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Chapter 10 - The royalty.

After the wielders defeated Poseidon, they got into the helicopter, however, the flood did not disappear but, the level wasn't increasing. They couldn't do anything to help the population, now more than forty thousand inhabitants of the city are homeless. Teresa feels guilty about what happened in the city.

Kakeru: It wasn't our fault Teresa. We couldn't do anything to help the population.

Teresa: I know, but I can feel that something is wrong. When I entered Poseidon's mind, I did not saw the same anger when I entered Hades and Ares mind. His emotions are similar to Aphrodite.

Kakeru: What did you saw?

Teresa: I saw loneliness and sadness. His heart was broken.

Hermes: That is not all, how did the flood start?

Teresa: Wasn't he the one who started it?

Hermes: He started it, but how? It wasn't raining, and when I saw him, there was no water leaving that building, and even if had, the water level was increasing more than he could produce at that building.

Kakeru: Besides, when I saw his ability, I could discover what is it. That man can somehow increase the volume in the water and control it. But it would take at least one hour to fulfill two empty pools.

Hermes: So the flood wasn't caused by him?

Teresa: Then who started it?

Kakeru: And he stopped doing it exactly after we defeated Poseidon...

They stopped talking after that, Kakeru is calmer now, he is reflecting on what was starting the flood. Even though he doesn't have the information he needs to figure out what happened, he will not stop thinking until he discovers it. Hwan tried to sleep but it is no use, he is seeing if the Poseidon wielder hurt himself during the fight.

Teresa: His clothes are completely torn apart. But he is not injured at all.

Teresa finds a strange mark on his back and asks Kakeru what that is.

Kakeru: This is the symbol of the purple reaper.

Teresa: What is this "Purple Reaper"?

Kakeru: This boy was marked to die by the royal family.

Hermes: Why a normal boy living in the suburbs would be marked to die?

Kakeru: We will ask him after we get to the hideout.

They arrive at Athena's building with the helicopter, Kakeru leaves Yuki on the couch of the living room, and Teresa leaves the Poseidon wielder at his new bedroom.

Yuki wakes up in the living room, the place is very comfortable, the couch is more than five meters long and its color is beige, it has a lamp next to it, the walls are white with wood ornaments, the carpet is black with a table above it, with plasma TV on it.

Yuki sees that the accident is being transmitted, the company that provided the sewers and hydraulic equipment was framed for what happened.

After the program ends Kakeru step into the room in his normal clothes.

Kakeru: The government has hidden what happened very well.

Yuki: I am sorry for what happened there, if I knew what my ability did, this would be easier than it was.

Kakeru: No need to worry, you saved my life and I am thankful to you.

Yuki: Athena is here?

Kakeru starts to get irritated and looks to the corridor.

Kakeru: That bitch just disappeared, she needs to explain what happened.

While they talk in the living room the boy wakes up in his bedroom. The room has blue walls with gold ornaments, like tridents and golden fish, it has an aquarium with more than twenty tiny fish, and the floor is blue with a black symbol that looks like a trident. His clothes are torn apart, so he wears a yellow t-shirt, a blue coat, and white jeans that were next to him. Suddenly a woman with pink hair enters the room wearing a yellow dress, black tights, and red shoes.

Athena: No need to worry, I am here to help you.

?: Who are you?

Athena: You can call me Athena. I have to introduce you to the others Norman!

Norman: How do you know my name?

Athena just walks away to the living room. Norman follows her as he walks into a strange corridor with nine doors.

The two of them arrive at the living where the rest of them waited for them, Hwan and Asashi are chatting, while Kakeru, Teresa, and Yuki are watching TV.

Athena: The boy woke up!

Kakeru: Where the hell was you, Athena? Yuki and I almost died!

Athena: Calm down now... You don't want to make a bad impression on the boy, don't you?

Kakeru calms down as he sits on the couch. The other stop what they were doing to hear the boy.

Athena: Talk about how you got the ring.

Norman: My name is Norman, I don't know how to start this but I... I am a prince.

Athena smiles as the others get surprised by what they just heard.

Norman: I was born in the royal family and had a happy life, but yesterday I discovered that the old king, my dad, was killed in the World War by the Ignarious province. After that, I was adopted by them, but as time passes one of my sisters discovered that I am adopted, she ordered her guards to kill me. So they marked me with the "Purple Reaper", drugged me, and throw me into the ocean, after that, I remember talking to someone who claimed to be "God of the sea". And then, I passed out, but I could hear people screaming and suffering.

Yuki: You are ok now, we have so much to tell to you too.

Asashi: For now you have to rest.

Kakeru stands up and goes to his bedroom, he doesn't even look at the boy standing in the room.

Teresa: Don't worry, you did nothing wrong Norman.

Yuki follows Kakeru to the corridor, but before he arrives at his bedroom, he looks at him.

Kakeru: What do you want?

Yuki: You look kinda off recently, what happened?

Kakeru: Don't bother with me, you have more important things to do...

The wielders have one more to the group, now they have to found the wielders off Demeter, Zeus, Artemis, and Nike.