Once he and Shira left Demon City, the two would walk for what seemed like hours, following Luen's lead. Even with Charlotte's help, it was taking a rather long time, but Atticus was determined to get to her. Finally, after nearly 12 hours, Luen would beep and glow like it did earlier. Stopping, Atticus would look around to see a vast area, first there was a field of flowers that seemed to spread forever. There was also a beautiful lake with waterfalls and mountains in the far off distance, but the most wonderful thing, was the towering mansion or rather castle the stood in the center of it all. While he really was impressed at the level of detail and the hard-work that Mirai must have put into creating such a place, Atticus wouldn't let the sight distract him. However, he couldn't necessarily walk into her territory anyway. As per the rules, he would have to be invited or be strong enough to by pass the barriers placed. Sighing, he would do the latter, knowing that it would be quicker than just waiting to be noticed. "Looks like Despair hasn't found them yet." he would tell Shira, before opening a small black portal, "The moment we step foot in her territory, she will be notified and she will have the authority to do whatever she wishes, meaning, we would have to abide by her rules and laws. She could even kill us if she wanted." he added before walking into the portal and landing in the field of flowers. Of course the moment his foot touched the ground, Mirai would be alerted.
I wish you could see The bridge that leads from you to me But every time you try to cross You always manage to get lost
Without a second glance you left me stranded I climbed I slipped I fell but at least I tried If you turn your back, I'll burn that bridge
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Once Atticus would step into the field, the flowers suddenly lit up red and spread out throughout the whole field. Once all the flowers lit up in red, a huge clock bell went off for a split second. Mirai sat up then She sat there for a moment as she detected who was there. She sighed and stood up "Be right back." she told Texas "Stay here." she told him with a dead serious expression since she most likely knew why Atticus and Shira were there. She disappeared and ended up appearing right in front of Atticus and Shira who was still a bit dumbfounded by the realm. "What?" she asked after a few moments of staring them down. Luen jumped off of Atticus and hopped up on Mirai's shoulder, rubbing against her and beeping happily since he hadn't seen her in a while. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
As the flowers turned red, which Atticus figured was an alarm system, he would continue standing in the same place, crossing his arms. Suddenly, Mirai would appear right before him and simply asked "What?" Looking down at her, Atticus didn't seem too thrilled at how she addressed him, but this was her territory, her home, which means she can do whatever she wants, she was free to talk to him however she likes. Sighing, Atticus really didn't feel like trying to provoke her and he knew that she probably already figured out why he and Shira was there. "Lets not drag this out, you know why we are here, so just have Texas come with us peacefully so that we can question him." Atticus told her. The two clearly weren't on good terms with one another, even after their time training. "If what Shira has said is true, he is too dangerous to be left unchecked."
I wish you could see The bridge that leads from you to me But every time you try to cross You always manage to get lost
Without a second glance you left me stranded I climbed I slipped I fell but at least I tried If you turn your back, I'll burn that bridge
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Mirai glanced black to the huge mansion then to Atticus, petting Luen for a moment before speaking "That is ultimately up to him not me. If he doesn't want to talk then you need to leave." she said, obviously she wasn't interested in fighting. She had recently made the whole realm and was pretty tired from it. She wouldn't be able to fight back very well. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Sighing, Atticus knew she wouldn't simply let Texas come, "When it involves Death City and potentially the innocent civilians that call it home, then it is not up to him." Atticus looked over at Shira, "Can you please talk to her?" he asked, sounding a little tired himself. "It's clear that me trying to talk to her is going to get us nowhere." Looking back at Mirai, Atticus seemed hesitant to move or do anything, as he was powerless there. "Is he really so important that you would risk the lives of those that you are supposed to protect? Mirai, please think things through rationally, don't let your relationship with him, cloud your mind. Not now."
