"Wow… veeery impressive."
I peeled my eyes away from the immense display of power to the sound of her voice.
"Oh, y-yeah sorry. Flügel is just super determined to impress the champions."
"Nononono, I think it's… y'know, coooool. I know he means well, but…"
"I don't think he realizes how edgy he looks."
"Yeayeayeah." She held a hand up above her mouth, covering up her giggling, only showing her piercing blue eyes.
Man she was pretty.
I mean she was a descendant of Algaea, but bro…
"So… Kry."
"Yeah?"
"Y-You think that'll get us the spot in the Vying?" I asked the blue haired girl.
"I mean… I think you guys were gonna get it anyway. Famous kids always get a spot."
"Mhm." I said, shifting my weight to my other foot. The ground in the grassy colosseum was kind of awkward to stand on, none of it was ever completely level.
The tree of Yggdrasil was just barely poking out of the top of the colosseum, its rainbow colors shining bright in the light of Phobos, hundreds of miles away.
"What? That's not a bad thing… right?" Kryphia asked, probably worried about my lack of response.
"Well… it's not all good. I mean I uhh… I'm
mostly fine with it, but don't mention the reincarnation thing to Flügel. Out of all of us, he handles it the worst."
"Oh shit sorry, I didn't know."
"I mean, he uses those emotions to make himself a better person, and a better hero. I may be stronger physically, but I think he has a stronger mind. I don't know if I could trust myself with my own life, but I think I could trust him if the time were to come."
"Really?"
"Yeah really. Sometimes I wonder if I went through the same shit he did, I wonder if I would be a better person."
"…that's interesting." Kryphia looked deep in thought.
"I don't know, honestly it's something I just came up with on the spot. I don't actually wonder that shit a lot, but now that I've thought about it I might start thinking about it more."
"I think you should. That kind of stuff is gonna be so much more important now that we're heroes." Kryphia looked up at me, her expression was way more serious than I had ever seen from her before.
"Yeah, ours lives… our lives are about to get so much crazier." I put my elbow on her shoulder and continued to watch Flügel finish up his little stunt of power.
"Get off dumbass." Kryphia shoved me off her shoulder, laughing while she did it.
I couldn't help but laugh a bit myself.
In the midst of all this confusion in my life, it really felt like this girl took me out of it when I was around her.
I had really only known her for a few days, but it didn't really matter.
She's the one.
….
How many times have I revisited that memory?
Thousands?
Millions of times?
I mean, what else am I to do?
These memories are all I have after all.
It really is all I am.
No body.
No space.
No feeling.
Just consciousness in the endless void.
Welp…
I might as well go onto the next one.