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"I meant that I could fix your wagon right now without even leaving my seat." She said. "My magic is very powerful."

Shadow's words fell on deaf ears to Vermillion as he still continues to go deep into thoughts, and still is acting a bit nervous, and now is acting a bit more troubled now on top of it.

ion gets up, walks over and puts his hand on his shoulder,

"buddy...you ok?"

She gets up from the couch and walks over to him. She nuzzles his leg hoping he would feel better.

Still not reaction despite Ion touching him, and Shadow nuzzling his leg. Vermillion continues to be unresponsive.

"I can't let it happen again... Though I was created before our creator's settlement into a new safe haven... Orica... You suffered so much when that happened to you... Because of that one time...you suffered...a Great Spirit...dying...while you watched it happened... You cried so much that it hurts so much..." Vermillion said deep in thought

Shadow jumped into his lap and looked into his eyes kindly.

Vermillion still continues to be unresponsive, but then something clicks on him as he then stares deep into Shadow's eyes...intensively...

She smiles at him. "You okay?" She asks in a kind manner.

As Vermillion continues to stare into Shadow's eyes, eventually his visual scope changes as his vision now shows him seeing Shadow's whole cat form. After a few seconds have passed, eventually Vermillion now starts to hallucinate as he now sees Shadow in her more human form when he first met her. After another few more seconds have passed, eventually Vermillion hallucinated even farther as then hallucinated vision of Shadow then suddenly changes to that of Orica, one of the four Great Spirits, and his creator. When that happened, Vermillion's eyes start to turn soulless as his pupils fade away into red/yellowish-golden.

"Lady...Orica...?" said Vermillion very weakly and shaky

Afterwards, Vermillion then goes through mind flashes of Orica's memories, including the one time which she saw one of her kind, her best friend, get cutted down by a demonic shadow, and then soon one more imagine of her crying heavily. At that time, Vermillion's soulless eyes then turned to blackish-grey as then stream of tears start to fall from his face.

"Oh no..." She says and she begins to nuzzle him. "What's wrong?" She asks.

Vermillion, still in a very deep trance of hallucination, heard Shadow's words...but basically saw and heard Orica say those words instead...

"Orica...I--UGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" said Vermillion as he suddenly yelled in pain unexpectedly

Vermillion then closes his eyes and clutches his head in pain.

Shadow heals him...whatever is wrong with him, she heals him of it...

Vermillion wasn't in any physical pain, but mentally the pain was bad, and it's going to get worse. Despite, Shadow's trying to heal him with her magic, Vermillion did eventually calm down as he then reopened his eyes, which were still soulless but have return their red/yellowish-golden color.

"Orica...I--WHAT!? YOU!!!" said Vermillion in a complete alarm as he suddenly looks up, and stares straight ahead of which his expression turns into complete vicious rage

What's happening now, from Vermillion's point of view; is that as he slowly looks up, still hallucinating that Orica is right in front of him, he then sees the demonic shadowy figure that killed Orica's best friend a long time ago right behind her. Where Vermillion was looking is not at Shadow, nor Ion, but at something that isn't even there.

"You... I won't forgive you! I will avenge Orica's friend! Durandal, to me!" cried Vermillion, still enraged

Vermillion suddenly stands up and sticks his left hand behind him as then suddenly a rather large Knightsword phases right through Ion's home, and into Vermillion's hands. The Durandal is a beautifully crafted Knightsword with a unique semi-diamond shaped blade, and six edges sticking out on the hilt of the sword.

"TAKE THIS!!!" yelled Vermillion with incredible rage

Vermillion quickly rushes ahead at the hallucinating vision of the demonic figure as he then gives out two very quick, but vicious, horizontal slashes at the figure, but all he was slashing was just air, not to mention not even hitting anything remotely close to him. Eventually the hallucinating vision of the demonic figure fades away as then Vermillion's eyes returned to normal as he then rests down his sword, panting heavily.

Shadow falls back. She mews in surprise and looks at him with fright.

Eventually Vermillion has finally return to his own senses as he then soon notices that he has his magical holy exorcism Knightsword, Durandal, in hand.

"Wait...what...? What is my Durandal doing in my hand?" said Vermillion, now in his more normal tone of voice as he then turns around and realizes that he was slightly away from where he was normally at "Wait a minute... Why am I over here?"

Afterwards, Vermillion scans around his surroundings, noticing that he didn't thankfully cause no damage to Ion's home.

