It was 55th day of the 77 days I have left in the castle and I felt that life is good.
The main reason for this was that I saw Tear having a fun conversation with another servant for the first time since I was here. That was five days ago and now her conversations with others have become a regular thing. I was still out of the question but she did not seem to hate royalty in general as I saw her chatting up my eldest brother so there is hope. The swan therapy was literally doing miracles for her, or she could bounce back from hardships easily, as what should have taken her months if not years to heal from is being repaired as fast as days. I just hope she never has to find out about the horrible deed I did.
Currently I was laying on top of the roof, it has been a while since I last came here. This place brilliant when one needed to think and currently in need of some enlightenment. As the day of the departure came creeping in I realized I needed to take care of a lot of things. I am not taking Tear with me as that would be tantamount to hurting her and she was currently in a very fragile state. She was improving but any attack to her psyche could reverse all the improvement she has made. Although all this knowledge is from movies and games I am willing to bet not everything shown is a complete sham.
My most pressing issue is how to separate Blue and Tear without destroying Tear. Blue was my familiar and come with me even if I told it otherwise, she was a little spoiled like that but she was also valuable team mate so leaving her is not an option. The next issue is my growth, in what direction did I want to move. Right now it is not a very big issue but I would suffer later if I did not have a clear path to walk on. Then there is the subject of what I wanted to do, I acclaimed that I wanted to be a hero but there is no demon king in this world. It is not plagued by anything or threatened by anything. It is a very stable world from what I have read. This world has nothing I need to save it from. My current hope is that something exciting develops that would propel my journey as a hero. The thought of wanting the world in peril was in itself evil but it is not like I was actively trying to do anything, it was just a harmless wish. But I had to set up an alternate path in life just in case that does not work out.
My train of thought was broken by my spirit friends.
‘You seem like you are deep in thought. What is anything wrong?’
‘No nothing serious just wish things were not so vague and complicated.’
‘Vague and complicated?’
‘Ah. I forgot that you area spirit and have no human worries whatsoever. Don’t worry it’s just some human crap.’
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‘I told you many times already you should ditch this human nonsense and be free like us spirits. Life would be so much fun.’
I sat up as it was getting rather uncomfortable lying on wet tiles.
‘Not so easy my friends. You see I was born human and I have certain feelings that are very different from fairies.’
‘First of all don’t mix us with fairies that is an insult to any spirit and secondly not true, I have been alive for 277 human years and found out that our emotions were just like humans. It’s just that we have less of the bad stuff.’
(You make it sound like that the humans are bad. Sure we have some bad qualities but we are not without merit.)
‘Oh yeah, Simon there is something I have wanting to ask you but I just keep on forgetting. What is sex?’
‘Wait what?!? Do you guys not know what sex is? How are you guys even born?’
‘Well you see low spirits do not have a physical body so we cannot have any physical needs or wants. We are born from nature itself and cannot do anything to the physical world unless someone else uses us. We merely exist and observe, if by some miracle we obtain a physical body and become a mid-level spirit the world becomes a whole new domain for us.’
(Wow this conversation just took a depressing turn.)
‘Wow did not know you spirits had such a rough life. Why the sudden question anyway?’
‘Well you see, sometimes we here you yell the words “I wish I could fuck someone already” when you are looking at a picture while vigorously rubbing an organ in your nether regions that become surprisingly rigid and stiff. You would also mutter the words “sex” when you are asleep while the same phenomena happens to your nether regions. Sometimes I hear you whisper “sexy” when you see a passing maid or look at Tear.’
I am shocked beyond words and my jaw dropped.
(Where is my privacy!? I take back all the sympathy I have for you guys. Just disappear already!)
Of course I never voiced that thought. I tried stay as calm as possible.
‘You… you see that… that is something like a natural urge which needs release which every man has and… is needed for the continuation of the human race. You saying this has brought some things to my attention. There will be some new rules from now on, when you feel something of the nature you just described about to occur again you will make yourselves scarce and not observe is that agreed.’
‘Okay, I do not see why you became so flustered though.’
‘Well….’
Our conversation was cut short by the sound of loud horns.
These only sounded why someone really high on the social ladder, even higher than us, decided to visit.
Curios I created a thin ice bridge to the tallest tower to get a clear view. I was mesmerized by the sight. A phoenix like creature larger than any bird I have ever seen landed in front of our castle. This bird was called the high-flame swallow and it was the royal carriage of the Flame emperor family and its presence alone dimmed the majesty of the whole castle. On closer inspection I saw a carriage like structure and people coming out of them but I was too far to make out anything concrete.
I knew the carriage and even knew who came along. My brother’s fiancée and my previous body’s first crush was here.