Re:START/If {Book 1.0}
Chapter 47 : Mutual-Evin 7 of 10 “Samsara” (Part 02)

As spring grew more and more pronounced, flowers began to bloom on pottery pots displayed in front of the main street buildings as decorations. The crowd began to return at sunrise and began to rise, as if yesterday's execution had no major impact on the routine of the people of the coastal city.

The sunlight that entered through the window into one of Porzan's inn rooms, exposed the woman's face to blue hair and woke her up. Immediately sitting on the bed, Vil stretched loose and slightly yawned. His long hair was unraveling wildly on the bed, looking like a pure line of water in a stream.

He immediately used his power, turning the Mana from within the body into water bubbles that floated around him and began to clean the clothes worn with it. The bubbles go into the blouses, skirts, and tight pants that he wears, then clean the dirt that sticks.

Once everything is clean, Vil separates the water content from the fabric and converts it into Mana to be reabsorbed by the body. Slightly tidying up his clothes, he began to look for the young man who should have slept one place with him.

“Eng, Od—?”

Vil's words came to a halt when he saw a boy sitting on the floor. The boy is seen writing something with parchment and a quill pen, but that is not what surprised Vil. Without seeing it from the front of the Great Spirit knew that the child was Odo Luke, but what surprised him was his current form.

“Odo ..., is your strength back?” vil asked as he got out of bed and approached the boy. The Great Spirit at a glance examined the black bracelet worn on his own right hand, slightly astonished and thought Odo accessed the storage dimension on the Dimensional Bracelet while he slept.

The boy turned his head, and Vil confirmed that the black-haired boy was really Odo Luke. A childish parasite with a slightly flat expression, a highlight of blue eyes and distinctive black hair. It is no mistake that it is Odo.

“Hmm, although not yet completely, sih.”

“Terus ... why your physical form?” Vil observed the boy's body. Height, face shape and posture, obviously it looks like Odo before using transformation magic and really a child.

“Ah, this?” The boy got up to face Vil, spread out his hands and with a faint smile said, “I’a chat with Canna, discuss some things about magic and such. At that time I was also told that there was an effective way to use magic other than using the internal magic structure.”

“Eh?”

Vil momentarily fell silent with a surprised face. Although he did not know that what Odo said was true or not, but the expression that appeared on the look on the child's face strongly indicated that he was lying. Vil clearly knew the smile Odo often showed when lying.

“This, loh ...”

The black hairdo began to roll up his shirt sleeves, which was when the lie that Odo made was no longer important because what he showed was really making Vil wide. It is a Khanda-shaped Rajah on the right shoulder, Ivory-colored (ivory white) and deeply embedded in its skin.

Vil knows the meaning of the symbols that often appear in the legend, making him tremble and step back. With a voice that felt hoarse and stuck, he tried to say, “Ke-Why ... You have that symbol?”

“Ah ..” Odo briefly closed his eyes, reopened them and turned his eyes away. Staring at Vil with a light expression, he said, “I haven't told you about this, have you? This figure appeared after I defeated the Demon King, it can also be considered that I will be the one who will have a great influence on this land ..”.

“King of the Devil ..?” Vil at a glance was aware of this, want to make sure he asked, “Means that actually defeated the Demon King was originally Odo? Fiola is only ..”

“Yes, he just claimed to have defeated the Demon King.” Odo slightly sighed, smiling stiffly and implied sadness in it. Staring with a glare of eyes that did not reflect the passion of life, he explained, “I asked him to confess like that .... At that time the condition was complicated, anyway.”

Vil was just speechless, confused to say or ask what. Odo too suddenly said such a thing, even the child before him did not allow Vil to momentarily steady the mind and adjust the mind after waking up.

Without waiting for the Great Spirit to ask what was going on in his mind, the black hairdresser again said, “Vil, you are the third person who knows about this symbol, he said, so please don't tell anyone, yes.” Odo again lowered his shirt arms, stared lightly and gave a faint smile.

“Three?”

“Ya, Fiola and Canna already know ...” Odo at a glance turned his face reluctantly, sighed with a grim expression and he said, “But don't worry, it doesn't mean I'll invite trouble or have ambitions of becoming the ruler of the Michigan continent. I just want to do my duty.”

