Nathan

  Year 2851 | Month 2 | Day 30

  In all honesty, I don’t think I ever was really all that normal of a person. But I’m not entirely sure either way. Not after having gone through so much and having any normality that may have been within me dying completely.

  Pain, death, loss, no control, experimentation, involuntary altering of my body, and the list goes on.

  After so much of it, someone just grows numb. Especially when there are no actual lasting permanent effects on said someone other than the altering of the body part.

  There’s only so much a single person can take before their mind has to adapt to it in order to not feel the pain and despair anymore.

  And I don’t regret my mind having changed to what it has come to now.

  But I never really thought much about how others would think.

  I saw my parents, but they’re different. They’re my parents and I know they’ll accept me.

  They already did in fact. When I meet with them from time to time.

  My friends, on the other hand…

  There’s no reason they have to accept me for who I’ve become. For what I’ve become.

  And I only realize this now as I see Amelia’s face while she looks back at me through the screen. Looks at me with a look of sadness and of grief.

  She looks like she is upset that I never told her, but not angry. And not scared either.

  It’s… kind of nice.

  Looking at her like that makes me want to tell her everything. Something I’d never consider doing if it weren’t for the fact that my immortality is no longer a secret. That pretty much everyone of importance knows at this point.

  Even the Chairman knows, considering how he was just trying to kidnap me as well. Just like the other Class S magicians here.

  So I begin to describe everything that’s happened to me ever since becoming immortal.

  Every last detail.

  All without shedding even a single tear. Since I don’t think I’m even capable of that anymore.

  This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there.

  Actually, do vampires even have tears?

  I’m not sure.

  Either way, Amelia listens to me the entire time without interrupting. She looks sad and almost like she wants to hug me but obviously can’t.

  All of which make me continue speaking without stopping.

  About the accident. The doctor and his experiments.

  The academy days and what I would do back in my room to keep up with the higher talent magicians. When I would continuously practice my spells in there even as they would burn me alive or blow me up.

  Then what happened after leaving the academy and going to the Kingdom of the Fallen.

  The skeleton and what he did to me, what I then did to the enemy soldiers. Just tearing them apart without a scrap of hesitation left at this point.

  The nobles. The war. Juan.

  Everything.

  And by the time I finish, Amelia is bawling her eyes out crying. Which shocks me more than words can say.

  She never cries after all.

  Ever.

  I don’t think I have seen her cry in my entire life.

  Meanwhile the soldiers standing here with me holding the terminal all look shocked themselves at my story. Shocked to the point that they’re just silent and staring at me with horror clearly visible on their faces.

  But I ignore them as I watch Amelia cry while feeling the corner of my lips quirking upwards ever so slightly in a smile.

  It’s kind of nice to see someone cry for me.

  While she’s doing that, I go ahead and ask the soldiers to transfer her contact information over to my terminal. Which they do while still stunned into silence.

  Although I can’t help but notice that they flinch when they get close to me. Almost like I’m a wild beast they’re afraid of.

  I don’t really blame them though. Not after telling them about my literally treating soldiers like experiments.

  And I don’t even feel bad for that anymore.

  If I ever really did.

  What’s worse is that I don’t even want to get any of my old feelings that I’ve lost back. Because I know I’m going to live on forever. And with that knowledge comes the knowledge that I’ll be put through just as bad things eventually.

  Which would just kill those feelings again then. Not to mention that the people I care about now won’t even be alive then and will have died of old age.

  So I won’t have anyone with me then.

  Except Incendia.

  I glance at the phoenix who is currently on my shoulder, making my faint smile grow a little bit wider. Then I turn back to the screen when I hear Amelia finally speak again.

  “I’m sorry you had to go through all that on your own…” Amelia says with a sad look on her face and a tear still running down her cheek. But at this point she’s not really crying anymore. Not much at least. “If you ever need someone to talk to, know that we’re here for you.”

  I blink at that.

  We?

  My thoughts almost blank out when I see two others appearing on the screen as well. Sofia and Cyria.

  And both of them are crying just like Amelia is.

  I blink once, then twice.

  Then I let out a dry chuckle as I realize they’ve probably been there for at least most of my explanation of events. Yet they still look like they feel the same way as Amelia.

  At this point I just need to tell Aidan and Rebecca everything.

  I glance up when I notice the skeleton and Juan approaching from the horizon. Then I look back at the screen and tell them, “I added Amelia’s contact information to my terminal, so I’ll call you back later. Something just came up.”

  They nod their heads before I hang up the call. Both to talk to the Class S magicians and to give them time to calm down and digest everything I just told them.

  I take a deep breath for a second, then focus on the approaching Class S magicians with a faint smile on my face.

  Time to see if that Class S wind magician is still breathing or not.

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