Saga of Atlantis

"Are you perhaps not from this world?" My hand stopped as I heard her words.

"What?" I asked, looking into her eyes.

Her eyes were filled with certainty, as if she was sure of what she was saying.

But her trembling hands and lips indicated that she was afraid.

Afraid that this wasn’t the right choice.

"A-are you a reincarnated person?" Her trembling lips parted again as she asked one more time.

I didn’t reply but stared at her.

’So she’s coming clean now.’

She had already guessed that I am the same as her, but she needed confirmation.

And asking directly was the best choice for her.

But that didn’t mean that she knew everything about me.

Maybe she is just making a wild guess.

"And what makes you think that I am?" Taking a step closer, I arrived right in front of her as I asked, intimidating her.

"Your behavior is different from what it should be," she replied, looking straight into my eyes.

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"And what makes you think that my behavior is different?" I asked as I looked down at her.

"Don’t play word games, Eden. I know you’re not the Eden that I know," she firmly replied, trying to stand her ground.

"What about you? How are you the same person as the ’gentle Sprite,’ huh?" I asked as I mentioned the name of the girl whose body she possessed.

"I am the same person as her, but at the same time, I am not her," she stated as if she had come to terms with her situation. "I still have the kindness that she had, I still have the sympathy for the weak that she had, and I still help the orphanage like she did."

"Are you saying that Aeloria and the Aeloria that stole her body are the same person?" I chuckled mockingly as I heard her words.

"At least I am not like you. You are nothing like the Eden that I know of; you are an entirely different person," she replied angrily taking a step back making a gap between us, she said as if she knew more about me.

"How so?" I asked curiously, hearing her words.

"The Eden that I know of was a pathetic and petty person. He was the one who oppressed the weak, taking advantage of his status as the Duke’s son. He always got in the way of Aron, just to get his ass kicked in the end. The Eden that I know of was weak-willed and a simping dog for Angelina," she angrily recounted all the negative traits of the Eden from the game.

"Hey, the last part is false and offensive," I replied, pointing at her.

"It’s the truth!"

"It’s not, idiot! Don’t call me a simp ever again, or I won’t let it slide."

"Simp! Simp! Simp! Simp!"

Now that’s a low blow.

What a bitch.

"Whatever, I don’t give a damn about what you think," I said, turning back and focusing on the books.

"Are you thinking of following the plot?" She asked after a while, arriving by my side curiously.

"No, not gonna happen," I immediately replied. I had no intention of working on fixing the plot. "I’m not going to lay down and let Aron cut my neck in the name of following the plot."

"You know the kingdom will be in ruins if Aron doesn’t get strong enough by the end of the story," she mumbled as she looked at the books.

"Let the kingdom be in ruins. It has nothing to do with me," I replied, shrugging my shoulders.

"Sigh... Angelina will die as well," she mumbled again, sighing with tiredness.

"Let her die then," I replied, picking up one of the books. "It’s not like you are going to love Aron just because you want to save the kingdom and her."

"Why does that bastard have that type of power?" She grumbled as she also picked a book from the shelf.

"I know, right," I mumbled, smiling a little as I thought about the hero’s power.

"Don’t smile. You’re not the one who is going to get seduced by him later on," she grumbled again, placing the book back on the shelf. I seriously nodded my head in agreement.

Right now, that bastard didn’t have much confidence, but when he got a push from his Patron God, he would earnestly try to seduce the heroine.

Right now, that bastard didn’t have much confidence, but when he got a push from his Patron God, he would earnestly try to seduce the heroine, and that bastard God will be a pain to deal with as he has also awaken a lot faster then he was supposed to.

I turned the pages of the book that I was holding. It was about time and how it functions, how the time nodes work, and how one can understand time.

It was quite good, and seeing how many of them were here, I could say they would be quite helpful for my time affinity.

It was as if I was kept here intentionally.

It was as if... it was made for me.

’why is this keep happening?’

I have hardly fine anything related to time in this world and because of this I can’t do much with my time affinity.

I also don’t want me to die unexpectedly because I was playing with something that I should have.

Dying because of experiments would honestly be a pathetic death you know.

"Hey! Don’t ignore me!" She shouted as I was immersed in the book.

"What?" I asked, annoyed, looking at her.

"What are you going to do about the deaths of the girls around Aron?" She asked, looking quite curious. "Are you going to save them?"

"No, at least not all of them," I replied honestly, without looking back at the book, "it’s not a game anymore."

"What game?" She asked in confusion.

Did she not get the reference?

"Nothing." I replied not explaining my words.

"What about Grace?" She asked again.

"She will not die. I will not let that happen," I replied firmly, looking at her.

"An entire event will not happen if she doesn’t lose control, Eden," she reminded me about the event that would happen in the later half of the first year, but I shook my head.

"I don’t care," I replied, earning a frowning look from her.

"What about the consequences?" She asked again.

"People die daily. I don’t care about them," I replied, turning the page. " Until they are close to me, the death of the rest of the people means nothing to me."

""You are selfish, Eden. If Grace doesn’t lose control that day, the lives of thousands of people will be at risk. The hero will not have enough strength to face off against the traitor, Jaquab."

"I’m not going to risk her life just so the hero gets a power-up," I closed the book and looked deep into her eyes as I replied.

"Are you seriously trying to save her?" She looked into my eyes without flinching. "As I thought, you are not the same Eden that I know. That Eden left her to die because she tried to kill Angel—arghh."

Before she could complete her sentence, I grabbed her by her neck, lifting her up.

"I will warn you once, Aeloria Starfayre. If you ever try to say those words again, I will strangle you to death," I warned her, looking at her trembling eyes.

"J-joke’s on...cough... you, E-eden," trying to breathe from her mouth while choking, with a twisted smile she replied, "I’m i-into that shit."

"What?" I was taken aback by her unexpected response.

What is this idiot saying.

"Eden?" I looked towards the direction from where a startled voice came from.

Grace looked at both Aeloria and me in confusion.

"Cough... cough..." I let go of her as Aeloria struggled to catch her breath, sitting on her knees as she coughed deeply.

"What did she do, Eden?" Grace asked, looking at Aeloria with concern.

"Said something she shouldn’t have." I replied as I looked at the books again.

"Are you ok." Grace moved towards Aeloria as she asked but her voice didn’t have concern but curiosity but she didn’t asked what happened between us.

"Stupid! jerk! Fucking simp!"

Controlling my urge to punch her, I pick up another book.

Grace also didn’t care much about her outburst as she arrived beside me as she also picked up another book.

But she quickly put the book back and picked another one and then another.

"...."

"...."

"Eden."

She remained silent for a while looking at me before she called me.

"Yes?"

"What are you doing?"

"Reading a book?" I replied still confused why she was asking this.

"There is nothing written in this book Eden." She looked at me strangely as she replied.

"What?"

"The book... They are blank without any words."

As if things can’t go any strange this happened.

Apparently, only I can read these books.