Maximum saw the three crying women. He felt the need to kill himself immediately. There should not be anything more shameful than making the woman or women you hold dear cry because of selfishness.
"I have finally gotten a piece of my life back. What happens? I make you three cry your hearts out. Please end me now." Maximum said closing his eyes.
The women felt what Maximum said was the truth. In their hearts, they could not physically do what he wanted them to do.
"Spare us this heartbreaking moment please?" Iris begged.
She kept saying this as Maximum kept repeating the words out of his mouth.
Finally, a metal clang happened. Iris was shocked to see her mother tossing two weapons in front of Maximum.
"I have loved you dearly since the time I saw you. Even when I could not feel your love, I made sure to let you know how much you were loved. What do I get in return? You wanting death," Maximum's wife was crying rivers of tears, "Now I have had enough. I am going back to my room and if you want to die. Kill yourself and leave a note on the door." She left in a hurry.
Iris went behind her.
"I am too blame for all of this. Please do not try and save me again." Seishi said as she turned around.
Maximum kept her to the ground. He placed one of the weapons in her left hand.
"You are not to blame. I was selfish and stupid. Go on ahead and slaughter me like a pig." Maximum asked in a heartfelt tone.
Seishi knew well enough that Maximum was trying to take the easy way out.
"Failures are what make each of us stronger. So go on ahead and fix this problem." Seishi said and left the room.
Silence entered the room as Seishi left.
"Failure. It is doomed to happen and doomed to make people either get stronger or weaker. For you, this would happen if you entered the Mortal Realms now." The Demon King of the Forbidden Area spoke.
Maximum felt his entire body shake with anxiety. He had no idea how this came to but he knee it had to be fixed.
"How do I fix this?" Maximum asked.
"Either kill yourself, as the woman as the easy way out. Or you come back and fight the Success Path."
Maximum looked at the weapon. Even though he was willing to say that he wanted to die. Deep down, he truly did not.
He wanted to be a man of his word. He crawled over to the desk. He wrote on the paper, 'Do not look inside'.
He placed the note on the front door. He crawled back to the weapons. He had sat a trap for intruders coming in. Now he was using to try and allow himself to die.
"I am the one to blame for this mess. Now, I will go fight my way through that mess myself." Maximum felt his courage rising.
As a sword started to pierce him. Angels began singing in the Heavenly Realm.
These angels were the angels that always liked Maximum and helped him. Now that he was trying to die, they wanted to spare him.
The sword pierced him. The angel's singing helped keep Maximum alive throughout the night. He was greatly weakened.
Iris saw the note and she busted into her father's office/bedroom. When she saw the sword piercing through her father.
She began trying to do everything she could to save him. Maximum raised his arm around Iris.
"With what little strength I have left. I want you to know that I am the person to blame for a lot of things. Please be mindful of speaking evil because sometimes it is not always the right thing to do but the necessary thing," Maximum spoke softly, "I love you so much. I love your mother and Seishi. Even though, my heart is broken. I will return stronger than before because I," Maximum died.
Iris wept greatly. She had to witness the final moments of her father's life.
As Maximum's Spirit floated to the area where the paths came to. The Demon King of the Forbidden Area stopped him from advancing.
"Are you planning to take the easy way out?" He growled.
"It was never my intention to allow them to cry. In order to make things right, my Soul will travel through the Success Path and fight each and every thing it possibly can." Maximum stood proudly.
He looked like a man with a country's flag behind him.
"Do not allow me to hear of your failure." The Demon King of the Forbidden Area cheered.
Maximum entered the Success Path. He stayed there for no telling how long in his Spirit form.
In terms of actually being dead in the Mortal Realm, he was not gone but for just twelve hours.
The women knew that Maximum had done something wrong. They still could not help but continue to cry their hearts out.
Screams of terror could be heard from within the Sect. People felt that Maximum's body was under the control of a Necromancer.
His Wife, Iris, and Seishi felt their hearts break when they saw the hole in Maximum's chest again.
"I have fixed the problems that I caused. I hope that you three are ready. I am going to explain a lot." Maximum said.
As if magically beam hit them. They felt more relieved now than ever before. Maximum explained what caused them to cry and why he did it.
As far as he knew, he had returned to the Mortal Realm for good. That was until he woke up and found the path of Success and Failure standing before him gently blowing a breeze of cold air in his face.