As soon as I received Clara's ssage, I was on my way.
It was my free ti, I also didn't have anything to cancel.
I wouldn't have cared even if I had sothing to cancel, though.
Because the mont I saw that ssage, I had a bad feeling.
I was in such a hurry that it only took fifteen minutes to get from the academy to her house. I may have even made the driver break a few traffic rules.
And so I arrived in front of the house.
After becoming a mber of the nobility, Clara naturally had to change her ho, both moving closer to her school and moving from an apartnt to a detached house. So, first of all, I had to enter the garden of the house...
The door to the garden opened by itself as I was approaching it.
She was probably waiting for my arrival.
Yeah, that must be it.
I entered the garden without slowing down. As I approached the house, I could only think of one thing.
Clara had never asked for anything until now. Even when she had urgent matters, she hesitated to ask for help, she wanted to deal with her own problems on her own.
That's why the significance of her wanting to et 'urgently' was even more than it normally would have been.
And for the sa reason, I went inside quickly.
The sight I saw as soon as I passed through the door, which stood open as if waiting for , caused to pause involuntarily.
Clara was... inside.
She was sitting on the sofa in the center of the living room, looking at with an expression that was both quite serious and a bit... timid.
The important thing, though...
She was safe.
As soon as I saw that she was okay, I felt a sense of relief. A weight lifted off my shoulders.
I slowly closed the door to the house. Then, since she didn't seem to have any physical problems, I approached her just as slowly and sat down on the couch right across from her.
I was the first to speak.
"What could be the matter that my dear sister would want us to discuss face to face, that's what I've been thinking since I saw your ssage."
I couldn't help squinting.
"You scared , Clara. And my worries are not all gone. So... I think I'm right to ask for a quick and clear explanation."
Clara took a deep breath, then narrowed her eyes.
"I'm sorry for scaring you. But... I have sothing really important to say."
She straightened herself up slightly and looked straight in the eyes.
"Listen to carefully, brother. I don't want you to react too quickly."
At this point, the only thing keeping my body from trembling with nervousness was the Absolute Mind. But I ignored it, nodding my head.
And Clara... continued.
"As you know, I've been receiving training as a seer from Mr. Chazon. But, even without this training, my skill activates spontaneously sotis, showing things that are either essential or unnecessary."
So... she saw sothing important?
"And that's what I want to tell you."
She paused, clasping her hands together and averting her eyes.
"A few days ago, I saw sothing. Sothing I'm not quite sure what it was. And I'm also hesitant to tell you."
Normally, I would say, "What are you dragging out? Just tell ." here if soone told the sa things she said.
But... it was clear from her every gesture that she was still unsure whether to say what she wanted to say.
So I just nodded my head and waited patiently.
Eventually...
"I saw a girl, in that vision. A little girl about five years old. She was in a... room, a closed room with so creatures that she had killed with her hands."
My mind started working fast after these words.
A girl, huh...
A girl of about five years old.
Was there a girl in the ga who was about five years old at this point in the story and had an important role?
She must have been strong to be able to kill several creatures...
Then she cannot be human.
No, if she is five years old, she cannot be of any race let alone human. Even for other races, a five-year-old is just a little child who knows nothing about the world, who cannot control their abilities properly.
These were my thoughts.
But, then, I paused.
Actually... she could be a fae.
Even the fae as children can be quite frightening sotis.
"She was dark-haired, I couldn't see her eyes. She was wearing only a white one-piece outfit."
A five-year-old fae with black hair...
Well... I don't rember anybody like that from the ga.
In fact, I don't rember any significant character with black hair who is five years old at this point in the story directly in the ga.
"Now... please calm down, at least try to be so."
...
Okay, this is a lot scarier than I thought it would be.
"The person I saw... looked like soone. Soone I know. At least when she was younger."
I squinted slightly and Clara, unlike the previous tis, went straight to her words.
But...
"She looked like Olivia."
What ca out of her mouth, no matter how much she warned , made freeze in my tracks.
"No... she was exactly the sa."
