Bab 135: Chapter 134: Tianguo's strange seclusion
Tianguo hummed to herself, floating crosslegged in midair with her left hand to her right elbow and her right hand under her chin, she stared in deep thought at what she was seeing in front of her.
"This doesn't make any sense..." She muttered out, utterly confused.
In front of her was the true soul body of Xiu Ye, and unlike other true soul bodies that take the shape of their physical bodies, his took the shape of something...distorted.
It had no shape, no form, yet, it exist. A contradiction of something that shouldn't have been possible.
Tianguo didn't know how it happened. She knew and saw the spirit avatar Xiu Ye uses when he visits his inner world, or outer soul layer, Ryūjin Jakka and the other sentient weapons in the inner world that was hiding did as well, and so by extension–his true soul body should have the same physical appearance as his spirit avatar.
But it didn't. Instead, it was something like this.
"I have to find out what's going on with his soul quick, or my partner would find out that I've been lying to him about researching for a way for me to have a physical body. Though I'd like to roam around free in the world, I'm still content in just playing around in this world." She sighed, closed her eyes, and curled her fingers together, forming a strange symbol.
Opening her mouth, she spoke unknown mystical language that held power as mysterious symbols appeared all around Xiu Ye's true soul body.
It was a spell, one of many, that her master had taught her. Although it looked mysterious and powerful, in truth, it only had one simple function of scanning a person's soul: analyzing everything from its present memories to its past lives and possibly even its future.
Despite having lived for thousands of years, Tianguo could only manage to analyzed the present and bits of a soul's previous lives.
She blamed it all on her state as a Deathly Hallow. Hm. Yeah and not that she was lazy or anything....
'Master is sure to scold me for my negligence.' Tianguo internally winced at the thought of what her master would do to her.
He was mostly a kind person to anyone but...he could be really scary when he's either angry or scolding someone.
She shook her head, snapping her out of her distracting thoughts and focused back into the casting.
As she remembered the right incantations in her mind, she couldn't help but remember the conversation Xiu Ye had with that little girl Na'er before she entered the former's true soul body domain.
'Ye, Na'er's right. You're still a kid. Don't forget who you are and your real goal is: living a peaceful life. That was the first reason why you wanted to gain strength.'
'You can't just chase after it for the sake of being powerful or vengeance, that is a road that would lead to loneliness and regret.' She opened her eyes, a distant memory of her past flashed right in her eyes. She closed them once more, a pained expression appeared on her face.
"I should know. If it wasn't for master, I..." She shook her head and gently smiled, a soft chuckle went out of her mouth. She tilted her head up, forgetting about the spell for a moment, her smile widened a little bit.
"Even if I'm using you for my goal Ye, I have to say, I've grown a bit emotionally attached to you. I don't know if it's because I've been stuck in that hellhole for ten thousand years or what, but nonetheless, I see you, Ryūjin Jakka and Mjolnir as my friends."
"Now, I hope you appreciate it because I...don't have a lot of them. Except for my master, his wives, and friends, I don't have anyone else that are still here in this world." She let out a dry chuckle for a moment before shaking her head.
"Ugh. Great, now I'm talking to myself. I guess that's what I get for, uh, what was the words that master sometimes refer to me and I heard in Xiu Ye's memories...oh! Shut-in NEET. Hmm. I don't think I like these words."
Tianguo brought her attention back to Xiu Ye's true soul body, surrounded by all kinds of black and red glowing symbols that only she and her master could understand.
She frowned.
"I just don't get it. Why does he have more lives than just Archer EMIYA and three Shirous? In fact, how could the set of memories of the four be the same life? The possibility for Shirou to become Archer still exists, but the chance of it happening is close to zero."
"The first Shirou is one set on finding the one he loves, Arturia Pendragon, which looks suspiciously like the younger version of Yu Fei. The second one is being held back on pursuing further on his quest to become a Hero of Justice by this Rin and Arturia, huh, he's lucky man. And the third one...oof, now this one has got to be the most unfortunate between them all."
"Although their memories haven't shown further down the line or how they died, as what their memories shown, they wouldn't have become a Counter Guardian and a Heroic Spirit and then merged with the original one."
Tianguo narrowed her eyes, both her hands glowing with mystical darkish red glow and moved them around. "I have to get to the bottom of this, before anything irreversible happens to Xiu Ye."
She suddenly thought about his left arm, that had regrown due to her Life Force Energy but also because of a mysterious force that she traced back to his true soul body.
"I hope this doesn't backfires..." She hoped Xiu Ye already knew about it, if not, she'll have to tell him herself later on.
And wow would that be an awkward conversation.
'The more he quickly recovers the memories of his past lives, the more he forget about who he really is. I know he wants to grow stronger, he has to slow down. Or else his previous lives' memories would take over.'
'He has to take time in absorbing them. It's time for you to take a break partner.' Tianguo let out a breath and continued on muttering out the incantations of the spell.
Xiu Ye's true soul body begin to tremble and started letting sounds of a beating heart. The sounds of steel and the smell of burning fire erupted from it.
Tianguo's expression turned serious.
"....I really hope you appreciate me for doing this, idiot partner of mine." Her eyes began to glow dark red light.
"Azarath....Metrion....Zinthos!"
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