***
In the police cafeteria, master jet reserved one of the table and waited with a tray of food, only if they can be called food.
It felt surreal, a little brat almost half her age, somehow made her flustered. 'Strange, he somehow felt, as if he experienced more than me. and What was up with the look? Like...he knew me?"
It was not that surprising that people would know her. She had already made an Image that forgetting would take effort, but somehow, that brat called sunless made her feel, as if he knew her, more than she knew about herself.
'and that comment!' It would've been a cringe line if it wasn't the first time she heard it, like a dad joke old people would say and feel proud about themselves. But for some GODDAMN reason, 'It felt like a pickup line' she thought.
Maybe it was because she has barely ever gotten any romantic approaches, that she started to become delusional. Most are not into old corpses like her, and the one who approach her, felt mostly disgusting because of their 'weird' to say the lest type of fetish.
Looking at the big mirror placed a bit away from her table, depicting her with every curves and shape, she agreed, 'I may be a corpse, but it's no lie that I am indeed seductive.' she felt proud after a long time thinking that.
Besides, the way that guy said it, it felt... genuine. Like what he said was the very truth he felt from the bottom of his heart. She outwardly showed no emotions, nor did her heartbeat changed, it was already still, but the skin on her pale cheeks did redden slightly.
'I wonder how he truly feels, about me?' the predatory thoughts weren't missed from her awareness. But so what? It was the first time in her life someone made her feel this way. If it is a matter of age, then her birth as a corpse was about twelve(12) years ago, she doesn't see a problem, nor do I.
**
After a through session of complicated machinery he had to navigate through, the former emperor finally finished his shower. It was quite great seeing that now he looked just like his previous life, a bit young that's all.
But...'Why the hell is it you Selbador('gloomy' in Language of Madness)!? Why isn't it Inriam('Crazy' in Language of Madness)?!' the emperor asked in his head to the shadow below his legs.
Even with a Ascended Aspect, the nameless slave was a Divine shadow nonetheless, a shadow with the blessing of Shadow God, received the blessing of multiple shadow cores. Mostly because shadow cores are not soul cores, they have different laws.
It is also a reason why Divine aspect holders are the only beings who can have multiple 'soul' cores. But shadow cores, as different from soul cores, can be only wielded by Divine Shadows, depending on how much Shadow God Blessed them. There were indeed divine shadows with only one shadow cores.
'I wonder if they still exist?' he thought as he finally reached what they called a cafeteria. 'Too bad the police here are nothing like the police I am familiar with.'
Soon enough, he saw the seductive corpse sitting with...'why am I having a bad feeling about this?' he walked over there with his guard up.
"Sit down, we'll just need to go through some protocols." which only made his face ugly, 'Don't tell me she's seriously talking about 'those' protocols?' he thought with fear.
He reluctantly sat down. The seductive corpse pushed the tray towards him saying, "Eat up, you need these. Also, I would advise about commenting on the taste."
looking at the strange hot thing she described as 'food', the emperor was careful. He picked up the spoon and took a portion in his mouth.
a few seconds passed, nothing happened. The food...'It's not that bad.' he thought.
picking up another portion he thought, "It's better than the slave food."
The memories of eating that shit for 2 years indeed made him remember the taste even after a thousand years, it was indeed that bad. It is also the time he realized the saying was true, 'Happy memories are easily forgettable, but Traumatic things will be remembered for eternity.'
compared to that shit, this -what seems to be artificially made food- is a lot better in taste.
He quickly finished the food, only cursing a damn bitch, 'DAMN that bitch Moalna, why couldn't she give us this type of food?'
Setting down the spoon and tray and drinking a glass of water, the emperor looked at the corpse and asked, "so...what are these 'protocols' you speak of?"
The corpse smiled and said, "Well, I might be late but "Welcome to the waking world Sunless!", that's the line I should've said upon your awakening. Anyway, it seems you have no family, pretty common for outskirt rats like us."
'I guess her fate didn't change much.' he thought, 'Terailin' from his previous life was the same, dead parents, no one to care for, and a slave to people who call themselves righteous, but you know, there was a reason the emperor had to -or he just wanted to- destroy that organization.
That was, actually one of the reasons she and him had...ugh! A bit of a relationship, even though she was a hundred years older than him when they met.
"Okay so, I need to test your psychology, but I won't go that deep, just how was your first nightmare?"
"Excellent." He said flatly.
"No hesitation, I see. Was it hard?"
"Easy as Serasna." he said, ('Serasna' means 'fuck' in the language of Madness)
"'Serasna'? Well anyway, how would you describe your current feelings?"
"Horny." ('__') ['Horny' means 'exciting' in the language of Madness, btw.]
"('__')"
An awkward silence followed before,
"Argh! Let's move onto the last part, you have two choices." She declared.
"Which two?"
"First, Leave the station right now and prepare for your winter solstice all by yourself."
"And the other one?"
"Second, and also the choice I recommend is to join the awakened academy and prepare as much as you can in the four weeks remaining."
'academy, huh? I guess I have never been to school, so I might choose that, but what will happen in what they call the 'winter solstice'?'
Deciding on that, the emperor said, "Well, I choose to go to the Academy. Is there anything else?"
"Well not really." picking up her keys from the table, she stood up and grinned,
"Let me give you a ride~"
To be continued...