Tale of Discovery

Chapter 44: Partial Recollection

---3rd POV---

Victor looks at the newly appeared Yuno and several thoughts cross his mind as he stares at her in without uttering a word.

She pays no heed to his silence and slowly floats down.

"I'm obliged to return this to you," she says while raising her arm before a small golden orb materializes on her palm.

Feeling a strange connection to the orb, Victor reaches out to it. He notices the closer he gets, the stronger the connection gets.

"Victor, don't!" Juno suddenly exclaims behind him.

Sensing the anxiety in her voice, he turns around to see her having a solemn look on her face.

"You can't do that," Yuno says, "He needs to remember."

Juno's expression shifts to a murderous one as she says in a cold voice, "He doesn't. I will do anything to prevent it from happening."

In response to her claims, Yuno laughs and shouts, "What are you even capable of doing?! You're just a Proxy now."

As soon as her voice fades out, the temperature falls dozens of degrees as Juno's body begins glowing in blue.

"You'll see what I'm capable of," she says before raising her arm.

The next moment, icicles being to form all around her, however, there is something different about them compared to normal icicles.

They're on fire. Black flames are covering them from the tip to the other end.

The icicles then launch in Yuno's direction at an extreme speed.

Yuno doesn't seem to the least bit affected by them as they harmlessly pass through her body and pierce the building behind her.

"How idiotic," Yuno taunts as she raises her own arm.

Immediately after she does so, everyone apart from Krul and Victor slam into the ground, including the floating Juno.

Everyone begins to shout about not being able to move and feeling like something heavy is pressing on them.

Looking up, they see space deforming.

The world seems to lose its colours as reality deforms before their very eyes.

The building is no longer there. The ground is no longer soil. Everything around them has changed.

"Welcome to my world," Yuno declares with a carefree smile, " you do not need to worry, this is all for Victor's sake."

In the centre of all this, Victor is just standing where he is at, with eyes that seem to have lost their glow.

"Remember!", bellows Yuno as the orb launches in Victor's direction.

"No!" shouts Juno as she watches the orb disappear into Victor's body.

"There is a high chance that he will lose control!", she shouts as she glares at Yuno.

"Why do you think I've formed this space for?", Yuno retorts.

Several moments later, Victor holds his head as he falls on his knees.

---1st POV---

I remember. The life that I knew of. The feelings. Everything was a lie.

I never lived a normal life. In fact, I've not had a single day of normalcy in my life from where I can remember.

There was a mysterious entity that promised power and eternity to those who won a game. A battle royale of some sorts. All the participants of the "game" had a way of telling the future through some sort of device or mechanism.

From then on, my life took a turn for the worse as every day was a hectic one filled with mixed feelings and trials.

My school was blown up with my schoolmates all in it. I am glad about it though, as it happened right after they betrayed me.

Next, I had to deal with several others that wished to kill me, forcing me to kill them myself before they kill me.

Having gotten used to killing, I thought that it couldn't get any worse, however, I was mistaken as my own father stabbed my mother. He stabbed her 28 times.

When I found out, I was so pissed off that I beat him up to a pulp, despite that, I couldn't get myself to kill him. I sure was weak back then...

After that, he spent days apologizing and repenting.

That didn't last long as I soon found him cut up to several pieces by someone. It was at that point that I didn't know what to feel anymore.

While I was going through all this, there was someone who was always beside me - Yuno.

She helped me out emotionally and physically.

Although that didn't help me much once I had lost a grip on my feelings, it did give me a reason to continue with my life.

The battle went on with only a few individuals left. I myself had no idea what I was fighting for, but I just did.

After careful deduction and battling, the sole survivors were Yuno and me. I had no wish of continuing with anything, so I decided that dying would have no effect on me or anyone.

At the finals moments before my death, I witnessed something.

I saw Yuno speaking with someone. A beautiful black-haired girl... Juno.

After having said something to Yuno, she walked towards me, held my hand and said,

"You wished for it. Now I wonder what you're going to do with it."

Everything then turned dark as my memories were cut off.

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The next moment, I suddenly found myself somewhere familiar.

Observing my surroundings, I noticed that I was in the Colosseum. A very damaged one.

There, several individuals with ridiculous strengths were fighting. Looking around, I saw that the city of Rome was not recognizable anymore.

The sheer amount of destruction caused was astounding.

The battle seemed to be coming to an end as one individual was fighting several others while someone behind him was preparing a golden circle with runes in it through the usage of some sort of power.

Moments later, the individual that was preparing the circle shouted at the other, "Verethragna, now!".

In response to his words, the one that was fighting was suddenly covered in golden light before going away in a second.

Right after that, a shockwave formed, sending all the men close to them away.

Taking it as a chance, he made his way to the circle formed and said, "Do it!"

As soon as he said so, the other one broke down into colourful motes of light and got sucked into the circle.

The circle began to glow as several new layers appeared on top of it. The circles began shaking and glowing incredibly, making it seem like it would explain at any moment.

Suddenly, several individuals dashed that I seemed to find somehow familiar ran into the circle and held onto the individual.

From this point on, my vision ended and I found myself floating in an empty space with faces appearing all around me one second and fading away in another.

This went on for a while until one face stayed. It continued to remain there. It was Sora.

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"He seems to be okay?" I hear Juno mutter as I regain my clarity.

"From the looks of it, the memory recollection was partially successful," Yuno says.

Opening my eyes, the first thing that I see is everyone curiously staring at me. I notice that my head is on Yuno's lap, so I swiftly raise my head and get on my feet.

I move my body around a little and feel like there is something different now.

{Complete soul formed.}

{Destrucion unsealed.}

{Creation unsealed.}

Irene's voice resounds within my head as a feeling of euphoria washes over my body. Before I can savour it, her voice resounds once again,

{WARNING: There are fourteen days left before your calling ends as a failure.}