Chapter 58 (Kit)sune 3

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Kotori found her vision painted in a rainbow of colors

[Is this what spirits see?]

The views constantly shifted

One moment, she was in a world that looked very much like her own with skyscrapers all around. And other times she was in very primitive worlds where the humans wore animals' skins. Only one thing remained consistent.

Something was dying.

The vision always found her sucking the mana out of a dying creature in much the same way that she used [Hunter].

Sometimes it was a human, other times it was the tiniest creatures.

This went on for quite a while. Often, she would see a figure that looked like Gabriel but it was always brief and he was always scowling. The emotions that rose when seeing him were not pleasant.

She found herself in front of a man.

A dying man.

From her snout, she saw the dying man whisper

"Beautiful"

She felt disgusted at this mortal who would attempt to speak to her. She was especially brutal with his soul-sucking.

More images. She found herself on a battlefield. The same man again, his body covered in wounds

[It looks like he was trying to die]

The man looked her in the eyes again

"Beautiful" He whispered softly

Again. Again, Again.

She was a proud spirit.

How many lifetimes had this man gone through? Each time he spoke the same thing. He shouldn't even remember this process.

Every time she met him. It was the same thing.

She became curious about this man.

He probably said this to her sisters as well.

[That womanizer!]

She asked her sisters about a curious soul that would say "beautiful" every time they met. None of them had encounters such a soul.

She began to wonder about the soul. She would go out and seek him.

The man who would call her "beautiful". On the battlefields, his body riddled in holes. On the deathbed as he died from cancer. Even the few times he committed suicides. She once tried to ask the soul why he would say such a thing but he died before she could get an answer.

She felt flustered. A proud spirit shouldn't be this involved with a mortal. But still, It was just to pique her curiosity right?

When she sucked the soul from the man, she secretly gave it sentience again. A move that would get her punished if caught.

As she saw the glowing soul it only looked at her in wonder. She forced it to answer her.

"Why are trying to die mortal?"

The soul glowed softly,

"So, the fox can take me away"

She was confused, even more. Soul's shouldn't remember anything. She removed the sentience. And checked the memory core of this curious soul. All she could see were images of her.

Each time she had appeared the soul had remembered. She tried to scrub the soul of such memories but it was impossible without destroying the soul entirely.

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