Warning : some gore at the end, reviews are appreciated !
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It was a bright, welcoming day.
The young queen woke up in a bed, covered in sweats and dressed in the attire she wore before the accident even happened in the first place, one could see that they were still tattered and bloody because of the rock wound from earlier but Kaguya did not paid any attention, the pain was gone.
The room was beautiful, with portraits of the Ootsutsuki leaders, tables full of rare items from the other continents and the usual thingies, such as a red carpet, a large, comfy bed and other rich elements, it was somehow even nicer than the room she slept on back in the castle, in fact, even the King's own room was less comfy than that.
A large window dominated the room, allowing for the sun to shine trough, bathing the young woman in light. The queen groaned and went back to her bed, she was confused about what the hell happened but the bed offered some much-needed comfort for her back, after enduring a rock to the back at least.
She on the bed, resting a bit more as she looked around. Last she saw, the castle was attacked… were the invaders fought off ? She dared to look at the windows and saw a beautiful city outside, large enough to house an entire kingdom but from what she was seeing trough the windows, the habitants were happy and cheerful toward each other, which was already unrealistic since they were normally stressed about the war.
Getting up, she saw that she wasn't covered in sweat anymore, and even had a long, rather fancy white kimono bearing the mark of the Ootsutsuki clan, alongside plenty of tomoe at the sleeves, the collar and the back, from what she was seeing thanks to a mirror.
She already knew what the situation was, but still turned her attention toward the door of her room, hearing footsteps. She knew that whatever was going to come wasn't hostile, and since a smiling Tenshiro was the one who opened the door with a large, goofy face instead of his usual calm expression, Kaguya mentally congratulated himself while her "bodyguard" walked toward the Queen.
He then proceeded to hold her hands, his facial expression indicating that he was presumably too love-struck at the moment to say anything. She held the image in her head, knowing that she'll presumably rarely see such an expression on the face of the bodyguard.
He opened his mouth to say something but seemingly didn't, choosing his words, as Kaguya stared at him with a simple smile. He aged a bit, with his shaggy brown hairs being longer, having a bit of a goatee now and his green eyes were focused on hers, he also had the same fancy clothes at her with a crown, unlike his usual brown steel armor.
"Ready for the speech, my queen ?"
Somehow, she could recognize what the hell he was talking about and nodded. The entire world was unified under her rule, and the new kingdom of Daishonin was at its prime, and said prime would last for the eons to come ! She had to make a speech because the last continent was peacefully seized, like all others, with the "conquered" nations keeping their values, gods and others values.
"Why, of course my king !"
She walked out of the room while holding his hand, walking in the halls of the castle, all of whom had golden walls and roof with a splendid red carpet. She, strangely, felt no fear as she walked toward the large balcony where she would eventually deliver her speech to the population of the entire city and more ! Mostly because of her warm hand of her husband, and because she saw some "special guest."
The entire Ootsutsuki clan was there, with Hagoromo and Hamura dressed in the same suits as their mother and father, the mysterious spiral-like eyes of the younger son were glowing as he clapped, as Hamura, the elder brother with his blank-eyes, was also clapping, trying to make it harder than Hagoromo's.
Chuckling, Kaguya took the time to watch as the Rinnegan-wielder realized that his brother was trying to upstage him and engaged in the competition, other Ootsutsuki members were also there and clapping, smiling warmly as their horns mutated in joy ! Kaguya only felt a strange pain in her head for a moment but she realized that it was simply the horns doing their jobs.
She finally arrived on the balcony, followed by the two sages and her husband, and looked at the cheering crowd, with all these festivities ! She felt an undying love for the world at this moment, for everything which inhabited it, be it the lowest plankton or the deadliest predator, and started to cry, grabbing Tenshiro, her two dojutsu-using sons, her mother and some Ootsutsuki clan members as tear flowed from all of her eyes, the one on her forehead included.
"Thank you Tenshiro ! Thank you Hagoromo ! Thank you Hamura !"