I wish you could see The bridge that leads from you to me But every time you try to cross You always manage to get lost
Without a second glance you left me stranded I climbed I slipped I fell but at least I tried If you turn your back, I'll burn that bridge
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Mirai frowned slightly "Don't make it sound like I don't care about the safety of everyone else. I want to help him in my own way, I won't make him feel like he is bad even though he truly isn't though." she said, glancing to the side. Shira glanced between the two before looking at Mirai. She was silent for a moment before speaking "Mirai... you do know he is most likely the agent and he may kill you without knowing it. When he is supposed to be activated, any will he has now will be gone. We just want to talk with him again and possibly come up with a plan in case this may happen. We also need as much info he can give us as possible on this." she said. Mirai glanced over at Shira "Like I said, it isn't my decision. It is up to Texas as to if he wants to talk to you or not." ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Atticus would turn away from Mirai, "Shira, it was pointless to come here." he stated. "It is just a waste of time trying to speak with her. If it comes down to it, we may have to take the boy by force." he added before looking back at Mirai, "So, where is he then?" he asked. "I will go and ask him to come with me, personally." Something about Atticus' tone made it seem as though he was planning something.
I wish you could see The bridge that leads from you to me But every time you try to cross You always manage to get lost
Without a second glance you left me stranded I climbed I slipped I fell but at least I tried If you turn your back, I'll burn that bridge
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Mirai moved slightly "He stays here. I told you that, once he comes out here, he can decide if he wants to talk to you and where. Not you." she said. Shira glanced up at Atticus "Wouldn't this be considered her rules? If so, we should wait for Texas to come out. Getting him by force won't do anything." she said. Mirai stared at Atticus quietly with a frown but at the same time it was knitted with worry. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
As much as Atticus hated to admit it, Shira was right, these were Mirai's rules, which infuriated him. Sighing, Atticus would walk away from the two and lay down in the flower field, gazing up at the sky. "As you wish, princess." he muttered, it was unknown if he was referring to Shira or Mirai, but the tone seemed like it was geared more towards Mirai. "This is your place and I have no say whatsoever, but if he doesn't appear within the hour. I trust you realize what will happen next." he stated, leaving it at that. Surprisingly he was being way more docile and in control then one would had expected him to be, especially with the situation as dire as it is.
I wish you could see The bridge that leads from you to me But every time you try to cross You always manage to get lost
Without a second glance you left me stranded I climbed I slipped I fell but at least I tried If you turn your back, I'll burn that bridge
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Mirai listened to Atticus before her body relaxed slightly "Thank you." she told him with a small smile, glad he wasn't going to flip out like she was afraid he would do. Shira looked between the two, obviously still seeing the tension between them. Mirai looked at the mansion to send out a signal telepathically to tell Texas to come outside. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
While Atticus laid back in the field, he would rest up and think over a few things, "So, you decided to leave Charlotte and create your own territory?" he asked. "Aren't you a bit too young to be living on your own, especially with a boy? Not to mention a human boy for that matter. What should happen if the others found out that you have a human here?" Atticus knew the rules of the Netherworld, well. He spent a lot of time with Divine, he knew the ends and outs as well as many of the loopholes. "If someone were to inform the Tribunal, he would be banished and you will be put on trial for breaking the law."
I wish you could see The bridge that leads from you to me But every time you try to cross You always manage to get lost
Without a second glance you left me stranded I climbed I slipped I fell but at least I tried If you turn your back, I'll burn that bridge
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Mirai blinked as she heard Atticus "He is my partner though. I use him in order to fight." she explained "If the Tribunal doesn't like that then too bad, I can't fight without him." she said. Though that was partially untrue do to her amazing telekinetic abilities, Mirai did like using a weapon. "He isn't doing anything wrong either, he is just living here. It isn't like he will be wandering the Netherworld." she said. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
As he listened to Mirai, Atticus would laugh, "That is one way to bend the law to your favor, but honestly, you can't fool the Tribunal. They know everything about you, about us." he would say. "Without him, you are still one of the strongest beings in the Netherworld, so to them he will be seen as nothing more than a tool." Atticus would say the same thing that Vincent said earlier, well, he did not actually call Texas a tool, himself. "It doesn't matter if he is doing nothing wrong. That is the law and as of now that will never change. Humans don't belong in this world, this is a place for demons, witches, kishins. Humans have their own place." Atticus was speaking as if he was a demon, or rather Divine.
I wish you could see The bridge that leads from you to me But every time you try to cross You always manage to get lost
Without a second glance you left me stranded I climbed I slipped I fell but at least I tried If you turn your back, I'll burn that bridge
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"Mother brings humans into her realm all the time and they don't make a peep." Mirai said. No matter what she said though, she knew Atticus was going to make some sort of statement to counter her. It always happened. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
