The wondering Giljen stared at his nilucis, and when he touches it, his hand went inside. With his widened eyes that filled with wonders, Giljen could feel a gentle electricity wallowing around his hand.
'Is this some kind of portal?' The question that first come to his mind.
Giljen remembered when the first time he attempted to touch his nilucis, his hand just went through to it as if he was attempting to touch the air.
As his wonders and curiosity ascends at the top of his mind, Giljen tried to have peek inside. However, the moment his head went inside with close eyes, his nilucis reacts and sucked him in.
The entire room was engulfed by a bright light that soon became dim as a void-like appeared afterwards at the exact location of nilucis.
While Mozeth, the lady working on her laptop, she suddenly felt an unusual flow of mana upstairs.
'This mana...'
At first she ignored it, believing that Giljen was experimenting something. However, it all changed when the mana she felt changed and became odd.
Immediately, she stood up and rushed upstairs.
"Wh-what's that?"
The pregnant teenager who just got back from groceries saw an unusually bright light from Giljen's window. Without a second thought, she immediately rushed in the house.
'Woah! Where am I?'
Giljen slowly opened his eyes and found himself in a certain space or dimension.
The place was all dark and there's nothing around, but the glowing crystal before him that caught his eye.
'What's this?'
Giljen noticed that there was a child-like figure inside of it.
Taken over by his curiosity, he unthinkably touched the glowing crystal, causing it to react brightly.
Giljen felt an incredible cold and heat inside of his body to its very core. Without his knowledge, it was already targeting his soul to mutate and fill it with mana.
"Ugh! Aaaaaah!"
'What's this pain?! I don't feel it directly in my body...ugh!'
An undescribable pain he felt, stroke him violently, and making him to cry out loud.
Despite the pain he felt, Giljen noticed the crystal has been dissolved, leaving the child-like figure alone.
With his struggling body and trembling hands, he reaches the child-like figure then put it in his brace.
Meanwhile...
Mozeth bursted in Giljen's room and saw a void-like matter in the room.
"Mo-Mozeth-san, wh-what's happening?"
The moment she was about to approach the void-like matter, she heard a voice and turned her gaze to the trembling pregnant teenager.
"Sumire...?"
The void-like matter emits a dim light as if it was about to explode, and as it does, Mozeth immediately rushed to the trembling pregnant teenager, Sumire and shielded her. She instinctively casted a barrier around them as she embraced Sumire.
The entire room was once again engulfed by an bright light, and by the end of it, Giljen finally appeared, but he was unconscious.
"Giljen?!"
Mozeth and Sumire both worriedly approached the unconscious Giljen.
"Mozeth-san, h-he's cold!"
***
"Mmm."
"?!"
The moment Giljen opened his eyes, he snapped then sat up; wandered his gaze around.
"I... am back?"
Giljen remembered the child-like figure, but it was not around. All he could do was remembering all the strange events transpired inside of his nilucis.
Now that he wondered about it, his nilucis was kinda different to what Mozeth taught him.
"Nilucis is something we received after being chosen and experience death. It contains a unique magical power and the knowledge we need, thus, it means the "light of knowledge. When you finally grasp something about your nilucis, an illumination will occurred, filling your mind with knowledge... and the rest is all up to you. Also, the nilucis cannot hurt its owner for it's connected to our soul. The moment we perish, the nilucis will vanish with us."|
'So... does this also considered as a part of illumination?'
As Giljen was spacing out, wondering about what he had experienced, The door suddenly opened.
"Giljen, you're finally awake!"
"Sumire-san?"
Sumire who was standing at the doorway stared at Giljen with a bliss of relieve. All the shards in her heart thawed along with her worries.
Giljen who felt a little awkward stay still as Sumire blissfully approached him.
"You're finally awake!" Sumire said in tears as she put his hand on her face.
"I... I'm sorry..." The only words Giljen said, as he stared at her with his downcast eyes.
Giljen was not dense and unaware of why Sumire acting worriedly in front him. It has something to with his nilucis that went out of control. Things that he did not expected and just went impulsively.
"Why are apologizing?" Sumire asked.
"You must be aware of my real existence now." Giljen reply and patted her head. "Aren't you afraid of me?"
"Why would I?" Sumire asked with a determination in her eyes, though tears came along.
"When— when I was in my despair and miserable life, you who was just a passerby, extended your hand and accepted me. So please..."
Sumire tightened her grip on Giljen's hand with his trembling hands. "Please don't disappear like that again."
Giljen was speechless, nevertheless deep in his heart he felt euphoric. It was a feeling of relieve for being accepted by someone.
The moment he heard these words from Sumire, he knew that he's not alone anymore.
As this dramatic moments goes on...
"You're finally awake."
Mozeth holding an eyeglasses entered and approached Giljen.
"Here. I already fixed it."
Giljen reached and accepted the eyeglasses from her. After staying for a couple moments, Mozeth suggested him to take a rest for awhile and no more words came from her mouth. Sumire left with her, leaving him to rest.
Giljen stared at the eyeglasses and began to collect his thoughts.
"Are they finally out?"
Giljen widened his eyes and wandered his gaze around for the small voice he heard. Silence in his solitude was cut off as the child-like figure appeared.
"W—who are you?" Giljen who seems to be still weary instinctively jump off the bed, away from the child-like figure.
The child-like figure looks like a fairy and just as tall as a new born infant. It has thick silver hair cropped just above its shoulder, light purple eyes, and yellowish skin. It also has six pair of tiny feathered wings that seems to be connected to its clothes on its back.
Given to its invisible-like leotard clothes with rose gold linings and edges that can also be seen to its thighs that looks like stockings, it wears a golden headband around the level of its eyebrows, a golden diamond shape wrapped around its right thigh (like a snake) that seems to be indicating shooting star, and has three stars floating around on its head.
"Wai— umh— Sanser doesn't have any ill intention." The child-like figure said, shaking its hands.
"...." Giljen just stared at the child-like figure, perplexedly. However, his guard was still up, though the child-like figure seems does not have any ill intention towards him.
"Y-you, you are the one I saw in that crystal!"
"It seems like you were the who freed Sanser and the chosen owner of this nilucis."
"Nilucis?"
Giljen's mind suddenly snapped when he heard the word nilucis.
"Umh... yeah?"
Giljen began to wondered the things that still in the process of digesting. Questions and wonders that still cannot be answered. However there's one thing, one thing that was indeed piqued his wonders above anything else.
"Are part of my nilucis?" He asked.
"No, Sanser does not. If one became part of your nilucis, they share the same light and illumination, which is the knowledge itself." The child-like figure reply with explenation.
"I... I see." Giljen held his chin and still filled with confusion. For someone who had lived for more than sixteen years with no magic, but only science and technology at hand. Things that only exist in the manga and novels, it was indeed difficult for him to digest it all at once.
"I-it seems like you still didn't grasp your nilucis, yet you already went through illumination." The child-like figure awkwardly said.
"It's just as you said. I mean, who would've expect that someone like me will become one of those so-called chosen to become a jaxmith, you know." [Giljen]
"If that's the case, Sanser will be your little companion, since I'm currently residing in your nilucis, hiding is not a problem. Hahaha..."
The child-like figure said with enthusiasm and laughed awkwardly.