Yuriel felt a strange scrutiny gaze from Kim, seeing as Kim was holding her up, she put her face close to Kim.
"Uhm Kim?"
He glances at her as they locked eyes.
"Yea?"
Yuriel silently brushed the dirt off of Kim's hair, hesitating a bit. She let out what she is thinking before backing her face away.
"During this journey, you been recently quiet."
Kim tilted his head slightly to the right, his face in awe, a bit of surprise. He is confused by what Yuriel said to him.
"What are you talking about?"
Kim not knowing what Yuriel was talking about is perplexed. This has comes out of nowhere, sure earlier when he asks Mary those question it been personal but him being quiet is nothing of suspicious.
"What do you mean this journey? We only been walking for a few hours, I think. Me being quiet isn't suspicious, is it?"
Yuriel's face crumpled up, a bit of sadness ooz out of it. Then Yuriel asks a question out of nowhere, in which it doesn't seem like it's apart of the conversation.
"You…you weren't paying attention? Did you?"
"Huh?!"
Yuriel sighed. Kim looked at her weirdly.
"Do you know what Eras said to you when you were alone with him?"
Kim thinks for a second before nodding his head in silent.
"My memory..? But what does that have to do with anything?"
Yuriel sighed once more, looking as if she had enough with him.
"Look around you Kim, what do you notice?"
Kim exams the area, not much have change he thought. Checking everything he that is in his view, he thought nothing of it, he stares back at Yuriel and shrugged.
"What about it? What does this have to do with my memory?" he asks.
Yuriel face-palm her face before glancing at Kim.
"Remember when you said something about his power, being able to control the laws of nature or something about concepts."
Kim nod not sure of where she is going with this.
"What if 'he' alter the concept of your memory?!"
Kim stumble back slightly, his face in shock.
"What do you mean?"
Yuriel points at Mary and Daima,
"Don't you think they been quiet for a while now?" she asked.
Kim gaze at them slowly, they were just standing still.
"Hello?" Putting his hand out and waves it in front of them, they didn't fazed, not a single movement peeped out of them.
Kim then turned to Yuriel with a frightened stare.
"Then what about you?"
Yuriel smiled but it wasn't like the usual or perhaps normal to say In the least, it look as if it is another person copying her, trying to intimidate her.
"You're not Yuriel are you..?"
He froze and stares at her with caution. He backs up a bit before adding:
"Who actually are you? Where is Yuriel and Mary?"
The 'Yuriel' standing in front of him change her smile, a more genuine one but Kim still back away from her.
"What's going on, I'm so confused!"
The 'Yuriel' in front of Kim sits down, flower blooms out of the fleshy ground as red, blue, yellow, and purple flowers settled on the stems.
Her face is distorted, changing every second Kim speak to her.
"You want to know who I am?"
Kim nods frantically, a bit of uncertainty lingers in his minds, asking if he really want to know the 'Yuriel' personality.
"Let just say… you heard of my name before."
Kim raised his eyebrows in confusion, not only because of what she had just said but the way her face became blurred, he could only see the 'Yuriel' lips and nose but the eyes look as it have been darken.
The 'Yuriel' seeing Kim examine her, sighed.
"I know this must be confusing right now, and what I am saying is going to be vague but you need to wake up."
Kim still confused, unsure of what he should said. His eyes continued to fixated on 'Yuriel'.
"What do you mean wake up? Aren't I already awake?"
The 'Yuriel' shakes her head hazily and silently, a dimming glare casted across Kim's face.
"Then what should I do? I mean I somewhat don't believe you but now that you bring up all of these to my attention, it's a bit… distorted I think."
Before Kim had realized, it was just them alone on a giant flower, his surroundings has changed without him realizing, rather it was as if his memory is malfunctioning.
'Yuriel' smiled and stood up from where she last sat on.
"Kim you must've realize your memory is playing tricks on you, it been alter, probably by 'him' but I want you to get out of here."
Kim couldn't avoid asking himself, just who is the figure standing in front of him right now, rather 'what' is standing in front of him but he remains silence, just in case it is a enemy rather than an allied.
"Why…why are you helping me?"
The figure stares at him with a million different faces, yet despite her having so many different identities, none of the could be seen clearly for Kim to make out.
She slowly and graudually made her way towards Kim who had already backed up away from her, he felt an empty spot, looking behind him was simply the void, the same void that had stared at him since the beginning of when he first got put in the 'voided room'.
He stare back at the figure as got her hand on his shoulder, he didn't even felt her hand rubbing against his right shoulder.
"You have once saved my peoples… so now I'd like to repay a favor."
A glimmer of star descends from the void, it illuminates the dark with its brightly shines light. The figure extends her hands toward it as the star gently touches her softly before resting on her palms.
"What is that?"
Kim asked, intrigued by the star, a gleaming white light in the center while the outer edge bloom with the sun coloration. It was as if Kim was a moth attracted by the lights of the bulb.
"It's beautiful."
He said, the figure extend both of her hands toward Kim.
"This star will allowed you to wake up fully."
Kim hesitates for a minute, slowly extend his arms out. He opens his palms as the figure gently place the star onto his hands. The figure steps backwards to make sure Kim had enough space for something.
"Woah, how do I use this to get back though?"
He hovers the star in the air and wags it a little, even doing a little bit of wave. The figure then told Kim to place it near his chest and suppress it within himself.
"This sounds like something I shouldn't do."
He said stubbornly but the figure reassured him that the star is only meant to wake up his conscious, nothing else.
"And of course I'm unconscious, why wouldn't I be?"
He looked around for Mugen and the text, wow, he called the {white text} just a text. Kim brushed the voices in his head away which make the figure laughed. It sound as if she could also hear the voice that is currently in Kim's head.
The figure smiled at Kim before pointing to fingers up. Kim had already place the star near his chest, it vanished as little stream of cosmos dust sprinkled out and went into Kim's heart.
"Why are you pointing up two finger?" Kim asked.
"Because I have two thing I wants to tell you, first when you see this 'Eras' guy, just run. You have no way of beating him, so I advice you to just run,"
Kim give a slight nods, a nod which he could to what she is saying understands but probably won't proceed to listen to it.
"And second, make sure to watch over Luc… let just say 'someone' I know have an eye on him."
Kim hearing this tried to speak but it was already too late, the star implodes within him yet he felt no pain, all he could see is a bright flash of lights covering his pupils.
- - -
Kim opened his eyes slowly to see his body getting carried by Yuriel. His vision somewhat blurry sees Daima holding onto Yuriel's hand tightly. He was still trying to think of what he had just witnessed, who did he talked to, why did she takes the form of Yuriel, so many questions flooded his mind as Yuriel finally sees Kim's eyes open.
"You're awake, how was your nap?"
Kim could see bruises on both his and Yuriel's face.
"What happened?"
He asked Yuriel who stays quiet but Daima looks at him angrily.
"My mother went back for you guys just to see you getting pummeled, you were already out cold when she get there. And Yuriel barely managed to grabs onto you, after she got your body, we've tried to run but he was too fast so my mother distracted him by running in a different direction and now she's… gone!"
Kim could see tears dripping down Daima eyes. Both of his hand clutch into a ball of fists.
"You bastard couldn't even saved someone who had saved you!"
He added, he lets go of Yuriel's hand and walked ahead keeping his distance.