Secret Talk 1

[A/N : I apologize for not uploading this chapter yesterday. I almost locked myself out of this account after signing out, and forgetting the password.

Thankfully, I wrote the password of this account in a piece of paper a week ago. I never thought that it would be this useful...

Anyway, as an apology for the inconvenience, I'll try to make the next chapter I'll upload be longer. I'll just squeeze a little bit of my schedule, hoping that it work out fine...]

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*Ting!*

A sound of glass hitting each other was heard in the local nightclub.

Many people uttered a whispers and chuckle while talking to their friends. Some enjoy coquetry to their partners, while many magniloquent people brag about their jobs, earnings, and money.

Somewhere around this place, at the VIP area, a young girl who seemed to be around the age of 12, was talking very loudly as if she was making a complaint.

If Athan were here, he could have immediately identified who this little girl was. Because, this little girl was none other than Danica, the girl who was born with a special ability to read minds.

As the party outside the VIP area continues, somewhere around the VIP room, Danica let herself acquiesced sitting alone, all while drinking a glass of coffee.

"How dare you say that I'm depressed?" Danica asked the bartender, who was wiping an empty glass clean, with an annoyed face. She then continued, "Could a depress person make this? Didn't think so, don't you?"

The bartender just lightly shake his head upon hearing her words. "Young Lady, that's a mug of cold milk, and two scoops of instant coffee. And, I'm the one who made that..."

The bartender couldn't help but get worried, as he asked her a question, "Are you sure you're okay, Young Lady? Did you forgot to take meds today...?"

Frowning, Danica clicked her tongue as raised her cup and spoke, "I don't need those meds, I'm not depressed..."

When the bartender heard her say this, he let out a deep sigh.

𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘸, 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢𝘥𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥. Although he wanted to say this out loud, he refrained himself from talking.

After a few seconds of silence, Danica placed her cup down and proudly announced.

"I'M A GENIUS."

*Ring ring!*

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(Athan POV)

"Ugh..."

Groaning, I held my head with my right hand, while covering half of my face with my palm. I didn't know why but the moment I woke up just this morning, I suddenly felt a strong headache.

This lasted a couple of minutes until I heard a notification that came from inside my head.

[Ding!]

[Synchronizing Memory... 1%]

At this moment, I became surprised that I unconsciously ignored the pain on my head to look at the notification that popped out from my vision.

[5%]

"Wha-what?" I scrutinized the panel carefully for a few moments. I said, "What is this? Regained wh--!?" Soon after, the memories from my dream last night came rushing in my mind, cutting my last sentence off.

[26%]

Though surprised, I managed to collect my breathes and calm myself down. Soon after, I waited for a couple of minutes for the synchronization to finish.

[48%]

[56%]

[...]

[..]

Few minutes later-

[89%]

[98%]

[100%]

[-Ding!]

When the loading was done, a robotic voice rang in my ear.

[Congratulations, Player!]

[You have successfully regained "\_{⬛}_/" past life memories.]

I stared at what was written on the panel for a few seconds. When I finished checking things out, I heaved out a long deep sigh in contempt.

"Few more unnecessary questions has popped out..." I mumbled to myself out loud.

Internally, although I'm curious about this 'Lucius', I wasn't forcing myself much by trying to investigate his existence. Therefore, I merely let the memories of him come to me each night, and connect them together when the time comes.

From what I've found out, he's a regressor. Not only that, while he was indeed a regressor, Lucius also has the ability to reincarnate. Pretty much, his existence was almost the same as Arthur... It was like he is him.

But...

For some unknown reason, I was sure that Lucius was not him... No, I was 100% sure that he wasn't him.

After thinking about this, I once again sighed. "Why can't anyone let me sleep peacefully...? I already missed the time where I was able to sleep whether or whenever I want when I was still a child... In Athan's body."

𝘎𝘰𝘴𝘩... 𝘕𝘰𝘸 𝘐'𝘮 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘢𝘭...

