Destroying My Own Novel

Jeanne walked to the light that slowly became bigger and brighter as she got closer to it. She had been running to reach the light as soon as Mykel told her to go and take her body back. She then could hear the voices of her surroundings as she got closer to the light, and suddenly the bright light pulled her in.

Jeanne gasped for air as she opened her eyes wide and stared at the red ceiling with hundreds of chains hanging. She tried to move her arms, but she couldn’t feel them. She was shocked, embarrassed, and in disbelief at the same time when she saw her missing arms and had nothing to cover her body.

“Welcome back,” Aurea said as she landed right on top of the ice. She gently put on a white dress on Jeanne’s body that Beldathiel took from her dresser. “How are you feeling?” Aurea asked as she sat down in front of her.

Jeanne didn’t say anything as tears fell down her chin. Aurea was shocked and didn’t know what to do since she never had any experience in comforting anyone. She then looked around and everyone that was with her was all heartless demons except one.

“Jeanne, I’m sorry but you have to stay like that until you manage to devour his soul,” Beldathiel said as she looked up to look at Jeanne who was trapped in eternal ice.

Jeanne hummed and nodded with understanding since she already knew about it because Mykel had told her in advance. Mykel also told her that he couldn’t go there yet because a single divine power would be enough to heal Hanessi’s soul with his [Caelestikinesis] skill.

Beldathiel suddenly landed next to Aurea and wiped the tears from Jeanne’s eyes. She then pulled out something from thin air, and it was a cold water bottle.

“Open your mouth,” Beldathiel said as she put the bottle on Jeanne’s lips.

They were observing Jeanne in case something unexpected were to happen. They wouldn’t be able to leave and be at ease before Jeanne completely devoured his soul. They had to stay even if it would take them days or even months.

After two days of observing Jeanne and asking her about her condition. They realized that her health started to decline for some reason, and she started to show complications. She didn’t have an appetite and started to feel nauseous with a heavy headache.

“Isn’t this the same situation as when you were inside that kid’s body?” Frigna asked Lilith.

“Yeah, but she looks fine even with that thing inside her body. She should be feeling worse if she’s taking over all his power, so we can’t do anything and hope that she can overcome it,” Lilith answered as she kept staring at Jeanne who looked pale and a bit lifeless. “Although she looks like that, her condition isn’t declining anymore,” Lilith continued after she carefully observed her.

(At Lyneth’s apartment)

“(Wait, if you can do that why didn’t you do it from the beginning? They didn’t have to do all that and wasted their time)” Lucifer asked as he watched Mykel modify Hanessi’s [Story]. Mykel made Hanessi succumb and felt he was inferior to Jeanne. He put a suggestion in the tab and made Hanessi think it would be better if he accepted his defeat and gave up his soul and power to Jeanne.

“(Did you forget? Even if I made Hanessi accept Jeanne and agreed to be devoured by her soul, that won’t happen. The system didn’t care about that and would let the stronger soul be the survivor. Remember what happened to Agnez and Lillith? If Beldathiel didn’t hold their powers, those two would lose to Mazikeen and Lilith)” Mykel explained as he was busy editing Hanessi’s [Story]. “(That’s why it’s necessary to wear his power so Jeanne can devour his soul after the system realize which soul is the superior one)” Mykel continued and stared at the edited [Story] as he enjoyed his coffee in the living room.

“(Does that mean my soul was inferior to you when I went inside your body?)” Lucifer asked in an annoyed tone.

“(I’m the one who’s favored by the system, what did you expect?)” Mykel scoffed and showed off his smug face. “(Now that everything is done, we just need to wait for the result)” Mykel stood up and went to the bedroom to check on Lyneth and Elena.

Lyenth was asleep while Elena played with the small rubber duck toy that Lyneth bought for her. Elena looked at Mykel who was standing at the door. She then immediately dropped the duck and reached out her hands at Mykel.

Mykel carefully picked Elena up and held her in his arms.

“(Mother just fell asleep. Father, bring me to the rooftop again)” Elena said as she stared him in the eye.

Mykel took a t-shirt and hot pants from the wardrobe for Elena to wear. He then went outside and carefully removed Elena’s onesie baby clothes so she could grow bigger.

“I’m ready,” Elena said after turning herself into her twenty-year-old body.

Mykel and Elena went to the rooftop while holding hands since it was Elena’s request. They enjoyed the morning breeze and since it was still winter, the sun was covered with thick clouds.

“Father, can you show me the world that you were living in before you came here?” Elena asked.

“Where did you know that? Did Hera tell you that?” Mykel asked.

“Yes, I insisted and forced her to tell me about father since mother didn’t know much about your past,” Elena answered nervously. “Are you mad?” Elena asked as she frowned.

“(I can’t handle this, can I leave? I want to smoke)” Lucifer asked.

Mykel activated his [Devil Apparition] skill and Elena was mildly shocked when Lucifer suddenly appeared right next to Mykel. She watched as Lucifer turned himself into a human form, and then left after he greeted Elena.

“Father?” Elena asked as she held Mykel’s right hand with both hands.

“No, I’m not mad,” Mykel smiled as he activated the [Nach-Omnipotence] skill to show all his memory of his past life.

Mykel showed all his memories to Elena at her request. She was enjoying it and didn’t even blink her eyes because she didn’t want to miss a single moment. She was too young to understand that the world she was living in was the world he had created.

“Father, who is she?” Elena asked as she looked at Sasha.

“She used to be someone special to your father,” Mykel answered.

Elena seemed curious about Sasha, but she got distracted so easily and immediately asked about other things. Mykel showed a lot of other things, but then she was interested in one particular memory of him.

“Can you teach me that, father?” Elena asked as she pointed at the memory of Mykel inside the ring in a kickboxing tournament. “I want to learn that!” Elena looked at Mykel with excitement.

“You can try and copy those moves that I did in that memory. So now, go and try to use it against me,” Mykel said as he put his fists right in front of his face.

Elena threw a combo move which was a double jab, hook, and left kick. Mykel dodged the first two moves, but when she threw a left kick that was flying toward his right ribs, he decided to block it with his right forearm. She was going all out on her final move, and then suddenly he heard a cracking sound from his arm.

Mykel was shocked as he felt pain in his right forearm when he blocked the left kick. She fractured his forearm so easily, and he didn’t remember when the last time he broke something in his body.

“How was it?! Did I do it right?!” Elena asked.

“Your moves were so stiff, but you have the power on them,” Mykel answered as the bone started to heal itself.

The cracking sound should be loud enough for Elena to hear it, but she wasn’t bothered by it. She was so happy that she managed to copy the moves and got praised by Mykel.

“Elena, when you kicked me, did you feel anything?” Mykel asked with curiosity.

“Feel? I don’t feel anything, I was just thinking that I should show that my kick is strong enough to hurt you!” Elena answered with a big smile on her face.

“Say, Elena…” Mykel paused as he put his hand on top of Elena’s head. “Do you want to learn how to fight?” Mykel asked.