"Right! Rainoric-sama today I shall teach you how to say 'Sorry'." Sakura cheerfully said.
Sakura has begun to teach Rainoric on the proper conduct on how to deal with other people. Young Warlord's manners at the moment were par to a degenerate sociopath.
"Sorry...There! Done! Can I go now?" Rainoric grumbly said.
"Iya, Iya, You need to learn the value of saying 'No' master. Here, Takamina..." Sakura gestured Takamina to step forward next to her. For the midget's own protection she is wearing some armor in the unfortunate incident Rainoric's temper gets the better of him.
"Now, please walk towards me." Sakura said.
Rainoric obediently walked towards Sakura. At the same time, Takamina 'lazily' walked against the same path Rainoric was walking towards to. They eventually bumped into one another.
"Ouch! Gommenasai!" Takamina apologized.
"Oi! Watch it!" Rainoric pushed Takamina to the ground causing her to scrape her elbow.
"Rain-sama! Don't do that to her, she was just walking by when you bumped into her." Sakura talked back.
"The stupid b*tch should have been looking!" Rainoric rebutted.
Sakura walked up to her Soukantouku and helped her up. She cleaned off the wound and wrapped a bandage around Takamina's elbow.
"Why are you helping her out? Is'nt she a 'leader'? I thought she can take care of herself." Rainoric said.
"Look, Rain-sama, not everyone in this world is born strong. Takamina wasn't born with decent strength but she makes up for it by being able to help people who are needed for help. A leader knows how to help his friends and followers my lord." Sakura said after letting Takamina sit on a chair.
"And a follower knows not to disrespect his or her superior." Rainoric stubbornly continued his arguement. His fist began to clench as if ready to throw a fit yet again like her earlier sessions with him on manners.
Quickly thinking to prevent another tantrum, Sakura grabbed Rainoric's hands and stared to the abyss of his empty eye sockets of the Broken Lord's helmet/head.
"Rain.... she did'nt mean to bump into you, but now you hurt her and now she has a wound on her elbow. She is sad and hurt. So its an appropriate time now to tell her 'Sorry." Sakura said.
Sakura could still feel Rainoric's tension as he is still ticked off by her failed lesson. Anger was now about to corrupt his mind yet again as his fist began to slowly crush Sakura's hand. If she doesn't think of way to safely release this anger now, she's next. Then the lightbulb lit open in Sakura's brain.
"I have an idea follow me." Sakura held Rainoric's hand tightly as she dragged him outside the tent they were in. She borrowed an axe from one of Rainoric's men and took him to a near by tree.
"I want you to cut this down Rain-sama." Sakura handed over the axe to Rainoric.
He grabbed the axe and began to relentlessly cut down the tree untill it timbered down. But even after that he continued to chop the wood like a chef mincing garlic.
"Rrrraaaaggggghhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!" He shouted as he hacked the tree to small wooden pieces.
After annihilating the tree with only bits and chips of wood remaining of the once proud specimen of nature. Rainoric felt Dust Exhaustion. He began to inhale more Dust to regain the energy lost.
"Why the hell did you made me do that?" Rainoric asked
"People can't think straight when they are angry. So you needed to find away to release it without hurting people." Sakura replied.
"But I am not a human nor a living thing to even start with. I'm just a 'Monster' to you and others."
Sakura grasped Rainoric's hands again and courageously stared him in the eyes (sockets). She sighed and spoke:
"Why did the Endless first created your people?"
"We were made because the Virtuals saw in us as warriors that can protect their crumbling legacy from those who wish to do it harm. They gave us their technology, their knowledge and their Dust. In return, we gave them our mortality. Our very lives. So we may follow the light of their civilization and insure it continues to burn." Rainoric said.
"No, not only that, but Eslek told me that your people were created not to follow the Endless, but to exceed them. Your father and his father did what the endless could took a milleniums to accomplish, unite people and have them work together towards a common goal, a kingdom with your family the Eadwulfs and their tribe the Salians at the top. Eslek told me for he knew your grandfather before Gewis took the throne." Sakura said.
"Merovech really did meant to do that? I thought he wanted to breakaway from the Ghoghths because they wouldn't accept his way of solving problems."
"Merovech......pust' on pokoitsya s mirom broke away because he knows how to make a nation strong, not by giving infinite amounts of aid to the people. But by making them feel empowered and independent from him. That is why 10 million people here in Auriga follow him and his family to this day." Sakura said respectfully.
