Eternal Saṃsāra: The Wanderer of Worlds, Book 1

[78] Acceptance

Chapter 78: Acceptance

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[Third Person Point of View]

The day wasn't very bright. The sky was filled with dark clouds and it rumbled like lion roars. The LoveMy crew left the hotel and began their shooting.

Once they were in Disneyland, cameras rolled around them and recorded whatever they did to have fun. A couple of hours later, when they were about to be done, the sky let loose and rain began to fall.

– Rumble

"Hey, find cover! It's raining!"

People scattered all over to find shade. A few romantics didn't run and danced under the rain instead. Aqua instructed his aura– his Gold Sign– to vaporize all the droplets of rain that were about to touch him, and he instructed Mem-Cho to do something similar with her power.

Of course, she didn't succeed. Something like costing her skin with Time Aura took advanced control, something that she didn't have.

"Pathetic. You can't create anything other than a circular time bubble?" He rebuked her and raised an arm over her head to keep her protected from the rain.

There were no people around this area, most have taken shelter inside buildings.

"...." Mem-Cho grumbled as they ran off under a closed shop's edge. Couldn't he be a bit nicer to her after he did all that in the morning? No, he was weird every time it had anything to do with her magic. It's as if he switched to another person.

'Punk.' Mem-Cho scoffed, and he missed it thanks to the rain.

"Why did it rain today out of all times?" Mem-Cho complained. "At least it started after most of the shoot ended."

"Yeah," he nodded, crossing his arms as he leaned against the wall. "This is a good time to train my power..."

"Then do it. What's stopping you?"

"Cameras. And people."

She didn't reply to that and instead put her hand inside her handbag. She took out a packet of cigarettes. She lit up a stick after some difficulty and he turned his head to look at her.

"Quit staring,"

"Why do you smoke?"

"Smoking confuses your body not to feel hunger. Enough reason to smoke." Mem took a strong buff, blowing out smoke at the rain ahead. "Heh, it's just a bad habit actually. I got addicted to it when nothing was working out in life. I kept jumping from one small work to another to try and keep my family alive. It has stuck with me ever since."

"I see."

"Sorry. Does the smell bother you? Although it's strawberry flavored..." She turned her head to look at him but found him smiling at her. "What?"

"You remind me of myself from the past," he said and she frowned. "Like way back in the past. Back when I wasn't that old."

"...." Mem-Cho took another puff and just stared at him.

"I was stuck in a Time Loop, and I was trying to change the ending. Yet it wasn't working out. No matter what I did it just... didn't work. The ending was unavoidable. I began to smoke these magical cigars back then, which kept me calm through the research and everything. It was a hard habit to get rid of. It's funny seeing my 'disciple' do that same thing as me."

Instead of giving him a smile in return, Mem-Cho frowned. She hesitated as she took another puff and sighed out the smoke. "Does Ai know?"

"About my age?"