The pain in the chest released the pain from hunger. The body lifted itself from the body and became light. In front of her eyes, her aunt became red, then became transparent and floated out from the physical body.
'Daisy! Come here!' Rose called Daisy to come close.
Daisy didn't know how she should go there. She looked at Lily who was crying holding their body, 'Mama...crying!'
Rose was sad, 'It's ok Daisy! Mama will be here so…'
A bullet sound made them startled. Blood starts to flow everytime the bullet makes sounds.
Daisy looked at Lily, 'Mama…'
'No, Daisy…wait…' She didn't want Daisy to see the cruel fate.
Rose begins to fade, 'What is happening?'
'Daisyyy!!!' Rose screams.
Her soul disappeared without leaving any trace.
'Losyyy!!' Daisy was left alone.
She saw Lily's body suffering till the very end, 'Mama…'
Lily's body stops moving. Daisy tries to wake her up. Lily's body became visible. Daisy smiled beautifully. But Lily didn't call Daisy.
'Mama! Mama!' No matter how many times she called, Lily didn't respond.
'Maaaa!!!'
Lily went under the ground. Without knowing where she should go Daisy stayed seated at the corner.
The morning cannot fully enter the house. An old woman knocks on the door but finds it unlocked. Daisy didn't move.
'Rose! I have…' The woman was entering the house.
She was petrified by the sight. She hurried away. Many people gathered, many cried. The old woman takes Daisy's body and cries while hugging her. They took everyone out.
'Don't take mama...don't take Losyy…' Daisy couldn't stop them.
She starts to follow them. They buried the bodies. The old woman cried for a while then left. Daisy sits in front of their grave. It starts to rain slowly. She held her hand's palm out to touch the rain like she used to do, but couldn't feel it. It fell down on the ground, through her palm.
'Are you lost, little star?' The kind tone of the voice was very soft.
Daisy looked at the man, with two coloured eyes, Golden red and rusty red.
A strange weapon he had in his hand and he was wearing a black, silk shroud and his face was transparent like her hand. She looked at her hand then back to his face. Raindrops were fading his face whenever they were falling on him. It was making his transparency high from low. His hand, that was holding the weapon, was flickering too whenever the raindrops touched them.
Her curiosity made him smile, 'Right now I'm like you, but I'm a bit different, little star...I wish I had...forgiving soul..like you.'
She kept staring at him. She was unable to look away. His kind smile made her trust him. She points at the grave, 'Mama! Losy!'
He knelt down and put down his weapon and said, 'Your mama and Rose will be ok. They have gone to a good place. Do you want to go there?'
Daisy nodded.
'Good girl! Let's go there.' The stranger took her hand.
She was surprised that she could touch him. She touched his cheek before he stood up. He was surprised.
'Pretty…' she looked into his eyes.
He couldn't understand what Daisy was talking about. Daisy touched his eyes, 'Pretty eyes…'
Erza was so astounded to hear, that his eyes glowed up and Daisy was surprised.
'Shiny!' She smiles and holds both of his cheeks.
He takes down both of her hands. He took her hand and their surrounding changes. They were standing inside a forest. There was no rain, no clouds. They walked through the forest. The muddy road had a different scent.
Finally, they got out and entered a field. They stopped in the middle. Daisy ran towards the lake that was in front of her. Ruan Erza stares at her soul. A black reaper greets Erza.
'Daisy.' Erza holds out his hand so that she comes back to him.
She did. He placed her wrist in the reaper's hand, 'Don't let go of his hand ok!?'
Daisy nods.
Erza turned his scythe into a small dagger that fits in Daisy's hand, 'It's yours, from now on...NEVER...let it go.'
The reaper was shocked, 'Leon Rigil! What are you doing? You know na, why do we reapers have this!!'
'I know.' Erza nodded.
The reaper was baffled.