She kept crying and felt the reassuring hugs of her family, and smiled while closing her eyes, kissing her husband on the lips one last time as she calmed down and turned toward the masses, thanking each of them too. She did not know their names but each of the anonymous persons present there were friends for her.
And finally, she turned toward the blooming Shinju, after many years, it had transformed into a large great tree, housing many new species and even some humans, she knew that the great tree had no true conscience to speak of but she still took a look at it. After all, being a part of this planet, she loved it too and felt grateful for the creation of the fruit.
However, she was a tad surprised when it turned into a gigantic deformed humanoid thing with ten tails, which then proceeded to make its way toward her with impunity as everyone watched, seemingly not afraid of it. Even Kaguya thought that it was normal after a while, in fact, the creature had a "familiar" feeling, she couldn't quite pinpoint it but she felt strangely calm, even if the towering beast's head was as big as the castle, and did not panic when its massive teeth were only inch away from her head.
Then, the beast started to murmur seven dirty words to Kaguya's ear before handing her a handkerchief large enough to cover the city and the castle and speaking in a much more human voice.
"QUEEN KAGUYA !"
The queen opened her eyes, and saw that she was actually in a room, although this one was much more, hum, "low-grade" than the previous one. The room was pretty tiny, dark, and her torn clothes were installed somewhere on a chair, she grimaced when she saw the blood on it.
"Thanks god, you're awake ! I was so worried about you !"
Hug ensue. Kaguya merely looked confused for a moment as she grabbed the hand of Tenshiro, with her usual smile on her face.
"How are you, my king ?"
"Queen Kaguya ?"
She jumped back, blushing. She KNEW that the Tenshiro of her dreams wasn't there but she still did that ! If only because the dream was much, much sweeter than the reality : her father was gone, the castle was being destroyed and the people she grew up with were now dead or captured, needless to say, the bliss she felt was soon dispelled, as she saw that she was thankfully wearing an average brown and dirty kimono.
"I'll warn the others. Stay here, okay ?"
"Wa-"
She rose to follow him but she soon screamed, holding her back as she fell back to her bed, hardly breathing as the pain overtook her body. She felt as if someone was repeatedly stabbing her back with a dagger, and she could only start to cry as a panicked Tenshiro ran next to her, unsure about what to do.
"Calm down Kaguya ! Please ! I beg of you ! Calm down !"
Kaguya, who was nearly having a seizure, fought a bit and then took back her usual posture, although tears were flowing down from her eyes. Tenshiro hugged her for a moment, being worried for the safety of the queen above all else, at least until the bodyguards and inhabitants entered, and froze upon seeing them.
"Sorry, wrong time ?"
"Nope !"
Kaguya and Tenshiro awkwardly broke up as he joined the bodyguards, Kaguya herself sat down for some pep talk.
"Are you alright princess ?"
"More or less."
Tenpo sighed as Mikazuchi went ahead.
"Okay, queen Kaguya. We must inform you that Daishonin is simply no more. We're… sorry to spit it out to you but now, the entire country is filled to the brim with soldiers of other nations, we've got to flee to another continent or they'll catch you and kill you."
Mina looked at Kaguya, who was on the verge of tear, and promptly gave a cupcake to her, her large, innocents blue eyes fixated on the queen's gray eyes, as she stood back, her wavy blond hair were disheveled because of all the tension but she did not care.
Tenpo scratched his bald head for a moment, as the Ootsutsuki heir watched the cupcake with a mixture of sadness and confusion, the youngest bodyguard made a move to take the cupcake back but Mikazuchi hold out an arm, her thick Rock-Lee like eyebrows, which gave her a permanent frown and weren't masked by her short hair, convinced Mina to back down.
"But" said Tenpo "the other continents themselves are plunged in a war."
"At least, their soldiers aren't actively searching for us, I guess. Let us go to Jabu, it's the closest continent and we'll need a short travel time to get there."
