Chapter 78: Vol2 Ch26 – It’s Okay! (2)

“She remembers her past life?” Doran asked. He and Michelle exchanged glances, both equally surprised. The family, including all four parents, all six children, Liliana, Aliana, Astarte, and Astraia, were at the dinner table the night after Rei reconciled with her parents about their past life.

“That’s unheard of. No normal soul has ever carried memories of a past life to another life,” Michelle said, eyeing Rei, who nodded in response.

Kye shrugged. “I don’t know why, but apparently... she’s like us now. Immortal.”

“She’s what? That’s impossible! We can grant Radiance to mortals, but not immortality!”

“So, she’s... what... the hundredth?” Doran said, believing Kye right away.

Alethea shook her head. “I don’t think so. Eve didn’t change her...” She paused for a moment and thought back a few years to the time when they met Evelyn and their friends suddenly got an upgrade. “Come to think of it... aren’t there already more than ninety-nine of us?” She looked at Kye and exchanged glances, then eyed the Venturi sisters.

“You think so?” Kye asked.

Alethea nodded. “Yeah.”

Lily suddenly stood up and headed for the door. “There is a visitor.” She came back a minute later with Evelyn in tow. “I present Lady Evelyn Barrett of Alcanus.”

“Greetings, young family,” she said with a smile. “I hope I’m not intruding.”

“I shall prepare a place for you at the table, Lady Evelyn,” Liliana said, and went to the other room to get what she needed.

Evelyn walked up to Kye and waited for her to speak.

“So... uh... what’s up?”

“Your world is quite the place to live, Elysia. I’m very proud of you.”

Kye sighed. “Yeah, yeah, but you know I only created the world and the system. I didn’t help its growth. It’s become what it is now without my influence.”

“Yes, but you did lay the foundation and made it all possible.” Evelyn eyed Rei. “Just like you made that possible.”

“Would you not refer to my child as ‘that’?”

“You misunderstood. I’m referring to her immortality.”

Kye shrugged. “I figured that was why you suddenly visited. You were listening in, weren’t you?”

“Of course! I hear the thoughts and words of every soul in every world, after all. You could liken me to the ultimate voyeur.”

“Eh, I’ll pass.” At that point, Liliana had finished preparing a place for Evelyn at the dinner table. When Evelyn and Liliana were seated, Kye continued, “So, what do you want to talk about?”

“The very same topic you were already discussing. Little Rei here is indeed not the hundredth. No, that belongs to one of which you recently recovered a memory. Your teacher, the one Allison reminded you of, Seris the Swordmaster or rather Seris the Hundredth.”

“She’s one of us?”

Evelyn nodded and smiled.

“Well then. What about our attendants?”

Evelyn pointed first at Astarte. “Gaia the Hundred Fifth.” Then at Astraia, then Liliana, then Aliana. “Kari the Hundred Sixth, Seraph the Hundred Seventh, and Shadow the Hundred Eighth. The names are placeholders. You may keep them or choose for yourself. The numbers are final.”

Kye’s eyes widened. “Hundred fifth through hundred eighth? But that leaves four unaccounted for between Seris and Gaia... is... Saria one of them? How do I remember that name? She wasn’t in the memory...”

“Who knows?” Evelyn replied with obvious sarcasm. That was her way of saying she knew but wouldn’t tell. “But yes, Saria the Hundred First.”

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Why do I remember that name? I don’t remember anything about the person other than she is Seris’s weapon partner. Why did I seal my memories? Past me, you’re stupid!

“I wish you hadn’t done so either,” Evelyn said with a shrug before digging in to her meal. “Thank you for the food!” After a few bites, she looked around. Everyone else had stopped eating and was watching her. “What? Is there something on my face?”

Alethea was the first to say something, “You replied to something she was thinking, not saying.”

“That’s right. Is something the matter?”

Kye looked annoyed. Michelle sighed and said, “We never know what degree of your power you are using. Right now, you don’t seem to know what everyone is thinking, but you replied to Kye. Like... it’s confusing sometimes with you. You rarely show up in a world to begin with, and when you do, you rarely meet with whoever is there. Yet, here you are...”

“As for the first part,” she said calmly, “I can choose to hear what all of you are thinking, or I can choose to filter it out. At the moment, I am only hearing Elysia’s thoughts, and she is quite annoyed with me for it. As for the latter part, that’s right. I don’t become interested in many worlds, and I dislike interfering with a mission on the rare occasion I do. The more I come around, the better the chance I will be here when something happens. If I’m here when something happens, I might have to choose between keeping this life or not.”

