Chapter 36: Julia

  Memories were gone, the boy was like a vessel for any possessions to take hold. Something is needed to fill the empty shell. However, with memories gone, the boy was still able to speak clear and organized words in its mind to assert its speeches. The linguistic language wasn’t gone, but his chronic memories with someone were gone. That was how the pledging system worked, it would trade something for equal, and it was the boy got sent or lost from one of the other five domains to get here. If he didn’t have anything left after getting sent here, it would be alright, but he may undergo certain educated courses to converse normally.

  But that was just an ‘if’ case.

  Because the boy was still be able to converse normally, the quintuplets got relieved a little bit about the omen they saw in their mind. Guessed that after all, the quintuplets wouldn’t bear too much, they would wait for the next assertions from their father about what to do, that means they were surely given duties, or another thing...

  Father: “Fostering this boy, this is thy next objective.”

  God #4: “Father, what about exploring universes?”

  Father: “You could put that aside, this is thy new duty. Fostering this boy.”

  Quintuplets guessed that right, their assumption was that they would be given responsibility to tend the boy. However, they didn’t know the reasons for fostering the boy. Was it the empathetic from their father or...a plan of their father that had been lingering in their mind from the commencement of the conference?

  Forbidden, despicable and resentful

  -They reflected on their unforgivable thoughts about their birth giver.

  Their doubtful thoughts about their father were flooded in their mind, they didn’t know why they had these thoughts about their father. Was it their trait? Or they got it from their father? They recalled back to their journeys about exploring universes; they remembered the times they watched the species that captivated them. That’s right, it could be called ‘emotions’, they noticed that they had similar traits with the species. Not monotone, and it could be called beauty. Father was the one to give them perceptions and intuition to recognize and contemplate, just like the seeds father created. The difference was just the powers laying within themselves, separated from normies whom didn’t have powers.

  Sophisticated, imaginative and logical

  These are father’s personalities, it could also be called his creation. Their father was perplexed and thoughtful, everything was just how he thought of initially. They wondered how complicated the other four ancient beings be, genuinely.

  The boy: “Can I call you Osparious instead of father? Because I don’t know you.”

  The quintuplets noticed, and they were startled. It was because they weren’t permitted to call their father’s name directly, it would be disrespectful to do that, and they would be given punishments for it. It was one of the important manners to treat someone who’s an elder to them, and yes, they had retained that manner henceforth to their father. Besides their father, no one wasn’t as old as them to be called respectfully. Of course, father also taught them how to behave in certain circumstances. Putting that aside, it was forbidden to call their father’s name directly. The boy was a stranger, of course, he didn’t know their father’s name. Thus, they wondered how their father react to the name spoken out loud for the first in the milenials time.

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  Father: “Of course, thou can call me by my name.”

  Just like that, the boy was given permission to call their father’s name directly. However, they didn’t know why were they taught manners while they are at the pinnacle of everything. Yet, they discovered the reasons; it was already perplexed initially, did father have that personality naturally, and how did emotions, perceptions and essence of stating existence appear out of nowhere?

  So that could be said as Where everything begins.

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  Days and days passed, the boy grew and became more mature. The boy was also taught like the quintuplets about everything, such as manners and core skills to operate everything easier. It was the same treatment given to him as these were the first steps to build a person. Their father also created something called ‘puberty’, the process of an individual to form ego after early development. In this period, individuals would have several amends in their mind to become an individual with their own thoughts, behaviours and way of doing things. The boy underwent this process similarly, and he had formed a separation ego apart from the early development process. The boy thought that the quintuplets may had acted the same way in the early development stage, and it was the puberty hitting them to become the individual they were. Also, he started to form more thoughts about his surroundings, basically, everything. He questioned everything until he found the answers for them. his thought could be recorded because the god could do it. He asked the quintuplets about why they wouldn’t read each other’s mind, they could read and know what the person thinking, isn’t it better overall.

  Then, the boy was lectured about why it wasn’t a good idea. When a person getting read like a book, that person would have no privacy, and their life would be undercontrolled by the person who reads them like a book. Because, the readers know everything about the person being read, such as their next actions or anything that could make them weak and become fragile in no time. The readers would ultimately twist off the fate they about to get and reversed it to the unfortunate person being read. The boy couldn’t understand one bit of it, he was scared of the unknown. The boy would set a border between overthinking and truthfulness, he was assuming that he could understand emotions, despite whether it was accurate or not. Usually, everybody would imply their experience to understand someone’s way of doing things, but not everything isn’t the way it goes. Thus, at an early stage, the boy’s thoughts were a little bit warped, but it could go the right way; it was a double-edged sword.

  Why would he be frightened when he had such a comfortable life? Or maybe not, when the boy hit the age of 5, an age of a kindergarten. He would be given difficult courses about magic and fighting skills. The courses were rough and difficult, it was extraordinary exceeding the limit of the adolescence. The boy would have to train flexibility, dexterity and fighting tactics. More importantly, the boy had to take many lectures to master his authority, which is atomic manipulation. However, the boy could only open his left eye while the right eye couldn’t open. He was bestowed with another authority within his right eye, but it wasn’t the right time for him or maybe...for it to awaken. The boy had to meditate to train his state of mind, it was a self-taught thing, he cannot focus on creating if his mind kept interrupting him. Having a clear mind was crucial, he underwent ‘puberty’ period, and because of that, he had thoughts that haunting him everyday about how others would think of him, were his actions causing any troubles? Of course, the boy didn’t do anything wrong, he was imagining of scenarios that he adopted himself in. So, he had to get rid of those thoughts in order to master his atomic manipulation.

  The boy’s atomic manipulation ability correlated with this systemically and logical world, it would be harsh for him if his ability had the restricted conditions from the laws in chemistry. Fortunately, his ability broke the limitations, and the only thing he needed to learn and practice were his imagination and courses about atoms. And yes, there were restrictions in his authority, but those were minor and easily to understand. However, the boy had to train until those restrictions vanish completely, and made the right choices relating to the ability appear to him. He had to carve the cons and pros to make the best choice.

  One day, Osparious made a conference. When the boy came to the spot, he and the quintuplets saw an individual. It was a female, the girl has a yellow long hair, the girl’s slanted and balanced. The girl’s skin is white, her eyes are heterochromia; her left eye is amber green while her right eye is pure dark in the iris, displaying shiny stars in it. She wore a white outfit that covered her arms and legs, the clothes hid her body except her white neck and her face.

  Another being getting sent here due to pledging system.

  However, the girl’s case was different, she could remember her name and her memories. It was just the girl didn’t know the purpose and how she ended up being here.

  The girl: “My name’s Julia.”

  Julia, similar but different from the boy's circumstance, stood besides the quintuplets’ father, she emanated an air of know-it-all.

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