It's Hard To Let Go

10 hours earlier.

"Meow, meow"

"Mmmm. I don't wanna wake up yet."

"MEOW"

The sleepy eyes opened abruptly.

"Huh? What's going on?" a sleepy voice sounded in the small alleyway. "Can't have a proper nap with all this noise." The small silhouette slowly got up from the ground.

She looked for the offender who woke her up. She found it rather quickly. 'A cat? Why is a cat here? Where am I?' the girl was confused. 'Whatever, I'll figure it out after the nap.' She quickly found a corner to lay down her head to resume her dream.

An hour later.

"Yawn... So, where was I? Right. I was transported here while napping." She got up from the ground and started walking towards the open alleyway. 'My head feels cloudy. Huh? My memories are jumbled up. Some parts of my memories feel blank.' As a person with a photographic memory, this was a very weird situation for her.

'I'm hungry. I hoarded some food to eat after waking up. It seems it didn't get transported too.' Her mindset was entirely different for a small girl who just gotten stranded in an unknown place.

She eventually came out from the alleyway to an empty street. She was disappointed, to say the least. 'Is this place abandoned? Guess I'll keep looking for people.' She walked through the empty street, keeping a lookout for food.

She was in a grumpy mood. She couldn't find anything to eat even after searching for half an hour.

"I'm really really hungry. Why did my food get snatched away? *sob* *sob* " just as she started sobbing, her consciousness was pulled into a sealed subspace.

It was mostly empty and pitch white. A few boxes were floating in there, and a note was in front of them.

She opened up the folded note. A small message was written there.

[Stella, you're finally on the journey that you've asked me for. And for this, many parts of your memory will be sealed for a while. Especially anything about me, and video games. I've made some snacks for you on your journey. but eat them with restraint. they're not infinite. And you don't actually have to eat you know. Your hunger is imaginary. I should've sealed any memories about you eating my foods too. You'll have big trouble eating food cooked by others because of this. Oh well, this amount of food will last quite some time. So, don't cry anymore, alright? I hate to see you cry.]

Stella eventually stopped sobbing like it was the end of the world and slowly got excited about the food she got.

But her excitement fled immediately as she realized, she couldn't remember most of the things about the sender of this note. She couldn't remember what that person looked like, nor how that person sounded like. But she could remember some other things about that person. But it was all hazy. She could only feel, that person was incredibly close to her.

'Why was sealing my memory so important? Maybe I'm not supposed to get influenced by anyone in this duration of time.'

Another note appeared in the subspace. She immediately opened it up.

[You're correct. I'm too big of an influence on your life and your thoughts. So sealing memories about me was necessary. However, it was impossible to seal the feelings in your soul about me.

But this is the time when you grow up on your own and teach yourself how you should treat others. Don't be sad about losing memories of me. You'll get them back very soon. You're very special. More so than you realize.

That's about it for now. I may not say anything for a while as the feelings in your soul will trouble you the more I contact you while your memories are sealed.]

She started crying for reasons she couldn't explain even to herself after reading the note. She couldn't remember anything yet she could feel there was a feeling of deep sorrow and longing in her soul.

But remembering the first note, she pulled herself together and stopped crying.

She focused her consciousness on the sealed subspace to open it again. And she took out a random box and opened it. There were a few cupcakes inside it. She took one and started to eat it. Just as she tasted it, she was stunned. Then a small smile formed on her face. 'Tasty. Just like I remember.'

Her mood became a bit better after eating a few of them. However, her mind still felt heavy.

She got up and started walking again. She tried to distract herself from her bad mood. So she started exploring the surrounding area and the design of the buildings. 'Seems like everything is from a medieval era.' Stella thought to herself.

She realized she could focus her consciousness on many things, and get intricate details about them.

This information would be directly sent to her consciousness and she could view the information in any way she sees fit.

Whether written on a book, or a stone tablet, a skin parchment, a modern display, a written note, a holographic display, a console display, or whatever she wanted to. The only limit was her imagination.

She experimented for a while and found console prompts the most convenient.

[ • Small broken piece of wood

27 Gram

91 Years old

12% composition integrity left

Composition: Carbon 87%, Sulfur 2%, Water 7%....]

She experimented with all the objects she could see.

However, when she focused her consciousness on her body, her consciousness received a tremendous amount of information.

Her head was spinning. Various weird and complex information was getting inside her head like bits of code.

'Laws, elements, fate, karma...'

Her head was filled with information. She fainted and fell down.

An unknown amount of time later.

'My head hurts. What is up with me?' Stella felt like the entire world was spinning. She slowly rested her head back to a wall of a building near her.

After her nausea resided, she tried to focus her consciousness on herself again. However this time, something much more incredible happened.

The entire world turned grey and everything froze in its place as if time itself came to a halt. She couldn't move in this state, but she could look around as much as she wanted while time was frozen.

'Incredible. How is this even possible?' Stella was incredibly shocked. As she stopped focusing her consciousness on herself, everything became normal again. The world was colorful again and time started flowing.

She focused her consciousness on herself again, and the exact same thing happened. And this time she tried to see information about herself.

[ Name: Stella

Age: 7

Abilities:

• Infinite Regeneration:

Provides Infinite Regeneration to the body to recover from any wounds. A trait of your body.

• Infinite Strength:

Grants Physical Strength that exceeds all bounds. A trait of your body.

• The Gaze of ######:

Peers through the secrets from all of creation. Find any and all information about any object or creature. Detects all falsehood and deception. Reveals the true nature of all creatures and objects. A trait of your soul.

• Universal Comprehension:

Can Read, Write and Speak all languages ever created.

• Ultimate talent:

Can comprehend and learn all knowledge, technique, skill, and magic ever created.

• Absolute Protection:

Indestructible Body and Soul. Soul Damage Nullification, Mental Damage Nullification, Time-space manipulation Immunity, Mental manipulation Immunity, Illusion Immunity. This ability cannot be nullified even with ######.

Absolute Authority:

• Space:

Spatial Movement, Teleportation, Space Domination

• Time:

Temporal Halt, Time Domination

Elemental Authority:

• Fire:

Flame Creation, Flame Manipulation, Flame Compression, Heat Manipulation

• Water:

Water Creation, Water Manipulation, Ice Creation, Ice Manipulation

• Wind:

Air Manipulation, Lightning Creation, Lighting Manipulation

• Earth:

Soil Manipulation, Soil Compression, Stone Manipulation, Mineral Manipulation, Metal Manipulation ]