Lex and Moon sat together on the roof of her white palace, looking up at the World Eater, pulling their planet forward like a horse pulling forward a chariot. Even pulling the planet behind it, the World Eater moved at unbelievable speeds.
They were already far away from the Jorlam so that they were no longer visible. It had also replaced the space bubble Lex put around the planet with a forcefield of its own. This way, the planet and its residents were not affected by the speed at which they were moving, and the planet continued to remain safe.
A majority of the residents of the planet were not in good shape, though that was predictable. It's not everyday that their planet is kidnapped and then dragged through space. But the ergency response forces on this planet were truly well trained, and were preventing the situation from deteriorating too quickly.
Lex would get around to helping them, but first he was focused on his sister. She was very hesitant about recalling the past, but ultimately realized that it could not be avoided. But even then, she had not spoken yet. So the two of them just sat together in silence, and allowed their thoughts to wander.
"You look sad," Moon said, as she poked Lex once more in the cheek.
"A little, but you wouldn't understand why," Lex said.
"Try . You know, I'm not exactly a little girl anymore."
Lex smiled weakly.
"How do I explain this? Well, I've been gone from the Origin realm for a while. For my return, I'd planned this huge event that would make famous overnight. Not that I was planning on becoming famous. I just had to plan this major event that would have shocked a lot of people. But now… after all that planning… I think the impact of kidnapping a planet and… acquiring a World Eater will end up beating anything I had planned. Just feels like I wasted a lot of ti."
Moon giggled. He was upset because he accidentally beca more famous than he could have on purpose. These are the kinds of problems she also wished she had. But maybe, these were not the only problems he had - just the ones he was sharing.
It was a little strange. eting after all these years, they should have felt awkward or distant. But instead, they imdiately returned to how they were with one another when they were kids. Considering the age gap between Moon and Lex, they shouldn't really have been friends growing up. Yet they were.
"Now it's your turn," he said, looking at little Moon. Technically speaking, Moon had not been her original na. But as a little girl she had been particularly enamored by the moon, buying every toy, poster and piece of rchandise she could find. One ti she got the moon painted on her face during so kids birthday party, and since then everyone had started calling her little Moon. The na had stuck.
Thinking back to those tis, Lex felt a little sad. Life was so
different back then. How had they gone from that to this.
Moon looked at him with hesitation, but Lex t her gaze.
Eventually, she sighed.
"I… actually I shouldn't be the one telling you this, but I
suppose at the sa ti, it fits that I am the one to tell you."
Moon sighed, and lifted her frail arm to grab the cup Lex had
given her. It contained so liquid Lex gave her which was
supposed to strengthen her. She had been drinking such stuff
all her life so she wasn't expecting much, but she was taken by
surprise when it imdiately filled her with warmth.
"What is this stuff? It's amazing!" she said incredulously.
"It's juice. Moon, stop changing the topic. It's not going to
work."
Moon, who looked like a full fledged adult, if a slightly frail one
at that, looked at Lex, the one with the body of a teenager,
with the expression of being wronged. She was actually
interested in the liquid. But she relented.
"Mom and dad didn't really want to tell you because they
didn't… they didn't want you to feel like any of this was your
fault."
Lex did not say anything, and just waited for her to explain.
"I'll tell you what I know, but I don't know everything. It
started with dad, who had a unique physique that made him
especially good at using swords. He then t mom, who was
just a normal mortal back then, but she had a keen interest in
learning dicine because a lot of people in her village died
when she was young. But she was from earth, and in the old
days it really wasn't permitted for won to learn, or stray
out of the house even, yet she did so anyway. It caused her to
be shunned and exiled from her village… right up until a
plague ca and they needed her help.
"That's when dad and mom t, and apparently dad really
liked her fighting spirit, so he taught her a form of body
cultivation. But mom had an inquisitive mind, so while she
cultivated, she also studied cultivation, and how and why it
affected the body. At least, that's what Belle told . I'm
pretty sure there's more to it, because apparently over the
years mom beca so knowledgeable about cultivation that
she convinced dad that he had cultivated incorrectly. He
restarted his cultivation from scratch under her supervision.
That's when the problems began."
Moon scratched her face and looked at Lex. Even now she was
postponing, but with how unreactive Lex was being, she had
no option but to continue explaining.
"Apparently, mom learned a lot about unique physiques as
well, and thought of a way she could nurture them. When
Belle was born, mom was able to prove her theory correct.
Belle was born with a strange physique that was especially
compatible with divine energy, which is what angels use. So
dad got her so angel blood, hoping she could absorb so
energy from it. Instead, she gained a bloodline that mimicked
an Angel's powers. That attracted grandfather's attention."
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