After we arrive at the island paradise where we see Tanya dragging a drunk Anton tied in lines away, I start introducing Hinata to everyone.
Everyone welcomes her with open arms, Orion seems to have liked her at first, Ragnar in his human form even tries to hug little Hinata.
I explain to wheels about her race, she is an Undead of the spectral type, but unlike Ghosts who have the ability to possess other people, Hinata told me along the way that she can’t do that.
After the introductions, Freya arrived with a lot of food that I really needed and a few bottles of Blood.
While eating I remember information on Hinata’s status, I pay attention to two things.
The first was in that positive 3-digit luck, that filled me with envy, I wanted so much to have positive luck, even if it’s just for 1 point.
The second thing I noticed was the titles area, it had very few titles considering how little we know about it, I was hoping to have at least a few titles, but it doesn’t have any.
While I was lost in my own thoughts eating, Hinata was talking to the others, the most dangerous of all was Diana, she is drooling as soon as she saw Hinata, in fact before reaching the island Diana was already running towards us with full eyes of obsession.
I had to use a mixture of skill and spells that only made me even more tired to stop Diana, so she was bound in red chains.
Everyone was ignoring her, only Yuki the Frostwolf who is Diana’s Familiar was trying to break the chains to release her master, unfortunately, she won’t be able to do that, these chains are made from my crystallized blood with lines forming spiritual runes inside and magic circles drawn on the outside, this is so reinforced that it could even hold me if it wasn’t done by me.
After eating and thinking for a while I stay with everyone while they talk to Hinata, thanks to that I was able to listen to her story.
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Diana was still trapped in my chains when night fell, but this time she wasn’t drooling, after hearing Hinata’s story, Diana was furious, I had to pay attention to her so I wouldn’t get confused.
We were already at the end of the Night, to hear what happened to Hinata and how she became a False Hero, I called Athena and her friends to see once again the rotten side of the Church of Light.
Hinata started by telling us that she is a granddaughter of the real Neji (Hero of Light), this was something that was told to her from an early age.
She said that when she was still a child, her parents, following Church orders, turned her in knowing they would do horrible things to her. .
Hinata said that there was more than once when her parents came accompanying other people as guards and saw her condition, but they never showed anything.
According to Hinata at first, she was placed with hundreds of children, it seems that they were all descendants of the Hero of Light.
At first, they were taught to train and study, they did it to test each other’s potential, she said they only got 3 hours of sleep a day and 1 meal a day.
This lasted for 3 years, after that, they created extreme battle situations against monsters, condemned bandits that had been captured, and finally in battles to the death between them.
They did this until there were only 4 children left including her, after all, that those with the greatest potential had been found, so the experiments began, first was the attempt to implant a fragment of the Soul of the Hero of Light into their bodies.
The first individual died immediately, she doesn’t know the details, but he died immediately, the second suffered for a week before he died, the third was successful but died when the experiments changed to begin modifying his body to look like the Hero of Light, he died in this experiment.
When Hinata’s turn came, they already knew what they had to do, she suffered numerous attacks on her Soul to be able to withstand the Soul shard of the Hero of Light.
After the fragment entered her body she felt like she was constantly being suppressed so that she couldn’t even speak, so the experiments on her body began which lasted for months of suffering.
In the end, they used forbidden techniques to make her obedient, she said that after that she only remembers fragments of memories without context until the day the Heretic God of Fun arrived.
When she died she felt her soul being pulled to a place she felt was dangerous, but she had no way to resist the attraction, the Heretic God of Fun entered her Soul, but he did it asking for her permission, moreover he made the pain in her Soul stops letting her finally get some rest without that Soul Fragment causing her pain.
So the rest of the story I know and explained to others, she said she met with Goddess Kalistos in her mind, information about herself was delivered to her, furthermore, Goddess Kalistos cleaned her Soul by transferring everything to Soul Fragment of the Hero of Light before using it to create a curse for breaking a Taboo.
It was because of this that Hinata didn’t keep any of her old titles.
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Upon hearing this story, many had different reactions, but the strangest reaction was that of Lilith who was smiling, she hugged Hinata in a gentle and loving way that I’ve never seen her show to anyone.
I think she saw a little bit of herself in Hinata.
I asked Hinata what she could do, and instead of answering me talking, she put her finger on my forehead to transfer the full information to my mind, it saved hours of unnecessary conversation but I would think about it later.
I went to my bed and Hinata wanted to accompany me, since she was born she hasn’t left my side for a second, most of the time she’s stuck with me, I think she just wants to have someone else with her as an emotional support.
After spending hours talking to her, I noticed that even though she looks childish, she has a mature mind, but she still maintains a childish demeanor that doesn’t match the way she talks.
Now I was lying in my bed with Layla sleeping on my chest, Hinata clinging to my arm, and Nix sleeping beside me, as I was very tired I let myself be carried away to dreamland.