Ti seed to stop. I couldn't hear much anyway because we were inside the house, but I felt like I was in a place where sound couldn't reach.
"What...?"
Sue?
I don't know why, I just stood up on my own.
I didn't even reach for my cane. I simply walked in front of Clara, ignoring the pain in my foot, barely even feeling it.
I crouched down, put my hands on her shoulders, and looked into her eyes, just as she did, without blinking my own for a single mont.
"Clara... did that vision show you Sue?"
She nodded her head up and down as lightly as she could without saying anything.
"When she was little, about five?"
Again.
"In a room where she had killed so 'creatures'?"
And again.
...
My mind refused to work.
I wanted to think, I wanted to replay what she said over and over again in my head.
But... I couldn't.
I just stood there like that.
"..."
"At first, I thought about not telling you. But then I realized that not telling you was causing other problems on their own."
Sue.
When she was five years old.
Killed creatures?
As a 'human being'?
...
Impossible.
"Clara... tell every detail of what you saw."
And she did. Everything, from beginning to end, even if it was quite short. Even what the creatures whose bodies she saw looked like.
And the more I listened to her, the more illogical it all seed.
The creatures, if my guess was right, would have been at least around D grade.
It was literally impossible for Sue's five-year-old self to kill them.
And even if she could, she was... an ordinary person.
If she had that kind of power, she would have been a very different person. It would have been just as absurd for her to die in Wiathen.
Then... there was only one scenario.
That this was the future, not the past.
"Sith…"
Sith suddenly appeared beside , glancing briefly in Clara's direction. Clara looked back at him.
"Correct if I'm wrong."
But then they both focused on without exchanging a single word between them.
"In this universe... there is no way to rewind death, right?"
He never changed his expression, he kept looking at with the sa eyes. And he answered in the sa way.
"There is not."
His voice echoed directly in my ears, not in my mind, for he did not bother to disguise himself like he usually did.
"For spiritual death, at least."
He continued without even giving a chance to think.
"But rember this, Aiden. That girl died in your arms. I watched her soul fade with my own eyes."
He floated slowly in front of , closer, as if he didn't want to focus on anything but him.
"There is no way to restore a soul that has been extinguished. The closest thing that can be done is replication. And even then, the person who erges is not 'the sa' as before. It is a clone of that person. You should know that well."
...
I know.
That's why I started my question by saying 'Correct if I'm wrong'.
On Lunerra, death is an inevitable end.
The soul, once it has reached its end, cannot be brought back into existence in any way.
Even what the phoenixes do follows these rules. They prevent their souls from being completely extinguished, and then they use their techniques to create the perfect body for these souls to inhabit before they disappear completely.
Then...
Why did Clara see such a thing?
Is it really possible that what she saw was actually 'the past'?
My eyes involuntarily turned toward her.
Clara was experinted on as a child, and I still don't know exactly what happened to her.
She was even younger than Sue in the vision if I'm not mistaken.
So much so that her heart was changed, and even though she's not really talented, her special heart allows her to do things that no one else can do at her level.
But... it wasn't long ago that her powers woke up.
Only recently has she begun to see the benefit of past experints.
"Ah..."
Was it the sa for Sue?
Was she subjected to so experints too?
Only, unlike Clara, she died before her powers could awaken...
Is that it?
...
Is that why Paul's connection with Saligia was not random?
Suddenly, my mind was filled with different possibilities. Tons of possibilities that could have happened or could not have happened.
Yes, maybe Sue was... gone.
Paul wasn't alive either.
Their past was of no use to now in any way. No matter how much I learned about them, all I would havein the end... was information that no longer mattered.
Nevertheless.
Despite this...
I need it.
My eyes squinted. My mind cleared with the small amount of mana I had purposely poured into the Absolute Mind.
I slowly turned to Clara.
"Thank you for deciding not to hide what you saw."
I want to know.
"If you see anything about Sue or... Paul, from now on, tell . Okay?"
I want to know what Sue went through... even if it won't do any good.
"Okay."
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