(Light of Ruin - Arc)
Shut-in lazy Y/N who still lives with his parents, dies of extreme body fatigue but reincarnates as The Traveler into a world full of spirits, Shady Business Corporations, and wacky shenanigans.
The girl gets up, her rags barely hanging on. Her soft beautiful golden blonde hair flows downward, gently being tugged by the weak breeze flowing through the alleyway. The girl could hardly remember anything. How she got here, who she is. She remembers nothing.
All she could remember was the moments after her slumber and now. She doesn't even know whether she is alive or not, the only proof is of her existence. There is one thing she remembers, her Resonant Darkness, her Paracausality. Her former life was forfeit but her powers weren't, a boon to the ignorant former Lubraen now human.
Rhulk takes her first steps into this new unknown world. The coldness of the ground jolted her senses, fresh from awakening. She slowly walks through the alley, seeing objects thrown away and forgotten, trash littering some of them. Fortunately, Rhulk hasn't cut her foot open yet by walking this very littered alleyway.
She could see it, the end of the alley. arriving at the end, she sees herself in a dark-covered street. The shining of the moonlight lighting some of it. Rhulk isn't affected by the lack of light at all, her Darkness powers help her sense anything in her immediate area. However, to a diminished degree due to her amnesia, no longer able to fall back on millions of years of experience.
The breeze is much more powerful in an open space, the street barely impeding it. She looks around the absence of light does not affect her sight. She sees houses lined with thick concrete walls, metal doors connecting to each house, and Bushes appearing on some walls. It looks like a regular Japanese neighborhood.
Rhulk in her gazing hasn't noticed her consciousness diffusing into the surrounding air and ground, It acted like second nature to her and she does not know why. She consciously stops diffusing her mind in fear if she continues to stretch her consciousness some horrible consequence might befall her.
She stops to look at the stars above, twinkling with light. She looks at them with reverence, She hadn't seen stars before her memory of them was lost. Soon a fascination started blooming, she wanted to count and know more about the stars. She created a goal to keep her mind from diffusing itself.
Rhulk: "So pretty. . ."
The Night is warm tonight, nothing too cold. Rhulk flexes her arms and legs a little bit. To shake the 'Blimping fatigue' she calls it out of her system. She swifts through her golden-blonde hair, feeling the itchy strands no longer in her skin. After all that is done, she readies herself to venture more into this unfamiliar world.
Rhulk steps forward beside the sidewalk, following wherever it took her. She travels through the neighborhood until she finally meets where the neighborhood ends and where somewhere new started. She is met with more complex buildings and streetlamps that flood the area with artificial light. Small bush gardens line some of them, and flowers of different kinds fill the banks.
Suddenly a sweet and delicious scent tickled her nose, a little cowlick of hair standing upright to signify the change in emotion. It smells so. . . good. This aroma that Rhulk is smelling feels and smells good, "delicious" is the word Rhulk thinks of when smelling the mysterious aroma.
Rhulk: 'What's that nice smelling aroma?'
She followed the scent, the aroma getting stronger and more delicious the closer she got to the source. She follows until she reaches her destination, An open building, curtains covering the entrance having different colors and logos covering it. The Aroma originates from there so Rhulk follows and enters the building, parting the curtains and seeing the inside of a ramen shop.
She sees four people, two behind the counter serving hot ramen the other two sitting down, one of them already eating their ramen. When Rhulk walks inside, the four people look at her. One of them is a young adult girl who has brown-hazelnut short hair and deep yellow eyes. The girl looks at Rhulk with pitying eyes even her father. She doesn't know why they give her those eyes.
The two men sitting eye her suspiciously, carefully to hide their sketchy intentions. Rhulk still smells the aroma, it's coming off that bowl of ramen that the guy in black is eating. Rhulk looks at the Shop owner, speaking out loud but meekly.
Rhulk: "What's that?"
Shop Owner: "What's what?"
Rhulk points toward the bowl of ramen, curious.
Shop Owner: "You don't know what ramen is?"
Rhulk: "Is that what it's called?"
Rhulk's nose twitches at the scent, her mind desiring to consume this "Ramen". Abruptly Rhulk's stomach growls loudly earning the stares of the two shop owners, pink dusts Rhulk's face as she feels the embarrassment.
Shop Owner: "Here, come sit. I'll prepare you some food, god knows how long you've been without food."
The Shop Owner pats the table, gesturing for Rhulk to take a seat. She follows and sits down on one of the chairs, the Shop Owner smiling, and heads back into the kitchen to prepare Rhulk a bowl of ramen. The shop owner's daughter stands behind the counter, facing directly at the waiting Golden-haired girl.
Daughter: "You feeling alright? Where are you staying tonight?"
Rhulk looks at the young adult. Curious.
Rhulk: "I'm feeling alright, I don't know where I am at the moment."
Daughter: "You don't know? Are you lost?"
Rhulk: "In a way, I am. Do you know what this place is?"
The young adult blinks, surprised.
Daughter: "You're in Tengu City, located in Japan."
Rhulk: "Tengu. . . City? Japan?"
The brown-haired girl looks at Rhulk with confused eyes, her mind flooding in with questions about this gold-haired girl.
Rhulk smiles, having met someone caring. She didn't think she would meet anyone besides her. Unconsciously her Dark powers begin to act up, but she quickly calms it down. Suddenly Hikari's father comes in with a piping hot bowl of Ramen ready to eat.
Hikari Uso: "Here you go, it's on the house."
Rhulk drools at the nicely down bowl of ramen, stars in her eyes twinkle in delight. The two men at the back stare quietly.
Rhulk uses her utensils, eats her ramen, and develops her first-ever addiction. . .
Art: Rhulk enjoying a bowl of ramen
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