> I know i am a very irresponsible bastard as i haven't even started yet but took a long break . I know i am in the fault . But i promise that from here on in every 3 days one chapter will be published . If you are still reading this please bear with me a little , please ......

After this incident , Shura got a lot of things .

First of all he got to know about the true face of the scroll spirit after being deceived by it . And second of all he got the knowledge that he was totally fucking unaware that there was an another world out there , totally different from his known world.

He brought the scroll , that he was holding in his hand parallel to his eye level and questioned it , " What did you tell me at that time , is it true ? "

" Yes " the scroll spirit amused itself .

Shura stared hard at the scroll like he wanted to bore a hole in it .

His breathing got heavier and deeper as the time passed . He clenched his fist so tight that his finger joints started to turn white .

But after sometime he relaxed his tight fist and breathed out a mouthful of turbid air . ( ' maybe he let the matter go . ' the scroll spirit thought )

When the spirit saw that Shura was not pursuing it anymore she also heaved a sigh of relief .

' It is for your best wishes , you will thank me in the future .' thought the spirit to herself .

After getting rid of all the unnecessary thoughts from his mind he asked the spirit , again ! " Tell me properly and make me understand all of these works and why did you do this and what do i have to do after this ? "

Clearly Shura was not going to let it slide this easily . He was determined to know the cause and effect of being deceived .

The spirit saw there was no way to solve his doubt so he explained him in detail .

" First i will tell you what role i played in this and how much importance it carries . After your death you were totally free from the material world by abandoning your body . So now that you want to retain the body again , you have to take certain paths to guide your soul to the body and i helped you in this by being the medium between your soul and your body . "

" Why do i need to follow the path ? Is it necessary ? " Shura was totally confused .

" Uh... lets take an example as the river is your soul and a pond that is connected to the river is your body . The river was connected to the pond through the underground canal . There someday came an earthquake which destroyed the underground canal by which the connection between the river and the pond was severed . Also by that earthquake the river's course of path also changed hence the river drifted away from the proximity of the pond . In this disaster the pond's water also got soaked or evaporated by other natural causes to the underground through soil and eventually that pond became a dry pond or was once a pond . So now that you want to revive it again , you have to make a connection to the river by making a canal . Do you understand now what role i played in this ? "

" Yeah , i got it . But even after all this , it was my body so i want to return to it again , how difficult can it be ? "

" You have to understand that after the severance of the soul from the body , it can't be called your body anymore. Lets take my previous example , the pond can't be called as such the pond as a pond even after we again make the connection it to the river by any medium . We call it a small reservoir for the river . That's how after your death , your soul got separated from your body and you can't call that body as your own from then on . "

" So you mean after my soul got separated from my body i would call my body as a dead body rather calling it as my body . "

" Yes " the spirit agreed .

" Then how was i calling it my body before my death although my soul was attached to the body ? "

" When a women gets pregnant and she shows signs of her pregnancy , 3 months later her actual pregnancy date , it is at that time when the soul and the body starts merge as one or establish a connection first time . Yeah , i know you will ask ' isn't it an old man's rebirth ? ' Then listen carefully ; I have never said the soul is a brand new ! No , a soul is never new, it is an eternal thing , this thing is old , very old but i must tell you that the body is always new . When the soul gets attached to a new born embryo you can say that rather than the embryo grows to a body and vacates some place for the soul , the embryo grows to a body for the soul to accommodate it . "

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" Wait , you are saying , our bodies are created as a container for the soul ? "

" Yes , that's how a body is known as alive or dead depending on the state of the connection between the soul and the body . "

After getting this information Shura contemplated for sometime of what he heard again and made sure that he had memorized it properly even if he understood it much less . Just then Shura got a doubt and asked the scroll spirit .

" You said everything about what role you played in this transaction between you and me but you never mentioned in what state am i now ? "

" Oh , didn't i say it ? I think i have already told you . Ah.. My bad , my bad . " the spirit apologized " Now you are in a state where you have possessed your dead body . And i think you have enough knowledge to know that after death the body decomposes , right ? "

" Yeah , i know that . So what's with it ?"

