The Cursed Bloodline
Warm Hugs

"Remember if it's necessary, let out your fear and sadness, you don't have to worry.

I'm here with you" said Aora as she hugged Mirai's body tightly, stroking the hair of the crying girl in her arms

"You know, if you're having nightmares, it means you're always being bad to someone,

Yep.... Let's take for example, your bad attitude towards me, you always hit me, you know that" joked Aora trying to comfort Mirai

Mirai then pushed Aora's body, he was eaten by the guy

"That's because of your stupid attitude, You Fool" Mirai said annoyedly, though tears still flooded her cheeks

"Well, so....... That's your real attitude, the grumpy one....... Being a crybaby does not suit you" said Aora with a smile, he rubbed slowly Mirai's cheeks

"You're beautiful when you're angry or smiling, Mirai"

......................

In front of the magnificent inn, a tall man leaned against the dingding, putting his hand in his pants pocket adding a cool impression even when he was left alone

The wind gushed down her gray hair, guessing Aora was waiting for Mirai to come out of the inn.

Aware of seeing the silhouette of the person being awaited, he began to stand up to greet Mirai.

"How are you doing?" aora said with a worried tone

"Sorry to have shown my emotional attitude to you, now it's better that we continue what we should be doing" Mirai said as she walked past Aora

Aora was astonished, where did the crying girl in her arms go, all she saw was the cold gaze of Mirai whom she knew before, a tough woman who had no fear at all in her eyes.

Aora also began to catch up with Mirai, equating her steps with the girl as high as her chest, occasionally stealing the look of the girl who was now walking beside her.

That face did not show any expression, but he was sure, the woman by his side had gone through a difficult thing alone.

They continued to walk through the market full of antiques that were rented almost as high as the road.

The sun is starting to get hot, quite hot certainly makes anyone overheated, not least Mirai

Seeing Mirai begin to sweat due to the heat of the sun, Aora began to change position next to Mirai, with her large tall body, she blocked the sunlight for Mirai.

For some reason, he did not want the woman next to him to overheat.

...............

Along the way there are antique shops lined up, Aora and Mirai decide to start investigating from there.

They were stopped in front of a store that was showing off a statue made of black wood, one of the wood is quite expensive

"Isn't this one of those rare statues?" muttered Mirai

" You're right, this is a rare work of art that there is only one in the world. The sculptor was also a famous artist, and this statue was his last work, so the price was equivalent to 50 gold pieces" concluded Aora

"But, why is this sold in stores that look not so big to sell an expensive artwork. "

" You don't know? The statue is a fake" Aora replied lightly

"How did you know that? "

" Let's look at the foot of the statue" pointed Aora

"There is nothing strange about the statue, its legs look perfect. "

" no... You are wrong, because the artist did not make his last work to be a perfect work, indeed this story is not widely known to the connoisseurs of art, the art,

But before the artist ended his own life, he made a statue that showed his secret, namely the middle part of his toe is not normal aka dumbfounded,

People assume that he is a perfect person with the talent of a god, but the ego makes him break his life because of a defect in his body, and certainly not known to others" concluded Aora

"How can you be sure? "

" I once escorted one of the higher-ups of Sora state, he bought the same statue, and of course it's the real one.

But word got out that someone stole the statue"

"So what does this have to do with our mission? "

" I'm not sure yet, but let's try to prove it inside" Aora replied as she pulled Mirai's hand

They entered an antique shop there, there were so many items and all of them looked special and classy like expensive artwork.

"Welcome to my shop, ladies and gentlemen, how can I help you?" Asked a big man with a big scar in his eyes.

"I want to ask you about pa- "

Unfinished Mirai asked, Aora quickly embraced Mirai's shoulder. When Mirai turned to look at Aora, the man simply blinked his eyes.

" Sorry sir, my wife and I want to look around for antiques here, isn't it so dear? " said Aora while looking at the woman in her arms

" Ooo... Ooh of course" concluded Mirai, he did not know what Aora's plan but he tried to follow it.

"Honey...... Didn't your father like rare art in the world?

Although it cost him a lot of money, he did not care and hoped to collect artwork that made him satisfied right?" concluded Aora

While still embracing Mirai occasionally looked at the face of the seller. He tried to lure the seller into his trap

And succeed....

Knowing his customers are very interested in artwork, and of course they look to bring a lot of money

Like tourists who intend to spend all the money, make the seller began to be enthusiastic

" If I may know, what are you looking for, sir? "

" Hem, I don't know...... What would make my father-in-law happy?

As one of the higher-ups of Sora country, maybe I should present him some rare artwork, I don't care the price, as long as it's genuine I'll pay anything

I have to thank her for giving her precious daughter to be my mikik" said Aora Smabil smiling behind his mask, he tightened his arms and made Mirai misbehave

What are you trying to do?

" Mister, if you don't mind, will you come with me and I'll show you some rare artworks"

He also showed the secret room in the corner of his store, he,

Behind the small door was a secret room where dozens of works of art, ranging from paintings to sculpture works made of gold.

