Happiness For You (Chapter Eight)

“Everything that happened yesterday was a painful and unforgettable experience for you, I know. But we hope you your life won’t be affected.”

“Why?”

Allen took a deep breath, then exhaling slowly.

“The person you saw yesterday was the Sennen Hakushaku or otherwise known as the Earl of Millennium. He is evil.”

“He kills?”

“No. Actually, indirectly, yes. Or at least, he plans the killing most of the time and asks his weapons to do his dirty work.”

“Weapons?”

“Yes, weapons. I’m sure yesterday you saw one of the weapons. It looked like a huge, round cannon ball, right?”

She nodded, her face damp with tears.

“Well, it was actually a human soul.”

“I don’t understand. It’s a soul? But.. but..”

“I know its hard to believe but, it was a human soul, a tortured human soul called Akuma. You see, the Earl is someone who takes human souls and turn them into weapons to kill humans. He wants them to rule the world and he would rule them. Earlier, he wanted you to help him turn your sister and mother into Akumas.”

“But how? How can I help him when he is powerful and I am... weak?”

“He needs your voice.”

“My voice?”

“Yes. In other to turn them into Akumas and have power over them, he needs their loved ones to call their souls to come back. After calling them, he would ask them to kill you.”

Allen was silent for a moment. Everyone was silent. No one knew what to say. It was too shocking for Nozomi. She couldn’t get over the truth about her sister and mother gone. Gone forever, from this world. How could she live on? Then, something struck her as amiss.

“Then what about you? And the rest? How do you know all this?” Nozomi cried, then soften her voice.

“Who are you?”

This time Lenalee told her.

“We are Exorcists. Normally, exorcists to people are those who make ghosts go back to their own world and stop harassing the human world. But, we are different. We do not have anything to do with ghosts. We specialize in Akumas. We destroy them to free their souls. Haven’t you ever think of why Allen has this weird drawing on his face? Its because of his curse. A curse of which he can see the souls suffering within their cannon-ball like exterior. This makes him want to save and free them. All of us here are Exorcists, even Inari.”

“But, how? How do you free them?”

“Each of us has Innocence. Each Innocence is the fragment of a box-like object. This object has been broken into a hundred and eight pieces. Each of these pieces gives us the power to destroy Akumas and save their souls. Innocence could be the in your body or an object. It depends on who is compatible with it.”

“How do you know if you are compatible?”

“In a way, you’ll know. Like, if you can use a certain something but others can’t It means you’re compatible,” Lavi started instead.

“So, am I?”

“Erm.. no.”

Silence followed. She couldn’t say a word. Everyone had an Innoence except her. She couldn’t accept it. All of them could save souls but her. But there was something she was not sure of.

“So, my sister and mother died, because of the Earl?”

“Most probable,” Krory stated, looking at another direction.

Nozomi looked at the ground. She couldn’t help it. After all that happened, she felt helpless and that her world had came crumbling down on her.

-brenda-