Eigi perspective:
I took a cup full water and gulped it all down my stomach. For some reason Ai's father looked at me curiously.
Even though I was sure I had never met his man, he seemed to recognize me and my friends. I walked up to him and began to exchange words.
"Uh... Sir. How are you doing this fine evening?" I asked in a polite tone.
He brightened up a bit, apparently the only why he was staring was that he wanted me to come to him instead of the other way around.
"It is very nice to meet you young man! How are you and you family?" He asked calmly.
I smiled a bit, tapping my hand on my head, I answered "Yes.
"That is good news," he said.
From there our conversation flowed naturally, as if a father and son conversing about normal things. He talked about Ai childhood, his job in nobility and soldiers flirting with his other daughters.
Yeah, I heard that Ai-chan had other sisters but she absolutely refused when I asked to meet them why?
"Oh, you will surely find out when you see them yourself!" He said with a little a sarcasm in his tone.
"Sure," I replied back.
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Friends:
Rial's perspective:
Three days has passed the trip to the market. And, Rio, Nanase, and Rui has successfully made it here. Since, everything has been resolved they were given the freedom to join us in the Asteroid kingdom.
But they didn't come alone though. Two of the elders came with them. To be precise, the were the main guests; since the contract had been made between the two main factions. The only thing they needed was a ruler approval. That when Nanase, and Rui requested to come here but as their guards.
Since that would reduce the cost of hiring the guards in the Spirit village. Rio also wanted to the Asteroid kingdom, since they portray a lot of Japanese culture. Like kimonos, yukata, Harajuku kawaii, and Amekaji. This introduced since the days of the "First king Ryuo and Mikiry Karasuki," who introduced them after seeing the way the Asteroid kingdom dressed at first.
"Uh... This yukata is sooooo cute!" Nanase yelled out after seeing a yukata from another world. She made sure to extend the amount of o in the so to expressed her delightfulness and joy.
"Yeah, this kimonos fit me perfectly!" With a calm smile, Aishia narrated.
"I am rocking this harajuku so good!" Said Alphia.
"H-how do I look guys!?" With a shy expression displayed across her face, Aria asked wearing a cute kimono Aishia picked for them.
"Wow! You look so cute..." Everyone in the room seemed to have an angel based on the compliments they were giving her... Because each compliment was based on a different of the dress she was wearing.
"Good, they liked the gifts." I sighed as I said this. Looks like Rio really did come through this one. By having me request the best fashion designer in the Asteroid kingdom to make two yukatas, a kimono and a harajuku . He managed to keep the girls happy as intended, because something big is about happen.
How it all happened:
19/11/998:
It was began one morning when Nanase grew tired of living in the giant apartment alone. Of course, she had Rui and Rio but she still needed more people by side to converse and play with. But unfortunately the boys didn't want to live that kind of life, which in response, Nanase began to cry. With the weight rapping around his neck, Rio promised her that: "I will give you the best present you have laid eyes on." And that brought all this up.
Back to the present moment:
"Man. This brings back memory," replied Rio.
Of course. After spending fifteen years in another world and living in another body for fifteen year would bring some painful yet loving memories to that person. Even for me, I felt over joyed when I was the people wearing them during my trip to the market district.
Rio hanged my hands on my shoulder, comparing me to the normal Japanese person. I had an above average built with incredible good looks from my parents. Even for Nanase, even though she is the same age as me, she had applied to the royal academy earlier and that was why she stuck as my junior back in the academy. The same even for Rio; late education beginning.
Even so, this night must go flawlessly. Both the king and the elders are meeting to announce to cooperation in public. If he Peter would have been here, this would have been the perfect chance to kidnap Aria, even so. At least Aria can now rest without the fear of being creeped on.
I grabbed my phone from my back pocket and typed a message to Lily. She has been keeping track of me. She had gotten the information about how we saved Mary, the spirit incident when we first arrived, Peter being an annoyance and now the Asteroid kingdom visit. I am very glad that she keeps me within a safety zone. Protecting me from the shadows, like if when I am kidnapped, she could very easily track me down and save me.
"I hope you like the gift I got for you!" I typed.
Within a few minutes she replied back, "I am soo happy. Thank you!" She said as she began sending me more and messages.
"Uh... Hey guys, when does the ceremony starts actually?" Alin asked confused.
"It starts at nine in the evening."
"Alright."
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Looming in the night:
It was between eight and nine. The festival just started, the elders and the king sat on the center stage. I stood near a tree watching from afar, just then I turned and walked back to the festival after smelling the scent of "takoyaki" which was prepared by Aishia and Nanase.
