In a place full of greenery, no, it isn't the forest, it was just at the backyard of a certain family... The garden fresh with beautiful flowers and trees grew splendidly... There two figures sat by the wooden bench near the trees...

"Grandpa!"

"Hmm?"

"Why do people die?"

"It's just the way of life... It's a part of a cycle and you can't change that... Someday you too will part from this world..."

"Does that mean grandpa will follow grandma soon?"

"... Maybe sooner than you'd expect... No one can truly know when they will die after all..."

"Please don't go without saying goodbye okay!"

Nodding at the boy's request he muttered "I can't promise but I will try..."

"I'm going to get some juice! Wait here okay!"

"Nn..."

The boy ran inside the house and not a minute after the boy can no longer be seen... The old man looked up to the sky and muttered...

"I have lived a long life... It brings me to tears that I have to leave this place as of today..."

He closed his eyes as if to reminisce about the past, and smiled unconsciously...

"I'm sorry, Noel... Grandfather had to leave without saying goodbye..."

With those last words, he breathed his last, he had a peaceful expression in his face, Grimaldi Deventer, died in the age of 89...

"... It's been a long time, don't you think?"

"Indeed..."

In a space filled with brimming white color stood two people, one had a robe with the color of cerulean and the other had a fashion that could normally be seen these days... Red-stripe shirt and maroon pants... It's a total disaster in terms of color coordination but clothes are clothes and if one doesn't wear them it's just a hanged piece of sewed cloth...

"So? Why am I here?"

"Let's not talk about it yet... Come, have a sit..."

"That's not tea is it?"

"No... It's orange juice..."

"Thank goodness, I thought I'm gonna drink another blank tasting water again... Ooh! This is rather comfortable to sit in..."

The person that wore the red-stripe shirt sat and poured his glass with orange juice, and with delight sipped through it like a child, and with a "Puaah!' He put the glass in the table once again...

"The answer to my question earlier?"

"Ah... Yes! I'm here to talk about reincarnation..."

"First, summoned and now that I'm dead, I'm going to be reincarnated?"

"That's what I propose... So? Wanna have a go?"

"... You gonna leave my memories behind?"

"If you want to... How about it?"

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"..."

The person puts his arms crossed and closed his eyes... After a few minutes, he opened his eyes as if coming into a conclusion...

"I'm not going to be a hero..."

"Of course! Of course! I won't put such a burden on your shoulders once again..."

"Then this is a normal reincarnation right?"

"Y-yes! O-of course! Hahahaha!"

The man that wore a cerulean colored robe, had visible droplets of sweat appearing in his forehead, the person that wore the red striped shirt saw this and looked at the man with doubt...

"Suspicious..."

"E-eh? I-I promise I won't put you the burden of being a hero!"

"... Okay... Well, I haven't been able to move my body that much for about 19 years so... I guess this is good thing for me... I'll take you up on that offer..."

"Phew... Well, you know the drill..."

"No I don't..."

"But you were here when I reincarnated a person before right?"

"Yes, but I wasn't paying attention... Just tell me already and proceed..."

"Ha... Okay... Stand over there..."

As the person stood at the specified spot, a circle with symbols was formed almost instantly...

"Magical Formation, huh? How nostalgic..."

"Hey! Don't move too much! We don't want our hands and legs in another direction now would we?"

"Hey! Don't scare me like that!"

With a stiff expression the person stood motionlessly... The circle glowed a purplish light then change into a blue light, the after a few minutes the circle grew smaller and smaller until the spot only occupied the spot where the person stood...

"Hoooo... With this..."

The man opened his arms wide and recited thus...

"I am the creator of heaven and earth, life and death... Bend the law of cause and effect, I offer thee another life!"

The circle that glowed a blue light, suddenly turned green and a bubble consumed the person's body... The person wasn't fazed at all by the sudden changes, rather he was calm...

"Oh! Grimaldi! One more thing! I forgot to mention this! You're not a hero!"

"?"

"You're a [Source]"

"Bhruuagh!? (What!?)"

The bubble fell to the portal where the circle was before... His limbs, torn apart but there was no pain, his body disintegrated and nothing was left... In his last moments of being conscious... He muttered in his mind "What a terrible sight to see... At least let me sleep during the conversion..." and thus his consciousness fell into darkness...