
This is a memory deep in another person's sleeplike consciousness when someone faints.
When consciousness is sinking and floating as though she is floating up and down in the mighty flood of water, memories are opened from the depths of the mind as if they are the wood floating on the sea to catch as the key to save herself, and the soul that was once isolated by the slumber is connecting back to the body.
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This night, a Shepherd fell and a life was born.
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In the earth pulse, the silver dragon murmured “Eleanor……….you worked hard for everyone……...too hard, you have spent your whole life……….you even………”.
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*-------‘ Take my offering and breath resonance to the world, please.’----*
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“Glad that you have a pure soul so I may grant you a new life as a Malak.” Though it would be years or hundred years after Eleanor’s time and there would be a loss in memory, but that would also be Maotelus’s special arrangement to not let the girl to overwork herself again, she may at least rest for a while to learn to live as a Malak. He has lost one dearest to him and he is not gonna let that happen again.
“Please, rest, and enjoy your new life.”
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The female Malak felt like someone whispered to her, not only someone who is kind and empathy but actually someone she knew. However, she can’t think of his name.
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The cool air brought by the rain is the only thing that makes her realize that she is breathing.
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“.......ah?” unconsciously, she made a sound, then she realized that she can make a sound.
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Somehow she believed this is unbelievable, until she felt the soft and wet earth with her hand palm, acknowledged the sky reflected in her eye and so as the birds that flew away.
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She tried to believe that she is alive and she somehow also knew that she is a ‘Malak’ now.
“Just gonna check the sudden cast of mana in my domain and I see. There is a rare thing happening.”
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“....Rare than your imagination, Zenrus.”
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Before she figures out what it is, the next voice that came to ears blinked her.
She sat up from the ground, turned around and found only an aged elder with white hair and there also a single tuft of yellow, lightning-bolt hair characterized his image.
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If there is only one person, it is impossible to hear a conversation formed with 2 different voices.
She lowered her line of sight, a cat is at her feet.
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The cat looking up at her eyes, it is a pure white fat cat with a black diamond-shaped marking on her forehead and wearing a yellow scarf. However, she felt like she beforehand knew that it is more than a cat.
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“You are Malak too?” She asked the cat.
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“Well, yeah and I came as I feel that a new Malak was born………...Although you have seen already a teenager state for an infant, guess you were born of a very strong soul.” The fat cat stated calmly.
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“..........I………..born….”I murmured. I still not feel real, I grabbed hands and opened them again. I knew my own appearance without looking at a mirror. Stills, I was just convinced to be born.
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“Do you feel sad? Child?” The old man asked.
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“Sad? No. Why do you ask?” The female Malak asked confusedly.
“.......You are crying from the beginning.” Now that he mentioned, I noticed the warm tears falling down my cheek.
“I don’t know.” but I don’t even know what is it for.
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“You are….Morgrim…..right?” I wiped away my tears and somehow recalled the name of the cat.
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“So, you recalled the memory, any other things you recalled?” The cat seems not surprised and she continues to ask.
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The female Malak closed her eyes and tried focusing on recalling the memory, but she recalled nearly nothing.
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“I……..was a human, that’s all” She was a human, that was all she can tell, but she can’t tell what she had done.
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“Not even your name?”
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“No, I can’t remember, but I feel like I have an unfinished commitment.” The newborn Malak felt an empty part in her heart apart, maybe that is why she cried unconsciously from the beginning. It must be something so important that she should not forget.
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“Through I thought you had done more than enough already.” The cat sighed with helplessness.
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“You knew me?” From the response of Morgrim, the newborn seraph can tell that the cat Malak knew her when she was a human.
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“Of course I knew, you are very famous even among us malakim, but I am not going to tell you the answer.” Morgrim then turned around and has a discussion with another old Malak.
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After a while, they turned to her again.
“You may be confused with your being here and want to seek the answer, but you better learn to take care of yourself first.” The newborn Malak blinked and the old man continued.
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“I am Zenrus, I am here to teach you the knowledge you need.” The old Malak offered kindly.
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“Nice to….meet you and …...thank you, Mr. Zenrus.” The new-born Malak still confused.
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“No need to be that formal, call me Gramps…….and about your name……….. I heard it is ‘Eleanor”, a good name for you meaning the pure light and I still see the light and kindness in your eyes.” Zenrus commented kindly.
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“.......Eleanor…….my name.” The name felt nostalgic and she tried to recall things with it but nothing is out.
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“O child of firmest resolve, here let thy unwavering incandescence be forged. Shouldst thou accept this true name I bestow unto you ‘Liwyeamesv Umuabiw( Eleanor the cordiality)’.” Hearing Zenrus’s voice inside her head, she received her true name after just born. Normally others may find their true name in a later age, but Zenrus took her case specially and hope her good human nature well pass in her new life.
