The room was fortable, it was bigger than she needed, and the bed was on the smaller side, but big enough to hold her and have some spare room to be fortable. Should she want to sleep with someone else (Namely a blonde girl), they would o stay closer than ever.

  She wouldn’t mind it though. But she wouldn’t put that forward, she didn’t want to be a nuisance, and she was aware that Elizabeth didn’t want to be lio her, now that the fog that clouded her mind was gone she was able to think and look back to her memories, and while most of those memories were things she would like tet. There were pieces of light among the darkness.

  The first time she met Elizabeth, and how her mind and body reacted. Hostility towards the new feeling that was blossoming on her [Soul], she hadn’t known at the time that the feeling she was getting was one of salvation and her mind only thought that it was the feeling of someohat coveted what she thought it was hers.

  Then it was that oime she met her was almost a year ago when they met at the park. Her [Soul] had tried to link itself to Elizabeth, seeking salvation, and she had been refused. She didn’t bme Elizabeth for that of course, as far as she was ed… I was an enemy, worse. I was sleeping with his biggest enemy.

  Had it been me, had someone e seeking my help… If an enemy of Elizabeth came seeking salvation from me, I would have looped his head , I’m sure Lina…No, I’m sure Rossaline would do the same. Those who served under Elizabeth would all do the same, and that was something too.

  “Will you be all right Miss Rena?” The purple-haired girl asked me.

  I should answer…

  ….[Parallel Thought] & [Mind Accelerator].

  The feeling was immediate as the world slowed down to a crawl, it was simir to what I used to feel when fighting, what some called [The Zone], but uhose times my body wasn’t strained, nor was I flooded with adrenaline, in this frozen world I was aloh my thoughts as oer another more versions of myself rose from within my [Soul].

  “Do we need something else?” I asked my other selves.

  “We don’t know where is Elizabeth, we ask that.” The first of me answered it was the ohat showed in the appearance of a little girl wearing a ragged sundress.

  “We don’t need anything, tell her that she leave. We o meditate aer ourselves. We o be ready for bat, we aren’t sure this pce is safe.” The sed to answer was a version of myself that I didn’t know that well, it was an older version of me, perhaps around four to five years older.

  She was dressed in bat armor, ahat only covered her abdomen, legs, and arms. Her face was exposed, her waist was covered by a strip of cloth and nothing else, and her chest was hidden behind a thread bikini that barely hid the most important parts of her chest.

  “So we are okay then, I will ask her about Elizabeth and tell her that everything is fine.” She checked with the other facets of herself.

  Both o her and she felt the time start moving forward, it was an iing feeling, these skills only worked in social circumstances, she couldn’t use them to fight, nor to practice. Trying to use them for anything else that wasn’t that would result in nothing.

  “I’m fihank you Aura, if it isn’t too much to ask you tell me where is Elizabeth or where is she pnning to go?” The words flew through her mouth, and the other minds within her were still at an accelerated and helping her weave the words into a coherent phrase.

  No one knew how badly damaged she was, they knew she was badly damaged of course, nor how it had affected her. They knew her soul had been ravaged, and they didn’t know what or how this would affect her iure.

  “Mistress is currently finishing her review of her earnings after squishing that BUG, reparing her a bath in case she decides to take oer the long day.” The purple girl said while pointing to a door in her current bedroom.

  This bedroom wasn’t ohat could aodate three people, and she didn’t doubt that Rossaline had a room here, but this one wasn’t. The pce reeked of rich people, not the extravagant type either, no. This was more of the silent type of riess, the tou the fabric used for the bs. The carpet in the hallway, the lighting hidden away under decorations.

  The bathroom she didn’t give a sed thought even though it had a door into another pce she didn’t check…

  “This is a shared bathroom?” Rena asked, her voice trembling just a little as her breathing was turning rough. She was fighting to keep herself calm.

  “Yes, Lady Rossaline asked for the couple’s bedroom to be prepared.” Aura answered the girl was smiling all the while, “They should arrive within…Oh, Yes Mistress. The bathroom is ready.”

  And then the girl ripped opened a portal towards the other room, she could [Feel] the blonde girl as she ying around iher room with Rossaline. She could feel it in her [Soul], the craving of her whole body to rush and tie herself into the the bed to be pyed with.

  To be ravaged, to be punished, hit upon, abused, trashed, toyed with… to be gobbled upon by Elizabeth. She didn’t uand it, she should feel hate, she shouldn’t feel enticed by the pleasures of the flesh, her body had been abused beyond reason. And that was the thing, she was…tainted.

  She had wao scrape a couple of yers of her skin and regee them back to feel herself , she wao scrape the internals of her body that had been touched by Akira. To rip opehroat and tongue for they had been pyed by Akira, to shove her arm inside herself and rip out her uterus.

  She loathed her body, she didn’t want anyone else to ever be tainted by what had remained within her body, but… she also wao be embraced, to be loved, to feel the pleasure of the flesh. And she was sure that this was a way of Rossalio test her.