The young princess (let us face it, she was never a queen) twirled her hair for a while and somewhat froze when she saw that her usually red hair were now a bit white, or at least, some bangs were white and others were less reddish than others. She heard about how Ootsutsukis under mental stress gained white hair for a while (until they turned back to red naturally), a vestige of their alien upbringing.
"You've all got to flee now, then."
Mina's mother, a petite, middle-aged woman with brown hair, stepped up.
"The armies will fight there without restrain, it has been two days since the castle fell and the villages are nearly deserted, everyone is heading toward the coast to flee on ships."
"Then, let us start without any hesitation."
Tenpo clenched his fist as Kaguya stood, depressed.
"Kaguya, we understand your sadness but we've got to flee quickly before the armies of the three kingdoms kill us all. I hope you understand our choice, but for the moment… focus on surviving."
She looked at Tenshiro for a moment, tears flowing again for a moment but then slowly got up. Her back pain was here but she powered trough, as others supported her, she turned her head to face Mina's family.
"Are you coming with us ?"
"Nah. We'll stay in this nearly deserted place and live here while three armies are duking it out with all their might nearby… maybe we'll have some bandits tonight too ? I heard that a nasty gang was nearby.Kaguya, understanding the sarcasm, nodded before facing Mina again.
Kaguya, understanding the sarcasm, nodded before facing Mina again.
"Queen Kaguya, go ahead with the rest of the group, I'll stick with my family and we'll prepare to leave."
"You weren't prepared to leave already ?"
She shrugged.
"We thought that leaving would be a last-ditch attempt at surviving, since the armies wouldn't attack civilians just for kicks. We were proven wrong when we learned that the Nampa village was annihilated some hours ago."
Mikazuchi gasped as the rest of the bodyguard nodded grimly. Kaguya had another bout of depression upon realizing that all this pain could've been avoided if she was a better queen (and if the king wasn't such a douche) but snapped out of it when she realized that she had to flee.
Once the bodyguard and princess quator came out, Kaguya saw that there really were only a few people left, all of whom promptly closed their doors and windows when they saw the draped persons, led by Tenpo and the others, who walked quick enough to reach the safety of the forest, but with enough gentleness to avoid waking up the queen's back trouble, although the princess clearly winced some time.
"Okay, we made it ! Let's wait for the ot-"
Kaguya was promptly grabbed and hidden by Mikazuchi, who pointed toward a rather large group of men, led by a single moustachioed fellow. They looked rather blood-thirsty, what's with the armored skeleton empaled on their pointy flag pole or the uniform with spots of blood there and there.
"THE PRINCESS IS HERE ?!"
"Y-y-yes."
An old man came out, looking terrified, sad and confused at the same time. He seemingly denounced Kaguya, judging by the whole pointing at the home thing. Tenpo cursed, knowing that this what going to happen while the princess just stood there : what about Mina ?!
"She's here, now, will you leave this village be ? The others does not deserve this fate."
"We'll leave it if she really is there, otherwise…"
He looks at some houses.
"There's enough to add another skeleton to the flag, ha !"
Kaguya tried to wrench herself free but she was still too weak and was held in her place by her bodyguards, who also held her mouth to avoid being spotted by the sounds, Tenchiro, a bit worried about the princess, quietly held her by the arm, hoping that she'll stop in time.
"Princess. We know why you're upset but this village isn't the first one to go, and it won't be the last. Let us hope that Mina and her family pull trough."
Meanwhile, the army members were busy checking up the house, with the bodyguard and her family being held in check by some soldiers, who were eager to start the killing already.
"Nothing, sir !"
"Haha ! You've been lying to us !"
The general was Makoto Kama, Gozen's most bloodthirsty general, the man was large and terrifying and while he wasn't truly competent, he was extremely feared. Some say that there isn't a single tree left when he's done with something, everything is razed down to the ground in a display of brutality.
Amena and Daishiru wanted his head on a spike, and he made it clear why when he brutally killed the old man with his sword by slashing him, no words, not even a yell, he just had a big wide grin on his bloodied face as he did so, watching the death of the individual with delight.
