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"Hey! At Least Ask Before Touching My Stuff!!"

"Alvish! Why's it that you only see justice when it's on your side?!" He turned with his eyes narrow, clearly telling her how annoyed he was.

"What do you mean…?"

"That day, at my home, you were running around beholding the stuff in my room. Have I said anything?!"

"A—a…no." She awkwardly responded.

"Then I expect the same from you!" He adjourned and turned back to the shelf, continuing his read.

His face was truly bothered, which Alvish saw and she couldn't say another thing in exchange after her own behaviour was pointed out.

"Just what are you doing?" She tried to change the topic and playfully went towards him.

"So, those idiots have added this one too!"

And as she got close, her body shared a cold shiver, seeing a specific word on the page he was reading.

"Wait– They Add This Kind Of Information Too?!" She immediately snatched the book out of his hands and said, "Also, Where Did You Find It? I've Never Seen This Page Before!"

There was 'Built-incarnation' written on the page, in the inner right side, and it contained information about that particular shade on the paragraph it was written in.

"A… check the index, molnamont!" He answered, not really minding anything this time.

"Really?? It isn't in the B section?!" She asked in shock, looking up at him. But she saw that Reada was already going in the direction of her desk with that bowl of cookies in his hands, his back visible towards her.

She turned her head down again and flipped to the very first pages to look for that section. Though even after looking through each of them, she still couldn't find it and her face turned perplexed, starting to doubt herself if she missed any.

"Oh, they are called Remanants too." Suddenly she heard his voice and her sight caught the word just below the last point of the alphabetical list. She was surprised to see the list continue even after Z, and there was also an end matter after it, named the same as the book, 'Eye of Birth'. After noticing, she couldn't stop herself and started flipping to the page number it was directing to, desperate to read more about her idol's eye shade and know why it's specially categorised.

As she reached, her eyes immediately fell on the heading which was written in a big bold Serif font with an underline, and at the bottom it had a large paragraph, around half the page long, describing it without any image.

'Remanants, it is a special class of shades that contains the extraterrestrial Neyth-ras.'

"Hey— Ain't Shades Only Found On Earth?!" She looked up at him in bewilderment as her thoughts were puzzled after reading that.

Reada was sitting on her study chair when her sight caught him, and was feeding a cookie into his mouth, while he chewingly said, "Humans are born with shades but this doesn't mean it's the only way they come into this world!"

She, for a moment, paused, but then complained, "but history says none of the alien civilization had seen anything like them before."

"You surely like guessing, don't you? But have you ever tried disproving yourself?!" Reada replied annoyedly plus sarcastically, "Now, stop disturbing me in snack time and read the rest on your own!"

"Fine…"

'Remanants, it is a special class of shades that contains the extraterrestrial Neyth-ras. The HC dynasty had been introduced to them for the first during their expansion period. Between the events of wide-world invasion and the betrayal war (in their golden age). When we were still spreading, weird remains of temple like formation had started being found on some far-away extro-planet and they were self-forming. Unlike normal objects they were not fading away with time but the exact opposite was happening. They were coming more into existence as moments flight. They were like running backwards in time and were reforming from the bits of themselves, and the ruins were telling a story that only Homo-Celestians could read because they could use shades. It was about some ghostly sources of energy which were said to look like will-o'-the-wisps (ignis fatuus) but they were helpful to fulfil wishes of some selective people. Sometimes later, Remanants started appearing into the world from places to places and some were even found inside those same ruins. But in the vastness of this universe, where life is rare and shades are rarer, they were the rarest. Till this date, only a number of them have been recorded. They appear the same as mentioned in the tales, just like the normal shades but a bit different. Contrastively, while normal shades come into the world along a human's birth, they just appear randomly here and there in the universe and then fade away. Each of the Remanants are sui generis and so no duplicate of them are seen. They also choose their bearer themselves when some certain conditions are met. They are hard to capture and impossible to use without their agreement.'

"HOLY— Like Mother Nature Was Waiting For Us To Reach That Specific Checkpoint!! Is It Even Real? I Still Can't Believe It!!"

"Certainly!"

