The Chronicle of Aurelia Aurelius

Chapter 51 Confronting

Seeing her in front of me, without any hesitation, I ran towards her. Slowly, the moonlight illuminated her, and it was Gennaia in her human form. Immediately, I stopped in front of her, overwhelmed with emotions and guilt, I showed my tears in front of her and started crying a little bit. While I was crying, I said, "I...killed...them...It was my fault...I...wa..s...so naive..."

Gennaia reached out and embraced me, whispering softly, "It's not your fault. You didn't know." Her comforting words eased some of the weight of guilt that had been consuming me.

As I had stopped crying and regained my emotion, I asked her, "Why??? The fate of the book was different this time..."

"It was different because you tried to change it..." Gennaia looked at me with understanding in her eyes and replied, "As I had said, Nona would do anything to keep the flow of fate the same. However, you had changed some of the flow, and you altered the fate of the four children seven years ago, the fate of two mercenaries, and the fate of the former retinue.".

"BUT, without me, the four children wouldn't have their name, their own interests, their own life...".

"No, they will...".

"Yes, I KNOW, in a few years later, they will have it. However, to let them live on the street for a few years when you have a chance to save them is a bit of a cruel fate to impose on them.".

"That was their fate from Nona's flow of fate. The more you try to alter fate, the more Nona will retaliate for the change...You need to know that the book is the book, not real life. You will see a difference between the book and real life. When you see the book as real life, you make a big mistake because it doesn't have something controlling it. As you live in real life, something is controlling it. It's Nona. "

"Well, if Nona is controlling it, why doesn't she take my own life right now and right here?"

"Controlling fate doesn't mean dictating someone's fate; controlling fate means protecting the flow of fate. The flow of fate in you is going to die at this certain time because of this reason. As you tried to alter fate, like recruiting the two mercenaries and helping the four children, and now that you have recruited Bo, you have altered the flow of your fate and these people. In that altering, there will be retaliation, which comes from who controls it. However, this retaliation isn't directly coming from Nona, instead, it's coming from another mortal, her paragons. These paragons have the same book as you and will try to make the course of fate the same as in the book."

"Does it mean the perpetrator of this incident indirectly is Nona?"

"You can say it like that...Because it's the retaliation from Nona..."

"THAT'S OUTRAGEOUS FROM GODDESS...HOW DID SHE—"

"Nona doesn't try to change the flow of your fate only; instead, she is trying to protect the flow of the fate of this world... You may see your actions as just for yourself, yet, your actions are affecting others. You may change the course of someone's love, and this person will never meet his soulmate because of you. You may change the destiny of a family, where generations to come will be impacted by your choices. Or you may make a newborn never be born. That's why I call you an anomaly in this world. In just three weeks after the book started, you made much impact, yet this impact isn't as visible as you can see."

"What must I do then? Not altering it? And waiting for the doom..."

"That's the answer; you must find it by yourself. Sometimes waiting is the best, and sometimes taking action is the best..." She continued, "I can't be here for any longer..."

"Wait, I thought you would be here with me..."

"No, there is something I need to do. Do you remember the time Delios perished??? The moments before she perished, she said, 'Who are you?' to Nona. That was odd...Nevertheless, I come here to tell you something."