So, this was weird. After giving Akira access to the main body, I decided to explore my inner mind. I found out how Akira kept himself entertained in my head. He was simply rewatching all the movies I’d watched while working on fusing skills. He had this entire man cave dedicated to himself. Well, if you were stuck in a body, might as well enjoy it.
Just as I was about to watch one ani, I received various alerts. The most alarming being,
[Warning! A massive surge of Chaos Energy is being shot your way.]
[Warning! Prolonged exposure will cause irreversible damage to you]
[Warning! The Chaos Energy is corrupting your [Sacred: Legend of Pandemonium]]
With that, I had the right to question Akira. Well, I doubted I could have handled the situation any better, but still… now I felt stupid for leaving it to him… myself. Gaah!
I was currently floating in a weird blackness. I couldn’t feel anything. Not my wings, not my legs, nothing. I was just there in the void.
Enough ti to just talk about nonsense.
So, without further ado, welco to my Tori Talk!
Agenda of the day is, am I an I-
“Hello?”
A voice shook from my loneliness. I could sowhat feel it, even though my senses were basically dead now.
“Is there anybody here?”
It sounded like a girl. A child. Wait… it sounded familiar as well. As if I had heard it sowhere before.
The owner of the voice heaved a heavy sigh, as if disappointed.
“I thought it would actually work this ti.”
She sounded frustrated. If only I could respond to her cry.
“Poor girl.”
Another voice echoed in the darkness, speaking my thoughts out loud. I was surprised and tried to look around, but I couldn’t find the source of the voice.
“Huh? So, there is soone there. Show yourself.”
The girl ordered haughtily. After that, I could see the girl.
She had fair pearly skin like a precious jewel. Her body was clothed in a ripped up red yukata, exposing her thighs to the darkness. The bangs of her hair were out of place, as was her silver hair that was barely being held together with a pin. Her crimson red eyes stared at intensely and I gulped.
“Shiro…?”
The na just ca out, making realise that it was my thoughts that were being projected.
“Huh? You know my na? Are you so kind of god? I heard this is how paladins awaken their sacreds. Is this what’s happening to ? Are you my patron god?”
She asked a bunch of questions in a mont. I wasn’t sure how to respond. She just paused after asking the questions, crossed her arms and tapped her foot impatiently. Her eyebrows furrowed the more she stared at .
“Say… why won’t you show your appearance already? This darkness is creepy.”
“My… appearance?”
“Eh? Don’t tell I got a dumb patro-… uhh, no offense. No offense, really. But if you don’t want to appear before , could you at least tell what is happening?”
She was requesting sothing impossible from . I didn’t know how to react to that since I myself was very confused.
“Agent.”
I tried calling for the agent, but I got no response.
“Agent?”
I looked at her. It would seem I would be getting no help this ti. Should I tell her who I was? But, was there any benefit in doing so? Maybe I should act along for now.
“You are lost…?”
“I don’t know where I am, so technically I am, I guess. Wait… is this the beginning of my adventure! My freedom from my mother!”
She yelled excitedly, her eyes sparkled in delight and her voice went high, like a child. Sohow, she looked cute.
“If you seek an adventure, why not just leave?”
“My mother won’t allow . She even killed a familiar I got recently.”
I could feel my heart split. Wasn’t she the one who caused to die? Did that an it was her mother’s fault for what happened to ?
“Your mother sounds cruel.”
“Sounds? You should et her. She’d make you fed up with your immortality. Wait… you gods love her though.”
“Eh? They do? E-Ehem, yes, we do. Even as cruel as she is, your mother is still loved by us.”
I was starting to feel awkward. I almost gave myself up because of this one statent.
DING!
[Chaos Energy has been completely dissipated by the unique skill [Energy Transcriber]]
[You will be returned to your normal state]
“Chaos… energy? Dissipated? [Energy Transcriber]?”
“Huh? Chaos energy? Are you a chaos god?”
Shiro ntioned sothing weird. Her eyes were widened and a creepy grin was forming on her face. I wanted to ask her more, but I could feel myself fading from this darkness. I was probably returning to my body.
“Co to the west o-”
I was telling her to co to Larm so I could see her again, but I left the darkness once again before I could complete my request.
***
“Uuogh!”
My arms and legs shot up into the sky as sothing heavy fell on my body. I grabbed the perpetrator by the hair and pulled them up. She yelped in pain.
“Onii-chan! Ow!”
Mitsuki cried out, grabbing my wrist.
“System… Master?”
“Let go of ! Mom! Akira’s trying to make bald!”
I instinctively let go of her hair at the ntion of my mother.
“What are you doing here, Mitsuki?”
I sat up, accidentally throwing her off and onto the floor. She fell on a pile of CDs in what looked to be quite painful. I could hear sothing crack, and when I looked down, it was a Visual Master X. The VR device Manyuda lent to . Even worse, it was lent to Manyuda by soone else in the class.
‘Damn it! Just when I started making friends with Manyuda too! Wait… hasn’t this already happened bef-…? What’s going on?’
“Now he’s throwing on the floor and kicking .”
Mitsuki scread.
“Mi-Mitsuki! Keep it down!”
