"That was a surprise. I didn’t expect that he would just go away like that." Jae-joong says.
"People have their choices. We have to respect it. I understand his decision. If you went through what he went through, you may have had the sa choice as well." Blaze says.
"I see. Where did he go, Wraith? To heaven? To reincarnate into another life?"
"I don’t know the answer to that question, Jae-joong. Even I don’t know the true extent of life and death."
"..."
Jae-joong looks down on the ground. He has seen a lot of things today, and it shakes up his worldview a lot. This makes him ask the question, what is the purpose of everything?
Blaze pulls out the last innocent soul from the Lantern of the Damned. The only female soul inside the Lantern.
She is Damian Walker, a female police officer that was under Adam Gulliver’s reign.
Her first na is a boy’s na, and according to her mory, her father wanted a boy instead of her. Her father was also a cop, and their family tradition is to always have the first son follow a law enforcent career.
Damian did not have a good childhood. To achieve her father’s expectation, she had to work twice as hard and was never able to be her true self. She loves her father until the very end of her death. So she did not dare to disappoint him.
Anything that a man can do, she would try to do as well. Even though she failed many tis.
While other girls’ childhoods are filled with dolls and colorful dresses, what she had was training and training. Train her body, her will, her martial art, and her weapon skill. Anything to make her the best cop ever.
Her father was reasonable, though. He knew that Damian could never be the son he always wanted. And he always shared that empathetic look with Damian. The look that she always hated. She wanted to prove that she could be like the son he always wanted or even better.
She realized in the mont of her death that that look wasn’t her father’s pity for her. That was just a look of a father worrying for their daughter.
But everything was too late.
Damian got in the Police Force but was spared from Adam’s harm due to the connection of her father. She was also a token hire of the ACPD, so her existence was very sensitive, and many eyes were looking at her.
Adam did not dare to make her a crooked cop... at first. But he slowly introduced Damian into that world by telling her about the mission that she needed to do for the greater good.
Damian didn’t know what she was doing and only followed Adam’s orders blindly, like she followed her father’s expectations blindly.
And when Sergeant Anderson was tasked by Adam to secure their off-record armory, Damian was there too.
She was the giant woman that attacked Blaze previously.
Damian’s soul expands on the ground. A weak, fragile, feminine, short-haired girl is materialized from Damian’s soul.
Despite all her toughness and yearning to be a boy, she still sees herself as a fragile and weak girl.
It is ironic to the core that the one who disapproves of her the most is herself.
"Hello, Damian. Welco back to the real world." Blaze says.
Damian opens her eyes and launches at Blaze imdiately, only to phase through him like smoke. She looks at her yellowish hands in disbelief.
"What is going on? What did you do to , Wraith?"
"Despite killing you, nothing else. You don’t have a physical body at the mont. It is why you can’t touch ."
"Soul... Ha ha! Don’t try to lie to , Wraith. I am not that stupid! No one has the power to manipulate the soul!"
Blaze opens his hand, and Damian can’t help but drop down on her knees.
"No one else can. But I can. Look, I don’t have ti to convince you. Just listen to my offer and decide.
You died, Walker. You died by my hands. You died because you worked for a dirty Commissioner and a crooked Police Departnt.
But I looked into your soul, Walker. Everything you experience, I have looked at. And I know you were not even aware of a single thing.
So as a gesture of goodwill. I can resurrect you, or you can choose to work for ."
"Work for you? In your dream, Wraith. I won’t be lied to by a simple ntal illusion!" Damian smirks and tries to wriggle out of Blaze’s control. All attempts were in vain.
Blaze sighs. If everything keeps going on like this, it is going to be hard for Damian to make a choice. She basically doesn’t believe him.
"He is telling you the truth, Walker." Jae-joong finally speaks.
"You are? Officer Lee? Why are you here?" Damian reaches out her hands to touch Jae-joong, but she ets the sa result with Blaze.
"Don’t waste your ti. I have a physical body as well. What Wraith said is the truth. I was a spy also.
I was sent here by another departnt to gather Adam’s dirty behavior and bust him soday. But the Wraith beat to it. He ended Adam before I had the chance to.
And the reason for why I am here... Well, you see. The Wraith has decimated our Headquarters and I was killed.
He offered the sa choices as you. To return to my life or to work for him."
"What did you choose?"
"Isn’t it obvious?"
"Why did you betray our force?!"
"I didn’t betray anyone. Even where I co from, there are good and bad people. I just think that the Wraith can do a better job than them."
"This can’t be real."
"It is true, regretfully. If it’s hard for you to process, you can choose to return to your old life. The Wraith just released another before you."
"Returning to my old life..."
It is at this mont that Blaze walks in front of Damian.
"I saw your mory, Damian. I know you better than anyone in this world. You lack a purpose, a true goal for yourself instead of sobody else.
I can give you that purpose."
Blaze reaches out his hand.
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