Voidwalker

Unfortunately this girl would be wrong, as quite a few invaders have deliberately made their way into Gensokyo with selfish intentions. This isn’t exactly a place that’s well known to the public, and Yukari wishes to keep it that way. Should the knowledge of Gensokyo’s existence fall into the wrong hands, the results could be disastrous. Hence why Yukari goes through the effort of silencing anyone she can. Especially humans who have been spirited away.

Hearing the girl give out information about herself though, it’s not completely unbelievable, having heard and even witnessed even more ludicrous stories herself. But she’s never heard of an ancient race on Earth called the Ascians, so this girl truly must come from a different dimension altogether. Yukari can’t help but be a little in awe by this, seeing as for the longest time, the only other person she’s known to come from another dimension altogether is herself.

“So what I’m hearing is, you’re not of this world altogether. Not from Gensokyo, or even the world outside.” Yukari rests her hands on her lap and finishes her response with a smile. “That sounds pretty anomalous to me, yet you deny this? Why? When it’s possible that you may not even be human in the first place?”

I was aware of the existence of parallel worlds in my own universe, but it seemed like this Gensokyo really wasn’t part of my own world, specially when this woman didn’t know about the Ascians. There was part of me that was scared of admitting that maybe my powers went too far if I managed to get to a totally different galaxy altogether, and even more scared I was of thinking how I was going to accurately go back to my world if I still didn’t get the hang of my powers.

It was something to think about later, but for now...

“I can live like a human even if I’m not technically one...you see, I was made aware that in my previous lives, I was killed, even if I can’t really die permanently...I guess I just want to live a normal life this time instead of trying to continue having the same goals I had before.” I made a pause and deepened my frown, even if I left a soft huff that made my shoulders to relax a little.

“Because I found something precious in the world I was reborn in, I want to go back- they may need me. It’s not really that deep, I guess.”

You would be right assuming that the nightmares are the main reason of why she looks so damn tired or why her mood tends to lean towards being kinda angry at things the 90% of the time.

Constantly dreaming about the end of the world or her own death isn’t too pleasant and doesn’t let her rest too well.

Compilation of headcanons of Gaia’s past in Eulmore even if she currently doesn’t remember at all:

Her parents have always spoiled her a lot, but at the same time, they haven’t spent all that much time with her. It’s that situation in which Gaia asked for something and they gave it to her, but her parents were too busy enjoying their own pleasures that they never gave her much more attention than that.

Even if unnoticed, she crossed paths with Ryne before, specially when they were younger, but they never interacted due to their different positions in Eulmore.

She learnt how to use makeup from the workers at The Beehive, specially when her parents spent a lot of time there.

Despite the interactions she has always been more of a loner because she didn’t really connect with other people around her age- always being labeled as the ‘weirdo’, in a sense. This started happening more when she started ‘hearing voices’ inside her head and people started to avoid her constantly.

Even before she was contacted by Mitron she has always had a lot of nightmares involving the Final Days and the like, even if she was unable to remember that it was part of her past life. To this day, she still suffers from those.

Being the Oracle of Darkness and an Ascian reborn (even if she wasn’t aware back then), she has always been rather averse to consuming meol due to this one being made out of Sin Eaters. This made others suspicious, so she has been forced to consume it before, but at some point she started to be too good with pretending to eat it before she discarded it.

The vanishing hammer does not go unnoticed. If anything, it piques Yukari’s interest in this girl even more.

“Rude or not, I’m in every right to draw the truth out of you by whatever means necessary. You should consider this method a blessing. Not all humans are quite as lucky as you.” Yukari sits on the sofa, crossing one leg over the other.

“Now then, I think it’s time we address the biggest issue at hand. On rare occasion, humans will be born with special abilities that they shouldn’t have. A few of which who have found their own way into this land. Most times, they’ve caused a bit of trouble either for me or residents.”

Yukari can remember the day of the vampire incident. When invaders from the outside world broke through the barrier, and boasted about their feat with a slaughter. That was the day that shook Yukari, and made her realize that her perfect plan wasn’t so perfect after all. Now, any and all intruders must be taken seriously to avoid such incident again.

“So, Gaia. I’m here to ask. Just what exactly is your anomaly?”

Well, maybe she was right. Maybe I should be grateful that she isn’t torturing me in ways that I don’t even want to think about. Imagining a worse situation doesn’t make me any less tense, but at least I’m now looking at her with some intention of speaking if that will save my life.

“Well, I can at least assure you that I’m not here to cause any trouble. I didn’t even know this place was a thing until I landed here, but I’m sure even your troublesome visitors ended here by chance?” Making a pause, I tried to relax my posture, but my hands curled into fists while resting on my lap when she referred to my powers as an anomaly.

“I don’t have an anomaly, it just happens that I wouldn’t say I’m completely ‘human’...have you ever heard of Ascians?” Knowing that she didn’t really recognize my ‘anomalies’ as related to the Ascians, I’m sure she didn’t know about them, and so, there was probably nothing bad with dropping that kind of bomb to her.

“Lets say I’m just the reincarnation of an Ascian. We are the remnant of an ancient race that lived in the planet before...a certain event destroyed our world and ended up creating different realities out of it.” I couldn’t keep the eye contact- if only because one of my hands ended up on my head. Even now, I was still rather dizzy when trying to recall all those memories of my past.

Even now, I didn’t remember all I was before.

