I reached to our shelter, and Eve looked at the lake and said, "I want to sit at the shore, big brother. Let's go to our house later."
I was surprised but I had no problem either, I didn't open the door and started walking away from the shelter and moving to the lake under Eve's wish. I came to the lake and kept Eve safely on the ground and she touched the lake water and smiled, it was clear and I looked at her and asked, "You won't fell down in the lake, right, Eve?"
Eve made a little bit of disappointing face and replied, "How can you even think like that? Of course not, I can manage. As I am sitting right now freely, I am comfortable and able to manage that...and you will be sitting next to me, won't you?"
"No, I was just worrying if there would be anything you are afraid of, and you suddenly panic and fell down, otherwise I also know that you won't fell down so easily and I will pick you up before you fell anyways." And I sat next to her at the shore and Eve made a pout face, took her eyes away from me and became angry from me and said, "I am not scared from anything, so you don't need to worry much about me." And I looked at her and just smiled, she's still a kid.
But suddenly my eyes widened, I felt something...which I couldn't feel earlier, and I looked back with a panic...and Yuzui was standing, tearing with sorrow and completely covered with dust and she was having many scars and injuries. I stood and Eve also looked back, she was surprised and she also couldn't feel that someone was chasing them all the time, and I stood and started walking with surprises on my face and confused...I didn't feel her arrival.
Yuzui looked at me, and she ran to me...and I was confused and continued walking and she ran and hugged me and started crying and shouting, but I was confused...I patted on her hair and asked, "Why are you crying, Yuzui? Is everything fine? Are you alright?" I couldn't understand that what happened to her, but maybe I couldn't understand her because I never had expected that she would recognize me? I don't know...and I think, I couldn't understand her this time.
Eve was watching everything, and smiling with a sweat...now this was something about which she is scared now, but she just looked at the lake and sighed, "It had to happen...I am not scared if big brother also loves someone else...but I am afraid if he forgets me by taking care and loving her only I really think...I will become lonely if that happens, because he is the one who grew me up." And Eve looked herself at the water as the mirror and a lotus came in front of her face, and she smiled.
Yuzui kept on crying loudly and said, "I...I am sorry...I am sorry...that I doubt on you...my mind was messed up with everything coming in my mind...I am sorry...I am sorry...I am sorry, Ichiro..." And I was surprised, I didn't expect this to be her reason but maybe because I don't know what' happening in her life, I didn't read her mind, because I never wanted to. Yuzui kept on crying and said, "...Please...you have left me once...don't leave me this time...I...want to stay with you, from now on...forever...I...really missed you...that...twenty four years...where were you...I am sorry for everything...that I didn't trust in you...that time...please...don't leave me...don't leave me again...I will trust in you...I will believe in you...please...don't leave me again..."
And I was surprised, it reminded me of my previous life...the ending, I didn't want to her trust in me either, because the plan was still the same...but at the end, I just smiled and patted on Yuzui's head and said, "Everything is fine, everything is alright...till the moment I am here, I won't leave you..."
And Yuzui's eyes widened with a shock...it scares her more, it makes her even more angry, and she looked down while still crying and said, "...Don't say that...why, till the moment...? Why not...forever? Your words...really scares me."
I smiled with a sweat..."I am sorry, if it scares you."
Yuzui finally left me, looked at me with a pout face and tears on her cheeks and I started wiping her tears and said, "You don't look good when you are crying, so don't cry...but on anger, you look pretty cute..."
Yuzui became more angry...but suddenly laughed out, beat at me lightly and said, "...It's still you... do you remember about the war between us...to be first?"
I looked up at the sky, "Oh, you mean the Academy days, you used to be always first at reaching the classroom and I second, and then I used to fall asleep on my desk and you would study, I really wish to live in that moment again, and if it happens...then I would be first, or at least I can try."
Yuzui smiled, it was actually a moment of fun, I used to wake up early for that and again I would fall asleep on my desk. Yuzui beat at my chest softly, and I looked at her with surprises and she looked at me and said, "...Welcome back, Ichiro..."
And I was surprised and eyes started widening...I didn't think that it would happen, but I just smiled--
"Sorry my lord!!! I am really sorry!!!"
And Yuzui, Eve and I looked back...and Goddess of Beauty was walking towards us, crying loudly and said, "I am sorry that I call you a kid...I am really sorry..."
And I was left frozen, so were Yuzui and Eve...but Yuzui and Eve suddenly started laughing, and Goddess of Beauty and I sighed, "I really don't mind that, to be honest."
