chapter 1973 me myself and I for a while there was nothing but silence in the dark Hall then there was more silence rain stared at her teacher with wide eyes what did he just say it seemed that she imagined that her teacher claiming to be the Lord of Shadows the Lord of Shadows the mysterious saint of God grave the Sinister cells sword who had offered his blade to the king of Valor faced princess Rebel in the battle at Vanishing Lake and decimated a supply Caravan of the song Army alone sparing the lives of 200 awakened
and ascended Warriors at changing Stars behest that Lord of Shadows wait the Lord of Shadows who had saved the lives of Tamar Ray and Flur at changing Stars behest the situation was so shocking that rain was struggling to form a single cohesive though but despite all its seriousness an entirely frivolous memory surfaced in her mind instead of something important it was one of her teachers Preposterous rants do you know princess Nephi changing star of The Immortal flame Clan I was practically her boyfriend rain almost swayed no no wait she pierced her teacher with an intense
gaze momentarily forgetting even about the sweet memories he had promised to give her teacher you you really are the Lord of Shadows the bastard had started humming again at some point hearing her he looked at her and smiled sure now can we move on too rain did not let him finish no we absolutely cannot move on what the how I mean why no what do you mean you're the Lord of Shadows he's all the way in the camp of the sword Army when he was fighting princess Rebel you were with me when he was saving
Tamar you were helping me track down the Huntsman how does that make any sense what you can be in two places at the same time following me around and simultaneously acting as the Lord of Shadows her teacher gave her a confused look what of course not rain let out a relieved sign thank the gods it was another one of his Preposterous lies however she celebrated too early because her teacher wasn't done talking I can be in seven places at the same time actually I am also a knight commander of Clan Valor in the memory purveyor
of the ivory Island oh and I also run a small restaurant in Bastion it's quite popular rain just started at him with dumbfounded expression her teacher looked at her with concern and smiled do you want to sit down she nodded slowly yeah a moment later specks of Darkness swirled in the air and formed into an opulent wooden chair her teacher moved it caringly to stand just behind rain and she lowered herself onto the seat AAA so her teacher could be in seven places at the same time she had to repeat it several times mentally for
the meaning of this words to sink in Rain covered her face with a palm let's think about it something like that was unheard of but not really impossible after all there were all kinds of aspects in the world and all kinds of unnatural Powers wielded by the nightmare creatures anything was possible actually it even made a lot of sense she had long noted how similar her teacher and the Lord of Shadows seemed it was just that she could not have concluded that they were one and the same without this key piece of information assuming that
a person could exist in several places at the same time would have been quite an unreasonable leap of logic after all who could have guessed that her closest companion was also a complete stranger a Sinister Saint serving the King of Swords no less and what was that had he mentioned something about running a restaurant in Bastion a restaurant somehow that Last Detail rattled her mind more than the rest of what he had said no that was not important right now rain could reluctantly accept that her teacher possessed the power to live several lives at the
same time but she lowered her hand and looked at him teacher what the hell he scratched back of his head ah what are you angry about this time rain's eyes narrowed if you are really the Lord of Shadow one of the most most fearsome champions of the sword Army then why the hell did you let me join the song Army did it not occur to you that being on the different sides of this damned War might pose a bit of a problem for us he looked at her with a strange expression what do you mean
of course it did have you forgotten that I tried to dissuade you but no you just had to be all moral and righteous I can't just sit on the sidelines these are the people I know and they will be the ones who suffer I can't step back and do nothing those were your words do you even know how loudly I was cursing on the inside while going on about how you were joining the war rain's eye twitched well when you put it like that her teacher scoffed but I couldn't very well stomp on your principles
so I kept quiet well it doesn't matter that much anyway who says that you and me being on different sides will become a problem me and me are on different sides as well and I'm not worried here during that last sentence rain felt a strong headache as if it made sense it was too bizarre not only had her teacher been living several lives at the same time but one of his incarnations was even a general of the opposing Army the most feared general of them all the very same Sinister Saint who had just attacked the
supply Caravan of song The incriminating evidence was right here an entire mountain of stolen commandeered as he had called it supplies and he had not even taken them in the name of the sword arm Army he had just hoarded them for himself her eyes trembled my teacher is a bandit he's a Shameless flagrant Highway man but then again that one actually wasn't that surprising quite the opposite really she could believe it easily that sounded exactly like something her teacher would do rain took a deep breath so her teacher was pretending to be a cells sword
Saint who had been hired by the King of Swords he was also the Knight commander of the great Clan Valor he was also the memory purveyor whatever that meant of the ivory Island which was changing star's own Citadel and he was a Master Chef somewhere in Bastion on top of that right it was going to take her some time to come to terms with these facts just as expected from a dark deity no was he really a dark deity suddenly rain came to realize that she knew very little about her teacher despite spending almost every
day of these past four years in his company she took a deep breath and looked at him soberly after hesitating for a while rain asked teacher who are you really chapter 1974 lost time rain hesitated trying to formulate her question better I mean are you a human a spirit some strange Apparition that enjoys cooking terrifying vast armies of Awakened and educating young maidens and don't you dare say that you are just a shadow what does that even mean her teacher stared at her for a few moments well a shadow is the dark area that appears
