Contrary to what I expected, I was neither bothered by nightmares nor did I had trouble sleeping because of Hellsgate. From all the shit that happened to over the course of two days, I thought my mind would have trouble acclimating to my new life.
I died, rose back from the death and beca a reaper. At the expense of coming back to life, I was forced to fight with the undead every night. The reaper army currently had trouble replenishing its numbers. As reapers were born from sorrow and regret. IRIS intentional made the world a shittier place. While the demons called Trinity move to make it a better one.
"How Ironic. This all sounds so insane no one would believe it," I muttered to no one in particular.
Yesterday I learned of such truths along with the complex history of the reapers. In short, I could be as rich as I wanted to be and live as debauch as I pleased. Provided that, I get to survive the nights in between. I haven't exactly experienced being called to Hellsgate. I wondered if it was like the teleporters we used to go back to earth.
The mont I thought about Hellsgate, my heart clenched in loneliness. Although I did experience more pain and suffering than a human should endure there. I also t people I felt would beco corner stones in my life.
A red-haired cop from Brazil. The dark and fair skinned Descendants from Italy, a tall Viking from Antarctica, a foul-mouthed girl from Australia and a mysterious ninja from Japan. The ti we spent was short, for the latter three even more so. Yet when I asked for their lives, they all followed without question into certain death.
Bella, Jas, Jo and Liv were above average in the looks departnt. Robyn looked like an androgynous pretty boy, so I wasn't sure about her. Aki remained covered all the ti I spent with her. From their wildly different personalities and backgrounds to everything else however I found myself curious about them.
The only similarity we all shared was that we were Formless. You might as well add Lilly to that group. Unlike it looked like they all suffered due to that label. Personally, I found doubting my own words. Was I doing the right thing? What if I failed?
Did I really have it in ? Where would the path I intended to go lead?
It was human nature to second guess oneself. While I wasn't attracted to these girls romantically. I found my thoughts drifting to wish for their safety. They said they would be back in a week, right? They all said they would follow . But my plans kept on expanding due to my greed.
To survive as a reaper. Then to beco the strongest Revenant. Now to kill more undead than several reapers combined. What if by following I led them to their deaths? Was this sothing I was prepared to shoulder?
Yet when I thought about their circumstances there wasn't much difference. Bella like had no sponsor or handler. Jo and Jas were abandoned and were in similar straights.
I didn't know if Liv, Aki or Robyn were any better, but I saw how rciless reapers were to our kind. If I didn't take them with , would they have been able to survive the enlistnt? What was the right thing to do here? Fuck, my doubts were starting to paralyze from fear.
I punched my cheek in order to man up.
"Ouch. Right, planning about tomorrow is fine but worrying is not. Do all that you can in the ti you have. Once you had there is no point in worrying."
This was a quote I heard from an interview once. I can't rember the exact words, but I rembered the aning. A businessman was asked if he was nervous about how his company would fare. His answer blew my mind. It went sothing like this.
"I have done all I can in the ti that I had. After that no matter how much I worry it wouldn't change anything," so he calmly explained.
To do all you can in the ti you are allotted. It ant not leaving anything to chance, results would follow as a natural consequence. Worrying was ultimately pointless as it just drained one of one's spirit and peace. It was a nugget of wisdom I always carried with .
"Okay, if I worry about them, then the root problem is that I believe they are too weak. This would be like an RPG, I will have to arm, raise and develop them up as my party. Only then would we will rise together."
I started to make a ntal note about my circumstances. The girls and I were Formless, so we had no soul weapon or soul form. We could supplent this with a soulgear like Lilly did, but it seed pointless.
'Rather than wasting ti learning about new weapons, using guns would be faster,' I mused.
Hellsgate considered guns stupid because they couldn't be blessed. But could bows be blessed? I needed to find out as soon as possible if my plan to use firearms would be viable. Looks like my day would be busy.
I got out of bed, took a brief shower and toweled off. As I tried looking at the mirror my clothes and I didn't appear on it.
