Chapter 62: Vol2 Ch22 – Searching for Rei (2)

After their talk, Atalante got Alethea to go inside with her to eat and sleep. Once she fell asleep, Atalante and Astarte started discussing what to do next.

“How did you get through to her?” Astarte asked.

“I told her about her siblings,” Atalante said. Astarte’s eyes widened. “Do you remember when Athanasia was kidnapped?”

Astarte grimaced, recalling the memory against her will, “I would rather forget, but I remember it all too clearly. She was playing in the garden with a maid and a knight escorting her. In the maybe ten minutes when neither you, me, Astraia, nor Hyacinthus were at the window watching, the maid killed the knight and took her. Our ability to manipulate mana wasn’t all that great at the time, but we still teleported from inside the palace to the scene of the crime because of the adrenaline rush. It took two months to track them down. You were very unstable in those two months and needed near constant supervision. Like mother like daughter, I suppose.”

“She told me she had never experienced having a child kidnapped before.” Atalante looked Astarte directly in the eyes. “Please tell me if she was lying. I know you know through your soul-bond with her.”

Astarte nodded. “It’s true. Nowhere in her soul is there the pain of losing a child, except with Suzuka Sakaguchi, but that was a different case entirely.” She sighed. “To think it would be the same child. Have these girls not suffered enough?”

Atalante blinked, unsure what Astarte meant.

Astarte raised an eyebrow. “You haven’t thought about it? Astraia and I had a long discussion about Kye and Alethea last year. How clearly do you remember the pain from the deaths of your children, husband, and our parents?”

“Like it was mere minutes ago.”

“Take that pain, and relive it every few decades. Many of their lives are spent without their memories. Naturally, they fall in love and build families. Even in lives where they have their memories and refuse to accept a lover or have children, it’s very rare that they don’t at least make friends. Every time they die, they have to say goodbye to their loved ones. Astraia told me Kye has lived almost fifty-five million lives over the past five trillion years. Alethea has lived just over fifty million lives over the past four and a half trillion years.”

Atalante’s eyes widened. With some modicum of understanding, she was in a mixed state of shock and disbelief. “I can’t believe I haven’t thought about that. How the hell have they coped?”

Astarte sighed and looked at Alethea’s sleeping figure. “It gets to them badly every now and then. I wouldn’t say they cope at all. In this life, though, we’ve seen them genuinely happy despite carrying all the memories from their past lives. You know they have the ability to sense mana so strongly that they can read the quantity and quality of mana in a person’s soul. Some of their classmates are reincarnations of their past friends. They both keep it to themselves, only talking about it with each other. Even though those friends have no memory whatsoever, likely because they’re not immortal souls, the fact alone that they are here has helped them heal somewhat.”

“That’s... incredible...”

“Yes. A few examples. You know that Chevalier girl in their class? She’s one of their friends. The Strauss girl, too. Even some of the royals are. Ginchiyo, Akane, and Rika from the Tachibana line. Hannah and Alaira from the Marshalls. Alexandra from the Romanovs. Mikan, Liliana, and Aliana from the Venturis, the last two on several occasions. Kye’s own sister, Yami, as well. And of course their daughters. Rei is Suzuka, and Joey and Kaede are immortals that have been with them since basically forever. On that note, Doran, Michelle, and that woman from Realm 7, Luma, are also immortal souls from their early years.”

“Wow... To think, our world would be such a meeting place for all of those souls.”

“And those are but a few. There’s also Astrid Jorgensen. She graduated two years ago at the top of her year. And many others.”

Atalante grimaced as she imagined all the pain her daughter had gone through. “Whatever it takes, I will help them lead happy lives here. After all the pain they’ve suffered...” She paused for a moment and looked into Astarte’s eyes again. “When Rei is recovered and her kidnapper caught... the kidnapper will receive capital punishment.”

“You’re sure?”

“Yes. It’s been a long time since we’ve had crime in our empire, but doing harm to a royal is among the highest levels of treason. I’ll preside over the case myself.”

“The child is your granddaughter! Not even you can bypass personal involvement!”

