Godly Powers. (Author Here)

Ah, a confession. Normally the climax of the story, a part that simply can’t be ignored.

But in this story, that bends Time and Space just like that, do you think this confession will have as much impact?

Well, you’re right. After all, you’re the one who experienced it, not me.

Now then, let’s unravel this tangled plotline, shall we?

Nothing happened for a full ten seconds. Nobody had the heart to tell them to sit down.

Eventually, Rayne realized what he had said. He opened his eyes, covering his face with his sleeves.

“You know that was too much. There are so many people watching.” He whispered fiercely.

Eve just smiled, a light blush on her face as well, before grabbing a piece of his school uniform, pointing to the seat that he sat in.

“Don’t you think you should sit down? You’re interrupting the class.” She sounded so… arrogant. As if she just did something worthy of praise from kings.

Well. I guess she kinda did.

The class continued onwards, nobody speaking a word about the encounter. Nor did they say anything about how close the two were the entire time. They were practically cuddling, with how close they were to eachother. They could all feel the pink aura emanating from them snaking its way down their spines.

It made them shiver. But it was almost… exciting. Like the suspense of a romance movie, when you just wait for somebody to cross over the line of being a couple. Thrilling.

“Eve, was it? It’s a pleasure to meet you again. I’m Lily.” Lilia was the first to speak to her.

By this time, Rayne’s smile had gradually grown smaller to see, until it was no more than a slight curve of the lips. Of course, this had nothing to do with how happy he was, as his heart still felt so light it was as if it would pop out and start bouncing off the walls.

Leaning in close, Rayne whispered softly into Eve’s ear.

“She’s the one who killed us. And apparently brought our souls here. It seems like she had orders, though, and she’s not such a bad person.”

Eve’s back stiffened. After he had finished talking, she brought her hand up to her ear.

“Don’t whisper like that! My ears are sensitive!” She harshly whispered back, her words stinging like a whip.

After all, Rayne was quite the forgetful child. One can’t help how they were born.

It took a bit, but Eve turned back to Lilia. She stood up slightly, before bowing politely.

“Thank you. My name’s Eve. It’s a pleasure to meet you again as well.” She sat back down.

“So, what’s it like to be finally reunited?” Lilia asked, no hesitation in her voice. The person next to her, a noble named Famel, heard this and perked up from his book. He turned ever so slightly, trying to hide the fact that he was trying to listen in.

Eve took a second to register the question. Then her face lit up, a wide grin splitting it.

“Better than I could have ever imagined!” She cuddled up closer to Rayne, grabbing his arm. All he could do was smile.

“Reunited? They’ve known eachother before? It seemed like they hadn’t seen eachother in a very long time, sure, but… I guess it makes sense.” Famel muttered to himself. For some reason, he found it odd that they were ‘reunited’, but everything seemed to check out, so it passed by his mind.

The King’s Request (Rayne’s POV)

I went through my days just awaiting the next one, knowing nearly everything that was going to happen. There wasn’t much to do except train my body and mind until an actual important event happened. It seemed like Eve didn’t have any of her skills from last playthrough, so I told her to focus on her stamina and mental stats, so that she could do what she loves, while still becoming a useful person if it’s needed.

After all, I couldn’t protect her last time, so I might need her to protect herself a few times this playthrough. It will hopefully all work out.

Hopefully.

I read a few books, but other than that I just did my daily training routine until the guards came to take me to the queen. I had things to do this time around!

Surprisingly, it was only one guard. It seems things keep changing this time around, although I’m not sure if that’s because of me or something else.

“The Queen-”

“Alright, she’s requested me, let’s go. Eve, time to head out!” Eve was in library nextdoor, so I yelled out to call for her. It only took a few seconds before she came running out and to me. She seemed to have calmed down significantly in the first few days, having not been so touchy-feely by the third day. By now she would rarely hold my hand, except on especially serene moments where nobody would bother us.

I guess she didn’t like the attention.

Back to the topic, the guard tried to lead us to the palace, to the queen. I say tried because I jumped off the building again, while he walked all the way down the stairs. And since I knew the way from last time, I didn’t wait for the guard and just walked there on my own.

The queen had her hand raised from the moment I walked in without the guard. But I continued onwards, and got to the place I was before. I bowed, and opened my mouth to speak.

“Hello, Queen. I believe you sent for me? What is it that you wanted?”

Her hand slowly fell. Once it got back to her side, she sat down in the throne and began to speak.

“I’m assuming you’re Rayne? Stop bowing, it’s bothersome to not see your face.” She waited for me to correct my posture, “I’ve heard quite a lot about you from my friend. She says you can tell the future, and have a need for some help?”

