Spiritless Life

Invasion Life

If Karam could use his presence as proof for what she says about her world, he might be useful. She could also run by him stretches and other things that she might be able to use to help this planet.

"Use?" Dolph looked back at Karam who was holding her side.

"He's more knowledgeable than me about certain things. He could probably help come up with more stretches."

"Why should I allow a thing like this to help with something like that?" Dolph's face darkened as he held the still screaming Hakase by the crown.

"He was the one who found out how to make me reincarnate, after all." Karam shrugged with a face that showed slight helplessness, "He's the reason I was able to come to this world and I spent a lot of time with him in my past life with him, please don't call him like that."

Dolph paused for a moment. Everyone in the room watched his reaction. Slowly, his eyebrows moved nearer one another. When he spoke, his voice was low and quiet, "He also tossed you into Hell several times, do you feel no hate for a man who thinks of nothing other than himself?"

Karam looked at her hands.

Dolph reluctantly dropped Hakase. "Alright, I'll follow your lead. You are the Master in this relationship, I suppose." Dolph walked over to Karam's bedside and sat in the wooden chair he had been using a few days earlier.

Wow, Karam couldn't help but be amazed, Even Dolph can sulk, huh?

"Master...? Anyway, we have bigger problems." Hakase got up off the floor while holding his head.

Karam looked over at the Hakase, doubtful. What could be more important than the oncoming of an entire world?

"Ishii, you know that idea you were researching about the spirit world's door?"

Karam thought for a moment, "What?" Her eyes grew large and her urgent tone snapped Dolph back into reality.

Dolph unfolded his arms and turned back towards the pair.

"Hakase, you don't mean..."

Hakase nodded solemnly, "Apparently, we've reached the stretching limit. I've already met two people myself. A cancer girl from England and a tribal chief from Africa."

Karam began reaching at strings, "What if it's normal for this world? I mean, it might not be our fault!"

Hakase shook his head, "Both of them were younger than my current vessel and from the same year." His head drooped lower, "Same month, even."

"What? What is this?" Dolph looked from one to the other and back again and again as they spoke.

"No way..."

"Kara!"

"What? Oh, right. I should explain. My theory was about the spiritual world. This much you understand, right?"

Dolph nodded his head, "You explained to me once about your spirit having come to this world."

Karam nodded, "Right. My theory was that the more souls pushed through, the 'looser' it becomes. In other words, by killing me and himself and forcing our souls through the hole in the veil that allowed us to keep our memories, Sensei has opened that pathway for others. The problem is that they are coming too fast. According to the... crap. I don't know that word." Karam looked over at the Hakase, "Statistics?"

"Statistics."

"Yes, according to those someone dies every three seconds. Or maybe it was eleven?" She glanced at Hakase but didn't seem to care about the answer and waved it away, "Anyway. Point is that we have a lot of people dying on my old planet. But if Sensei has met two people from around the world that have both dying within the same month than it is likely that more will come at a pace that will quickly jump. Two one month, four the next, sixteen the month after that.