[Author's note: All the chaps would be filled before 20th most late. Been busy and a lot of thing happened this month]
Aether looked at me with a calm smile before turning back to that darkness, the father of Angela.
'I guess, I must be back at the time when Aether killed Angela's father,' I concluded based on the information I got from Angela's description.
"What's your name kid?" Aether asked me as he moved towards that darkness and crouched a little and continued,"You have gone too far, Ais, too far to make a request like that."
Aether's voice was cold. It didn't have even an ounce of sympathy or empathy in it. He just observed that darkness as he patted its head before turning at me with a slightly questioning look.
"Ah! My name is Michael," I spoke as I looked at Aether. He gave a familiar cozy feeling, a feeling of being safe around him. But he also gave me a dangerous feeling, that if I make a wrong move, I will die.
"You are from the future, right?" he asked, and I nodded. As far as I have known about this guy, he can easily figure out most of the things with a single look. I had witnessed it last time as well.
"Tell me then. Is Angela Reas alive till your time?" he asked, making the darkness look at me even more carefully. His eyes were shaking… or more like pleading for me to say a 'yes'.
"Yeah… that's the reason I ended up here," I answered honestly, and a smile appeared on the face of the darkness.
"Can you tell us her story, Michael? If you want, you can keep it to yourself as well. Up to you," he said, but something inside me felt like I should tell him about it. Not because I should trust him or something, but more like,
'If I didn't tell him, something really wrong would happen.'
And thus I narrated the tale of Angela to the two people present there. They listened to me carefully, everything I told them from the start to the end, and once I was done, a silent expression formed on the face of the Darkness, Ais.
"You don't get the right to get angry," Aether declared as he looked at Ais before Ais turned at Aether with a pleading look. His eyes begged for that, but it didn't seem like Aether was going to change his mind.
"What did he do?" I asked. I was curious. It was mentioned in the description that Ais had done many wrong things, but never it was mentioned about exactly what he did.
"Destroyed a dozen of Universes in the worst way imaginable," spoke Aether as he sighed before asking,
"Have you ever lost your emotions, Michael?"
I nodded. There were not many times, but there were times that I had lost control over my emotions.
"What if you had lost control over that emotion forever?" Aether asked again, and I pondered about it. If I had that amount of anger for the rest of my life… I might have killed an entire country or something before dying, maybe?
"Now think of the most caring person in your family," Aether spoke again, and I instantly thought about my mother. He smiled before speaking,
"What if you kill her in the most brutal way possible?"
As soon as he asked that, I felt a chilling sensation down my spine as I looked at Aether before turning to Ais.
"Well, what Ais did was spread his darkness to a dozen Universes because of a small anger issue, and made everyone go into a deep nightmare. In each of those nightmares, everyone almost did what I just told you or something similar, and by the end of the dream, everyone lost their sanity and began killing everyone.
It took only a week for the Universes to go numb and be destroyed. That's what his crime is," Aether spoke with a calm smile before adding,
"And he was proud of it and was going to repeat it with the rest of the Universes out there because it seemed funny to him."
And just as Aether spoke about that, I looked at Ais, before turning at Aether again. This time I was questioning Aether…
"How come… you are so calm in front of a being like that?" I asked. I could never… if I had the power, I would have killed this being a thousand times over… in the worst way possible.
What exactly are you thinking-
"He was begging for his daughter. So I was just wondering about what should I do… normally what he did has nothing to do with his daughter, but he can revive using his daughter's body as soon as Angela reaches God-Hood," he spoke and my mind stopped thinking for a few seconds.
I could only look at Ais with wide eyes as I observed him…
"You look perplexed a little. You were thinking of getting Angela to your side, weren't you?" asked Aether with a slight chuckle and I nodded with slight embarrassment. I didn't know the consequences of what I was about to do… but then… I still feel like
"You still feel like Angela should get to live, huh? Well. That was the whole point of the Clauses, I guess. But it seems like there needs to be some changes in that as well… " spoke Aether as he began thinking. Both Ais and I looked at Aether walking on the platform left and right before a sudden smile appeared on his face.
"Hey! How about this? I bind your life to Ais?" he asked and my eyes widened, but before I could even comprehend it,
"Nah! That won't exactly sit right with you and me. Let's see… we need to kill Ais, and make sure he doesn't come back… Something that is bound to happen, but not really… hmmm… What shall we do? What shall we do? Ah! There is that too…"
A sudden idea came into his mind and he looked at me with a bright smile… brighter than the last one.
"How did you come back here into the past?" he asked with a bright expression and I, looking at him, explained a bit of details regarding everything that has happened.
I didn't exactly tell him everything, but I still told him about the skill that I have and he smiled as he spoke,
"A Skill that changes history to change the present, huh? Not too shabby. But sadly, that means that we can't use that Skill to send Ais to the far future… "
I observed him for a few more moments and spoke with a certain look, "I actually… do have another Skill…"
I did not know whether it would work or not, nor did I know the consequence of using such a Skill… heck, can I even use that Skill at all? I have no idea.
But still… I felt like… this was the right time to mention that Skill here…
[Ethereal Power: Bend!]
[When in trouble, bend the reality according to your own needs
Cost: 100,000 Golden Cronas per use]
And then I told him the description of the Skill at which he just spoke one sentence,
"Never use that Skill unless you have lost everything in your life."
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