125 Deletion 1

Yulee and Jules started to destroy all traces of Lilika Yuri's existence. I watched Alex help them as they removed all her colourful pictures on the billboards with their mana to the albums carefully placed in each household. I struggled to keep my face indifferent with every aspect of Lilika Yuri being put into a black hole.

A black hole was a device that deleted a certain object out of this world. Every thought of Lilika Yuri was getting pulled out of the people's heads and into the void. Of course, this was only possible for people who had an extreme amount of precision and control over mana to conduct this cleanup.

Various spells were muttered and visualized on a mass scale that heavily filled the air with a high concentration of mana. More high school students were being teleported to help with the deletion of Lilika Yuri. Apparently, this was one of the hardest missions given in years since it was incredibly difficult to erase a creation entirely.

But the first district didn't forgive anything that would potentially loosen their control they had on the second district. With my incredibly unstable mana, I was immediately put onto the sideline as I sat down on a bench in the park. Since all the teleportation gates were busy with this operation, they couldn't send me back to the first district.

I didn't mind hearing one more song of Lilika Yuri before she was erased from the world. All the artistic versions, the orchestra, jazz, and R\u0026B came flowing into my head as I witnessed her final moments. Was this all necessary because of one tiny rebel group?

'Would they even notice if I sneaked out one of her albums?' A thought crossed my head.

It was too sad for not a trace of Lilika Yuri to remain in this world. Although her purpose wasn't pure, she brought hope and encouragement like during my past life when I listened to her music. I stood up with determination as I teleported to an area where the group didn't start their cleanup yet.

Rows of untouched Lilika Yuri albums filled the shelves inside the music store. I grabbed a CD album from her debut as I tried to sneak it into my marble after watching my surroundings. When I successfully inputted the CD into my inventory, someone grabbed my shoulder.

"We can't have you doing this, can we Rika?" Jules let out his hand, asking me to hand over the album with a smile.

"It's too sad if everything gets erased," I dazed into the memories of our brief times together.

The times where we would sneak into the arranged room where we would sing Lilika Yuri songs. Or when I secretly practiced the choreography to one of her songs when I was forced to learn ballet. The only reminder of my former life in this world.

"Many idols can replace her, so give me the album Rika, I'll buy you some more without letting Luke know," Jules waited for me to take out the album.

"What if I don't want to?" I gulped.

The school's biggest mistake was not asking me to use my mana to enable me to use it to teleport over large distances, enough for leftovers for one more spell. One step out of this disguised lake was my home, the third district. When I was about to step over, my necklace glowed and immediately delivered me to Alex's side.

I slumped onto the ground with frustration and tried to pull off the sickening necklace that caged my actions. However, my hands passed through like before as I slammed my fists against the concrete floor. Meanwhile, Jules stood in front of me like we never met in the music store.

"The album?" He asked me again with his innocent smile as he reached out his hand.

After Alex finished deleting the posters around the area, he finally cared to look behind where I gathered the attention of other people. Alex looked down at me like he was questioning why I was making a fool of myself, sitting on the ground. He seemed to be clueless of what just happened and why my face was starting to flush red with anger.

"Not happening," I whispered loud enough for only Jules to hear.

Alex narrowed his eyes in disapproval when he noticed my neck full of claw marks from my nails. He immediately guessed what had happened and placed a hand over his face like he didn't know what to do with the load of trouble in front of him. I knew Alex wasn't rash enough to create a scene in front of all his upperclassmen.

I avoided both of their gazes and walked away from them before I blew up. I had to get some time alone to think of a plan to figure out how to save the last album of Lilika Yuri. However, I stopped when Jules revealed the album in my hands.

"Please give me the album in your marble," He casually shouted like it was no big deal when I was a few metres away from him.