The Void Emperor

"I"m sorry, I"m really sorry ... Please forgive me. I couldn"t afford to risk, what if you couldn"t handle the force what"d I do if you got hurt? For me, I"m sure that I"d heal back in a short time with my soul spirits but what about you?" Ryuu said with teary eyes gently hugging his lover.

"Fool! We are one soul in two bodies now, how could our bodies differ that much, more likely the two of us are completely the same in every aspect except the gender! You are a complete and utter fool, why didn"t you ask!!! Next time don"t even think about doing something like that. Through hardships, love, happiness and everything we are going together from now on. Understood?" Tenko said directing a piercing gaze towards Ryuu.

Before those words piercing the soul and such a gaze, Ryuu felt completely defenseless as if everything about him has been seen through as he could only nod in acknowledgment crying even harder than Tenko in front of him.

"I promise, I promise my cute little fox. Please forgive your fool this time!" He said.

"Agghhh, okay I will forgive you this once considering the fact that you didn"t know about those, but if you dare even think about it next time ... you won"t wiggle out like now!" Tenko said tightly grasping her little lover in front.

They enjoyed each other"s embrace, feeling each other"s warmth and happiness, feeling that the opposite party is unharmed and well ... when one cough brought their attention back attracting their gazes at Shiro standing nearby.

"Mom! You were here?!" Tenko screamed when she figured out that her mother saw and heard everything they"ve been talking about up until now.

"You two are so unreasonable. You can start getting at it anywhere at any time. That"s just ... insanely carefree. Do you even think about others watching you when you fall into your own lovely world of only you two?" Shiro said in a teasing tone.

"It"s not like that, mom I can explain!" Tenko tried getting out of a sticky situation when suddenly, Ryuu hugged her once more making her blush even more with bright red cheeks.

"Don"t tease her, Shiro. As long as she doesn"t mind, neither do I and there"s no need to care about what other people will think as long as we have each other to depend upon." Ryuu said, hugging Tenko even tighter and leaning her small head on his small body. The two of them were the definition of "Before love, everything is irrelevant and tiny".

"Yeah, yeah. I won"t tease her anymore - don"t get angry all of a sudden just because I made a joke about you two lovers. If you react that way now, what will you do when you go out in the real world? You won"t be fighting with everyone who teases your little girl, won"t you?" Shiro said with a slight smirk.

"It depends on my mood and the severity of their action ..." Ryuu said while gently stroking Tenko"s head which she, as expected, enjoyed very much~ curling into a small human ball in Ryuu"s embrace and covering him with a silver blanket as she fell asleep on his chest.

When Ryuu heard her soft breathing, he smiled excitedly with kindness overflowing from the depths of his heart. At this time Akashiro, who was watching them all the time, just helplessly shook her head: "You two are ... ... in a separate world from ours." She said pausing for a while. "At least now I don"t have to worry about leaving her in your hands. Remember Ryuu, when you two go out you definitely mustn"t tell a soul about her, me, or your parents ... otherwise ..." she didn"t finish her sentence which made Ryuu realize that it had a deeper meaning behind it.

"Um, I will take good care of her. As for the secrets related with me, there definitely won"t be anyone who"d know about it. Ever!" Ryuu resolutely said, rea.s.suring Shiro.

"Good, now let"s get back onto the topic. The current state of the planets, was it?" Shiro asked.

"Yeah, please continue". Ryuu said gesturing with a hand in Shiro"s direction and stroking Tenko"s white hair with other.

Another strange thing about this pair of lovers was that they both had the same hair color - pure white and both of them had hair longer than regular kids of their age. Neither of them looked like an actual two-year-old kid. If one had to describe it, they looked like genuine adults that somehow got reduced in size proportionally, which is why Shiro was used to their intellectual age.

After that, Shiro and Ryuu kept talking about various knowledge of this world which went on deep into the night.

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Morning, two little lovers lay on the soft mattress covered with a silver sheet in each other"s embrace as shiny rays penetrate the curtain of a room falling on them as if they wanted to acknowledge their overlords. No mere two-year-old kids could make the Sun of this little world bow to them, therefore the reason this happened is that Shiro had already made them bound to this lesser world, but they just didn"t know it yet. Actually, she bound just Ryuu to it, but since Ryuu and Tenko are already completely the same in both, the body and soul, the bond spread to Tenko. That warmth they felt was so good and comfortable, awakening energy within their bodies which prompted them to wake up.

"Uwaaah ... mornin" *chu*"" Ryuu kissed Tenko on the forehead, not expecting that she was also waking up at the same time. "You too~ *smooch*" Tenko returned the gift by kissing Ryuu on his cheek. As they looked into each other"s eyes the laughter burst out from both of them at the same time.

"Hahaha... where"s Shiro?" Ryuu said looking around the room.

"Shiro?! ... Why are you calling her Shiro all of a sudden ..." Tenko said, obviously not knowing about what happened between the Ryuu and Akashiro while she was asleep.

"Eh? Didn"t you say that we now are one and the same, how comes that you don"t remember what happened while you were asleep?" Ryuu asked as he was also confused.

"While I was asleep? Oh, ... let me try something." Tenko said as ten-colored light burst out from her body, transforming into the one-meter-high ten-colored fox.

"... what happened?! Ryuu!" She exclaimed as she noticed the change all over her body.

"..." ... silence.

What she expected was an answer, but Ryuu remained silent which made her understand that neither he knew what happened.

"Could it be ... because ..." Ryuu said staring blankly in confusion.

"Hm?" Tenko inquired as suddenly, all the memories and thoughts Ryuu had to that moment, burst into her mind like a tsunami.

