Elysia in Another World

Chapter 17 - Elise Aindrea P2

<Elysia: Kye Akari>

"May I interrupt the story for a moment?" James asked.

"What is it?"

"Everyone here is privy to how long you've lived... or been dead? Whatever terminology. How long you've been King of Elysium. From what I gather, you lived for a while in the living world before that, but you also mentioned a Transcendent World that you were exiled from. That was before Alexandria? Or is that the Alexandria you mentioned originally?"

"I've never told anyone anything about the Transcendent World, except what you've heard me say today. As I mentioned, I was exiled from there. My identity there is my first identity, Elysia Alexandria. I wasn't sent to any world in particular during my exile, this one was chosen at random."

"'This one' being collectively the living world and all the realms of the afterlife that you created with it?"

I nodded. "Yes. At the time it was just the living world and Purgatory, but I'll talk about why I expanded it toward the end of the story. So, I landed here and was born to Countess Evelyn Aindrea and Count Consort Elliot Aindrea, who later became known as Xera Alexandria and Zaldin Alexandria. My grandfather was there, too. Before he was known as Zalen Alexandria, his name was Elton Aindrea." I glanced at Allison.

"Before I renamed to Xana Alexandria, my name was Alice Aindrea."

"I hadn't met Maya, Luma, Adele, or Adara until I started the academy. Maya found me first." I glanced at Alethea, then at Mavel.

"James, I can hear your thoughts, you may as well ask your question," Mavel said. He looked at her, confused. She shrugged. "I'll just answer it, anyway. He wants to know if any other Transcendents came to this world. The answer is yes. Alethea here and I are the Maya Rosenwald in the story. Rosenwald is..." She glanced at Mabel.

"You're asking permission?" Mabel asked. Mavel nodded. "Very well. We don't use the name anymore, but Rosenwald is a ducal household in my country that had close ties to my family. We borrowed their name for my daughter to go to school in Weltwald without the weight of royalty behind her name, but still high enough ranking to wave off childish young nobles and challenge international royals. We decided together to keep using it when she went to the academy in Gallia."

"Right," Mavel shrugged.

"What did you mean by you and Alethea were Maya Rosenwald?"

"I mentioned that in the story already."

"We're like Eli. Rather, Kye and Sanae. You know that Elysia split her soul in two. So did we. While Eli stayed whole until toward the end of the Alpha Worldline in Elysium, we split back in the living world. We are Transcendent, too. Our name is Maya Velinova. We were born here as Maya Nacht Weltwald, and later Maya Alexandria. After the split, I gave our name to my daughter and became Mavel Nacht Weltwald. Mavel is just the first syllable of our original first and last name together."

The confused looks across the room were somewhat amusing to me. Mabel and Velarus looked exasperated. Velarus enough to say, "I still have trouble wrapping my head around your relationship. My daughter split herself in two, and now one half is still my daughter and the other have is my granddaughter. You even got yourself pregnant to accomplish that."

"When you did that, it was quite a shock, I'll admit," Mabel added, glaring at Mavel before glancing at Alethea. "But I also don't deny I have a soft spot for my beautiful granddaughter." She smiled, then looked at Atalante. "To think you, of all people, would become her mother here."

"Me?" Atalante asked. "What do you..." She stopped abruptly and held a hand to her head. She held on to the table with her other hand to keep herself steady. Sanae appeared next to her, and enveloped her in rainbow mana.