Path Of Blood - 64 Chapter 55

Eris slowly appeared behind the tree, She smiled towards Haruki. She raised her hands up.

“I’m not here for a fight…”

Haruki shrugged his shoulders and continued to smoke, he can’t fight her here anyways. There’s too many people.

“I know, you could’ve attacked anytime, and I don’t detect any bloodlust from you, so what brings you here in this quaint city of Vale?”

She Sat beside him and crossed her legs. She put her head on her palms as she stared at the kids in the park.

“Vacation… There’s still time before we come and fight again, so I figured why not go roam around.

I never expected to meet you two here….”

Haruki narrowed his eyes, He knew sooner or later they would be back.

“A vacation huh? I Never expected being a sinner was a tenured job. And the fact that you guys take a vacation at all…

I always expected that you guys run all over remnant to kill or pillage or add people to your cult or some other shit.”

Eris laughed, which garnered the stares of everyone. They saw a beautiful girl besides the man who was chatting with the celebrity Pyrrha Nikos awhile ago. How lucky could this guy get!? they thought.

But little do they know that he’s now sitting beside a ticking time bomb that is thousands of years old.

“We do indeed do that, but I let the others do the heavy lifting… I’m to bored to bother with that kind of stuff.

And besides not much I can do, my only talent is the sword. I can’t be bothered with the logistics and research Aergia does…”

Haruki leaned back as he listened, He was awfully relaxed. As if he wasn’t even on guard against her. This surprised Eris, She was expecting some form of resistance, but Haruki was just there smoking as he listened to her.

“Hmm, I’m was expecting a more resistant response. But then again it’s you…”

Haruki just shrugged his shoulders. “Well? the story’s not going to tell itself…”

Eris looked at the people in the park, “Whether you believe me or not I’m only here to kill time. I got nothing better to do.”

Haruki just grinned at her, “That’s a terrible excuse for a second date. I didn’t know you missed me that much.”

Eris ignored Haruki’s attempt at flirting with her and she stared at the direction Pyrrha went.

“Well I never expected her to be the next maiden…”

Haruki narrowed his eyes and a faint trace of killing intent surfaced and hit Eris’s senses. “Hmm why do you ask miss Eris?”

Eris scoffed, “Relax, the maidens powers are useless to us, besides being random and unpredictable. It’s also weak and limited, So even if we gain their powers once we supposedly die, the time between resurrecting could transfer it to someone else.”

Haruki nodded his head, from Eris’s words he could deduce that the sins might go after the more useful semblances.

“Hmm, so everyone else is susceptible, and even the faintest signs of a useful semblance surfaces, they’re sure to get nabbed is that it?”

Eris gave him a faint smile, “Maybe… maybe not who knows. Anyways back to the maiden topic. I’m quite curious about how Ozpin could choose the next maiden…”

Haruki lit up a new stick as he answered, “Well it’s more the machines than his, But the consciousness would be transferred along with the maiden powers.”

Eris tilted her head cutely, “Huh… so you’re allowing one of your lovers to risk that kind of thing.”

Haruki smirked, “You think I give a damn about Ozpins plans?”

He summoned absolute demise and showed her the lustre of his blade and released massive amounts of bloodlust.

“I’m going to kill the maiden without anyone knowing, Pyrrha doesn’t have to worry… I’ll kill her in front of cinder.” He said as he grinned.

“She would be the last thoughts of the maiden, and she would gain the powers in full. Unlike Pyrrha, Cinder is decisive… She knows when it’s time to kill. Firepower is only useful to me when it could actually kill…”

Eris laughed once more as she listened in on Haruki, “I never expected you to be this cruel…She has probably decided to take on the powers and you would take that from her!? Hahahahahahaha!! You should be part of us not them.

But by telling me this, don’t you think I would use this kind of information against you? This could put a damper to your plan?”

“Hah? You’re the fucking sinner of pride… I honestly don’t think you’d do that, and besides if I wanted to kill someone… I would succeed most of the time.”

Haruki lit up another stick as he continued, “You might think of me as cruel, But all of this is necessary, Even if others may think of me as evil. I’m using all of this to stop the greater evil. You guys, and that bitch Salem.”

Eris spread her arms around as she smiled, “Evil? Us? Hahahahahaha!! The fuck Kazama Haruki! Don’t put me on the same place as Aergia or Any of the other sins and sinners, my motivations are mine and mine alone. Joining the Sins is just necessary…

Those words seem familiar?”

Haruki giggled, “Hahahahaha, Miss Eris I am liking this date more and more.”

“Hehehehe, well to me There is no such thing as value or the weight of life. Just as water flows around the world so too does life simply revolve.

That also goes for you and me, it’s meaningless and valueless. And that’s why it’s fine to do anything.

Unless they’re not directly in my way I won’t go out of my way to kill them. Like pebbles on the ground I won’t go around kicking every pebble I see on the road.”

Haruki stared at the distance as Eris continued, “Although, I’m not a slave to the ideal indifference, there’s no need for consistency in your attitude towards life.

If you hate them, kill them just as you eat when you’re hungry. That’s why I’m pretty sure I’ll be able to use any underhanded means as long as it is necessary for my cause.”

Haruki shrugged, “Well when in comes down to it it’s just a battle to the death.”

Eris smiled, “See that’s what I like about you…”

Haruki perked up his ears, “Oh? Am I finally making a dent on your cold and cruel heart? with all of my warm and heartfelt words?”

Eris shook her head, “Well, anyways since you and I have a score to settle… you need to know about someone of particular… well… let’s just say. an interruption on your part.”

Haruki sighed, “Of course there’s a catch. So who is it this time? Another corvus type dude? a new sinner? That bitch Aergia?”

Eris put her finger on her chin, and looked quite cute.

“No it’s someone else, well I guess in your case he’s new, but to everyone here on remnant he was a legend. The man of a thousand blades. The sinner of wrath.”

Haruki pondered, “Funny story actually, That name is quite similar to a monster that I once knew…”

Eris tilted her head, “That can’t be, that old man has existed for thousands of years…”

Haruki just shrugs, “Well the man I know is dead, I killed him with my own hands. And besides I have also heard tales about a swordmaster in Mistral. The undefeated Ten thousand Sword master.

I saw one of his statues on site, back when I was still working as a lapdog for Salem. And they don’t look alike…”

Eris nodded, “Well I myself don’t knowanything much about him… But He is one crazy monster. They say he’s even stronger than wrath himself. Everytime that they would fight it would last for 7 days and 7 nights.

And Wrath would always get killed. And That old monster would just walk away like it’s nothing.”

Haruki listened in on intently, “Well miss Eris why would you tell me such sensitive information, do you really want to have a secret tryst with me so badly?”

Eris scoffed, “Well it would be a shame if you died… Before our fated rematch. And besides if you want to get to me… you might want to kill him first. So we won’t get interrupted.”

As she says this someone shouted at themfrom a distance. It was team RWBY, They ran towards Haruki.