Forbidden Art

All of a sudden, pieces from the past that I hadn't connected together became clearer than ever.

When I first looked into that crystal orb, I knew from the emotional resonation that the girl in red was me, though I didn't know precisely how we were related. I had simply assumed since then that she was my previous life, but now that I had the clarity of mind to think it through, I realized that it couldn't be that simple. I didn't look like her at all, and appearances weren't supposed to change during rebirth.

Besides, the book I read in Bai Ye's library about demonic swords had clearly stated that blades like Twin Stars would reap their victims of afterlives. I didn't know why Bai Ye took the trouble to kill that girl with her own swords, but since he did, it meant that her soul would no longer be able to enter the cycle of life. I couldn't have been her reincarnation no matter what.