" Weird....... Unlike the one on display in front, this work turns out to be original" inner Aora

Unknowingly, Aora began to give Mirai a cue,

Mirai understood, he then took out a needle from his pocket, as soon as he stuck the needle that was previously in the flow of power to some point of the seller's body, which made the big man fall unconscious.

" It's my turn" Aora said

While sitting the man down, he opened the eyes of the seller who was asleep.

Aora's eyes began to turn bright red and looked into the seller's eyes

" Now answer my question honestly" Aora told the man in front of her,

The half-conscious man with half-open eyes nodded.

"Why do you have this rare item? And even sell his copy? "

" We stole expensive art and made copies of it to collect gold, the more things we sold, the more gold we could collect"

" We do not accept transactions other than gold, because gold is useful for importing iron from the land of Hoshi. "

" Isn't the iron village itself a producer, why import? " said Mirai curiously

" Iron in our area is not enough to carry out the plans of the Iron village chief, it takes tons of iron to make many weapons"

"Weapons? What do you mean weapon? "

" The weapons are produced in secret in our village" he replied.

"Where was it made? "

" In the most heavily guarded place of this village, namely in the office of Iron village"

"Well, from now on you never see us, you're in this room just to clean up" Aora told the seller and replied with a nod.

" Let's Mirai get out of here, soon the man will be conscious of his illusory world"

Aora firmly grasped Mirai's hand while leading her out of the shop.

.........

Still clasping Mirai's hand, Aora continued to run away from the store, aware of what happened Mirai began to smash Aora's hand, and of course with a reddened face

"Why do you want to touch my body without my permission, you idiot! "

" Sorry.... Pardon me....... I was too deep in my character, besides you seemed to enjoy it, especially when I hugged it this morning right....? "

Plaque.......

Mirai's sweet punch landed beautifully on Aora's shoulder.

" Fool!!! "mirai Legs

" Sick Mirai! Aww.. " said Aora dramatizing, while stroking her shrunken shoulders

" How do you know that stuff is real, in contrast to the stuff we saw first?" ask Mirai

"I told you, if you knew me any further you might fall in love with me...

Nice, considerate, sweet, smart, and also handsome.....

Which woman rejected the charm, and do not underestimate me, I also know many things" replied Aora with her PD

"Forget my question.......

But isn't it weird to hoard that much iron, even to make a weapon, that doesn't make sense? "

Aora's face started to get serious

" It is not unreasonable that it would create a weapon of great destructive power,

You forget that the power of the core consisting of fire, water, earth and lightning does not work on iron, in other words iron is one of the things that can counteract the power of the core of our world, he said,

If it is combined with a certain magic power and iron is used as a defense......

It would create a troublesome weapon" Aora explained loudly.

"Such a weapon could threaten the order of the Sora Country, if it caused civil war,

I'm sure the enemy country will take advantage of that moment to ignite the flames of war, this country will come back crying" Aora replied

I never thought, behind her stupid behavior, Aora turned out to be a good analyzer and also what exactly is with the strength of her eyes?

Aora began to awaken the conscious Mirai to daydream

"Hey..... What's wrong with you, why do you daydream?" tannya

"T-nothing" Mirai answered nervously

" really? " ask Aora while bringing her face closer to Mirai.

......................

A person in a hooded black robe noticed Mirai and Aora,

In a dark corner not far from their place. Slowly the man vanished into a collection of black crows and disappeared somewhere.

.......

While Mirai and Aora were walking back towards the Inn where they were staying, they were planning to devise an infiltration strategy to the center of the iron village, but their steps came to a halt when they heard the loud bellied sound of Mirai's rumbling.

"We should eat first, you haven't had time for breakfast, right? " said Aora as she clasped Mirai's hand

" For this time let me pretend to be a caring husband for you, come on... "

With no resistance and certainly with blushing cheeks, Mirai just followed Aora without a word.

..........

They arrived at the tavern selling sabu-sabu soup. They sat at one of the empty tables.

While waiting for the order, Mirai only noticed the man in front of her

Aora swiftly prepared chopsticks for Mirai and herself, not forgetting to pour water on their cup

"No need to prepare"

"Don't mind me, I told you I'd rather be nice to the woman I like" she said

"What did you just say?

"No..... There aren't...... Wait for the order to be ready, eat a lot of Mirai" Aora replied distractingly.

"It seems like I heard something strange from you" Mirai said as she tilted her head,

"Why....? "ask Aora pretending not to know.

The waiter approached them and brought the order to the table.

" Good fun, I see you're a matching couple, I hope your date is smooth" the waiter said

"We're married" Aora entenh said, with a smile that she was pointing at Mirai

"Thank you miss" he added

Aora asked Mirai to be quiet by putting her index finger in her mouth,

He was busy mixing the soup with various complementary spices. After enough he swapped his bowl for Mirai.

"Try it.......

I mix it with the right, not that time you like the breakfast I brought, as long as you know, I make it, until I have to wake up at dawn" concluded Aora

"really? "

Mirai began to smile, for some reason recently she was often made to smile by the man in front of her, she did not hesitate to show her crying to Aora. Mirai began to feel the warmth that Aora was emitting.

Just this time I felt the warmth that someone gave me, thank you Aora

Smiles continue to adorn the beautiful face of Mirai

"Thank you for eating it "