The girl in front of me was shorter than I was, she looked like a 7 or 8 year old, but her expressionless face and unsettling presence only enhance those strange eyes.
I wasn't afraid of her, I run my hand over her head, and it surprised me that her will was something others consider as simple and basic as a family, but as someone who grew up in an orphanage I understand the feeling of not having strong bonds like a family. family with no one, the feeling of having no one you can always trust, the certainty that no matter what happens there will be someone you can count on.
A child and sometimes even an adult, don't understand that if you don't have a family, then just create one, it's not blood ties that create and maintain a family, a family exists in a person's heart.
A friend can often be like a brother to another, for example.
I look at the girl who starts to hug me, then translucent tentacles come out of her back to wrap around me, but they're not holding me, they're not squeezing.
"My family..." (Hinata)
When I try to open my arms, they go through the tentacles as if they were mere illusions, I bend down a little as I break away from the little girl's embrace to be able to look her in the eye.
"Nice to meet you, my name is Zenos." (I)
"Welcome to the family, Hinata." (I)
At my words, the little girl's face remains expressionless as if frozen in that expression for eternity, but her eyes that should have been frightening were filled with gentle feelings as tears streamed from her eyes.
Tears
"..." (Hinata)
It was strange to see someone cry without showing any expression on their face, but I was starting to understand that instead of looking at their facial expressions, I have to pay attention only to her eyes to find out about her emotions.
"I'm glad you became a Divine Beast and more of a Familiar like Ragnar, but why didn't you become a Champion of the Demon Goddess Kalistos." (I)
When I ask this question, the girl's tentacles return to her body and she separates from me, drying her tears.
"Goddess Kalistos said I wasn't suitable in the end, I had the potential but I didn't have the right personality according to her." (Hinata)
"(So personality matters?)" (I)
I found it strange for the Goddess to let someone with so much potential pass by, according to the system notifications, Hinata's Soul is of Heroic descent, whatever that is, it was further strengthened, it also had the body I created for it. her, even though she looks like the body of a cute and innocent little girl I know this body is not physical as much as it looks, her skin is cold as ice, and I don't feel any kind of vitality in her body, i also can't hear her breathing or heart beats.
Your body may look very realistic and even appear to be a physical body, but I know the truth, the energy in your body is a mixture of spiritual energy and spectral energy, I also feel a lot of death energy.
I use my identification skill on the little girl who is calming down and is curious to know her race.
<[ Result of Individual Identification:
NAME: Hinata
RACE: Spectral Eye of the Void (Epic)
LEVEL: 1/1000 EXP: 0/1790
Spectral energy: 100920/100920
Spiritual energy: 98000/98000
Strength: 1100
Dexterity: 3000
Agility: 5000
Defense: 800
Intelligence: 10000
Magic Defense: 2703
Charm: 45000
Luck: 290
CONDITION: NORMAL
TITLES:
[ Divine Beast (Demon Goddess of Death Kalistos) ] [ Divine Beast (Zenos) ] [ Guardian of Zenos ] [ Eye of Chaos ] ]>
I couldn't believe what I was seeing, this child's statistics are horrible for a new born.
Plus her race had (Epic) written next to a scary race name, plus it looks like she's a Spectre type.
I think this is the first time I've seen the status of an Undead, it has no vitality or stamina as I imagined it, Undead don't get tired and are already dead.
That spectral energy must represent the same as vitality (HP), at least that's what I think.
"Looks like everything went better than expected, right Mr Zenos?" (Henrique)
"Not all, looks like the initial plan failed, she didn't become a Champion of the Goddess Kalistos." (I)
"I know, her presence now resembles that of the Divine Beasts, I can feel it coming from her, but I find it strange that she doesn't have Divine energy." (Henrique)
"She's probably she's being limited by me like Ragnar and Orion." (I)
"I'm worried that I haven't fulfilled my agreement with the Demon Goddess Kalistos." (I)
"As I understand you have kept your promise, unfortunately, the young lady with you was not as suitable as we thought." (Henrique)
As I turned to talk to Henrique, Hinata started to float and shrink in size before sitting on top of my head.
"I'm not young, I'm over 97." (Hinata)
,m "Then why do you look so young?" (I)
"I don't know..." (Hinata)
Sigh
I had to lean on a chair nearby, my legs are shaking, I look at my status and see I had less than 50 spiritual energy left, plus my vitality had dropped to 1/5 after all this.
I look around and notice the floor that was just built all cracked, in addition, the windows of this room were broken.
"(My Astral body is gone before I know it, I must be more tired than I realize.)" (I)
"I think it's time for me to go, I need to get some rest, I'll see you tomorrow High Priest Henrique." (I)
"Come on Hinata, I'll introduce the others to you." (I)
"See you later Skeleton." (Hinata)
I stagger out of the building, outside Nix steps out of my shadow and brings some Shadow Horses to take me to the other island.
"Hinata, let me introduce you to someone, this is Nix, any questions you can talk to her or Freya, I'll introduce Freya to you later." (I)
Hinata jumps out of my head as she grows back, so she gives Nix a hug.
After that, we climbed onto the Shadow Horses and set off.
In addition to resting and eating something, I also want to talk to Hinata, I want to know more about her, and understand why she looks like a child.
I also want to know if Hinata has any memories of what was done to her.