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With that thought, he suddenly stood up from his seat and the servants within the dining hall became tense and could only observe what he'll do next to the servant who was still on her knees.
"I'm full. I'll leave for now."
And without waiting for his so-called family's response, he left the dining hall, doing nothing to the servant who offended him. Others might think that he is still the good-for-nothing third young master of this household.
'I have no time to deal with her yet. Since she's already here then, might as well play my cards right this time. I was originally a minor villain of this worldline, and I don't mind becoming one for real. After all, I am not a saint either…'
With that thought, he smirks as his silhouette disappears within the hallway.
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LOCATION: DIMENSIONAL DEPARTMENT
****CONFERENCE MEETING ROOM****
"Reporting, Dimensional Traveler Eclipse successfully entered the new worldline. However, is this really the only solution?"
The other Higher Councils had left and only one person remained inside the conference room while looking at the documents laid in front of them.
When his assistant came over and relayed the report to him, he sighed in relief. However, he frowned at that moment upon hearing his assistant's last question to him.
"We don't have a choice either. His life is in danger and not just that, his soul energy would most likely shatter if we didn't deport him back to his original world."
The assistant bit her lips as she hesitated to refute back her superior's statements, knowing about Eclipse's past and what could have impacted to his situation and afterwards, she muster up her courage to speak; "B-but Sir Raven…. You know of all people who have known Eclipse that—"
Raven raised his palm to signal his assistant to stop and sighed; "I know at this moment that I'm being inconsiderate about this matter, but I don't have a choice but to return him back to his original world temporarily. Even if he needs to relive his previous life there and be reminded of who he was before, but…"
Raven paused for a minute as he looked at the 3D hologram form on the table where Eclipse's personal information were laid out in front of them.
"Do you think I would just send him back there without giving him some advantage? You're my assistant for more than millennium years and you should know better than this by now, KIRA."
Raven's assistant, Kira, knew what his superior was talking about, and she didn't need an explanation for his actions and decision because she trusted him, but she also couldn't but to worry about this matter.
"What I don't understand is that… why we need to send him back to his original world? We can just choose other worldlines for him to hide temporarily since Eclipse is no longer bound to that worldline and he is free to choose whatever worldline he wants to reside for the meantime. It shouldn't be his original world though."
What Kira stated is true anyway. They could choose other worldlines for Eclipse to reside temporarily while they were investigating about this issue that they had from Eclipse's last worldline mission.
However, for Raven, this is a special case that only he knows about and a few trusted people within the Main House System.
As much as he trusted Kira as she worked for him over the millennia, but he couldn't risk telling this confidential information about Eclipse to anyone else.
'It's within HIS orders, by all means that I need to comply with.'
"I can only tell you one thing for sure. His original world is something beyond that we can't imagine and only in his original world that Eclipse could heal himself and also… for him to let go of his past and make peace for himself."
'A very vague explanation…' – Kira thought, but didn't question him any further.
"Make peace for himself? But I though Eclipse isn't the type of person who would seek revenge for what happens to him back in his previous life?"
Kira changed the subject immediately since she could tell that her superior wouldn't say anything other than what he stated earlier.
At that question coming from her, Raven almost snorted out but cleared his throat to composed himself and said; "Well, for what I remember from the first time I had met Eclipse, that kid harbors deep hatred into his whole being to the point that I thought he would be a lost cost and couldn't find himself in that way but…"
Raven paused for a moment as he remembered a certain memory of his about Eclipse when he just got back from his one thousandth mission tasks.
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[FLASHBACK]
"It seems like another success on your part for this one, Eclipse! Congratulations!"
Raven said and greeted the novice dimensional traveler Eclipse who just got back from his mission tasks from the other worldlines, together with him is his system companion that he named as Silver since the one who got bound to him is a sentient one who can perceive human emotions.
Eclipse, on the other hand, heard the greeting coming from his superior and then he politely greeted back and said; "Hello, Sir Raven. It's nothing and I'm just doing my job as one of the dimensional travelers here. No need to congratulate me like this."
Eclipse's tone of voice were either neutral or bland, from the look of his eyes right now, it feels like he had surrendered himself to his fate or something and it makes him worried for the novice dimensional traveler.
He sighed; "Eclipse, let me ask you this straight. From what I know, before you accepted this deal to become one of the dimensional travelers, your system companion asked you if you want to take revenge for what happened to you in your first life. Do you remember that?"
Raven observed the other person if he was affected by the unexpected questions that were thrown at him, but Eclipse remained blank while looking back at him.
After that, Raven continued to question him; "However, you didn't answer by either [yes] or [no] but rather, you just questioned of what's the use of taking revenge but then again, when you were asked about [if you want to live], your answer is a firm [yes] and that why you agree to be bound by the system. May I know why that was?"
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