Clarice smiled with a confident tone and said, **"And I am Arius's wife.. nice to meet you."** Karma's smile suddenly stopped, replaced by extreme astonishment, and he said, **"His wife? When did that happen and why didn't he tell me? But this really explains your coming to the graveyard that day."** Clarice looked at him with eyes shining with obsession and said, **"Yes, our marriage is absolute without a doubt.. we love each other very much, more than you can imagine."**
Karma looked at her intently and said, **"What a lucky person to have a moon like you."** Clarice quickly replied, **"Rather, I am the lucky one to have a husband like him."** Karma asked her with curiosity, **"By the way.. where is Arius? I haven't seen him for a very long time."** The smile vanished from Clarice's face, and she said coldly, **"He has work to finish and will return when he finishes soon."**
Karma shook his head and said, **"Well.. thank you for this conversation."** Then he raised his hand to shake hers, but she took a step back and said sharply, **"Excuse me.. I don't touch men other than my husband only.. excuse me, I will leave."** She turned and left the place with quick steps while Karma kept watching her wake and said to himself, **"She has a bold personality."** Then he looked at his palm and said in a mysterious tone, **"No one has ever dared to refuse anything I do."** Then he too turned and left Nahira's palace heading towards his palace outside the Ten Realms.
In Nahira's private suite, Clarice entered to find her sister sitting and contemplating the window abstractedly, so she said to her in a cheerful voice, **"My dear sister.. look who came to spend some time with you."** Nahira replied without turning, **"I am busy.. come back later."** Clarice dispersed and stepped forward to hug her sister from behind and said, **"Not today.. today you will spend it with me outside the planet.. we will go to have some fun."**
Nahira looked at her in surprise and said, **"I see that you are very happy today."** Clarice answered with a wide smile, **"Of course I am."** Nahira asked her sarcastically, **"Why? Did you find any information about your puppy Arius?"** Clarice replied calmly, **"No.. rather, I just want to spend time with my beloved sister."**
Clarice dragged her outside and asked her, **"Would you like to fly or take a carriage?"** Nahira looked at the sky and said, **"I am not in a good mood for flying."** The two sisters boarded a royal carriage driven by a professional soldier and set off, the carriage sailing between planets on a sightseeing journey through vast space, leaving behind the worries of rule and conspiracies for a while. The silence of space turned into a cold battle arena between the two sisters as the carriage plowed through the stellar nebula while the glances between them were sharper than swords. Nahira looked towards the endless void and said in a dry tone, **"What are you really doing, Clarice?"** Clarice turned to her with feigned coldness and asked, **"What do you mean?"**
Nahira turned completely to her with eyes glowing with terrifying power and said, **"You don't usually do this.. you never asked to go out for a walk without a price or a hidden purpose.. so tell me now what you want from this ridiculous trip?"** Clarice tried to evade, saying, **"I just want to spend some time with you."**
But Nahira couldn't bear this act and screamed with a force that shook the walls of the carriage, **"Stop lying! Just tell me what you want?"** Clarice was silent for moments, then said with a coldness like ice, **"What I want is not to remain alone."** Nahira looked at her more intently while Clarice continued bitterly, **"I am always alone.. no father, no mother, nor sister.. I have no one in this world.. I wake up every day to the sounds of robotic servants and never wake up to my sister's voice.. I am always forgotten in the corners."**
Nahira replied harshly, **"Look at me well.. I am the one before you who lived my whole life alone and needed no one for anything.. Power is the only companion that does not betray."** But Clarice interrupted her sharply, **"Wrong! You used to gain our father's appreciation in the past and enjoyed our mother's care.. As for me, I was just a useless addition in the family record."**
Anger ignited on Nahira's face, and she said, **"What you are saying used to apply to me! While you were free in your actions and deeds, I was bound by the ridiculous family duty.. Any mistake from me meant I was useless in their eyes.. Do you realize the amount of pressure I carry? I tire and toil to carry our disgusting family name while you play and play and chase a man who avoids you and doesn't ask about you in the first place.. Then you come now to blame me for the results of your utter failure."**
Clarice did not back down, but stood facing her sister and said in a toxic tone, **"And who among us is the real failure here? At least I found a goal to live for and fight for.. As for you, you live on illusions of empty power that will consume you in the end and you will find no one by your side when you fall."** Nahira glared at her sister with a sharp look overflowing with resentment and said in a dry tone, **"Stop this damned nonsense because I can no longer bear your endless childish actions."** Clarice was not shaken, but met her with deadly coldness and replied with terrifying calmness, **"And I too can no longer bear your indifferent actions towards me and my existence."**
Clarice sat in the seat opposite her sister and crossed her arms, staring into Nahira's eyes with total concentration that made the atmosphere inside the carriage increasingly suffocating. Nahira sighed in despair and looked into the void, saying, **"I wish I were in a cage with a damned beast.. that would have been easier for me than what I am in now."**
A funerary silence prevailed inside the carriage as it plowed through the expanse of space, moving away from every inhabited planet while each of them was drowned in thoughts and questions unknown to everyone.. A struggle between Nahira's authority and Clarice's obsession hiding behind it ancient secrets on the verge of explosion.