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From that day on, Eleanor lived and trained with Zenrus assistance. Zenrus told her to stay in his domain for the reason that she is still too weak and not familiar with the seraphic artes she could cast.
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Along the time she lived, she recovered her human memory gradually. Sometimes, the memory just came when she gets tired and slept when she was reading books about humans, daemons, and malakim.
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“There must be a way to make a better world for everyone. Human, daemon, malakim, and I intended to find it. It might take years….No, decades, centuries, generations…...Even if it takes me millennia. I’ll do it.” She heard her human-self said in a determined tone.
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“Playing the long game. I take it?” Another female with raven hair responded with a smile.
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“I believe in you, Eleanor. You’ll find a way.” A boyish voice stated tenderly to express his trust, and the voice is similar to the whispering she heard in the very beginning when she was born as a seraph.
*
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The female figured out what she promised when she was a human and somehow she feels it is still the thing she wants to achieve. She wonders why she still feels that she forgets important things when she heard the voice of the female and the boy, the sounds familiar that the voices intimated herself a feeling deep in her heart. A feeling strong and hot enough that she can’t ignore or deny, somehow connecting herself with her human self, that makes her ensure herself to retrieve all her memory when she was a human.
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Zenrus treated Eleanor like his own child, he would tell all the history he knew between humans and seraphim to help her find the answer and decide the new way to live. Eleanor will take them all seriously, just like her human self.
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The days go on until a day the external malevolence is strong enough to affect the domain for a second. Eleanor realized that it is time for her to go, she is not someone who is willing to stay at the place to keep herself safe, she still has her keen heart to help people.
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Expressing her greatest gratitude to Zenrus, Eleanor went on her journey to search for the answer and the other part of her memory. Zenrus didn’t stop her as he knew the child will one day grow up and walk for themselves, all he did was to help them to gain enough ability to protect themselves before they go on a journey to explore their value.
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At first, she arrived a human city with a status look alike her appearance, the description of it indicated that she was called the saint that fight hard to rescue people and died during the delivery of resources in an epidemic. A headache comes quick and something flashes in her mind, it is probably the memory about the time when she was the Shepherd here.
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*
At any age, war is an inseparable thing to humans. She should have known that from a long time ago. Unity needed to be brought to create a stable environment for people. However, it also needed years and wars to bring. Either prince Percival nor her could stop the war began. It was destiny after the destruction of Abbey.
During the time in the Unification War, she could only assemble the old members in Abbey that she knew and reconstruct the new Abbey to support the people who suffered in the war. Religion became again a very important thing for people to rely on. Thus she tried to promote the fame of Maotelus by the religion to the people as much as she could and did all the things to support people in that time.
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Eleanor walks around the city after rested for her sudden headache and finds that the religions are in the decadence again and she feels her body being heavier with the malevolence present in the city.
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That makes clear enough that she is not a human anymore, yet she still tries to connect herself with her past self. Lucky that she got the protection from the vessel Zenrus gave her so that she can stay a little longer in a tainted district. However not every malakim that lucky. Eleanor finds a lady fainted around the sanctuary and no one sees her. Small particles float around the lady, she seems like the Malak worked with her when she was the Shepherd. Eleanor tested the lady’s forehead with her hand and found that she is having a bad fever under the impact of malevolence. As she remembered Zenrus’s teaching, the Malakim in such status may soon turn into a daemon or dragon. Thus Eleanor offered her vessel to the lady immediately and carry her back to Zenrus home.
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“How did you get yourself tainted like this?! The vessel I gave you!!....oh…” Gramps is angered at Eleanor when he has just noticed her status. Eleanor managed to carry the lady to Zenrus domain but she is then severely affected by malevolence too. She is wondering the name of the lady and not hearing the shout of Zenrus.
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“You idiot! Don’t get yourself die before you save someone!” Gramps found out the situation after seeing the vessel offered to the lady Malak who are affected by malevolence as well.
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“Eleanor, you…!!” Gramps wanted to blame Eleanor but end up with a sigh as Eleanor fainted.
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*
“You really are busy caring for and helping people.” A familiar male voice stated. Eleanor just realized it is Eizen’s voice after dragging herself out of the messy mind.
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She turned and stunned for a moment, then reply, “Eizen? How are you here?” She was surprised the Reaper was not on his pirate boat, she had not seen him for months.
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“Our boat just parked this surrounding, we’ve heard lots of news of you. You have been doing a great effort, so I pay a visit. How is your work?”
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“Not great, we are in a turbulent situation, but anything better than losing our free will.”
“Good, you are still yourself but don't overwork yourself. Actually, I have a request to you, since I am generally invisible to the crew, so I would like you to talk for me.”
