The Fox Goddess

"Hurry it up!" Yumie and Katsumi were far ahead of everyone right now, they were running as fast as they could to go to Yuki right now for backup.

But when they finally arrived at where Yuki was, all of them gasped in shock.

Yuki was currently fighting Four right now, even the Royal Destruction didn't expect this kind of outcome. But Yuki's condition is not good, her body is all wounded up. Her white hair is almost dyed red now with all of the blood that has gotten on it. As the fights get longer the more Yuki damage sustains, and because she doesn't want to use the Health Potion as it will not do anything much in this state of her.

She even ran out of Aika's healing seed, which resulted in her in this condition; they could even see that she barely stood up. But even so she still managed to kill four and move on. Yuki balanced herself using her sword as she coughed up blood once again.

"You are one outstanding Beast, if only you were a human we would gladly invite you to Royal Destruction, but sadly you are a Beast. So you're going to die today." Three was the one who spoke up this time, she was a small girl that is about the same height as Aika, but the aura she gives is terrifying while she plays with daggers n her hand.

Because Yuki couldn't risk running out of Mana she also didn't use "Blood Restoration".

Then just as she was about to attack, three were already ahead of her and dug a hole in her chest.

"You can rest in peace now." Yuki's body started to waver, but she stabbed her sword in the ground and used it as a support.

"Attack now!" Yuki used her remaining strength and chained the rest of them using every last bit of her Mana to make it stronger as possible. Yuki then also combined her "Blood Manipulation" with it.

"Sh*t, the reinforcements are here!" All of them tried to get away, but it was already too late as Aria, Rory, and Aoi was already in front of them and began to clash.

"You guys are so slow you know that?" Yuki said, as she felt her two daughters approaching her.

"We're sorry! Are you alright Mom, no let's go to Anna now!" Yumie and Katsumi lifted Yuki's body and quickly got out of the way on the battlefield and fled to where Anna was where she gotten a huge shock.

As they are on the very back, she didn't had the time to look at Yuki, and now looking at her condition it was very grave.

"Oh my god!" All the healers covered their mouths when they saw Yuki's condition.

"What's wrong!? Tell us!" Yumie and Katsumi began to feel nervous when they saw the reaction of the healers.

"It will be hard to heal her, I don't even think all of us here can help her. But the good news is that her body is slowly healing, it's just taking a long time. Probably it would take half a year to completely heal her." One of them sighed and tried all their best.

"What do you mean? How is her condition?"

"Sigh… Half of her organs are damaged, both of her arms are severely broken, she also cracked all of her ribs, and the worst part is that her heart is scarred. Probably it's the one who made that hole on her chest." The healer shook her head and looked at Yuki with pity.

"But you don't have to worry, like I said she is slowly healing herself. We just need to treat her worst injury. Then she will heal as time passes." She assured them, and they soon sighed and relieved and just prayed that Yuki would be alright.

"Don't…" After the healing session was completed, Yuki was still lying in the bed with her eyes closed, when she suddenly spoke.

"Mom!" Katsumi quickly stood up from her seat and walked beside Yuki.

"Shut up, Mom is saying something!" Yumie hit her head.

"What is it Mom?" Both of them then asked.

Anna was also listening to the side as she was very worried that Yuki might still have other injuries that they don't know.

"Aika is coming here, don't let her see me. I'm currently in bad shape and she would definitely worry about me, plus my current look will definitely scare her." Yuki pushed out the words.

She was incredibly worried that Aika might see her condition, in fact Aika is long awake. She was already awake when she was fighting with Seven and below, luckily she managed to trick Aika so that she would not see what was happening.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, just do it."

Then suddenly the whole rook lit up, and everyone saw Aika's figure. Yuki was also surprised about Aika's sudden appearance, she told her before that she should come out after 1 hour.

"Mommy?"

But just as Anna was about to make a move to cover Anna's eyes, Yuki was faster than her, and she had already put Aika on her lap.

"What's wrong?" Yuki forced out a forced smile, but it looked so natural to all of them. She was currently feeling extreme pain when she placed Aika on her lap, but to not get caught she held it in. And when everyone saw this they felt sad.

"I just missed Mommy!" Aika then hugged her mommy tightly, and when she felt Yuki's body tremble she felt something was off.

"What's wrong Mommy, why is your body trembling, are you cold? Is that why you are covering your body with a blanket?" Aika asked with a confused look on her face that looked adorable.

"Yes, Mommy is cold." Yuki lied, but she forgot one thing when she lied about it.

"But isn't Mommy's power Ice? Then why are you cold?" Aika asked back which caused Yuki.

Yuki felt her throat tightened, she doesn't know what to say for Aika to not find out about her condition.

"Mommy are you alright?" Aika asked with uncertainty, she somehow felt that Yuki was lying to her. But she was sure that her mommy wouldn't lie to her, because she herself said that it was a bad thing to do.

"Yes, of course I'm alright. Why do you ask that?" Yuki felt cold sweat when she was being interrogated.

"But- why does your face look like it's in pain?" Aika then suddenly pulled the blanket that was covering Yuki's wounds.

Yuki's face paled when she saw what Aika was doing, but neither she or anyone had the time to stop her as Aika already saw Yuki's body which was full of wounds.

"It's not what it looks like, Mommy is fine!" Yuki said, but she felt her words get stuck on her throat when she felt tears fall on her thighs.

She was very confused about this, even though she had only met Aika for a few days she felt a deep connection to her. And as the day's passed it only got stronger, and when she saw that Aika cried today she felt heartbroken. She wished that she could protect Aika so she would not be sad anymore and just smile.

Yuki wanted Aika to grow happy, not like her who growed up from hell, that's why even though she only met her for a few days she felt she needed to protect her. From the moment that Aika came to her life, she felt like those few days didn't felt that empty as before.

So now when she saw Aika bursting into tears, her heart felt like it was being squeezed. Strangely for her, it was more painful that her wounds."

"Mommy you lied to me! You said earlier that you were fine, but you were in a lot of pain! You even said to me that lying is a bad thing, why did you lie to me!? I hate you!" Aika's emotions finally exploded and she couldn't take it anymore and left while crying.