Of course, both Nanase and Aishia had memories of Japan, both in cooking and cleaning. Aishia has mine through the contract of spirit and master, which meant she had access to my both Japanese memories and in this world. Which was likely the reason why she was able to help without needing much of assistance from Nanase.
Both king stood up, then started to announce his declaration, "My dear people. It has been a year since our alliance was made public, while only known to the Spirit village of course. But through patience and the willingness to persist, the alliance has now been made public to all the people living in nation." Said the king, but the announcement wasn't over. As soon as the king finished, Sir Emmanuel took over. "Dear people of the Asteroid kingdom. I am here to announce many of the benefits of the alliance. First, you many enter and leave the Spirit village as such as you want with a key card." Then Madame Dorothy took over.
"Second, you can marry any kind people in our village as long as the person agreed on the proposal." The king also did "Humans and spirits can merge together if needed."
The announcement went on but those were the important announcement in my opinion. My took in deep breath, and started to walk near the forest of the village. I went down the cold, yet silent forest. The trees were dancing left and right, swinging themselves cross the many different directions of which their angles allowed them to swing.
Deep in the forest, I made eye contact with a girl. About the age as Mary but she wore a pure white dress. She jumped across the trees moving swiftly across the branches. "You will have chase me to find the answers you are looking for!" She giggled after saying that.
She was human with incredible agility. I sped after her quickly, I jumped over a tree, using my hand as the holder I held on the branch of the tree I jumped over then I stared leaping over them. I thought of flying but that wouldn't help in this situation, throwing shurikens was also out of the question. Well, might as well out run her.
I almost caught with her but she jumped back down, causing me to slip of the tree. While falling, I turned my body side ways. I reversed my body from my lower part of my body to the part upper part which in turn caused me to backflip.
I landed swiftly, then turned to look for the girl. She sat on a tree branch, looking out on the sky.
"Do you just like running in the forest while playing with your seniors," I asked, a bit frustrated at the girl.
"Oh, no. Watching people try and fail to catch me is really fun you know." Her answer was short but precise.
"Why are you here anyway?" I asked.
"Watching the stars, they are really beautiful. You know?"
"Yeah."
The kid looked at me with a smug expression. She looked almost amused, like she was beaming with happiness from within. Then out of nowhere she said, "So, do you miss your life as Riah Amakawa or do you dislike the idea of being that person again?" She asked with the same smug expression.
"Huh... What are you talking about?" I asked.
"You know very well what I am saying. And here is the question to your question you have been asking ever since the your Isal parents died. No, they can not be reincarnated. Their destiny was written, and they followed the script." The girl narrated what I was searching for.
"When... but.... but I was reincarnated through an act of which I didn't want. Why can't they also reincarnate." I started to lose my temper.
"Reincarnation huh! Do you even know how reincarnation works and how it is done, the requirement of both the person being reincarnated and the incarnator god?" She asked me.
"I have no idea but I could guess," I said.
She sighed deeply, then started to narrating the process which reincarnation can take place. "First, the god must find a body and the world which the soul is currently on. Note; if their soul has been turned into stars, then they can not be reincarnated."
"Huh?"
"Many reincarnation can happen through a single world. Yours wasn't a mistake, it was destiny. Your mother from earth, it was destiny. Your father from earth who died, that was also destiny. Even your parents here, both also were written to be killed, this is how the world works. Everything works according to their destinies." She explained.
"Even, Lily and Mary."
Silence fell over her face, she looked on certain. "For them, I do not know how they were reincarnated. What I know is, the God from your world kept you as a roaming soul. That came to stop when Rial Karasuki died in his mother's womb. That was when you were reincarnated." She added.
It makes sense now. Both Nanase and Rio were reincarnated in young bodies but they were six when Nanase and Rio took control over their consciousness. That is why didn't remember the first six years of their lives.
I looked deep into her eyes, wondering who this girl. "Who are you really? A God?" I asked.
"That depends on what you humans call 'a God' if in your language, a God is described as a creator than I am sorry, I am not God in that sense. But, my god status is the one of the god of reincarnation. I am the Koko, or also known in Japan as Rinne Tensei, or in your mythology (Rin'netenshō no kami)."
"Alright, but why you using incomplete wording to block my understanding?" I asked, noticing the unusual wording in her phrases.
"Because information is power." She smiled idly. "The more that humans knows, the more their ego and pride rise through roof. There are small people in this world who were reborn into this world. I am their greatest curse. Because they taught they would have life on ease mode, I guess they had to wake up." The expression on her face strangely displayed both joy and a tiny bit sadness.