  That girl khe room she would get, and was doing this to test her. To see if she would let herself be enticed, if she would react by the moaning, by the giggles… by the sound of the water spshing. By the sound of two bodies sharing a small jacuzzi.

  She wao be defeated, to rush to that bathroom, to rip apart her clothes and walk nontly into the room and sit herself in the jacuzzi as if nothing, to kiss Elizabeth as if nothing, to fondle her, to join her not only in soul, but in body aions.

  “[What stops you?]” There it was again, the same voice.

  The ohat had spoken to her after waking up in the arena with Rossaline healing her. Calling to her from within her [Soulscape], so she removed her clothes and sat iation pose in her bed, it was easier to meditate like this with fewer clothes… She also could try to make Elizabeth make the first move should she find her like this.

  Not that the blonde girl would, she was too much of a good person. To take advantage of her like that.

  So closing her eyes while looking at the door that separated her from the giggles of Elizabeth and Rossaline she sank into herself, the ime she opened her eyes she saw the ruined city with sm bck fmes here and there. In front of her was the door to an apartment, it was a familiar pce even if she didn’t know where she had seen that door before.

  Opening that door she found herself in a apartment, it was a funny thing this pce, as far as she khis was her [Soulscape], the refle of her soul. A normal apartment, everything was where she would put it. It was a cozy pce, a pce where you would find yourself if you had a family waiting for you…

  Only… this pce was [broken], not in the physical sense, she could touch the sofa and find it whole, but to her eyes, the sofa was cracked in several pces. And those cracks weren’t limited there, they traversed the whole pce. A and well-furnished apartment where reality was broken.

  Like her, at first sight, you would think she was fine, but if you looked closely into the whole, you could see the cracks, how she stopped to think before speaking or moving. How she didn’t speak too much.

  The only blessing in disguise from her situation, Akira didn’t like speaking women, so he forbade her to speak, and now that she wao speak she wasn’t able to do so without help from skills.

  “[I still let you rejoin the circle of transmigration.]” The voice spoke once more, from the door that usually would lead to the baly and to the emerge.

  The only thing in this pce that wasn’t broken, and also, the only thing that didn’t fit here. The thematic of her apartment was a suburban apartment, but that door?

  That one was one more fit for a home in a rural part.

  Walking toward it she opened and crossed the threshold, the feeling came, and like always she felt herself falling, it was an iing feeling, the feeling of falling through thousands of kilometers… But also only experimented with this feeling for a few seds before she felt the ground under her feet once more.

  “I will not sever myself from Elizabeth. I o repay the favor first.” She said towards the ohat kept speaking to her.

  “[You don’t o repay anything to her, the Ior would have dealt with him one way or another. If not her someone else would have do.]” The woman answered back, she was a woman who always made her feel self-scious, she was almost two meters tall, with flowing purple hair that reached her waist and wasn’t tied in any form, as if the woman couldn’t care about her perfect hair.

  She was dressed in a loose toga-like dress with a purple sash at her waist to keep the loose fabri pce, this, however, only served to make her breast look more big, making her look down to herself. Her body…had ged mu the st year, thanks to the use of skills and body manipution.

  She was more petite before, while she wasn’t ft… She had been a B-cup, and now she was closer to D…the tter half of the D-Cup. And while she could fix it to normal, she wasn’t sure of the preferences of Elizabeth.

  Elizabeth was on the bigger side, and Rossaline was on the smaller one. But she did know the blonde liked to stare at her chest and bite her lip whehought no one was seeing.

  This didn’t escape her or Rossaline’s eyes. But this woman?

  She was closer to the G-Cup, a her breast seemed perky enough, injustice, this was INJUSTICE!

  “[Do you want to touch them?]” The woman asked as she noticed her stare.

  “Stop pying around, why do you bother me so much?” Rena asked, she khis woman was important. She had mao breach Elizabeth’s Soulscape.

  And this pce?

  This endless open space with crystal spires that seemed to reach to a rock ceiling that seemed way far away… This was no normal pce, Elizabeth’s soulscape was big, but this? This almost seemed like an indepe world.

  “[Because you are a rade, the bination of skills I granted you is one I use, even if for different reasons…]” The woman answered, “[I don’t thiroduced ourselves yet. People have called me many names across the time.]”

  The woman said as her purple eyes turo the side, a pair of chairs and a table maing themselves. The table was almost two meters long and the chairs were at ead, but somehow she khat no problem in unication would occur, so Rena sat herself at one end while the woman sat at the other.

  “[I have been called Mother, didn’t liked that oo be ho, just because you create something doesn’t mean you o take care of it, like…I’m barely a few millennia old… I haven’t eve a special one!]” The purple-haired woman said with a groan and the information of people raving and speaking about a [Mother] maed in Rena’s mind.

