" Your second question is why you are here".
My arms suddenly start feeling uncomfortable in the position they are in now, so I lower them and let them hang down at my sides.
" Little lass, why would you even waste your time asking the question?".
After i ask the question, I suddenly feel a very strong pull on my head.
Someone pulling my hair.
My face winces slightly at the pain, but it returns to indifference a second later, despite the pain still persisting.
I feel the pull strengthen second by second, and the same amount of increase each time.
And as the pull strengthens, it suddenly disobeys order and increases dramatically.
To the point my hair feels like it's about to come off.
But it doesn't.
" You should learn to keep quiet when your elders are talking".
STOMP!
The little lass steps on my head ; very hard.
" Okay, like why did you hit me little lass?".
I drag out my question and make it sound a little exaggerated, but it was still very real.
And what I get in response is a very hard step on my head.
STOMP!
" I was just from saying, keep quiet!".
She breathes in as she is out of breathe from screaming, then she starts talking, but this time in her usual projection of the voice.
" I'm just about to finish collecting , so that I can continue answering the questions you asked quickly, so that we can get on with what is going to happen".
' What is going to happen?'.
STOMP!
" But!..".
STOMP!
" You..!"
The little lass steps on my head again.
" Just!..".
STOMP!
" Keep!".
I feel the pull in my hair get a bit stronger.
The pull on my hair keeps getting stronger each time she steps hard on my head.
And because of that, plus the hard steps she is stepping on my head with, my head is hurting.
It's beating like a heart.
But unlike the heart, it is beating of pain.
Even though I am not dizzy now, I can also feel a bit if dizziness creep into my head.
STOMP! STOMP! STOMP!STOMP!
The little lass stops talking after the last word she said and starts stepping very hard on my head repeatedly.
STOMP! STOMP! STOMP! STOMP!
My head starts hurting more, but I ignore that.
Even thought my head is hurting, the pain doesn't increase by much each time the little lass steps hard on my head, unlike when she started stepping on my head hard.
But my dizziness is a whole other thing entirely.
I feel everytime she steps on my head, the dizziness that I felt enter my head in a small amount a minute ago, is now enough for me to fall down if I don't walk carefully.
My face scrunches up very slightly,to the point it is there, but imperceptible.
I make that small expression go away.
I hem touch my forehead with my right hand, bend my head slightly downwards and I then shake my head.
STOMP!
The little lass steps on my head again after her short pause.
" Hey, little lass, my questions?".
I see the little lass's head appear, hanging upside down, with her long red hair flowing downwards and a wide, cute smile on her face.
" Ahah, what about them?".
I shift my legs slightly, as they are uncomfortable from me standing without moving them for some minutes.
' My legs can move now'.
I look down at my legs shortly, before answering the little lass.
" Little lass, I asked questions that you ought to answer, and you even answered the first question".
I breathe in, then continue talking.
" You also said that you would answer them in the order I asked them".
" But instead of answering my questions we move on fast and do what you want me to, but you decide to waste time and keep hitting me out of faked anger for no proper reason".
The little lass pulls back the part that is hanging upside down, back to my head and starts giggling like a little girl, which she is.
" Hehehehe hehe".
" No, I am hitting you so that I can answer your second, fourth, fifth and sixth questions all at once".
" But you're blaming me of not answering your questions".
She talks in a very sad voice, invoking a bit of pity from me.
But I shake my head to remove that pity
After I shakey head, I hear her crying slightly.
" Hey, little lass, stop joking".
" Okay".
" But I WILL cry again of you don't let me ask you my question".
" Sigh, you don't have to do theatrics just so that you can ask me a question, in fact you don't even have to tell me when you want to ask a question, you just have to ask".
" OKAY!".
" So let me ask you a question".
Small barely visible golden red light rays luminate of off my head, them disappears a few seconds later.
" Do you smell anything revolting, disgusting bad or anything like that?".
When the little lass's voice comes out of her mouth, it sounds like it is being obstructed or something by something.
But away from her voice and back to her question.
She is right.
There is a very putrid and disgusting
I don't know how she didn't smell it until now.
' Maybe she lived in such a disgusting environment until she came to ruin my new life'.
' Well, not a new life but me just starting over'.
' And well, I just started starting over'.
' Oh, but she just had to ruin it'.
' Anyways, what was it that caused this mind conversation to take place again?'.
' Right, it was because of how I think she didn't live in a clean environment'.
' Anyways, let me answer her question '.
" Little lass, you are actually very right to be asking that question!".
" It smells like there is a rotten corpse left out in the open here!".