"What about the former queen ?' asked Makoto to the mother, the princess herself made another gasp, worried about her mother's safety, even if she was currently much more stressed about the bodyguards.
"I've got nothing to say to you."
He smiled and turned to glare at the father.
"She left ! She told me where the hell she was going, if you let me live…"
He shut him up and turned toward the crying kids, Mina stood there, however, unwavering, the general looked briefly annoyed when he saw that she had no expression of terror on her face, but then he smiled.
"Take the kids, we'll raise 'em into fine soldiers."
Some soldiers advanced to roughly punch the kids in the face, before taking their unconscious bodies to a cart of some kind, they were walking around in a giddy manner, knowing what will happens next, as Mina spat on the general and jumped at him to stab him with a small dagger before punting him backward with a kick, she then followed by slashing the throats of the other soldiers, before throwing her weapons at the heads of two others and killing four more with a stolen weapon, she knew she wasn't going to make it out alive but she won't go down without making hell of a ruckus !
The head of another soldier flew as she was stabbed from behind by a soldier, who was also stabbed in the face, Mina died trying to pull out the blade to use it as yet another weapon, being also stabbed at several spots by the surviving soldiers who helped up a grinning general : she made it worth it !
"LET IT RIP !"
And then, chaos was unleashed as Mina and the rest of the family died as their entire house was burned to the ground, Makoto was pulling the sword back on its sheath, having killed the entire family by himself.
With other houses slowly being set on fire by other soldiers, heads flews and limbs were torn as people fled for their lives, the soldiers gladly attacking them and quickly killing anyone who tried to resist, with only two of them dying in the process, the attackers dying after a few seconds because of their comrades.
Kaguya watched the carnage, too shocked by the massacre to speak, and her and her bodyguards quickly fled to save their lives, or at least, she was dragged by her allies, who were sad at the death of Mina but had something else in mind : surviving.
They kept running and running as Kaguya screamed after a safe distance, both out of the pain in her back and also because she couldn't believe what she saw, her cries of despair slowly fading into the cold, unforgiving night.
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It was a bright, welcoming day.
The young queen woke up in a bed, covered in sweats and dressed in the attire she wore before the accident even happened in the first place, one could see that they were still tattered and bloody because of the rock wound from earlier but Kaguya did not paid any attention, the pain was gone.
The room was beautiful, with portraits of the Ootsutsuki leaders, tables full of rare items from the other continents and the usual thingies, such as a red carpet, a large, comfy bed and other rich elements, it was somehow even nicer than the room she slept on back in the castle, in fact, even the King's own room was less comfy than that.
A large window dominated the room, allowing for the sun to shine trough, bathing the young woman in light. The queen groaned and went back to her bed, she was confused about what the hell happened but the bed offered some much-needed comfort for her back, after enduring a rock to the back at least.
She on the bed, resting a bit more as she looked around. Last she saw, the castle was attacked… were the invaders fought off ? She dared to look at the windows and saw a beautiful city outside, large enough to house an entire kingdom but from what she was seeing trough the windows, the habitants were happy and cheerful toward each other, which was already unrealistic since they were normally stressed about the war.
Getting up, she saw that she wasn't covered in sweat anymore, and even had a long, rather fancy white kimono bearing the mark of the Ootsutsuki clan, alongside plenty of tomoe at the sleeves, the collar and the back, from what she was seeing thanks to a mirror.
She already knew what the situation was, but still turned her attention toward the door of her room, hearing footsteps. She knew that whatever was going to come wasn't hostile, and since a smiling Tenshiro was the one who opened the door with a large, goofy face instead of his usual calm expression, Kaguya mentally congratulated himself while her "bodyguard" walked toward the Queen.
He then proceeded to hold her hands, his facial expression indicating that he was presumably too love-struck at the moment to say anything. She held the image in her head, knowing that she'll presumably rarely see such an expression on the face of the bodyguard.