For a while, both of them became saturated in the ten-colored glow as they remained silently in place not moving even an inch.

It"s not that they didn"t want to move it"s that right now their bodies were akin to an empty sh.e.l.l without the owner on the bottom of the sea. Their minds have already been intertwined with each other"s as they both shared all of their memories with the opposite party, bathing in ten-colored radiance all around them as their minds merged into one bright ten-colored radiant ethereal singularity.

"GAH! Hah ... what was all that?!" Ryuu exhaled abruptly as his soul returned to the body and he regained the feeling of reality.

As soon as he did, he noticed that his head had already been fixated to the Tenko"s little golden eyes resting in his embrace. Her current appearance wasn"t that different from Ryuu as she was excitedly staring to the guy above her with amazement and her mood instantaneously became excited surging like a tide.

"You ... all that-.. those were your memories right, Right, RIGHT?" Tenko excitedly inquired, putting her little hands on Ryuu"s chest and transferring her complete weight onto his body all at the same time while staring at his enchanting purple eyes from very close. So close, they could feel each other"s breath.

"M-My memories ... "?! Ryuu asked in confusion when suddenly ...

"!". An intense surge of memories entered his head as his pupils became vertical and his eyes turned ten-colored, but to his surprise, it wasn"t painful. The feeling was like he already knew all of them and just remembered about them all at once.

"Are .. these yours?" He asked as the same feeling appeared in his heart that Tenko had experienced a while ago.

"Those nine hundred years ... you were that lonely without me?" Ryuu said lowering his head and placing his forehead on Tenko"s.

"Your world. How can such a beautiful and sad place exist?" She thought.

"Not even I can tell how, but it does. If you had to blame it on someone, it would be on us humans ourselves. We made it a beautiful place, but we made it a sad one as well." He thought.

Their thoughts were interlinked now completely and thoroughly, at all levels. As if there was another you in your mind except for your own self at all times.

"This feeling is unique like I"ve lived two lives parallelly. How can something this marvelous be possible?" Ryuu thought.

"Heh, this is not a world where you should judge by your laws. Our world here has its own laws unlike your"s* unbendable and insurmountable." Tenko thought.

"You mean Earth?" Ryuu thought.

"The laws of our world are defined by our planar lord. Our planar lord is, in a sense, an ent.i.ty that covers this whole plane and has access to any part of it at the same time. But your world isn"t like ours. Earth, if I"m not wrong ... the laws of that world can"t be changed and there"s no planar lord. If you ask me, it is not at all as it looks at first sight." Tenko elaborated.

"I think so too. Our world resembles a cage, although more complex than the one we humans have made. Even after almost four and a half billion years, there is only one race of slightly advanced beings - only humans." Ryuu said as his mind had already begun drifting through newly acquired memories of his lover"s life"

"If I"m not wrong, our world is something resembling a galactic-level zoo." he continued. "It is deeply masked with various ent.i.ties like a sea or a universe ... It is not completely confirmed, but humans are actively using only 10~15 percent of their brain and our brain is an ent.i.ty made up of eleven dimensions.

The fourth one is this hard to grasp even after I felt it ... how would eleventh feel like?" Ryuu thought.

"Are you very curious about it?" Tenko inquired.

"Yeah, I am. Why are you asking, interested as well?" Ryuu asked looking at cheerful Tenko over his little body as he lay on the ground and the silver blanket covering only half of them as it fell down.

"Of course that I"m interested, I mean ... I saw that much things new to me, how can I not be interested? In the future when we become G.o.ds, I want to explore all of the worlds and universes with only the two of us!" Tenko happily confirmed lowering her body near Ryuu"s ... as this scene looked a bit inappropriate. When they had realized how they are positioned right now, "AHEM!" a voice instantly brought them back to the present.

"I know how much you love each other and all ... but ain"t you two a little early for that ... thing?" Shiro asked, seeing Tenko on top of Ryuu in a specific not-so-innocent pose. They were completely immersed in newfound memories and knowledge that they didn"t even figure out what would happen if someone saw them like that.

"AH NO!" Both of them shouted in unison. "It"s not how it looks like!!!".

"I know, I know... you are innocent, as always." Shiro said waving her hand left and right as if saying "No need to explain, I"ve already seen it all".

Shiro directed a sharp glance at Ryuu then at Tenko and her voice, carrying a heavy teasing feeling said: "So, dear daughter of mine, why aren"t you moving yet? Or could it be that you really did ..."? here, she stopped as her gaze drifted to Ryuu changing from teasing to a malicious one.

Even if she approved of Ryuu, how could she remain calm if Ryuu already defiled her dear daughter at this age? "That"s simply insane, their bodies didn"t grow up yet, how could he even think about doing that...?" her malicious look became even stronger as her mind was filled with worrisome thoughts.

"Ah! I am, mother don"t misunderstand! We really didn"t do anything bad!" Tenko screamed quickly moving behind Ryuu and hugging his arm, obviously hiding from her mother"s malicious gaze.

As Akashiro saw her daughter hiding behind Ryuu with a sincere look in her golden eyes, her heart became relaxed several points, but she didn"t intend to simply let them off this time. "I have to remind them of reality or they"ll really get in trouble when they venture out ..." she thought as her malicious look transformed into a chilling cold one. "Come with me your training starts from this moment onwards for the next four years ..... both of you!!".

She said in a threatening tone as her form abruptly disappeared, leaving only an intense spatial element fluctuation behind.

"We"re screwed"! Both Ryuu and Tenko thought at the same time as their faces completely transformed into a pale-white one as if their blood was obstructed.

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* Your world"s, not yours (of your belonging).