Re:START/If {Book 1.0}
Chapter 64: Aswad 11 of 15 “Glaub mir” (Part 08)
Odo did not change his expression at all, just staring flatly as if he had erased empathy. Opening his own left palm and gazing with a look of flat eyes, Odo momentarily thought of some way to manipulate the Soul Contract so that Arteria's condition returned to normal.
“I have no right to it, ask Father and Sister the girl whose body you use,” Odo said as he closed his palm and lowered it.
“Where might I ask like that. If I did, the King who had lost the passion of leading it would definitely take foolish actions until willingly sacrificing this kingdom to save Arteria.”
Odo momentarily fell silent, agreeing with what the woman had said. King Gaiel does look like he does not have the passion of a leader, as if he wants to immediately release the throne or assign his obligations to others.
Understand it's not something like that that that needs to be discussed now, Odo slightly shifted the topic with the question, “So, why are you asking me to talk like this? I now have no power to change the contract structure that complicated.”
“Now cannot ...” The woman smiled faintly, then with a slightly haughty accent said, “If given the time, can you change it? At least so that some of my strength is left on this girl so that she can stay normal.”
“Why do you care about her to such an extent? Is it because he's the last Pure Blood?”
“It also includes.” The blue haired woman lowered her face, returned grimly and said, “But ..., there is another reason. Now I can't say it.”
Odo frowned and resolutely said, “Say that now, then I will think of your request.”
“I can't seem⸻”
“Tell that,” firmly Odo once again. With a flat expression, the young man of black hair threatened, “If not, then I will not fulfill your request.”
“You're a real forger.” The woman put on a resigned smile, shook her head and let out a small sigh. “Alright, I'll tell you …. I care about this girl because of Queen Dahlia's last request. The woman who had made a contract with me was expecting the safety of her daughter,”, the woman said in a soft voice.
“Mother Request for her daughter, yes ...” Odo inserted the dagger he held with his right hand into the storage dimension, signing himself to agree on the woman's request. Staring at Arteria with a slightly lazy look, the young man said, “Alright, I understand your situation. I'll try to do it about how. But for more, may I ask you a few more things?”
“Please ...”
“That word was this morning, that's who's talking? You or Arteria?”
The question made the woman gasp, feeling that the young man before her was indeed a little harboring her feelings. Putting on a thin smile with a pale face, the blue haired woman replied, “Which spoke to you this morning was Arteria …. This girl is a little unique, huh? He loved to describe the shape of the soul like that.”
“Hmm, so ...”
Odo did not change his flat expression at all, only accepted the answer as information and was not put into the heart at all. “Well, I don't think you should expect too much. I am not an almighty being, Lileian also spoke like that to you, ‘kan?” he said while mapping the right palm to the front of the mouth.
At first glance turning away the look of the eyes and looking reluctant, the young man said, “I am but a Soul from the past. My advantages are only in the knowledge of ⸻ I only know a little more than all of you.”
“I think having knowledge beyond the Gods is also a very amazing thing.”
Odo did not care much about those words. Gazing towards Arteria and lowering his hands from the front of his mouth, the young man again asked, “You ... can maintain his soul how much longer? I know people with similar cases like what you're going through now, but the process is very different.”
“If without outside influence, I can keep Arteria for up to two years. The rest ..., maybe the process of personality collapse will begin.”
The answer makes Odo's estimation to be sure, that the condition of body sharing experienced by Arteria is very different from what was experienced by Princess Ulla and O’iama of the kingdom of Moloia. Thinking of another conclusion, the young man again asked, “That still includes Invoke, ‘right? Medium body occupied two Souls ..”
“It was true ...” Arteria thrust her open palm forward, then put on an anxious expression and explained, “But this is very different from Invoke in general. In general conditions, Soul Entities that are called to possess will usually only settle temporarily and can easily escape.”
“Your conditions are different?” ask Odo.
The blue-haired woman nodded, closed both open palms and went back to explain, “In Arteria's current condition, My soul was fused with the patent on this body and I was the one who kept the Arterian Soul settled into this body. In other words, the condition is reversed. It's like me invoking Arteria ..”.
“So, yes ...” Odo began to understand the concept and condition of the Invoke. Scratching the back of the head, the young man felt that the situation looked very fragile and could have collapsed easily if it had been disturbed from the outside.