He opened his mouth to say something but seemingly didn't, choosing his words, as Kaguya stared at him with a simple smile. He aged a bit, with his shaggy brown hairs being longer, having a bit of a goatee now and his green eyes were focused on hers, he also had the same fancy clothes at her with a crown, unlike his usual brown steel armor.
"Ready for the speech, my queen ?"
Somehow, she could recognize what the hell he was talking about and nodded. The entire world was unified under her rule, and the new kingdom of Daishonin was at its prime, and said prime would last for the eons to come ! She had to make a speech because the last continent was peacefully seized, like all others, with the "conquered" nations keeping their values, gods and others values.
"Why, of course my king !"
She walked out of the room while holding his hand, walking in the halls of the castle, all of whom had golden walls and roof with a splendid red carpet. She, strangely, felt no fear as she walked toward the large balcony where she would eventually deliver her speech to the population of the entire city and more ! Mostly because of her warm hand of her husband, and because she saw some "special guest."
The entire Ootsutsuki clan was there, with Hagoromo and Hamura dressed in the same suits as their mother and father, the mysterious spiral-like eyes of the younger son were glowing as he clapped, as Hamura, the elder brother with his blank-eyes, was also clapping, trying to make it harder than Hagoromo's.
Chuckling, Kaguya took the time to watch as the Rinnegan-wielder realized that his brother was trying to upstage him and engaged in the competition, other Ootsutsuki members were also there and clapping, smiling warmly as their horns mutated in joy ! Kaguya only felt a strange pain in her head for a moment but she realized that it was simply the horns doing their jobs.
She finally arrived on the balcony, followed by the two sages and her husband, and looked at the cheering crowd, with all these festivities ! She felt an undying love for the world at this moment, for everything which inhabited it, be it the lowest plankton or the deadliest predator, and started to cry, grabbing Tenshiro, her two dojutsu-using sons, her mother and some Ootsutsuki clan members as tear flowed from all of her eyes, the one on her forehead included.
"Thank you Tenshiro ! Thank you Hagoromo ! Thank you Hamura !"
She kept crying and felt the reassuring hugs of her family, and smiled while closing her eyes, kissing her husband on the lips one last time as she calmed down and turned toward the masses, thanking each of them too. She did not know their names but each of the anonymous persons present there were friends for her.
And finally, she turned toward the blooming Shinju, after many years, it had transformed into a large great tree, housing many new species and even some humans, she knew that the great tree had no true conscience to speak of but she still took a look at it. After all, being a part of this planet, she loved it too and felt grateful for the creation of the fruit.
However, she was a tad surprised when it turned into a gigantic deformed humanoid thing with ten tails, which then proceeded to make its way toward her with impunity as everyone watched, seemingly not afraid of it. Even Kaguya thought that it was normal after a while, in fact, the creature had a "familiar" feeling, she couldn't quite pinpoint it but she felt strangely calm, even if the towering beast's head was as big as the castle, and did not panic when its massive teeth were only inch away from her head.
Then, the beast started to murmur seven dirty words to Kaguya's ear before handing her a handkerchief large enough to cover the city and the castle and speaking in a much more human voice.
"QUEEN KAGUYA !"
The queen opened her eyes, and saw that she was actually in a room, although this one was much more, hum, "low-grade" than the previous one. The room was pretty tiny, dark, and her torn clothes were installed somewhere on a chair, she grimaced when she saw the blood on it.
"Thanks god, you're awake ! I was so worried about you !"
Hug ensue. Kaguya merely looked confused for a moment as she grabbed the hand of Tenshiro, with her usual smile on her face.
"How are you, my king ?"
"Queen Kaguya ?"
She jumped back, blushing. She KNEW that the Tenshiro of her dreams wasn't there but she still did that ! If only because the dream was much, much sweeter than the reality : her father was gone, the castle was being destroyed and the people she grew up with were now dead or captured, needless to say, the bliss she felt was soon dispelled, as she saw that she was thankfully wearing an average brown and dirty kimono.
"I'll warn the others. Stay here, okay ?"
