This one took me awhile since I had to go through previous chapters to fit them like a puzzle piece. By the way, sorry for the late update, you see my parents are really strict so most days I have to type in secrecy... Anyways let's start with something I decided to do every time I post from now on. I have created a new religion called Kumaism and this is from the holy scripture of Kumaism (meaning Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear excerpt :P ):
> Quote:Well, it was probably okay even if I wasn’t a magic knight anymore, but what was my occupation?
> I couldn’t use magic and don’t have a sword. Martial artist?
> It wasn’t like I didn’t want to write it, I just couldn’t.
> I had a feeling that a voice from the heavens was saying that 『Bear』 was my occupation.
From chapter 6: Bear-San is Making A Guild Card. Occupation Is A Bear
Here's the chapter!
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-Year 2001, Late afternoon-
~Leah's P.o.V~
It's been a year since I moved into my new house and started seventh grade in new school. I'm currently walking home from school by myself. It's getting quiet dark outside but I didn't really think through it. I guess it was a bad idea for a girl to walk by themselves in the late afternoon but it couldn't be helped. I had to stay behind for after school student council meeting. I was elected as class representative by my classmate so I had to attend the meeting. One of the council member offered me a ride but I didn't want to bother her since my house was close to school.
“Hey cutie, wanna hang out with us?” A man came toward me with a friendly smile, “We can make you feel real good.”
Sensing danger, I tried to run only to find two of his friends, blocking my path. With the man in front of me and the two other men behind me, I was trapped. They scanned me head to toe several times and nodded with satisfaction.
“This one is really nice looking, hehehe, I'm going to enjoy this.” One of the men commented while licking his lips.
These Men are scary, they are looking at me as if I was their prey. I closed my eyes and prayed… Please, someone save me…
“Leah! There you are! I been looking for you this whole time! Let's go home now.” A familiar voice called out to me in a very casual way. I opened my eyes when I heard his voice. I only heard him talk few times in class last year but I know this voice so well.
In front of me was a boy I knew all to well. We never talked to each other after the first day of school on my seventh grade year.
“Who the hell are you? Little kids should go home in bed by now”(Man#1).
“Well, if you say so I will just take my leave with my friend since we are little kids, let's go Leah”(Matt)
He grabbed my hand and began to walk away from the men. His hand his warm and soft, it made me feel safe to be with him.
"Now, now, we were going to escort your friend home, so leave her here."(Man #2).
“You know, I already called the police and they should be here soon, I wonder what would happen when the police officer finds three suspicious men trying to take a middle school girl away by force?”(Matt).
His eyes narrowed while his sharp tongue lashed out at the men.
“Shit, let's get out of here, we can't get caught.”(Man #1).
The man start to leave and his friends followed him out of the alleyway.
“Let's get you home, I'll escort you there.”(Matt).
I quickly took out my sketchbook and a pen from my backpack and wrote.
‘What about the police?’(me)
“I was bluffing. Anyways why were you walking outside in the dark by yourself? Don't you know that it's dangerous for a girl to walk home by herself?”(Matt).
When he questioned me, he sounded worried about me. The way he is looking at me with gentle eyes were much different from the sharp glare he always give toward everyone in class.
‘I'm sorry.’(me).
I knew walking home by my self was a bad idea, but I didn't have any other choice. My parents are always at work and I didn't have a friend whom could give me a ride. I did make lots of friend during my first year at this school but I couldn't really call them true friends. It was more like they befriended me out of pity.
I guess the only true friend I had was Liz and she disappeared after the first day of school. The brown haired gentle girl disappeared without a trace.
“Where is your house? I'll take you home.”(Matt)
Huh? He will take me home?
“What are you waiting for? Let's go, it's already getting late.”(Matt)
He started to head off by himself as if he was telling me that follow him or he will leave me behind. But… He is going the wrong direction…
I run up to him and tug at his sleeve, which made him turn around. Then I point toward the opposite side and dragged him forward. His face started to glow red from embarrassment and he followed me silently.
His embarrassed face was kinda cute. I didn't think he could make that kind of face.
As we were getting close to my neighborhood, Matt yelled in surprise, “Wait! This is my neighborhood!” He looks as if he has been wandering around by himself looking for our neighborhood.
