Amongst the countless universes, the countless stars and planets in one seemingly normal one a cry of a baby echoed as people around the baby gazed at it with the biggest of affections.
"It's a girl! Congratulations!" One of them cheerfully announced causing the other to cheer as well, most probably the only person that was not cheering with them was the baby.
"Ma'am, it is a healthy girl even gifted by the gods! What will be her name from now on?" The others gazed in awe as the baby was glowing in a strange way.
"Her name will be Terzia. Terzia Samsara." The woman holding the baby smiled as she announced the name.
Again, the baby cried as tears soaked the clothes of the woman.
The former hero Ben has been reincarnated as a girl. It was unclear whether Ben or the now Terzia was crying for having lost once again everything in her second life from the same hands of her killer in her first life or crying because of her current predicament.
However, this time she knew the name and face of her target, the one who brought him death twice, took the affection of the Saintess Lucia and was the most vile person she had ever met.
She vowed to her heart to bring down the culprit of her misery.
But what happened to the weapon Von Ten? Like Beatrice and Deva were bounded by a contract Ben and Von Ten were also bound by a contract...yet instead of destroying a potential threat or a possibility for Ben to reclaim this powerful and sentient weapon Deva decided to leave Von Ten with the company of Beatrice.
"Wha-?!" Waking up from its slumber the Von Ten muttered.
"I cannot move!Where the hell am I?!" Being a sentient weapon he could to a certain extent move independently without Ben. But with the blade entirely stuck inside of a rock and the handle wrapped around by heavy and enchanted chains Von Ten couldn't even unleash a fraction of his powers.
"Oh! Is this a fellow sentient weapon?" The voice of a woman resounded across the room.
"Who are you?"
"Fufu, it seems that your are rustier that I actually thought. Didn't I tell you that you are a fellow sentient weapon? Surprise surprise! I'm also one!"
For Von Ten such bubbly and energetic tone was weird since they were both imprisoned.
"Ah! You are thinking that we are in the situation, don't you? I'm telling you that we aren't."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, I am after all contracted with the person who sent to oblivion your contracted one!"
"Wha-!"
The sword was shocked.
"How can a holy sword be contracted with a person like her...don't tell me you are..."
"That's right! I'm a cursed weapon! A weapon that strenghen themselves by causing harm! Though, the two of us aren't that different. We are, after all, categorized by how we strenghen ourselves." The woman chuckled at that.
"..." The Von Ten remained silent for a moment before speaking. "What is your purpose..."
"What do you mean 'purpose'? My purpose? Deva's purpose? Well, knowing her she was just having fun bullying the two of you, not that I mind that. And obviously like every sentient weapon my purpose is to reach my final form like you."
"Final form...final form..." Von Ten absentmindedly repeated that word as if there was a deeper meaning behind.
"Depending of our type we will nonetheless shed a lot of blood and tears to others..."
"That's right! That's how beings that have the possibility to evolve can move forward, by causing harm to others!"
"Wait!" Von Ten exclaimed, "Does Deva have any ambition in seeking absolute power or reaching the highest of form a living being can archieve?"
At that question Beatrice smiled.
The two of them had contracted with many beings seeking specially for power in their seemingly eternal life with most of them becoming powerful individuals capable of tearing off stars with a swing but everyone failed to reach the desired final form and died along with any progress the weapon archieved and the weapon was forced to start once again their journey towards the final form.
"No, she doesn't have that ambition in the top of her mind." With a fervent gaze, Beatrice continued. "But do you know that she brought me to this fifth phase of mine faster than anyone else? Even now I'm being supplied with points to reach the next phase..." In the next moment,however, Beatrice pouted. "Still, I want to really accompany her and be with her but that person just left me here and told me to do whatever I wanted!"
"Fifth...fifth phase?!No... this is not the time...I want to know why you approached me or even spared me."
"That's simple! We want you to terminate your contract with Ben and become one of us!"
"Do you know what that means, right?Why are you doing this? Isn't it better for you to just destroy me?"
"Yes, I know. You will reset your current progress to zero but the gains outweight the losses! Trust me!" Beatrice mischievously smiled. " We are doing this purely to see the face of that Ben the moment he sees you on the other side together with the enemy! Won't be that hilarious? Yes, we are doing this mostly to that reaction destroying won't really be that interesting besides just by touching you I can obliterate you if you are thinking to escape from me. So, you prefer waiting for eternity in this dark room or reach the final form with us?"
The true nature of these sentient weapon was that of pure pursuit of their final form and knowing this Deva gave the job to persuade Von Ten to Beatrice to change sides, but who knew that Von Ten accepted that easily.
While Ben started a new life in another world and Von Ten changing sides Deva and her wives were spending a passionate night with each other performing any kind of perverted acts, whilst the people around the world they were currently in were suffering the greatest and of crises and wars.
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