"I see I didn't cause any damage to Ion's home...that's all well good and all but..." Vermillion said, deep in thought, as he then notices Shadow, looking very scared of him "I think that despite not causing any damage, nor injuries between the sir and madam, I've caused some major distress... Okay...think... First I need to sincerely need to apologize to them first, and then I need to ask them what happened during the time I lost myself. Also, maybe I should give them a gift each, and try to patch up our current relationship.

...The only one thing that I hope that doesn't happen is me revealing my true idenitiy, or of that of my creators. As kind and friendly they are, giving them such information is very risky...well I suppose myself is okay, but I should never tell them about my creators..."

Vermillion then places his Durandal on a corner of Ion's house, away from Shadow and Ion, before coming up to them, ready to apologize.

"Sir, madam, I don't know what happened in such a short amount of time. I noticed that I didn't harm you, or your house, sir, but it still doesn't matter because what I probably did was very bad and poor manners despite that. I humbly and sincerely apologize for my rude, unexpected, behaviour; and I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive." said Vermillion as he then gives a sincere and honest bow to Shadow and Ion

Shadow calmed down and smiled at him. "It's quite alright. I was just a bit frightened when you just jumped off your seat..." She said a little embarrassed with herself.

"I'm actually surprised as to what I was doing. All I remembered is that we talked about you repairing my pushwagon, and then everything...went...black... Anyway, I'm surprised that you're quite alright with that unexpected display. You're really are a tough, madam, and I can really respect that toughness. In any case, I'm getting off track here, can you please tell me what happened to me during that time where I was there and now over here? You can tell me everything, honest." said Vermillion, until he went back to being deep in his thoughts again "I just only hope I didn't say anything weird..."

She began to tell him what all had happened. What he said, what he did, and how he looked. "It was scary, but I thought nothing wrong of it." She said.

When Shadow did explained what happened, Vermillion got very worried, especially since he muttered Orica's name, three times even.

"Oh no, no, no, no, no... I subconsciously muttered out Lady Orica's name to them. How...odd of me to do that...although, I suppose there is a good reason for that. I suppose, in a sense, that madam and Orica are kinda alike in many ways, but they're drastically different species. The madam here is a cat, I think Neko might be the proper better term, I don't know any other better term to describe them otherwise...at least off of my memories... And Lady Orica is a Great Spirit who is a Greater Fairy with high magical powers, and is one of our creators. Thinking too much as to why the madam here triggers this is going to give me a headache, so I should stop right there. Just so as long as they don't try a press me further about my origins, then I can get out of this very cleanly, and also repair my small, but noticeable, relationship with them." Vermillion said deep in thought

After a while, Vermillion takes a nice deep breath as he then return to his seat to sit down for a while.

"I do apologize for the scare there. You see, not only that I'm a traveling merchant, but also I'm a Hero by trade as, despite my other occupation, there were some instances of which I had no choice but to fight. I did explain to you two people that I'm a Magus, well both occupations are related as you can say that I'm basically a Spellblade, a Magic Knight, whatever suits you." said Vermillion

Vermillion then raises and extends his left hand over to his Durandal resting in the corner as it then magically flies slowly to his hand, now resting it with the blade still pointing downwards and away from Shadow and Ion just so they don't get hurt by it.

"I did told you two that I can use fire, light, and earth magic, yes? Well, in truth, I can only naturally use fire and earth magic, but using light magic requires me to have my magical Holy Exorcism Knightsword, the Durandal, in my hands. It's truly a marvelous blade... The unique half diamond shape blade; the six pointing edges at the hilt; it's beautiful shining golden hue making the entire sword magistic, very fitting for a king to wield; and the magical runes etched on to the blade; this is truly a one of a kind knightsword to has been bestowed upon me in order to perform my heroic duties whenever I'm needed." said Vermillion

Vermillion then stands up with his Durandal, lightly still clutching on to it on his palm now.

"In any case, I have rested long enough here, thanks to you two generous hospitality. I should go out to get my pushwagon repaired now, and be on my merry way. I'm sure you would like to see it, madam, as I still have plenty of goods left, and I want to give you two a gift as an apology for my rude behaviour earlier." said Vermillion with a calm smile

"As I have said before, I can fix your wagon without lifting a paw. If you would like me to do so, I will be happy to oblige."
She said and smiled. "And as for the gifts as an apology, you do not have to. I completely understand your case as I have done somethings myself that I am not proud of...but I could not control them, as you could not control yours, so your actions are forgiven on my behalf." Shadow said and tipped her head towards him.