“What ... are you talking about, Odo?” Vil really could not catch his point, bewildered by the circumstances that had suddenly entered into a serious conversation. He walked closer, about to hold the boy's left shoulder but Odo stepped back and dodged.

It was enough to create pain in Vil's chest, with eyes that began to glaze over he asked, “What ...

Odo looked straight at the blue hair woman before him and began to explain, “This face has its own magic structure, has a uniqueness and function almost the same as the mini version of Magic Core. By utilizing that and channeling my Mana into it, more or less I can already use transformation magic.”

Vil's emotions instantly surged as he heard an answer that did not answer his question at all. Taking a deep breath, with Vil involuntarily snapping, “That's not what I'm asking right now!! That ..., the diagram .... You know what that means?!”

The atmosphere became quiet quickly, for the first time Vil felt very angry at Odo because of this. He frowned, stared with a reddened face and wanted to snap back at the black hairdresser before him. Realizing that he did not deserve to be angry like that, the Great Spirit lowered his face and could only fall silent.

“Ya, I know,” said Odo. He only gave a light response, as if he did not care about Vil's anxiety and said, “This is the symbol of the rulers, right? Take it easy, I'm not an ambitious person. Things like conquering the mainland like the First Emperor of Urzia or bringing peace like the Emperors of the Kingdom of Unega are not there for me.”

Vil raised his face, looked anxiously and said, “But .. that symbol.”

“Yes, indeed this will invite trouble, therefore I hid it. So don't tell anyone, even Mother doesn't know about this ...”

“Mavis ..?”

“Hmm, if you know I can be forced to stay in the Mansion. The owner of this symbol always seems to be close to trouble, and I proved it while searching for that damn bandit. Honestly does not mean I invite trouble, but problems that seem to approach me ...”

Vil was silent to hear that, he was indeed surprised to learn the fact that Odo was the holder of the Khanda symbol. But in addition to these tastes, curiosity is more volatile in the mind because the black haired child is unlikely to uncover a secret without a clear purpose. What else in the morning like now.

“Why ... are you telling me that now, Odo? Could be ... You keep quiet and hide it, I also probably will not ask if you do not want me to know.”

At first glance the young man looked away, looked out the window and wore a sad expression that he rarely showed. Not answering Vil's question, Odo walked towards the open window and stood in front of him.

As he looked out and saw people crowded with their economic activities below, the young man said, “Yesterday night I had thought about it and worried about it, ‘Why am I fighting so hard? If it was just to protect the place, it should have been at a safe point I could have stopped and let someone else do it. But why?’ Such a question had crossed my mind and made me worry.”

Odo turned his head, looked at the Great Spirit of blue hair and again said, “But when I think back, I get the answer. I remember the answer.”

“Answers ..?” Vil just stood in his place, reluctant to approach and felt his distance from Odo as if getting further away.

“Hmm.” Odo nodded and smiled lightly, recalled last night's events and said, “When I returned to this inn yesterday, I had a chance to see people who could only live at night. They ... scavenge the remains of the morning, filling their stomachs and families. Honestly when I saw it I remembered it .... ‘Ah, I am indeed this kind of person. True too, since long ago I was indeed a person like that’. Because of such a thing ... I decided to tell you my secret.”

Vil was silent, staring confusedly and not understanding what Odo meant. The Great Spirit knew that the feeling that the young man meant was that he could not bear to see them homeless people who could only scavenge for food at night, but what he wanted to say could not be caught at all.

“Almost ... what's the secret?” asked the Great Spirit while forcing his own body to move, taking one step closer and gazing with disbelief.

Odo at a glance smiled lightly, felt happy when he saw that and asked back, “Vil ..., do you know Samsara?”

“Samsara?” The blue haired woman fell silent, held her chin and thought hard about it then replied, “If it is not wrong, the word. That about the wheel of karma?”

“Once, yes.” Odo just put on a thin smile, walked over to stand in front of Vil and said, “You don't know about that .... Then do you know what karma is?”