“Well, you seem to already know about me. That makes things easier. I have a desire for two wishes. I wouldn’t say I desperately need them, but it would help. The king has a book he’s working on right now, am I right?”

“I presume you will help with that for a wish?”

“Of course.” Eve was the one responding this time, not liking being not included in the conversation.

After a short jolt of surprise, I turned back to the queen.

“So, care to get him for me? It might take a while for him to come, so let’s talk in the meantime. Since I can’t think of anything else to talk about, how has your daughter been? The one with blonde hair, and all.”

The queen was the one to have a jolt this time.

“Hmm… Can I trust you?”

I smiled. Just as one would expect from the queen, blunt to a fault.

“Of course not. But if it’s about Thea, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with telling me. After all, I can see the future anyway. I know of a few things you may not.”

“Well, it’s been decided that she’ll be married off to the neighboring kingdom’s prince, as they’re both around the same age, once she reaches age 10. But for the past few days, she hasn’t smiled. I love her smile, and she suddenly stopped showing it!”

I patiently waited for her to finish before I spoke my mind.

“Does she know? About the marriage? And if not, then you’re probably wrong, and she heard it somewhere. She’s depressed about the marriage. She probably just doesn’t want to marry this prince, no matter how good of a political outcome it is.”

Of course, I came to this conclusion from how easily she went with me last time, as well as how many other things I noticed about her personality.

It seemed like she was escaping, but didn’t want to run away. The mages were the last straw for her, though.

I shook my head to clear my thoughts. If I continued, I would have remembered the things that happened afterwards.

“-point… Huh? Thea? What are you doing here?!” I tuned back in, hearing her name.

I looked over, but the second my eyes met hers and saw the pain and fear, as well as the hesitation in them, I remembered how she looked all the times I saw her last time, including her corpse.

I stood, having sat down at some point earlier on, when the guard was sent to go fetch the king. That being said, the king certainly was taking a long time…

Anyway, I stood up, looking at the tormented and confused eyes of Thea. The memories were all still there, and made me smile. I wasn’t able to protect her last time, but this time should be different. This time, I should be able to repent for my sins.

I was suddenly in front of her, my arms outstretched to her lithe frame. I wrapped them around her, and brought her to me. I thought for a second about giving her memories, but I realized it would be wrong of me to force her to relive her death.

So I simply used time magic in a way I didn’t really think about.

I wrapped it around my hand like a glove, and just followed my instinct for how to do what I wanted. I released her from my hold, and placed my hand on head, and pet her. She flinched slightly, before relaxing, closing her eyes slightly in bliss. Somehow or another, I used the time magic to make it feel the same as it did last time I pet her, which was just after she had gotten her status.

With a mental flick, I sent the system to her, to give her the abilities without her knowledge. These two things were my way of apologizing.

Thea reached up to touch my hand. Exactly the same as she had done before. It made me smile. I felt so guilty, so hurt from all the things I’d done to her. But seeing her smile like this was good enough for me. She fell down to her knees, probably losing strength, but I just followed her down. My mind was elsewhere, but my body would still react, petting Thea just how she liked it.

I guess it wouldn’t be a bad idea to occupy my time like this.

A Father Before A King (Author here) [King]

Just earlier, the guard had rushed by Thea without paying much attention to her, as he had orders and it was not good of him to delay.

Seeing the guard in such a hurry from where her mother was, Thea herself ran back to the room, wondering if something was wrong. For all she knew, it could be that rotten prince again, back to harass them with their power.

So she rushed in to find… a single boy and girl, about her age, talking about her. She must have stood there for a full twenty seconds, staring at the scene, before she was noticed.

Since you know what happened from there, let’s talk about the king.

He was in his room, staring intensely at the book in front of him. It was plain, black bound book with no apparent locks or reasons why it couldn’t be opened.

However, unsurprisingly, it couldn’t be opened. He had only found the book recently, but it was still bothersome that after four days, he was still unable to open it. He had even tried to burn the cover off, thinking that he could just use one of his scribes to copy down every page, but the book wouldn’t even get warm.

It was truly an enigma.

“Your majesty! The Queen calls for you in the Grand Hall!” A guard, one hired recently, called out. It was apparently that he was a recent one, as he didn’t knock, while it was a personal rule to knock before calling out for the King.

“What ha-” He cut off his sentence as he realized what the guard had said. The last time he was called out in the Grand Hall by her, was when that stupid prince came by and blackmailed his wife into giving away their daughter like some prize.

He immediately shut up. By some miracle, he grabbed the book on the way out, having some odd thoughts about seeming busy if something went wrong. The book had helped him out greatly these past few days, in terms of getting out of things he didn’t want to do.