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“Yes, please, I will be glad in help.” Shen then assisted Eizen to go visit his little sister by persuading the crews. The crews were generally willing to do this favor as they all knew Eizen’s existence.
It was a heartwarming reunion from a long parting, and she would stay away to let them had their time.
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Eleanor got a surprising prize from Edna, her new Malak friend. Edna helped her for her being Eizen’s companion and she belief Edna didn’t want her brother to be taken by this cursed world so soon, even if there may not be another reunion in the future.
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“Hello, Eleanor, I am Lailah. Nice to meet you.” A chance to meet a fire Malakm was given to Eleanor, and she was not going to waste the chance. She would work with the Malak for a better future for human, malakim and daemon.
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Somehow, Eleanor found that Lailah looks familiar as if she met her before, but she guessed that only in her imagination. Maotelus told her that Lailah is born just after a few days later from the moment he being the Empyrean, so it is possible that Lailah is the reincarnation of Seres.
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“Still, she is herself, a completely new person, right?” Maotelus commented, and told Eleanor not to treat Lailah differently.
“Yes, but I assume some of her parts are still here.” Like those bad puns she learned so fast from Magilou.
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Whether Lailah is Seres or Celica or neither of them doesn’t matter now, but whether herself still the same person as her human self is the question bother her.
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Eleanor realized the dream was her memory just before actually being the Shepherd, and the lady she carried here called Lailah. If the Malak was related to her in the past, then she may have some hint to her past life. She slowly opened her eyes and saw the stone domes ceiling. Gramps is sitting beside her with a worrying expression.
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“Thanks to the Empyrean, you awake.” Gramps relieved from Eleanor's wake.
“Sorry, Gramps….I…” She started explaining the reason to Zenrus and he sighed helplessly with the comment: “That is just like you from what I heard.”
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“....I have recalled more memory from my human time, but I am not sure if I am the same person as my human self.”
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“Only if you feel like you possessed the same soul and same heart, then you two are the same person.”
She understood the words, but she still feels the lack of something when she wants to believe herself is the exact same person as her human self.
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Eleanor sat beside Lailah, who is still sleeping, to see if she turns out better. Zenrus has told her that he has prepared a better vessel for the fire Malak.
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“Lailah, do you remember me?” Eleanor asked after the fire Malak has just awakened from the coma.
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“........Eleanor?! You turned into a Malak??” The fire Malak exclaimed.
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“Yes, it is a long story, but I don’t know why either.” Eleanor then told Lailah about her story after being a malakim.
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Lailah is shocked and then turned anger for Eleanor’s altruism.
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“You always want to sacrifice yourself,” Lailah commented on both the characteristic for human Eleanor and Malak Eleanor, maybe she is stubborn enough to prevent any changes brought by the reborn in life.
Lailah clearly realized that Maotelus didn’t want Eleanor to work so hard again so he chose to reincarnate Eleanor hundreds of years later than her human living era. However, Eleanor insisted to know about her past life, so Lailah suggested to bring Eleanor to a place as a favor after she heard her story.
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She is brought to the Empyrean’s Throne.
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“Maotelus…..or Laphicet.”
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“.........It has been a while, Eleanor. You still recalled the memory eventually….” when a childish tender voice came out from the dragon, Eleanor was not surprised, she just knew it as if she knew him a long time ago although she has not much-related memory to Maotelus for now.
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“Part of it, and I hope you to retrieve all of my memory.” Eleanor requested.
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“Why would you want?”
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“I want to seek the answer and the reason for my feeling of emptiness.” She felt something wrong if she just continues her new life in Zenrus domain and leaves the human issue alone. She felt she forgot some important things that she had not achieved when she was a human. She felt she had an important promise with someone. All the answers are in memory.
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“Eleanor…..you have literally offered you soul even after death, it is fine for you to rest…..” Maotelus signed for the stubbornness of the girl.
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“No, I want to have it, I want to do it, and as long as I want, I enjoy it, so please!” Maotelus saw the determination through Eleanor’s eyes, they were the same when human Eleanor exclaimed to find the satisfying answer for herself in the Titania.
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He sighed that the girl always has her way “.......ok, as you wish.”
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Maotelus teleport Eleanor into the Earthpulse and select all the Earthen Historia related to her memory to show.
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*(Eleanor POV)
I witnessed countless death during the Unification War, the famine and the epidemic. After the war, I felt sad about it and try my best to improve the situation. Still, it was not the reason I want to help others at first. It began with a small and simple desire.
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I lived with my mother happily in a small village, but everything changed after a daemon attacked our village for the treasure of Eleanor in the Scarlet Night. My mother died from protecting me
“Be strong, and live!” This is her last word to me.
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I tried to live strong and save others as I can for being the only survivor from the Daemon’s attack. I thought this should be the responsibility for being the only survivor in the Scarlet Night.
