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Chapter 23 - Future Friends, Potential Rivals I

As Henry followed Rasvol's servant up to his quarters, he felt uneasy under the gaze of the onlookers. He wanted to leave from there. As he was about to say, "Domainal Con-" someone put their hand on his shoulder behind him, interrupting him. He looked to see who it was and saw it was Zyn.

Zyn, "Calm. I am here."

Henry was surprised to see him. Zyn was scratching his head, "I know you noticed me watching back in Golden Valley. Sorry I didn't come out earlier." he gave a slight smirk.

Henry smiled, "Of Course I real-" he then realised Zyn was trying to divert the attention from him back to Henry.

Henry, "NO! No, we are not doing this. Tell me, Zyn! Why are you here?"

Zyn sighed, "I was invited too. Just like you. But."

Henry, "But what?"

Zyn, "But I have been here for a month."

Zyn tapped on top of Henry's head, "Domainal Control is a place your brain created for you, but it is,"

Zyn, "It changes when the controller changes. It is a part of you."

Rasvol, "You are right about that!" he came from behind them with another man on his side.

Zyn and Henry turned around to see Rasvol. Zyn identified who was with Rasvol and was shocked that Rasvol brought him here. Zyn cleared his throat to show Rasvol some signs that this might not have been a good idea.

Rasvol noticed it but ignored him.

Rasvol, "Henry, I didn't expect you to be here. But it was good that you came. Now we have all of the 4 Domainal Control users here."

Rasvol said in a lower tone clear enough for them to hear, "And also 3 Reins."

Henry understood Zyn wasn't the Rein and looked at the man behind Rasvol.

The man was a young man with long hair that reached his chest, his face as beautiful as a woman's. He wore a navy blue coat that got his knees and dark green pants with white shoes.

Henry, "I wasn't here to", Rasvol interrupted.

Rasvol raised his palm, "I know why you are here. It is to defeat him. Isn't it?"

Henry remained silent.

Rasvol, "Zyn and I discovered something unbelievable after WE used our Domainal Control together. We wanted to show it to you both. It might sound trivial. That is up to you after you witness it."

Henry, "Who is this?" as he pointed at the man.

Rasvol smiled but was afraid he would ask that.

Rasvol, "That is", the man interrupted him.

He said, "Does it matter who I am? I've asked to keep my identity anonymous."

Henry and he had a stare-down that went on for a while.

Rasvol thought, "Reaper, you might be making this worse than it is."

Henry, "I understand! It is a good enough reason." He then smiled.

Zyn was relieved Henry left the topic.

Henry, "I feel like we met before, have we?"

Reaper, "Not that I remember, but I have heard about you."

Henry, "I see."

There was an awkward pause after that.

Rasvol, "Anyways, let's get down to business then."

Rasvol invites them to follow him. They went up the stairs.

Rasvol, "We know a little about what this Domainal Control means, and why are we out of all the people in the world? And is Domainal Control the only phenomenon like it, or are there others we can't grasp? What we think of Domainal Control is that it is a realm created by our mind to show what home feels like to us. I feel it is far from the truth of what it truly is. I don't have an explanation yet, but I brought us all here to find that answer."

Henry was behind the bunch and kept staring at Reaper as he saw Reaper's past life through Alter's eye.

Henry entered a dark, foggy world where he saw Reaper's beginning and end from his father's death, where his father hung himself in public. To his wife's death, the memory had a lot of thunderclouds around and blacked the memory out. Henry wanted to know the story behind his last moments as he got closer to his previous memory.

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In his past life, Reaper was called Jack Hunigan, and he married the 3rd Princess of Wales, Ianah Ferguson, in 784 AD. Ianah decided to leave the royal family after her parent didn't like her decision to get married to an ordinary person. They both agreed to move somewhere far from the Kingdom and moved to Manx. Jack was a personal guard to Ianah.

In Manx, Jack found a job at the harbour as a fisherman. Ianah used to stand somewhere close by Jack since they didn't have a house at 1st when they got there and had to book a room in an Inn every night. In 786 AD, Jack and Ianah bought a home. During that time, Ianah was pregnant in her 1st trimester already.