" So to stop the decomposing process of your body you need a special type energy . And that energy is mystic energy . There are various types of energy in this world but generally for greater beings there are only two types of energy , i.e. material-plane energy and the dark matter . And mystic energy is one of the most important energy among the energy types included in the dark matter whereas the dark matter type energies are more powerful than any material-plane energies . "

" And how can i get this .... mystic energy ? "

" Mystic energy is present everywhere but very few people in this world have the qualification to get in touch with it . Even to getting the slightest knowledge about this energy you have to cross a certain threshold of power . But you are very fortunate to have me because i can convert any type of energy to mystic energy . " The spirit boasted about herself in an arrogant tone .

" And i just need to provide you with different types of energy and you will feedback me the mystic energy in return . But how and where can i find these energies ? " Shura didn't mind her arrogance but asked the important question .

" Through contracts . You make deals with energy filled beings and give services to them , fulfill their wishes , makes their dreams come true and in return they will barter their possessed energies to you . "

" What are those possessed energies and who are those energy filled beings ?"

" The energy filled beings are all living and supernatural beings , understand and energies are present in everywhere but the value is determined by the importance it carries for the beings existence . "

" For example ? "

" For a living being , its life force , its desires , its senses , its soul , its luck are the most important and most valuable things although most of these things are always being disregarded as worthless . "

" You mean to say , i will fulfill their wish and they will barter their valuable things of equal value to me . And those things will turn in to energies and used by you !? "

" Yes , this process or the deal functions on the law of the energy conservation . You are not giving them anything or making out of nothing , you are using dark matter to fulfill the intended work and they patch up the energy loss . "

After learning that he was just the medium to do the deal , he didn't care much because he knew how much he weighs . So how could he expect that he was the master of the deal . Although most of his doubts were solved but there were two major details he had to ask this bastard scroll .

" Just now before that ghost's attack , you said you will devour my soul what does that mean ? "

" Literal meaning ."

" What !? Did you deliberately lead me to drop my blood on you to fulfil the contract for being greedy for my soul ? You ...you ....you....." Shura got frightened by this revelation .

" Don't think too highly of your self . I don't need your soul although it is impossible to begin with . "

" What is impossible ? "

" Devouring your soul . "

" You mean my soul is special !?"

" Not just your soul but the soul itself is indestructible . Although it will slowly sublimates into the world but no power can destroy it externally . "

" What are you saying ? "

" Ugh ... Listen , just now a little while ago i told you the pond and river theory , you remember right !? "

" Yes "

" In that theory, i mentioned that pond is the body and river is the soul . By this theory the water in the pond is the extension of your soul that gives meaning to the pond . That's how soul gives body the meaning and definition of living being . Soul is the eternal and inviable , indestructible concept . But the soul you think resides in the body is just an extension of the complete soul . "

" Wait , doesn't that mean a soul resides many different bodies at the same time ?"

" Yes , a soul resides in many bodies at the same time in different places . And that s why you can dream and reason with the theories . And this is the phenomena you see as existence of parallel worlds . "

" Wow , wow, wow , you are saying there are these things like parallel worlds ? How is that possible ? Isn't it just our imagination ? "

" There is nothing impossible in this world , there is no such thing that doesn't exist in this world . Your imagination , your dreams , your thoughts and your delusions , all of these things , where do you think come from ? "

" You mean ..."

" Yes , you dream , you imagine , you think , you consider , anything that categorized as philosophical , metamorphically , supernatural , theoretical or any fancy terms you use to describe your belief and unreal things you don't consider , all of these things can be felt or came to knowledge and are going to be discovered , exists in this world , maybe near you or some where else . And because of their existence you can make it appear possible in the various forms such as in the form of text , animation , photo , art , in the form of dream , in the form of imagination etc. "

" That means according to you GOD exists ? "

" Yes , absolutely he exists . "

" Then prove it ? "

Although it was a rascalish question but in that heat of the moment he couldn't help but ask .