"Oh, man, that's actually hilarious, how did you even came up with something like that??"
"My dead wife? Seriously? Me?... I'm a guy who avoids women as if they are a plague, and you think I had a wife.... Wife? No chance, no way, not happening." Raine said as if he was even afraid of the idea.
"But .... It made sense to me... This way." Sunny said, a bit embarrassed after knowing it wasn't the truth.
"Let me tell you something, my friend. Don't trust your brain blindly. Things can look like they are all in front of you, and you'll think you have figured it out all.... Until reality will hit you hard in face... And it'll tell you that your understanding of this world is very limited, only based on half the picture and your brain made up and filled in the rest of the details." Raine said as if he had seen it all and figured it all out.
"But then ...why you sleep with it? And why you talk like it's a women?" Sunny asked. He wanted to understand this man's strange behaviour.
"Well, it's convenient this way, Don't you think? Like it's so confusing if I refer to her as 'it'. That's so much pain, and it's also fun this way." Raine revealed.
"And as for sleeping with her, well, that's just what a true warrior should do, never leave their weapon behind, no matter what, because that's the dao, that's the true path of Sword." Raine said, with a proud voice.
"Although I'm not very good at using a sword, actually....I don't know anything at all, like no technique, I just use them as a stick at best, But still... I got a heart that belongs to swords." He said as he held the flying blade in front of him in a very wrong stance.
Sunny didn't know if he should be impressed by this man or should he hit him on the head to fix whatever was wrong with this guy.
"But that doesn't matter, I don't need them anyway..... because Prisma here is very knowledgeable about that stuff, and honestly I don't even use my physical body to fight. So there's no point in learning it personally." Raine said.
" As for women,.... As long as I have her, there's no one that can enter my heart." Raine held the blade.
Sunny just held his head.
....
"And don't you think that sword and women are quite similar?" Raine asked Sunny.
"No? I don't see any similarities.. except learning today that you could sleep with a sword too." Sunny replied.
"Well, let me enlighten you, my friend." Raine said as if he was a saint spreading his hard earned wisdom.
Sunny was forced to receive that wisdom.
"From where I see it, a sword and a women is very similar."
"They both looks beautiful on surface, but they are really deadly if you get closer."
"If you handle one without care, you might get hurt real bad." Raine said.
"...And also they both are jealous of their own kind, if someone else looks more beautiful then themselves, there hearts are set on fire."
"Jealous?" Sunny asked a bit puzzled.
"Oh, you wanna see it, let me show you with an example...."
He summoned a sword, a beautiful one, something sunny was once familiar with. An Azure blade with beautiful patterns and faint stars shining under the the steel.
It was Azure blade, a memory Sunny also had once, but it was distroyed in a fight.
Raine moved and stabed the sword in wardrobe until it was buried there halfways.
'My furniture....' Sunny screamed in his heart.
Raine walked back to Sunny with a proud look and said, "Now watch...". " Hay Prisma....., You can do whatever you want to that sword." He pointed at the Azure blade.
Sunny didn't understand,
until the Flying Rapier moved and started hitting the Buried weapon as if it was it's mortal enemy.
"You see that,.." Raine said proudly now that his experiment was successful. "...She is like a wife, who can't stand her Man's affairs."
"And let me tell you something else too, my friend." Raine leaned towards Sunny and whispered as if what he was going to tell should not be heard by others. And.... he was right.
"Both of them always have a past. You know,.... someone who's been there before you!"
A chill ran down Sunny spine.
He looked around, afraid of something unknown.
He saw the Sword paused it's attacks on Azure blade, now pointed at Raine.
"Well, that's the case most of the time, atleast." Raine leaned back. "So as I was saying, ther are very .....Hey,... Prisma, why are you... Hay.... Stop...stop that.... I'll give you one more blade, .....no two... Ok, five!"
Sunny watched precious memories got distroyed, one by one. With a pain in his heart.
....
....
