Homeless forever most likely.

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So one of the specks of dusts wishes to command me? The audacity of mortals will never cease to amuse me. However, you are no spawn of the gods. I need not get permission to bring you home with me.

Touch my hand. [He extends a blackened limb, his clear blue gaze unfaltering.] Look into my eyes. Age will come upon you and then you too will experience the beauty of death.

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Oh. [She considers this. How could she get creative when most everyone look like bleak shadows.] I concede that there are exceptions when is fun.

[Like grandfather when he tried so harm to cling to life.]

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Then you're not a complete fool. [He looks...content. Or as content as he ever will be.]

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I hope so. Even I know that death is a step before revival.

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Revival isn't possible for most souls.

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That's because they are like weak paperdolls. Even fragile flowers bloom again in spring. If they don't have the strength to evolve or rebirth, then it's fine to erase them.

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They are not meant to be reborn. I am the one who decides such things.

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I've died plenty times and I've never met you.~

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[How depressing.] You must be from another world, then.

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Yes, of course.

[there, there.]

You could have existed in the Ages of Gods; or another you did. My servant Rider lived in those times.

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That name is not familiar to me. [Then again, he has heard a lot of names.] My name is Hades.

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Because that's only her class. Her name is Medusa. [And she doesn't like gods.] I...

[She pauses. Her name was... What was her name? Angra Mainyu? Avenger? No, it's...]

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Sakura. [She sounds certain now.] I'm Sakura, Hades. It's nice to meet you, Hades.

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Medusa? [Now that is a name he knows.] She recently lost her head.

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Not many say that. [His face is expressionless.] Do you wish for death, Sakura?

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That was in the past. Now she's back and she's mine. [Like Herakles and Arturia Pendragon.]

Nobody will take her away.

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Ah? But you're polite and you don't look like a shadow [She looks stunned. Almost everyone does.

Pathetic and lifeless automats.] Are you offering? Everyone is waiting for my birth. I want to see the world outside.

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I wouldn't be so sure. [Not that he wants her.] She has her uses. [Though he is intrigued that someone could bring her back. A beheading was usually permanent.]

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Polite? [He smirks.] My form is something I choose. For the moment, I appear more human for the sake of my Mun.

[The audacity.] It is my duty to give everyone death. If I gave you the gift, it would be permanent.

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Fu~ They can try to touch what's mine. Not even that horrible man who killed her once would be ever to face her as she is now.

[And an idea.]

Maybe I could summon him too. Rider will like a present.

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Oh. I don't want to die until I'm born. I've been in this blinding red light, in this darkness forgotten for a long time.

[Was she...? She recalled... No, she has been in this cavern under the eerie dark sun.]

Everyone forgot about me. How is that fair? [Did she have family once? A sister so bright that had everything she was denied.] Why didn't I have anything but shadows?

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Perseus? [Son of Zeus and the light of his father's eye (even if he wants to deny it).] I don't care what you do to him. [The harsher the punishment, the better.]

Do as you please.

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A forgotten soul? Interesting.

[Not that he cares.]

Life isn't fair. [Even for the gods.] I have asked myself that for centuries.

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Ahh, yes. That's his name! [She smiles.] Maybe in the future. [She has a catalyst to summon the Heroic Spirit when she wants.] It'll be a surprise.

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Forgotten...

[She drawls as if she recalls memories that aren't hers.

Long time ago, in a village that the time has erased... She shakes her head.]

Ah. Were you abandoned too?

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He won't be an easy foe. [For her. Hades is too proud to fight a half-mortal-half-god.]

For her, I'm sure. [There is a dry humor to his tone now.]