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November 9, 2018

Epirus, Greece

"Gynaíka?" Lucian called out and quickly, Celestia's curious gaze is pointed directly to Lucian's own serious stare. Her right eyebrow rises up in like a question of why would Lucian be so staid out of the sudden.

"I have a story to tell," He said, still looking at Celestia, softly. His eyes look so down yet so troubled at the same time and it's an unfortunate thing to see for Celestia.

Celestia was used to her husband's smiling self that will always brightens up her mood. His undeniably good personality is what she definitely loves the most about him. If there are sad times, Lucian is quick to replace it with just a joke or a heartfelt laugh and when she's nearly losing herself because of stress, he's there to support her may it be joining her to eat or caressing her face and giving her cuddles but seeing his serious expression right now made her uneasy. It is truly unusual.

"What is it?" She asked, confused as Lucian's hands grasp her own before he starts to tell a story that would greatly affect everything that's happening right now.

There was a Reaper that's been living in this world for too long. Alone and unaccompanied by any living creatures. He collects souls and helps them go to their supposed destinations.

He never found anything interesting in his work. It's sad and sullen to look and wait for an upcoming death that would happen right in front of his eyes. The agony and pain of those who are left behind was always the one he could hear yet he didn't stop it from happening even if he had the power to do so.

It's dangerous, tricky, and absolutely sinful to use his power for selfish reasons for he believes that everything that will happen, happens for a definite and specified reason so it's been a surprising thing for a Reaper to see a human, so beautiful and so ethereal to be even discovered in this cruel world. He should just wait for her to die and collect her soul afterward yet he disobeyed. He used all of his spiritual strength to save the girl.

The little girl's too lost and preoccupied to even notice the looming presence of death surrounding her as the knife held by the upcoming figure was getting itself prepared to stabbed the girl, mercilessly.

The Reaper stopped it from happening. It's wrong. It's selfish. It's bad. But it made him happy to help this girl so he shows her his visible self, a human appearance just like hers to help her in trouble.

It was the very first time they've met yet surprisingly, it wasn't the last. The Reaper met the girl but she's not little anymore and it seems that this is the reincarnation of the child he'd been with before in Brazil.

But few years had passed by and the girl's reincarnation surprises him for the little girl was gone and is already a blooming flower, a teenager, living in the bright and love-filled city in France. She was destined to die again but amidst the awaiting dangerous aftermath of what the Reaper had just done, he still uses his power to save her for the second time. He disguised himself as her roommate for he knows that the thief will soon come over to kill her and he wouldn't want that to happen.

He tried to hide all of the messy things that were disheveled by the thief. He tricked the thief to think that his room was the room of the girl yet his room was still messy and that caught the attention of the girl. The teenage girl cleaned the room of the Reaper and found a child's bag residing in his closet.

She didn't know that the bag was hers from the very beginning and the Reaper is just keeping it to bring it back to the child he met before but he's been busy dealing souls to even bring the bag back to the little girl and it seems that Fate isn't in his side at that time.

Then, their third meeting happened and it seems that the Reaper realized something. The girl he's been with before hadn't died at all for he never collected her soul. Yes, he did save her twice but it's impossible for a soul to fully reincarnate and be able to live in another human's body without being guided by a Reaper to its last destination, where it's decided if a certain soul could come back again on Earth or not.

The girl he saved is completely living for hundreds of years now. She didn't reincarnate but transmigrated to another time and the realization all clicked in his mind. Now, the Reaper's married to the girl he'd saved but he'll soon leave to take the punishment he's supposed to take right after he made his first mistake.

But the punishment was his immortal and eternal life. He'll never come back as a Reaper again and soon, all of his memories would disappear when he will become human. The treasured memories of the girl he's been with will all disappear like a bubble that popped out of the blue.

"And I promised that I'll tell this all to you one day," Lucian heaved back a deep sigh while holding Celestia's face with his both hands before continuing.

"I'm the Reaper in that story and you're the little girl, the teenage girl, and the woman involved in that tale," He honestly said as his words keeps on repeating inside her mind. He's not lying but she still need to hear him say he is.

"Stop joking," She said, her lips quiver in fear of what he just said.

"I'm not lying and you know that, Celestia,"

"Lucian, this is not a good joke," She whispered as tears threaten to free itself from her eyes.

"You're not the Reaper in that story and you'll never be," She said while staring at his eyes, so saddened at the revelation he just told her.

"I...I.....no...this....is.....not....I can't...I just can't," She frustratedly said while gripping the hem of Lucian's clothes. Her eyes reflecting the feeling of sadness within it.

He let go of her face to put his arms around Celestia, "I don't want this to happened," He whispered.

"But you need to be set free," He added as their foreheads touched and silence cover their mourning hearts.

"I can't control your life and I should face the consequences of what I committed," His words reaches out to Celestia's broken heart.

"You will forget your precious memories," She muttered as the pain in her chest seems to worsen more.

"And you will forget about us," With that, he hugged her tighter than it was before, before kissing her temple, lovingly yet passionately gentle.

"I may forget everything in my mind of what happens between the two of us but the feelings held within my heart that you awakened will never be forgotten," He wiped her falling tears away before leaning in to softly kiss her lips.

"I love you and I always will,"

"We'll be with each other again but for now, farewell, Celestia," He kissed her hand, gripping it with love.

"If we do meet once again, I'll never let you go," Celestia hugged Lucian.

"And so do I,"

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