"What do you mean by other reincarnations?" I thought of a while, but I had no idea about other people who were reborn or were incidentally drag into this world by the accident that happened in Japan. No one except Yuki, Mary, Rio, and Nanase. They were the only people involved in accident.
"Do not worry about them. They all joined their old souls from their first world experience. Or in other words: all the first reincarnations that came into this world are dead."
"Oh... I see. Can I ask a question?" I asked her.
"Sure, but if you do. I will too!" She smiled as she said that.
"Why was I reincarnated and why does strange figures keep associating me with king of dragons Ryuo?"
The girl looked at me and answered in a quite lazy tone. "You are the reincarnation of the dragon king but you have your own self consciousness."
"... Huh?"
"Alright my turn." She skip the question I was about to ask her entirely.
"Based on the information you know now; will you be able to forgive your earthly mother if she asks forgiveness." Her tone was flat, almost too casual but my insides were boiling. Even for me, I knew perfectly well what that woman did to destroy my family. Her next husband also got my father killed so that they both could get the properties he earned through hard work.
I looked deep in her eyes again, my gaze was filled with hatred towards both her and the man named Rushed. "Absolutely not!"
She closed her eyes and said, "I see now. Then be careful, this world had more darkness in it than you think. The one you have seen is just the tip of the iceberg."
Suddenly, white bright feathers covered her little body. Then within the next moment, she vanished from sight. I found myself wondering what kind of person I had just met. She obviously had the personality of lady Stella. Both were creatures who liked keeping secrets while using strange wording to confuse the person asking questions.
What was her name again? Koko no god of reincarnation I think. Naa, I will just ask her the next time I see her again.
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It is okay:
Eigi's perspective:
Around six in the evening. The whole of Ai had arrived in the house that they all lived in. Her two older brothers, her three sisters, her non-biological parents.
If Ai was removed from this family, then this family would be truly complete. Because, they all are biologically related by blood. She was a foster child living for a luxury of her father's wealth which has been stolen by her uncle with the excuse that a child can not manage money.
I guess that old man is really good at acting.
"Oh! Who are you handsome!" One of the sisters said. She practically jumped from her chair, then sat on the chair right next to me, while touching my face with her fingers. I turned to look at Ai, who looked visibly angry but kept it inside.
So, this is the hell Ai also suffers everyday. No wonder why she wanted to die the first we ever met. I was also visibly disgusted but didn't want to make a scene. So, I carefully reached out and grabbed her hands. I placed them in her pockets. "I am sorry. I know you have great hands but I wouldn't want you to waste them on people like me."
"Are you rejecting her!" One of the sister asked.
Well, what does this suggest that I am doing. "No. I am just keeping boundaries." I said firmly.
"Who the hell are you any way?" The other asked.
I see now. So, this was their plan. To spoil me to everyone in this room, while destroying what is left of Ai. As, I thought of this. Anger raged through through me but I perfectly well that I must contained that anger within me.
"Ai I have a question to ask you, and I must ask that you answer truthfully?" From there, my conclusion had been already made up.
"Sure." She answered timidly.
Since, the both of us are turning fifteen next year. I guess this isn't a strange thing to do with while still a boy and a girl are still fourteen. But am I moving too fast.
I got on one knee, moving my hand to my back pocket I pulled a ring from there then looked at her again. "Ai, I love you! Will you be my wife someday?" I asked with a huge blush on my face.
Ai began to cry suddenly. "I love you too. Of course I will be your wife someday."
"What is this?" With visible disgust in their eyes. The mother and her daughters snorted. "Can I live with you now?" Ai asked.
"Of course, you can. From here on out what is mine is yours too." I said.
How ironic. If it wasn't for Ichika, you would be likely not dating nor now engaged. She was a bad person but somehow freed me from my shackles then now freed Ai from her hell. I guess this life is really full of surprises.
"Do you two know how hard married life is? Living on your own would be difficult for the both of you," Ai's uncle persisted on letting her stay until we officially turned fifteen. Which was his way of letting Ai sign a document that would leave all of properties that belonged to Ai's parents to them.
But, if Ai gets married while reaching fifteen. She would received the inheritance without any drama of her extended family.
In truth, they would have likely thrown her out if they had the chance but due to the law that registered Ai as the rightful owner to the inheritance, they couldn't just throw her out. This was likely the reason why they kept her.
Well, she does not have to worry about that many more. She is my wife, and as a husband I would protect my significant other with all my strength.