Vil frowned, feeling strange about Odo's gradual question. Sighing and calming the upset turmoil in the mind, the Great Spirit replied, “Karma is a piercing or also called the result of piercing, there are good and bad karma. Why ... why about that?”

“In the belief of the Ungea kingdom, did you know that karma was included in the Panca Sradha? That's ..., the five main points that exist in the trust of their people ...”

Vil fell silent, his pity turning into a hint of shame over his ignorance. He briefly looked away, then softly said, “Sorry .., I don't understand that. You know for yourself that I'm not interested in that kind of theology, right?”

“No need to apologize.” The boy only put on a friendly expression, did not disturb Vil's ignorance and again said, “Then, I explained a little about Panca Sradha it.”

Odo lifted the five fingers of his right hand that were still covered in black gloves, then in a friendly tone as if without burden began to explain, “As his name suggests, the Panca Sradha consists of five parts ..., among others, like Widhi Tattwa, which means believing in the creator, Atma Tattwa means believing in the soul, and Karmaphala, which means believing in the law of cause and effect. Karma is cause and effect, a causality of the act you just called.”

Vil stared in surprise, he only knew that Odo understood that far about the beliefs held by the majority of people from the desert country. With a slightly surprised tone and expression, he said, “You know a lot about it, yes.”

Highlight Vil's eyes turned sharp quickly, then took a step to get closer and forcefully asked, “So what is Samsara? Odo does not enter into the core of the conversation, not usually you like that.”

Odo only gave a flat expression without fear of getting an angry look from the usually calm woman. With only the index finger and middle finger of his right hand, the black hairdresser explained, “The fourth part of Panca Sradha is Moskha, it is a necessity to let go of such worldly sense and bond in order to get to the level of asceticism. It sort of takes the dirt off the body and mind, usually the monks there have mastered this part. That's you know, right?”

“Eng ...” Vil nodded in annoyance, feeling Odo was getting convoluted. Staring sharply and starting to surrender with it, he replied, “That's one type of Battle Art training there. Removing impurities from the body and smoothing the circulation of life energy, I once heard that from Dart.”

Odo lowered his hands and stared with a doubtful expression. At first glance his mouth opened and was about to explain, but doubt blinded him back to his mouth and looked away. Taking a breath and making a decision, he looked at Vil and explained, “The last part is Samsara, or Punarbhawa .... If you still don't know what it is, a simpler word to explain it is reincarnation ..”

Vil instantly fell silent, silent and trembling hearing that. He immediately knew what Odo wanted to talk about, vaguely understanding why the black hairdo used implicit and convoluted sentences. With doubt the Great Spirit asked, “Odo, do not say ... are you a reincarnation or something? Such a senseless thing .. where it might happen. When a human dies his soul will decompose and return in the Flow of Life, their personality will be destroyed.”

“Indeed their souls were destroyed, but that fragmented soul piece would not be born into the world again to be someone else? What ... You're sure reincarnation really can't happen. Not .... You alone can do perfect reincarnation, Vil?”

“It ...”

At first glance Vil's chest felt tight, what the young man said was indeed very appropriate. The words death and life were actually not very suitable for the Spirits in the Astral World, they were all basically a collection of energies that formed their own personality and hierarchical system. That was also true for Vil who could have been reborn as long as he prepared for the appropriate death. Death and Life for the Great Spirits is just a kind of recycling cycle to balance the environment that becomes their territory.

Understand that such a thing could happen to humans, Vil's body did not stop shaking and did not want to accept the fact. With the intention of refuting he said, “If indeed your soul— thyself is reincarnation! Then do you remember it? Memory of previous lives? If you are the owner of the sign, then you are the reincarnation of the first emperor and founder of Ungea? It ... does not make sense!”

Vil was about to hold onto both of Odo's shoulders, but once again the black hairdo dodged by stepping back. The Great Spirit fell silent, trembling more and trying to convince himself that it was impossible. The Great Spirit was afraid that the Odo he knew would disappear when he realized the fact, he was afraid he could no longer see the figure in front of him as Odo Luke.

“I am not them,” replied Odo while looking straight at Vil's eyes. It made the blue-haired female fixate, step back and feel a little relieved but her gaze looked chaotic.