In another corner of reality, far from the palace struggles, the scarred man stood atop rock debris, watching the escaping ships sneaking through the remnants of the spacetime rift. He pulled out an old-style walkie-talkie and spoke in a confident tone, **"Yes.. we have managed to smuggle countless numbers and all of them have entered the borders of our world now.. you can receive them upon their arrival."**
He was silent for a moment listening to the other party, then asked seriously, **"And regarding the lady.. she is still inside the Ten Realms so far.. should I head to her to secure her return path?"** The reply came via the walkie-talkie, **"No, you have no need there.. she is completely fine and knows how to manage her affairs and will return very soon."**
The scarred man nodded and said, **"As you wish.. I will monitor the situation here for a brief period to make sure there are no pursuers, then I will follow you.. As you command, my lord."** He closed the connection and stood watching the remains of their soldiers pushing the last groups of refugees and outcasts towards "World Zero", that world which began to gather its army in secret away from the eyes of Karma and everyone. After those moments in the Sixth World, **Raimus** and **Mythos** completed their grueling training that thoroughly forged their bodies. They stood watching the deep sunset while panting from fatigue. Mythos asked in a philosophical tone, **"Will we see a sunrise like this again?"** Raimus looked at him with a smile of satisfaction on his face as he contemplated his fist which had begun to pulse with new power, and said, **"Yes, and we will see it often, and every time the sun rises we will have become stronger than we were yesterday."** Mythos nodded seriously and muttered, **"I really hope so."** Before Wang's voice calling from afar interrupted them, **"Food is ready, you warriors!"** So they rushed towards him with a final effort and exhausted bodies demanding rest.
**Three full years have passed since those events**
The balance of powers changed, storms calmed and others began to form, and in the depths of **World Zero**, specifically on a planet where heavy rains never stop, the atmosphere inside a popular café was suffocating with the smell of alcohol and fear. A huge amphibious creature named **Florza** sat swaying from drunkenness and singing in an annoying voice while behind him was a queue of chained slaves suffering in silence. No one in the café dared to utter a single word for fear of this tyrant's brutality.
Suddenly the door of the café opened for a young child wearing completely black clothes to enter and ask with provocative calmness, **"Where is Mr. Florza?"** Total silence prevailed and everyone turned towards the amphibian who stopped singing and laughed mockingly as he looked at the child, **"Who is this who dares to mention my name like this?"** Florza stood up swaying and violently beat one of his slaves for no reason, then walked towards the child and said cunningly, **"Come, my little one, to the back to give you some candy."** The child replied with spooky coldness, **"As you wish, sir, but I want red candy."**
The two headed to the dark back alley where rain was falling heavily. The child stood against the wall while Florza approached him with a disgusting smile saying, **"Come, my little one, we will have a little fun."** In the blink of an eye that the eye did not perceive, the amphibian found his head rolling on the wet ground and passed away before realizing what happened.
