MERICI

A cute-blonde girl with golden eyes and height about the same as mine appeared before me in white and golden clothes with red ribbon that banded her beautiful hair and proclaimed that she was a god, obviously I didn't believed her at first, but the smile on my face wouldn't fade away, when she pouted her face and flustered, she appeared to be the cutest girl in the universe in front of me, she looked at me with her eyes that seemed hell of pure and asked --

"You.... why do you keep staring at me?"

She questioned me in a very soft tone being all flustered and I smiled at her and responded.

"Well... you are just too cute, that's all."

As I said those words her face turned red that even reached her ears, honestly at that time the only thing I could think of was how could it be possible for somebody to be that cute. She blushed with her red cheeks and said.

"You...you.. what are you saying, are you an idiot?"

I kept staring at her though it was a bit rude and asked a question which roamed inside my head for a long time-

"So, which character are you cosplaying as a god this late at night?"

I questioned her while looking at her cute face with a innocent smile probably and she suddenly looked downwards and released a sigh, she sat down on the soaking wet grass with her legs crossed and her elbow placed on her right leg and the fist under her cheek, she said with a feeling of uncertainty.

"Huhhhh.... why did I had to meet a spiky-haired fool who mistakes me for a cosplayer who is roaming as a god, while I am the real deal, it doesn't make sense."

After I heard her, I argued in a very childish manner and pouted.

"How rude!!!!! My name's <>, you should call me be my name, y'know."

"Yes,, yes.. Ray it is, by the way aren't we getting off topic, well.... I am telling you that I am not a cosplayer but I am a real god.", she said in a pissed voice to convince me that she was a god.

I gazed in her eyes with my blue-dragonish eyes while I accompanied a sharp look and questioned her--

"Hehhh.... what was your name, <> was it?, so in other words you say, you are a- god, how can I believe you, you have to show me some kind of proof y'know?"

As soon as I asked her, her eyes gazed back at me with a serious look on her face, she crossed her arms and straightened her back and started mumbling.

"Hmmmmmm... proof, proof, proof.."

I looked at her and laughed on her mumbling and suggested an idea.

"If you are a god, then can't you use some kind of power which can be used as a proof."

She looked at me and rubbed her chin with her right hand and closed her eyes.

"Power, huhhh... since gods can't use their powers without the help of a after they have descended on the surface and we only have about fifty talismans, we can't do much, hmm... ohhh right, didn't you saw the flame that carried me down to the surface ."

I lifted my face upwards and closed my eyes and tried to concentrate on the flame as a proof.

"Hmmm.. now that you mention it, I saw that golden flame, but it still is not much to go on because I might have been hallucinating due to a certain dream, is there anything else."

The dream I saw before I woke up was kind of similar, so due to which it might have been a possibility that I just hallucinated the golden flame

"Ehhhhhh..... isn't that enough, you are a hard one, y'know.", she said while pouting with a very dissatisfied look on her face, she looked at me and released a sigh.

"If that's the case, then I don't have a choice, so Ray, please could you close your eyes for a second."

"Will that prove that you are a god?", I said with a questionable look on my face.

"Just do as I say for now?", she yelled at me with her cute face.

I slowly closed my eyes as per her request, slowly-slowly I felt a warm air that stroke my face gently and after few seconds I sensed something very warm and soft touching my forehead and also both my cheeks, in the cold night at that moment I was not cold at all, the warm air and sensation was pleasant, due to it, I suddenly opened my eyes and saw Merici's face very close to mine, I figured out the warm feeling, she kept both her soft and gentle hands on my cheeks and her warm forehead touched my forehead while she blushed slightly with her eyes closed, it was as if I was in heaven.

After a bit she opened her golden and gentle eyes and moved a bit backwards and also saw that my eyes were already open, I had a very happy smile on my face that was a bit red, but it was pure happiness I experienced, she looked at me and her face turned red while her eyes burned with fury, she said.

"You...you.. I told you to keep your eyes closed.... and you sure seem happy, pervert..", she said while glaring at me.

"Hehheheheh.... I am not a pervert you know, it was you who did that, Merici.", I replied with a happy smile on my face.

She stood up and hid her face from me, but I could see tiny drops of water that poured down her cheeks and said in a very soft tone as usual but it felt as if sorrow was mixed in her voice.

"I went inside your mind and received all of your memories from the time when you were six till now, I saw everything?", her voice had a depth of sadness in it, I figured that she was crying and also figured out the reason.

"So you saw everything, then what is point in crying, you are surprisingly soft y'know.", I said looking at her directly with a face that neither depicted happiness or sorrow.

She turned around about 90 degrees and said while tears flew down her eye.

"Aren't you sad, after all I saw everything, you were always happy with him, and also trained together, ate together, you loved him that much, but still, you didn't cry, how can you be like that, isn't that a bit cruel?'

As she looked at me while crying, I released a sigh and stood up and gazed at her and stated--

"I won't break my promise, after all he's watching so, I can't cry, that isn't cruel, that's how he was, well.... anyway thanks for crying in my place, hehe..", I said with a smile on my face and ruffled the back of the head.

She looked at me and her eyes widened, she gave a smile and turned back towards me.

"You really are strong, aren't you?", she said with a very cute smile on her face, she was a very kind girl to even cry just after she saw someone's memory, at that moment my heart started beating faster that it might burst, I saw her smiling face and blushed and thought crossed my mind.

'She is a good girl, I might have fallen in <> with her.'

"But, it is still not right to see other people's memories, y'know, well... you showed me enough proof, but it is not nice."

"SORRY!!!!!", she responded with a smile on her teary face.