After the feast, Yue and Avery prepared to go back to earth. They called Elrand and the other 4.
Avery told them their plan to go back to earth and tasked them to take care of the village while they were away.
The five agreed immediately as they already had information about Avery and Yue's situation. The system imprinted it into their memories as soon as they were created.
"System Log Out." Avery and Yue said together.
[Conditions Met]
[Logging Out…]
As soon as the command was recognized, their bodies started to glow white as pieces of their body started disintegrating into particles of white light.
Avery thought that they would wake up immediately just like how it went in the first timeline. However…
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Avery slowly opened his eyes and saw that he was not in the living room, which he remembered was the last place they were in before getting absorbed into the Ascended World.
'Where am I?' Avery thought with a confused look on his face.
He looked around and saw that he was in what appears to be a bedroom for children. The room was quite dim, though that did not prevent him from seeing the high quality furniture with toys scattered here and there.
Then he saw a small silver-haired girl leaning by the window while looking at the rainfall outside.
As soon as he saw her, he could feel another set of emotion inside him. While his own emotion was agitated with surprise and confusion. The other one was filled with deep loneliness.
"Little Yue?" Avery said with confusion, as the girl in question appears to be around six years of age. Even though Yue was younger here, that still did not prevent him from recognizing his precious little sister.
The little girl turned around and looked in his direction. Her face brightened up from her previous lonely expression.
"Big brother!" The little girl said excitedly.
He could feel the sudden change of emotion in the second set of emotions inside him. It feels like the second set of emotion is connected to the little girl he is looking at.
The little girl ran towards his direction as Avery stretched out his hands to receive her into a hug.
As he was about to receive her, the girl suddenly fazed through his body, eliciting a surprised look on his face.
He then turned around only to see the little girl hugging a silver haired seven year old boy who strangely resembled him.
"How's my cute little sister doing?" The little boy said in a happy tone though you could faintly notice the stress and tiredness in his tone.
Even though the little boy tries to hide his condition. Avery could still see that he was tired and stressed from whatever he was doing before arriving here.
'Is that me?' Avery thought, looking at his younger self. 'Just what is happening here?'
"It's very lonely here, Big brother. Mom and Dad won't let me go outside."
"You know why Mom and Dad won't let us go out right?"
"I know…" The young Yue said in a sad tone which was felt by the older Avery through the connection.
"Cheer up Little Yue. How about I read you a book." Little Avery said with a smile.
"Really!!" Little Yue asked excitedly as she loved spending time with her Big brother.
"Of course!"
Little Yue then realizes something and quickly changes her mind. "Ah.. maybe we can do it next time, big brother." She said in a guilty tone.
Confused, Little Avery asked worriedly. "Huh? Did I do something wrong, Little Yue? Do you not want to spend time with me?"
"No! Of course I want to spend time with you big brother." Little Yue hurriedly says.
"It's just… you look tired from your training, big brother. I don't want to waste your time and make you suffer because of me." She said while looking down.
"Ahh." Little Avery, realizes. 'Sigh* she is quite perceptive for her age… well I am no different.'
He then cups both of her cheeks and brings her face up to him. "Although.. I admit that I am tired, but there is one thing wrong with what you said Little Yue."
Little Yue curiously stares at Little Avery's eyes, wondering what he was going to say next.
"You are not hurting me and you are definitely not wasting my time. As spending time with my cute little sister is something I always look forward to."
"In fact, I feel my tiredness disappearing just by being with you."
"So you don't need to think of complicated stuff and just accept my offer ok."
"Nn." Nodded Little Yue. "Thank you, Big brother." The older Avery could feel the overflowing happiness inside him which made him smile.
'It's too fuzzy since it happened thousands of years ago… well 11 years in this timeline, but I remember doing this kind of stuff with Little Yue'
'The question is why am I seeing this? It's not that I hate it, but why am I here? What about my Yue?'
With these thoughts in mind, Avery continued watching the two reading a book in the bed.
In the middle of watching them the surrounding starts to go dark until he can't see anything other than darkness.
He then starts to gain a feel of his body. He slowly opens his eyes only to see the ceiling of the living room.
Avery slowly sits up and looks at his side, only to see Yue sitting by his side with a frown on her face thinking of something.
She notices Avery waking up and quickly gets out of her thoughts. "Ahh! You're finally awake, big brother." She said with a smile.
"How long was I asleep?"
"Hmm… I'm not sure since I just woke up a minute ago myself."
"Anyway… what were you thinking about?" He asked as he noticed she was deeply in thought when he woke up.
Yue frowns and slowly says. "It's just… I had this weird dream."
At those words Avery realizes something. "You mean, you too?"
"You also had that weird dream, big brother?"
"Yes. It's a dream but at the same time it feels like it was real."
"Right. But I don't remember those things I saw happening. In fact it was quite contradicting."
"What do you mean? What did you see?"
"I saw you lose in gambling and was forced to loan some money. Then those loan sharks cheated you and wanted to use me as collateral, but the Rain of Ascension happened exactly at that moment and we used that opportunity to run away from them."
"But that did not happen since I know you won that gamble and was even able to buy us this new home for us." Yue continued.
Hearing those familiar events, Avery flinched for a second. He was shocked since those were the things that happened in the last timeline.
'H-How?' Avery was shocked but quickly calmed himself.
Even if he flinched for only a second, it was still enough for Yue to notice it. "Hm? What's wrong big brother? Did I say something wrong?'
'This just confirms it. The things we saw are not a dream but more like a memory of the other person, but why did this happen? Is this because of the soul bond? That's the only reason I can think of as this did not happen in the last timeline.'
"No, you said nothing wrong Little Yue."
"It's just that… I don't think this is just a simple dream Little Yue."
Yue looks at him confusedly. "What do you mean, big brother?"
'Hmm… the truth huh... I need to tell her. The earlier the better. What better time than this opportunity presented to me? Right?'
Avery slowly breathed in the air before expelling them. He prepared and decided to tell her the truth.
"Little Yue, what you saw is…"