Shotaro: journey of a hero that kept moving forward

Shotaro began to walk above the stairs of the green tower, it was tall, nearly a kilometre, but the view was amazing, minus the filthy deeds that was happening, the architecture was still peak.

"You know" Paliv said, "I live in this tower for so long I have grown numb to that view, seeing my mother's incompetence, the fall of the kingdom, I don't suppose we need emotions here".

Shotaro suddenly stopped, Did Paliv said she has grown numb?, he knows how it feels to be indifference & apathetic, & it disgusted him to his flesh, whenever he is not numb that is, no that can't be happening, not on his watch, he doesn't want another him around.

"Paliv" Shotaro said, looking at her eyes, he gently held her down, this girl needed a father, or any positive male model in her life, almost if he knows how it felt..

"You've been through lot kid" He started, not knowing how to, "Without anyone to guide you, you can't differentiate & understand the lovable words & stern lessons" he continued, "But what guides through all of them is what we feel" he said gently carrasing the little girl on cheek, "I don't know much about my past, but I knew I had many people there waiting for me, like those peasants wait for your mother's grace ness to return".

"Never" He said, "Let go of your emotions".

"Cause what makes a sentient being sentient, are those little chemical reactions in his mind" Shotaro continued, "We both are person with our emotions, without them, we're walking flesh & bone".

"Emotions are a person's individuality" Shotaro ended, "Never let them go".

Paliv looked at him, her eye glistening, seemingly indicating a potential arrival of her childhood glow, she didn't see her father since decades, but seeing Shotaro now, she admitted it is what exactly he would have said, as a red warm crept through her cheeks, she said, "Ok, Ok, let's go meet my mother" before joyfully skip dabbling towards the stairs above.

"It's being a long while" Granny P. put a hand around Shotaro's shoulder, "Since I have seen the child I played in my arms, not the over serious princess with self blame to her father's death".

Shotaro looked back, "She blamed herself?, yeah, that makes sense".

"& your speech" Granny P continued, "About emotions, it was cheesy, but it was motivating".

"You should try to be a king" She said "this world can use a leader with such views".

"No I am better as a wannabee her of saving" Shotaro said embarrassed "I was never a fan of monarchy" he added, "& those words, maybe I understand emotions so deeply I contradictory not feel them".

"You're more than what most people expect" Granny P. said, "Mugyiwara".

"People" Shotaro replied, "Often say the same".

"Maybe there is a reason why Luthor bet it all on you" Granny P. said sternly, "But don't think I still haven't let go of the past grudge between me & your madness inducing tale".

"Like I care" Shotaro shrugged, "don't make me hide your meds Grandm---" crashed into a wall.

"Humph" Granny P said, "You may be the hero, but you still need to train". She added, "much to learn" She added, "Too much to prove, little boy".

"IDK what was that supposed to sound like" Shotaro rubbed the back of his head where it still stinked.

They entered the upper sector of the tower, Shotaro saw pics, many, many paintings.

"They" Shotaro monologued to himself, "Must be from when the city wasn't in ruin".

Suddenly he bumps into a stand, containing an armour.

"It's an Ugly armour" he said, gritting his teeth in rage, "this stupid armour, this fucking hideous armour I would rather see Donald Trump & Joe Biden have gay scat orgy than this fucking armour".

"This armour" he repeated, "this armour this armour this armour this armour.."

"Shotaro" Paliv shook him out of his state.

"huh" he snapped out. "Where was I?"

"You were talking to yourself" Granny P. informed the man, until her eyes went to that armour.

"Oh" She said, "I get it".

"Get what?" Shotaro asked, annoyed at her gatekeeping.

"That's wrath armour" Paliv informed, "It makes one hate it" she added, "You will go berserk if you wear it tho".

"Wrath...armour" Shotaro said to himself as a certain black swordsman came in his mind, "What is it tho?" he asked.

"Don't bother yourself with it" Paliv replied.

"Hey" Shotaro complained, "I don't like gatekeeping".

"First help us put the queen out of her miserable state" Granny P. barged in the conversation, "You will have me explain everything to you afterward".

As they walked in the courtroom, Shotaro sniffed a hard stench of liquor.

"This is way stronger than anything I remember back home" He said to himself, "I mean remembering Elves have higher level of metabolism".

He entered the courtroom, only to find it...empty.

"Huh" Shotaro thought to himself, as the two ladies began to see here & there.

"Where is mother" Paliv asked, "Where is everyone in general" Granny P. added

But Shotaro already had started his own investigation, as he looked around found many disposed bottle of vine.

It was a usual sight for the courtroom, ever since Queen's descend into the alcoholic mess of flesh & bones she was.

But to Shotaro, something was off, despite his amnesia he can recall watching Sherlock on television, one of his favs, & there is also a slight recollection of the fact, that whoever he was back on earth, he did kinda solve a bunch of cases separate from officials.

