When Thirteen opened his eyes, he found himself in a dark place.
His body felt light as if he was floating, but he couldn't move his body.
Even lifting a finger seed to be impossible at this point in ti.
But within that darkness, Thirteen heard sothing.
At first, it was faint. But the more he focused on it, the clearer it beca.
It was the sound of a guitar being strumd.
As he listened, he heard a young female voice singing a song alongside music being played in the background.
"A shadow falls from beyond the sky I looked up to."
"That day, a lost angel lost its feathers."
For so reason, the voice sounded familiar yet unfamiliar at the sa ti.
Thirteen did his best to recall who owned the familiar voice, and as he did, his soul core whirred into life.
While this was happening, the singer continued to sing with the voice of an angel, making Thirteen dig deep in his mories that spanned thousands of years.
But as his search intensified, he ca upon a blank portion of his mory.
Thirteen frowned when he rembered.
He had purposely deleted this particular mory from his Soul Core, for it had caused his system to beco unstable in the past.
Although he couldn't rember who the singer was, his heart ached after hearing her voice.
This wasn't the first ti Thirteen had deleted sothing from his Soul Core.
There were a few blank entries in his Soul Core.
Hosts whose faces and nas he couldn't rember.
Their endings had been too tragic, and keeping them inside his Soul Core had caused him to malfunction several tis.
So, with great regret and hardship, he decided to delete these mories.
Perhaps, after suffering so many heartbreaks, Thirteen finally reached his limit.
This was why he decided to rebel against Fate and the System God, for he couldn't take it any longer.
It was the most logical decision he had co up with at that ti, which led to his confrontation with his father and creator, the System God.
At that mont, he felt sothing warm falling on the side of his face.
Thirteen knew what it was, and yet, he didn't do anything about it.
His heart ached for this particular mory he couldn't rember.
That voice and that face he had permanently removed from his life were trying to resurface after he had fallen deep inside his subconscious mind.
"In the sky I looked up to, snow lightly falls without making a sound."
"When it touches my trembling cheek, winter starts."
Thirteen felt his heart breaking apart, as he forcefully tried to reconstruct the bits and pieces of the mory that he had lost.
He wanted to rember.
He wanted to once again see her.
The song, which he had not heard for an extrely long ti, continued to play, drawing out sothing from him that he didn't know existed.
"Your feathers shroud the world, and turn to snow.
"Whenever they warm soone up, I'll sing gently."
"Even if the future you wish for hurts soone, I'll believe in you, the featherless angel only I know."
From within that darkness, sothing stirred.
A faint pink thread rose up from the teenage boy's pinky finger and fluttered toward that darkness.
Within that darkness, a faint silhouette appeared—one that Thirteen tried hard to recognize but simply couldn't.
But even though he couldn't rember her, he knew with every fiber of his being that she was soone he truly cared for—so much so, he almost broke down when she t a tragic fate.
He also knew that the song that she had sung earlier was ant for him.
Thirteen was the featherless angel that only she knew.
As the fragnted pieces of his mory slowly whirred to life, he rembered that she had once been an angel who had fallen from the sky.
She was heaven's lost property, and yet, no one had co to bring her back ho.
As such, she slowly beca a fallen angel.
One that could fly but could no longer return to the place where she rightfully belonged.
"Who are you?!" Thirteen called out towards the darkness hoarsely. "Tell who you are!"
The pink thread fluttered as it once again tried to piece together a mory.
But only the image of a string cut in half, fluttering in the wind, appeared within that darkness.
Of course, Thirteen wasn't a fool.
He was very smart.
His intelligence surpassed most beings in the multiverse.
How could he possibly not connect the dots?
But even if he knew that the mory he wanted to recall belonged to the sa person who had bound herself to him recently, that still didn't answer his question.
What he wanted to know was who she was in her previous life.
The mories they shared.
The smiles, the tears, the trials, and the tribulations they faced together… he wanted them to return to him.
Back then, he couldn't accept these mories because they made him malfunction as a system.
But now, he was a human, or at least, had a human form and heart.
Using his standards, Thirteen didn't classify himself as 100% human.
His soul core was embedded in Zion Leventis' heart, allowing it to beat once more.
His blood was no longer that of a human from Pangea because the royal bloodline of Chandrea now flows inside his veins.
Technically, he was human.
But Thirteen knew he was similar to a chira whose body was made up of different parts, functioning to create a being that wasn't "normal" by any human standards.
The angel once again sang the sa song.
But this ti, it had more feelings, soothing the teenage boy's heart, which was starting to ache for what he had lost over the past thousands of years.
It was like a spoken promise, telling him that perhaps he didn't need to look back in the past all the ti.
Instead, he should look at the future and grasp it with his hands.
"Whenever they warm soone up, I'll sing gently."
"Even if the future you wish for hurts soone, I'll believe in you, the featherless angel only I know."
The silhouette of that fallen angel then hugged Thirteen, making him feel drowsy.
Soon, he once again fell into a dreamless sleep as his mories brought him back to the present, where he could shape his own destiny and free himself from the shackles of Fate.
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A/N: If you want to listen to the song, search for Bokuten Opening Movie on Youtube.
The lyrics fit this chapter perfectly, so I had to use it, despite knowing that the Copyright God would give a yellow card xD! Anyway, have a good day everyone, and I'll see you in the next chapters!
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