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The day I got invited to be an exorcist, I was glad. That means I have the ability to slay daemons and prevent any tragedy that happens like my village again.
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A Lord of Calamity raised in that time, called Velvet Crowe. We should be enemies as she is a Daemon, the thing I hated the most, but I became her side for many reasons after the oath I made to be her servant.
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During the journey with Velvet, she flipped over my knowledge to Daemon, malevolence, malakim as well as the Abbey I got to know. I realized that daemon, malakim, and human, all are the same, they have emotions and they have free will. Thus, I promised to make the world a better world for malakim, human and daemon, all to live together with harmony, as I experienced in her team. She became a friend to me after I got to know her, although either of us will admit it. I realized that she is only a girl losing too much and is tortured by Abbey, and never a heartless daemon. However, in the end, she sacrificed herself after she got her revenge.
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I remembered her last request-- Take good care of Laphicet, if she was not there after the revenge. She said a part of her wants to leave hopes to the world and she never told me how she is going to do. In the end, I knew the way she did it is to offer herself to seal Innominat, and I had no way to stop her but to see this happened.
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Therefore, she will not be in the world she saved. The world is just unfair to take away so much from a girl. Yet, I believed she will wake up one day and have a new life in the whole new world.
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Laphicet became the new Empyrean and possessed the ability to purify Daemons. I was still able to see Eizen and Laphicet after Innominat is sealed by Velvet, so I may be able to continue working as an exorcist, but not only slaying daemon now this time.
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All of them become the reason for me to make my promise come true-- to make a better world for everyone.
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I see until my human-self life ended in helping people in the epidemics. I find the reason for me having the same will to my human self, it is the strong desire when I was a human. I think I am still myself and the same person as my human self.
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I see my human self stand in front of me, holding the silver flame, she said: “ There will be hell to go through for our answer.”
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“Even so, I still go on for an answer I seek, no matter what!” I received the silver flame from her will, our will. Once again I decided the same thing when I gain all the memory.
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I remembered the way we fought, I fought.
I know that my will is not only from my memory, but it is also truly from my heart, my soul.
As long as I have my will, I will continue to fight for it.
We are in one now, and may our will sustain and never lose again.
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When Eleanor opens her eyes again, she finds herself in front of Maotelus again.
“You have fully awakened, aren’t you?”
She somehow knew that Laphicet reincarnated her into a malakim with element Void after remembered all of the memory.
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“Yes, and I will continue to search the answer. Will you come with me, Lailah?”
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“Sure.”
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Notes:
A.N. (another very long author note)
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Apologize that once again I ignore the plot and write the chapter of past( and now I make the chapter of past TBC…).
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Well, as I introduced Eleanor to become a seraph, I would like to explain the story for her to regain all her memory and for being the same person as her human time. Although it is actually kind of forced explanation and forced plot, I would also like to introduce some relationships to Eleanor after the timeline of Tales of Berseria while (kind of) studying the personality of Eleanor.
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I guess, the personality of this Eleanor is not like the one in TOB that much, because this Malak Eleanor is supposed to be the one after experienced whole human life, but at the same time she recognized herself in a young age in terms of malakim kind. Therefore she may have some of her concerns and maybe a bit different from what we know in TOB too, but not like someone immature and lack of experience like me can write her well...I apologize for that.
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Zenrus was a helpful character in this chapter that he gave the human name back to Eleanor, helped a lot in gaining her memory back, but I have not shown much of his personality.
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It is a side story, so I can’t let this be too long and to be comparable to the main plot. As a result, a suppose works that should be written in multiple chapters compressed into a chapter like this. By the way, the last part is a reference from UBW in Fate stay night.
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For it is actually TBC as a side story because I need to connect the setting to some events happened before Tales of Zestiria. You know, if Eleanor gained all her memory, she must do something to save Maotelus in TOZ time, so I should explain for the reasons for she is not available in TOZ.
P.S. The properties of Eleanor the seraphim of the Void element is similar to Malak Laphicet(or say in the same element category). (I have considered having the Light Element artes, but considering Eleanor would be a Shepherd embrace both light and darkness after meeting Velvet, I decided to let her have the balanced element artes that same as Laphicet.)
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Although basically she possesses the ability to cast all element of seraphic artes(including lightning, illusion etc.) at a certain level of strength if she learned and trained and maybe at a stronger strength when it comes to light and dark element artes, she can’t cast seraphic artes of the Four elements(earth, water, fire, wind) at the same strength as the seraphim of the for elements respectively.
The most important ability of her is that she possesses the purification flame too as the seraphim reborn by Maotelus. However, the only one who possessed the purification flame and able to assist Shepherd in TOZ time is still Lailah, only Lailah, JUST LAILAH (so important that I should repeat it 3 times). The reason will be explained in the next chapter of this side story.
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