Lotus I

It has been such a long time since I have had a relaxing time alone," CIara relaxingly says as she drifts off on a large board in the middle of the sea with injuries riddled on her body. She closes her eyes with a sigh as her stomach shrinks in the face of hunger. "But I am starving."She begins to slowly drift into a slumber in which she will not awaken, leaving a legacy as the first hero of the Herlus Era.

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"You could have saved yourself with your powers, but instead you let death overtake you. Why?" Ilic questions.

"Who the hell are you?" Clara interrogates with absolute confusion.

"I am the guardian angel, Ilic. You are here because I requested for your soul to be brought unto me," Ilic answers.

"Isn't that nice?" Clara sarcastically says.

"Well, I have brought you here because I need you to help the world in which I am meant to guard," Ilic informs.

"No," Clara bluntly answers.

"Why?" Ilic inquires.

"My whole life, I have been forced to save people, to become the hero, yet all they did was be ungrateful and attack me when I made a mistake. Before you asked me the reason why I let myself die, well, it was because I was so tired of protecting other people and being selfless. I allowed my rival to hurt me; I pretended to be dead; I allowed my friend to kidnap my body from the hands of the Seaf; and I manipulated her into putting my body in the sea. I did all that because I wanted—no because I needed freedom. I do not want to go through the same thing all over again." The soul that once shone a bright light now seemed to be colored with sadness and regret as she ranted.

Ilic's bright form stretches out towards Clara and wraps around her soul with a comforting light. "I am sorry for asking you to be a hero. I am sorry that you had to go through that much pain in the last world, but for me to help you, I need to give you a task so that you can roam worlds and galaxies without getting kicked out. If you do not want to be a hero, how about I give you a different position, like an Otsmic?

"What an Otsmic?"

"Someone who decides what to do with the world after analysis,"

"Nah, I don't want the job."

"How about this? I send you to the world, and you can see if you will like the job.

"I said I do not want the job."

"Good, I will be happy to have an employee like you."

Clara's soul fades from the hands of Ilic and is sent to another location.

~Skipdity, let us all skip away to the next scene~

"Oh my goodness, that person's hearing is worse than a naked mole rat." Clara rants and complains until she has had enough and has begun to look around. There she sees a creature similar to Ilic, yet with a few differences: "Oh my goodness, another one."

"Hi Clara, my name is Ezra I will be the one transporting you to the world Ilic has chosen for you."

"I don't want to go. Can't I just die in peace?"

"No," Ezra answered with a large smile. "Anyway, it seems like you will be going to a Nire world and have been tasked with saving the world. What would you like to go as?"

Clara gives up on showing her dissatisfaction and begins to think about what she wants to be. "I want to be a lotus flower," she says with enthusiasm.

"What?!" Ezra utters in surprise.

"I want to be a lotus flower," Clara tiredly repeated.

"How are you going to save the world as a lotus flower?" Ezra inquires with confusion.

"I never said I would," Clara deadpanned.

They stare at each other in silence. Interrupting the silence, Ezra says, "You know what? Never mind, I do not care anymore."Soon, Clara's soul vanished from the void in which she resided.