  “[Other’s called me God, and while that one was closer to home…I’m not a man, they should at least call me Goddess. Am I not pretty enough? I’m very good-looking if I say so myself.]” The purple-haired entity said, Rena hadn’t recovered from the information dump yet when temples to an unknowy showed in her mind. She had seen those temples, she had even prayed at one of them after the [Advent].

  When Akira had seo get a new [Uniform] for their [Nightly Training].

  “[A few people called me Brat and all, but he was, to be ho. An asshole, ohat tried to pretend to be smart, I mao strip part of his Soul and made a delivery spirit from it.]” The woman said and for some reason, on this one, all she got for information was the face of a blonde man, she felt as if it was someone she knew, but couldn’t pce the face.

  “[The closest oo a friend I have call me Crystal, well they think about me like that. They use the pet name of Taciturn bitd The woman who made us into gods because she couldn’t deal with the problems she caused, she even speak? Is ahere? when I’m not around.]” This time the images that came to her were of a bck-haired man and a blonde woman, the man had Elizabeth’s eyes and the woman seemed to look like an older more mischievous Elizabeth.

  “[Really, they are o have around, but I wish Odyssey would speak slower, like Framework. I only accelerate my sciousness stream so much, and unlike you, all the parts of me are the same, so we ’t do your cheat of using more experienced selves to weave our words.]” …those were the names of the current gods on this p.

  The ohat had forsaken her… So this woman was also…? But she helped her…?

  “You are…a goddess?” Rena asked taking everything into at. This entity could pierce Elizabeth’s soulscape…how?

  All she studied about them said they were impervious unless using [Soul Manipution Teiques], and even those had been forbidden under [Odyssey]’s divine decree…

  “[ly, our species are close to gods yes. But we are… different. Yods are closer to you than you are to me.]” The woman asked, how could a diviy be closer?

  No wait, shouldn’t she be closer to a god than the gods are to her?

  “How is that possible? No wait, if you are like that, then why are we even speaking? Should…Should I bow? Pray? Kneel?” Rena wasn’t sure what to do, she had promised to not depend on any god ever. It hadn’t been a god who saved her, it was Elizabeth.

  “[I’m not a goddess or anything like that, why would I want your prayers? No. We speak because like I said I’m like you in some aspects. I too find it difficult to speak with others, most of the time I just don’t. Easier that way.]” Crystal said she snapped her fingers and a cup of aterialized in front of both of them. “[Odyssey speaks too muonsense so she isn’t a good target to speak, also she hates gods too mud associates myself with them, even though I’m not one of them and said as much whe.]”

  The woman said while a television rose from the floor at their side, a video was already pying, on it, the purple-haired woman was running from one side to the other preparing a dining table full of all kinds of foods.

  Then after making sure everything was in order, she sat herself at the top of the table, and like this ohe chairs oher end were quite far away. She wasn’t sure what to expect till two pilrs of light maed in the image, and from it, two figures strode forward. One of them was a man full of muscles with a skin-tight body armor, bck hair, and shining azure eyes, the other was a woman dressed in what could pass as a magical girl dress, her hair was blonde and her eyes while they were green, they shoh anger.

  The same kind of ahat she koo well, ohat she wasn’t able to release because her target of hate wasn’t around anymore.

  “I will make somethiremely clear here. I HATE GODS, I HATE THEM BEYOND REASON AND IF I FIND A WAY TE ALL OF THEM OF EXISTENCE I WILL DO IT. The only reason I’m here is because we o make sure Ethan wouldn’t asd, because we o make sure that we could save Elizabeth.” The oke, her form fred ond then turned into another form, one she wasn’t sure if it was the real or not.

  The woman was dressed in a blood-tainted dress ripped open all over the pce, her body full of scars that seemed too painful to even look at, the mana seemed to want to flow into them to heal them, but the woman’s mana was keeping everything at bay.

  “I’m grateful for yifts to me, they allowed me to have a family, to survive two wars. And to make the world a better pce, so I will do my part. But know this, if I ever find that you had something, or helped [The Stygian Bane] hurt Elizabeth… I WILL BREAK YOU.” The man spoke, the st part of his message making the whole pce tremble.

  Even though it was a video she felt it resonated within her.

  Both turo the purple woman who eyed them pcidly as if the threats didn’t mean anything, as if they were below her. And then, she opened her mouth, Rena thought she would offer a refusal, an expnation.

  “[Not.A.God.]” She said.

  The man who should be Framework and the woman who should be Odyssey, eyed the feast and then walked to the side, “We will do our part for now, but don’t pretend we are anything more than coworkers. Hubby will make sure the world is in one pd I will make sure the stupid System runs on the rules you put, but that will be all.” Was all the woman said before waving her arm and making a door appear from nothing.

  Just like that both new gods left Crystal in the prepared ba, Rena wasn’t too sure about how to react to this, she had seen the woman fuzz around and prepare everything for those two… Who after ing to this pce seemed to be angry at Crystal, threaten her, and then leave…? Was she supposed to sole a god?

  Katsurandom