Wait, he lives in my neighborhood? Then why did he go to the wrong direction? I looked at him with a questioning gaze and Matt started to turn red again.
“It's not like I was lost this whole time or anything... I was just taking a stroll around…”(Matt).
His argument would have worked if he could have said it calmly, also the backpack strapped to his back did not make it anymore more convincing. So Matt has no sense of direction, hmm… That's interesting.
While being amused by Matt’s reactions, we arrived to my front door. After arriving, Matt was about to leave so I grabbed his sleeves once again to get his attention and wrote in my sketchbook.
‘Would you like to come in for a while?’(Me)
“Umm… I don't know, I mean wouldn't it bother your parents that a boy came home with you this late at night?”(Matt)
I shook my head and wrote again, ‘My parents are always at work and never come home until very late at night. I barely get to see them.’
"I guess it should be fine for few minutes, after-all, it's same with me…”(Matt).
We spent around half an hour together talking about variety of things and before he left, I asked if we could be friends. He had a wide grin on his face and he replied with a positive response. This was beginning of our friendship.
Most days we spent our time at school and after school with each other, went to play together, hung out together and walked home from school together. In the short one year I spent with him before our death was the best and I was very happy to have him as my friend.
-After death in Earth-
Someone is calling my name, I don't want to get up, I feel comfortable sleeping here. Then someone began tickling me and I jolt awake. The one who assaulted me in my sleep was none other than Matt and he is grinning triumphantly.
He knew I was weak against tickling and used that against me to wake me up. I stated to puff out my cheek and pouted at him. Matt’s face became painted red, which has been a normal reaction to many things I do.
Where is this room?
“You know, since you two already died, you can just speak to each other through your mind.”(???)
Huh? That voice, it's been two years but I remember that voice, it's Liz!
Bright blue light flashed from this room filled with nothingness. I instinctively closed my eyes from the source. When the light died out, in its place, Liz was in front of us. I can never forget that pure brown hair and kind face.
"It's been two years since we last saw each other right? Matt and Leah, its nice to see you again."(Liz).
My eyes started fill with tears from joy. The friend I lost two years ago is right in front of us. While we grew taller and our face changed a little, Liz was still same as ever. She still has the appearance of a seventh grade student.
Liz hasn’t moved her lips at all, yet I can clearly hear her in my head. Matt doesn’t seem to notice so I'm the only one hearing her right now. So this is telepathy Liz was talking about?
"You two definitely died after getting hit by the truck. Right now, we are in a time suspended dimension between parallel worlds created by my predecessor. Basically, this place is middle of nowhere."
“Now, now Matt, no need to be frustrated. I'm just stating facts ya know? Every mortal beings must die at one point or another. It was just a little too soon for the two of you.”
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“Yup! I'm God, or at least that's what I became two years ago. Its quiet simple, there are many God “candidates” in Earth, and only in Earth. When a God decides to retire after getting tired of being almighty, and powerful, he or she retires. The previous God browses through records of “candidates” that are still alive in Earth and summons the “candidate” to Celestria.”
“You see, all the God candidates are monitored carefully to find the most suitable ones, so there has never been a case of evil God. In addition, we are not that omnipotent since we nor any other divine beings could change a course of action or go back in time to change future result. If I could, I would have saved the two of you from that accident.” Liz gazed at us with saddened expression while making eye contact with both of us.
(me).
I decided to join in on the conversation since Matt noticed that he is being heard by the two of us.
He called my voice as melodious, why does it make me feel special?
“Hahaha, you are right Matt, if you drop that jaw more than you already are, you might choke on a fly. By the way Leah, nice job figuring out how to use telepathy. I know I bounded your souls together but being able to do it consciously is a very huge feat. You have more control than Matt since he is transmitting his thoughts without knowing it.”
Why those he narrate everything?
“Hoh? Is that all you can think about? Matt you are very short minded, no? I thought you would have questions about your soul binding and why that allows telepathy. Well, whatever, I'm kinda tired of explaining it myself so I transfer the knowledge to the two of you.”
Suddenly, Matt became silent, as if he froze in place. I began to panic when he didn't even show a breathing movement.
