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I am your father,I will call you what I wish," replied the man with a frown.
"Thou art a monster, no parent would abandon their child like that," retorted the huntress, angrily.
"Mind your tongue Atalanta, do not forget the debt you owe me. Now that you are of age, I have found you a suitor," informed the man.
"I refuse!" defied Atalanta.
"You cannot defy me daughter of mine," replied the king.
"I am a champion of Artemis and as such I have sworn off men, you might not respect me but you will respect the Goddess' wishes!" she snarled.
"I AM YOUR FATHER!" bellowed the king.
"THOU ART NO FATHER OF MINE!" roared the huntress.
The two were silent before the king glared at his estranged daughter, "very well then Atalanta, let us make a deal…"
Issei blinked as the vision ended and the teen quickly stumbled before he fell to the ground, the sudden shift back to the present completely throwing off his balance. See him collapse Atalanta stopped before walking over to him.
"Thou failed boy, now try again," demanded the huntress as Issei struggled to his feet.
"I don't know what you're expecting of me Atalanta, but there's no way I can beat you. So can we please just stop?" requested Issei in a tired voice.
The huntress just froze before she gave him a cold look, "so thou wishes to give up?"
"Yeah sure, I'll just use Lancer's card," replied the teen as he turned to walk away, only for an arrow to pierce the tree next to his head.
"Tell me boy, what does thou know of my legend?" asked Atalanta in a cold voice as Issei spun to face her.
Frowning Issei eyed the bow in her hands cautiously as he replied, "you were a champion of Artemis and Apollo, accompanied the Argonauts and even befriended Heracles. You became known as the Chaste Huntress after forcing any potential suitors to beat you in footraces before you would accept their proposal."
The huntress nodded as she nocked another arrow, "indeed, tell me boy. What happened to the ones who lost?"
"Lost? They…" Issei trailed off as his eyes widened and his face grew pale.
"Were killed. Does thou understand now? That is the cost of failure, thou will either pass my test…or die," stated Atalanta.
"A-Atalanta…you're joking! Right?!" stammered the teen.
"The strong thrive while the weak perish, that is the way of the wild, that is the way of the hunt! Now art thou a weak rabbit or a fearsome lion?! Choose boy," demanded the green girl with a frown.
"But I'm not asking for your hand in marriage, I'm not forcing you to break your vows, so why do I have to die?!" shouted Issei.
"Indeed, thou art not requesting my matrimony, instead thou art wanting something far greater. My power, my flesh, my very soul. That is what thou wants, to bind my very existence to thee, to truly become one. Something far more invasive than any marriage," replied Atalanta, her bow not lowering from his chest.
"Then why aren't I dead already? I've already lost," frowned the teen, and the huntress finally lowered her bow with a sigh.
"In honor of a friend, I'm giving thou twelve chances boy," she informed him.
"Twelve?" repeated Issei, the number's significance not lost on the teen.
"That's right, I know not what thou hast said to him in there but I can tell that thou eased some of his pain, and for that thou hast my gratitude," sighed the huntress.
"Really? It just sounded like a bunch of roaring to me," murmured Issei.
"Once one has been under the same influence, it becomes easy to distinguish what is true emotion and what is fake," muttered Atalanta sadly.
The teen's eyes widened, "same influence…? Atalanta were you ever summoned as-"
"Enough thou has clearly recovered so let us begin. It's time to see if thou can also do the impossible and outrun the Chaste Huntress," interrupted the huntress as she grabbed Issei and dragged him back to the starting lines.
And thus the process repeated itself for what seemed like hours to Issei as he tried and failed to beat the Chaste Huntress, with each failure the desperation in the teen grew as the threat of death loomed ever closer.
"Thou failed once again boy, only two more chances left. Now get up and try again," ordered Atalanta as Issei was panting on the ground.
"I-I can't…" replied Issei, only to leap to his feet as an arrow pierced where he had been moments before.
"Thou can still move therefore thou can still run, now move or my next arrow won't be aimed at the ground," warned Atalanta as she marched him back to the starting point.
Once again Issei was forced back to the starting point as they prepared for his 11th attempt at beating the huntress. Trying to ignore the pain burning in his legs Issei focused on the race in front of him, his face the textbook definition of desperation as he struggled to move his uncooperating body.
This time was different then all the other attempts however as Issei saw Atalanta seemed to be distracted by something, gripping her head as if from a headache before glancing at the lagging teen with a pitying expression on her face.
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