Kitchen noises!

  And so, Mirada starts to prepare a small lunch for the two of us, grabbing a few pieces of bread, cheese, butter and even a small piece of ham. She gently cuts two small slices of the ham, ones that are perfectly cut without any irregularity in terms of thickness, right after that she grabs two slices of cheese, ones that seem to be ones that you buy in your ol’ supermarket thanks to their rectangular shape and thin thickness. Then, she cuts the pieces of bread in two, but she does so in a horizontal way, spreading a little bit of butter in the “inside” of the bread followed by elegantly putting the slice of cheese on top of the butter then at the end the slice of ham. She then closes the bread, officially making a sandwich at the same time however, she’s not done yet. From the same cabinet that she picked up the fruits, she takes out a couple of oranges, bringing them to the sink and washing them. To be honest, this place seems extremely clean so, I also think that the oranges are the same way but, it’s nice that Miranda here actually cares about hygiene and you know, she’s becoming more and more like a housewife by the passing of time. Before I go to another usual tangent, Miranda cuts the oranges in half, bringing them to the top of a cup and squeezing said half, making all the juices drip down to the cup but, even though her grip strength should easily crush the oranges into small pieces, she’s actually masterfully controlling her strength, slowly squishing the juices out of the orange. She does this six whole times, three oranges per cup and once that was done, she puts the sandwich at the top of a plate, one that is rather exquisite as it has a decoration at the top and just shy past the borders, one that goes all around it and one that has a golden colour to it

  Huh, who would’ve guessed, the reaper itself has made me some food.

  “Thank you, Miranda.”

  With a rather gentle thank you, The Void Queen thanks Miranda for the food and then proceeds to eat it. I also do the same thing, however, in my case, she seems to have taken my gratitude normally as in the case of her Empress it was completely different. She seems happy as she puffs out her chest a little forward and while raising her chin upwards by just a little bit not only that, she does this while facing me almost as if she was telling me “Ha! Suck it loser!”. What? Why? What the hell goes through her head at times like this?

  Whatever!

  After enjoying this rather well-done and delicious sandwich and of course, after drinking this not so bitter orange juice, the both of us are done with the food and ready to keep on going with our extremely important conversation one that, she previous said that she has little time and now I have wasted some of it with this… It was worth it though, the reaper made me food so, shut up!

  “Well, you sure like to waste time, now do you?”

  And this is the damn thing she tells me right after I just thought about it. Can she read minds? Argh, of course she would notice it! Now what? I know that I’ve made quite the face as she looks at me with a rather mischievous but rather way to cute look on her face. I can only guess how my face looked. I probably widened my eyes by quite a bit, opened up my mouth ready to throw up whatever excuse came to my mind in that moment but nothing really came out of it.

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  “Fufu! I might have to take back when I said you’re somewhat intelligent.”

  Alright, you don’t have to insult me, I was just a little clumsy and forgot about the time. Yeah, no need to be a meanie towards me with your petty words. I will legit cry if this rather petite but beautiful lady keeps on insulting me for my stupid mistake. I will report you to those that protect animals’ rights! Yeah, those will take care of you-

  “Enough joking around.”

  She means this as the look on her face becomes rather serious. Finally, it seems we will be talking and hopefully, answering my questions, doubts and confusion about this world and the situation I am in.

  “You are right now in a Bubble Universe, one that is connected to that girl’s fate.”

  From all the things she could’ve said… However, I was right then, this place really has something to do with Kiana and just like she somewhat confirmed, there is a good chance that I will save Kiana in here rather than when I’m narrating her story. I have a few theories to this but, I will let her keep going as there’s no point in wasting time on what ifs and theories if she will outright tell me.

  “A Bubble Universe… An alternative reality, one that is different from our world but also connected to it at the same time.”

  That’s a rather broad and simple explanation of what a Bubble Universe is however, it can easily explain this world as in said Bubble Universes, the rules there can get rather different and chaotic than the real world. Alright, this is something but, let’s keep moving.

  “Or in this case, it’s connected to the Kiana story rather than the real world.”

  “That’s correct and this is the area where you will decide her fate.”

  Once again, one of my suspicions is proven right, unto the next question then.

  “Care to elaborate that? I noticed a few Shadows around here a few hours ago, are they related to Kiana at all?”

  I don’t think what I said was that special however, she did widen her eyes by just a little bit and for less than a fraction of a second, easily showing to me that, she was not expecting me to reach this conclusion or in other words, I’m right on the money.

  “That’s indeed correct, while those Shadows have been taken care of by Miranda, new ones will appear or have already appeared. Your job here is to take care of them, prevent them from taking over this Bubble Universe.”

  “What a plague… However, what happens if I fail to stop them?”

  I don’t know why I even bothered to ask this as I know damn well what she will be saying next. The Seed of Destruction will take over Kiana and she will become the Demon Lord and if someone whose power is at the very minimal S rank becomes a Demon Lord, the strength of that individual will be astronomically high. What I mean by this is that, what was your strength before becoming the Demon Lord does and will affect your overall strength as such entity. For example, if Miranda here becomes one, we might as well say goodbye to the world we know, one that we hate or love, as there will not be anyone strong enough to stop her. I mean that, she will reach realms that could equal the gods.

  “You know that already, The Seed of Destruction will take over her and that's the end of her story. Since this is a Bubble Universe, the real world won’t be affected; however, you will have failed and therefore, I will send you out to wherever you came from.”

  Or in other words, this is the end of our relationship, one that I will somehow decide the course of it. I really don’t want to become her enemy especially when I don’t feel anything from her towards me, negative of course, however, having me walk around in a field filled with spells ready to be triggered by my ignorant steps, it’s not nice to say the least. I’m walking on egg shelves and I can’t even see them.

  But what I said to her at the beginning has not changed whatsoever. In fact, the opposite has happened.