Iko woke up.

  She was sweating rivers, her hair clinging onto her skin, her breathing was heavy, and her heart felt as if exploding.

  What... what was that...

  This time she didn’t react like she reacted with the memories of Helen, even when Helen got hurt and tortured, Iko wouldn’t even care upon waking up, she didn’t really feel the pain that Helen felt, of course she felt bad and it did hurt inside the memory, but once it stopped, it wasn’t important anymore.

  So why was this one different?

  She knew, but she didn’t want to accept it.

  This time it was MY memories... not Helen’s...

  She felt weird, she could feel the carriage was moving but she felt frozen.

  Who was that boy? Why can’t I remember his name? I... I want to remember...

  Iko started trembling, her tail was about to go crazy once again, she could feel her eyes watering, she hadn't cried even when devoured by beasts, why would she cry now?

  Stay calm, stay calm, stay calm, he is just a random boy, a foolish boy if what you just remember is right... who would come near me if I had both the dead eyes and that hair? He is a stupid boy, a boy you miss deeply...

  Iko knew then, that wasn’t the only time she had seen him, she was more than sure that she saw him more than once in the past, then that meant he came back looking for her...

  Someone... actually looked for me... cared for me...

  “I’m going to be on the roof for a while” Iko said slightly waking up both Fay and Aiden.

  “Are you good?” Aiden looked at her, with worry, but it didn’t feel fake this time, it was true worry.

  “Yeah... I just need some air” Iko said before the conversation could grow more and opened the door while the carriage moved, she startled the guards, but they calmed down after seeing her fly to the roof, none of the noticing her state.

  Why does Aiden feel so much like him? The red hair and eyes, his stupid real worry, the fancy clothes...

  She shook her head, he couldn’t be him, he was a prince, and from what she saw on the memory, that was a forest away from civilization, why would he be there? The boy probably was just a noble from a near city...

  But... I want to see him again... that warm...

  Iko decided to leave that theme for later and instead think about why in the past she had a connection to Elar, apparently with the blue sparks, but now there was nothing on her hair, just the old white hair, but with corruption falling from her horns.

  What happened in these last years?

  “You... finally remember?” Someone said next to her.

  Iko turned her head to see who said that, but there was no one, in its place, there was a small sculpture of ice.

  Iko, confused, picked up the piece of ice, it didn’t look especial, but even though it was made of ice, it felt colder than it was supposed to feel, but it wasn’t a bad cold, it felt like the cold she felt on that night she met the boy, this cold was... good.

  It was a sculpture of a woman, even though she couldn’t find any color for her given she was made of ice, she knew who the woman was, it was Iko, the sculpture was a statue of Iko, she would recognized her own face and her dragon features from a mile away, she even had the spears on her body and around her, but she noticed just now, she wasn’t alone on the sculpture, there was another woman who was beautiful, more than any woman Iko had seen, she was hugging Iko from behind while wearing a dress that covered just enough, her hair was long, and her pupils had the shape of a snowflake.

  Iko watched the system panel, she didn’t even pay attention at the fact the name of the spears was censored, she just looked at the message that came with it.

  “For the one that truly believed on me until the last chance...” For some reason, she couldn’t stop herself from letting some tears drop, a small smile formed on her face, it wasn’t the smile she had when Jaul suffered, or a smile from thinking about revenge or fighting, those smiles always carried bad emotions with them, this time, her smile was truly happy.

  I don’t even remember what I did to gain this... but thank you, truly.

  “I can see what gods are watching me?” Iko didn’t wait and tried to see the ones that kept spying on her.

  Iko already knew about the first two and kind of expected Elar to be watching her, and that though made her smile once again, but she had no idea who was the last one.

  Why is it corrupted?

  And now that Iko though about corruption for a while she noticed something.

  “Jaul said the corrupted blood came from that scary dragon of the end, but the dragon said he didn’t know what corruption was...” Iko was confused, if the dragon doesn’t know what corruption is, why was it in his blood? He was dead for a good time now...

  “Maybe someone injected corruption inside the dragon blood while he was dead? That would explain why he doesn’t know what it is, and Jaul would be right about it coming from his blood...” Iko was just getting more confused the more she thought about it.

  Eh I can find out somewhere on the future

  Iko felt good right now, and she wanted it to stay that way, so she would think about that in another moment.