Perhaps she had been too hasty at first, but now having been able to talk and walk with the other, she began easing up more and more, her demeanor and body relaxing. She pondered over the others question before smiling a little, her cheeks flustering slightly as well.

“W-well sort of. She had raised me when i was younger, since my parents weren’t ever around. I was sort of just left in her care with them sending money over to support and keep me fed, but i doubt she took or used much of it. In that way you could say that we’re related, though i just returned a little while ago from a rather long trip, yet i am glad to see how things have actually improved.  Everyone seems a lot happier after all.” Soon after she looked over the cafe, trying to spot her care taker from the rather busy cafe, as almost all of the seats were taken. “Hm.. maybe she’s inside?”

She went from tense to oversharing some information about her relationship with the woman of the biscuits. Not that I really minded it, but I found her attitude interesting, nonetheless. Hopefully I wasn’t making her nervous or something.

“I didn’t expect to just talk to the most fitting person to get the recipe from. I’m sorry to hear your parents...weren’t around for you, though. But it sounds like she took good care of you, at least.” Better look to the future than staring at the past, I thought.

My gaze ended up upon the cafe as well when she looked back. It was always busy here, specially now that the night came back to The First and some balance was restored to it.

“Hmm… Unfortunately, I don’t think I’m comfortable enough letting you go. And I’m sure you feel slight discomfort yourself, so why don’t we try to lighten the mood a bit and turn this less into an interrogation and more into an interview?”

A gap opens up above them, and seems to rotate. As it does, the space around the two distorts until the scene changes into a living area that one would see in a house. Although, it’s quite odd.

On one side is a huge window, clearly showing the outdoors, but there appear to be no doors, walkways, or any other kind of exits on the other three walls. In the the room there is a loveseat that faces the window, a chair facing the opposite direction, and a coffee table in the middle.

“Feel free to take a seat, and please mind the carpet. I just had it cleaned.”

Well, turning this into something else may be better than simply standing here in the middle of this enchanted forest.

I have to admit, however, that the moment she starts to use her magic and space distorts, I can’t help but stare at the surroundings and the effect the gap has in the area, as if we simply would’ve been into this room all the time and I didn’t notice.

It’s a strange sensation, but with the room being a little more familiar to a non-wild area makes me relax a little...just a little. Enough for me to make the hammer that was previously against the ground to disappear as if it was consumed by darkness.

One way or another, I end up choosing to sit on the single chair before crossing my legs and arms. And hopefully, the mention of the carpet being clean doesn’t mean a murder happened here a moment ago.

Mitsuki had to blink a couple of times, her hand still situated by her rapier, before slowly moving it away. Ah, how dumb she felt now and in the end she couldn’t hold herself from letting out a small chuckle. 

Nodding her head and gazing back into the others eyes, she finally gave her reply. “O-Oh! Yeah, i know the cookies and actually i even know someone who can make them. I’m sure she wouldn’t mind sharing the recipe.” she explained, before blushing slightly, rubbing the back of her head, feeling embarrassed for having been weary of the other.

“Are you perhaps looking on to making them yourself perhaps?” She asked, being more than curious, leading the way after towards the old cafe where her care taker worked. She would have surely known the recipe, since it seemed to be rather popular among the people there.

@theoracleofdarkness​

The hand over the rapier didn’t go unnoticed- not that I could really blame her. It wasn’t the first time that someone in the Crystarium noticed the aura I carried, even when I didn’t approach people with an ill intention, it was still there.

Either way, I tried to keep a friendly mood to not startle her more, smiling a little, even.

“Oh, you know someone who can make them?...” That was better than expected, and it was once she was leading the way to the cafe that I realized she may have been speaking of the same person that serves Ryne and I those cookies more often than not.

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@peopleoftheshadows

“Well...yes.” I made a dramatic pause, unable to look at the other in the eye before I continued speaking. “Wouldn’t you happen to know where I could find a recipe for those coffee biscuits they serve around here?” The difficult part was probably going to be finding time to do so without Ryne realizing it. On the other hand, I haven't seen this girl around here before, so maybe she didn't know about it.

“Dear, if I had planned to have you serve as food others,”

“Then we wouldn’t be standing here having this conversation.” The sounds of brush and branches rustling can be heard, as animals frantically leave their roosts. Yukari stares at the girl for a few moments, seeing just how strong her fighting spirit is. All the more reason to not let her slip away, at least not until she figures out just what she is.

Yukari realizes her tone has been made too threatening for her liking, so she puts on a smile before speaking again.

“But, as I was saying, I can’t let you leave until I can figure out just how you got here in the first place. Or more importantly, who you are. Because I’ve yet to meet a human from the outside who’s as strong as you are. So, why don’t you tell your name already? A bit rude to not do so in front of your elders, especially after I already have myself.”

I had to admit that she sounded and even looked threatening- unnaturally calm for what she was saying or what she could do, so my heart couldn’t help but beat faster before I tried to relax myself. I knew I didn’t want to get on her bad side, at least.

I was technically too young to die...again.

It was even so ironic to be treated like I was really young. While my body and mind were, my soul was older than one could expect, even if part of me didn’t want to admit it.

“My name is Gaia. If I got here by myself it’s because I have the power to do so. Not really a common thing with the people of the place I come from, mind you, so you don’t have to worry about others ending here the same way I did.” Because the other Ascians were probably not as clumsy as I was still, and because they would have no reason to come here either. How many of them were alive nowadays anyways?