The evening came to end, Yuzui was sitting on a chair and I was giving her a first aid for the injuries and scars she got by running and falling in the forest, while Eve and Goddess of Beauty were talking and Eve was telling her own and my story, while Goddess of Beauty had many stories of us but she didn't tell because I didn't want Eve to know about anything, even if she is just a form of God of Everything, but I still want to keep it separate because Eve herself doesn't knows who she is, and if she starts trying to by listening my stories then she may be confused that who she actually is, Eve or God of Everything. I rely on God of Everything for that, when she wants and would be able to active herself then only, and she will do it on her own and no one is going to interfere in that, that was Time and my idea at the morning time.
I gave Yuzui first aid and she had got some bandages covering her injuries and she smiled and looked at me. I looked at her and with curiosity, she asked, "Ichiro, what will you do now?"
I smiled and answered her while moving to the kitchen, "I will be preparing dinner for you all, you all are staying here for now, right?"
Yuzui was frozen...and she remembered the past, my dishes may look horrible but they are actually good in taste and she smiled. But Goddess of Beauty was surprised, "Wait, you even make dinner, Ichiro?"
I smiled with a sweat, then she would be tasting for the first time, and Eve looked at her and nodded her head, "Big brother is making meals for every time since a whole month, it may look horrible but it tastes nice, you should try it."
Goddess of Beauty was surprised but Yuzui smiled, she realized that Eve knows the taste as well and she looked at the kitchen, and said, "It would be going to be years for me to have your dinner, Ichiro."
The night arrived, the lights weren't there and the lantern was giving the light to the room and Goddess of Beauty looked at the dinner and she had started sweating...it was looking horrible, and she was now hesitating to eat. Yuzui was also feeling a little bit awkward because she had ate years ago, it was looking the same just the difference was of time. Goddess of Beauty looked at me and Eve and we both had started eating already, and with hesitation she asked, "Ichiro...you are not poisoning me, right?"
I smiled with a sweat, she also can't believe and has trust issue on my cooking skills but Eve smiled and looked at her, "Then I would be dead a month ago only, but I am alive...he won't force you, if you don't want to eat you can deny, it's your choice, but at least take one bite and then make a decision."
Goddess of Beauty smiled with a sweat, both are bad for her in her view, because if she choose to not eat it, then she will have to spend the night with empty stomach because she herself doesn't knows how to make meals, and the looks of the dinner, was making her hesitate to eat it. She looked at Yuzui to know the judgement, and Yuzui didn't hesitate, she took a bite and chew it... and tears filled her eyes, a smile came on her face and she said, "It's...delicious..." But now Goddess of Beauty started doubting on Yuzui, whether she's crying with sorrow or happiness, is she really happy or just saying it to make me happy...she finally understand what is actually trust issue, but she couldn't do anything else either now...she took a deep breath, and just took a bite in her mouth and...she was shocked, her cheeks turned red, she looked at the dish and said, "No way, this is... actually delicious...but how."
And I smiled with a sweat and Eve and Yuzui laughed.
Yuzui and Goddess of Beauty were sitting at the shore of the lake and looking up at the night sky, at the clear sky with no stars and I walked to them after making her asleep and Yuzui looked at me with a bright smile and patted on the ground next to me and I finally sat next to her and looked at them.
But Goddess of Beauty looked at me, being a little bit serious, and said, "Um...Ichiro, let me be honest...I still can't believe in you, there's already a Ichiro, but your arrival makes me strange and feel a little bit...suspicious."
Yuzui shook her head and said, "I met that one Ichiro a month ago or something, he didn't feel like Ichiro I know...he couldn't recognize me, it wasn't a problem to me...but my heart and mind couldn't accept that he is Ichiro...Emi, and Yuki were same...but even Nobela, he was all the time with that Ichiro, and bowing down in front of him at each meeting, Ichiro I know would never want that..."
I didn't know anything about it, and Goddess of Beauty looked at me and said, "Then you tell me, how did Nobela treat you, how others act on you, Ichiro?"
I looked up at the sky, "...Who knows..." And Goddess of Beauty and Yuzui were surprised by hearing it, I lied on the ground looking up at the sky and said, "...I didn't meet with Nobela and Yuki, Emi was my twin sister in this life, but I never got a chance to meet her, because she was considered as a God and my blood related family members didn't let me meet her. So I really don't know."
And Yuzui, Goddess of Beauty, and Time were shocked, "Emi is your twin sister?!"
But I didn't understand what is making them shocked, "...Yes? But she wouldn't know about that, because I was completely kept away because they believed that I am not a God because they didn't feel any magic in me, so my blood related family didn't treat me like a member, and I was grown with servants. When I was six, then Eve was born, but they all hated her because she was disabled and they decided to throw her, they were the grandparents who took her and I followed them and left the mansion, then a month ago grandparents also left us all alone, and yeah."
Goddess of Beauty and Yuzui were shocked...I looked at them, smiled and sat properly and said, "But fun fact, the moment I was born, I could remember everything and used Resistance Magic to block them to recognize my powers, and they thought that I don't have any magic power."
And Goddess of Beauty, Yuzui and Time were even more shocked now...