Estra woke up. The sound of tires against the dirt road were in the background.
She stretched
"Madam Estra, are you sure it's okay to be riding this?"
"Of course, no one is here anyway. Just keep driving Kiddo."
She summoned a pair of shades and put them on as she rolled down the window.
She patted her pocket and her eyes widened.
She patted it again.
"Shit..."
"What?" The clone jumped
"I left my smokes with that clone...." She groaned
"Those orange and white things?"
"Yeah... They help with the stress, kill ya too."
"But your immortal and they don't effect you... Ahh I see."
"Your not letting Kian do it right?"
Estra shook her head "Of course not, I won't even let him drive. All these luxuries are for me."
The clone pouted "Well now I feel bad."
Estra chuckled and pulled out a phone
"Hoabellea... Let's see, ah there it is. These things are so convenient."
"How does that even work here?"
Estra sat back "Same way this car does... Magic!"
She looked at her clone "In another universe that's in the modern age, they call it a Chairyotte, The heart of Arcadia.... The SUV, that's what I'm talking about."
"Madam Estra?"
"Hm?"
"Why is it that you want Kian? You don't feel emotions as most people including me do, plus your backstory isn't ideal, so why have a kid? Is it so that you could have a chance of gaining those emotions?"
Estra sat back and sighed "It's because... I wanted to have a reason, I lost that too along my time on this earth. Kian is my new reason."
She looked out the window "My dear child, I pray that you are ok"
***
Kian looked at the broken child before him with tears in his eyes.
"I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! I... I wish I could save you, I wish I could stop this."
He hugged his younger self "I'm sorry"
Then Isamu appeared behind him confused "This isn't you"
Kian turned to look at him "What? This is me!"
"No, this woman I'm seeing isn't you. Unless you changed your age and gender."
"What are you talking about?"
"It's a woman with dark hair and purple eyes, take a look for yourself."
Kian squinted his eyes and what he saw caused his eyes to immediately widen.
What was before him was none other than Estra, but he himself was nowhere to be seen.
"What's going on?"
"I was hoping you could tell me, Kian."
"Mom?"
"This is her Memory, why do you have it?"
"I don't know?! I don't... I... I don't have a clue."
Isamu looked at the memory.
Estra was walking through a dense and cold forest. Her face showed purpose.
As she walked the sound of footsteps could be heard. Someone was approaching her.
It was a woman it dark brown hair and amber eyes, when the wind blew it revealed a tattoo of a flame and a sword.
"Ignari?"
The woman paused "Who are you?"
Estra smiled "You don't remember? You swore to kill me no?"
"What? I don't understand..." She pulled out a dagger and pointed it at Estra "Who are you?!"
Estra jumped back "Okay no need to be afraid K? The names Estra Anehta." She pulled out a bloody necklace "This look familiar?"
"You... Bitch! Your the one who slaughtered them!"
"Oh please, only the chiefs, the rest was the kingdoms. I killed what I needed. Now I need to kill another. Alisha Ignari."
Alisha gripped her dagger "I'm not gonna let you hurt my baby."
"Oh please, I won't hurt Kaede or Kael, they're important. At least they'll be very soon. Oh that reminds me, I need to hurry this up so I can send that man to Kian's village your daughter and her friend are about to reach it. Can't waste a moment or things will go out of order."
Alisha dashed towards Estra and gave a clean punch.
"Hmm that was different." She spit out a tooth "Your husband is a bit weaker. I wonder why? I thought Ignari men were powerful, your not a transgender are you?"
"A what?"
"... Ohhh yeah that isn't a thing yet, sorry." She rose her hand "Like I said, I need, to hurry." Then she flicked Alishaand sent her flying into the sky. "Sagitta." An arrow flew towards Alisha then the warrior fell back to the ground.
"I would let you fight, but... It was a bad time." She then pointed a finger gun at Alisha and bang
Alisha head popped, Estra turned and teleported to the man's location "I will give you 200 gold coins if you do it so that the girl is scarred, that's all I need. Oh and show up at the Ignari's home she might come back for revenge. Just fight then run."
The man nodded "Sounds easy enough, and for 200 gold coins... Damn your crazy." He walked off
Estra smiled "No, your crazy for trusting me. Well I hope you love being eaten alive."