"Interesting, the shirt is seen so long as it isn't on my body. But once it becos 'part' of it becos invisible. But how am I supposed to fix myself then?"
Annoyed, I tried looking at my body to check any changes. I then noticed how the muscles on my arms were more defined, they looked ripped. But as I couldn't use a mirror to check, it could have been just my own vanity. I next stepped on a weighing scale and got a pleasant surprise.
"Hmm. 167 lbs... I lost 33 lbs. in one night?"
Well, if you consider how much running and fighting, I did it would make sense, I guessed. Normally people needed to rest to allow the body to recover after hard training. {Rewind} destroyed that logic. It allowed to replenish my stamina and remove injury.
"Could it be that {Rewind} doesn't actually go back in ti but forces objects to experience a passage of ti? Thats opposite of what I understood before but otherwise there wouldn't be a valid explanation to losing so much weight."
'But on the flip side. Who the hell cares? I'm no longer overweight! I didn't notice yesterday but I really do feel lighter. If only I could see the evidence,' I mused.
"Who knew how hard it would be to not appear on mirrors and caras. This is such a pain in the ass."
Just then a heard beeping sounds from one of my phones.
I checked my cheap ass phone and didn't see anything. But when I checked the reaper phone, I got three ssages. I opened the notifications to check what they were.
[Sender: Ishtar]
[Good morning, dear! I hope the morning bids you well. I will be preoccupied with matters concerning the battlefront today. So, it is unfortunate, but I cannot be by your side. Please do not miss too much. Take care and please contact if you need any assistance.
- Fondly thinking of you Lilly.]
"…"
Even without the endnote, this ssage just screams Lilly Browning, cold and direct to the point like a military report with a hint of egotistical arrogance. I checked the next ssage and noticed it was also from her.
[Sender: Ishtar]
[If you are wondering how I got your contact info, I used my connections to add myself into your phone before you even got it. I am the princess of the NA battlefront my dear. If you wish to hide anything from , you will need to do better. Hehe.]
Right, the girl was also annoying as hell. I sent a short "Okay, take care Lilly." and moved to the last ssage. It was from a different sender, but I could figure out who it was from after reading it.
[Sender: Minerva]
[I hate you! Do you have any idea how many John Smiths there are in Arizona alone? 417! In 61 different cities! What pineapple did you give to peel, huh?! … Anyway, miss Mr.
code? My transfer request got delayed so I might not be in the North Arican battle front for another week. I have to warn you though. The sponsors of the people you killed have sent assassins for you. Do not trust anyone honey. I'll keep in touch.
-B]
How was it possible to hear a voice through text? After we spent a night together, Bella's rants were more endearing than offensive. It was a sha that her transfer got delayed, but her cryptic warning made shiver a bit.
"The sponsors of the people you killed have sent assassins for you," I read aloud.
Great. So now I have people coming for . Now I understood the reaper's silent rule.
'Yes, dear. That is the case, many co back for their loved ones only for those people to beco their weakness. It is an unspoken rule among reapers. Mingle only with the humans you are prepared to lose.'
If I still had a girlfriend at this point, I would be distraught how to protect her. Luckily, I don't have anyone so this would be much safer.
I sent a reply to Bella with instructions while telling her to take care. My instructions were simple, assist the rest of the girls with any problem they might have and report any issues to .
The girls placed their lives in my hands, they would form the core of my squad and would be the cards I dominate with. Naturally I had to take care of them.
"Still, where would they co for ? Here? Or in Hellsgate? I feel like a protagonist in an action movie."
Sohow, I was not afraid of being targeted. Would they be scarier than a 15-foot Undead brute? Were they deadlier than a blood thirsty undead horde? I guessed it was true what they say. What didn't kill one made one stronger.
"Well, being targeted is a given. But whether I would be an easy mark is a completely different matter."
With such words I began getting my shit in order. According to Lilly more reapers died to assassination than fighting in Hellsgate. Thus, I need to prepare. Fortunately, I had the ti to do just that.
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