Even though I talk in a loud and boisterous voice, my expression doesn't change from the indifference it had earlier.
In short, it doesn't bother me much at all.
" Actually, there is a rotting corpse here!".
The little lass replies with a loud and overly cheerful voice.
" I didn't ask if there is a rotting corpse, but what I do want to know is if you are going to purify the air in this place or something".
" Of course I am not going to do that".
The little lass finally leaves my head and goes back to my shoulder.
She taps my cheeks three times.
She raises her arm and points to the ground.
" Look at that".
I lower my head to look at the ground a few metres in front of me.
I see a big lump of dirt.
" There, that's where the corpse is buried".
" Um, little lass, when was it buried?".
She taps her chin with her finger while there is a smile on her face like she already knows what to say.
Or like there is something she is hiding.
She stops tapping her chin in that position after 1 minute.
" Well, it was buried yesterday, when a group of people came in this specific space to55 get a special sword for extremely greedy and foolish reasons"
" And it was all going well for them, until, I decided to sort of punish them for acting on those selfish thoughts of theirs and summoned a very small and innocent dog to deal with them".
" It saw all the bad karma and suffering they were going through to get the sword, so it took them to the gateway to the area where the sword lay".
As the little lass summarizes what happened yesterday with those people, she talks in a very childish and cute voice.
But somehow, when she mentions the gateway, I sense there is meaning to what use said, but my mind lazies around and refuses to work on more then just listening mad remembering what she is saying.
" But sadly for them, only one off them reached the gateway, the weakest of them all".
" Though, it wasn't the dog exactly who killed them".
" Little lass, can you keep quiet, I want to ask a few questions about the story to clarify somethings".
" Like you said to me, I will also tell you".
" You don't need tell me when you wanna ask a question, just ask".
" So, like, how many were there at the start?".
" Was the sword gonna be worth all the effort they went through?".
" Where the hell is that gateway?".
" And what ' Bad Karma' or are you just scared to admit the dog killed?".
The little lass leans her back on my cheek, folds her arms, then starts answering.
" There were 10 people when they arrived here, if they got their hands on the sword, then of course it would be worth it, the gateway is in the home of that girl Lysera, well, the bad karma I am talking about is that they killed a few people on their way here, so if karma and judgement are fair, they too would die and meet one of my friends".
I nod.
" I would like to ask why don't you just answer my other questions the same way you have answered these ones, fast and simple?".
" It's obviously to waste your time".
" Little lass, do you know that I don't have an unlimited lifespan, I will soon die one day too, but for me, it will obviously be of old age".
" And I would love to use my time effectively you see".
" Instead me just standing here talking to you".
The little lass lies down on my shoulder like it is a bed and somehow has a pillow.
" Yawn, you are right, I am tired now and I think it is also time to do what you came here to do".
The little lass covers her mouth as she yawns .
" So I will start with the question that I said at the end of the last chapter and at the start of this chapter".
' Chapter?'.
" Why you are here?".
The little lass stretches as she talks.
" Well, you are obviously here to train and get stronger until you are seventeen".
" That was your second question".
" Your third was why fate was acting up whilst I was visiting my friends".
"Well, I had to change fate a bit to make sure something specific doesn't happen early before you are strong enough".
" And it has something to do with the job fate was given by someone a few years ago".
" Your fourth question is, what the hell is that".
She points ahead while still lying down on my shoulder.
In the direction she has pointed at, that's where the humanoid figure I saw was.
It disappeared sometime ago.
I just didn't focus on it.
" Well, it will be answered all by its own sooner rather than later".
" Your fifth question is why you couldn't move your legs".
" I revoke that question".
' I can move my legs now, so why should I waste my time knowing something that would not bring me benefits anytime soon '.
" Okay, so your sixth question".
" Your sixth question is what this place is".
The little lass relaxes on her pillow with her eyes closed.
" Well, the irony of it is very funny".
She smiles with her eyes still closed.
" Also, before you ask or even think about it, I won't tell you the irony I am talking about, but I am answering your question now, so keep even your thoughts quiet".
I nod.
" You see, this is a place made specifically for one with a long life".
" so the time in this space passes far faster than the space outside".
" And, since I will be watching you journey, fight, bond and many more for a long time, I might as well tell you your name two years later".
" Huh?".
" Didn't you say I would only be here for up until I am seventeen?".
" Yes, I did".
" Then why are you saying two years later?".
The little replies quickly.
" First, do you know how old you are?".
" Second, didn't I say that this is a place meant for people with long lives?"