Chapter 96 - 95: The Hall Of Gods.

"Illya?" called out Grey as he held on to her body.

"Please wake up, wake up and call me your Nyx," said Grey in a whispering tone as he embraced Illya in his arms. 

With a realization that he had not shed a single tear, Grey laughed "I can't even cry, I am just a pathetic big brother. Isn't it right Illya?"

Grey sat there for a minute, holding Illya, doing nothing but sitting in silence. 

After a minute, a particular feline walked over to Grey as it proceeded to place its paw gently over Grey's thigh. As Grey turned his head around to face the feline, he saw that the Kuro was holding a piece of paper in her mouth. 

Kuro brought her head closer to Grey's hand as if it was giving the piece of paper to Grey.

Grey took the piece of paper from Kura as he asked "Is it for me?" 

"Meow!!"

Grey opened the one folded paper, to read the content inside. At first glance, Grey was able to tell that it was a letter, a messy one at that.

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Big brother Grey...

Illya have never written a letter before this, my mom has just thought me how to write, So Illya had thought that Illya would leave a letter for big brother Grey before Illya go far far away.

Mom and dad are sending Illya somewhere, no, Illya thinks that Illya knows. Illya knows that mom and dad want Illya to die, they want to attain happiness and it would possible with Illya's death, so Illya would be happy if mom and dad is happy.

Mom and dad had changed after the church people started talking to them before they were very very kind. Everyone in the town changed after church people had started talking to them.

It makes Illya sad, Illya doesn't under adults, they change, change a lot. Illya doesn't want anyone to change, the adult world is difficult. 

But Illya is not sad, Since Illya had found her Nyx. That Nyx is big brother Grey. 

Big brother Grey had fed Illya with his own hands, it made Illya really really happy. Big brother is super kind, he gave Illya food, shelter, and lots and lots of happiness, big brother is Nyx after all.

But Illya hopes that big brother never find Illya and this letter since it would make big brother sad. Illya wanted to spend more time with big brother, but Illya thinks that time has been over. 

but if there is next life, Illya would love to be born closer to big brother. Maybe Big brother's sister or her wife? 

No! Illya thinks it's still early for Illya!!

Illya had really enjoyed her time with everyone, Illya wished she could have spent more time. Illya will continue to love everyone. 

and Illya especially loves big brother Grey! 

Enjoy your life okay? and sometimes, maybe even for a second, keep remembering Illya.

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Grey held the letter tightly, maybe even too tightly. The letter had gotten wrinkly at this point. 

"I am sorry...." said Grey as his hands had gotten shaky from clenching his fist tightly, or maybe for an entirely different reason. 

"I am sorry---sorry, Big brother doesn---" 

Grey felt like he had caught a lump in his throat, he found himself unable to talk, he was stuttering too much. 

His vision had started getting blurring, not from feeling dizzy. His watery eye made his vision blurry.

The hot stream of tears flowed out of his eye, he tried to wipe it off. But it was only replaced with a newer one. He tried to wipe off his tears as quickly as they emerged, but it was a futile attempt as an endless stream of tears kept pouring out of his eyes.

He kept repeating the same line over and over,

"I am sorry, Illya."

As Grey was kneeling down to the ground, Kuro jumped over his shoulder. Kuro brought her face closer to Grey's as she rubbed her face on Grey's face. Perhaps it was the cat's way to comfort Grey. 

But it served as the last straw as more tears started flowing out of Grey, his soft sobbing voice had gotten louder. His pained cry was heard all over the church, but there was no one to hear the pained scream except for the divine fetus.

If one were to hear this soul-crushing cry it would send a chill down their spine. 

After five minutes, Grey picked up Illya as he started walking out of the church. He didn't want to be in this place, a place where it reeked off delusional dead bodies.

With the exception of Illya, everyone had died because they believed that they will be serving for a 'Greater good'. 

This incident was the final nail to Grey as he spoke "I will burn everything."

Before walking out of the Church he turned around to see that the divine fetus had grown into a toddler. 

Placing Illya near the door of the church, Grey walked over inside the church, near the divine fetus. 

As he was walking down the aisle, he sensed and saw the scenery around him change as a condensed form of energy started forming around the church. 

This energy took a humanoid shape as various figures started appearing from all corners of the church. This humanoid form of energy was different from that of the divine fetus. It felt like some sort of projection, perhaps used for communication. 

Using the scarf that was wrapped around his neck, Grey covered his face. He knew the fact that someone was coming over to this church and he didn't want them to see his face. 

Various figures stood in all corners of the church. No, it would be wrong to call it to church anymore, Grey's surrounding was changed. 

It was a pure white dimension, the milky white color stretched across the dimension, as far as the eye could see. Among this stretched white dimension, there was little hint of various colors floating around randomly. 

The red stream of color passed through Grey, enveloping him, then later passing on. All the primary color of the rainbow was seen in random streams just floating around in the dimension.

The only beings that were present in this dimension were the divine fetus and Grey. No, it would be wrong to call it fetus anymore, since it was growing rapidly into a full-grown body. 

Later they were joined by various figures, vague figures. 

One of the vague violet feminine figures spoke, "So he is finally getting free from his seal?"

"Seems so, his followers seem to be pretty loyal, I thought it would take around a hundred or so years for him to be set free." said one of the red-figure.

"But it is rather a crude way to awaken himself, this sort of stuff disgusts me, so I will be taking my leave." said one of the golden figures as his figure later disappeared.

"And I have no interest in your all business, so I will be leaving as well." said another orange figure as his figure disappeared too.

The black figure laughed off saying, "they really do love a mortal. they are disappointment in the name of gods, so pathetic that they don't even rule their country." 

"Did they kill off that kid?" asked the blue figure.

"Yes, they did."  answered a pink figure.

"But it's beyond my comprehension that how a fragile girl would lead us to our doom. I mean last time it was that woman named Alice, she was a really strong woman but she would still be no match for us gods." ridiculed the blue figure.

"My glimpses of the future is never wrong, it showed that this little girl and that woman named Alice would lead us to our doom. Don't question my power, or perhaps do you not remember the outcome of last time you all ignored my warning?" asked the Pink figure.

"Yeah, we do,  death got sealed because we ignored your warning that a certain demon boy would seal him." 

Grey heard this conversation silently before opening his mouth,

"Would you care to repeat what you said?"

As they heard his voice, the figures or you might as well say 'Gods', turned their attention towards Grey. 

They didn't seem to notice him before this. Well, it would make sense since Grey seemed puny in comparison to the height of those figures. 

"What is a human doing here?" asked the red figure. 

"Can a human even step foot in this dimension?" asked the blue figure. 

"No, only human I have seen step in this dimension is that divine king, our servant. Well, he is allowed in this dimension since he possesses divinity." 

"You gods talk a lot, answer the question I asked you earlier," asked Grey as he's looked at the blue figure with would piercing gaze.

"Interesting, a human who isn't even affected by our astral presence, you know our astral presence is enough to kill any mortal. but you seem to not even be slightly affected by our presence and I like your commanding tone. I have taken a liking of you, want to be my disciple? ", pink figure led out a chuckle as she asked this. 

"I don't give a fuck about being your disciple, repeat the thing that you were talking about seeing the glimpse of the future."