It was his favorite scapegoat. He had already determined to not let anybody know if he ever managed to open the book.

With long steps, he made large progress to the Grand Hall. He was slightly bothered, and thought about his daughter as he walked, trying to think about some other way he could make her as happy as possible before the prince stole her away.

He could never come up with anything. He had realized she was listening in on the conversation, but he didn’t stop, because she deserved to know. But it killed her smile, and it hurt him so much to not be able to see it again.

Just before opening the doors, he put on a regal posture, pushing the fatherly thoughts to the back of his mind. He had no chances to look weak in front of his citizens.

He was, after all, a king before a father.

He slammed his hands onto the doors, pushing them open in a manner fit for an entrance from a king.

But then he saw Thea, and stopped. She was sitting on her legs, smiling blissfully. The reason? A boy with golden shining eyes, seeming so sad, petting her slowly. Watching it gave you an odd conflicted feeling. The boy was so sad, but Thea was looking the happiest the king had ever seen her.

He flinched, suddenly remembering that he was called out. He looked to his wife, only to see her looking back at him. She turned her head to look at the boy, then back at him. The king sighed, realizing that she wanted him to do something.

He took a moment to regain his composure. Then he turned to the boy, attempting to keep his composure.

“So, boy, what is it that you want from me?”

“Hand me that book. I can open it for you.”

The king stood speechless for a second. He spoke in such a way, towards a king. How long has it been since somebody has been so blunt?

And his voice was… odd. There was something about it, he wasn’t quite sure what. It was like a whisper that echoed, snaking its way throughout the room.

But he still took a look at the book, and held it out. The boy raised the hand that wasn’t petting Thea, and the book flew to it. It was obviously magic, but he couldn’t recall any spells that did that.

“You dare use magic in this room?!” The king could do nothing but yell.

“Father! He had no ill intentions!” Thea was the one to respond. Even the boy was surprised.

“...And how would you know?” The boy whispered. His hand finally stopped, but didn’t leave her head.

“When you hugged me, you moved faster than anybody could have stopped you. And yet, you did nothing. If you didn’t do something there, then you can’t be a bad person.” Thea made a sound argument. Except for one problem.

“You hugged Thea?” The king asked, astonished and slightly angry.

“Oh, yeah. I forgot to apologize for that.” He stood up, bowed and said, “Sorry.”

And that was it. An incident came and passed just like that.

Now onto the real problem at hand.

“Eve, come here and open this book. No worries, you certainly can. You still have pure mana.” With that, he left her alone. He wasn’t going to give her any more hints.

But she already had enough. Within a minute, she started grinning.

“Did it!” She beamed at Rayne, expecting praise.

“Hmm? But I didn’t get any experience?” He questioned, his hand stopping on Thea’s head.

“That’s because I didn’t learn a spell. I learned a method of increasing my mana storages!”

“How efficient is it?”

“Hmm… It seems like every 10 over my capacity gives me another mana.”

Rayne hung his head low. “10 times more efficient than me…” He sighed.

Then he seemed to come to terms with it, and output a large amount of mana. It congealed into many, many orbs in the air, all a predetermined distance from eachother. They were all also the same size, and spinning through the air in random directions. They collided, and swarmed together.

In just a few seconds, all the mana orbs in the air had joined together into one misshapen blob, made completely out of perfect mana spheres.

And Rayne tossed it to Eve. It melted when it touched her skin, and absorbed into her.

“How much mana did you get right there?”

“About 40,000? A bit less… Sorry, I’m getting woozy… do you mind if I lay down?”

Rayne was in disbelief of her abilities, but grabbed her hand and pulled her close to him. He held her as she passed out, before finally making his comment.

“It even works that way, when mine doesn’t… I’m so jealous…”

He sighed again. He lay her down on his lap, brushing a lock of hair out of her face, before looking back to the King.

“Man, things just never stop happening. Alright, I want two things from you. Pretty simple things, actually.”

Rayne stopped, and waited for permission to continue. When the king gestured, still a bit confused as to how much was happening in the Great Hall, when it was normally silent and refined.

“I want her to have access to all the libraries in any place you control. Even if you have to make a new position, I just want her to have complete access to all the books. The second one is your daughter-”

Rayne was cut off by a large gust of wind, and a small piece of rock flashing by his head. He didn’t move and because of that, ended up with a small cut on his cheek. This time, Thea didn’t say anything.

“You think my daughter is worth one measly wish? She’s worth more than 10,000 of you. Just one thing you do doesn’t mea-” The queen was furious. She had taken a small piece out of the throne to throw at him.

“‘To go to school with me.’ is what I was going to continue with, but you didn’t let me finish. So let me try again. My second wish is your daughter to go to school with me. After all, you’ve been thinking about it for a bit, right?”

