When the rays of the sun reached Rupert's eyes, he couldn't help but open them.
It...
was beautiful...
In front of him were clouds surrounding the transparent, mirror floors, reflecting the clear blue sky.
A figure in white approached when he blinked.
Rupert became startled.
She wasn't there a moment ago, how is she even here now?
She had gold eyes and black hair. A simple appearance for her glass skin.
It was at this moment he realized he wasn't in his usual attire but in a white, loose-collar shirt and black denim jeans.
The memories of what he had done before his death quickly came to his mind.
"Where am I?" Rupert asked, his emerald orbs examining the figure for any sort of malice. "Hadn't I killed myself?"
A soft chuckle escaped her lips as she shook her head.
"Lariette." She said, ignoring his questions. Rupert paused. "She was given another chance to live."
Rupert was speechless.
"Reincarnation." She said. "You can meet her. But at a cost."
"..."
Rupert knew about her first life, how cruelly he had killed her, how Bellua was in embers, why she hated him at first, all written in her old diary.
The purpose for why she even came to him when they were just children, 12 and 13 years old, to be accurate, became clear.
She wanted Bellua and her loved ones to be safe not to be killed and burned.
"What is it?"
"She won't remember her set of memories in her first and second life." She said.
Rupert paused. No memories? Nothing on their relationship?
But if it meant he could see her one more time.
To see her smile.
He would do anything.
"But." She said sternly. "She won't be the same. The age gap will be the same. Her appearance as well, only her hair and eye colour will change. And... Her personality will be different, very different."
"..." Rupert paused. "I'll agree to it..."
"Another thing is... Fate will make sure you meet her at 21 years old."
"Can't I meet her immediately?!"
"You can't. It's the universe's rules."
"What?!"
"Anyways, happy reincarnation! The name's Ally, by the way."
Before anything else could happen.
Everything went dark.