He said, 'It's a blessed weapon that Almighty has granted you. It has the power to cut anything. If you are going to give it to her then how are you going to use it to cut when someone binds you with a spell or anything?? You won't be able to defend any soul nor yourself…'
'It's ok. I'm not a reaper. I'm just a rovering phantom.' Erza looked like his heart was broken.
'But you help souls…it can go out of control if you give it to him…' The reaper tried to make him understand.
Erza looked at Daisy while touching her cheek lightly, 'This innocent soul had an unfortunate fate because of me. I should do at least this much,to protect this soul.'
The reaper was not convinced, 'How will you control…'
'North!' Jarvi appeared and North stopped arguing with Erza and the reaper greeted Jarvi who was coming to them by walking on the water, 'Have you forgotten how experienced he is?'
'No sir! I was just simply concerned about him.' North lowered his voice.
Erza pats on North's shoulder, 'I will be fine. She will be fine too. Please make sure that no evil touches this soul.'
'I will. It's you who is making this request.' North said.
Daisy waves while she travels through the clouds. The stranger with the unique eyes, becomes smaller and smaller.
'You must be tired darling, why don't you sleep for a bit.' North asked Daisy.
Daisy starts to feel sleepy. But suddenly a noise wakes her.
A crying sound.
Somebody puts a baby beside her. She could not see the face because she was still sleepy. She closed her eyes but still could hear the voices, 'Goodnight Yesu, Goodnight Re.'
'Did you go to see Sora?' the voice keeps talking.
'I did, she was playing with senpai.' The voices began to go distorted and then become silent.
Rei opens his eyes.
He was lying on the bed, spreading both of his hands. He was holding Aki's wristwatch. His soul weapon appeared in front of him in its dagger form and was hanging in the air. The metal portion of the dagger had a phoenix shaped mark engraved in it.
'So…it…actually was you...!' Rei mumbles while watching the dagger.
Aki holds his right hand to stop the pain while working. He sighs, 'It even cut its own Master.'
Chev scoffed from the balcony hearing him complain, 'You ordered that weapon to serve him. What can it do! But thanks to it's loyalty it didn't want to cut you. It opposed the force he was applying and made itself stop from piercing through your hand.'
'He thought you guys did it.' Aki commented.
'Like Zel can listen to any of us!' Chev mocked again.
'I have to admit, that was a clever move, to use that strategy there, to defend me with the dead followers.' Aki talked about that day.
'I just did what you had told me.' Chev became polite.
But Aki didn't tell Chev when to execute them. That's entirely Chev's credit.
'Now that I'm thinking about it, I was so shocked that I didn't even notice there was no bloodshed.' Aki stops writing.
'Of course you did. Unconsciously perhaps, but you obviously noticed. That was one of the triggers to help you remember yourself. Seeing no blood on the bodies.' Aki listens silently.
Then leaned back on the chair, 'Those girls protected me without even knowing me. It must have shocked them after knowing that I was actually one of their ancestors.'
Chev told him, 'Yes. They knew that Leon Rigil, Ruan Erza were the same person. Ruan Sayo learnt this truth when you went to Lin's Castle that you were them. They never let us guard you properly there in their territory. Always chased us away.'
'Thanks, for not hurting them.' Aki starts to think about the times at Lin's. He brushed it off.
'Thanks to you, they had the wrong idea. They thought I had made a deal with Jinn.' Aki smiled.
'Has Argil's and your deal expired?' Chev asked.
'Long over.' Aki's heart began to ache to hear the name.
Aki never thought he would come to love him more than his life. Never thought he would repay Aki like this. Aki makes sounds with the pen by tapping them on the table unconsciously. Suddenly he brings out the model's list then starts to write while saying, 'Make him go away.'
Chev looked outside, 'He has been suffering.'
Chev was waiting for a comment but Aki didn't give him any. He gets out and stops in front of Reiji who was heading towards Aki's building. Reiji was not surprised with that. They both were standing in the mid air.