Bringing attention to Stellar at the moment will not do her or me any good, and while she is considered to be a very lucky to be alive in the Zone, her current luck is actually at the expense of everyone else.
I know this for a fact since she had said so herself in her interview, and I can still remember her words very clearly as if I have just watched the live show yesterday.
"Fortune and Failure are just two sides of the same coin," Stellar had said. "For me to keep my life, my parents have to give up theirs. For me to open my eyes, all of my classmates have to keep theirs closed forever. And for me to obtain this power, others have to relinquish everything in return. If I could turn back time and redo everything, nothing would ever change. That is my fate, as…"
"As there is no uncertainty for me and my future," I recite the last part and watch Stellar and the other children play cards together.
It is kind of weird to see Stellar as a little kid, but that is the strangeness of time travel.
Stellar has actually lied to me about her parents. She was there when they died in a car crash, but she had managed to survive without any injury. And when the formation of the Zone occured, she was the only person to awaken in her class, thus all of her classmates and friends turn into monster.
And for her to gain her power… well, I wonder what the others must relinquished. The others must be everyone who still cares for her right now. It will not be any of her living relatives, however, since they all believe her to be a cursed child.
Stellar is probably cursed, as her fate is still the same despite the timeline has changed considerably.
And I wonder if I have the power to change her fate. Even if I cannot alter the events eventually leading to her death, I will not allow her story to end there, for death is never absolute. It is the least I can do for a friend even though Stellar had never considered me to be one.
She rarely talked to me after all. As such, I have no idea about her past other than things I have heard on the interviews or in her biography. Even at the end, she had refused to consider me a friend.
"I am not your friend, and if you are keep thinking of it that way, Zander, then we have nothing to talk about," Stellar told me before meeting her maker. It is also the last time I have seen her alive, and for some reason, I felt incredibly regretful.
I sigh as I recall things I do not want to remember, but it is inevitable, considering that I will meet those who I had watched perished against impossible odds. One by one, each and every one of them greeted death until only I have remained.
Death came for me eventually, and I killed it, and now I am here, watching Stellar as a child, completely unaware of what is to come. Same as the Major, who is still with her men, but I am sure she is keeping an eye on me despite being preoccupied.
I sigh once more and find a vacant spot to take a rest. I will not be able to sleep, especially in this place with so many people around. It is also a real waste of time pretending to sleep, so I decide to wait for a good opportunity to slip away.
It takes a while for the opportunity to come, and when it finally does, I use my Trade Network to vanish into thin air. If anyone ask, I will just say I can enter my Inventory, which I can but not like that.
Once I find myself in my room within my house, I begin to get to work.