A Soothing Feeling

[A/N : To avoid confusion between their names, I decided to do this:

From now on, our Main character, Athan, will temporary be referred as 'Lucius'.

As for the Athan, who was currently at the academy, he will be called as 'Deus'.

For the Athan inside our MC's memories, he will still be called as 'Athan'.

It would be like this:

The Main character Athan = Lucius

Athan from the academy = Deus

The other Athan = Athan]

At midnight-- While I was on my way back to my apartment, I unexpectedly saw some familiar girl at the distance. She was none other than Eleanor.

"Ellie-" I was about to call out for her when I noticed three guys pushed her into the corner of the wall as if they were trying to hit on her, so I stopped.

"What do we have here?" The man, who pushed her to the wall, grabbed both of her wrist and spoke, "It looks like we boys caught ourselves a cute-looking plaything for tonight."

The other man beside him bit his lower lips as he stared at Eleanor up and down. It was clear that his eyes were filled with lust. He then said, "Hey, I'll let you play with her first; but, remember, I'm next, okay?"

The one guarding the alley heard this and frowned. He spoke, "Damnit, you guys! You always have the first ones to have their taste. Whenever it's my turn, the girls you are giving me is already broken. Why am I always the last one to have fun?"

The three of them wore the same uniform to the students from the nearby University. Like them, Eleanor was also wearing the same uniform from the same University as them.

Looking closely, these people probably targeted her when she was on her way home. Luckily, I was here. If not, something may- surely would have happened to her.

Hearing this, the man holding Eleanor in the wrist, chuckled. With a grin, he replied, "Isn't your last name supposed to be 'Dafinal' (The final)? So just bear with it!"

Clicking his tongue, the man with the 'Dafinal' last name, turned his head back to the streets and went silent.

Soon after, the man holding Eleanor whispered, "Shall we continue?"

Eleanor was about to call out for help when the man suddenly placed his hand to cover her mouth. When this happened, her eyes began to watered before closing them.

Licking his lower lips, the man said, "I'll continue now..."

He was about to unbutton Eleanor when suddenly, for some unknown reason, I felt that my body began moving on its own without my command.

I walked towards them... Actually, it was more like this body moved towards them without my control. "Hey..." My voice became cold as my expression turned indifference.

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬 𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨? 𝘋𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘵... 𝘕𝘰, 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘓𝘶𝘤𝘪𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳!? I internally panicked, thinking about what may happen next. Will I disappear? I didn't know... It's not like I can do anything about it if that happens...

The one guarding them noticed me after calling out for them and walked towards my direction, stopping in front of me.

"What do you want, Mister?" The man asked, seemingly annoyed that there was a witness (me) to what they're about to do.

"Your life," I spoke. My tone was very low, and I said those words violently, but in the end, It wasn't threatening enough because of my frail and weakly appearance.

Before he could even say something, I felt that this body had unconsciously harnessing some mana into my hand. Soon after, my body casually extended my hands like a sword, which concentrated with mana at the tip. Without even having any time to react, I stabbed it him on his chest and took the man's heart out of his body.

The other two saw this scene and panicked.

"W-what!?" The one pinning Eleanor on the wall unexpectedly let her go, and made a run for it with his friend. And while this was happening, once again, my body moved on it's own as it casually raised it's palm, channelling mana at the tip, a dark light appeared at the tip of my finger, that was pointing directly at their backs like a gun.

[Death Ray]

Mumbling this words, the black light suddenly extended at a great length, hitting them on their backs. Without even having a chance to say something, their bodies was suddenly obliterated into dust after the dark light expanded, covering their whole body.

Soon after, the light finally disappeared including the two. It seems like the light could only damage living things like a human. I understood this because the building didn't even have any scratches when the light had hit them. Only they, the two, were obliterated.

Shocked, I looked at my palm on my right hand as I pondered about what just happened. I then asked myself, "What just happened...?"

Momentarily later after the three disappeared, I felt that the strength in this body began to weakened at a fast rate. "Oh, fuck..." I was starting to lose my balance, but thankfully, Eleanor had caught my body on time before I was about to fall on my knees.

I thanked her, and she smiled as a reply. Her smile were a mix of bitter and concern, as she heaved out a helpless sigh. Eleanor then said, "I should be the one thanking you..." She placed my arm up to her shoulder as she helped me go back to my apartment.

While we were walking, I thought back about what happened earlier.

Speaking of which, that wasn't actually the first time I've experienced my body being controlled by someone else... For a second, a vision from my previous regression suddenly overlaps my mind.

What happened today was almost like what happened on my previous regression when I decided to visit Eleanor on her house. When I saw her talking to a woman that was in her late-thirties, I decided to listen to them in secret. After stalki- I mean, listening to their conversation for a couple of minutes, I found out that the woman she was talking to was her mother.

Apparently, the two of them were arguing because Eleanor didn't want to give her mother some money. Well, actually, even before her father's death, Eleanor's mother was a gamble addict. When her father died, her mother's addiction to gamble worsened that she ended up borrowing some money to some guy who was involved in a mafia.

While they were talking to each other, when I saw that Eleanor was about to cry, like what happened earlier, I felt that my body began to move on it's own as if someone other than me was controlling it.

["There are huge difference between respect and obedience. Never mistake the meaning of the two as one, idiot."] I said this-- No, the man who's in control in my body that day said this to Eleanor's gamble addict mother.

When they heard this, Eleanor stuck her forehead onto my elbow, hiding her teary expression. As for her mother, she screamed at me calling me names, but her words merely entered my right ear and exited on my left ear. In other words, I completely ignored her.

Anyhow, back to my original question, was the real 'Lucius' the one who controlled my body? I don't know... Well, more like I'm not sure. One thing I'm certain about what I've found out is that every time this happen, it only gives me sign that I'll be having a dream about the real 'Lucius' past lives tonight.

I shake my head lightly and sighed. I then thought to myself, 𝘐 𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦'𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘥𝘰 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘸. 𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦...

Soon after we arrived at my apartment, Eleanor helped me lay down in my bed.

"Lucius, are you..." When she was about to leave, she noticed that my body was already burning hot. She didn't even have to check what it was because it was obvious I had a fever!

"Stay here and rest. I'll just go get something in the kitchen." She gently stroked my head. For some reason, I felt like she was treating me like a child!

I did not argue any further, or more like, I couldn't even if I wanted. After Mahiru left the room, I obediently did as I was told to do and

When left my room to grab something at the kitchen. While she was gone, I was breathing roughly when I cursed to myself, "Fuck... I can't get sick right now. 'That' son of a bitch will be visiting tomorrow to murder me. If I don't do something now, both of us will die..." I forcefully raised my hands to grab my phone on the table, but failed to do so. I could barely even move my finger let alone, lift a hand!

Soon enough, Eleanor had finally found what she was looking for and went back to my room.

Without even saying much, she placed the cooling sheets to my forehead, and took my hand with her's with an worried expression.

"I guess I'll be watching you until tomorrow..." Once again, she stroked my head lightly as if she were treating me like a child! Although I wanted to bring myself to hate it, I couldn't because it felt very soothing at the moment.

Slowly, I closed my eyes and eventually fall asleep.