When Inari gets her bearings back, she would find herself in a strange place. The world seemed like an everlasting plain, with white grass growing from a gray earth. Willow trees grow placed periodically across the world, and the sky shimmers with a spectral aurora constantly overheard in the blue to green color range. No celestial source of light is apparent, but the light is equivalent to the day. The trees would shimmer slightly as a breeze would wash over the land. Stray souls would wander, appearing human in shape, but ghostly in detail. They would flicker as the went about, seemingly at peace.



Over by a large stone, Nazo was sitting atop of it outside of his transformed state. He wore just loose gray pants along with a short sleeved gray tunic. With a little memory and visualization, Inari would likely recognize him as the 'delivery boy' from the attack at the school. His white hair would drift in the wind as he sat staring at a mystical scroll, looking at strange runes glowing atop the surface of it. On the ground, at his feet, a three headed dog lay on it's stomach, the three heads watching but not actively hostile. If Inari approached, it would perk up and stare at her, but make no hostile movements.

Inari shakes her head as she looks around. "W-where am I?" She looked over at Nazo and narrows her eyes, stalking closer. "YOU! You started all this, let me go this instant!" She demanded, she had to see if her father was alright.. She hadn't been able to tell in the chaos. "Where even am I anyway?"

"You are in the underworld, heaven, hell, valhalla, perdition, limbo, puragory, use the term you like of your choosing, but this is the place that most people go when they die." Nazo says casually as he remains focused on the scroll. After a few moments, it disappears into a mist of green particles before he looks at Inari.

"But don't fear, you aren't dead. I merely brought you here to have a discussion with you and as well as to potentially show you some things if they seem necessary." he says as he then looks at the senshi tilting his head just slightly. "I would like to make you aware of something, your 'father' has infected you with a corruption in your soul. It is concealing itself right now, but I can see it clear as day. Should it be left to grow to it's full strength, your mind would likely be completely subjugated and your husk of a body used as a weapon. Quite a shameful fate." he says with a slight shrug.

"Of course, I'd like to help you avoid that unfortunate fate."

Inari glared at him. "Why do you care what happens to my soul? Your not a friend of mind, I don't have any friends that aren't fish." She said rather coldly, one coudl get the sense that this was a rather.. sensitive subject.. "I finally have family back in my life and you want me to just turn away? I don't care what he's done to me.. I just want my father!" Well she wanted her family back the way it was before, but she knew it was a child's wish for her mother and grandmother.

"I care because you are a senshi, a guardian whom has great potential within them to save the world. Also because I believe that no soul should be contaminated by chaos energy. You have your own life, and while your own actions will shape your fate I think it is only fair that you know of what may or may happen. If you lose yourself and become a threat to humanity, I'd hate for myself or others to have to do something difficult." he says calmly looking at Inari.

"Your...'father' who conveniently showed up when you became aware of your latent potential and ignored you for years up to that point? And before you try to say I did the same thing with delivering Artemis to you, had I not interfered you would have been killed when that monster drained your energy to the last bit. While your hostility indicates you won't believe me, I have no reason to lie about such things." he says with a firmly neutral expression. Even though Inari was upset, she would pick up in the tone of his voice, his eye movement, and his gestures that he wasn't trying to deceive her in any way, but it was up to her how to interpret such things.

As Inari fumes, the world around them begins to change, and in moments the blank neutrality about them shifts to an undersea setting. Millions of fish and sea life float around, and the entire landscape was an ideal oceanic paradise. Of course Inari found she would be able to breathe normally and had free reign to roam about here.

"...Interesting, so your personal preference is something like this?" Nazo muses. "When one is in the afterlife, their perception of paradise is custom tailored to whatever an individual's interests are, at least if they lived a good life without harming others. And please don't ask me how this fits in with human religions, I have no idea other than their heavens reflect what they believe to be true as do their hells." he says with a slight chuckle. He straightens himself out as he looks at the Neptune Senshi a little more seriously.

"I do apologize I wasn't able to participate in the conflict where you awakened. My services were required in another location that would have otherwise been a disaster for thousands." he says, rolling his shoulders.

"But I can answer any questions you may have, and I can even allow you to speak with the spirits of your relatives, if you should need their guidance."

Inari finally sat down, calming as the area around her became a sea. "I almost did something regretful when I lost my grandmother.. I loved her so much." She said, looking towards him. "I doubt you've ever lost someone so close to you.. She bought me the fish I have in my home, my angelfish.." She was defiantly calming down quite a bit. "It's fine, as I said.. I'm used to everyone leaving. I don't have any friends besides my fish." She said simply, shrugging her shoulders. "I just wish to return home.. please...I'm tired, confused, I feel like I want to cry.." She said, tears were defiantly threatening her eyes. "I don't want to just see them.. I'll lose it.." She said, sniffing. "I wish every year a child's wish.. Just to have everything back to the way it was before.. I know it won't come true.. I just thought.. Maybe I could have something of family again with father.. I didn't care what I had to do to keep him.."

"What did you do?" Nazo asks innocently when Inari talked about doing something regreful. When Inari says that she doubted he ever lost anyone, he chuckles slightly.

"I think I've lost quite a bit, and in fact I question whether my life is my own sometimes. Of course when you are a reconstituted soul imbued with dangerously high amounts of Pluto Planetary Energy, I don't think our situations are entirely comparable." he says with a small shrug.

"Though you are mistaken about the friends part. I think you are the type who has closed her soul off to avoid being hurt. Those who are like you many of them are willing to be your friend. You have to extend your own risk to being able to deal with that interaction however and that rests only on you."

When she mentions that she wishes everything was back to the way it was, Nazo chuckles just slightly.

"Not entirely impossible actually. There is one whom can wield an artifact known as the Silver Imperium Crystal. With fortune, sacrifice, and strength, it is possible to restore the world to the way it was before the Covenant rose. Of course, the road to that end is long, and it depends on whether the Silver Princess is willing to use that power for such a cause, but it's the best hope this rock has for survival.

When Inari sobs about her father being potentially a family, he shrugs.

"I don't understand him beyond the fact that he wields the soul of a noble protector corrupted by Chaos Energy to terrorize people and even slay them in their dreams, but the Silver Princess is capable of cleansing the influence of evil from his mind.

Of course, it's entirely possible that he was fundamentally evil to begin with, and I do hate to be pessimistic on such a sensitive subject for you, but you should be aware of your situation from all angles." he says as he walks casually through this sea.

"Your fate ultimately rests in your hands, I do hope you will end up lending your strength to the cause of survival. If you wish to leave then I will allow it at this point, since you do not wish to meet with your family members whom have come to peace here, having communicated to you this much. Of course, if you have any more questions I will answer them to the best of my ability." he says as he holds his hand out and his weapon manifests. He walks to an area a distance away from Inari and taps it, the air seemingly catching something in the weapon. A crack appears in reality itself and it coalesces into a portal.

If Inari enters the portal, she will end up near to where she was drawn into the gate in the first place.

Inari shook her head.. "I.. I almost killed myself alright.." She said quickly, looking away but she wiped her eyes to rid herself of the water that had built there. "I'm sorry.. Nazo.. I am afraid of getting hurt, of losing anyone.. but I've never had friends to begin with.. What would I even do with them?" She asked curiously. "I hope she does.. because I want my grandmother back if she wants to come back.." She did want her mother as well, but her grandmother had been the person to raise her. "I hope he wasn't all evil.." She said, and stepped through the portal, ending back out where she had once been [Exit to Water's Edge?]