Hebinon, the god of healing came with his wine and just sat down on the chair where a fishing rod is " who's sitting here ?"

Athelian: me.

Hebinon : oh. Take your own chair.

Athelian: this is, mine.

Hebinon: Mephisto.

Mephisto: go and walk somewhere else. I'm not dying today. Right ?

Hebinon : yup.

Athelian then walks away " don't disappear while I'm not here !"

Hebinon : you're dying ?

Mephisto: you know they use the word , faded.

Hebinon: dying.

Mephisto: I hate you. I don't understand why my parents chose you as my partner.

Hebinon : your weakness is poisons. Can't trade to heal that. That's why me isn't it ?

Mephisto: except you used me as a test subject instead !! I could have died !!

Hebinon: hey !! Fair trade !! We had deals !! Plus , I always cured you didn't I .

Mephisto: to think back , I think I was crazy to even make those deals with you.

Hebinon: you even tried to sell my arm once to not be my test subject

Mephisto laughed " that one was real funny. "

Hebinon kicked Mephisto's chair and Mephisto fell still laughing " the demon came with the cleaver and really wanted to cut off your arm. HAHAHAHAHA. "

Hebinon : Ooi.

Mephisto kept on laughing " what."

Hebinon: thanks for not telling beings of our relationship even till the end of your life.

Mephisto: I promised you. I know you didn't want to let anyone use you to get to me. It was a fair promise. 

Hebinon: and kageya? Your best friend ~

Mephisto pushes Hebinon's chair down "he knows. What? You jealous. "

Hebinon just stayed in his chair " Tsk. ..... There's no such thing as twins as trade gods. You worried ?"

Mephisto: little bit. But I think it will be ok.

Hebinon: want to know your death date ?

Mephisto puts his chair back upright and sat down again." Ooi. Sit up "

Hebinon comes off from the fallen chair sits on the grass instead putting his legs into the pond.

Mephisto: my fish !!!

Hebinon just looks back at him

Mephisto: tsk. The twins. It be ok ?

Hebinon: its just giving birth.  Your wife did fine. Your granddaughter will be too.

Mephisto: I mean the babies she's having. ... You don't know.

Hebinon: twins can share powers. This means they may be weaker individually. Or , one of them has it and one of them don't. Or... You're lucky enough. They both don't.

Mephisto: their gods. No such thing as no powers.

Hebinon: hard to say. Possibility of one has and one don't may be rare.  But who knows.

Mephisto: we never had twins as trade gods. It won't be. They'll be like Mizuno. Right?

Hebinon: don't know. Rules for twins are special. They are never too different.

Mephisto; .... If.... If they were meant to inherit my powers. Can I stop it ?

Hebinon: I heard my father said once before . A patient of his asked a trade god to exchange powers for the child .

Mephisto: did it work ?

Hebinon: it failed. It backfired on that trade god because the deal didn't go through and that trade god already used up his exchange.

Mephisto: I see... So there's no way.

Hebinon: there are certain basic rules even gods cannot change.

Mephisto sighed " then she'll just handle whatever comes. My poor little girl. "

Hebinon: nanalise? Not Nazuya?

Mephisto: she always worries so much. Plus bad shit always seems to happen on her. Nazuya's life has been smooth sailing so far.

Hebinon: maybe the twins is her trial

Mephisto : maybe.

Hebinon; any last words ?

Mephisto: .... My Anna. Take care of her.

Hebinon; don't be ridiculous

Mephisto: I know you had a crush on her. So take care of her. If she needs... Replace me.

Hebinon: I know you're crazy. I didn't know you're out there crazy

Mephisto: Anna like to fiddle with her flowers . She's quiet and always minds her own things. I don't allow anyone to bully her. Not even if I'm dead.

Hebinon takes his legs out of the pond and sits down on the chair " you have Enalise . She's scary as fuck. Almost everyone is afraid of her. "

Mephisto laughed " you're afraid of her ?"

Hebinon: I don't want her to bring her trouble and temper to my place

Mephisto laughed then sighed " I so know what you mean.  I have no idea where she gets the temper from. "

Hebinon: Anna will be fine.

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Mephisto returned to the room to sleep. It was late. Anna was sitting by the bedside " Mephy..."

He sat beside her " hey. Honey. "

Anna : are you staying home because of me ?

Mephisto: what are you talking about?

Anna : I know you like travelling. But you always come back home at the end of the day to me. Do you want to see things ? Go places ? Before you... Fade.

Mephisto: what ? Did hebinon say some nonsense again.

Anna shook her head " fishing everyday. So I can see you.  Are you bored ? We can travel. I'll go with you. "

Mephisto:  It's ok. 

Anna : I wanna do it. For you

He kissed her on the forehead " I want to stay. So Enalise know where to find me and scold me. Nanalise can find me when I'm fading. "

She hugs him " I'm so boring . Not interesting at all. Why me... "

Mephisto: you don't judge me. Trade gods do things beings don't understand. You never judged me for anything. Never judged anything for hebinon too. And we've done some crazy things when we were young.

Anna laughed " the gods all avoided you.  Your fathers regretted matching you two together."

Mephisto : yet you never avoided us.

Flashback ~

Mephisto and Hebinon were both young then.

Mephisto: you're sure it would work ?

Hebinon: you were the one who made the deal !!

Mephisto: you said it would work.

Hebinon: I said could.

Mephisto: you know if this goes bad , I'll be punished right. I'll suffer.

Hebinon; you'll suffer. Not me.

Mephisto: you said you needed the wolfrot !! So I made that deal !!

The door opened and it was a young Anna.

Anna : hello ? Mephisto and Hebinon... Right ?

Hebinon: she knows our names.

Mephisto; wait... I know her. She's in our class !!

Anna : you two rarely appear for classes.

Mephisto: and you remember us anyway.

Hebinon: ask her for the thing!!

Mephisto; right. Erm... What you need ?

Hebinon ; I'll ask. Ahem. What's her name ?

Mephisto: Anna you idiot.

Hebinon; we need your saliva.

" Oh. Ok. " Anna spits into a dish and gives it to them " here. "

Hebinon ; you're not going to ask why ?

Anna : .... Why ?

Mephisto laughed a little " should have ask before you gave. "

Hebinon: one of the guys in class likes you. Mephisto said he'll bring you to him. Date or whatnot is in that guy's hands.

Mephisto: ... Of course we're going to bluff him.

Hebinon: by bringing a doll version of you. The saliva is for me to duplicate you onto the doll.

Anna : how are you going to make a doll ? Won't you need to control it ?

Mephisto: we can make it say hi and then bye.

Anna : I could make you a doll. One controlled by an animal. Using my plants.

Hebinon; wait... You'll help us ? You don't think we're...

Mephisto; ridiculous?

Anna shrugged " kinda like a cool project. "

End ~

Mephisto: we had really crazy ridiculous projects then. We went around scamming people and you helped us.

Anna ; it was fun.

Mephisto: Alright , lets go to sleep.

Anna : Mephy... I heard what you told hebinon. I don't allow you to say stuff like that. I only love you. Not only because you always took care of me.

He cups her cheek " you are so cute when you are like that. Making small tantrums." He got off the bed and went to the face of the wall where the dresser was. He picks a brick at the corner "this one...?" He uses his finger to poke at it. The bricks slides out. He picks the thin item on the brick.

" Wow. This ziplock thing the humans invented is really useful and cheaper than magic." He laughs a little while looking at the item inside the ziplock " Anna. I'm grateful you chose me." He walks over to her and passes her the ziplock.

Her tears fell as she looked at the photo in her hand " Mephy."

He just smiled back to her gently " I will go find kageya. Its ok."