Chapter 589 Broken pride [2]
As I watched the demon place his hand against lissa's hand, everyone's eyes turned white.
'What's going on?'
Their sudden actions startled as I tried to understand what was going on, but before I knew it, my vision darkened and I was suddenly transported inside a dark space.
'Where am I? What's going on?'
Just like before, I couldn't move my body.
I felt completely trapped.
As I stared into the blackness before while wondering about what was going on, I noticed that it had started to change, and it was not long before my surroundings started to change as well.
Suddenly, white tiles appeared in the air and shot toward the ground before they neatly positioned themselves together.
That wasn't all.
Also, desks began to form in the air before positioning themselves in what appeared to be a dium-sized room. About half the size of a standard living room.
Books, files, glass panels, and awards?
…one by one a room started to form and my height suddenly started to shrink.
I had many questions that I wanted to ask, but my body was immobile. The only thing I could do at the mont was just watch as a scene unfolded in front of .
In just a few minutes, everything was set up, and by the ti the last tile was placed on the floor, everything seed to look gigantic.
'No, rather, it isn't the surroundings that are gigantic, but it's .'
I ca to this realization when I found that I was holding onto what seed to be a small drawing that I couldn't quite understand. They looked like doodles, yet at the sa ti didn't.
'What happened to my hands?"
Most notable about the situation was the fact that the hands holding only the paper seed to belong to a child.
Their size…
They weren't even a quarter of what my hands looked like.
They were quite frankly tiny.
The confusion within only grew as ti passed, but I didn't have much ti to ponder over the matters as the door of the room suddenly opened.
Clank—!
'Eh?'
A familiar figure erged from behind the door.
It only took several seconds for to recognize the figure, and when I did, I was left in a state of shock.
'Octavious?'
He looked exactly the sa as the Octavious I knew. But why was he here? What exactly was going on?
Amidst my shock at Octavious's sudden appearance, I realized that my body was shaking.
I felt a weird emotion surge from deep within. One that I couldn't quite describe.
What was it?
Excitent? Anxiety? Happiness?
I wasn't exactly sure.
Taking a timid step to the back, I hid the paper behind my back. All of the actions that occurred were not sothing that I could control, as the body moved on its own.
"Father."
Opening my mouth, what sounded like the voice of a little girl escaped from my mouth.
'Father? Octavious?'
It was at this mont that I finally realized that I was in what seed to be lissa's body, and the events that previously transpired before coming here started to flood my mind.
'Right, didn't the demon say sothing about breaking pride? Is this what he ant?'
When I realized that I was seeing her mories, I realized that perhaps everyone else was also seeing the sa thing.
'…This is bad.'
I thought to myself as I tried to move the body in any way.
In an attempt to stop what was happening, I tried to co up with anything, but my efforts proved ineffective.
It was simply impossible.
What was even worse was the fact that I was forced to watch the entire thing as I couldn't close my eyes nor turn my body away.
"Father?"
The man's feet never stopped moving toward the desk that sat all the way across the room despite the girls' calls.
Once he arrived at his desk, pushing the chair back, Octavious sat down on the chair and started to look through a stack of papers. Completely disregarding the girl's existence.
In the anti, my feet gingerly headed toward his desk. Coming to the side of the desk, and finally getting a glimpse of Octavious's side view, my head raised a little, until I was finally get a good look at Octavious's face.
Once again, I felt a weird feeling enshroud my body.
This ti, I could make out what it wash
'Anticipation.'
The feeling that I was feeling right now was that of anticipation.
Anticipation of him noticing .
...but that never happened as thirty minutes soon elapsed.
In the thirty or so minutes that passed, not once did Octavious ever turn to face as I timidly stared at his serious features.
In that span of ti, I could feel my feet start to hurt.
Before I knew it, my body took a step forward and my little hand clasped onto his trousers.
"Let go."
As my hand touched his trousers, Octavious's words echoed. Imdiately, I let go of his trousers.
"What do you want?"
Finally getting his attention, he lowered his head to stare at .
'Those eyes…they are the sa as now.'
Closely observing his eyes, I realized he hadn't changed since this event happened all those years ago. They were still as hallow and lifeless as they were now.
