The silver-haired boy, Karito, insisted that he didn't belong here. But Yuukai's assistant kept holding onto him. Yuukai didn't do anything at that moment, he just observed Karito and let him wrestle with his assistant for a short time, before he decided to relax and sit on his bed and breathe.
"What exactly do you want from me?" Karito suddenly turned his head toward Yuukai.
Yuukai moved one chair near Karito's bed, and sat on it, "We need your help. We know that this is not your place and time, but the country is counting on us,"
"I don't want to do this anymore, I have to go home now," Karito answered with anguish. He seemed to have a grudge toward someone or something. He then looked at me, and continue to talk, "You don't know how much it takes to undo the curse,"
Undo the curse? Karito said as he was one of the ancestors who actually lived in the era before the curse. Back then I was so intrigued by what Karito said, and the sincere feeling of him not wanting to undo the curse just because it was too tiring to do.
Turned out that Karito was one of the saviors explained by Yuukai earlier. He, or the man inside his body was actually one of the leaders of the saviors. The elite three, including me. Which means that we need to find the other one to be able to proceed to undo this curse.
"He is not the same as me," Karito pointed at me, "he is someone else," he said some enigmatic lines that weren't understood by me at that time. He then sighed and wiped his face. "I need to see the world around," he then got out of bed, and walked outside the room, accompanied by one of Yuukai's assistants.
Yuukai then turned to me to further confirm that Karito is one of the saviors' souls that he'd been looking for, and that I must be nice to him, because well... essentially, he was hundreds of years older than me. I wonder if the real Karito wouldn't mind if an ancient soul took over his body.
The thought of someone else taking over your body is scary. Imagine someday you woke up from your sleep and didn't come back to the place you were sleeping, but instead somewhere else, where you can't control your body. Otherwise, maybe you will never wake up again.
As the night followed, Yuukai gave me the key to my room in the school building. With views across the island. That's right, this school is located on an artificial island southeast of the mainland of the country. He said that this was done to protect the school itself from darkness' attacks.
I always wonder, since when has this school existed? I've never noticed anything about it until now. It sort of just popped into existence. The reason it was built was to protect the country from the darkness since a long time ago, but I don't have any recollection of it.
That night I was thinking about the consequences of my own birth. I imagined alternate realities, where maybe I wasn't born, and thus history wouldn't literally repeat itself. I cried, remembering how good my life was until that point. Realizing that now I have to live this new life, without any familiar faces of families and friends.
I felt it was hard to go on, mainly because I don't want to live this miserable life, even though maybe in the end, I ended up as a hero of some sort, I just don't want to live someone else's life.
I wonder if that's the thing everyone thought of too.