didn't immediately feel that so called famous sibling bond to them.
Aether immediately frowned.
"Why do I have a feeling that my dearest new little sister is thinking something very rude right now?"
Nox frowned.
"Because you just like I felt her instinctive confusion and slight rejection of our connection
It doesn't mean she is thinking anything rude but you always act before thinking, we pretty much just waltzed into her life and demanded her acceptance of our Kinship, it's only natural she would still harbour doubts just give her time"
Aether frowned.
"Well dear sister. you always were the most level headed of us, and our new little sister did accept mom, so I think you're right we just need to give her time but it still makes me sad to think that our adorable little sister is having doubts about us"
Nox went up and pulled Aether slightly away from Kira.
"Please Reign it in, just this once, we both know how stubborn you can be but you just risk driving our little sister further away if you start to pester her constantly, just give her time... please this time if not for me, then for moms sake."
Kira was a bit confused about the reason Nox had gone through the motion of dragging Aether away as Kira could still easily hear both of them but it was upon noticing that in doing so had Nox gained Aethers full attention and after looking eye to eye Aether had relented giving Nox a determined nod, and quickly returned to her bubbly self letting the subject be, it was an odd thing though because Kira could kind of feel some of the frustration and sadness coming from their link, Chaos link had briefly held slight confusion but went blank quickly again, Kira had never realized just how deep the connections between them had truly been before this moment.
Kira was also quickly learning that regardless of how convenient the ability to step up into a higher frequency was, did it also further serve to kind of distance her to everyone in the realm she was residing in, being able to quite literally put everyone on pause kind of felt surreal, it gave her a nagging thought that told her the world was more fake than it was real, like you would pause a video game or a movie.
Nox broke Kira out of her little mental struggle.
"One last thing, once we are out of the Shrine when stepping up your frequency please only use our link to communicate with us, nobody can see us in here, but we don't want to give away who we are, mom also gave us some enchanted trinkets that would better help hiding our power but they aren't as potent as the one they gifted you"
Kira immediately grabbed for her hair pin first, they had been extremely pretty when she had first put her eyes on them, and she did kind of wish to see herself in a mirror, much to her surprise barely had she wished for it had a mirror materialised of what looked like droplets being dragged in from the atmosphere and converted to a beautiful ornate mirror.
in it she saw herself again, this was the first time she had seen herself since she was in the mind space with Inari and Chaos and she had to fight to not visibly gasp.
She had kind of seen herself in her her private mind world or whatever it is called, but her focus had been slightly off.
only now had she realized that her other half hadn't been wearing her jewelry, it was the same
Fox girl around 13 or 14 years old staring back on her from the mirror as she had seen in the mindspace the white hair woven with the liquid galaxy and purple tips only had gotten further highlighted by the Hairpin holding her hair in place perfectly accenting the shimmering galaxy with its own unique kind of sparklyness
She found her odd eyes mesmerising the amethyst purple and the liquid green both being accented by the same kind of liquid galaxy quality as her hair held by an animalistic pupil.
Oddly to Kira the thing that caught her most off guard now that she had time to focus, was the fact that her pupil was a slit her eyes was breathtaking but utterly inhuman, it was odd even with trying to accept everything and being more open had some part of her still considered herself human, but seeing her own eyes shifted something deep inside her and a small part of her she still been latching on to left, at the same time she could feel her internal energy shift, it was like she had opened a lid on something that she had locked up but she couldn't exactly tell what it was.
Nox had been starring intently at Kira this whole time.
"Mom told me to give you time, and it seems she was right, your energy flow looks much healthier, you still have a few things bottled up, but this was definitely a big step, might I ask what caused you to open up ?"
Kira looked at Nox with a sad gaze
"I'm not human"
Both Aether and Nox shared a confused glance.
"Uhm ofcourse not? Not even your soul shows a fragment of humanity, it would have been many many generations since your soul was in any shape that would even been a shadow of being fit for a human vessel
Its kind of odd, you don't really show signs of having been fit to inhabit most races in the process of maturing, maybe spirit beast or arch demon, but your soul only now seem to be adapting and accepting the more primal traits of the spirit beasts, maybe really old and powerful arch demon?"
Nox poked Aether in the side to stop her.
"Sis... you're forgetting a very important fact"
Aether who had immediately just been blurting out her thoughts stopped rambling.
"Sorry my dearest sister, do you care to enlighten this forgetful one with your superior wisdom"
Aether said while sticking her tongue out at Nox.
Nox frowned in response but replied anyway.
"There were nothing but human vessels to reincarnate into in the system of the lost realm"
Understanding dawned on Aether.
and her expression quickly became horrified.
"Oh dear, you're saying our sister have been stuck reincarnating from human vessel to human vessel, there is no way she would have fit into human society, and her vessel can't possibly have contained her properly in the end, how did she even fit without the vessel breaking down, the original human vessel wasn't meant to store that amount of power.
her lives must have been miserable, there is no way regardless of how inept, the humans wouldn't have sensed her difference and been trying to remove her as a threat especially in that realm."
Aether was now looking at Kira with a sight of deep sorrow and pity.