“I won’t leave a royal case to a non-royal judge, and there’s not a single royal that would dare try to take my place. Admit it, even you wouldn’t.”

“No, I wouldn’t. But, I do expect Kye will.”

“Yeah,” she conceded. “I will step aside for Kye and Alethea, but no others.” The two looked back at the sleeping Alethea again with mixed emotions. After a few minutes, they left the room. Atalante opened her NeuraPhone and sent messages to Doran, Michelle, Luma, and Kye, requesting their presence at the main palace in Atlantis. She briefly went over her idea with Astarte.

Astarte was staying to guard Alethea while Atalante returned to Atlantis. Before she left, Astarte stopped her and added to their conversation. “I probably shouldn’t tell you this, but... I feel I should. When this is over and the dust has settled... you should talk to them privately.”

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“About what?”

“About their loved ones that they’ve reunited with here.”

“Are you sure?”

Astarte smiled brightly. “You’re one of those loved ones, Lanti.”

Her eyes widened, “Uh...”

*****

A message from Atalante, again. Don’t they realize that I won’t respond to their messages? They’re worried about me, but they’ll just have to wait. I’m not in a state where I can calmly speak to anyone. Even though Rei prays, I still can’t find her. I only know she’s somewhere in the first four realms.

Despite thinking that, Kye still read every message that was sent to her. She gasped when she read Atalante’s message. In that message was a detailed plan for casting a world-tier spell to find Rei.

I don’t believe it. I didn’t include Eye of Providence in the spell directory, Alethea couldn’t cast it on more than one planet, and she expects me to believe that spell will do it? I don’t doubt Alethea’s control of it, but even we have our limits if the spell isn’t system supported.

She sighed, knowing that she couldn’t say no to the idea. She channeled aether and casted Rift. On the other side of the portal was Atalante. Kye gestured for her to step through the portal. Surprised, but determined, Atlante joined Kye. The portal closed, and they began discussing the plan.

“How do you expect the Eye of Providence to do the trick? Alethea couldn’t do more than one planet, and I doubt I could do more than two if even that.”

“You know of my title, the Rune Queen, yes?”

Kye nodded.

“Only a handful of my rune spells are publicly listed in the archive. There are thousands of rune spells ranging from basic to ultimate, dozens in the latter category. I didn’t include everything in the message, so let me explain in detail.”

*****

That night, Doran and Michelle returned to Arslade after an intense day of recruiting searchers. When they entered their residence in the palace, Doran collapsed onto the empty bed while Michelle shed her magical aethersilk clothes and headed straight to the bath. She shrieked in surprise when she laid eyes on the enormous tub. Doran jumped out of bed and ran straight for the bath, slipping on the wet floor and falling face first into the water with Michelle bursting out laughing.

Miraculously, Doran’s face ended up above water. “Um... Doran?” His face was buried between Alethea’s breasts. “Are you okay?” He quickly jumped up and apologized.

Michelle, still laughing, stepped into the bath and snuggled up next to Alethea. “How are you?” Alethea smiled. She was somewhat uncomfortable, but also was glad to see her spouses again. “Doran, if you’re gonna stay, deal with your clothes first.”

“Oh. Right. Hold on.” He ditched his aethersilk clothing just as Michelle had and settled in on Alethea’s other side. “We’re here for you.”

“Thanks, you two. I...”

“Don’t stress it,” Michelle said. “If you don’t want to talk, don’t force it. We’ll sit here with you in silence if that’s what you need.”

“No, it’s...” Alethea explained what Atalante had told her earlier about her siblings. “I came inside and ate with her, then went to bed for a while. I only just stirred a few minutes ago and wanted to soak for a bit.” A few tears rolled down her face. “It’s not fair. I know she knows what this feels like, but I’m sad for a whole new reason... the family I never got to meet...”

As Doran and Michelle began to consul her, a portal suddenly appeared in the bedroom. They sensed it and all three of them immediately jumped up, clothing and arming themselves quickly with their aethersilk and aethersteel bands. They quickly recognized the mana of the person who stepped through the portal and hurriedly ran into the bedroom to greet her. Standing there in an academy uniform and a cloak was their favorite blonde.

“““Kye!”””

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