Rainoric felt humbled by Sakura's superior knowledge of his family's history, his granfather's breakaway from the Ghogths, the revolution which led to the formation of the Gimaelic kingdom etc.
"I understand now, Merovech would have wanted me to be kind to people. I.....I.....understand now." Rainoric said.
He walked back into the tent to see Takamina still healing over her wound.
"I......I....... am.....am......sssss......sssoooo....... sorry.....Minami of Tokyo." Rainoric bowed in the traditional Japanese fashion of respect.
"Apology accepted, see it wasn't that hard Rain-kun?" Takamina happily said. She rubbed Rainoric's helmet/head as he continued to bow down to her.
"Im sorry.... Im sorry..... Im sorry!!!" Rainoric began to cheerfully say those words outloud. He ran off outside again to shout it out at the top of his voice. Takamina and Sakura followed him as he ran.
The Warlord first walked up to Paruru who was busy knitting by a tree.
"Im sorry I hurt you please forgive me!" He said in a cheerful tune.
"Eh? Uhm....thank you?" Paruru said giving an awkward smile.
Rainoric ran off again leaving a confused Paruru behind.
"What's his problem?" Paruru asked.
"We thought him how to say 'Sorry'. But I think it worked to well..." Sakura said. She helped Paruru up and continued to follow Rainoric as he ran back to the main camp.
"Im sorry to everyone that I ever hurt before! Im sorry! Im sorry! Im sorry!" Rainoric said loudly. Though his apologies were abnormally loud for one, he sincerely meant it. Then dashed for Eslek's tent who was still writing his reports and letters to Gewis.
"Eslek! Im sorry for every time I called you 'Stubborn old ghost'!" Rainoric said.
"Master! You are apologizing.....thats...unus....I mean....thats wonderful but please let me go back to my work master." Eslek replied.
Rainoric scurried off yet again with the 3 AKB girls following him. This time he arrived at the tent where injured people would be taken to be treated and rest.
Sakura, Takamina and Paruru peeked inside as Rainoric walked to Churi who was attending to Rena.
"Samhane! I mean Deathseeker! I mean Hellb*tch! I mean...." Rainoric stuttered the names of Rena's previous persona.
"Rena, its Rena, Rainoric-san" Churi corrected.
(Spoiler for the chapter of 'Usurpation of Power')
"Rena! I am sorry that I stabbed you in the heart with 'Ulfberth'. I want to....how do you Yamanin say....'make it up for you' with this." Rainoric removed his Lorica leaving only his gambeson to physically hold the Broken Lord together and unsheathed 'Ulfberth'.
" 'An eye for an eye or a stab to the heart for a stab to the heart' stab me in the same place I stabbed you. Dont worry, unlike you I wont die and choke blood. Because I can't!" Rainoric said handing over his sword to Rena.
"Uhm.....okay?" Rena tried to be polite despite the absurd and awkward situation she is now in. But since she doesn't want to anger the host of her hospital stay she had to comply. She grasped the sword weakly and tried to thrust it to Rainoric's chest. Churi seeing that Rena still needs more strength, grabbed Rena's hand and gave it a strong push to Rainoric's chest.
The sword went straight through Rainoric. The Gimaelic steel blade laid firmly on his chest before he removed it from his body.
"There we go lad, so are we....what's the earth term? Uhm.... Ah! 'Even Steven'?" Rainoric asked.
Rena and Churi couldn't help but laugh at their master's sudden sense of humor as they shook his hands.
"Even Steven Rainoric-sama...... Wait......your sword has a name?" Rena said.
As they saw the Broken Lord shake hands with their snow-white skinned friend. Takamina patted Sakura in the head.
"You did a great Job Sakuratan, Master is now beginning to lighten up. Keep up the great work." She said.
"Yes keep it up!" Paruru added.
Sakura accepted the congratulatory words from her senpais. After taking them all in, she turned around to see that her master (and slowly becoming friend) Rainoric walk out of the sick bay tent with his head held high. For he has learned some compassion today.
(How do you like this now? I wonder how am I going to make a ship name for Rainoric and Sakura, any of you guys got any bright ideas? Other than Ruka and MayukiISlife? No offense but I want to hear what others think)
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