Chapter 10: Ch.10: Cursed soul
"Both of you are 042 wasn't it?"
Eleanor pulled another fan out of her pocket to cover her mouth again
"Interesting, please elaborate"
"First, other will instantly denied it or just admitted to it for fun, only 042 himself would replies like that"
"That not true, I know the one or two that will probably replies the same"
"Second, earlier Soleil said "Fight us" instead of "Fight me" so he's probably slipped"
"Soleil explains your words"
"By us I meant me that represent milady, I'm her knight after our, I'm always fighting in her place"
"Third, 042 would never treat someone like that, calling some woman milady, kept something as important as the Symbol of sun at someone else"
"I told you it's just a magic item!"
"A magic item that you stole from a merchant that have much more things that look better than this? You must have at least know it true value"
"I might still be the White Cat and not Soleil"
"Nope, just look at your hair, how can you sneaking around in a cloak with a hair like that?"
"I always could just change my hair style"
"Your lazy ass know that not happening"
"I have many servants you know?"
"Then they would have known if you're white cat or not"
Eleanor close her fan
"I see so that your conclusion"
"Are you satisfied with it?"
"I don't know, I actually expect Lune to be the one who figured it out, this is actually very interesting, you got it right, it's us, your best friend"
Lune finally understand the situation
"I would have figured it out too if you didn't knocked me out!"
"How was it actually work though, so there's two of you now?"
"Ours memories split in half, something like that"
"I see"
"Why you two still haven't try to kill each other yet though? According to the rules of this world, you two will become one"
"Lune no don't tell him that!"
"So it work like that… thank you for the confirmation, now I can finally can do it"
Edmond immediately go block between Soleil and Eleanor to prevent anything from happening
He will definitely try to kill another him on sight, only reason they didn't kill each other until now is probably because they don't know if his memories will be back together
"Hey Edmond, there's an easy way out of this, don't you think so Eleanor?"
"We definitely have the same idea, we're the same person after all, if it his choice, I'll accept the outcome no matter what"
"Edmond choose one, which one you like more?"
They said it at the same time
"I suggest you choose Soleil, he's definitely more useful"
"Lune how could you just say that!?, how could I choose someone to be dead? I can't!"
"They're the same person anyway, and it's even thier own choice"
"…"
"Hey we don't have all day here"
"That's right milady is very busy young lady"
"You two will accept my choice no matter what right?"
"Of course!"
"I already know your answer anyway"
Edmond grabbed Soleil and Eleanor head and smashed them together
"Then none of you will die you idiot! That what you wanted to hear from me right!?"
"Yeah, we know, Lune know too right?"
"I know that you wanted to hear that, but I actually want both of you dead"
"Come on, at least we'll be useful"
"Why bother asking anyway?"
"I was also hoping for off chance that he said otherwise a little bit you know?"
"Yeah, living with the knowledge of another me existence was very uncomfortable"
"But since he ask nicely, we won't do it"
"That was nice? Are you a masochist or something?"
Edmond clapping his hand
"Soleil stop picking a fight with Lune"
"Yes dad"
"Anyway, what do you mean by stealing my life?"
"Oh about that"
Soleil pulled out something that looks like marble from his pocket
Is that a soul? It's have been described that it looks like a marble in Love and revenge of Alan, so he stole my soul!?
"Is that a soul, what about it?"
"It's probably my soul, hey put it back!"
"How can you still moving though?"
Oh he's right, so is not mine?
"This is Edmond soul"
So it's mine?
"Then how can he still move?"
"You only need one soul to operate a living body after all"
"Oh I see now, so 144 soul still inside Edmond body"
Oh so that how is it
"What do you need Edmond soul for?"
"The curse, is engraved in your soul, I want it out"
"You know about his curse too? Seriously how can you know all this?"
"You might have other questions that more important than that right now"
Lune trying to think about the character name Edmond
"Edmond doesn't have any curse though if I recall"
"I don't read the novel, so I don't know that"
Edmond caught on what Soleil just said
"But you said the curse was in my soul… not Edmond…?"
"Yeah, I just found out about that after I take Edmond's soul out of your body, I originally thought it was in Edmond's soul, that why I stole it, but I was wrong"
"Then how was I cursed?"
"Trust me, I wanted to know as much as you guys"
"Wait so you can you spectral magic?"
"Wait Edmond you don't know Aten? Oh right you only read novel, you not joining any community"
"Aten?"
"He's unused character, he have a body that have spectral properties, he supposed to appear in dessert arc but ended up not making it, and he's in front of you right now with the name Soleil"
So that's why
"I found him when I when on vacation at the dessert, so he did make it to this world after all"
"Yeah, I can see ghost, I can touch ghost, I can talk to ghost and more importantly I can take your soul"
"He's very special, is there's anyone who have special body similar to this?"
"Yeah most importantly there's the heroine, Ariel Atlas the princess, haven't you met her already Eleanor?"
"Oh right her… I completely forgot about it"
Ariel Atlas the heroine, the love of Alan, who teach the protagonist how love, her power supposed to be a secret to everyone for now, but at least Eleanor have to know about it right? They must have met already
"What do you mean by completely forgot about her? I thought you would be completely disgusted by her power"
"Yeah I did, but she afraid to use it and able to control it easily so she don't use it and don't go outside at all, so I forgot he even existed"
Ariel afraid to go outside? How could that be?
"Wait a minute… don't you mean…."
Eleanor laugh her ass off
"She's a heroine you says? This is getting very very interesting"
"Very interesting indeed milady, seems like she's already caused more problems than us by replacing one of the main characters"
Lune is freaking out right now
"What can we do without her power? What can we do if there's no one teaching Alan how to love?"
"I looked forward to seeing how you two will dealt with this situation"
"Eleanor can you teach Alan how to love instead?"
"Bad idea"
"Bad idea indeed"
"Worst idea I ever heard in my life"
"Yeah WTF am I even thinking to suggest that?"
"It's doesn't have to be a woman though"
"Stop that thought right now"
"Hey, Lune suggests me and I'm still a man at soul"
"Do we really need to teach Alan how to love, Lune?"
"Then how can it be Love and Revenge of Alan?"
"It's doesn't have to be, it's could be the adventure of a cat and bunny you know?"
Edmond try to cheers Lune up
"You make it worse"
"Sorry, anyway Eleanor do you know who Ariel actually is?"
"I don't"
"The why do you know that it's us and not her?"
"Because I think it's best to kept her I her room and never let her out with a power like that, so I didn't investigate further"
"How do you do is this "investigate" anyway?"
"Nope not telling you"
"Anybody else you found?"
"Let's focused on heroine problem shall we?"
So he already found more people
"Well I guess the only way is convince her to do her original role properly"
"So we have to get close to her"
Everyone looked at Eleanor
"You're the only one who can help us!"
"Please our lord and savior Eleanor!"
"Okay okay since you two asked nicely, I'll arranged our meeting as soon as possible, let's head back to the mansion"
"Milady, what about Lune?"
"Why don't you just dyed your hair?"
"I'm cool like this"
"I think bunny are also cool though, come on Lune accept your true self!"
"Stfu Soleil!"
Lune go separate way while everyone go back to Phoenix's mansion