Transmigrating from a zombie world to become the mecha kings wife-Chapter 711: So who wins?

The entire ritual of the babies making their choices was confusing to Scarlet. She could hardly see what was happening because a cloud of darkness suddenly covered the babies.

The cloud was Lythia’s work, this was obvious. Again, Scarlet noticed that everyone was perfectly calm. Minus the excitement in anticipation of the results, they were unbothered.

Her eyes did not for a second move away from the river. They followed the gatekeepers because wherever they were flying above, that’s where the children were.

One of the gate keepers raised a blue flag and the guardian reapers broke into a loud cheer.

Scarlet knew that something important had happened. She perused the crowds quickly to understand. Lythia was cheering as if she had scored a winning goal for her team. Some warrior reapers couldn’t stand it and they booed the guardians.

All Scarlet wanted to know was which of her daughters had chosen to be a guardian reaper because that was clearly what had just happened.

"Who is it?" she asked Esong.

"It’s our eldest daughter, what a surprise." he answered.

Scarlet could hear the smile in his voice but she was too stunned by his response to ask why he was smiling. She was trying to process the shock of this development. It was prophesied that Black would be the strongest of all her sisters. Why was she choosing to be a guardian? Strength was a trait of the warrior reapers, empathy the guardians. Was her prophetic ability somehow affecting her decision?

"How can the fussy prophet be a guardian?" she wondered aloud.

"Fussy prophet." Esong repeated.

"You know your daughter, she is temperamental and fussy. But you have heard the prophecy. It says she will be the strongest of five. Maybe a mistake has been made." she answered.

She was still pondering on that when a gatekeeper raised another flag, red this time. The warrior reapers jubilated, including Esong who took to his feet to clap.

Scarlet got up as well and went around to the front, looking at his face up close. He was very pleased, extremely so.

"Wait, you seem to be more invested in these choices than you look. Esong Wu, no, Esong and Nyx, are you two collaborating somehow and wishing the girls take your side?"

"No." two voices responded.

Both were high pitched and both were lying.

Another gatekeeper raised a flag, also red. The screams became louder and the husband who had just denied being invested even jumped up and down two times.

It hit Scarlet then that they were still on opposite teams even if the children belonged to them both. At the end of the day, the rivalry between warrior reapers and guardians was still going strong.

She smirked and crossed her fingers. In her mind she thought, come on babies, guardian, choose guardian. To Scarlet’s shock, the next flag to be raised was red, and so was the next.

All four of her remaining babies chose to be warrior reapers.

While her husband was jubilating, she was terrified. Freyja as warrior reaper was not exactly a good choice. She was a Kopuko for crying out loud, she might end up annihilating more souls than reaping them. She could see trouble in future for all those evil souls already.

She tugged on the arm of her husband who was celebrating and said loudly because she was competing with the horns, screams, and chants in the air, "I really think that there has been a mistake. Black and Freyja have swapped somehow."

Esong had no idea why she was saying this and he shook his head.

"There are no mistakes in the process, the pulse looks into their hearts, sees the strength of their souls and then guides them to decide. They are all right where they should be."

While Esong was explaining this, Scarlet heard an argument brewing the warrior reapers and guardians.

"We got the strongest one."

"We got four of the babies."

"Four who cannot compare in strength to the one and only immortal prophet. This is not even up for debate, we guardians have won this round."

In this argument, even Scarlet didn’t know who the bigger winner was. Was it the side that got a single extremely strong reaper or the side which got four ordinarily strong reapers?

But, considering what Freyja was, perhaps the warrior reapers had won. Three reapers and one kopuko was a big victory.

The arguments continued while the babies were being returned to the boat. The gate keepers placed the bassinets down carefully and Arcissa fed the children a red liquid.

"It’s to cleanse their souls. They are too young to be active reapers so we must ensure that they are not tainted by evil souls."

Every baby was handed off after being fed the red liquid. Both parents and the hounds started fussing over them immediately.

Scarlet was the one who received their oldest daughter. Her mind was still filled with wonder. How was this the daughter that had chosen to be a guardian.

The baby yawned, making a cute appearance and Scarlet’s heart melted. This was the cutest guardian reaper in existence, or she would be after training.

Esong wrapped and arm around her shoulder and said, "Let’s go home. The babies will sleep for an entire day after this ritual."

She nodded and they both teleported away, returning to their London castle home. The babies were already asleep, seemingly exhausted from the activity they had been engaged in.

Carefully, they put each of them down and kissed them goodnight.

The hounds took on their original form and settled down too. They would not wander too far away from the children.

"One last thing," Esong murmured.

He placed five fire crystals around the children’s beds, enveloping them in a shield given to him by Carnelia. This would stop any other gods from getting too close to the babies.

"I can do better." Scarlet said.

She flicked her hand and one small green flame, as small as a pebble was added to the shield. If anything non human other than them or the hounds tried to take the children out, they would suffer grave consequences.

They stepped out of the children’s bedroom and closed the door. Scarlet walked to the kitchen and Esong followed her. As he did, he snapped his fingers and all the screens in the room turned on.

"Alex, turn on the usual channels and open the doors." he instructed.

Different screens in every room usually showed different stations and lately, Scarlet had developed of sealing all the doors to their wing, especially the ones leading to their private quarters. This was because of all the unnatural things going on lately.

Luckily, Justin was a way at school so he didn’t notice these new changes. Whenever he came home on the weekend, the doors would be open.

For the second time on that day, the two found themselves alone. Somehow, it seemed a little different this time as the tension started becoming palpable. Maybe it was because this was their home, a place filled with hundreds of memories. freewebnoveℓ.com

In this kitchen for example were the memories of laughter, eating together, kissing and even moments of deeper intimacy like having sex on the counter two times on different occasions.

Scarlet busied herself by taking ingredients out of her storage space to prepare dinner. Esong was not in the mood for this dinner. He was in the mood to embrace and just talk to his wife some more.

"Do you want to have a bath?"