Chapter 156 - Epilogue 3.3: Purgatory (2/2)
”You mean… before he was born as Li Jun, he signed up to become a slave of the higher will.” Kyuri has a cunning smile on her face. ”He's an idiot, isn't?”
”It's an honour to help the higher being.” Martha turns her head toward Wakana. ”This lady here was also chosen to serve the will of heaven. However, she died too soon and failed.”
Wasn't that prophecy? Wakana shrugs. She was supposed to be a ghost, wasn't she?
”That's interesting.” Kyuri puts her one leg over the other, tilting her head slightly. ”Where is he now?”
”He said that he didn't want to waste time in heaven.” Martha looks at the file in her hands and sighs. ”Since he wanted to be reborn in a world where you would go after your time in hell, he was sent there. It seems that he's waiting for you in that world.”
Kyuri heaves a sigh. ”That's so sad. I have to wait here for hell's reconstruction.”
Martha gives her a nod. ”If you leave before you pass through hell, you will retain your abilities. Then, you will take rebirth with uncontrollable fates. Along with time-travelling abilities, you will receive other abilities too. Actually, we can't predict what will happen.”
Time-travellers are dangerous entities. They always cause big chaos. Martha inhales sharply. Thanks to this lady, she had to work four times more. And that's a lot of work for reapers.
”I know.” Kyuri smiles at Martha. ”I will wait here.”
”I have made arrangements for your stay.” Martha relaxes her shoulders. ”Please follow me.”
”If you don't mind, can I stay here and talk to this young lady for a while?” Kyuri gestures toward Wakana. ”She has a talent like mine. I am telling her a few hacks.”
”It's fine.” Martha gives her an approving bow and then, she turns toward Wakana and gives her a red ticket. ”Take it. You can't stay here for long either.”
Wakana holds the ticket with a heavy heart. The red ticket turns grey. It means that she has to be reincarnated. She raises her chin and asks Martha, ”Am I going to be reincarnated on Earth?”
”No.” Martha tells her solemnly, ”We need you in a different world right now. Earth will manage without you for the time being. Besides, there's still some time before the apocalypse starts.”
”Apocalypse?” Kyuri and Wakana shout together.
”Yes.” Martha frowns a bit. ”Since the guardians are taking birth, it means that four horses of the apocalypse will also take birth soon.”
”Whoa!” Kyuri raises her hand. ”That's scary. When is it going to happen?”
”We don't know when or how it will happen.” Martha taps her fingers on the file that she's holding to. ”It might happen in this century or the next. It might not happen. But there's always a chance of it happening if one guardian is born.”
She looks at Wakana gravely. ”Then again, the soul guardian was born and died too early. We can't be sure if it would happen. I haven't heard about other guardians.”