DEMIGODS: The Empyrean's Sanctity

Chapter 23: Second of all time

『AICELYN』

This overwhelming feeling of joy, the endless cheers, and laughter still felt so unreal that everything would once again turn into a nightmare in just a blink of an eye. I’ve been wandering for years, yearning for their presence, but… all of these are real. I am no longer dreaming because they are really here, right in front of me.

“Ice…” Sue whispered, suffocating me with her tight embrace.

Aizelle lightly tapped Sue’s hand, glaring at her while pointing my wound from Satan’s attack from earlier. “We all missed Ice pero h’wag mo namang higpitan ang yakap kasi sasapakin kita kapag nagbukas ulit ang sugat ni Ice.”

“Tsk. H’wag mo ilabas sa akin ang inis mo kay Light,” bulong ni Sue na hindi narinig ni Aizelle.

Habang pinapanood sila, pansin na pansin ko ang lihim na pagtingin nina Phoenix at Light kay Aizelle, minsan pa’y tumatalas ang tingin ni Light kay Phoenix. Ang hindi ko lang maintindihan, bakit pati si Phoenix ay nakasubaybay ngayon kay Aizelle?

Dahan-dahan akong binitawan ni Sue. Sariwa pa ang sugat ko mula sa atake ni Satan, hindi ko na rin inabala pang i-summon ni Aizen si Blue dahil masyado siyang nahirapan ng tuluyan nang bumalik sa kanya si Night. I’m still lost about lot of things, but the three years gap isn’t something that will be answered immediately.

“Look… we went in this place without even knowing the fucking exit?!” Riley exclaimed. Yep, I’m still wondering why he is here, alive and shouting. “Sky, napakabobo mo!”

“Porke’t ako ‘yong katabi mo, pangalan ko na agad ang babanggitin mo?!”

“O, sino bang president ng Primus Section?!”

“Si Light president namin! Tanga!”

“It has a scientific reason, actually.” Aizen interrupted, “What I mean—How Light became our class president and not Sky.”

“Yeah… the scientific reason,” Phoenix grinned.

“Sa sobrang talino ni Phoenix, naisip niyang i-nominate si Light. Siya pa mismo ang nagkampanya sa klase, na kapag si Light daw ang naging president namin wala kaming gagawin kasi palaging tulog unlike kay Sky na masyadong competitive,” paliwanag ni Aizen. Mahina silang tumawa’t nag-thumbs up pa si Riley kay Phoenix para lang lalong inisin si Sky.

At gano’n kabilis napalitan ang usapan nila, from planning how to find our way back to the Divine Continent to a scientific reason why Light became the class president of Primus Section.

It was really relieving that Riley is alive. He told me earlier that Gaea’s attack didn’t hurt him, but instead, it imprisoned him in the Labyrinth, making him meet Dionysus. On the other hand, my eyes were still clueless about the two girls looking at me in the corner.

But I am sure that one of them is familiar, especially that… I’ve been dreaming of her for years.

Sabrina.

Marahan kong pinikit ang mga mata ko’t pinakiramdaman ang paligid. Hindi pa rin ako makapaniwala na kaya ko na ulit gamitin ang blessing ko, tatlong taon din akong nagtiis na hindi iyon nagagamit.

Nang imulat ko ang mga mata ko, mabilis na nagtama ang mga mata namin ni Celine. Marami akong tanong na alam ko siya mismo ang makakasagot. Pero ngayon… kailangan kong malaman kung bakit ‘Cursed Child’ ang bansag sa akin ng mga Kins.

At kung bakit nakadikit sa pangalan ko ang Great Prophecy.

“Great Prophecy…” I know that they are still clueless about the real prophecy. But how am I going to tell them the real one, especially that Phoenix might not believe it because the source was a Kin?