“Huh, what are you doing here?” -?-

As I opened my eyes to look at the person that this musical voice belonged to I was greeted with complete darkness.

I once again tried and tried only to always end up where I started. Seeing nothing around me. My mind keeps telling me that I lost something while I was in the darkness, something important. But for all that was holy, I couldn’t make out what it was.

*Hatchi*

Suddenly I heard a sneeze behind me in the direction that the voice came from before.

“Why the hell am I sneezing again? A God shouldn’t sneeze!”

Ok … so the voice belongs to a God, huh … wait … A GOD!!! Why the hell am I in the company of a God?

“Hey, you!”

The voice was once again directed at me.

I started to panic …

What if the God …well Goddess in terms of the voice sounding female ...was angry with me? But why? I did not do anything wrong, right? Oh for the love of God (well, present company excluded) I can’t remember what I had done ... I am only a slightly more intelligent baby that harmed no one and I did nothing wrong!

*Hatchi* once again I could hear a sneeze behind me.

“I asked you something why aren’t you answering.”

I opened my mouth I am sorry … huh?

Just as I wanted to respond I could sense that my thoughts weren’t transmitted into words. Something was wrong … something was very wrong … why couldn’t I see, why couldn’t I speak and why the hell did this feeling of loss became stronger as the time went by.

“Why are you here?”

“I don’t know”

“Wait … somehow you seem familiar …”

“Not mutual … Not mutual at all“

“What is it about you … From your data, I can see that you are an old soul but you have neither light nor dark affinities … so why?”

“Sorry can’t give you answers to questions I don’t have a clue about!”

“NO … No, no, no, no … this can’t be … this perfect balance of light and dark mana. That can’t be. Why are you here again?”

“Where the hell is here!!!”

“Shouldn’t you be only one year old right now?”

“How do you know?”

“Did you die?”

“Not that I am aware of.”

“No that shouldn’t be right… If you died I would appear in Prena, not you here … What the hell is going on?”

“For the love of God”

*Hatchi*

“I want to know that too!”

“SOUGUA!!! GET YOUR ASS HERE RIGHT NOW!!!

Now back to you ... Are you the one responsible for making me sneeze?”

“Huh? How did you get that idea?”

“Since you came here, the itch in my nose is in overdrive and my sneezes are stronger than before. Like I said sneezing is not something that Gods normally do. So, … what did you do?”

“Ehm … no idea?”

“Still not answering?”

“Not like I can help it, you know? I don’t know how to speak with you! For the love of”

*Hatchi*

“... For the love of God.”

*Hatchi*

“… For Goddess sake.”

*Hatchi*

“... Oh my God …”

*Hatchi*

“Are you having fun?”

Suddenly a menacing voice could be heard. I could feel the vibrations and the power behind it. And all my mirth simply vanished. Even if I was able to make her sneeze at will I was still in the presence of a Goddess and I just pissed her off.

“Haaa ~ … Finally! Thank you, whatever you did is finally gone. I will still get back at you for that. But why aren’t you answering me …”

“BECAUSE I CAN’T!!!”

“Wow, you don’t need to scream!”

“Huh? You can hear me?”

“Oh, so you are meek once again … thank you for not bursting my eardrums with that last stunt by the way … But to answer your question I wanted to know what you were thinking about, so I established a mental pathway between us. Who could know that at that moment you were screaming at me? Really lady, mind your manners you are a princess!”

“I am sorry … but you are also at fault … and how do you know I am a princess?”

“Oh, are we pouting right know?” *chuckle* “And for the question, I am right now in your mind and can see your memories, of course, I can also access them … so that explains that.”

“YOU ARE WHAT!”

“Oh calm down … I am not so desperate that I look at each one of them .. even if these emotions on your daily baby-care are fun to watch …” *chuckle*

“Noooo ~ Don’t look at them!”

“Oh, you are pouting again … hahaha, you are so funny!”

“N-No I am not! … But that is beside the point … can you help me talk to you? I feel a bit uncomfortable having you in my mind. And GET AWAY FROM MY MEMORIES! Please?”

“Hahaha … I didn’t have this much fun since your last visit 24 years ago …”

“Wait 24 years? But I am only one year old …“

“Oh yes. In my room, the time is 24 times faster than in general … you know I am the Goddess that governs over Life and Death so I need a bit of extra time than most of the Gods to finish all the paperwork. So my room is special but we will get into that in a minute. The reason you are not able to speak is that you try to use your mouth …”

“Isn’t that normal?”

“Shush .. Let me speak!”

“Yes Ma’am!”

“As I said before you are in the room of the Goddess of Life and Death, that accelerates everything at a speed of 24 times the normal time. So, only Gods and Souls can enter it since they are essentially immortal and so not affected by my room.

And that means, right now, you are in your soul form and YOU. DO. NOT. HAVE. A. MOUTH! Now stop screaming in my head.”

