219 A smudge of Truth

Currently Ryuu was lounging on a couch as he had nothing to do, and as he was feeling sleepy as such he had closed his eyes off dozing off into 'lala-land', only for his eyes to wide open as he sliced the incoming projectile using his sword.

"My what a waste of a perfectly good apple.", came a voice full of mirth causing him to turn to see a smiling visage of Antariskh.

Maheswara was already standing behind her as his face reflected displeasure as he spoke to Ryuu in a chiding manner, "Child why are you so care free?"

Ryuu was taken aback by the sudden change in his voice, "What do you mean teacher I clearly reacted to the apple…"

Maheswara: "Be silent, the apple was take from a fruit basket placed on top of the table in front of you, Antariskh used her KI to pluck it from there before she flung it towards you,then you decide to cut it without looking what it was, if she were an enemy you would be dead Ryuu, this is not Ayindril where you can be carefree."

Antariskh sighed as she placed her hands on top her father trying to calm him down as she spoke, "Father, please calm down, and don't scold Ryuu like that, we are at fault here for not telling him to be vigilant."

Veena approached them from behind as she spoke, "Beloved please listen to our daughter she si right we should have warned Ryuu to be vigilant."

Maheswara sighed as he spoke, "You are right", before his eyes softened as he spoke with Ryuu, "Child, this place may be our friends jurisdiction but as you have already seen there are strong cultivators who would do whatever it is to kill you just to spite us, so do not let your guard down."

Ryuu: "But, there are arrays around this palace erected by 2nd mistress so what…"

Veena sighed as she spoke, "I do not wish to demean sister Nuwa, but you should know that prevention is better than cure, and why take unnecessary risks, she may be the best Array Master in the entire Universe, but that does not mean that you can let your guard down."

Ryuu nodded at that as Antariskh spoke, "As such it has been decided that during our stay here you will always be at least with one of us, so that we can protect you from any harm."

Ryuu nodded as he spoke, "I understand but who was that scary crazy lady that tried to kill me are they enemy of yours teacher."

Veena: "That is complicated child you …."

Only to be stopped by Maheswara as he raised his hand indicated her to stop speaking, "Ryuu what do you know about my son's wife."

Veena gaped at his husband in disbelief including Antariskh who looked at her father with her eyes filled with worry.

Ryuu was taken aback by such a question as he replied back, "Not much but from what I was taught by 3rd mistress, Senior Pangu and his Dao Companion Senior Apolonia sacrificed their life and soul to defeat a great evil thus saving the entire Universe nothing more than that."

Maheswara nodded at that as he spoke with a solemn sigh, "The crazy woman as you called her name is Megara, her father Menelaos and her mother Neaera were once our very close friends, in fact Megara group up playing together with our children, as they grew up love blossomed between Pangu and Megara she became his fiancée, then a great tragedy struck us a villain painted Pangu in bad light and believing the villain Megara betrayed Pangu breaking off the engagement, causing my son to be heartbroken.", he took a deep breath as he continued, "During that period Apoloniya, approached my son healed his broken heart and before long they were in love and they became each other's Dao companion. But by then Megara realized her folly but it was for naught they were happily married by then, and no matter what she or her family did they could not separate them, and Megara's sanity began to slip because of it, and when Pangu passed away she finally lost every shred of sanity, it is a pity her family instead of trying to curb her insanity tried to place blame on others mainly us as such the relation between us is like oil and water."

Ryuu digested the entire thing as he contemplated the entire thing, as he asked something that was bugging him for some time, "Teacher I have a question."

Maheswara raised one of his eyebrows at that as he asked, "What do wish to know child?"

Ryuu: "Teacher, are there any more people I have to be aware of while we are staying here."

Maheswara hummed in thought as he spoke, "Well you remember all those people who came to welcome us."

Ryuu nodded at that as he spoke, "Yes teacher I remember all of them."

Maheswara nodded as he spoke, "All of them mostly Pangu's friend I can trust will give their life to save yours if need be others not so much, which also includes lady Khygnos."

Ryuu nodded at that, as Antariskh spoke, "Ryuu you will be having sleep over so why don't you follow me."

Veena simply smiled at Ryuu as he left before her gaze turned serious as she glared at her husband, "Maheswara what were you thinking? Why did you tell all those things to him?"

Maheswara hummed in thought as he spoke, "Why shouldn't I tell him all those things to him Veena, he is entitled to know the entire truth one day, the truth of our sins."

Veena gaped at her husband in disbelief as she spoke, "You wish to tell him everything, but Mahes he does not need to know anything that is our close family secret and if he knew then…"

Maheswara finished her sentence for her, "If he learns about it he might leave our tutelage, I know there is a chance and if so wishes to I will accept his decision but I do not wish for someone else outside our family to present before him the truth, what Megara said was true, if someone tells him truth he will be hurt and I know for sure they will twist it to full fill their need as such if he ever learns anything about those incident from all those millennia ago it should be from us."

Veena: "But if after learning everything there is a chance his heart demon might rear its head then."

Maheswara sighed as he ran his hand through his head as he spoke, "Rear its head, of course it would, beneath all those façade of smile and happiness lies a child wracked with guilt, his mother's death coupled with his hatred for his birth family and himself had left deep cracks in his psychology causing the birth of a heart demon, then that incident caused by our daughters had further strengthen it."

Veena snorted at that as she spoke, "Do not tell me something I do not know, because of it Ryuu almost died in the hidden space, he could have made a run for it while carrying his teammates, but no he had to save as many people as possible, medicinal pills, arrays or any other techniques are simply temporary solution to suppress it not a permanent, do you know he still suffers from nightmare from the incident, he cries up at night, it was specially worse after his near death experience."

Maheswara frowned at that as he spoke, "What are his memories of the incident not sealed or erased then, anyone could have easily."

Veena shook her head as she spoke, "It would be not possible if we take away the reason, and it could further harm him than help him if it were not for his heart demon."

Maheswara sighed at that as he spoke, "Ai, it can only be dealt with permanently by Ryuu himself but he is neither strong enough nor he is mature enough to deal with it."

Veena nodded as she embraced her husband as she spoke, "It is a good think his karma is so high that he would be able to bypass the 'Heart Demon Tribulation' during his ascension to Immortality otherwise he would have failed it 100 out of 100 times."

Mahesara held her wife close as he spoke, "So true, you know it makes me seem like a failure sometimes when it comes to being Ryuu's teacher."

Veena agreed with him as she spoke with deep regret, "Me and you both, beloved me and you both."