The Unfettered Ice Princess EN [Vol 2]

Chapter 13 [ Past ]

Still at Upperworld Restaurant

"Btw, come to think of it... Libra looks a lot like Master-sama, huh."
Mika, who was playing a game, suddenly started a conversation, after a long time the conversation was interrupted.

"The only difference is that he's a guy. And a few years older."

Virgo stopped looking at the magazine in her hand.
[ How come you're talking about that all of a sudden? ]

"Nothing," Mika replied, still busy with her game.

"I just suddenly thought of it. The only Zodiacks I've ever met are you, Scorpio, Libra and Aqua. Other than Libra, you guys look nothing like Master-sama. Ah, except for the eyes."

Virgo glanced up, as if thinking about something.
[ That's not wrong ]

[ The one who took Eva-sama's human form was indeed only Libra. Aqua had wanted to use it too, but she didn't manage to do so ]

"Huh?"
Mika's attention was drawn to something. She paused her PSP for a moment.

"How, how?"

Virgo, [ ? ]

"The one who took Eva-sama's human form??"

[ Ah... ]
Virgo realized something.
[ You don't know, do you? ]

[ We Zodiacks, do not have a specific human form. We don't even have a fixed gender. We can be as male or female as we like ] Virgo explained.

[ But we can't just randomly create a human form without a foundation. So, we made our human form, based on a real person in Eva's memory-sama ]

"Heeh... Can't you just make it up? Making things up like that..."

[ Can't ] Virgo shook her head.

[ Zodiack is directly connected to Eva-sama's soul. To form our human form, we need something powerful from Eva-sama as the energy source ]

"Oh, Nova, huh?" guessed Mika.

[ No ] smiled Virgo.

[ That is emotion. Human form, needs a considerable amount of emotional energy, because humans themselves are emotional creatures ]

"Eh?"
Mika did not expect this.
"That Master-sama?"

Virgo could guess Mika's thoughts from her expression. She chuckled.
[ That's how it is ]

[ We have been shaping this human form from centuries ago. At that time, Eva-sama had not sealed her emotions. And she had many strong emotions directed at certain people. From those emotions, we formed our human form ]

"Wait, wait!"
Mika held back this conversation.

The girl closed her eyes, thinking for a moment.
"Simply put... This yours human form, was originally the form of people closest to Master-sama back then?"

[ More or less ] Virgo nodded.

[ There are quite a few choices, Eva-sama let us choose the one that suits our nature and we like as well. On the condition that we don't dishonor that person's name by doing something inappropriate ]

This is why no matter how depraved the Zodiack's nature and behavior are, they have never and will never exceed Naeva's tolerance limit. Not only because they don't want to make Naeva really angry. They also don't want to destroy Naeva's past memories with those people. Zodiack also chooses human forms that are similar to their nature as much as possible. So that the differences resulting from the same form but different content, will not be too extreme.