The child looked up the alley where a masked person wearing a **Black Plague Mask** was standing and said with a reproachful tone, **"You are a bit late, I was going to enjoy with him myself."** The mask owner replied in a calm and composed voice, **"We don't have time for this nonsense, the mission is accomplished and we must return to the boss to tell him we are done with this tyrant."**
The child smiled a weird smile and said, **"You are dull as usual."** Then he grabbed the victim's head by the hair and the two disappeared from the place in the blink of an eye just as they appeared under the sky of that rainy planet where drops fall like screams tears over the roofs of the dark city. Swarms of masked men rushed like angry bees, invading dens full of the tyrant tyrant's followers to begin an endless massacre. The victims' screams mixed with the sound of thunder while the streets were dyed with the color of blood mixed with rainwater.
On the highest roof in the city stood a man in a blackened mask like a ghost emerging from nothingness, contemplating the horizon of the burning city with majestic silence. Suddenly the child and the plague mask owner appeared before him. The child threw the amphibian's head at the boss's feet and said with a triumphant smile, **"We accomplished the mission, boss."**
The boss turned slowly and looked at the severed head, then said in a deep tone, **"Good.. you never disappointed me, Black Eye."** The plague mask owner stood rigidly and asked in his composed voice, **"What is the next mission?"**
The boss replied while watching the chaos below, **"Nothing currently.. this planet will be completely cleansed as agreed because the client paid a very exorbitant amount for this, and upon the end of the mission we will get a huge fortune."** The child laughed merrily and said, **"Finally.. I will buy a lot of red candy!"**
The boss commanded them strictly, **"Now return to planet Black Zoria.. your work here is done."** In an instant the two took off flying, piercing the atmosphere at insane speed, breaking the sound barrier and leaving behind a planet sinking in its blood.
The boss remained alone looking towards the distant horizon, then opened an encrypted communication device and said coldly, **"The deal has been made.. we will meet on the planet after several hours and I have what you want."** While he was ending the call, his eyes were fixed on the amphibian's head as if thinking about the next step of this complex psychological game. After a period of flying through space, **Black Eye** and the child pierced the envelope of a planet looking as blackened as coal from the outside as if absorbing the surrounding light. The two landed in front of an epic castle so huge its area rivaled an entire continent, forming the planet's terrain itself.
They advanced towards the great gates where the soldiers opened the first gate with difficulty. The two walked in vast open corridors, and with the passage of time they crossed gate after gate until they passed seven gates, each larger, harder, and equipped with defensive technologies surpassing previous ones. The child grumbled in boredom saying, **"This is really annoying, it took us a long time to enter, we could have flown fast and skipped all this trouble."** But Black Eye kept complete silence and did not utter a single word as if his mind were elsewhere.
Finally they entered the actual scope of the castle and descended via a huge drawbridge towards the depths, revealing that the outer shell of the castle is nothing more than a fortified shield and outer shell, while the real palace is a complex network of endless tunnels and rooms heading downwards into the bowels of the earth like an unconquerable subterranean city.
After delving deep into the bowels of the palace, they reached a huge square inside the inner domain. One of the soldiers stepped forward with a bow and said, **"Sir.. the rest of the Senshu are in the council hall and they and the lady are waiting for you."** Black Eye replied in a calm tone, **"I will go right now."** While the child jumped with excitement saying, **"And I will go to have a little fun."** Then disappeared into one of the side corridors.
Black Eye headed towards the grand council hall, and when the gigantic door opened making the earth shake, a majestic silence prevailed inside. He found four masked people sitting around a round table while a girl was standing with her majestic shadows in front of a huge screen showing complex cosmic maps.
The girl turned slowly and said in a tone carrying unquestionable authority, **"You finally came, sixth Senshu."** Black Eye looked at her from behind his mask and said in a low voice, **"Sorry for my delay."** She replied calmly as she returned to look at the screen, **"Never mind.. I know my brother took you with him to finish the mission assigned to us to cleanse that rebellious planet."**
Everyone in the hall wore masks completely hiding their identities except that strange girl who stood among them with an uncovered face like the sun amidst those dark shadows. It seems that these six known by the title **Senshu** are the elite managing the affairs of this region from under everyone's eyes and taking orders from that mysterious lady and her brother "the boss" who is still outside finishing the final agreements.