She looked up in confusion as she had acquired a new layer of information, hearing his voice, now even more confused and shocked because he was the one who had just said to her to not disturb him some moments ago.

"Aaa… yes! But it's still a bit confusing. What's with this 'they also choose their bearer themselves.'? Is it trying to say that shades are Alive??"

"An- actually it means, when a person reaches a certain kind of mindset, a type of thinking style, they automatically get into them. It's related to linic, all the shades work on them. So, it's more like a requirement to use them than their taste." He explained. His voice was soft this time.

She stayed silent for a moment, trying to understand his words, but then she suddenly concluded something.

"Wait- does that mean, One also has his own special type of philosophy which's why he has the 'eye of Built-incarnestioon'??" She immediately said and flipped through the pages again, looking for the page Reada was reading before. "It's also a Remanant, right? It should be since it was mentioned here!"

"Glad, at least now you're using your brain!"

Her eyes stopped quietly as they landed on the part of the book where it had information about it. And then she read.

'Build-incarnation. It was a long hypothesised shade but in recent years its existence has been proven. It is considered to be explaining the main method behind the working of a shade because it let's it's user emit any type of energy that they want and then create anything they desire out of it and normally shades also work by bringing a specific type of energy into this world in form of their naked energy, which breaks the law of energy conservation in thermodynamics.'

The page also had a heading and an illustration beside that small paragraph, on its left side, with a caption having named, 'Build-incarnation in eye shade form'. It was an visual art of an eye like the caption had hinted and it had a cyanish hue over itself, the translucence hiding only the bits of the aqua blue colour of its iris. The iris also had its simple design of black Syn-ra drawn over it, which was a circle of medium thickness with no pupil at its centre and a small birthmark like dot, with a little gap on both of the sides, between the edges of the iris and the circle, at its bottom.

"Whys is it spelled as Bulid-incarnation? Ain't it Built-incarnestioon actually?" She asked as soon as she noticed.

"Remanants are named after the usage they provide, like normal shades are named after the person that was born with them first. So no. Built is past tense. Though, they are the same thing, doesn't make that big of a difference. Since huologists also name things recklessly, saying, the things they work on don't give a fuck about physics so why should they give a shit about grammer."

"Wow, that's interesting! I didn't know that!" A smile bloomed on her face as she said, and she started flipping more through the pages again, her eyes sparkling in hope for more newfound knowledge. But suddenly she stopped and her expressions changed as she hit the last page and caught something completely unexpected.

The whole page was almost empty and there was only a small paragraph on the top, with no images and only a heading in bold fonts.

"The Shade Of Birth. It is believed to be the reason behind the evolution of Homo-sapiens and the weird nature of general shades being born into the people only born on Earth. It is also regarded as the strongest kind of Remanants/shade. This book itself is named after it and only this much information is allowed to be revealed." She couldn't resist and read it out loud, in her state of bafflement.

"It's even surprising that they let out this much!"

"You Already Knew About It?!" She, in surprise, said.

"I had heard that they keep its details secret."

"Yeah, but how did you know?!"

"Like hell, I would tell you!"

"Bastard!! …Fine! I will find that out myself!!"

"Huh?? Really, Alvish? You had even said you will find out about my second shade yourself? Have you, by now?" Reada responded sarcastically.

Hearing that, it reminded Alvish of how big of an asshole he was and she boiled up in annoyance, the same kind that he gets whenever she comes to invite him to somewhere, while this time Reada was enjoying.

Suddenly while thinking about his past behaviour, she realised something and ended up asking in muse, "Now that I think about it, you were acting quite strange a moment ago. Like you don't let out information this easily? Then why were you clearing my doubts about those shades for free?"

Reada was also surprised after hearing that and his facial expressions were like he was asking, 'was I?'. But he cooled down himself and continued, "Yeah, I wonder why's that too? Can call it character development, maybe?" He stood up, shaking off his body and started stretching his arms from left to right. And he then went up to her. Alvish, eagerly waiting to know what else he had to say.

Some foot before her, he extended his arm, which had the bowl in it. The bowl wasn't transparent so she couldn't see what he was offering and looked at him with questioning eyes.