Gazing towards Arteria, the young man in black hair confirmed, “Invoke's natural process only calls for entities to possess and makes the summoned entity exist in the time and world where the caller is located. But because the summoner is not strong enough to accept the power of the entity being summoned, the, the connection to his own body was cut off and in the end even you who became the ruler of the body ⸻ While Arteria instead entered in the state of Guest on his own body. If the condition is removed, then the Arterian soul will be thrown directly into the stream of life. It is the same as death …. Is that right?”
“Tap ...” The blue hair woman nodded. Pointing his index finger forward he asked, “After knowing that, do you have any picture to overcome this condition? You know, removing myself from Arteria's body is impossible. Even though Arteria is completely gone, I will still continue to live inside this body.”
“The way is simple, just make an additional organ,” Odo replied lightly.
“Eh?” The woman was completely confused, not understanding what the young man was expressing. Lowering his index finger and thinking about it carefully, he still could not understand his intentions.
Odo sighed lightly, brandishing two fingers of the right hand and one finger of the left hand as a parable. While moving it, the young man began to explain, “You are tied tight with that body because the synchronization is very high, ‘kan? Then, just make an extra organ so that Arteria's body doesn't suit you anymore. Of course the organ is not careless, it must be in accordance with the soul of Arteria and add synchronization of his soul.”
The woman could understand the concept that Odo conveyed. Indeed in Invoke the fit of the body as a container is very necessary. When the body does not match, automatically the summoned entity will bounce off. Under the opposite condition, an entity that was summoned into a perfectly suitable body would cling tightly to it like the current state of the City God.
Understanding this, the woman doubted, “Can you make such a thing?”
Odo lowered his hands, then looked flat with a faint smile and replied, “I have the picture, but now I can't apply it. The method is simple, just look for your differences and make it real. You must have a complex problem with body parts, ‘kan?”
“Hmm, I'm starting to understand.” The woman briefly looked away, rethinking the theory conveyed by Odo and made sure, “Means just look for what I do not like about this part of the body, then make it heavier until the connection is broken, wasn't he? However, at the same time it should be something that Arteria liked. Is it true like that?”
Odo was silent at first glance at the metaphor he was wearing. While staring flat he asked “You have a complex problem with weight?”
“EH?! Wh-Why?” Arteria immediately panicked, turning her eyes away and her face flushed red.
“No, just ask doang. Well, most women don't like that either.” Odo momentarily fell silent and thought of another alternative if that way could not be. Not expressing it plainly, the young man said, “Intinya, think about it carefully and look for your differences. If this doesn't work, I'll use another alternative.”
“There are others?”
“Sure. Every problem has more than one solution. If indeed Arteria's connection with her body is very weak, just make a new body or modify her body to match her soul. His body changed when he made the Soul Contract, ‘kan?”
“Ah, true too!” The woman just realized it. With eyes beaming as if to find a bright spot, he excitedly said, “If it is returned to the form of children, maybe his Soul can settle into this body without the power of Contract!”
A few seconds after saying that, he himself immediately realized that such a thing was very difficult to do. “But ..., how to? Physical changes are one of the absolute effects of the Soul Contract, especially for the child Arteria,”.
“Simple, just cancel the Contract.”
“Eh …? Th-That's impossible! Once created, a contract cannot be canceled without compensation equivalent to the amount of power used during the contract.”
“Just relax, I'll find a way.” Odo smiled confidently at what he was thinking. Pointing the index finger forward, the young man said, “It just so happens that I am researching a Soul Contract in order to make a Contract with Vil..”.
“The North Sea spirit that abandoned its territory?”
“Wait a minute, are you sure you want to fight Leviathan? Really?”
“Sure!”
The blue-haired woman looked so worried at the quick answer, feeling that the young man had underestimated the dreaded Leviathan even before the Pendulum Calendar began. In an anxious tone he warned, “You will definitely die. Leviathan is different from her sisters, her existence is similar to her parents ⸻ The Dragon God.”
“I understand that better than you.”
“Then got⸻”
“Because I need to,” cut Odo. He stared intently with eyes filled with unanimous decisions. After taking a deep breath he said, “Listen well, Goddess of the City. I help not for the main purpose, but a distraction. There's another thing I go do, and it's more important than the life of one girl …. Understand?”
“Ba-Well, I won't bother that anymore ...” Arteria was instantly silent. At that moment, he knew something was very distorted in the young man. It is not something that can be classified as good or bad, but it seems absolute and can not be separated from it.
Arteria shook her head and tried not to ask. “Keep, what do I need to do to help?” ask him to change the subject.
