373 Soul Curse (1/2)

Yale was unable to react when he heard that kid's last words.

From the start, Yale had thought that the kid was a descendant of him from the future, but he never thought that the kid was himself in the past.

Although Yale didn't remember having been in the Timeless Border before, he knew that his past life had been there before and he still lacked a lot of memories, so it wasn't impossible for him believing that he could find his past shadow.

However, the white-hair kid was a real consciousness and not a shadow and meeting the real consciousness of his past was something that surpassed Yale's expectations by far.

”Are you serious?”

Yale knew the answer to that question, but he was unable to restrain himself from asking it.

”Of course. I came here before turning ten when I decided to seal my name, my memories and the soul empowerment received from my mother. Thanks to that a new personality was developed in my body while my main consciousness didn't need to return. Basically, I erased myself, so it is normal that you didn't know about me at all.”

The kid spoke like if what he was saying wasn't something important, but Yale knew that what he did wasn't a joke.

”Why? Why did you do that?”

Yale knew that if it weren't for that act of his previous self to seal himself on the Timeless Border, Yale's consciousness wouldn't have existed, but that only made Yale feel guilty.

”I needed to do it. Did you see how your body acted in the screens? Without any emotions just accomplishing his tasks perfectly and without any distinction among good and bad.”

Yale didn't understand the relationship between both topics, but he nodded his head.

”If I hadn't sealed myself, I would have ended in a similar state due to that damn curse. At the start, it only made me impassible about love which provoked that I didn't even care about my parents, but I knew that the curse would grow once I started to practice...”

Yale could tell by the kid's face that he had a deep hatred for that curse.

”The Origin Path and the Fake Origin Path need the human practitioner to be ten years old at least. The real one has that age also as a limit being far stricter, but I had just a fake one, so I could have started later if I wanted. However, I wasn't planning to be a weakling, and I knew that I wouldn't be able to wait as that damn curse also made me more impatient to start training.”

Yale could understand the feeling of not wanting to be a weakling, so he also understood that he would probably have felt the same in that situation.

”Although we have different consciousnesses, we are the same person at the end; it isn't that strange that both of us may have similar reactions in the same situation. Do you know the reason for humans being unable to train in our father's world? The reason for that was to prevent that would have felt inferior to other kids that practiced other paths. Now, I am really thankful for him because the curse doesn't exist in the Timeless Border because my cursed soul isn't here, but in the real world I never felt the slightest bit of gratitude for him...”

The kid knew very well how his parents tried to help him as much as they could without harming his fate more than it already was, and the fact, he never felt any gratitude nor love towards them was something that tormented him a lot after reaching the Timeless Border.

”When I started this plan, I just wanted to avoid turning into an emotionless monster due to that curse, I wasn't even conscious about how it had already affected me, but in the end, my objective remains the same. I don't mind disappearing forever, but I will get rid of that curse at any cost.”