The thought of being all alone has never really crossed my mind before.

It has to be better this way, right? If I’m the common denominator to everyone’s pain, take me out of the equation and everyone is, at the very least, not suffering…

The pain all over my body faded away as time stretched on to infinity, I wasn’t bored per se but my mind had a lot of time to wander and reach conclusions I was seemingly trying to avoid.

In hindsight, everything was very clear to me. That’s why I pushed Jake and Leonardo away, I shouldn’t have friends or people I care about.

Everything around me just suffers.

It kind of reminds of the story I heard on one of my wild hunts with Dawn and Snoopsi, the villagers said that there’s a legend that this continent of Lirkan is actually a part of a bigger world, a world that stretches beyond the ‘End Falls’.

In this bigger world there are 2 creatures, 1 female and 1 male that are called Re’Em, the male is Re and the female is Em. There can only be 1 of each at any given moment, they exist on the opposite side of each other and they only meet once every 50 years to create a new pair of Re’Em.

The reason only 2 of them exist at a time is because they are said to be so big that there’s not enough space in said bigger world for more than 2.

They said just 1 of those creatures is about 5 times the size of all of our Lirkan continent… In the past it would’ve sounded like a child’s bedtime story to me.

The reason they live on opposite sides of the world is related to another unbelievable fact, the villagers said the legend claims that our world, Vailour, is a sphere rather than a simple plane. The Re’Em walk in a clockwise direction and the force of their steps spins the sphere around thus making the sun appear in our sky during the day and disappear throughout the night.

Ridiculous…

The villagers told us that the Re was said to have walked past Lirkan once, during which, his ginormous hooves cast a big shadow over the continent, the shadow made it so the sun couldn’t reach the animals and citizens and a lot of people and cattle froze or starved to death.

The sun disappeared for a month when Re passed through. The creature just goes about his life and things around it suffer, funny how I can empathize with some legendary, probably made up creature…

I never really believed this story before. Our continent is just a piece of land that floats on a vast sea, at the end of the sea there’s a big waterfall called ‘End Falls’ and at the bottom of the waterfall there’s just darkness.

At least that’s what I used to believe, that is, until I met Jake. The fake history and the truth about the dungeons and our Seals, I wonder what all of it means...

“...ow, meow” The sound of a cat at my feet ended my day dreaming.

A black cat rubbed against my shins and purred before jumping up to my lap and shook his body from some water moving the metal clamps that pinched my skin in the process before nestling down.

I cringed at the slight pain but the cat’s fluffy fur felt nice on my skin regardless.

In a weird way, the sound of the rain outside, the warmth of the cat’s body and the smell of its slightly wet fur all combined into a weirdly comforting experience.

I sat in silence so as to not disturb the cat’s sleep. I watched as his small body went up and down with every breath.

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“So lucky… If only I could be as carefree as you are, I wish I could be a cat. I guess I’ll call you Lucky…” I whispered to no one in particular.

The time went on as the rain grew louder outside. The sound of creaking wood woke up my fluffy friend for a quick second before it put its head back down.

“H-how awful…” A somewhat familiar, soothing voice of a girl said from behind me.

“Are you alright?” I felt my eyelids becoming heavy as the girl spoke.

“H-hey are you awa…” Her soft voice trailed off as my consciousness slowly faded.

The sun was shining above my head, my body felt warm and heavy, but not in a bad way… It was similar to taking a nap after a meal.

The smell of freshly cut grass around me and the chirping of birds made me feel at ease.

There was a person next to me but I couldn’t open my eyes at all. Another dream I guess.

That person made me feel comfortable and warm, as if it was the sun’s warmth that embraced my body.

I finally managed to open my eyes just to see the same pitch black room. The ceiling seemed high and unreachable from this angle. There was something soft and warm under my head and my body was now covered in a girl’s school jacket.

The feeling of rhythmic breathing on my chest made me lift my head. It was Lucky, I guess he’s still here.

“What’s this guy’s name? Also, are you feeling well?” I sat up in a haste, waking Lucky in the process. There was a girl behind me, she seemed strangely familiar, her eyes were big and orange, almost red. Same color as a flame. Her hair was very unique, it was so white that it was almost shining.

“S-Sorry I didn’t mean to scare you, my name is S-”

“Sophia,” I said. “You’re the girl I met on my first day here, right?” Her voice and appearance were unique enough that I wouldn’t forget it.

Her face was just a tiny bit red and she smiled widely “Yes, I’m happy you remembered!”

I looked at her leaning against the wall as she sat on her knees, her hair was dripping with water. I picked up the jacket on my lap and gave it back to her “T-thanks for the jacket…” The girl was very pretty, maybe the prettiest I’ve ever seen. I realized what I slept on until now and my face and ears got hot.

The girl chuckled softly behind me. Lucky suddenly jumped up on my lap again and started rubbing against my stomach, “AWWW what is this cat’s name?! Is it yours? So cuteeee” She said as she crawled next to me and looked over my shoulder. So close!

“L-L-L-Lucky is his name!” I moved away from her and the girl laughed again.

“So the mighty legend, Slayer number 4 is scared of girls?” I looked at her and my face got even hotter so I looked away.

What is this, this person throws me off so much, she keeps catching me off guard!

Sophia went to pick Lucky up from my lap and the cat looked at me as if asking for permission “haha, it’s ok Lucky, you don’t have to stay with me.” I said as I patted his small head, it was boney and bumpy but the fur was soft and warm.

The white haired girl hugged Lucky and smooshed his face into her cheek.

I looked at them and my body felt strangely fuzzy and warm inside, the things I worried about were gone all of a sudden, I couldn’t even remember what tortured me a few minutes ago.

“So anyway, why are you in this run down place in the first place, Sophia?” I asked.

She put Lucky down on her lap and stroked his fur slowly.

The sound of the small fire we lit to warm us up filled the room, the smoke was searching for the open window to escape out of, much like Sophia’s eyes looking for a way to escape mine.

Her expression turned slightly somber and her gaze fixed on the serene cat on her lap.

“I followed you guys… At first I was just kind of curious to see what Thompson would do when he finds you, so I tailed him for a little bit.” Her brows furrowed slightly and her hair bangs loosely fell over her face.

“To be frank with you, Lifes, I was also one of the people who were hoping someone would get rid of you in some way…”

“G-get rid…?” I asked, my eyes now locked onto the dancing flames.

“I was scared!” Her voice turned somewhat shaky “It’s scary… having a famous or should I say, infamous assassin in our school. Your reputation precedes you, you know…”

“Tch, again with this bullshit… Whatever, just forget about it, I don’t want to hear.” I retorted.

“What? Won’t you at least let me expl-” I looked into her eyes, my murderous aura partly released. I don’t need any excuses.