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Souls… their complexity is mesmerizing, and the worst part is that in this world, at least in the mortal world, their investigation is nonexistent, people don't even research souls at all, mostly because they cannot see them begin with.

Perhaps Immortals can see them, but we, clearly cannot.

So what can we even do in this situation then?

Well, I've been researching the soul this entire day, many souls exploded into pieces when I did so, and I stitched them together to keep looking.

Stitching souls together seems to create bigger souls,  but the more broken and repaired they are, the stranger and more twisted a soul becomes, resembling an immense labyrinth of endless and unnecessary complexity, someone with a broken soul which had been reformed has a soul like this.

When I checked my own soul, I found that my soul was becoming bigger and stranger too, the more souls I ate, the more of these labyrinths were formed, and the larger my soul grew, the more it would resemble not a soul but a mass of many things… But I don't feel particularly bad over it, but maybe it wouldn't be the same for others.

Nonetheless, the more I refine my soul and then rank up its cultivation, the soul receives a cleansing of impurities to strengthen itself.

Perhaps this is what Benladann requires… or not.

I checked over my soul many times and inspected the stitched soul as well, using the System's help, I had dived deeper into the investigation.

The day passed without me realizing it.

Perhaps Benladann's problems lie within her soul composition and the way it is structured? Maybe her own Primordial Essence is way too much compared to what her soul is made to take?

<Answer: There might be such a possibility. By analyzing previously achieved data about her soul, it seems that the composition of it is abnormal compared to normal souls.>

What do you mean?

<Her soul wasn't made like all other souls, including the host's soul, was made. Her soul was created by a different method.>

A different method?

But how are my soul mate, or that of others?

<Usually, souls emerge in different ways, however, more investigation and information need to be gathered to reaffirm this theory. Nonetheless, the System believes that souls are naturally formed in places with large densities of primordial energy, they form naturally as if it were a natural phenomenon. There is also the other possibility of souls being born from other beings strong enough to create them. And the last theory is that all souls originate from a single entity whose soul is being divided endlessly.>

All of them sound crazy, you know? But I guess they're plausible within our theory of a world dominated by essence and powerful beings.

After all, there is an outer universe aside from Yggdrasil, that I came from another world already confirms this.

What might lay within the outside universe? I can only imagine beings that defy the very logic I am basing all of my theories and investigations on…

Knock, knock.

The door suddenly opens as Benladann gets inside, snapping me out of my own world.

"Ah… Benladann-chan, how was the nap?"

"I-It was good… But… there's something we need to talk about…"

"Hm?"

…

What Benladann told me just now was… way too aligned with my own theories, but it still ended blowing me off.

I can't believe it… She really had such a dream.

She told me she dreamed about an incredibly powerful entity that lived in the outside universe named Chaos, the Primordial Deity of Chaos! And this deity said… that she was her mother!

What?!

And to boot, she said that Benladann's soul was originally a fragment of Chaos from her original daughter, named Kireina.

Her daughter ended in a different world after an event fighting an enemy capable of defying the power of Universe-level entities, and through such travel to this world, the intensity of space itself tore her body, which was composed of Chaos and Miasma, apart.

One of such fragments, of the many fragments, there was Benladann's original soul component.

I knew it, the System was right…

But this story is way too insane to believe so easily…

But it makes sense, that's the worst part, it actually makes sense within the context!

She said that Benladann's originally came from her Chaos within her existence.

So that's why her components are different, her whole soul is different from the get-go, she originated from…

Chaos.

The same Chaos that her new magic affinity is?

It makes even more sense now on why she awakened such a strange attribute.

So her origins are so mystical?

I looked at the beautiful young woman in front of me, she seemed a bit concerned, I couldn't believe that she was such a thing deep down…

But it was the truth.

Well, whatever she is, I will always love her no matter what.

Her mother had given her something before departing.

"Before she went away, she left a gift, a present of sorts. Something for me. I don't know what it really is, but she said it would help me grow stronger and nourish my soul, that it would bring me to this path… Sniff…"

Benladann began to cry.

"I am sorry… I am such a bothersome… I never stop having problems… Sniff… I don't want to trouble you with even more than we already have… Sniff…"

Benladann…

I moved towards her and hugged her tightly.

"There's no problem at all. You're not a bothersome thing to me. You're a reason for me to keep striving. Before even meeting you, the only thing I had in mind was having a dull life where I would only sleep and hunt… But you give me a reason to improve, to keep moving forward. You're not a bother, Benladann… I love you so much… Doing this for you is nothing compared to the happiness you've brought to my life."

"D-Drake… R-Really?"

"Of course… Let's work together on this."

I held her hand tightly, as she kissed me.

"I love you too… And… yeah, let's do it together…"

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