“Lalu ... what are you? Samsara means reincarnation, right? Your soul ...”

“I was just a young man who got dragged into this matter because a goddess paid attention to me. A sinner, a rebel and a figure who once wanted to overthrow the power of the heavens.”

Odo clearly understood that this would be Vil's conclusion. Putting on a light smile and slightly tilting his head, he refuted, “Salah .... Too bad I'm not that brutal. I don't have ambitions as strong as the Ancient Demon King who can unite the Devil nation. I'm just ...”

Odo explains, in detail, that he is the reincarnation of the world before the apocalypse. It was revealed one by one with its own mouth, about the universe that existed before World Reconstruction and also called the world before the apocalypse, about him who had lived in that time and some secrets that he did not even tell Fiola or the others.

Hearing the explanation that seemed one way, Vil can only be widened and forced to believe in it. He had guessed it because Odo's attitude and personality are not like children in general, but he unconsciously refused to believe in it. Vil does not want the person who took him out of the library to be someone else, he wants Odo to remain the Odo he knows.

“Odo ..., such a thing .... Thou ...”

The Great Spirit could only put on a face full of sadness, the sentence could not be arranged properly and his chaotic mind made him confused what to say after hearing all these explanations.

As if he did not care about the Great Spirit who was still not ready, Odo made an offer, “Are you still going to be on my side, Vil?” The Great Spirit could not answer. Just opened his mouth and tried to say, but the voice could not be let out because there was something called doubt stuck in his throat.

“While you know this, do you stand by my side?” Odo asked the question again. The boy lowered his face, then regretfully began to explain, “Basically the chaos in this world, the actions of the demons and their summoning, the tragedy of the Perverted Stream, made, all of that was just a process to collect the pieces of my soul scattered across the world,”

“A—!” Vil was more surprised, his chest tightened and his expression was so tormented to hear the fact that kept coming like a storm. The look on his face seemed to cry, to him the reality was more painful than a lie.

Although the woman's expression was so tormented and her heart seemed to be broken, Odo again said, “After my soul has been gathered them, even Mother must contain me .... You should know there's something weird about the way she was conceived, right? You should know, where possible women without a uterus can conceive ..”.

Vil immediately realizes it, considering Mavis's request when he first becomes the Great Spirit he contracted and begins to live in the Luke Library of Scientia. Indeed, at that time Mavis asked him to use the wand and change the structure of his body in order to conceive a child. Although the uterus can be reshaped, but that does not mean the function of the female organ tool can directly work properly and be used to conceive.

Vil realized something, his eyes opened wide and fearfully said, “True too, though Mavis was pregnant but a soul that went into the fetus and made her live it ..”.

“True .... With that rod of yours, my soul that has accumulated in Mother's body can have a place and eventually contain it. That's my secret. I was born not because of a miracle or blessing, but because of the certainty they made.”

It really made Vil limp, his legs until he could not support his body and sat down resignedly on the wooden floor. It was too frightening to be true, a fact that made the atmosphere of the Mansion feel alive sourced from the children whose birth was awaited by those who bring the most suffering to the world.

Looking up and staring at the black hairdresser, Vil trembled asking, “What's all that for? Why ... such a thing ...”

Odo looked at him sadly, with a load he replied, “Only with my being will the world move, that is the role I have. Where I step there will be chaos, then a beginning will be created, that is my nature.”

Vil was speechless, a voice as if it could not come out and anxiety made his mouth stiff. Although the words were neatly arranged in the head, it was all that he could not ask. He lowered his face, trying to calm down and became silent.

The atmosphere became quiet, only the sounds of crowds from outside were heard and a little disturbing the silence. Waking up with a still trembling body, the Great Spirit looked straight and asked, “Why ... are you telling me about this? If only you had kept it hidden and continued to be the Odo Luke I knew .., I would have always stood by you! Why not now ..., after this taste has grown! After everything has passed ..., why only now, Odo?!”

“I don't want to hide it.” Odo just stared straight, without a doubt he replied, “It feels very sad that I keep this hidden from you.”

“You could have told that to Fiola and Julia!! Them ...”

“Julia will always argue with me when the actions I take endanger myself .... Fiola instantly prevented me from doing something that could have made Mother sad. Unlike them, you never refute my decision.”