“Waaaa!”
“I-I’ll buy you cand- oi! Get out of my room. Mom’s not around.”
I knocked her head to silence her and she looked up at with teary eyes. I glared at her and she eventually ran out the door.
Slowly taking a peek around, I realised that I was in my room. I looked at my hand, pale and skinny with a scar on the left one, but bigger than my other hands. I clenched my fist.
‘I’m back ho…? Is this just an illusion?’
“I’ll be in the kitchen preparing lunch. Akane will co over at 1.”
Mitsuki whimpered behind my door. After saying what she had to, she shut the door behind her and left.
I looked out the window, sunlight was bleeding in.
‘Did Mitsuki pull it open while I was sleeping?’
I could hear my neighbours partying outside. Slowly, I got out of bed and headed towards my computer. I looked through my folders and found two folders with similar nas. Obviously one of them was a dummy folder. I couldn’t risk Akane seeing so I was planning on deleting it.
However, before I could delete it, I had a thought.
‘It’s been a while since I…’
“Akira!”
I deleted it as soon as I heard Akane’s voice call my na. At the bottom of my computer screen, the ti was 1:05pm.
‘Sigh… the glory days when I could wake up whenever I felt like it.’
Akane walked in through the door with her yellow blouse and grey baggy pants that simply didn’t match. Her black hair was tied into a ponytail and her face still looked angelic and cute. She really had a poor sense of fashion. I was surprised she could change so much overnight.
“Are you ok?”
She was rely inches away from when she asked this question, catching off-guard. I hadn’t even noticed how fast she was. I looked into her eyes. I was surprised because of how large beautiful they were. As I was thinking this, an image flashed through my mind. All I saw was Yokino’s heterochronic eyes. Glaring at voraciously, reminding of what happened. I instinctively pushed back, making Akane make an “Uh?” sound.
“Akkun?”
She nervously called out the childish na she used on .
“I told you to stop calling that.”
“But Akkun is Akkun. I won’t stop! Hehe.”
She proclaid loudly, ignoring my wishes as she usually did with a certain level of innocence in it. This girl was really too cute. I gave up with a sigh.
“Could you go down? I need to get dressed.”
“Hm? But since when did you care about dressing up in front of ?”
“Since today. Now get out.”
“Huh? Bu-”
I pushed her out of my room and shut the door behind her. I took out my phone and looked at my contact list. I wanted to call Manyuda to give him his Visual Master X today before it sohow got destroyed. I had only 9 contacts on it.
“This is… what the hell?”
When I checked, I actually had 10 contacts on it. The final contact was called Alpha. My eye twitched the mont I saw this. Quickly, I called the number and put it to my ear.
“Hellooooo~ Super Duper Alpha here! How can I help you?!”
Her hyper voice ca through quickly.
“Cut the crap, System Master!”
I yelled at her.
“Hey, if it isn’t my favourite system user. Nice to hear you too. Been a while. Yeah, I’ve been alright. Just dealing with a little bit of stress from working on your system. No biggie. Thanks for asking. Now if that’s all, I’m cutting the call.”
“Wait! Wait…”
I heaved a heavy sigh when the line wasn’t disconnected.
“I’m sorry. It’s just… I’m really stressed out right now.”
“Sorry you’re stressed out from simply losing a goblin. Anyway, what do you want?”
She disregarded my feelings, but I couldn’t get angry at her. Mostly because I didn’t know what she’d do to if I got her too angry. That wasn’t sothing I was willing test either.
“Can you tell why I’m here? Is there a point to this?”
“Huh? You an you don’t know?!”
She exclaid over the call, forcing to pull the phone away temporarily.
“What do you an? I wasn’t given any heads up.”
I explained to her.
“Hmm. Is that so? Well sorry, but I don’t know either.”
“Eh?”
“Well, truth is. I don’t even know how you have a direct line to . I assud this was sothing you made yourself, but it seems you don’t even know what this is.”
I felt my heart sink.
“H-How would I have made this myself?”
“Don’t ask . Your species is weird in all sorts of ways.”
“What’s the supposed to an?”
“Wait… could this be… N-No way…”
“System Master? Is this being done by soone like you?”
“Find a way to escape from this place. When you do, we’ll talk in my domain where no one can interfere.”
She cut the call imdiately, leaving alone. There was an odd thunderous silence in the room. I was starting to breathe heavily. It suddenly felt like I was in enemy territory, being watched secretly. I looked around my room. The walls were closing in on . I wanted to shout, but it felt like my voice was lost. My mouth was dry and sweat fell like rain drops from my forehead.
I looked at the door. I ran for it and left the room. The whole house was starting to warp around . I could hear faint voices as I made for the staircase. Down there, I saw Mitsuki looking at with concern in her eyes. But that couldn’t possibly be Mitsuki.
While trying to run back to my room, Akane popped up behind . She was muttering sothings, but it just sounded like noise. Scared, I decided to take my chances with Mitsuki down the stairs. In a hurry, I ended up tripping and falling down the staircase.
DING!
[Checkpoint Saved]
[Scenario failed!]
[Returning the soul to the host body]
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