Nox spoke directly to Kira this time showing the same sorrow and pity but doing a much better job of making it less obvious.
"You genuinely believed your prior life was that of a mortal human didn't you?
that's why you were binding yourself, you might even have been doing that by habit prior simply to prevent from further straining your old vessel"
hearing the last sentence Aether gave a muffled noise but covered her mouth with her hand.
Nox gave Aether a glance but continued.
"Might I ask what prompted the realisation that you indeed weren't human?"
Kira didn't particularly feel like she wanted to be pitied, but she had a feeling that it was Important for the Twins to understand her better so she replied.
"My eyes, it wasn't my tails, my fancy fantasy hair, my ears or even anything else it was when I glanced into my own eyes and I couldn't find any shred of humanity I realised I was wrong"
nox nodded her head in acknowledgement.
"You saw the predator in you and could no longer deny it, might I ask if you think our eyes are human"
Kira thought about it seriously.
Went up to both twins 1 by one who looked back at her, if she hadn't given it thought she would have said yes, but it was more she hadn't thought about it, but no even though both their pupils was round like a normal human would be was Nox like an endless void while Aether was like staring at light itself.
The thing she couldn't express was both of them had eyes more similar to her own, she would have said before it was the animalistic beastly traits of her eyes that had thrown her off but looking at both Aether and Nox and moving back to the still floating mirror and looking at her own she had to admit it was something else, it was like an underlying current, her own eyes looked the fiercest due to being paired with her more animalistic traits but it was more like this under current of power that held promises that you wouldn't survive crossing the person.
it was impossible for Kira to explain but beside being animalistic Kira suspected it was this other"ness that she had reacted to upon seeing.
She decided she would do a rather rude but proper final test to be sure, and went to the room she shared with Yin, taking a deep breath Kira looked into Yins eyes and while they were also Animalistic did they not evoke the same feeling she had gotten from looking into her own eyes or Nox and Aether, she felt a bit rude as she realized she had interrupted on a private moment, Yin was holding some sort of trinket that looked like it was a torn necklace, and she seemed like she was in the middle of either praying or speaking to it.
Kira felt it was likely better to not ask so she backed out of the room and decided she would pretend to Yin she hadn't seen anything, what she had seen and confirmed though was while the shape of Yins eyes was closer to what she had, the feel of looking into her own eyes was much closer to looking into both Aether and Nox than it was looking into Yins.
turning towards Nox, Kira gave her reply.
"No not even remotely, I put a finger on what it is but your eyes are more similar to mine than Yins are"
Both Nox and Aether smiled in response, they had been worried that Kira would only look at the surface level.
Aether in particular to be cheering up by the second.
"Thank you for acknowledging us, especially comparing our rather weak derived version of Moms sight with your own makes us happy
Our Eyes is the most direct way of seeing the nature of our soul and our power, you likely sensed immediately that we weren't human or mortal for that matter, while I guess you couldn't put your finger on it.
the fact you still made a link between your own eyes and ours however makes us extremely proud we don't have the same pure sight as mom and you but our powers and shape of our soul is from the same source of power.
Truth to be told, even with your energy completely hidden, will people still be able to sense your nature by looking at your eyes, you can however weave an illusion that retains the exact looks of your eyes but will hide the aspect you picked up on, Mom or Inari should really have told you this, some mortals go mad once they get the chance to stare at our true nature through our eyes."
Nox finished.
Illusions, the word stuck in Kiras head, she could do that couldn't she, she waves her hand and the mirror dissappeared, waved it again and a new mirror materialised.
thinking about it she desired herself to appear Human, her hair turned from silver to blonde, her ears on the top of her head dissapeared and her eyes turned round like normal humans and both appeared a more dull green.
She was however surprised that the sparkly liquid galaxy was much harder to hide and took a lot of concentration from Kira to remove.
same with her pupil, after a bit Kira appeared fully human and did a spin in the mirror she wondered if Yin would even recognise her like this but the skill was incredibly useful.
Nox and Aether literally gaped at Kira.
"You just hid moms trait with an illusion.... how not even mom can fully hide it"
Nox blurt out in complete disbelief.
Through their connection they suddenly heard Inari laughing.
"Chaos might be great, but Kira is truly my daughter in every sense, its not well known but my fox magic can make fay magic look like cheap party tricks, so ofcourse would she find a way"
one thing that surprised Kira was that seeing herself like this now felt wrong, there was something within her denying it, it was the same part of her she had let go earlier.
Nox had been catching this change in Kira and had sensed the shift in energy
"Interesting, Little sister I don't think it would be wise to hide away your nature so soon, after letting it out your instincts is revolting also a high amount of your fox magic is coursing through you right now, and your energy feels suppressed
I would really advice you to stop"
and thinking back to some of the episodes they had seen of Inari needing to burn a bit of energy with Chaos
but it was too late, Kiras pupils had changed back to slids and she now looked like a common young Kitsune with a massive grin on her face before she ran off.
Aether and Nox looked at each other worriedly, they both knew she had been suppressing her nature but they hadn't thought that she would let go of the reign right this moment.