“Thanks…guys…”
Hiroto thanked whilst panting, Oliver and Arken looked at him with an awestruck gaze.
Their surprise was logical, Hiroto alone buried over 1000 bodies. He didnt even rest for a minute. Oliver and Arken just couldn’t believe it.
“Thanks…for helping me with this.”
He thanked them once again and sat down to collect his breath, Oliver passed him a bottle of cold water.
“You are weird.”
Oliver commented, His behavior was quite…interesting.
“I know.”
Hiroto agreed, He agreed that he was weird. In more cases than one. He was a complete weirdo. What kind of sane man would think of burying bodies here in an abandoned city? All alone? To bury hundred of bodies?
No sane man would do it. Arken commented from the side.
“What now?”
He asked, what do they do now? They had no missions and little food.
“Hmmm….” 𝑖𝘦.𝒸𝘰𝑚
Hiroto pondered but was unable to come to a suitable conclusion.
“Just rest.”
Oliver suggested as he sat down on the ground and took a meditative pose.
*Khunk*
Arken dropped his massive berserker sword on the ground and lay down on it.
“…”
Hiroto gazed at the two relaxing.
“We’ve been together the entire day huh…”
Working on this…Hiroto didn’t even notice the sun being replaced by the moon.
He looked at Oliver and Arken nonchalantly resting without a care in the world. Arken had already fallen asleep.
And even though Oliver seemed laidback, he had cast a protective spell over this area long ago. They were safe.
It was silent, only the annoying hymn of crickets was heard rhythmically.
Even in this apocalypse, those bastards still managed to survive.
“Hmm…”
Hiroto let out a sigh and lay down as well.
Just as he closed his eyes… He heard something.
“Hiro, what do you wanna be?”
“Huh?”
The sudden question from Oliver surprised him. Wait…
“Hiro?”
He questioned.
“Your nickname, you gave Arken one too.”.
…
…
…
“Well…I didn’t expect you to be the one to give me one.”
He laughed.
“Should I call you Ollie now?”
Hiro suggested a nickname as well.
“I don’t mind.”
And he got the approval from Oliver as well.
“I already told you, I wanna be ki-”
“Not that, that’s too easy.”
Ollie interrupted him. Hiro looked confused.
“That’s too easy. Anyone can become kind if they wanted to.”
Explained Ollie.
“You don’t have to try hard to be kind, even the most evil man can try being kind.”
Hiro listened closely to Ollie.
“That spear you have, it’s the Ame-no-Sakahoko, the upturned sky spear.”
“…”
“What do you wanna be? You must have a great ambition if the spear that didn’t choose someone suddenly chooses you.
You must have something inside you.”
Hiro remained silent. Ollie asked Again.
“I don’t know why it chose me.”
“I beg your pardon?”
“I don’t know why the Ame-no-sakahoko chose me.”
Hiro explained.
He always wondered why.
“I was the complete opposite of righteousness when it chose me.
I don’t know why it did.
I heard that special weapons like this spear have a voice…I have only heard the words ‘You are worthy’ or something along these lines.
I…have not heard its voice completely.”
Ollie pondered for a while.
“I want to establish an Academy.”
Suddenly, Ollie said something that Hiro didn’t quite get.
“Didn’t you want to become a great mage?”
“I changed.
When I saw you and Arken, I realized that many awakened children in this world need opportunities, the government offers education as well but the quality is not amazing.”.
Hiro quietly listened, he was getting interested now.
“I want to establish an academy with the best resources and institutes, the very best in the world…I… want to make a place that helps young weakened protect the world.”
“Call it shield, the academy you wanna make.”
Hiro suddenly suggested a name for the place.
Ollie laughed and agreed.
“haha…okay.”
“The best academy in the world huh… it’s grand.”
“Does it seem impossible?”
“Impossible things were considered impossible until one crazy motherfucker made it possible.”
Smiled Hiro.
“What I really wanna be huh…”
He thought for a while, Ollie patiently waited for his words
“I guess I want to hear the voice of the spear. I want it to answer me, I want it to tell me why it chose me when there were so many other choices. I wanna be someone worthy of the righteous spear.”. 𝑖𝘳.𝒸ℴ𝑚
Ollie stared at the sky above and thought.
‘It’s still the same huh…’
He laughed inwardly, it wasn’t mockery but a pure-hearted laugh. Hiro saying he wanted to become worthy of the Righteous Spear just proved his original thoughts didn’t change.
Ollie admired him. To choose to be that in this world driven by war. To still choose justice and the like here…Was both foolish and respectable.
‘So that’s why you chose him.’
He thought, referring to the Ame-No-Sakahoko. That spear chose him because of that, Hiro may be idealistic…But he had the strength to back it up.
Admirable, it was.
Ollie heard light snoring, both Hiro and Arken had fallen asleep and now only he was left awake.
He stared at the stars in the sky and thought.
‘It is beautiful.’
Hiro was right, It was beautiful.
For the first time in his life, He wished it didn’t end.
He wished for this team to never end. He wished they would be comrades till the end of their lives.
He wished.
*************
Years passed by, and Ollie, Arkie, and Hiro were still in the same team and they were famous, they were called Legends, Myths even. They had become role models for Awakened worldwide.
Everything was going well, Arken was doing well, Hiroto and Oliver married as well and Oliver had set up his Academy, Shield.
Life was going great, Humans had pushed the demons back by a lot and restoration efforts were being done.
Oliver just wanted everything like this, Arken as well. It was peaceful.
It was very peaceful, They were all happy.
Until the attack of Japan happened.
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