I didn't know why this happened to me? I am only an ordinary girl, but why did something like this happen to me? After I woke up, everything changed even without me knowing why. I didn't know why Mira looked at me with a brimming smile, and why I saw these bubbles in the air. I only walked near our mansion, and I suddenly met a strange creature like a hamster, but it could speak.
[Lia, my name is Yuki, and I am not a strange creature but a spirit.]
Yuki answered my question with a dissatisfied face. It was strange because I never told him my name, but why did he already know it without me introducing myself? The most shocking thing was he could even read my mind. But wait a minute, why did he turn into a young boy? He was a hamster before.
[Lia, don't ignore me please, even though I can read your mind, it is so lonely to talk alone like this.]
"Who are you?" I asked the young boy in front of me. When I stared at him, my heart skipped a beat. He was so handsome, even though he was a spirit or something unknown. He had white fur before, but now his soft fur had turned into short white hair with a pair of blue eyes. He looked cute.
[Lia, it is mannerless to ask my name when you already gave me one. I already said, please stop talking in your mind and speak to me directly.]
Yuki looked impatient every time I spoke in my mind, even though he could read it.
[I will tell you once again that I am a spirit. Nice to meet you, Lia.]
After a while, I asked Yuki again with a cute voice, "What is a spirit?"
Yuki was stunned to hear Lia's question because it was the first time he had heard someone not know about spirits.
[You don't know about spirits? Is that even real? A spirit is a different existence than a human. Spirits never die when humans are weak & effortlessly pass away when they get hurt a little. Spirits have so much power within their bodies, so they can't use their power to hurt humans at all. Have you never learned about this, Lia? Are you an uneducated young girl? Or a commoner instead? How come a spirit tells this knowledge to a human like you?]
I nodded at Yuki's explanation. I had never known there were spirits in my past life. Nothing like magic existed before, or maybe I was the only one who didn't know about it. But it was impossible that I knew nothing. I had never heard of this before, but now I couldn't fully believe that this world was not the same as before.
"Can humans see spirits, Yuki?" I asked Yuki, who looked at me with a brimming smile.
[Lia, I have never seen a beautiful young lady like you before, where have you been all this time?]
I tilted my head in confusion and answered, "What do you mean by asking me that? I have always been here in my mansion."
[No, you are not. Not every human can see spirits, and humans can only see us clearly if they have much magical power. Humans with little magic power can't see spirits if the spirit doesn't want to show their shape. Only a powerful human can see a spirit's existence even without the spirit's permission. Some powerful humans even use our power to dominate a kingdom.]
"Dominate a kingdom? That is terrifying." I shook my head in fear while remembering the past life I had to spend in a dark palace.
[I did tell you that we cannot die easily, but we can die if we use our power too much. We have tremendous magical power, but you can't use it multiple times without stopping. When a spirit uses enormous power many times until their magic runs out, they use their life as a substitute for magic power. When they use their life as a substitute, there is zero possibility that they won't die afterward.]
"Is that the reason why you were scared of me the first time we met?" I asked him again, and he nodded at my words.
[A human who has tremendous power usually has no heart anymore, and they only think about revenge or fame. They never think about someone else's feelings at all, and they never consider us as living creatures. In their eyes, we are only tools to achieve their purpose. Spirits have enormous magical power, but they can't attack humans without their summoner's permission, so no spiritual creature can defy an OP human. It is not rare nowadays to see spirits sold on the black market. No one can fight against a human with a spirit companion because that human can destroy a kingdom without using their own power.]
"It is too cruel, and I can't believe there is someone like that in this world," I said with mournful eyes.
[The person who has strong magical power capable of destroying an empire and rebuilding the kingdom into his own is the previous emperor, Warlord Evan Aurora. He is the cruelest king, and he will use any method to get what he wants. He conquered this kingdom with his OP power & put all the spirits he wanted under his command.]
"That is our previous Emperor, and the crown prince is his son, Allen Evan Aurora. The crown prince inherited the throne at the age of twenty, and no one knew the previous emperor's whereabouts.]
"...ss."
"Miss..."
Mira saw her young lady from afar and called out to her, but she didn't even answer her call at all.
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