"Wa-"
She rose to follow him but she soon screamed, holding her back as she fell back to her bed, hardly breathing as the pain overtook her body. She felt as if someone was repeatedly stabbing her back with a dagger, and she could only start to cry as a panicked Tenshiro ran next to her, unsure about what to do.
"Calm down Kaguya ! Please ! I beg of you ! Calm down !"
Kaguya, who was nearly having a seizure, fought a bit and then took back her usual posture, although tears were flowing down from her eyes. Tenshiro hugged her for a moment, being worried for the safety of the queen above all else, at least until the bodyguards and inhabitants entered, and froze upon seeing them.
"Sorry, wrong time ?"
"Nope !"
Kaguya and Tenshiro awkwardly broke up as he joined the bodyguards, Kaguya herself sat down for some pep talk.
"Are you alright princess ?"
"More or less."
Tenpo sighed as Mikazuchi went ahead.
"Okay, queen Kaguya. We must inform you that Daishonin is simply no more. We're… sorry to spit it out to you but now, the entire country is filled to the brim with soldiers of other nations, we've got to flee to another continent or they'll catch you and kill you."
Mina looked at Kaguya, who was on the verge of tear, and promptly gave a cupcake to her, her large, innocents blue eyes fixated on the queen's gray eyes, as she stood back, her wavy blond hair were disheveled because of all the tension but she did not care.
Tenpo scratched his bald head for a moment, as the Ootsutsuki heir watched the cupcake with a mixture of sadness and confusion, the youngest bodyguard made a move to take the cupcake back but Mikazuchi hold out an arm, her thick Rock-Lee like eyebrows, which gave her a permanent frown and weren't masked by her short hair, convinced Mina to back down.
"But" said Tenpo "the other continents themselves are plunged in a war."
"At least, their soldiers aren't actively searching for us, I guess. Let us go to Jabu, it's the closest continent and we'll need a short travel time to get there."
The young princess (let us face it, she was never a queen) twirled her hair for a while and somewhat froze when she saw that her usually red hair were now a bit white, or at least, some bangs were white and others were less reddish than others. She heard about how Ootsutsukis under mental stress gained white hair for a while (until they turned back to red naturally), a vestige of their alien upbringing.
"You've all got to flee now, then."
Mina's mother, a petite, middle-aged woman with brown hair, stepped up.
"The armies will fight there without restrain, it has been two days since the castle fell and the villages are nearly deserted, everyone is heading toward the coast to flee on ships."
"Then, let us start without any hesitation."
Tenpo clenched his fist as Kaguya stood, depressed.
"Kaguya, we understand your sadness but we've got to flee quickly before the armies of the three kingdoms kill us all. I hope you understand our choice, but for the moment… focus on surviving."
She looked at Tenshiro for a moment, tears flowing again for a moment but then slowly got up. Her back pain was here but she powered trough, as others supported her, she turned her head to face Mina's family.
"Are you coming with us ?"
"Nah. We'll stay in this nearly deserted place and live here while three armies are duking it out with all their might nearby… maybe we'll have some bandits tonight too ? I heard that a nasty gang was nearby.Kaguya, understanding the sarcasm, nodded before facing Mina again.
Kaguya, understanding the sarcasm, nodded before facing Mina again.
"Queen Kaguya, go ahead with the rest of the group, I'll stick with my family and we'll prepare to leave."
"You weren't prepared to leave already ?"
She shrugged.
"We thought that leaving would be a last-ditch attempt at surviving, since the armies wouldn't attack civilians just for kicks. We were proven wrong when we learned that the Nampa village was annihilated some hours ago."
Mikazuchi gasped as the rest of the bodyguard nodded grimly. Kaguya had another bout of depression upon realizing that all this pain could've been avoided if she was a better queen (and if the king wasn't such a douche) but snapped out of it when she realized that she had to flee.
Once the bodyguard and princess quator came out, Kaguya saw that there really were only a few people left, all of whom promptly closed their doors and windows when they saw the draped persons, led by Tenpo and the others, who walked quick enough to reach the safety of the forest, but with enough gentleness to avoid waking up the queen's back trouble, although the princess clearly winced some time.
