“What’s wrong!?”

On hearing the shout of Mavic Schooler, the knights rushed in. They had their weapons drawn and were prepared to attack us should he commanded.

“It’s fine, stand down. I was just surprised.”

“Yes, sir.”

With that said, the knights rushed out as quickly as they did when they entered, making it seemed like their entry never occurred. Curious about his outburst, we were waiting for his explanation. In an attempt to get him out of his current state of murmuring, I asked him,

“Did my past revealed something shocking? Something to the extent that the man who caused so many breakthroughs to find it weird or unusual?”

“Don’t bother trying to get into my good shoes with those sweet talks. I don’t care about those kind of useless stuff! It’s just that your past-”

He cut himself off mid sentence and went back to his senseless murmuring. I could attempt to read his mind if I had infected him but I hadn’t. I didn’t want to show my skills openly either. My only choice in this matter would be to get him to talk it out. I tried to poke him to get his attention and he jumped in shocked.

“Argh! Don’t interrupt me when I’m thinking! Damn, nevermind. Answer my question, what was your first memory?”

Feeling unsure to the reasoning behind his question, I thought for a moment to answer his question with a question. I decided in the end to just answer him so that he would tell us when he found out.

“I woke up in the forest in the body of a boy. That was slightly more than a week ago.”

My answer made the Riveria siblings shocked, with Raoul asking while still not really believing it,

“H-how can that be? You must be joking right? There’s no way for your body to grow to that of a man such as yourself with just the timespan of a week. H-hahaha-?”

Noticing that I was serious when he stared into my eyes, his laughter dwindled off into silences. Taking in the answer that I provided him with, the old man processed his thoughts. We didn’t have to wait long this time as he already had a clue the answer and just needed the confirmations.

“Your past. That is, you don’t belong to this era.”

My head started throbbing slowly. We didn’t exactly get what he meant and waited for him to continue his explanations.

“What I saw from your memories were things that don’t belong to this world. Or at least no longer so. You were the one that made the change in the previous world into that of this world. You were the one that caused the change and disappeared for probably more than a thousand years and are now back.”

As he explained, the throbbing in my head before increased in frequency. Memories of my past flooded in as if the dam that hold off all my past memories was destroyed. Sylvie spoke slowly while she tried to understand what he meant,

“Then do you mean-”

“I-I remembered. The scene of destructions caused by my presence. The cause of the change being me. My wish of disappearing along with the wind. How I had scattered into the wind as my wish was fulfilled. I see. So this is the result of what had happened. Now I understand the reason for my power.”

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“What do you mean by destruction? Why were you the cause? And what is the ‘change’ that you’re talking about?”

Chris spoke out with a tone of cautiousness in his voice while the others remained in either shock or confusion. I explained to them as my voice spoke of a time long lost as nostalgia and sadness overtook me,

“A power woke up within me. I didn’t knew of it nor did I knew how to control it. It caused something similar to an apocalypse in the world that I lived in. The current world was created in the aftermath of the apocalypse.”

Before they had time to question me, I continued, explaining each detail as much as I could.

“In the world before, there doesn’t exist much sentinel creatures. It was a society ruled by human. The Science was well developed and buildings were hundreds of stories tall. People were able to fly from one end of the world to the other side in a day with the help of machineries. There were no such things as monsters nor magic. My power awakening turned humans into monsters and other creatures that you can see nowadays. Dwarf, elves, ghouls, and even dragons. It changed the human and other creatures to things different from themselves. Though probably not all were changed, many new things came into existences, such as magic.”

“Okay? That’s all? It just meant that we’re going to become stronger by staying with you right? There’s no need to worry about things like that.”

Aston replied with his thoughts that was just looking at one side of things. His thoughts didn’t think about the other consequences that will come along with growth in strength. Mavic Schooler had been listening closely to each word that came out of my mouth and had been thinking. He analyzed the possibilities on the effects of my power and concluded.

“Although there is more to it then what the dwarf said, I wouldn’t say that that is too far from the truth. It’s true that your presence might cause change to occur like before but it may not be all bad. I’m sure there are many useful things that can come out of it. That is something that I will like to know more about.”

With the return of my memories, my personality from before had also came back to me. The merging of my old and new personalities could be said to made me more weak, more feeling, more human. It’s odd that it made me more human considering that that me was the one that caused the end of the world. The depression that I felt as I was telling my story was washed away by the kindness that Aston showed for being able to accept me for who I am. It was a warmth that exceed those that came from the Riveria siblings which I could considered friends. It was the warmth of accepting me that the me from before wanted but couldn’t at the same time. 

The acceptance and forgiveness of me who had used that power.

I broke down and cried.