My fate was that of a bait. It’s what the captain dictated after she told about the weird group that ca after her.
"What sort of growth?" I had asked, acting ignorant of my choices and the bloodlust that I held before losing consciousness.
And it would seem, she also thought that I wouldn’t rember it, as she had tried to overlook the matter and only explained that I shouldn’t fight.
But should I tell her that it was already too late? There was a high chance that they were wishing to awaken my mories from my last life.
One where I was the pet of a young boy, a young boy who was like my mother, my friend, and my enemy.
A young boy whom I had killed many tis as a sort of revenge. And for so reason, the desire to kill him was a lot stronger in my head as well.
And yes, he was a young boy. He died in his youth, his ill mind locked forever in a certain mindset, incapable of growth. He only pursued one thing and one thing only.
It was entertaining for him to watch the misery of others. At first, it was the rats, my prior incarnation. In this life, he had grown stronger and much worse. He now had the godly power to manipulate people as much as he wanted.
As for how? I don’t know. But I know for sure, he beca like this due to what he had gained in that dream.
That ever-repeating dream where I enjoyed killing that boy again and again.
"Your face, it’s cold hard isn’t it?" Suddenly, the captain asked an odd question. Which made lift my hand up and touch my face.
No, it would be more appropriate to say, I tried to do it, but couldn’t feel a thing. It’s not only my face that has frozen, but my fingers as well. "The folly of the dead, my body doesn’t generate heat I guess." I smiled, looking at the gloomy sky which hailed down snow on .
"Tell if you have any problem moving, I will bury you on the side and go to the place myself," Captain said with cruelty that was unbecoming of her. It makes wonder if it was a joke or not. Though considering the mood between the two of us and the lack of trust, it’s easy to treat it as truth. She might really an it.
So I shook my head. "Please no, captain. I won’t be a burden to you. As long as I move my joints, I can generate enough heat to keep the cold out." I lied, or it’s better to say, I didn’t know if it was possible. As for the fact of that corpse fire that my body is able to produce now?
I didn’t ntion it, I believe Captain did know about it, but as I said before. For so reason, she doesn’t want to recall my actions from before. aning I shouldn’t know of that fla’s existence.
This made consider whether was this a trick question. She asked to confirm if I have control over whose samadhi flas or not.
If I had said that I could use the flas, it would an she had caught on to my lies.
But one thing I did know, I don’t want to be buried here for a long ti. Not to ntion, in case sothing happened to the captain, or what if she forgot where I was buried? Things would beco a bit problematic.
And I still have to save my foolish sister. The only family that hadn’t tried to kill and showed actual concern in her own way.
It won’t be a repeat of that last life. Although I don’t rember most of it, I know for sure that I killed them. Killed my mother, my brothers, and my sisters, all in the na of survival.
Bla it on my animalistic instincts of the training that young boy made go through. But it doesn’t wash my hands over the things I did. I was smarter than them, I should have known better.
It’s why I was adamant about that past not ever repeating again.
And this woman, this captain was my key to it. The power that I lacked, she could provide with it. That is of course, if she ca to trust .
"So keep moving, I believe the village is not too far off." She ordered , dragging to so old village. A village that seed very close to her heart. Although she had hidden it, I could see the little movents on her body and twitches in her head as she tried to find any sort of sign of that village’s existence.
Or the path at least.
Which ant, we should have been in the village already, but we were still not there yet.
Was it this llow snow that fell from the sky being the reason? I don’t think so. "Captain, this village of yours, is it below so mountain or in an open field?" I asked, curious about where it was.
From what I can tell, we were already a few thousand ters above sea level. With even taller mountains that surrounded us. There was barely any flora, and for animals to hunt, it was much harder.
There was next to no food here, so why would anyone live here?
Unless of course, we are in the wrong area.
"Surrounded by mountains but in an open field. So you can think of it as both."
"So small paradise in this cold hell?" I smiled, but my frozen lips weren’t able to fold upwards.
She turned to look at , but she didn’t say a thing. Guess, she caught sothing? I don’t know.
"Was it so secret village? Why would soone live here unless they were hiding from the world."
"Sothing like that, but this village was not closed to the outside. There were countless outsiders that ca to live here before the curse of undead devoured the village whole." She didn’t turn around this ti, she just kept on moving while giving the answer.
The curse of the undead is one of the most potent and infectious curses known to mankind. But then I wondered. "Won’t the corpses just freeze instead of starting to move... was it during sumr?" Being a student of the occult, it was easy for to find an issue with that claim.
Usually, those born out of that curse were weak towards the cold as well as fire.
They were just moving corpses, rotten and dried in so cases. Easy to burn, and brittle and slow when in cold.
While in such a snowy environnt, they were completely harmless as without any body heat or cold defenses, they would just freeze and wait for their ti to co. Which might be, never.
Truly a cursed fate for those undead, and even who was slowly freezing from top to bottom. And it won’t be long before she finds it out.
’I need heat... shelter at least.’ I thought. But asking for it is the sa as accepting the fact that I was lying. I couldn’t keep my body worn just through movents alone.
’When will we reach there?’
Then, sothing caught my eye. "Captain, on the right, there is a white wolf," I said. Knowing full well that the captain must have seen it.
So why didn’t she ntion it herself?
Was it another ga of hers?"
"A wolf won’t be here unless there is sothing to eat." She pointed out, before making wonder if the thought that the wolf might have considered us its food ca to her mind or not.
No, I was being a fool. Animals possess much stronger senses than us humans. They are beings of instincts, I know this better than anyone. It’s a skill honed in our DNA, it’s through this instinct that we know what is food and what is the thing that might consider us its food.
Rats being small and so abundant, they were food to virtually everything in existence, it’s why we were fearful of everything and knew when to hide from danger.
It’s why I believed this wolf might be the sa and it won’t climb down from that hill and hunt us. And the captain should have believed as such as well. Or to her, the thought of being a prey never entered her mind. She believed in her strength.
"It is going sowhere... we will follow it." She spoke to , it was more like an order.
"Captain, the wolf never hunts alone, its fur is white as well... our sight is also limited due to the snow... I fear an ambush." I spoke my fears.
No matter what, these snow wolves were larger in size than normal wolves. I can even feel so kind of danger from it.
Not that the wolf itself was strong. But sothing told that following it was dangerous. But the Captain seed adamant on following it. Almost as if possessed, she ignored my words and started to keep up the pace with the beast.
’Fuck.’ My body was partially frozen, I couldn’t move so fast. And I can’t afford to fall behind.
The pure samadhi flas didn’t have any heat, the one mutated by the mixture of my body was too bizarre and filled with curse energy, which if I used will obviously be felt by the Radiant Knight in front of , who was super sensitive to curses.
’What to do?’
I thought, before a crazy idea ford in my head.
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