Chapter 36 First Mission (1/2)
Hearing Egui's name made Zero's eyes widen. Egui's soul was missing? What happened?
Similarly, the goddesses looked at each other in surprise. They knew the ghost called Egui. Zero healed the ghost from his weakness earlier on. How could Egui's soul be missing?
”Egui was at the Mega Gourmet competition earlier but lost. How could his soul be missing? He walked away fine earlier.”
En frowned. ”Could you explain everything? I cannot sense Egui's soul. However, traces of his soul ends in this room. Someone must have cancelled his sins and freed it before time. Egui has yet to finish his redemption so the records do not tally. Normally, only an angel can pardon sins and the records will be updated in my Book of Trials. This time, the sins were erased completely and the soul was freed without a proper ritual. If I cannot recover Egui's soul by the end of the day, Egui's soul will disappear into the void and never be able to reincarnate.”
Sedna gasped and Gaia looked troubled. For a soul to not be able to reincarnate was troubling indeed. Isis did not look angry any longer. She was frowning and Freya felt conflicted. Zero only meant good but the consequences were more harmful than helpful. How could they rectify this?
None of the goddesses understood how Zero's Mind's Eye worked. For a power to be able to completely erase the existence of sins is unheard of. In this world, regardless of dimension or planet, the law of energy is absolute. Not even Gods can defy it.
Energy cannot be destroyed or created from nothing. Everything is a cycle and Gods maintain that cycle strictly. Sins were a form of negative energy. For a negative energy to be removed, an equal amount of positive energy like blessings or redemptions must be paired to make it neutral again for only neutral souls could be reincarnated. Now that Zero has destroyed the balance, the soul cannot support its existence and can only disappear into what is known as the void. The void is a term for the unknown place that is lacking any kind of energy.
Coincidentally, the void was where the Great One and Zero originated from. Not much is known about the void and this troubled the gods and goddesses. Anything that entered the void will not return. This was the only known fact. The other secret known only to the Great Gods was that the void was home to the Great One. In fact, the only one who could enter and exit the void freely is Zero.
”We understand now. The situation is indeed dire. We will help to search for Egui. He must be still around La Boutique somewhere. As for the soul, a terrible accident has happened back then. We don't know exactly what went wrong but if we can find Egui, there might be a chance to recover his soul.”
En looked at Isis and bowed. ”I will search for Egui's lingering spirit and bring it back here. If there is any method at all, please recover his soul. We cannot lose another one to the void.”
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”Is he gone now?”
Gaia loosened the vines. ”Yes, Zero.”
The small brunet reappeared and gave the goddesses a tearful stare. ”Is Egui really going to disappear? Is it because of what I did?”
Unable to lie to the young boy, the goddesses looked away. Only Isis looked at the young boy with a pained expression. ”Everyone makes mistakes, Zero. You didn't know that this would happen and we know that you meant well. It's sad that Egui will soon disappear if we cannot recover his soul but this is the reality. You must learn from this and not make the same mistake again.”
”How do I recover the Egui's soul?”