“Eng ...” Odo looked away and thought, then looked back at him and asked, “Can you communicate with Arteria?”
“Certainly can, we often talk together when alone.”
“Then, you two think of a way to get the previous misunderstanding straightened out.” Odo slightly put up a resigned facial mimic, feeling there was nothing he could do on his own to justify the misunderstanding. Sighing once, the young man again said, “Although they do not know that I am Odo, but still after arriving at Luke's residence, everything will be revealed. Now I can't use magic to return to the form of children ...”
“Eng, true also ...” Arteria again recalled the huge misunderstanding that had occurred earlier this morning. Slightly putting on a thin smile with her pale face, the blue-haired woman was a little seductive, “If the misunderstanding persists, you could have been kicked out of the family and even at worst become a criminal. All right, I'll pass it to Arteria and we'll think. Leave it to your future wife.”
Odo's eyes briefly became flat upon hearing two words that reminded him of the Emperor. In his mind, he felt a little fed up with women who had such a trait. Scratching the head and turning around, the young man lazily said, “Then I leave first, you should also return before anyone looks for you.”
“Tu-Wait a minute!”
“What else?” Odo did not step up and turned back towards him.
“Can I confirm one thing? That's ...” Arteria looks doubtful, at a glance lowered her face while weaving her fingers. Looking back at the young man, he curiously asked, “How do you know that I am not Arteria? You just met him earlier for, didn't you?”
“Oh, the ...” Odo felt that was not important. Without thinking of giving a satisfactory answer to the woman's curiosity, he originally said, “Only intuition, nothing more. Anyway, you think I won't notice? The aura that everyone emitted was different, identifying it was not a difficult thing for me …. You better not show up in front of Dart, the old man is more skilled at detecting such things.”
“Although he could not recognize his own son and even cut off your head?”
“Why are you even insinuating?” Odo mamang a slightly irritated expression.
“Are you not sick?” ask Arteria again.
At a glance Odo fell silent, looking at Arteria's face that really wanted to know the answer. Sighing and re-scratching the back of the head, the young man reluctantly replied, “Of course it hurts, I am not a pervert who was excited when killed.”
“Not it ...” Arteria walked over, grabbed Odo's left hand and again said, “I mean, your heart …. Doesn't your chest hurt? Unrecognized by your own father even until attacked until like that ..”.
Odo began to feel that the woman seemed to want to enter her privacy zone, expecting a deeper relationship. Stopping his breath for a moment, the young man lightly replied, “At first it hurt, but after that I didn't care.”
“Tak a care? Why ...?”
“Hah? Do you want me to whine in front of him and tell him I'm his son? So ridiculous!”
“Not it ...” Arteria let go of Odo's hand, took one step back and stared dejectedly. “I just wonder, why do you look so sad and lonely? When you fight the Swordsman, sometimes you look lonely and like you want to cry,” he said with empathy.
“That's Whose Perception? You or Arteria?”
“That's our perception ...”
Odo momentarily fell silent and placed his right palm on his face, at first glance not feeling that the moment showed the emotion that Arteria mentioned. While staring flatly from between the fingers he said, “Lonely and sad, yes. Huh! I suggest, O Goddess of the City. You better not interfere in my affairs, just think about the problems you have.”
“I'm sorry ...”
“Why apologize? You are not wrong ...” Odo lowered his hand from the front of the face, took a light breath and again said, “Just do what you need to do, that's just a suggestion.”
After saying this, Odo immediately turned around and stepped into the bushes. At first glance glancing towards the woman, he once again said, “We will meet again. Next time, I hope you don't attack me with Spirit Magic, Princess.”
Hearing what Odo said before leaving, the two blue-haired female eyes instantly opened wide and gasped. Putting on a thin smile, he turned his gaze to the side and said, “It seems like he knows that you are awake, Arteria. That young man can't be lied to ..”
Turning around and stepping in a different direction to the one Odo took, Princess Arteria's consciousness returned to her body. While walking he said, “Arteria also felt that he was not a bad person .., although it was very scary. Asmali isn't afraid of him? Is it because of Aslami's friend who introduced the young man?”
“Not really. We were interested in the Black Element from the beginning. You don't have to be heart-felt, just decide what you want. Your mother was expecting that,” the voice of the City Goddess inside the head of Arteria.
“Hmm, fine …. Arteria will choose it herself .., whether it is good for Arteria or not.”
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