Chapter 587: Sister (3)

Tohka had a dream. In this dream, she was kidnapped by a bad man...

Or at least that's what she thought at first. After all, she recognized the man who kidnapped her...

"Yuki?"

Yes, in her dream, Yuki beat her and left her badly injured. But due to the confusing feeling of being together, for Tohka, who had never felt like this before, in her dream, she was quite tenacious. Even with her limbs broken, she still crawled to be with Yuki.

Yuki also took her into his shadow, an involuntary kidnapping...

Then it happened. Yuki healed her wounds and, just like in this timeline, Yuki sealed her powers to prevent this strange feeling from reappearing and Tohka from attacking him again...

In her dream, Tohka was very afraid of Yuki and at the same time very curious. This man made her feel uncomfortable yet warm.

Days passed, and Yuki kept her by his side, running from place to place around the world, hiding...

*Grrr~

And as usual, Tohka's appetite was very large...

"Are you hungry? But we just ate an hour ago!"

Yuki was helpless. This bottomless pit left him speechless. He didn't even know where all the food was going; her stomach had a mini black hole...

"Humph!"

On the other hand, Tohka snorted coldly and shrank. As the days passed together, her fear gradually dissipated. After all, Yuki didn't hit her again, and although there were times she wanted to escape, her curiosity and comfort around Yuki made it impossible for her to leave his side...

But most importantly...

(I'm not alone...)

That's right. Tohka had found a companion. Although they seemed like a pair of nocturnal animals, Tohka had someone who didn't try to kill her or hate her. He gave her food and also basic comforts that were impossible to think of before...

Yuki gave her life meaning...

"You need a name. I can't keep calling you 'You,' 'Hey' forever, and I refuse to call you 'Princess.' A glutton like you is definitely not a princess..."

Some time had passed, and Tohka still didn't have a name. It's not that Yuki or Tohka forgot about it, but both unconsciously decided to leave the topic aside. Yuki was the one who avoided it the most since he still kept his guard up and didn't trust Tohka. But as they lived together, Yuki came to a conclusion...

'Tohka is very naive.'

She had no common sense and was too foolish to understand some things. Therefore, it was impossible for Tohka to be lying. Additionally, Rasiel also denied this fact.

Due to this, Yuki relaxed a bit with her and thought it was time to name her...

"Humph! Don't think I'll accept you giving me a name! I'll be the one to do it!"

Tohka crossed her arms, quite proud and tsundere. Yuki sighed and asked.

"Then go ahead, let me hear your name..."

"Huh? Ah..."

Tohka was speechless for a few seconds, brought a hand to her chin, and thought deeply...

Steam came out of her head from thinking so much, and she even bent down and put both hands on her head but still couldn't find a good name...

"You don't know, right?"

"...."

As much as Tohka wanted to deny it, it was true. Some names appeared in her mind, but without exception, none of them appealed to Tohka, as if these names were not part of her...

"It can't be helped; I'll do it..."

Yuki shrugged and started drawing on the ground. Tohka was quite curious about what he was doing. It looked like some kind of map or tree, with 10 circles connected by lines (paths)...

"You know, spirits are connected to a tree of life, called the Kabbalah, or to be exact, we are part of this tree..."

During his research on spirits, Yuki concluded that the first spirit based their power on this tree of life to divide their power and create the spirits. That's what he thought, but there was something more...

The tree of life itself was, in itself, the weapon of the Hero of the Void... The Requiem...

Each path, each Sephira, was a fragment of this weapon, with a door to a different power, but at the same time, they were all the same...

"Each Sephira has a meaning on this map, and you are exactly the last one..."

Pointing to number 10 on the map, Yuki continued...

"You are the last one and at the same time the beginning since you are connected to a simple branch. The number 10 will always be your number and therefore part of you... Tohka, that is your name, the 10 in you and also in your destiny..."

Yuki smiled when he said these words and wrote her name next to the Sephira sphere...

"Besides, it was on April 10th when we met. It's a coincidence or maybe a mistake, but we're together because of it..."

"...."

Tohka didn't speak, but she stared at her name for several minutes, and before she could stop it, tears ran down her cheek...

"Tohka... Tohka!.... Is that my name?"

A name that was part of her, a name that belonged to her. She, who was born with nothing, now had something that only belonged to her...

And maybe because of this, but the fear Tohka had for Yuki completely vanished. It was simply impossible to fear him, and from that day on, Tohka's attitude towards Yuki also changed...

But just as happy moments are appreciated, in life, there will always be some that will be marked forever...

And Tohka witnessed one night, Yuki, who had always remained serene, cold, and reliable, no matter the situation they found themselves in, always giving that sense of security, was devastated while looking at and hugging a small light in his palm.

This light was a soul, the soul of Kurumi, his wife, his other half.

The first spirit destroyed her body and almost killed her, erasing her from history. This soul was so badly injured that Yuki had no choice but to take her to his crown to heal. Unfortunately, Kurumi's soul suffered so much that reincarnation was impossible in a short period, and she would have to go through many years of recovery in the crown to survive.

Such a result left Yuki in pain. He didn't know what would happen to Kurumi in such a state, and he knew that without his crown, Kurumi's soul would disappear.

And maybe because of this act of weakness towards someone she considered strong, Tohka unconsciously took a step forward, opened the door, and let her instincts take over.

"Tohka?"

"..."

Tohka didn't answer Yuki's question. This time it was her turn to heal Yuki, just as he had done with her....

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The dream came to an end, but Tohka had small tears in the corners of her eyes when she opened them. It was a nostalgic but happy dream...

"Yuki..."

Hugging him tighter, Tohka's cheeks turned crimson red, and she buried her face in his chest...

That dream made her more aware of some things, but at the same time, also more timid.

On the other hand, Yuki opened his eyes and frowned. At the moment he saved Sister from DEM, he received other memories from another timeline.

It seemed that in another timeline, he and Sister had a deep bond since after Tohka died in that timeline, it was Sister who helped him, and it was also thanks to Sister's Rasiel that Yuki learned about the events that took place 30 years ago.

Sister's Rasiel had access to that information. Unfortunately, she still couldn't discover the identity of the first spirit, but that was to be expected since the first spirit was directly intervening in the world and the Akashic records.

Sister died before she had the strength to find out the identity of this spirit....

"Nia.... I'm sorry, I didn't mean to let you die..." 

Although Yuki wasn't that 'Yuki' from that timeline who took the situation to an extreme level, he also knew he had no choice but to sacrifice Sister for the greater good.

After all, Sister was the bait that led the first spirit into the trap...

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TN: Hmph who are you to not let me die.. It went all according to plan hehehe..