In 787 AD, Ianah gave birth to a girl, Fiona Jack. Ianah began to learn to be a better housewife to Jack with the help of her neighbour friends[who were also wives like her]. Jack began to enjoy the time he got home spending time with his family.

In 790 AD, After Jack went out for work, His friend from work, Tom, who was trying to get close to Jack, just wanted to know where he lived. Tom knocked on the door to see Ianah at the door. Tom asked, "I am a friend of Jack. Is he here?" Ianah said, "No, Unfortunately, he just left out for work". Tom pushed the door aside and got in. He grabbed Ianah by the throat with his left hand and covered her mouth with his right hand. Ianah was scared and was struggling to get out of his hold. He then grabbed her throat to pull her towards him. Tom said, "I always wanted to know how it felt to hold you. *inhales* It feels great!". Tom took his hand off her throat and chopped it behind her neck, which knocked her unconscious.

Jack returned home after feeling something unusual because he usually used to hear Fiona crying at night or Ianah's cooking smell hitting his nose. There was nothing tonight but utter silence. Jack entered, saying, "I am Home!" he didn't hear anyone say anything back, So he went around the house to see where Fiona and Ianah were. He didn't see them anywhere in the Kitchen, Bathroom, Main Hall, or Bedroom.

Jack began to get worried, and that was when someone knocked on the door. Jack went to check who it was; It was their neighbour. She said she was someone who came in after he left. She saw the stranger head out of their home with a large sack that he dragged into the forest.

Jack headed into the forest, calling out 'Ianah' and 'Fiona', but there was no response. After searching for 5 hours, he got to an abandoned shack with light, where he heard clapping and panting continuously. He opened the door and saw someone he knew from work sitting on the floor naked. Jack asked, "Tom?" Tom looked towards the door and smirked.

Tom, "This is the guy I was talking about, Martin."

Jack looked at the man who Tom was talking to. He saw Martin raping a woman whose face he still could see because Martin's waist covered it. Martin was a man with long blonde hair up to his shoulders. He was also naked. It seemed to Jack that these 2 were sharing a single woman who was on the table. Jack decided it was better if he didn't get in their business. As he was about to leave, he heard a familiar cry. Fiona was in the shack with them. Without caring about the people around, Jack entered the shack, looked for Fiona, and found her on the other side of the table. Tom placed his right hand over Jack's shoulder, leaned into him, and said, "We found the kid roaming out in the forest, so we took her here to help her."

Jack feared the worst and looked around to see if the woman was who he thought it was. He was right. A switch flipped in Jack. Jack held Fiona close to his chest and said, "Fi, Let's play a game!" Fiona held Jack tight, and he had her with his right arm.

Fiona stopped crying.

Jack looked at Tom and Martin as if they were prey. He then looked around to use anything, a weapon. He saw a wooden stick that lay next to the table near him and quickly picked it up and threw it at Tom's head, killing himself instantly pressed to the wall. Martin looked at all of this with a creepy smile.

Martin, "You weren't lying when you told me this guy would interest me."

Martin went towards Tom's body and took the wooden stick of his head, broke it in 2 halves, and threw one of it at Jack. Jack caught the stick and threw it immediately at Martin. Martin deflected it away.

Martin, "You are a feisty one, aren't you?"

Jack was already in the face by then, and as he was about to take the stick out of his hand Martin pierced the stick through the throat. Jack began to lose consciousness. Martin moved out of the way. Jack held Fiona tight with both his hands.

Martin, "You are good that you could be a threat to me."

Jack began to lose his vision and wanted to shut his eyes. He looked down at Fiona and wanted to say, "Run away" but he was caught in the throat, his time was limited.

Martin, "I will take your kid with me."

Jack wanted to say, "No way", but he couldn't.

He began to tear down knowing there was nothing he could do for his daughter. Then he closed his eyes.

The next time he opened his eyes he saw Ses.

Ses, "You will be reincarnated to another life. Not in the world you are from."

Jack remained silent.

Ses, "Do you want to forget your past life?"

Jack immediately said, "No! No. No way! I want to keep it."

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Henry had tears coming out of his eyes as he said, "What about your daughter, Fiona?"

Reaper stopped and looked at Henry behind with the intent to kill after he said his daughter's name. A dark cloud appeared behind him as he kept his left hand beside his waist, where a black sword appeared in his left hand.