"that's..soul fragments!" Hestia said in shock, being in heaven for ages and only recently descent to the mortal world, she knows what are these,"the reincarnation goddess, one of my friends, was the responsible for the managing of the mortals' souls for the afterlife, and she basically judge who to reincarnate, send to heaven or *heaven's forbids* , hell , based on their karma during their lives as mortals," Hestia explained
"karma?" Hohenheim was first to hear of this concept
Hestia smiled, "yes karma, that's basically decided based on your deeds, in simple terms, good deeds give good karma, bad deeds give bad karma..." Hestia stopped letting Hohenheim process and continue, "but living being aren't black and white, so the calculation system of karma had a lot more than good and bad deed, I don't know the details, so I won't say nonsense, but having positive karma will guarantee is a place in heaven, same for hell, but the interesting part is when you have zero karma..." she smiled meaningfully
"zero karma?"
"yes, having zero karma is incredibly rare, it means that the soul's positive and negative karma are equal, so if that's happened , they would reincarnated right away with their memories attached! because it's seen as second Chance for living for them!"
"!!" Hohenheim stared in shock, Hestia noticed this and smiled but didn't comment on it and continued, "normal reincarnation for souls happened after thousands of not hundreds of thousands of years after their pass, but karma reincarnation is different, since they would have their memories."
'does that means I have zero karma?' Hohenheim thought, ' ignoring the fact that's is a different world, how I would have zero karma? my deeds should send me straight to hell...' Hohenheim thought with bitter smile, he felt then Hestia's gentle touch, "having zero karma is better going to heaven, it's very boring there with nothing to do." she complained to the teen with the intention to ease his pounding heart, she basically had some understanding of his situation before.
'I suspected that he is unusual child, but to think he had zero karma... people who are in this situation usually had rollercoaster of a life, I hope he opens up with me eventually.' she thought and stroke his head tenderly despite that he is more than foot taller than her (177cm~),
Hohenheim felt his heart warm feeling her affection, but remember the original topic, "goddess, you said these are souls fragments?"
"hmm? oh yes!" Hestia remembered, "but there are a bit unusual, since souls are colorless, yet those parts have color in them... can you describe the way you got them?" she asks and he explained , "so you got them when some kind of emotions is sent to you?" she wonders and tries something, she jump on him and give him a quick peck, Hohenheim got surprised but handle it well, as the kiss finished, Hestia said with flushed face, "you didn't get thing, did you?"
"well I got your kiss, that enough for me." Hohenheim said with smile holding the Pettie yet thick goddess body, "boo! no flirt yet!" she answered yet she made no attempt to stop the smile on her face, "well answer?"
"no I didn't." he answered truthfully, she nodded, "like I thought.", she got confused, "does that mean anything?"
"of course it does! it confirmed something, these souls fragments are from mortals! and they unleashed them all the time, they are colored to indicate the emotional state of the releaser, you didn't feel anything for me because gods have divine soul, and have perfect control on it."
Hohenheim felt a bit bitter, since he couldn't feel his goddess emotions but got surprised the moment a ball of energy leave her chest!
"hehehe! why are you surprised? I told you we have perfect control on our divine souls? in fact the only way to use our divine power is to activate our souls as it's has the god's signature."
"then won't you be in trouble, since unleashing your divine power is forbidden without reason?" he asked in worry
"don't worry, hehe, since this just the emotions that I expressed, I just let the control of my soul and made like mortal, and let you do the process which I think it connect to your second magic and second skill, gods will always have their divine soul under control and won't let it scatter like mortal, so you won't have to worry about some god feeling weird if they felt something towards you" Hestia said as she release the ball they Desperately tries to go leave her and go yo her destination, the ball faster than bullet reaching his chest and upon entering, Hohenheim felt warmth he never felt before
"that's my direct feelings to you, Hohe-kun." Hestia smiled brightly, "and since you are my child, you accepted it without hesitation."
Hohenheim felt that in fire that he can be relaxed in forever, sadly it disappeared soon after, "did you feel it, Hohe-kun? that's my pure feelings to you." Hestia smiles warmly to the teen which he responded in same, but asked, "but what's the difference between the soul fragments I have, compared to goddess?"
"the difference is mind is divine, it complete, it's perfect, unlike mortal who in constant improving by excelia..."
"...so that's mean..." he thought of a absurd possiblity, "yes." Hestia answered, "this souls fragments contains some loaded excelia that wasn't integrated to the body just yet, the amount also depends on emotions' intensity and the level of the sender, also mortal who doesn't have falna won't have excelia." she explained, she knows the implications of this ability
"...is there a downside of absorbing them?" he asked after taking a deep breath, "well, since you are absorbing it, you will also be absorbing the emotions behind this fragments, so it will effect your mood accordingly." Hestia reasoned after some thinking
"is that so?" Hohenheim made in his two ball of emotions around his hand that was red and green respectively, "then I wouldn't worry about mood swings!" he throws the balls in his mouth!
"wait!" Hestia warned but was late as this fragments become part of him already, the red(anger) and green (jealousy) tries to invade his mental state but easily shrugged it off, he smirked, 'I had to deal with a half million soul, each individually so, having mood swings will insult to them.'
"are you fine?" Hestia asks unsurely, "that was reckless you know?, individual emotions are part of someone soul and by extension personality, absorbing like that could result in changing in your own, which means essentially to die!" Hestia had tears in her eyes, "you seems fine, but what if you weren't? what will happen to my hohe-kun that I came to like and adore?"
Hohenheim looked surprised and smiled apologetically, "I should've told you I'm sure of my doing, sorry for making you worry.." he put her head on his chest and par her gently, "I'm going to avoid doing that to my goddess."
"hmm.." hestia nodded her head enjoying his care, Hohenheim had an idea to make her feel better, "why not going to the place you suggested before?" and as he predicted, Hestia's eyes lit up in excitement, "yesh! let's go! now!"
"now?" he smiled wryly, "sure." and without wasting time the pair left the church and went to that place....