>Stardust Memory<

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I'm standing in a Nasod lab, parts littered across the tables and floor. The chill in the air raises the hair on the back of my neck. I hear a child's laughter coming from outside the room, I follow the sound out of the arctic chill of the lab thru a grand doorway into the warmth of a living room. Sunlight drifts thru the windows, open in the golden heat of afternoon. Family portraits cover the tall walls all subjects sharing the same fair white hair, the furniture is expensive and everything is all too familiar.
I walk a bit out into the room. I see a boy with snow white hair and bright eyes grinning over a book lying open on the floor. I freeze.

This boy is me.
He looks up and we meet eyes.
He closes the book and stands up to slowly walk over to me. i feel cold sweat on my forehead. He stands in front of me now. I stare down, He glares up.
"W-what's wrong" I ask him, feeling my voice shake.
"You shouldn't be here, Diabolic Esper" He says in a cold tone.
"Mother and Father will be very cross..."
Suddenly blackness fades over my eyes. When it passes I'm standing outside, at the edge of the shadow of my great house in early morning air.
I see my breath like smoke drift in front of me. My heart starts pounding in my chest, the beating pounds through my head. It grows louder with every second, I can hardly take it. I cover my ears and shut my eyes tight but it doesn't help at all. Just when i feel as tho my head might split in two.
it stops.
I open my eyes and look up, now in deadly silence. a woman and man are laying on the floor in front of me. There are smashed Nasod parts everywhere the charts and graphs that had cover the walls have been ripped off, replaced by blood splatters. I stumble back as I cry out in horror.
The corpses are my parents.
Standing over them is a dark figure, it's laughing to itself softly. It looks up at me. I stare back at myself again. The figure looks exactly like me, but his scleras are a toxic black. He grins as we meet eyes.
"You killed them, Diabolic Esper..."He says laughing wickedly as the room fades to black.
You killed them
You killed them...
YOU KILLED THEM!

My eyes snap open, I sit up in bed, I'm drenched in cold sweat.
I slowly lay back down as I realize it was just another nightmare...
I look over to see the sleeping Elesis next to me. I'm suddenly filled with overwhelming gratitude towards this Dark Knight, no one has ever stuck around me for very long. I usually push them away.
She looks so peaceful I wish I could keep her like this forever, with her light red hair softly falling over her eyes, with only the sound of her breathing and heart beat in the room, but I can't control a timeline of someone else's life. Only my own.

If I was able to I would have stopped the Red Knights ambush, which in doing so would have stopped Elesis' death. The Seal of Time brought her back, but she's not truly alive she did die that day. It's in her past and I can't change her past. I failed at changing my own after all.


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