“WHAAAA ~ *cough**cough* … Yes …”

“Deli”

“Yes, Deli I am calm ... I am so calm. I amcalm, Iam calm, I am calm, Iamcalm …”

“Ok ok ok you can stop that … Now the way you communicate as a soul is easy … Instead of trying to say the words with your mouth, think about it like the person you are talking to can hear them and then project them outside …”

“So like thinking loud right?”

“Yes but please no screaming ok? Normally since we are in the Immortal Plane you can’t communicate at all since a soul is in itself weaker than a God. So for the Gods to hear your “thinking out loud” we have to lower our mental barriers quite a bit so when you scream you are essentially hurting us with that and a few of my acquaintances would almost instantly kill you for that, do you understand me?”

”Yes Ma’am!”

“Oh, and the same goes for the visual element ... just think about it as being able to see without focusing on your eyes.”

“Ok …”

I found it a bit hard to really totally not think about my sensory organs as the reason for my sensations, so I needed about half an hour to get it right but then I could finally see my surroundings, I was blown away. But a little part of me found my surroundings familiar, not that I could put my finger on it, it just was that … a feeling.

“Well, that is not important right now. Ok, so, like last time…”

“Deli … Thank you.”

“Oh ... you are fast! Normally souls need at least two hours to get it right and you only needed half an hour. You impress me again and again. Just like last time …”

“Right, Deli, I wanted to ask you about that ... why are you always speaking as if we met before and got to know each other?”

“Oh, right your memories were sealed … well, first let us sort out this mess of your appearance here before we get into detail … Sougua should be back right now with …”

*knock, knock*

“As we speak of the devil here he is …”

“Mistress could you please stop referring to me as a devil. I am just doing my job.”

A handsome young man with white skin, midnight black eyes and hair, in a butler uniform entered the room but only took one step before standing still. His mouth formed a smile, however his eyes were like black orbs unable to show any emotion giving him a cold feeling like a statue.

*tsk*

“Mistress … *sigh* … well, I bought the two young Masters along. Do you give the permission for entry?”

“Haaah … I totally forgot for a moment. Yes, yes, let them in.”

“Hey Sis, that is mean ~ ...”

“Muwa is right! You asked us to come here, without so much as an explanation and now you say that you forgot us?”

“Wiju, I don’t need you to support me you know?”

“Huh? How would you be able to do anything without me, you muscle-brain?”

“Shut up you bookworm!”

“Trainfreak!”

“Antisocial NEET!”

“Huh? Is that the best you can do, you buffalo?”

“Huh?”

“HUH?”

“HUH?”

“SHUT THE FUCK UP, BOTH OF YOU!!!”

“YES, SIS!!!”

*wow seems like Deli has the pants on in this relationship … this would be perfect with a bit of caramel popcorn … whatever that is, haa ~ seems like my mind is info spamming me again … even though it was so quiet for the last few months*

“Now that I have your attention, I would like you to explain to me how that happened?”

She said while pointing at me.

“HEY! I am not a thing! My name is Speraenya Emerthelil of Praesto.”

At the sudden glare of Deli which was directed at me, I shrunk back.

“But you can call me Spera.”

“Now, Wiju, Muwa, can you tell me how this situation could happen?”

“Wow … quite a strong soul but also quite young? That is the first time I have seen such an occurrence …” The beautiful man with ocean blue eyes and dark blue hair approached me and started inspecting me.

Meanwhile, the black clothed man who had his whole body covered except for his green eyes looked at me from the other side of the room.

After he had noticed me he suddenly got really quiet, even though he had insulted the scholarly man that examined me right now, just moments before.

“Deli … what do you think?”

Wow, even his voice got lower …

“I thought maybe you can tell me. I blessed this soul just before her reincarnation, but that should not have allowed her to just pop up in my room without literally dying while trying.”

“Sorry, you said blessing? But you never give out a blessing … Wait, you did! Like a year ago right? You told us in the conference.”

“Yes … she is that soul.”

“Hey you know I am right here, right? Can you please not talk like I can’t hear you?”

“What kind of blessing did you give her?”

“Just a normal one. But she did not even awaken it that should have happened on her 12 birthday, but she is not even one year old.”

“Hey …”

“What if you made a mistake?”

“HUH? I don’t make mistakes!”

“Well, I am just saying that could be a possibility... and if I am remembering correctly you had a lot on your plate last year. Maybe we should look into that …”

“Hey …”

“Yeah, let’s do that. What do you think could have gone wrong?”

Suddenly a dark voice sounded in the room.

“Grand Blessing …” that voice belonging to Muwa that had moved right next to me without me even noticing.

“WHAT?!?” “WHAT?!?” Deli and Wiju screamed.

“HEY!!!” I screamed.

“Ghuu ~” all three Gods and Sougua that had stood by the door groaned.

“I TOLD YOU NOT TO SCREAM !”

“THEN DON’T IGNORE ME!”

“SHUT UP!”

*For goodness sake ~*

*HATCHI*

And just like that the room descended into an uncomfortable silence.