"Okay, we made it ! Let's wait for the ot-"
Kaguya was promptly grabbed and hidden by Mikazuchi, who pointed toward a rather large group of men, led by a single moustachioed fellow. They looked rather blood-thirsty, what's with the armored skeleton empaled on their pointy flag pole or the uniform with spots of blood there and there.
"THE PRINCESS IS HERE ?!"
"Y-y-yes."
An old man came out, looking terrified, sad and confused at the same time. He seemingly denounced Kaguya, judging by the whole pointing at the home thing. Tenpo cursed, knowing that this what going to happen while the princess just stood there : what about Mina ?!
"She's here, now, will you leave this village be ? The others does not deserve this fate."
"We'll leave it if she really is there, otherwise…"
He looks at some houses.
"There's enough to add another skeleton to the flag, ha !"
Kaguya tried to wrench herself free but she was still too weak and was held in her place by her bodyguards, who also held her mouth to avoid being spotted by the sounds, Tenchiro, a bit worried about the princess, quietly held her by the arm, hoping that she'll stop in time.
"Princess. We know why you're upset but this village isn't the first one to go, and it won't be the last. Let us hope that Mina and her family pull trough."
Meanwhile, the army members were busy checking up the house, with the bodyguard and her family being held in check by some soldiers, who were eager to start the killing already.
"Nothing, sir !"
"Haha ! You've been lying to us !"
The general was Makoto Kama, Gozen's most bloodthirsty general, the man was large and terrifying and while he wasn't truly competent, he was extremely feared. Some say that there isn't a single tree left when he's done with something, everything is razed down to the ground in a display of brutality.
Amena and Daishiru wanted his head on a spike, and he made it clear why when he brutally killed the old man with his sword by slashing him, no words, not even a yell, he just had a big wide grin on his bloodied face as he did so, watching the death of the individual with delight.
"What about the former queen ?' asked Makoto to the mother, the princess herself made another gasp, worried about her mother's safety, even if she was currently much more stressed about the bodyguards.
"I've got nothing to say to you."
He smiled and turned to glare at the father.
"She left ! She told me where the hell she was going, if you let me live…"
He shut him up and turned toward the crying kids, Mina stood there, however, unwavering, the general looked briefly annoyed when he saw that she had no expression of terror on her face, but then he smiled.
"Take the kids, we'll raise 'em into fine soldiers."
Some soldiers advanced to roughly punch the kids in the face, before taking their unconscious bodies to a cart of some kind, they were walking around in a giddy manner, knowing what will happens next, as Mina spat on the general and jumped at him to stab him with a small dagger before punting him backward with a kick, she then followed by slashing the throats of the other soldiers, before throwing her weapons at the heads of two others and killing four more with a stolen weapon, she knew she wasn't going to make it out alive but she won't go down without making hell of a ruckus !
The head of another soldier flew as she was stabbed from behind by a soldier, who was also stabbed in the face, Mina died trying to pull out the blade to use it as yet another weapon, being also stabbed at several spots by the surviving soldiers who helped up a grinning general : she made it worth it !
"LET IT RIP !"
And then, chaos was unleashed as Mina and the rest of the family died as their entire house was burned to the ground, Makoto was pulling the sword back on its sheath, having killed the entire family by himself.
With other houses slowly being set on fire by other soldiers, heads flews and limbs were torn as people fled for their lives, the soldiers gladly attacking them and quickly killing anyone who tried to resist, with only two of them dying in the process, the attackers dying after a few seconds because of their comrades.
Kaguya watched the carnage, too shocked by the massacre to speak, and her and her bodyguards quickly fled to save their lives, or at least, she was dragged by her allies, who were sad at the death of Mina but had something else in mind : surviving.
They kept running and running as Kaguya screamed after a safe distance, both out of the pain in her back and also because she couldn't believe what she saw, her cries of despair slowly fading into the cold, unforgiving night.