"Um…"
Exerting more force onto the grip of the paper behind my back, my body shifted toward the right and left before I took out the paper and handed it to him.
"Here."
I felt hints of shyness coming from my body when I handed him the paper. Clearly, it ant a lot to the little girl.
"What's this?"
Taking a look at the paper, Octavious grabbed it and examined it for several seconds.
"A scribble?"
He asked.
My head imdiately shook.
"No."
"No? Then what is this? So sort of molecular structure."
"Yes."
A feeling of elation swept my body as my hands shyly twirled behind my back. A bright smile also spread across my face.
"Uncle Thompson told that I just discovered sothing amazing and wanted to show you."
"Oh."
Taking another look at the paper, Octavious quickly lost interest and crumbled the paper in his hand.
The smile on my face froze, and my eyes blinked a couple of tis. It was only after Octavious tossed the paper in the trash that he everything finally sank into the little girl's mind as my head raised up.
"Don't disturb with this nonsense again. Get out of my room."
Before I could even reply, Octavious waved his hand, and I felt my body shoot up in the air.
Clank—!
The door burst open and I shot toward the room's entrance.
Clank—!
With a loud sound, the door behind closed shut and my body suddenly started to enlarge before I dropped to the ground.
"Haaa…haaa…"
Drip—! Drip—!
I gasped for air heavily as sweat dripped from my face and hair covered my vision while they scattered on the ground where I lay.
Every part of my body burned, and I could barely move my muscles, but…
"Again."
My hand moved toward the right and tightly clenched what seed to be a long pole.
'A spear.'
I thought.
Feeling the grip of the pole, I used it to support my body up and it was then that I was able to see where I was exactly.
'A training room.'
At the mont, I was standing in a white room with wooden tiles at the bottom. The room was surrounded by large glass panels, and from there I could see the reflection of a familiar figure.
'…Is this really lissa?'
She looked nothing like herself, with wet hair falling behind her back, no glasses, and sweat dripping down her face. It was as if she had beco a completely new person.
Especially since the lissa that I knew disliked exercising.
"How about it young miss? Should we stop for now?"
Right then, my eyesight focused on a female figure wearing a black suit standing opposite of her. She had short black hair, an oval-looking face, a small nose, and large eyes.
She was stunning.
As she pointed the tip of a long spear at , her heroic and charming figure appeared especially impressive.
"You look exhausted, it's best if you don't continue training."
"No."
lissa shook her head, as I felt the grasp of the spear tighten.
"We're not stopping until I pass out."
Taking a step forward, she charged to where the female combatant was and firmly thrust the spear in her direction.
Her movents were rather smooth and sharp. In no ti they reached the lady standing on the opposite end, but…
A casual swipe of her hand deflected lissa's attack and redirected it toward the ground.
"Sloppy."
The lady murmured before I felt a kick on the back of my leg and I dropped to the ground.
"Ugh."
A small groan escaped my lips as I fell to the ground. My body seed to have lost all of its energy as I dropped several tis to the ground as I tried to get up, but in spite of my best efforts, I couldn't get up.
"D..Damn it, not yet!"
"Give up young miss."
The lady from before spoke. Her words only served to incite a hidden anger that rushed out from within my body.
Glaring at the lady, I spat through my gnashed teeth.
"I said, only stop when I pass out!"
Her threatening aura seed to have worked sowhat, as the lady stopped insisting that she'd give up and just let her do her thing.
"As you wish."
Taking a step forward, the servant disappeared from the spot before reappearing right in front of . Her movents were lightning quick, and although I could react to them, my body couldn't, and was soon thrown all the way toward the other end of the training ground.
Crash—!
My body quickly crashed against the walls.
I had originally expected to feel so pain while I crashed against the wall, but to my surprise, I didn't.
It seed as though we couldn't feel pain in this imaginary world.
Nonetheless, I may not be able to feel pain, but I could still feel what lissa was feeling.
Frustration, anger, and resentnt.
Drip—! Drip—!
With more sweat dripping from her forehead, I slowly raised my head and glared at the lady.
"Again!"
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