"Bring me water, also take this along while you're at it."

"LIKE HELL I WOULD!!" She shouted out the same words, but angrily as her thoughts were scattered. "Don't You Dare Order Me Around!!"

"Alvish, you're quite selfish, ain't you? You, like everyday, come to my home, even on the weekends, just to annoy me. Not to forget you're begging for help related to your shade and I had helped you out too. But each time I say something, your self-respect wakes up!" His harsh words made her pause for a second. "I'm a guest here today. I don't care if you think of it as hospitality or the payment for the help I have provided, but now I need a glass of water!!"

She wanted to say something in exchange, but she didn't want their relationship to get any unhealthier. Also little did she realise it was her fault after all.

…

Dynasty: PC,

T wing,

Somewhere in the darkness of the vacuum. Planet Travias set_t'93, a Neptune like blue gas giant, orbiting a yellow dwarf like sun, was ironically shining a bit purple. It was dark bluish around its polar regions, which followed a sky blue colour towards the centre. Suddenly a spaceship emerged from the darkness behind the planet, crossing the terminator area, flying horizontally over the equator line, and came into the star-facing side. Against the bright background and the planet, the ship appeared to be quite small but in reality, from a human's scale, it was big enough to be a small town in itself. And inside it, in the top most hall of the ship, there was a person standing profoundly with his eyes closed, chin up, under the long strip of white celestial light which was coming straight down through the only transparent part of the ceiling.

The rest of the room was in darkness and his hands were also in the air, in a delicate manner, still with only the fingers moving, like he was playing an invisible violin, harp or as if he was a maestro of an orchestra. While his fingers' movement seemed to be causing the vocal like music that was playing in the background.

"Like this, this, just like how my hands were commanding and the past-live's instrument was influencing the electromagnetic waves to create that melody. Second also influences the gravitational field to create gravity." All of a sudden that man landed down his hands and the rhythm stopped with him, after he opened his eyes and looked front.

The long vertical glass, that had a width of around 2 metre, on the ceiling, also had a star map, though the links between the points had become barely visible by the strong radiations it was letting pass. And so the room had other members too, in its blackness for a reason, that that person was talking to. On each of his sides, at the edges of the light strip, standing in a line, facing towards him with their heads slightly down in respect. However he, being in the middle, didn't seem to be affected by any of it.

"It's not that special of a power after all. Our Seer Kyle can solely handle three like him." He finished.

"Sir, if he's that strong then why aren't we striking again? We already have planets full of military. Several Seers and sir Kyle can probably take on the top ones, while we can, the rest?" Unexpectedly one of the people behind him, from his left side, looked up and said.

"Yes, we can. But the main problem is him." He slowly turned to him and cleared his doubt. "One, their first lord. He's odd and can even out us all at once. And by us, I mean the whole dynasty, if he wills to. He's said to be immortal and unstoppable."

"You Mean He's Also 0th Dimensional??" They all asked in shock.

"No, he is not. He's not completely immortal, but considered to be. We can count his Linic too!"

"If that is true then why haven't any of us seen him yet. It's been eons since the last invasion. Why hasn't he shown up since then? Ain't it weird?"

"Now that you've said it, I'm also starting to doubt why that happens? Let's say they aren't sending him for minner mission. But for such a strong person, they would've definitely sent him out to hunt the molnamonts?"

"I've heard rumours that he's dead!" Another one of his subordinates commented.

"Yes, maybe he is." He thoughtfully said, "Most of the chances are that he is. And if he is… then maybe we ca—"

Suddenly the floor started blinking in red and white and a high alert beep sound played.

"Seer Lazcer, We have got a news. A new hole has been detected." An emergency message echoed around the hall. "The signals are strong. It's assumed to be beyond the inner barrier."

Initially Lazcer was a person who had a strange green hue over his skin and red wavy lines on his body, on top of his visible veins. He was a young looking person and mostly preferred to be shirtless, showing off his physique. But this time, after hearing that news, a smile had also started to appear on his face.

"Now," He softly said, "that's what's called luck!"