Blank Stare

The Lost Sky

[ 2 years ago ; at an unknown place in a faraway country ]

Lady Sophia and Lady Hestia hurried across the hall.

" Where have you been?" Zenith asked them with a mild curiosity. " You are almost 2 hours late !" He pulled out 2 chairs for them and brushed off the little dust. It was the 3rd annual summit of the brotherhood. Lots of people around the world had gathered in this designated place for a yearly instruction, exchange of information and member recruiting. This is the only day in the whole year when the members can officially meet the 5 founders. However, today was different. Today, the meeting was held without those two's presence. And as expected, it stirred quite a disturbance among the members.

"Something quite interesting happened today" Hestia said to everyone as they both took their seat. She pointed at Sophia and said with a smirk, " We met her husband !"

"What !!" Zenith burst out with laughter. "Sophia, you never told us that you are non-virgin ! Why hide it ? It's not like we would mind anyway, right?" zenith tried to make a serious face while talking.

"Sophia, elaborate" Meliodas said in a thoughtful way as both he and Sophia showed a cold shoulder to Zenith.

" I guess, Hestia could explain the situation better. After all, she met my husband. " Sophia replied.

Hestia nodded. " I would get flustered though. So listen carefully, everyone. Today we decided to wander around the city a bit before our meeting. You know to visit various places just for a bit of refreshment. We went to visit the Kyoto's ..."

"Come to the point directly." Solomon said with a annoyed face. Apparently none was interested in hearing what they did or where they went.

" Ok, coming straight to the point" Hestia pouted. "Don't ask me if you get lost of track in the story. So, I passed by an Indian boy about..."

"Bangladeshi " Sophia corrected her." He told you himself, Hestia." 

"Yes, he did. So this Bangladeshi or what boy of age 16-17 was standing by a drink vending machine. Supposedly, he seemed unfamiliar with the machine and was a bit confused I guess so I went there to help him with the machine..."

"Wait, wait, wait you said you are coming straight to the point and now are talking about a kid" Zenith said with a confused face. " You mean to say Sophia's husband is a kid?" 

"Yes, she does" Sophia said calmly. "Just hear the whole story without interrupting, Zenith. Save your thoughts for later."

" The next time anyone interrupts me while speaking I am gonna smack his face on this stone table" Hestia said in a cold voice. "And Sophia don't even bother to correct me !"

Sophia smirked, " Carry on the story, my lady !" 

"Ok. so I went to help the boy out of generosity. I won't say he was that much cute or something but he smelled strange and his eyes were somehow ... somehow IMMENSELY attractive !! Like the way he was looking at the vending machine at that moment I wished... I wished ... if he would look at me the same way.!!!" Hestia moaned in a rather awkward way. Sophia and Zenith smirked together. Hestia continued with a little cough. " So I asked him if he needed any sort of help. Sophia was standing at a distance at that time waiting for this to over. The boy turned towards me and asked if he could treat me with a drink. I was like wait what? I mean how did it ended up like this?" Hestia started to mumble " Well not that I hated the idea.... or.... not that..."

"So he turned out to be a flirty one ?" Zenith sounded annoyed. As Hestia was meddled in her own mumbling she forgot to smack Zenith's face in the stone table as she declared previously. Otherwise the brotherhood would have to attend another summit this year for Zenith's funeral !

Hestia continued," I got flustered at that moment you know the way he was asking this out of blue and the way he was looking at my eyes so I suppressed my feelings and showed my calm self. I took his offer and ask in return why was he treating me a drink. He replied normally that he just wanted to talk with me for a bit kinda like accompanying him there. The weird thing is when i looked straight at his eyes which I did very... you know ... it was like .... whatever!! His eyes looked so sad you know. I don't know why but it felt like he got sad because of me. So I felt like I should comfort him and started to talk with him. We talked about various things..." Hestia blushed a little " and I don't want to reveal what we talked about it is a bit embarrassing. But then the interesting thing happened. From now it's Sophia's part." Then she looked at Sophia and said, "Start your part."

"Ok." Sophia agreed. " I am gonna keep it very short. Hestia and that boy was talking for like an hour and so, so I decided to drag Hestia back to our meeting. When I went near the boy, he suddenly looked up at me and stared at me curiously for a while. At first, I got disgusted at his behavior the way he was flirting and stuff but then I noticed something else. Something was bothering me all of a sudden. So I asked the boy directly why he was looking at me like that. At first he didn't want to answer it but after asking for a few times he revealed that my smell reminded him of his wife. Which I ..."

"What???" Zenith sounded astonished " Your what??"

"Smell" Sophia said with a little blush. " And the weird thing is I also felt the same. At that time I realized that the thing that was bothering me was his smell. It felt nostalgic and a bit of lustrous so I was kinda confused. He is not my family member or friend for sure as I don't know any Bangladeshi or sort and I couldn't find any connection between us. Apparently, he was a superior like us so we had to introduce us as a member of brotherhood and invite him into it but at that time none of us was in our right mind to do so or none of us even thought of to do so. He talked with Hestia for a bit, and then went away saying goodbye." Sophia became thoughtful for a while and said, " My thought on this is; well I am not sure if it is the actual fact or not but it felt like he was kinda manipulating us. The air around him was similar to that of Solomon's and it seemed he had more potential."

Solomon asked in a serious manner, " I guess we need to keep a track of him. What sort of information do you have on him?"

Sophia said in an apologetic manner," Actually none. His name was Ishmael, he is a Bangladeshi and he came to Japan for someone's wedding thats it. Hestia might have something but she is refusing to reveal."

Solomon said annoyingly," This female species !!" Then suddenly he remembered something and asked " What was his wife's name? Did he tell you?"

Hestia said with a surprised look," Yes, Her name was Ishtar. Why?"

Solomon's eyes widened for a while," Ishmael and Ishtar." Then he suddenly remembered something and said angrily," Gosh!!"

Everyone asked curiously," What?"

He looked at Sophia and Hestia disappointedly and said," Today you met one of the two pioneer monsters of the previous world and lost track of him!"