She then walked to GranGran's House and watched Kian sleep.
"Don't you worry my baby boy. Mommy has everything planned for you, every single thing. So that you will be more perfect than you already are."
She looked at the bullies house "I wish I could stop them, but you need to wait."
She held up a finger and teleported again, this time to Cadis.
Then the Memory stopped.
Kian just stood there flabbergasted
Everything... Every single thing, was orchestrated by her, by Estra. For him? Why? What did she want?
He fell to his knees
"What a dishonorable mother you have, boy. Absolutely disgusting."
Kian gritted his teeth "I need more!"
Isamu looked at him then back at the memory.
"I'm afraid that's up to you. Apparently you guys share memories. She seems to be obsessed with you as well. However this isn't to learn about your past. This is your judgement."
***
Kael walked past the battered boy "I always felt like someone was watching me. Like someone needed me to be stronger. So I did, I showed this thing that I was the apex. I just wanted to be loved. My Mom left me and never came back, probably abandoned me and Kaede. Shitty mother if you ask me."
He walked to his room where his fist were covered in blood "This is the first time I saw that person. The woman with purple eyes."
Isamu appeared behind him "Has she ever said her name?"
Karl shook his head "She said if she did, everything would go out of order."
"How is this dis-" He saw the Enforcers come in. His younger self immediately attempted to kill them, biting, punching, clawing.
"They are enforcement, you never attack enforcement! That is why this is dishonorable."
Kael yawned "I could care less, oh yeah this is where that lady appeared and helped me. I fell asleep in her arms. That was the first time I had heard my mother was alive, but her survival depended on my strength."
He walked up to a door and reached for it, but stopped short. Behind the door was high pitch screams, children. Then he heard begging, begging in his name.
"You slaughtered them for Cadis, that is Honorable."
Kael didn't move "No, I slaughtered them for my mother. I slaughtered innocent people for my mother who never came to look for me. So soon my survival wasn't to see my Mom again out of love. I wanted to kill her with my bare hands."
He let go of the handle
"Are you afraid?"
Kael nodded "Memories like that, I don't wanna see." He looked at Isamu "Guess I got to anyway huh?"
He opened the door and there he was, a 12 year old Kael standing over 25 kids, all dead.
"This honorable?"
"Your reasoning is not, so no."
"You are a very twisted man Isamu. I'm trying to tell you, Charlotte messed with you."
Isamu gritted his teeth "You'll have to bash my skull in, in order for me to give up!"
***
"Is that why you did everything?"
"What?"
"Caused the fall of Echidna's kingdom by these 3 specific kingdoms. Showed Khione a way out to Arcadia. Sent that adventurer girl that Kian liked away. Gave that school invite to Selene and Arthur. Sent the New Order after Arcadia, slaughtered them after they attacked the princess. Among other things."
"Was it for Kian? Yes every bit was. I needed him to be perfect after all. Even Seraphina's birth. The Cadis rebellion, however I didn't know that Azazel was in Cadis. That's a mystery I don't yet know."
"That's how he tortured Kian without you knowing?"
Estra nodded
"May I ask why you care if he's tortured? I mean I know it's bad, but... It's not you. Not us."
"Because Kian's immortalities aren't my exact immortalities and abilities. Like regeneration reviving, I can't do that. Spirit mode, don't have it. I have a type, but it's more of a flowstate. So what I have learned is, if he ensures a ton of deaths back to back. He will lose himself. His memories, then his own instinct, soon he'll become like an invalid. That's why."
The clone nodded "Kian Anehta... Is Anehta your real surname? You didn't include that in my knowledge."
"Yes, it is. Kian Anehta... I like that."
***
Younger Kaede looked at Kaede
She growled and so did her tummy
Isamu appeared "This is your judgement."
"Crazy how some monster like you would still repeatedly hit at the head."
"It was to eat the brain, later on it was relief, like when someone hurt someone I cared about."
"You and your allies are extremely dishonorable."
"How is this dishonorable?! I didn't even understand what was going on, It was instinct."
Isamu nodded "Was the relief part not dishonorable?"
Kaede looked away, like a child in trouble "It... It was."