Most of the group were staring intently at her as she explained. To them, hearing Eve speak more than a few sentences was rare. To them, she was very reclusive and rarely interacted with anyone. “So just stop listening to Kye’s thoughts. That’s one problem solved. And what’s so wrong with being around when something happens? Isn’t that an emergency teleport ring?” She eyed Eve’s left ring finger. “I can tell it’s more than just a wedding band.”

She raised her hand and displayed the ring on her finger openly. “Yes, it is, and you’re right! I could simply poof out of danger whenever danger happened, without the ring.” Her eyes glowed rainbow for a moment. “But would I? I’ve only ever watched any of you from my observatory. Even I don’t know how I’d react if I’m there in person.”

“So then-”

“One hundred and thirteen.” Eve cut her off. “That’s the number of souls I care for. One hundred and eight are of my own blessing, but the other five receive my love, regardless. Tell me, Adara. If your darling Ariel is put in danger, how would you react? What about Adriel or Anna? What about Rei, Joey, and Kaede?”

“Your analogy is more than obvious. You’re saying that there’s a good chance if any of us are in a situation and you are there, you will interfere? What’s so wrong with that? It’s not as though there is someone higher than you making the rules. You are the one at the top. You can do whatever you damn well please.”

Kye noticed for a moment that Eve hesitated to answer, a moment so short that even Alethea missed it. What was that?

“Or what’s so wrong if you don’t help us? Most of us here have lived and died enough times to be numb to it. What’s one more death? Whether you deem to save us, if you were present, or to leave us to die, it makes no difference in the end. These are mortal bodies and we’ll die eventually, anyway. We’ll just end up in the Nexus when we’re done here anyway, and everything accomplished here will have no more meaning to our immortal selves.”

Evelyn put down her silverware and looked Michelle directly in the eyes, her tone different. “I don’t want you to speak of death as if you are okay with it.” There was no mistaking the anger in her voice.

“But I am okay with it. I’ve experienced it... enough. Of all things, why is that what you are concerned about?”

Evelyn stood up, and her eyes and hair turned from silver and white to rainbow. The world around them changed, and they found themselves sitting at the table not in the dining room, but in the middle of a white marble platform surrounded by a sea of stars. Evelyn had changed to Eve the Primordial. Not a single person at the table that looked into Eve’s eyes was left unshaken. The anger in her voice was also on full display in her eyes.

“Uhh... wh-what’s the-” Michelle began, but Eve cut her off with a snap of her finger.

Eve closed her eyes and spoke, “To speak of death so casually...” Her eyes shot open, staring daggers at a certain redhead. “This is why I never wanted to let any of you experience mortal life. Adara has simply accepted death as if there is no consequence whatsoever.”

“Aside from losing a particular body, and a handful of loved ones - which, yeah, that part ain’t easy - there’s not really a lasting consequence. We just go back to our real bodies for a short while before moving on to the next life.” Michelle shrugged. “What’s the big deal?”

Eve remained quiet for a short time. She was so taken aback by Michelle’s question that she didn’t want to finish the conversation. It was Kye who broke the silence. “Why does this bother you so much? I can’t recall a time you’ve ever been bothered by anything, yet you’re so bothered by this... it’s as if... is there something we should know?”

Eve grimaced. “Yes, it bothers me. It bothers me a lot that my children go through these miserable mortal lives only to lose everything when they die. The look in your eyes each time you’ve returned to me... I don’t like it. Death leaves a certain degree of darkness behind in one’s soul. Even the lot of you, who possess immortal souls that can never be extinguished, can be affected. Some of you have lived millions of lives. Two of you have lived over twenty million times.” She eyed Kye and Alethea in particular. “There is a point where it will become too much.” After a brief pause, she eyed Kye alone. “You almost breached that point when your child was kidnapped.” She grimaced. “You’re not the only one that cares for her children.”

Eve formed a rainbow magic circle in her hand and began to cast a spell. Of all of them, Joey stopped her. She grabbed Eve’s hands and pleaded for her not to do it. “If you revert time, it won’t erase the darkness!”

“It’ll give me a chance to say no and stop them from gaining more.” Eve continued the spell, but the next person to stop her wasn’t anyone that was already there. It was a blonde girl that looked almost identical to Kye. She grabbed Eve’s wrist and stopped her from casting the spell.

“This is not the way.”

Her voice was the same, too.

“““Elysia!”””

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