Minosashi was exhausted, his eyes, fluttering at sewn mouth as he was bleeding from multiple areas.

  Minosashi shouted : Fojima! Bring sewn mouth to library's healing magicians! Fas.... (his voice was turned down, his eyes felt heavy, all of a sudden, his body was on the ground, bleeding heavily from thousand injuries while he saw a blur of Fojima and Sarah running toward him)

  Few hours later...

  Minosashi was barely awaken, his eyes were blurring : where...where am I?... Ah... (he puts his hand on his head) it hurts... oh.. Yeah... I know this room... This is the so called hospital... It's no different from the other rooms... Just some beds and instead of doors, it has veils... Ewh I hate the stink of healing magic... These herbal trees are awful... (he looked at himself in the mirror, his whole body had bandages all over it)

  "How is my body so heavily injured? What did he do in our fight?..." he thought.

  Sarah moved the veil aside, seeing minosashi awake, she ran toward him : you are finally awake! (she cried while hugged him)

  Minosashi screamed in pain : ahh! Sarah! I'm still wounded!! Eahhh...

  Sarah blushed and moved back : I'm sorry I'm sorry!!

  Minosashi : wha... What's going on? Why are you crying? What happened to me once I was unconscious?

  Sarah : you were injured... So badly... Your whole body was... Bleeding. Slashes were everywhere on your body... Our healing magicians tried really hard to stop them... I don't know how he managed to do such thing. (her voice was filled with sadness)

  Minosashi smiled : it's all over now, don't worry... How is sewn mouth? Is he alright? His injuries were worse than mine.

  Lionye moved the veil aside and entered their room : I'm glad you are well... Minosashi.

  Minosashi furiously looked at lionye : what that mythical master sword general had to do with you and my father? What do you know about the Abyss? I need to know everything!! (he shouted)

  Lionye : Minosashi, please calm yourself down... Sewn mouth has not yet regained consciousness. Your voice can be disturbing for him.

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  Minosashi pressured his teeth in anger : I.. Try my best... To do that.

  Lionye hesitated for a second, then he began : first, allow me to tell you about about your wounds. The way your body is cut, I can certainly say, that he used his so called "thousand cuts" on you, his movement was so fast and the cuts were inflicted so quick that your body couldn't register them until the adrenaline faded...

  Minosashi was shocked : such technique is... Impossible...

  Lionye lowered his head in shame : for his speed, it's very possible...

  "what's wrong with master? He is never been like this when talking about a subject..." Sarah thought

  Minosashi : how? How do you know him so well? There is no book in the library to talk about the damn Abyss! So tell me How!?

  Lionye shouted : Because I was in the cosmic war!! I was his comrade! He and I were on the same army! We fought against chaos bringers...

  Sarah and Minosashi were shocked.

  Lionye calmed himself down : I'm just a survivor of that war... A war that had no ending, and it will begin again.

  Minosashi was speechless, only his teeth were shaking in anger and his hand, gripping the blanket on his feet. His whole body, telling him not to trust Lionye at that moment. But he needed to learn about the past. Lionye, seeing his reaction, was unsure to continue...

  Minosashi tried to put himself together : please Lionye... Go... Ahead...

  Lionye continued : Liniah and Tokimo, are the reason, behind existence of swords in the world...

  Sarah : what...? So Minosashi's heritage...

  Lionye : yes Sarah. His heritage is the heritage of swordmastery's concept. He carries a weight more than most of us in this war...

  Minosashi was shocked : so... So why... For what reason... Liniah was here? what is his connection to Tokimo and what is my father's connection with Abyss?...

  Lionye : he was his top army commander, and... (he hesitated)

  Minosashi : and what? Please tell me!!

  Lionye : and his best brother in arm.

  Sarah was scared, she had never seen Lionye angry, it was the first time her master was this serious and furious over a topic...

  Lionye continued : They selected their paths after the cosmic war. A divided path, one to the abyss, the other, to find a purpose to live. A family. It was you, the purpose who made him leave his past aside, Minosashi.

  Minosashi : There must be... a reason why liniah was present here... I could tell that he wasn't... even trying. He could've instantly ended my... Our life...

  Lionye : He could have ended all of our lives... And I don't know why he didn't. It's not his style to leave his prey wounded... There is probably a reason, maybe your...

  Minosashi stopped his talk : that's enough, I don't need to hear more... (his voice of sadness said it all to Lionye)

  Lionye, ashamed, calmly left the room alongside sarah, moving to visit Sewn mouht on the other room and allowing Minosashi to rest his mind...

  And so, Minosashi was left alone with his thoughts. He stared at the veil, still swaying from Sarah's exit, as he calmly cried in his loneliness...

  A few days later, with the threat of Liniah's arrival still haunting the library, Lionye asked Fojima to meet him at the grand hall...

  Fojima calmly opened the doors of the grand hall, but the hinges were still rusted and without lubrication, the sound of it always annoyed Fojima's intense hearing as a rabbit.

  Lionye turned his face toward the doors of grand hall : Fojima. Glad you are here. I have a request for you.

  Fojima : what is it grand priest?

  Lionye : I've prepared a special training for Sarah. Bring her to hell, the details have been discussed with flame lord; she is going to learn flame and magma magics from the most professional of this world. I hope your journey will be safe.

  Fojima was shocked : master... Isn't it... too soon for her to be in that place?

  Lionye : she can overcome this challenge. I believe in her powers. You should too.

  Fojima smiled : then we will do it. And I will make sure she is protected at all cost!

  Lionye : you most certainly should make sure, after all, you are her husband. I have a request for you too Fojima, go through the floors of hell. Bring some of those rulers to our army.

  Fojima : yes, master. I will bring sarah to hell, and if I managed to, I will try my best to form alliance with some high ranking demons on hell floors.

  Lionye : you have my gratitude.

  They both bow down to each other, while Fojima left the grand hall to find Sarah.