Tale of a Reincarnated God Vol. 2 (WN)

Chapter 0: Somewhere Out There

A soft breeze sways the tall grass growing unhindered by wilderness and humans. The night is young and the stars make out a different formation every time it's seen; as if they were moving. In the tall grass are two spaces that it seems the tall grass was being cut or shortened. In those spaces two humans lay there gazing at the night sky while talking about their lives, past, and present.

"Sometimes ----- I forget about my past life..." [Clover]

"Oh really? You don't have a great memory then. I seem to remember my past life fairly well, unlike a certain amnesiac someone." [Sicily]

Sicily chuckles a little bit under her breath but is slightly muffled due to the breeze wafting through the tall grass. 

"Hey... that's pretty mean you know. It's not my fault that I keep getting hit in the head every time I do something wrong." [Clover]

"What do you mean? I have to do it since you won't learn if I don't!" [Sicily]

Clover laughs a little bit at his current life of getting constantly hit. Clover loves his current life, the way his story played out. The way everyone's story played out, it was almost like he dreamt it for everything to happen the way he wanted. 

"I'm hoping everything stays the way it is..." [Clover]

Clover whispers this under his breath and brings the conversation back to what it was before.

"Hey Sicily... Don't you sometimes think of your past life? Well, of course you do, since you remember it. But, like how we were enemies?" [Clover]

Sicily turns her head and looks at Clover. Clover catches onto this and stares into her eyes.

In their previous life... their previous universe they were known as the gods of war. Killing was in their blood. Constant fighting, constant murder of everything that was perceived as their enemy. Nothing stood in their way except for each other. In the last battle, they believed they would kill one another. But, contrary to what the result was supposed to be, the concluding scene was far from what they predicted.

"I do sometimes... Though I don't like to think about it because of what we were, it did help us get to where we are now." [Sicily]

Sicily shows a remorseful look. She is pained of what occurred in her past life known as the god of war. She remembered being dyed in so much blood that her skin would almost permanently color from how much blood she was caked in. Soldiers around her would celebrate her victory of the massacre of the enemy while hiding their disgust over the smell of blood and iron.

"..." [Sicily]

Clover after hearing that was also remorseful and remembering his past life. He doesn't like remembering it and would rather replace the memories of his past life with his current life. He realizes that he can't run from his past, he can only accept it was who he was, what molded him into the person he is today.

"I like to forget about our past lives, though I do appreciate for what it was. It is our past lives that paved the way for our current life. I like the way we are now. I would do anything to protect where everything is now." [Clover]

Sicily gets up and leans her upper torso on her knees. The breeze hits her red hair and lets it sway peacefully. Sicily showed Clover a wry smile indicating a gladdened expression.

"Me too, I would like to protect how everything is right now." [Sicily]

Sicily stood up from sitting down and looked down towards Clover who was still lying comfortably in his grass bed.

"Let's go home. To everyone. I'm starting to get cold." [Sicily]

Sicily grabs her elbows and brings her arms closer to her body. Her body gives a light shiver showing Clover that she wasn't messing around.

"Awww." [Clover]

Clover gets up from his comfortable grass bed and stretches his arms and legs.

"Cmon I'm getting a cold Clover." [Sicily]

"All right, all right, I'm just stretching, we've been laying there for a while." [Clover]

Clover thought to himself, 'man I probably would've fallen asleep right then and there if Sicily didn't motivate me to go back to the house.'

"All right let's go." [Clover]

"Yes!" [Sicily]

Sicily put out her hand in front of her and lit a flame in the palm of her hand to keep herself warm on the walk back. Clover looks at the flame in Sicily's hand.

"Why didn't you just use that to keep yourself warm? I couldn't lay there long you know." [Clover]

"I don't care, I wanted to go back already." [Clover]

"Yes, yes Sicily." [Clover]

Clover and Sicily walked next to each other.

"Hey, I'm starting to get cold too, help me out." [Clover]

Clover attempts to move closer to Sicily.

"Get your own flame! This one is barely keeping me warm." [Sicily]

Sicily hits Clover on top of his head with the other hand that isn't on fire.

"Ugh... Fine, I'll just help out both of us." [Clover]

While walking along the grass, Clover creates a sphere of mana around them increasing the temperature inside the sphere. Call it a sphere of thermal regulation so that homeostasis would be better functioning for the two individuals inside it.

Sicily looks at the sphere surrounding them and she feels like she's getting a lot warmer.

"There you go." [Clover]

"Thanks... I could've done that too..." [Sicily]

Sicily pouts a little bit and hides her face opposite from the side Clover was on.

"...show off." [Sicily]

Sicily thinks, 'I can do this too, I just haven't thought about it.'

Clover lets out a tiny laugh and they both proceed to walk towards the gravel pathway leading into a dimly lit town in the countryside.

"Let's just get back to everyone." [Clover]

Once they get back to the house, they both move onto their separate rooms for the night. Everyone else in the house seemed to be asleep including the pets. Sicily gets into her bed and proceeds to peacefully enter a state of slumber. Clover also proceeds to get into his bed to prepare for tomorrow's advents. As he was slowly surrendering himself to the bottomless void that was his slumber the events start to unfold in his head. Sooner, rather than later he succumbed to the bed and enter a state of deep sleep. 

A few minutes pass and Clover wakes up from his sleep, but this time in a different room. It was his old room back in the orphanage. Clover slowly gets up while remaining on his bed and contemplates his dream.

"Hah hah... a dream huh?" [Clover]