"Haise... Haise..."
Once again I woke up in an unfamiliar place. I was lying onto the water with the reflection of the starry night of the sky.
Slowly, I stoop up as if I was full recovered. The wounds in my half naked body faded. There's only a... 'Smooth skin? My broken arm also healed?'
I miraculously walked onto the water. With my astonished eyes, I wandered my gaze around.
The mysterious being appeared again, giving me a chance to witness her unworldly beauty. As just what I saw before, her entire body were glowing with pink mana.
Seven bluish white flames around me.
What am I, some kind of yokai?
She gave me a lovely smile, for some reason, I could feel our connection. It honestly left into confusion and giving me a hard time to digest this all.
I'm verily nothing, but an abandoned child.
Though she was smiling, she gave me a worried look.
Before I knew it, she was already in front of me. This time I didn't doubt her approached... Wrong! I simply didn't care anymore.
Her hands gently held and lift my face up. That smile of hers honestly gave me an unfamiliar comfort.
"Haise..."
She once again said my name in her ghost-like voice.
"What is it do you want from me?" I asked.
"I want you to live." She answered.
I honestly couldn't grasp behind those words. Given the fact that her tone put me in a different vibes.
"I don't have much time to explain it all. My time is only limited." [The mysterious being] "The magical system you possess will help you to grow. You are the delusion of the forgotten gods, a jaxmith, Haise."
'Jaxmith' [Haise]
"The light of knowledge will soon illuminate in you, and your nilucis will slowly change you."
"Nilucis?" I couldn't help but asked her.
"Hehe..." She gracefully chuckled.
And once again she continue her explanation.
"The true name of this devine system is NILUCIS. A weapon and a defensive device that will help you to grow. It is also connected to your very existence."
"You mean to my soul, right?" Haise bravely and curiously asked.
The mysterious being smiled and said: "Smart as always, Haise."
"As long as you live, the nilucis will remain for you are its life."
"Same thing to me." She gave a gentle and lovely smile. I honestly didn't understand her expression, that's how it appears to me.
"Now that you finally awakened this dreamworld, you will be able to grow up more."
"And those "flamesouls" around you will be the proof of your illumination when the time it changes its colors in the future."
'So these things are flamesouls. Wait what?'
"Flamesouls shows the color of your nature, Haise." She gave a lovely smile. "And as expected of my master your flamesouls shows how pure and unique your rationality is wide and unique."
I honestly didn't get what her point.
The body of the mysterious being glow brightly.
"I guess my time is up." She chuckled.
"This will be my parting gift to you, for now."
She held my face and bumped her forehead against my forehead.
"Philomina" I said out loud.
She widened her eyes and stared at me for a few seconds, then close her eyes with a smile like she feeling euphoric.
"Haise" She said my name again, but this time with a different bright and smile on her face.
"Thank you." Once again she vanished.
The reason I called her Philomina? Well I just noticed she know my name. And as supposed to be a sign of courtesy, she didn't introduced herself, which I found it odd.
The mysterious being simply doesn't have a name. Given the fact that she once said: "I exist for you, only for you."
Just like you having a pet (didn't mean to degrade her existence), you are obligated to give it a name.
And to my surprise, her reactions shows me that my speculations are correct.
...
To get out of this place I closed my eyes to deactivate my dream world. Successfully and surprisingly as usual, I'm to reality.
How did I do that?
Remember when Philomina, the mysterious being said: "This will be my parting gift to you, for now."
It was another common knowledge about my dreamworld.
'I see...'
***
The next morning, I woke up... and as always I saw the same ceiling.
I'll be soon to get out of this place.
The plans I made and worked hard for it since my mother left me for some bullshit reasons, I finally made it.
Not only that my plans seems to be having some changes.
It's not that I'm planning to move to another apartment with a fancy room, but it's because of this magical powers of mine.
And I'm not planning to just waste my money in such fancy residence. I'm not my shitty father.
Mother? Well she's a good woman, honestly. She's a good mother to me, but... she disappointed me.
Chosing that shitty job over her son. For what? For the sake of pleasure?
Fuck!
I shaked my head as I stood up, trying to shake off those shitty memories. 'Damn!'
A son with such degree in his heart? You gotta be kidding me.
...
I washed my face at sink, and when I was in session of wearing my school uniform I saw myself in the mirror that hanging solemnly onto the wall at the corner of my room, besides my closet.
'My eyes! Th-their not the same!'
I remembered that when I washed my face there's some blood get along with water flow down on my face to the sink.
I ignored it and didn't mind it. Probably, because my eyelids were still too lazy to open.
My usually brown eyes are now having silvery-white tinge irises, filled with usual vigor.
My eyelashes that was already long due to the genes of my mother I inherited grew thick and longer.
'What the fuck!'
Even my hair that appears to be brown everytime the light hits on my hair became a little darker... Wrong! It became jet-black like it was absorbing light and appears to be healthier than before.
Normally, I wouldn't mind about my hair to change into something flashy, but really? Jet-black of all the colors?
Fuck!
I'm not really complaining the color of my hair, it's just that I'm worried about buying some bottle of water to ease my thirst when the summer comes... And that would be a waste of money.
You see, the white dog has more advantages in the burning summer. Why? Because its fur reflects the the light away.
While the black dog on the other hand, its fur absorbs light, causing them to usually get thirsty.
And that's what I'm thinking, not only it'll waste my time, but also to cost me fifty six point forty three yen.
Just because I save enough money to support myself in my daily life means this price is no big deal.
Remember, I can always get free water, but what about my time and energy then.
I signed just thinking about it.
Am I overeating or overthinking about my budgeting. Well to me, everything I spent is calculated.
Damn, I'm probably making some excuses because of some black dog in the summer. Hahaha...
I just laughed awkwardly and internally as my forehead leaning on the mirror.
*Ting
An idea lit up on my mind, I created an eyeglasses made of my magical barrier. Since I can reshape anything, I can literally created everything as long as I know the mechanism and how it works.
(I was only talking about objects.)
'What the?'
As I was creating my eyeglasses, I snapped in my new discovery.
'I can change the color of my barrier?! Really?!'
In my astonishment, I could not but said: "What a convenient magical ability..."
Sooner or later, I just realized it's probably because of my dreamworld magic. I felt my magical system— I mean "nilucis" notified me that I was using it.
'I see. It really does works at my will, huh?'
Like how I instinctively move my hand when I was tending to grab some.
As I was still in front of the mirror, I lift my hand and created a black ball, hard as metal.
It was floating on my hand, that afterwards I dispelled it.
I walked away from mirror with another experiment struck in my mind.
I wear the eyeglasses I made with black braces, covers my eyes with my bangs like a lonely gloomy guy, and grab my bag and put it onto my shoulder.
[Diary Chapter end]