“I don't argue because you're Odo Luke. But ... after hearing such a thing, myself ....!”

Odo understood what the Great Spirit was saying. For Vil the figure of Odo is like that as it is, being a grip and role model, being a clue and without hesitation obeying him even though it can mean bad and a lie.

“I'm still Odo Luke, until whenever I'm Odo Luke.” The black hairdresser took one step back, put on a light smile and said, “Although the memories of the past are whispering to me, but the memories from the time I was born into this world until now are genuine mine. That's why I'm Odo Luke, not anyone else.”

Tears instantly flowed down Vil's cheeks, a strange feeling in his mind began to fill his chest. Repeatedly rubbing it with an arm, it continued to flow unstoppably along with a feeling of being entirely body within the woman's fragile chest.

“Curat .... Odo ..., you cheat .... Why just now say like that, I ... have no choice but to accept your words ...!”

What Odo said earlier was only to provoke the feeling of Vil rising to the surface, he knew that the young man had this bad trait. Fishing other people's emotions, manipulating them and knocking them down, then giving them a sense of relief, that's the way Odo Luke often does.

“Sorry ...” The boy lowered his face, then gloomily said, “I don't want to let go of you. Yesterday I had my doubts, if no one knew me clearly .. Can I still be me? Because of that ...”

“You are the worst .... Why can .. I like people like you ..”

Vil tried to wipe his tears that did not stop, turned his face and did not want to be seen the black hair child. But before being able to wipe away the tears completely, Odo again pointed out the fact that made him surprised.

“And one more ...” Odo unleashed his camouflage magic, his body turning into a juvenile form again. His height, posture and level, all returned to the body shape he had yesterday. Putting on a stiff smile, the young man in black hair said, “On me who can already use transformation magic is a lie, it is only to make it easier for me to show the symbol of Khanda. This ... only magic Mimik.”

Vil immediately turned to the window, immediately aware of the reason why the light that entered and the position of Odo standing felt strange. It made it easier for Odo to manipulate light, and added from that, the young man avoided physical contact so that his magic would not be revealed.

Smiling resignedly with a chaotic face and tears still lingering, Vil looked in annoyance and said, “So, yes .... So you planned all this before I woke up. Playing myself like this .... You're so mean, Odo.”

“Sorry .... I just want to make sure.”

“No need to apologize.” The blue haired woman wiped away the tears, shook her head and walked over. He immediately hugged Odo and softly said, “I know, you are indeed Odo .... Your nature, you are Odo Luke. No matter whose reincarnation you are, you are indeed Odo .... You will always be Odo to me.”

Women were crying, the young man only had a flat expression in his arms. They know and understand that existing relationships will not be able to go further than now, only limited to people who fill and need each other.

Indeed there is loyalty, there is love, there is care, it is thinking of each other, it does understand each other, but indeed they themselves understand later it will certainly make them hurt when they take off each other. Hugging the woman back, Odo said nothing and just clenched tightly.

The wounds that would later be obtained did not mean much to him, the young man could freely erase the feelings in his mind and forget about it. Thinking of such a thing, Odo felt like the worst man ever. Make use of the feelings of the girl in his arms, use them and will leave them.

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Time passed, the two of them sitting next to each other on the edge of the bed. Leaning one another and facing the open window, there were no words between them and there was only a quiet atmosphere interspersed with the crowd from outside.

Lying his head on Odo's lap, Vil held tightly onto the young man's knee and asked, “What do you want to do to make sure that's so, Odo? What .... our relationship, the trust I give now is not enough?”

“There are many ...” Odo sighed lightly, stroked Vil's head and said, “But, the most important thing about the person who is the beginning of all problems. Most likely I will meet him and solve all these problems ..”

Vil glimpsed back confused, changed his lying position and saw the face of the young man's black hair. Stretching out his right hand and touching his cheek, the Great Spirit asked, “Which problem is it? We ... have many problems .”

“About this region,” Odo replied. Sighing slightly and holding tightly to Vil's hand that touched his cheek, he said, “That indirectly makes the bandits more and more, makes Luke's territorial defense reduced, food constraints and others. It sounds unreasonable because it was my father's fault that was less able to regulate his own territory, but still that person who was the beginning of the cause.”