"So that's the gist of it, my friend." Raine said after he was done dealing with his Sword.
'This guy is kind of extreme!'
Sunny thought, .... 'Wait, don't tell me...'
"Hay, um.. Raine... Do you actually...hate womens?" Sunny asked, a bit afraid of what would he hear.
"Hate? No! Not at all! Why would you think that? Do I look like someone who is teaching you hate?" Raine asked sunny back.
"Ok, it's just that... You have to make sacrifices, you know? If you want to achieve something, you need to focus on things in front of you. And, Womens, ....they are the ultimate distraction that will ever exist." Raine announced.
"They are created by heavens to distract the Man from his path, so that he won't be able the reach divine throne."
'...This guy ...still has more to say..?' Sunny thought afraid of what he was hearing.
"They will distract you, attract you, they will tempt you.... To leave everything, ...for them. To step back from your path. They will invite you to them."
"And they will succeed. History is the witness. Every great man who had a women wasn't left great..... They all Parished.... In front of time, they became helpless."
"But those who resisted....., transcended beyond time. They became gods, they became divine beings."
Sunny was listening, the Sword was listening, whatever this man was saying, sounded serious.
"If you want to reach your goal, you can't be distracted by anything. No games, no smartphones, no women. If you can do that, you will succeed without a doubt."
"Becouse,... a focused mind can never be defeated." Said Raine.
"A women will distract you, to leave your path, and you will, because that's what you're designed for. That's what your mind tell you to do. That's in your DNA."
"Otherwise life will cease to exist. No new life will be born."
"But..... Why should we care for that..., their are countless people there who are making sure that it won't happen..... And they are taking that job very seriously."
"So we don't have to be afraid of anything and we can follow the dao without any consequences."
"That's the path a man should take. That's what a true follower of Sword's path will do."
Raine Stoped his long speech.
Everyone thought he was done.
But they were worng.
....
"Sunny, my friend, ... You are also a follower of path of Swords, right?" Raine asked, but continued without a reply.
"You see if you truly want to reach perfection in art of sword, you have to dedicate your whole heart to your Blade."
"No distractions, no excuse, no space for anything else in your heart, not ever a women."
Raine paused and looked at the audiance...
"Because....In A Heart Without Women, The Blade Naturally Becomes Divine."
The man announced.....
...
still wearing that nun uniform.
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.....
Silence.
Stunned silence.
No one spoke.
"Man, was that sounded cool or what? Haahhaahahaa, I always whated to say that, you know. .... I heard it was a motto of a powerful Ninja clan. ...And I was so hyped when I first heard it."
".....But then that all enthusiasm faded with time, and I was back at it again.... Man, I feel so pathetic now that I think about it."
"But this time there will be no distractions. No women, no nothing."
"A women will suck out the vital energ-"
"OK, I HEARD ENOUGH." Sunny shouted, getting up while covering his ears.
"I GET IT. I GET IT ALL. SO JUST STOP. I UNDERSTAND YOU PERFECTLY." Sunny shouted at the man.
"You sure? You got it? Really? So you don't need more explanation? Oh, well, why I'm even asking. It's not like you can lie, can you?"
"Yeah, I understand it completely." Sunny said. 'I understand that you got some screw loose.' Sunny thought.
....
"Well, let's continued then....., Prisma, you are going with him for a while, ....oh, no, don't miss me already.... You will be back just in few minutes, it's not like he will have enough fragmats to turn you into a shadow right now? So don't worry..... We are just checking waters...
And try your best in there.ok? ...and don't miss me, too much...and...oh, and don't kill him too, I'll become angry, you hear....oh, what else to say...oh, I'm starting to miss you already.... What I'm gonna do without you...how will I spent these painful minutes of my life? .....oh, my eyes are getting blurry for some reason.. ... Ok, give me a goodbye hug."
The sword didn't.
It disappeared in sparks.
"I'll leave her in your care, Sunny." Raine shook Sunny's hand.
The spell announced...
[You have recieved an Echo]