“Don't worry, all I did was separate us from Matt by changing the time flow so that we can talk. To him, it would have just been few seconds at most while to us, it would be several hours.”(Liz).
Liz rolled her eyes and retorted, “Yes, Mrs. Evans, I did not do anything to your precious ‘husband’ so don't be a worry wart.”
Hu…hu..husband? I know she is just joking but that's too much!!
“Hahaha, the way your face turns red,” Liz laughed in amused tone, “I wonder when these thick heads realize that they love each other?"
“No no, just talking to myself… Anyways, since we have all the time in the world, let me explain.”
With that, Liz explained everything from how Matt and I hold part of each other’s soul, why our souls were ‘recycle’ after our death, and what happens from now on.
“Matt will probably enjoy the new life since he is a Video game maniac but I was a little worried about you. Even if you stick to Matt all the time in Arixar, you might still get hurt. So instead, I would like to offer you to ascend to heaven instead. I think it should be fine if I make only one exception.”(Liz).
I shook my head vigorously,
“I knew you would say that, so instead I will let you have gift. I plan on making the deity of your new world to give you their blessings or at least one, but the gift I'm giving is depended up on you. Name an ability or your desire and I will give it to you, but choose wisely since you only can have one gift and you cannot take it back later.”
I started to run through many different abilities I can think of. What the advantages and disadvantages are. Mass amount of strength? No, if I'm not careful I would unconsciously destroy things. Ability to stop time? No, I can't guarantee that it would be safe. Ability to fly? If it's a world of magic, I don't think it would be that useful. What do I choose?
“If I can give you a suggestion since you seem troubled, in my opinion why don't you try getting Dragon’s psyche?”
“Hahaha, no need to worry, the dragon’s psyche is like a soul, when infused to yours, it will give you the knowledge, magic power and strength of a dragon. By no means you turn into a dragon, simply speaking you gain dragon-like power. Of course you would have to train hard in order to be able to fully utilize your ability but this will help you protect those you deem precious to you. So what do you say?”
I started to think through my choice again. As expected, there is no other ability that can be as useful as the one Liz mentioned but what about the memory of the dragon, will it affect me?
“Great question, the knowledge of the dragon is just the knowledge itself, meaning you might know the history of Arixar and the dragon species but you won't actually get memories like eating human or whatever else dragons do in their free time.”
This time, I felt relieved to hear that I won't have a memory of eating fellow humans so I guess this really is the best option for me.
“Very well.”
My body became enveloped in blinding white light and I could feel my soul fusing with the psyche. It's hard to describe the feeling as I just automatically knew the fussing was taking place. I guess if I had to describe it, I would say it is warm and fuzzy.
After the light faded, we were back in the same time frame as Matt and I could see him breathing again.
Matt is doing his narration again... I wonder who he is talking to…
<…In addition, every living things that are sentient have stats and levels, just like fantasy games. It might be unsettling to start my life in a new world, but I was drawn in by my obsession in games. This world might be advantageous for me since I have played many fantasy games, read light novels about reincarnations recommended by my online friends. I admit, I was an otaku ever since I started seventh grade…>
I never heard that term before so I was curious. Oops I just let Matt know that I can still read his thoughts.
<*Cough* Leah, don't read my mind!!!>(Matt)
“Well, an otaku is a Japanese term for people with obsessive interests, commonly the anime and manga fandom.”
“Well, I am the God after all…”
(Me)
I wonder what fettish he has, I heard from other girls during a conversation that some guys who like anime and manga like cat-eared girls…
Eh? Matt is panicking, it's kinda cute, maybe I should tease him a little…
“Hahaha, as much as I love both of your companies, I must now let you two to be sent to the new world.”
“At least we were able to have nice and long girl talk.”
I nods in agreement. Even though none of the conversation we just had had much girl talk in it.
“Well, it is ungentlemanly to eavesdrop on lady talk. So I blocked you out of it.” Liz stated as matter-of-factly.
Matt shrugged.
“Alright, off you two go. To the new world! Hurry, don't let the new world to wait for ya!” Liz opened a gate leading to Arixar.
I think Matt is lost in his thoughts again, so I pulled his shirt and motioned toward the gate.
We entered the gate together, and my world turned pitch black.
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