“Who?” Vil stared confusedly, narrowed his eyes and felt clueless at the thought patterns of the young man in black hair.

“Eng ...” Odo looked back at Vil on his lap, tilted his head slightly and asked, “Did you remember that my father, Dart Luke, had left his territory for a long time? After the death of Madis Luke, the Head of the Former Luke Family, my father did not return to his territory and instead handed over his stewardship to the Rein.” family

“Hmm, I know it.” Vil nodded, lowered his hand and again changed the position of his head by facing the window. In a soft voice, he said, “Mavis once said that a lot happened and Dart could not return to his territory in a few years. But ..., isn't that no problem? The authority has been returned, hasn't it?”

“That's exactly the problem.” Odo laid his body on the bed, still letting Vil make his thigh a pillow. Stretching his right hand to the ceiling, he explained, “Returns of authority without careful preparation create problems. It may sound strange to say that my father cannot lead the region, but inevitably that is a fact. The time this region is taken care of uncle Thomas the bandits is not too much, loh.”

“The Rein Family Head?” Vil got up, immediately got closer to Odo's head and sat down next to him. Approaching the face to the young man, the Great Spirit asked, “Then ..., why?”

“Entahlah ...” Odo dropped his hand to the right to the side, sighed and said, “For a person like uncle should be aware of that. Uncle Thomas is an expert in governing, he has been able to suppress the selfishness of the nobles and maintain the political stability of this country. Should uncle also understand that my father's capabilities are not enough to regulate Luke's territory, Dad is very temperamental and tends to think instant, anyway.”

“Ah, true also.” Vil distanced his face, smoothed the sheets and laid the body next to the young man. At a glance remembering the nature of Dart, while looking at the ceiling of the room Great Spirit said, “Dart temperamental from the past .... But, why would that Head of the Rein Family still restore his authority? Why didn't he prepare it carefully first? Rein Family's job instead of taking care of things like that,’kan?”

“Eng ...” Odo growled, narrowed his eyes and said, “This is just my speculation, but there seems to be someone urging him.”

“Epressing Rein's Family Head?” Vil turned to the young man in surprise, then asked, “Isn't that person said to be very genius in politics?  Who is it?”

“Entahlah ...” Odo turned his head, looked flat and began to explain, “When I first saw Uncle Thomas in the Mansion yard I had thought that he himself wanted to mess up in Luke's territory. But after seeing him talk to Dad, I knew that his loyalty was genuine. Back looking for information, I had a chance to meet with uncle Thomas' brother who was expelled from the Rein family ranks to avoid conflict.”

“Adik?” Vil was a little surprised there was such a thing. To the Great Spirit like him, Vil could be said to be quite layman on matters of politics and matters of noble families. What he understands is that all noble families are just like Luke's.

“Andreass Rein, he is the Religious Priest of this city,” Odo said. Looking back at the ceiling and folding both hands to the back of his head, he said, “Low I got some additional information about the Rein family. Most likely the person who urged uncle Thomas was his own insider ..”

Vil stared flatly, feeling a little unconcerned about that sort of thing. Until now, he actually did not understand why the Mortal beings in the Real World often fought and dropped each other, the Spirits in the Astral World did not do such a thing at all because they shared life and understood it to be from nature.

“So, do you know who it is?” ask Vil

“Hmm, he's near here. More precisely under.”

“Eh? In ... down?” Vil immediately got up and looked down at the bed where they were sleeping. Didn't find anything, he complained, “Nothing, loh.”

“Hahah, it turns out you can joke too.” Odo sat down, smiled lightly and pointed down. While putting on a serious expression, he said, “He is in this city, downstairs this inn. The badass who casually threw trouble into Luke's territory for his title promotion.”

Vil stared in wonder, tilted his head and said, “Promotion? What in warriors or nobles?”

“He's a nobleman and now in the military. Well, it's not exactly him who directly planned all that, but his mother .... A mother's love is indeed very extraordinary, even she prepares everything before her child is born. Huh, it's scary indeed.”