I sat down on my bed, and hugged my knees. With my back slumped on the wall, I mumbled, "I miss my Mom...", unconsciously out loud.

𝑆𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒...

Right after I said that, I went completely silent.

"...Eh?"

By the time I realized what I said, I immediately hid my embarrassed face to my knees. Thankfully, no one was inside the room to hear this. Or else, I would've bashed my head to the wall continuously and ignored blood, that was spewing out like a fountain, in forehead until I die.

Even though I'm sure that the process will hurt pretty badly, I'm fully prepared to do it since I've already done this many times before...

*Sigh...*

I was about to calm myself down after I took a shower.

The moment I was about to pick up the towel that was hanging on the side, I looked at the clock outside the bathroom, and suddenly remembered something.

"Shit! I almost forgot about my meeting."

Almost immediately, I took the towel from it's place. I tied it onto my waist, while I rushed out off the bathroom, only stopping after reaching the closet.

"What should I wear...?"

Opening the closet, I took some formal clothes out, and hurriedly put it on. With my towel above my head, small droplets of water started trickling down to my body.

Soon after I was done putting on my clothes, I took the blower out just below the drawer, and turned it on.

*Shooooo-*

My long, reddish hair cascaded freely in the air... When I was done, I turned my head towards the mirror to check myself out before leaving.

"I guess this body is not that bad after all..." I mumbled, caressing the side of my cheeks. "Considering Lucius looks, I would only rank his looks as the 'Third'; with Athan (My other body) above him as the second, and Arthur as the first."

With my bright golden-yellow eyes that glistened brightly underneath the lights of the room, and long-cascading reddish hair, I smiled bitterly at my reflection before leaving.

"I miss my other body's scary, yet handsomely face (Athan)..." I sighed deeply, locking the door of my apartment using my key card and my eyes' identification.

With that, I left my apartment and went out to where Danica and I would meet up.

After an hour ride in my car, I finally reached the place.

"Identification card please." A tall man in black suit stopped me when I was about to take a step inside the building.

I blinked my eyes a few times, before nodding my head in silent. "Here." I took my ID from my wallet and gave it to him.

The guard took my ID and gave to his associateto scan it using a scanner. It took about a brief seconds before he and his associate backed away, and bowed their heads in a respectful manner.

"I apologize for my manner earlier and for wasting your time, Boss." The guard who took my ID said, "We were merely doing our jobs. There had been few uninvited people sneaking inside this building. So, the security had to be tightened and be secured properly."

"Uh huh..." I abruptly nodded my head and ignored the two as I went inside.

"Hmm..." After briefly looking around the place, I walked up to the receptionist and asked her a straight question, "Where's the VIP area? The one where a little girl named 'Danica' is in?"

The receptionist frowned when hearing this, but quickly changed into a surprised and apologetic expression after showing her my ID.

"R-right away, Boss..." The receptionist gave a stiff nod. She glanced at the girl beside her without raising her head to meet my eyes. Soon, she ordered that same girl to lead me to where Danica is currently in.

I followed the girl in front of me silently; it was until we finally arrived at the destination- which is the VIP room where Danica was in.

"Here we are..." The girl, who helped me get to where Danica was in, lowered her head and opened the door for me as she motioned her hands as if motioning me to go inside.

Seeing her gesture, I nodded and entered the place. She then closed the door and left after I ordered her to leave, so that I could have a conversation with Danica properly.

When that was done, I turned my attention to the girl sitting alone, while her head was resting on her arm, looking quite depressed.

"This girl really needs to be taught some proper manners from her parents..." I mumbled under my breath. Massaging my temples, I walked towards her direction to talk to her.

"Hey... I'm here." I let my presence be known, and sat down next to her seat.

Upon hearing my voice, Danica raised her head slightly to take a glance at my direction. "You're finally here... Why are you late for an hour?"

My lips twitched when I heard her question. "That's not important. Let just get down to business."