Thanatos, Morgana, Taro, and Haruka were back at Thanatos estate. There will be a court case tomorrow that will decide Hideo's sentence. They all sat together to discuss what would happen then.
"A court case in the Memento works like this." Thanatos explained to Haruka and Taro how a court case worked for the grim reapers.
He summarized the following things:
The plaintiff and the accused each provide a lawyer who represents their side. Since the fact that Haruka was turned into a grim reaper was supposed to remain secret, in this case, was it not the plaintiff but the court itself?
All evidence and witnesses must be given a day in advance so that both attorneys can prepare for them. Any evidence and any move added during the trial were illegal. Should new evidence or witnesses come forward, that would turn the case around. Would the trial be postponed for one day?
In the end, a judge decides on the verdict.
Haruka has never cared about the law or anything like that, so she didn't know how this system was different than her country's, but she accepted it. In the end, she didn't care anymore.
"Wait, we forgot something. You said that I wouldn't have a problem going to this grim school and becoming a grim reaper. But what is with Taro? He is a dog and still looks like a dog. What about him?" Haruka suddenly remembered this. She completely forgot about this; she had no clue if there were grim reapers that looked like dogs. But if not, that would be a big problem.
"Well, I don't know how to say that. But not for long; just take a look at his paw." Haruka didn't question why Morgana said that, but she was interested and looked at her soul bond.
"Wait, what is this? Taro, are you all right?" Haruka looked in concern at the paw of her dog. But there was no paw; there was a hand. A hand—the hand looked as if it was fused from a human's hand and a dog's paw—still had fur growing on it and claws.
Taro tried to hide it under his body; he had already become aware that his paw had changed. He didn't want Haruka to worry, so he chose to conceal the transformation.
"I will tell you what happened to him, or, better said, what will happen to him." Thanatos laid his hand on Haruka's shoulder and gave her the understanding that she had to calm down and listen. Haruka hesitated and looked around as if she were lost, but when she saw Taros in the eyes, she understood that Thanatos was right. Her life was going to be different from now on; she would see and get to know things. A human shouldn't know.
"Once a dog got turned into a grim reaper, just like Taro did. This was around 3,000 years ago. Nobody knew what to do with him back then. For a long time, he wandered around like a normal dog, but as time progressed, his body changed. He grew taller, and his hands looked like a fusion of dogs and humans. He started to walk on two legs and looked like a race that was well known back then. A warewolve. But he was still a grim reaper; this dog gave himself the name Isaiah and created the dog clan."
Haruka and Taro looked in disbelief into each other's eyes. Haruka could not process what she just heard. But Taro was completely lost. He only thought back and forth about what would happen to his body now. Would his feet or his face change? Would he lose his tail, or would he grow something else? Suddenly, Taro looked at a certain area between his legs and thought, 'Is this going to change too?'
After seeing that, all the people around him looked at him. He regained his posture, looked straight ahead as if he were a dog guarding the entrance of his owner, and said that he should continue.
"Well, let us stand by this as it is and continue." Thanatos did it as if he never saw how the dog looked at his penis. As a man, he understood why he reacted this way. He would, without doubt, react similarly.
"This man created the dog clan. He carries the fact that he is different from others with hornor and even got married. The love between him and his wife soon began to blossom, and his first successor was born. Over time, his children also became children. He became more powerful and older, and over time, the dog clan became one of the biggest and mighiest grim reaper clans." Thanatos explained that and walked toward a chair to sit down. During his whole explanation, he noticed that he had stood for too long and decided to sit down. He was sure that there were more questions coming his way and that this would take time. Morgana also noticed that, used the next best opportunity, and left.
"To make it clear, we'll just have to wait until he's completely transformed. Anyone who carries Isaiah's blood in any way has looked alike at some point. They will all look like normal dogs on earth in their early years, but one day they will hit puberty and become what many people like to confuse with a werewolf. If he were something unusual that we had never seen before. Then I wouldn't have walked around with him outside in front of everyone like it was nothing." Thanatos said this as if it were the most normal thing in the world that everybody would know.
"Wait, then, does that mean that when we walked out there, all of the people just thought that I was a puppy that hadn't even hit puberty?" Taro didn't believe what he heard; he was seventeen and not a puppy. He was confused, and a little bit of anger rose in him, but he calmed down when a thought came into his head. 'Wait if I am going to grow and I am right now about to hit puberty then.'
'Does that mean it is going to get bigger?' Taro again looked between his legs at the same certain area and thought that it already looked a little bit bigger. When he saw that, a big smile appeared on his dog's face, and other than Haruka, Thanatos clearly understood what this reaction meant.
'No matter what race you are, when you are a man and find out that your dick is going to get bigger, you will get excited and happy.'
He never complained about having a small dick. He was once in a really embarrassing moment with his mother, where she told him that he would need both hands when he did certain actions while thinking about a certain someone.
Her words were the following: "I need both of my hands to do a few things with your father, and since you are his son, you don't have to worry about anything."
After this incident, he wasn't able to look his father, mother, or a certain someone in the eyes for a week.
'Wait, do I then need to wear pants?' For the rest of the day, Taro could only think about the question of whether he had to wear pants or not.