when an object blocks the source of light rain clenched her fists that's not what I was asking he laughed then commanded the Shadows to rise from the floor and manifest into another much less comfortable from the looks of it chair sitting down her teacher Shrugged what are you even talking about I am just human Saint rain shook her head energetically no I've met Saints and there are no human Saints like you you never sleep never eat live in the shadows and go around slaying Skinwalker vessels as if they were children you even know how to
guide a person to Awakening without infecting them with the spell and that is just 17th of you he hesitated for a little while well all right I'm not just a human saint I am quite special as far as human Saints Go leaning back he smiled in fact there is no one else like me as far as I know there are two other Transcendent humans who can rival my power however I am unique even among them because I am not a carrier of The Nightmare spell anymore rain blinked a saint who is not a carrier of
The Nightmare spell anymore how was that possible noticing her confused expression ression her teacher chuckled it's a long story a story that spans thousands of years actually so forgive me if I don't go into detail suffice it to say I met a very loome curse Terror in my third Nightmare and here I am he hesitated and then added my original body is someplace else unlike this Incarnation it does eat sleep and perform all the things that humans tend to do the version of me that has been following you around meanwhile is one of my Shadows
that is why I sometimes seem a bit weird compared to normal humans rain studied him silently so that's how it is she felt satisfied because things were finally starting to make sense but strangely enough she also felt a little betrayed because her teacher had an entire other life several of them actually that she knew nothing about suddenly something occurred to her teacher if you are a human then what is your name he coughed my name huh well if you must know my name is sunless but people usually call me sunny rain stared at her for
a few moments then she leaned back and laughed the laughter came on its own and although she had tried she failed to contain it oh oh sorry it's just funny because people used to call me rainy sunny and rainy they were quite a pair weren't they no I just can't call teacher that way rain felt a strange warmth spread in her chest after finally learning his name but at the same time it was very strange to think about calling her teacher by such a mundane and human name she could at least imagine calling him sunless
but Sunny nope no way even if he really was a human he had not deserved to be treated like one after everything he had put her through rain spent some time in silence digesting the Earth shad ing Revelations that had befallen her out of nowhere he's the damn Lord of Shadows eventually another thought suddenly flashed in her mind and her expression changed we are quite a pair now that she knew about the many incarnations of her teacher she could understand why he was ruling a citadel in God grave and serving the King of Swords she
could also understand why he had positioned himself close to Lady Nephi she could even understand why he would run a restaurant somewhat in fact out of all the lives her teacher had mentioned only one wasn't making any sense this one the life in which he followed a random mundane girl around taught her how to survive and thrive in the dire world and guided her on the path of Ascension why was this tremendously powerful Saint someone who clearly aimed to exert influence on the flow of History was wasting his time with her rain was no one
special she was hardworking and talented yes but so were countless other people in fact hadn't their first ever encounter been strange to begin with because even back then in the nameless convenience store in nqc her teacher had already known her name rain raised her head and looked at him intently teacher he smiled faintly yes are you ready to take a look at those memories I've worked really hard on them you know usually rain would have been mesmerized by the promise of receiving new memories but today she did not even spare them a second thought instead
she asked why did you offer to teach me he stared at her silently for a few moments then her teacher scoffed haven't I told you it's because I am your long lost brother rain sighed and I told you that I would have remembered having a brother he studied her for a while without saying a word then he Shrugged nonchalantly weren't you adopted rain nodded slow not knowing what that had to do with anything wait her teacher smiled well I was your brother before that there you have my permission to drop the teacher and start calling
me older brother instead rain froze before that she had no memories from before she was adopted after all that happened when she was very young 3 years old at best her parents had never made a secret of the fact that she was not their biological child and had never treated her differently because of that that was why rain had never really felt a need to learn where she had come from however she had tried to find out eventually her parents helped her and her dad even pulled some strings at work but there was nothing to
learn there was no robust centralized database that contained the records of every person living in the outskirts in fact many of them had no digital Trace whatsoever they weren't citizens and so the government did not care to waste Manpower on keeping records of them all they found out was that rain's parents were both deceased her mother passing away last due to illness even that was only a rumor an orphanage worker heard from the person who had worked there before him and that was all she had been a little disappointed to have learned nothing but not
too much so why why did rain feel like she was forgetting something it was as if she had just thought about it but the thought Slipped Away looking at her teacher she asked evenly if you are really my brother then where have you been where have you been all this time his smile dimmed a little strangely rain found it hard to focus on what he was about to say her teacher lingered for a few moments then looked away rotting in the outskirts at first and then well I can't really tell you and you should not
ask rain looked at him stunned he was not joking he had not been joking from the start she felt some strange inexplicable emotion rising in her heart she thought that she had never cared about her original family and about her past but now it seemed that she had been wrong or maybe she had simply forgotten looking at the young man sitting in front of her The Familiar insufferable Whimsical caring strong funny unreliable Dependable men who had been her companion Confidant teacher and protector for the last four years rain took a shaky breath then she said
tentatively B brother