The king took a half step back, and both him and the queen looked oddly at Rayne. There was no reason that he should have known such a thing, as they only talked about such things in their bedroom, when nobody else was listening.

But since Rayne used up a wish for it, they couldn’t exactly refuse, now could they?

“Alright. Thea, starting from tomorrow, you’ll go to school with this…”

Rayne didn’t get the hint for a few seconds, but once he did, he stood up, bowed once more, and called out his name naturally.

“Rayne, 1 month old vampire. Pleased to make your acquaintance.”

The Great Hall went speechless. It took them a second to register what he said, then it took them even longer to react. Thea and some of the younger people didn’t quite know about vampires, but that was to be expected.

Vampires were becoming a myth, slowly but surely. And now here comes one once again, showing up in the middle of nowhere and talking calmly with the king and getting his daughter to go to school with him.

“A vampire? What’s that?” Of course, the one asking was Thea.

Rayne smiled.

“Care to explain, King?” He turned his head, his eyes flashing red.

“Vampires are a race that supposedly went extinct some 10,000 years ago, but before they went extinct, they were tools of destruction. The most in tune with mana, surpassing even the fairies, they would use pure mana to grab and tear humans limb from limb without a trace. They didn’t discriminate between races, either, as they would kill animals and elves the exact same way. They would ravage villages without remorse or reason.

Worst of all, they would suck the blood out of the women and, somehow or another, end up with the women wanting to follow them.”

The king, the entire time, seemed disgusted with Rayne. Rayne just calmly stood and listened to the abuse. After all, he could tell none of it was false.

It was the same thing he knew he would do if he lost control.

So he could only hope to keep Eve with him.

Rayne waited until the king was done with his rant. Then he opposed slowly and calmly.

“Your majesty, that was 10,000 years ago. The vampire race is still extinct. I am the only one in existence at the moment. And I hope to change that only once, because I have somebody who will follow me to the ends of the earth and beyond.”

He took a deep breath, breathing out a sigh.

“I am a vampire, and I can’t change that. But, I am not the vampires that you speak of. If I was…” Rayne transformed. His hair went silver and his eyes shone red. His presence went to immeasurable amounts. “You wouldn’t be able to stop me. Nobody could.”

He breathed another deep breath, and his power faded with his exhale.

A bolt of magic, most likely a wind spell, split the air as it came towards Rayne with an intent to kill.

A single finger intercepted its path. The razor sharp ball of wind tore through his flesh, but it lost its power. A second later, the finger was whole again, not a single drop of blood spilled.

Rayne was angry. He sent a glare to where the magic came from, and the guard felt a shiver go down his spine.

“What do you think you are doing, aiming at Thea with your magic? Who do you think you are?” With the last sentence, mana rushed forth in a wave, all of it that Rayne had gathered from the spell and from his natural regen. About 6000.

And in a split second, it was over. The guard who had sent his spell to the princess was out cold, unable to move and thoroughly bound with mana chains. Rayne was having difficulty controlling his anger, and really wanted to kill the person in front of him. However, he held himself back as much as possible.

It didn’t really help his overflowing bloodlust. Nearly everyone else in the room was unable to move, simply paralyzed from the fear that encased them.

I say nearly, because Eve was still able to move, although she still had a very bad headache from all the mana influx, just barely able to keep consciousness, she was slowly getting up and walking over to Rayne.

She pressed her hands to his back, and practically collapsed on top of them, but it was enough. The aura around Rayne was gone in a second, instantly replaced by concern for Eve.

“What… just happened?” The queen, normally one full of words, was speechless.

“The guard tried to kill your daughter. And that made me slightly aggravated. I lost control for a second, but I told you before, I have somebody who’s willing to go beyond the end of the world for me.” Rayne spoke in a soft voice, full of care.

The transformations were too much to handle. So many things had happened in just a few hours it wasn’t funny.

But at least things were calm now.

“Anyway, I came for the two wishes. Even though I didn’t do anything for one of them, I got what I wanted. The way into that book, by the way, is to put some pure mana into it. Tell me if you ever pass the test in it.” He paused, trying to think about what else he wanted to say.

“Oh, and one more thing. If you don’t try to kill me, I’ll be your best friend. Feel free to tell me anything, about politics or whatever. I’m not allowed in the library, so we can talk whenever Eve’s reading. I’m sure there are some things I can help with. After all, no matter how well you think you’re doing, nothing’s ever perfect. So sometimes it’s better to just settle for however good you can get it.”

And with those words of wisdom, Rayne picked up Eve, gave Thea a four second pet, and left the room.

Well, there’ll be word from him tomorrow, at school, either way.