-1 The man, The Legend

The soul kept silent for a long time, he had read a lot of stories and had acted as an almighty hero during his career. But listening to the young man's words, it seems like there exists a man who had challenged the creator of all the worlds and universes. this made the soul unable to understand what he was feeling. He asked.

"What happened? Did he win?"

The young man looked at the soul which seemed to have become restless after hearing his reply. This was too amusing in his view. He said while being cryptic.

"No one knows the end result of their confrontation. I have not heard anything that had happened that day. That man and I were friends, he is like a legend even among my peers, before he challenged the creator he told me that he had an 80% chance of losing the battle. Since this was not supposed to be the death battle, the chances of either of them dying were almost non-existent. However, this doesn't mean that it would be easy for them to not get badly injured. Ever since that day, everything has been too silent. No one knows anything about the battle. Where it happened, how long did it last, who had the upper hand, was there a clear winner, if yes why was it not declared? ... Oh, come to think of it before he left for the battle he left something with me, he asked me to hold on to something let me see, where did I put it again?..."

By the end, the young man seemed to remember something and started to search with a panicked expression on his face.

"Ah, found it! Man, that was close! I don't know if he will come back looking for it. Sigh... Oh, yeah I remember he asked me to give it to someone I liked. I used to do it for a while I kept passing this to people that I took a liking of. But, in the end, it always came back to me so I gave up on doing it again. Hmmm.... let's give this to you this time. If that guy knows that I forgot the promise I made, that will be big trouble."

He passed a cube-shaped thing to the soul, it landed or rather it floated in front of the soul. It was the size of an ordinary Rubik cube.

It looked like a cube made of glass, it was pretty transparent. But in the interior, there seemed to be another cube which was connected to all the eight corners of the larger cube with a thin thread like a string that seemed to be glowing faintly. The inner cube, however, was a lot more illuminating it had a bluish hue to it with a few sparks happening every so often. It can be said that it looked like a tesseract.

"What if he really came looking for it?" asked the soul.

"He will know it's location anyway. The stuff he has cannot be taken unless he wants to give it to you. I mean, even if he lost that fight he is still the second strongest being in existence. So don't worry, he was the one who asked me to keep passing this on to people. He won't be mad." said the young man.

'Yeah! You were panicked as all hell had broken loose on you when you couldn't find it. Although I'll be getting a new life I don't want to piss someone that strong for no good reason. Hell, even a good reason is not enough getting someone like him on your tail.' Thought the soul.

"Anyways, it's time to send you to your next life....."

"Wait!" Shouted the soul who was deep in thoughts.

"What is it? Don't want to reincarnate?" asked the young man.

"No, of course, I want to. But tell me what this thing is! What am I supposed to do with it?" Inquired the soul.

" How am I supposed to know? Whom should I ask? Just wing it as you like!" said the young man.

'Does this guy have a screw loose or something. My opinion of him has dropped drastically because of that last sentence.' Thought the soul while looking at the young man.

Almost as if reading the souls thoughts the man replied. "That guy always made weird stuff. How am I to know what it does? Also, I don't want to mess with anything that belongs to him. It is tough to cause any damage to it. You should also take good care of it or both of us will be in deep trouble. Is that all? Then let's send you packing."

"Wait!" the soul shouted again.

"What is it now?" asked the man with an annoyed expression.

"Why is that soul over there different?" asked the soul while pointing at the ball of light among the other balls of light.

When that image of those angel-like creatures was over. Unknowingly the young man had forgotten to isolate the chamber they were in.

There seems to be a lot of souls lined which seemed endless. Also, it was not a single line there were countless rows and columns of souls present. The soul that was mentioned was not very far, it was just in the second row from him so it was easy to spot it. This soul seemed to have a very weak glow as if a low on charge torch.

The young man looked in the direction specified, spotting the other soul he sighed and said.

"While your life can be said to be one of ups and downs, it can still be referred to as a motivational story. However, that guy is your complete opposite. Ok, you take a look at his life in essence." As soon as he said this multiple scenes appeared in front of the soul that seemed like a memory of someone with full reality like experience.

In the scenes, everything seemed pleasant until a moment when the person who this memory belonged to was turned into a slave. What was more unbelievable was that the people or the two individuals who enslaved him where the parents of the same person.

Seeing this, the soul was very disturbed. Because although it seemed like the issue was a big deal, the fact that they went so far as to make their own child a slave so as to restrain him or to protect his secret was a bit too much in the old man's(the soul) opinion. Also, this guy, knowing all well that his secret can be considered a taboo, he still stupidly revealed it to someone and brought his own misfortune. The bright thing among all this was he still was not treated too poorly by anyone. He was declared dead and a year later which was spent in a cellar, he was assigned to be his little brother's personal guard. No one other than the parents seemed to know about his secret.

"There you have it! That was a clear example of people making a mountain out of a mole. Sigh... well he will probably be sent on standby, he is in no way to be reincarnated until he recovers. Being enslaved by your own parents is a pretty hard pill to swallow." said the young man at the end of the scene of the man's death.

"Can I talk to him?" asked the soul.

"You can. But why?" replied the man with a question.

"I believe there is more to the story than what it appears to be. I refuse to believe that his father whom he was so close to would suddenly take such drastic measures based on a few assumptions and rumours. This rumour or whatever seems like an excuse or a cover-up. Also, I have a question can two souls be fused together to be a single entity?" explained the soul.

"Alright. Yes souls can be fused. " said the young man.

"Thank you" said the soul gratefully.

Soon the other soul appeared next to the existing one. Both of them seemed to be discussing something in low voice. The young man waited next to them at a distance without a word. He seemed to be very amused by everything that had happened today.

After a while, the two souls seemed to have reached an agreement.

The brighter soul (old man's) said with a resolute voice.

"We are ready to fuse our souls, please send us to the same family as the same person again. Also, will both of us have our memories? I know I'm asking for too much but can you do the same thing you said to me about having the knowledge of my world to him too. Sorry for the trouble."

"It's not a trouble at all. Alright, I'll start the procedure for fusion." said the young man.

Soon, a lot of complicated symbols and ruins started to appear one after another. After a while, the room seemed to return to tranquillity. Now there were only the young man and a brighter than before ball of light present in the room.

However, the faintly bluish tesseract was nowhere to be seen.

"Where did that thing go?" asked the newly fused soul.

"It seems to have been fused together with your soul. Hmm..... I guess this is how I was supposed to give it. I never thought that it had to be fused no wonder it returned to me time and again." said the young man.

"About knowledge of both our worlds..."

"Yeah, it will. Then time to send you off." said the young man.

The soul disappeared from the darkroom soon after.

"I wonder how that previously boring story would turn out into." said the young man to himself.