  “I should probably enter again... but Aiden...” Iko still felt that Aiden was way to similar to him, and she didn’t want to confuse herself trying to find out who he was.

  So, she made a decision.

  Aiden was still kind of sleepy, since they started the journey towards the tower, he and his sister had almost no time to sleep by healing the soldiers or helping them, the soldiers weren’t even half as affected, they were trained for this kind of travel, but Fay and him weren’t.

  Then the carriage door opened and Iko went back inside, she seemed to be in a good mood compared to any time he had seen her, and she was carrying and ice sculpture with her.

  “Where did you get that?” He asked, the chaos she made trying to fit her tail and wings would not let him sleep, but Fay? The dang girl was sleeping like a rock.

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  “Not telling, but I have a question for you” She said while hiding the sculpture from him.

  It’s going to melt either way, so I guess it doesn’t matter.

  “Sure, ask away” He said, but for some reason she seemed hesitant to ask.

  “How old are you?” And that question he didn’t expect.

  “I'm 19, why do you ask that out of nowhere?” He was confused, because he didn’t know why she would be hesitant to ask that.

  “Then... 13 years ago... did you meet a girl in a forest with a golden moon? A-and the girl froze a lot of the place? And she was injured?” She asked and started stuttering, but the thing was...

  How did she know?

  It should have been impossible for her to know, only his butler, he and her should have known.

  He was about to lie to her but he felt he should tell her the truth, maybe it was the power of a dragon?

  “Yes... but how did you know?” The carriage started to become hotter; his aura was always hot as fire thanks to the blessing of Fuy, and the temperature started to rise quickly.

  But then, the aura around the woman became cold, and he had seen that cold before, it was the cold of the girl he had met that day, he still had in his memory how she froze everything around her in an instant, Elar had to love that girl to give her a blessing of that power.

  And the 2 of them had met more than a couple of times, but every time she had tried to give him her name, she was interrupted and never could, one day, she disappeared, but even then, he considered her a sister.

  “So, it’s really you...” She said, and for some reason she started to cry.

  He sent his aura back into his body, confused about what was happening but felt he had to console her.

  “H-hey are you ok?” He asked while from some reason, hugging her, the spears on her body phasing through him.

  “Warm as I remember...” She said while grabbing his arm.

  “Are you really her?” He asked, he had spent a good amount of money trying to find that girl, but no one was able to do it.

  “What other girl you know this pretty?” She said, probably trying to do a joke.

  “My sister” He said pointing at the sleeping rock on the other side of the carriage.

  “That’s a lie” She said with complete seriousness,

  “Whatever you say” He said letting her go “Why don’t you tell me what you have done all these years, and how you turned into a dragon, those are cool as fuck, give me some tips”

  Iko was happy, happier than she had ever been.

  When he said that he did see a girl that day, she started to remember other moments where they met each other, but specifically, the once every year event, the moon of Raiz.

  Every year, Aiden would come and see her, and she was always interrupted by some bitch in a horse and was never able to tell him her name.

  But there was a problem.

  “I would love to tell you want I did these past years but... I have memory issues...” She said while looking out the window, her grip on the sculpture becoming stronger.

  “Memory issues?” Aiden asked, she really wanted to call him brother, but she resisted.

  “Yeah, when I first saw you today, I just felt you were familiar, but other than a few memories with you I remembered in the last minutes, I only know about the last few months of my life, and they weren’t the happiest months of my life...” She said while looking at her dragon body, the feeling of familiarity felt correct, and she didn’t like that, she didn’t like that she was so... comfortable being a dragon.

  “You truly don’t know anything?” Brother, Iko just couldn’t resist it and decided to call him that in her mind, asked her.

  “Only my name and that I was apparently a farmer, honestly, I doubt I was a farmer, I would know how to do things farmers do, but I only know how to fight and kill...” She said while showing her claw to Aiden, she hid the fact about the memories about Helen though.

  “So you do not know anything about you or about the world?” Aiden seemed interested on the theme.

  “Only about me, I still know about the world, if I didn’t know about the world I would really be lost...” She said bringing the sculpture to her chest.

  “So you don’t know if you had brothers or sisters?”

  “I don’t...”

  “So... can I be your brother?” Iko heart stopped, she looked at him with wide eyes, and she could feel the tears on her eyes, she was sure just that day she cried more than in her entire life.

