By the time Lucian had realized it, he was very full.
never had he felt this full, and never did he enjoy a meal this welcoming.
Looking at his aunt and looking away, Lucian could not help but quietly burp.
his action was noticed, safe to say his action made her smile.
"your face and hands are all dirty, let me help you out."
her voice carried itself through the pleasant wind while she kept eating.
The remnant of oil and even vegetable juice was cleaned away in the blind of an eye.
Lucian was satisfied with the meal, however he felt that something was universally off.
"right, I forgot you needed a drink."
Umy handed a small cup filled with lemon juice.
a hind of cinnamon from the juice.
Lucian felt the cold brew go down his throat, his ears turning red from the refreshment.
"Lucian." Umy called.
she wanted his attention.
"yes aunty?" Lucian quietly replied.
his voice stuttered.
his years of isolation had left him with neglect for his voice.
neither did he have the time to acknowledge this nor did he ever have the time.
Lucian felt his aunts pitiful gaze.
Ever since he was young he never ever saw her true face.
Her whole head above her shoulder felt like it was even beyond him to gaze upon.
Umy struggle with herself, whether to admit to her fault again.
"this place is safe." She gently reached out her hand to caress the soft face of Lucian.
"Its my fault that you were left for so many years without a guardian. This Agri world is your new home. Go enjoy yourself to what a normal life feels like." She pulled her hands away.
Noticing the somber mood, Lucian felt a premonition that his aunt was going to do something drastic.
"wait!" He exclaimed. "what is it?" she replied. "where are you going?" Lucian felt like this question needed to be asked, he felt like he needed to talk his aunt out of something.
Umy paused for a bit before replying.
"Lucian, have you heard the word an eye for an eye?" to her quiestion Lucian took a few second to ponder on her causual question.
he finally replied when he found the meaing.
"An eye for an eye is something like harming other because they harmed you or someone you love."
To his reply Lucian can feel ackowledgment from around him.
"thats right, someone harmed you. So as a gaurdian I must harm back the place that imprisoned you." Lucian felt no emotion from her tone.
"what what will you do to them?" without knowing it, this very question would reveal the cruel truth and weither to stop or not to stop the fate of souless 6's fate.
"I will consume that planet and its stars." ... Lucian did not like the sound of that.
He wasn't very literate, but something told him that she didn't mean it metiphorically.
"By that I meant, eating the planets and its stars. The lives of millions will be transported elsewhere, however their is a chance that I might decided otherwise." Umy calmly explained.
Lucians face became imediately pale, like all the blood in his body left his face.
"no! you can't do that, I have a friend that lives there and he wants to live a happy life." Lucian took another deep breathe to recover.
"and the millions of lives that depends on the planets are many." he tried to reason the lives of the inhabitants who were blisfully unawhere that the Empress thought of killing them all.
"don't you want revenge?" those four words put Lucians morality into question.
"I used to be like you Lucian, the planet Crackis Ora was a world poisoned by war and many people their even ate their potential children to stay satiated. The faces I saw and the world itself was ruled by more than the jungle, not fear but by people above them. Like your father, he a patriarch and the husband of your long dead mother. He could be hiding more of his children, away from the light like you." Umy paused for a bit, her anger seeping into her voice.
"The reason why you were undiscoverable wasn't because a relic of mine was in your body. but because of individuals who were quiet about it." Umy reached out her hand to gently rub her nieces soft hair.
"I'm powerful Lucian, my actions are not because I love killing. no its far simply, its because I would save those that needed help." Umy pulled her hands away to point toward the sky.
"because right now uncountable ammount of souls call to me, I can hear their please and plights. and I am helping, even now my dis-action kills billions."
those last words carried a weight so heavy that Lucian was disillusioned by it.
still even when his aunt is all that powerful, Lucian could tell that she wouldn't mind if he agreed on the deaths of millions.
with their deaths, that karma would also weigh on his frail shoulders.
"No, please aunt Umy. don't consumed them." He exclaimed, memories of that wretched imprisonment wasn't enough to break him. He remembered Banter who laughed even when he had nothing and nobody to take care of him.
"sure will, I was just testing you." Umy's dimener changed into a happier one.
she patted Lucian on his shoulders.
relief could be seen on his face.
The thought that his first ever friend who he shared many moments with would die because of his hatred, would be heartbreaking.
"come on Lucian don't look so gloom, your friend is doing fine." Umy assured, her voice calming Lucian.
Her spirite was calming to Lucian, a powerful person can calm others if they put their mind into it.
Lucians eye's perked up at her.
"come on, stop looking at me like a stranger. walk with me while I explain everything to you."
She gave lucian two pare of rain boot for the long walk, she was willing to endure with lucian.
Even when the world is a broken mess, memories. they can be a maker or a breaker of a great being.
"my Love is a grudge, and your ignorance is my solace." Umy spoke to thin air.
This planet was the most pleasant and will always be, a great being had asked.
"Aunty, how is uncle Ignis?" Lucian asked, a distantly old face he remembered.
Ignis, a mortal man who one day was proposed by a young girl who wasn't a god yet.
What ever he did, or didn't do.
Someone destined for greatness loves him, and pushed through an ungodly ammount of trials to give him a world unruin and instead still in a stage of reform.
Umy stopped in her silent steps and stared into the distance.
their a quiet wooden hut waited in its lonely possisian.
Umy was lost in memories, and was even more lost in how much Ignis meant to her.
Her expression could not be seen, however Lucian could feel that a distant story was coming to its end.
"he's doing great." Umy cheerfuly replied, no sorrow or regret was heard.
"lets go see him, I haven't told of him of the wonderful news of your return."
Lucian could not help but smile, his uncle was always fun to hang around with.
The man made jokes that were funny for kids but wasn't so absurd that Lucian was questioning him.
Ignis accomplish feet's of compassion and generosity that he himself was called a saint of laymanity.
This was because he was the only true saint. others of the old sainthood hid secrets buried with corpses of millions.
A galaxy wide healing was impossible, which is why his action had took something essential to him.
His very memories were being slowly eaten was, his body degrated day by day.
for his kindness he was left crippled, but that smile never left his face.
every step Lucian struggled, while his aint steps were ferm and eager.
soon they reached neer the doorstep of the hut.