"Was I even a normal child" he says to himself before continuing his search.

"What are you doing" Granny P. instigated, "I swear if you're trying to find a bottle not empty for yourself" a tinge of frustration peeked in.

"I know my mother for decades" Paliv chuckled, "There is no way even a drop of a drop is left".

"Shut up" Shotaro said in a cold, calculation voice as he picked up a bottle next to him, seeing that it's opening glistened in the rays of light that trespassed from window.

"this is" He said as his eyes widened.

"That's Horsefruit vine" Granny P. informed, "Good for women who fail to bear children".

"Shotaro have a vagina" Paliv exclaimed in shock.

 S M A C K

"Owie" Paliv clenched her head "You don't hesitate do you, you mean little".

"The opening of the bottle" Shotaro said, "Is still moist".

He takes a sniff just to make sure, "it's a saliva, a hard drunk stench filled saliva".

"& your point?" Paliv asked confused.

"Your mother didn't disappear for more than some moments" Shotaro said, "It's like she drank it empty" he pointed at the throne, "there"

He ran & sat on the throne, as it raised a shocked reaction from both.

"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING YOU DUMBASS ARE YOU RETARDED?" both of them exclaimed as Shotaro tried to imitate the situation that led to such disappearing.

He acts to drink the empty bottle, then he throws it on the ground.

"What next happened is up to me" he said to himself, "Right".

"The door can't be the escape" he said to himself, "We would have seen when we entered".

"If my theory that the disappearance didn't happen more than 5 minutes ago" his eyes wandered for answered as they laid upon the windows, most were closed from inside, so there is not much chance for them to be answered, but one big one was open, the one directly behind the throne.

"Look" Paliv pointed at an invisible clothe that was tied to the window.

"Nobody can use magic inside this castle's barrier" Granny P. explained, "that window seems the only solution".

"Are you sure?" Shotaro asked, "This building is way too tall for that kind of travel to be logical, not that someone can teleport in its premiss".

"Also there aren't footprints on the ground, it's more like a distraction to keep us away".

"Your eyes are sharp, sharper than most humans I presume" Granny P. said, "counting your ability to see the grass below".

Shotaro choose to not reply that as he investigates the room, "No chance for door, the window is a distraction......." he looked back at Granny P.

"was there a secret door connecting the room?" he asked.

Granny P. had her eye widening in recollection, as due to her age's long existence, she developed Alzheimer, she pulled a tile from the back of the throne revealing a staircase down, "If only I have not had my mind rotted with ageing".

But Shotaro & Paliv jumped in before she gets chance to finish her.

"Kids nowadays are too rude" she said before joining them as Shotaro asked her, "Do you remember the path or your Alzheimer ate that too".

She stops, rubs the back of her head in shame, "Now you reminded me that, the only speck of info I have is that this place is heavily filled with Bobbie traps, I forgot where tho".

Shotaro facepalmed himself knowing with Alakshmi & it's properties on his waist, he will end up stepping on one....then he had an idea.

"What if I turn my lemons into a Lemonade" as he looked at Alakshmi, "A small blast wouldn't do much, but I can make a way"

He knows that he made a vow to not use it until he has a control over it, but now he thinks about it, how can he make the sword listen to him if he never says anything to him?.

He pulled Alaskhmi out, as it shined in its iconic black glow with red accent.

"How are you using a weapon under the barrier that surrounds the green tower?".

"Let's just say" Shotaro pointed his weapon towards a direction, "My sword cuts through the anti-magic properties".

Suddenly after weeks, he finally unleashed the attack that decimated a hole, as the civilians saw a dark pillar ripping through the barrier that was said to be able to sustain infinite suns vaporising at once like a bullet goes through a tissue paper reaching beyond the sky.

Beyond the sky, were the arcs, huge dimensional ships used as a residence of the above order, thousands, millions of them, the biggest arc, called Noah, the one that had the throne of the absolute, Queen Marafyre the absolute saw the pillar of darkness with crimson accent pass through her ship, by just some yards, they never really went to surface, no they can't walk on the same land as mortals, yet such power to be originated from them?...No it can't be.

She grabbed the armrest of her throne, the one she is bound to for eternity, that throne was like a organ to her, where she comands countless outergods, with her proper omscience, a mind that was omnipresent, & her omnipotence, she was just next to Bhramha after all, so she used the countless eyes to see into the source of such power, & she saw a face.

 HE IS HERE

Back in aetheria Shotaro stood still as he saw he just created a tunnel of sorts with this ablity, vaiporising most, if not all the traps under the green tower.

"OK this is better than before" he said to himself before looking back, if he accidentaly vaiporised the two ladies, "no they are good".

Suddenly Paliv found a weird feather, one with a dark purpilish accent with silver at main color, it was no doubt quil of a Nightdread, which can only means.

  Dark elves.