  “I’ll love to, brother” Iko said with a real smile, the same that seemed so distant before, today came as natural as breathing.

  And then a bird appeared on her legs and started shouting at her.

  Hunger.

  alice only felt hunger, and that was everything she felt ever since she got to this world.

  Her previous name was Alice, and she died while on her 12 birthday, birthday no one was there to celebrate.

  Except a man who broke into her house and killed her.

  Her family abandoned her long ago, and when she came back from her secret job of selling... substances, that barely paid 1 dollar an hour because those bitches who call themselves her bosses were some cheapstakes, she was met with a man dressed in black who was trying to steal, and she had nothing worth stealing, so he killed her and probably sold her body.

  She had woken up after being killed in cold blood, she was met by a woman dressed in white silk with green hair, green horns that turned white that looked like roots of a tree.

  And green eyes, oh those emerald, green eyes.

  Alice fell in love with those eyes the moment she saw them.

  “Hello, Alice, my name is Aysar, I’m the goddess of nature, or known by few people, goddess of abundance, I’m sure you are sca-”

  “Your eyes are beautiful! How can I get some eyes like that?” Alice interrupted her, instantly jumping to her feet.

  “Thanks, but that is not why I brought you here, I'm sure you know you died, and I wanted to ask you a favor, would you want to be reincarnated inside a world me and other gods take care of? It’s okay if you don’t want to after all-”

  “I’ll do it! But I want eyes like yours!” Alice said, not really thinking about it, but the books she saw on the library were mostly about reincarnation, and that became her dream, and now she could do it!

  Aysar laughed “then the best I can do is reincarnate you as a daughter of mine on monster form, and you will have to unlock the ability to transform to human”

  “That would be even cooler!”

  After that she woke up on a strange jungle, and she was half dead, why would her now mother throw her half dead?

  After walking for a while with pain all over her body, she noticed she was very small, and she had wings and talons.

  HOLY FUCK IM A BIRD!

  She was more excited than anything, but first, she needed to heal herself, or else she would die.

  She then saw a smokey figure after getting out of some bushes, she was about to run but felt that the figure didn’t mean any harm to her, so she walked up to it, and suddenly, black liquid appeared on the rock it was leaning on.

  Alice, with the hunger she felt, drank it.

  [You drank blood from Iko Noulan, The Heir]

  Huh? What's that?

  [I’m the system]

  This world has a system?! FUCK YES!

  Alice was jumping around right now, and just then she noticed she just drank blood.

  Eh, I'm not human anymore, no problem with that, but... I’m hungry.

  Tentacles came out of her mou- beak, of her beak and tried to devour the smokey figure.

  Eh? Why am I trying to eat... it?

  For some reason, the smokey figure had transformed into a beautiful woman, she had white hair and some precious black eyes, and was half dragon, that was a fact.

  “Stupid bird! I’m not a fucking snack!”

  Eh?! She talks!

  Then the dragon girl fell on top of Alice.

  OUCH!

  You well developed woman! Get off me!

  After a while she did, and Alice escaped, but felt she should at least return back the favor of healing her.

  She saw some rats on the ground below, and they were like a lot of rats.

  That should do the trick!

  She flew down and grabbed the rats, then carried them towards the girl, over and over again, she also found a blue shiny stone, and also fed it to her, when she woke up, she gave Alice a new name.

  “You are one lucky bird... I’ll name you... Rainari”

  And Rainari liked that name!

  So, then they started training and everything, she was able to create lightning now, and eat a lot of things, for Aysar sake they fought a T-rex too!

  But Rainari fell unconscious after that, and now she was waking up!

  “Hello world!” She was now able to talk, she was still a bird, but able to talk, she still couldn’t believe the woman though she was a man.

  “Unbelievable...” She shook her head.

  She was on a room full of computers and walls made of metal.

  Where am I?

  Oh right! A system must have a status screen! Show me, show me!

  “I have many questions, but first, HOW DARE IKO LEAVE ME HERE?! HOW DO I FIND HER?!”

  Rainari screamed, mad at the fact that she was abandoned in a random dungeon, she ignored the fact that there were dozens of black spears trying to enter the room.

  The next moment, she was teleported to a car, no not a car, it was a carriage!

  And she had Iko right in front of her.

  “Bitch!”